Harvard is big (crony) business, Pres. Gay has done us a favor by exposing this to the world

The university "is the oldest corporation in the Western Hemisphere"

“I look for a commitment to excellence, because that’s what it means to be at Harvard.” - Claudine Gay, (Current) President of Harvard University

Is that so Ms. Gay? Is that what it really means, today?

Image: Youtube/C-SPAN

We said last week that we are sure that despite the scandal surrounding the president of the university, the crony capitalism, the enrollment policies that make no sense for a top tier university that is supposed to focus on excellence, that there are, we are sure, many exceedingly bright minds still and people of high quality at Harvard. In fact we know this to be true.

But we also know that there is a scandal enveloping president Gay. A scandal not just focused on her refusal to defend Jewish students for fear of angering radical anti-Israel people at the university (cheap grad students) as well as deep pocketed donors from around the world who also would like to see Israel wiped from the Earth, but around President Gay’s (what appears to be) significant history of plagiarism. The type of plagiarism that would spell the end of most Harvard students at the university.

(From The Harvard Crimson)

In Six-Year High, 27 Undergraduates Forced to Withdraw from Harvard in 2020-2021 Due to Honor Code Violations

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(From The New York Times)

Students disciplined in Harvard scandal

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(From The Harvard Crimson)

In a statement to affiliates Tuesday, members of the Harvard Corporation reaffirmed their support for Gay’s leadership. Still, they addressed concerns raised regarding Gay’s scholarship, writing that the “University became aware in late October of allegations regarding three articles.”

Harvard President ‘did engage in plagiarism’ but there won’t be ‘any punishment’

Yet president Gay continues on.

How can Harvard, an institution I have associated with excellence for most of my life have allowed this to happen to itself? How could it have allowed itself to become so mediocre?

The answer lay in an unholy alliance of intersectionalist thinking (what some people call “wokeism”) and crony capitalism. In the attached article the Wall Street Journal examines the crony side of the alliance.