When writing about Harvard, it is helpful to ask, which one? There might not be a monolith called Harvard.
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It would have been nice too if the author had spent enough time on campus to unpack the multiple Harvards: the college, the professional schools (law, business, medicine, dentistry, design, education), the divinity school, school of government, oodles of institutes and an extension school. The assistant professorship is nicknamed “the folding chair,” as there is slim chance of rising to tenure. Also, that Harvard tends not to raise its own faculty. I wish the author understood how hiring decisions are made - that is, in departments and not some sinister university-wide level. “After thinking about this question, the answer became obvious: Harvard’s pride in the myth of its progressive character.” “This made me wonder: Why would Harvard go through the trouble of hiring leftist professors in the first place, if they are only going to marginalize them while they’re there?” she asks.
This black box of university finance, she says, shows Harvard is an undemocratic pawn of international corporate overlords. The Harvard Corporation invests wisely if not well, for instance backing Enron, then mysteriously cashing out before it tanked the energy markets. The institutional corruption stems from Harvard’s hungry endowment, Eun-jung says. I might add Harvard produces such venerable alumni as Henry Kissinger, Ted Kaczynski and Dr. “Verita$” recites a litany of bad acts: the Salem witch trials, eugenics, a so-called “collaboration” with Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler, architects of financial collapse such as Robert Rubin and Larry Summers, McCarthyism, racism, sexism, tyrannical labor practices and “a poison called elitism.” Now, there are plenty of criticisms of Harvard, though rarely the one Eun-jung levels: that Harvard swanned its way to dominance by maintaining a false front of liberalism when it is, in fact, an arm of the governing right. “Verita$” was a best seller in Korea, author Shin Eun-jung’s native country, because she asks the question that’s hardly ever asked: Why Harvard?Įun-jung says the third word a Korean baby learns, after “Mom” and “Dad,” is “Harvard.” She argues that this is a tragedy, because Harvard isn’t the global intellectual powerhouse of reputation. Kennedy’s Harvard entrance essay resurfaces online 87 years laterĮnd to affirmative action? Supreme Court to hear challenge to Harvard, UNC race admission policy
Harvard study can teach NY officials the secrets of Success Academy's. "Ask the court to order the government to make clear to all potential purchasers of my papers that they will be acquiring the papers only as physical property and that they will acquire no literary rights in the papers," he wrote to Radekin, according to a court filing.Shocking video shows similarities of Duke and Harvard commencement speeches In a letter to Radekin in 2010, Kaczynski appeared concerned that buyers of his papers would publish them without his permission. Last year, a federal judge in California ordered that auction proceeds of about $225,000 from the sale of writings and papers seized from Kaczynski's cabin be disbursed to Mosser and three other relatives of his victims, court records show.Ī former lawyer for Kaczynski, Erin Jolene Radekin of Sacramento, represented him during the restitution phase of his case and said by phone Wednesday that she had not been in contact with him in some time.Ĭourt records suggest that in recent years Kaczynski has been aware of his possible reentry into the headlines. Kaczynski evaded the FBI for nearly 20 years while killing three people and injuring 23 others with bombs sent through the US mail. He said the entries are written by the alumni, and rather than making Harvard look bad, the entry makes Kaczynski look bad for writing it. "I don't fault them on that," said one of Kaczynski's classmates, John Higginson.
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