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<\/p>\nThe mask has dropped. Harvard is circling the wagons around embattled university president Claudine Gay.<\/p>\n
After UPenn\u2019s Liz Magill was forced to resign for her part in last week\u2019s shameful congressional testimony into on-campus anti-Jewish hate speech \u2013 appearing alongside Gay and MIT\u2019s Sally Kornbluth \u2013 Harvard could have sent a similar message.<\/p>\n
Instead, this most prestigious of American institutions is signaling to the world: Antisemitism is welcome here.<\/p>\n
How rancid.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday we learned President Gay has the unanimous backing of the university\u2019s executive board, the Harvard Corporation. Some 700 faculty members have also signed a letter in support.<\/p>\n
Proof then, if any were needed, that the ugly institutional rot runs far deeper than just the head.<\/p>\n
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The mask has dropped. Harvard is circling the wagons around embattled university president Claudine Gay.<\/p>\n
At UPenn, pressure from one donor who allegedly threatened to withdraw $100 million in funding was eventually enough to see the axe wielded on Magill. Money talks.<\/p>\n
But Harvard, with its swollen $50 billion endowment, is clearly rich enough to afford bigotry \u2013 even when it has reportedly lost as much as a billion dollars in donations in recent days.<\/p>\n
The smug and blithely callous testimony of Gay, Magill and Kornbluth sparked international outrage. But I find it hard to believe their words were accidental.<\/p>\n
All three of their respective universities have shown little sign of stamping out the post-October 7 explosion in anti-Israel protests, even those featuring pro-genocide rhetoric.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, these same universities have proudly rebranded themselves in recent years as free speech policemen \u2013 at least when it comes to the communities they deem worthy of protection, like black and trans students.<\/p>\n
Watch what you say at Harvard, kids \u2013 unless, of course, you\u2019re calling for violence against Israel and Jews!<\/p>\n
As for Gay, her academic work in African-American studies is more activist than scholarly. She\u2019s published fewer than a dozen peer-reviewed articles and nothing in the past seven years. She\u2019s never written a book.<\/p>\n
Working her way up the ranks, she campaigned avidly for the expansion of \u2018diversity, equity, and inclusion\u2019 hires at the university \u2013 and hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, a Harvard alumnus, claims that multiple sources have told him that \u2018the search committee that led to President Gay\u2019s appointment excluded non-DEI eligible candidates from the process.\u2019<\/p>\n
Gay\u2019s articles and her dissertation have come under fire in recent days for alleged plagiarism.<\/p>\n
As The Harvard Crimson \u2013 the university\u2019s student newspaper \u2013 reported, the offenses include \u2018copying an entire paragraph of data description almost verbatim from another work without any citation.\u2019<\/p>\n
Critics have exposed multiple other potential violations in her work.<\/p>\n
However, The Harvard Corporation said in a statement that while an investigation \u2013 which apparently started way before this whole sorry saga, back in October \u2013 \u2018found no violation of Harvard\u2019s standards for research misconduct, President Gay is proactively requesting four corrections in two articles to insert citations and quotation marks that were omitted from the original publications.\u2019<\/p>\n
How that chimes with Harvard\u2019s plagiarism policy \u2013 which says scholars who \u2018for whatever reason, submit work either not their own or without clear attribution to its sources will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College\u2019 \u2013 is not clear.<\/p>\n
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At UPenn, pressure from one donor who threatened to withdraw $100 million in funding was eventually enough to see the axe wielded on Magill. Money talks.<\/p>\n
Gay, naturally, denies any wrongdoing. But, if that is true, one wonders why her papers need fixing so many years later.<\/p>\n
It seems clear that the Corporation and Harvard\u2019s fat-cat donors who continue to pile money into its endowment \u2013 the largest in the world \u2013 have made their bed.<\/p>\n
Instead of standing with the millions who were horrified by Gay, Magill and Kornbluth\u2019s disgraceful testimonies, they\u2019re siding with the uber-politicized campus climate, the degradation of academic standards down a leftist ideological mudslide.<\/p>\n
Turns out a Harvard resume credential is more valuable than rocking the boat.<\/p>\n
Just look at this pathetic array of nodding heads.<\/p>\n
At the top of The Harvard Corporation \u2013 ultimately responsible for hiring Gay, and holding the power to fire her \u2013 sits senior fellow Penny Pritzker, a hotel billionaire who paid big donations to Barack Obama to leverage a role as his secretary of commerce from 2013-17. Her brother is the governor of Illinois.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s also former American Express CEO Kenneth Chenault, private equity boss Paul Finnegan, and the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Mariano-Florentino Cu\u00e9llar \u2013 alongside a fulsome laundry list of other Establishment elitists.<\/p>\n
Money talks, indeed. And it also corrupts.<\/p>\n