Seems like such a contradicting message from a school that is supposed to encourage independent thinking.
Edit: colleges with large endowment funds seem like glorified businesses with conflicts of interest.
Harvard does not encourage independent thinking. Where would you get that impression?
Suppressing what was clearly a peaceful protest. Almost all these colleges have used the police and violence to escalate things and then blame the students for their inability to take criticism.
Edit: I think I misread your comment, I agree maybe they don’t encourage it, but should if they want to be considered a college.
Any college that refers to their graduates as “a [college name] man” clearly expects a large degree of conformity.
“any institution with an endowment as large as Harvard’s isn’t a school, it’s a hedge fund that offers classes, and should lose it’s tax exempt status”… Sorry I forget who said it, and I’m paraphrasing
They’re denying the degrees ENTIRELY or simply not granting them at commencement?
Because after 4 years and who knows how many thousands of dollars, there’s likely a contractual obligation to supply the degree.
CAMBRIDGE - Thirteen Harvard University students who participated in the pro-Palestinian protest encampment on campus will not get their degrees at commencement Thursday.
Harvard is dead. Fuck em. They’ve lost all my respect.
I haven’t been able to find any explanation from Harvard about who the specific students were, or why they were singled out for punishment. Does anybody know? Were they the leaders of the protest? Were they accused of specific acts that were considered more serious than what other students did? I saw one article that said two of them are Rhodes Scholars, but I can’t find much more information.
Good any protestors who support bigots don’t deserve a degree.
well then bye bye to pro-natenyahu protestors
Protesting against murdering people is not the same as supporting those people’s beliefs. If someone doesn’t like gay people it doesn’t mean they all deserve death. That would be like a genocide or something
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It’s not about participation, but rather the socially unacceptable ways to express it. Come on, please be decent, others are here too.
Is that sarcastic? Because Israel certainly isn’t being decent.
the socially unacceptable ways to express it
What does that even mean?
