Tag: Harvard

Virginia Heffernan, The Big Ten Rises Up Against Trump

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Virginia Heffernan The press acts as if “higher education” = Harvard. But a more interesting and gutsier stand is being taken in the heartland by schools that have a lot more going for them than football. Illustration by André Carrilho Stakes University politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low. Good old Sayre’s Law, coined in 1973. Funny while it lasted. May it find eternal life in meme heaven. It’s been ages since university politics meant student-faculty sex scandals, petty tenure battles, a ruinous typo in Studies in Romanticism.…

Patricia N. Saffran, The Naming Game

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Patricia N. Saffran While university officials seem committed to social justice, they stop short when it strikes the prestige and identity of the school.  “Mary Berkeley Minor Blackford was an abolitionist in Fredericksburg VA, who owned five slaves. She opposed succession. Her son fought for the Confederacy. That shows the complexity of the issues surrounding slavery,” said Scott Walker, the tourmaster of Hallowed Ground Tours in Fredericksburg on the phone, March 23, 2023. Fast forward to today and no one can begin to understand Biblical slavery or what went on…

Ron Unz, American Meritocracy Revisited: Elite Admissions, Asian Quotas, and the Free Harvard/Fair Harvard Campaign

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RON UNZ    The Disappearance of American Meritocracy For at least the last two generations, American conservatives have been loudly complaining about the racially-based employment and admission policies widely described as “affirmative action.” I know this to be true because as a youngster in the 1970s, strong opposition to affirmative action was the primary issue that gradually drew me towards the Republican Party, until I finally cast my first presidential vote for Ronald Reagan in 1980. Yet although Republicans have held the White House and Congress during much of this…

Gordon Duff, Documentary Proof: University of North Carolina Generated COVID-19

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Gordon Duff This article contains hard proof that cannot be questioned or denied, which you may submit to any government agency or healthcare professional. What is not yet proven but coming into focus is that the US biological weapons program at Fort Detrick, Maryland, equipment and certainly key staff, certainly migrated to secret labs at large state universities in order to “hide in plain sight.” Follow the careers, all links are included, of those who worked on the Wuhan-COVID project in 2017. Also, note that the exact same personnel and…