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Harvard President Claudine Gay should have been fired on Dec. 6, a day after her insulting testimony before a Congressional committee.
The fact that she’s still on the Cambridge campus is all you need to know about Harvard University these days. There’s a huge difference between free speech and hate speech. What’s playing out there since the horrific Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel is the latter.
The Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, reportedly still mulling what to do, have waited too long to act. Like it or not, the region’s reputation rides on our institutions, and Harvard is embarrassing all of us. MIT is a close second.
Lawrence Summers, president emeritus at Harvard, posted on his social media feed that trustees with “the ultimate fiduciary responsibility” have been “AWOL.” He added alumni angry at Harvard’s abhorrent response to antisemitism on campus have been “let down” over a “substantial period of time” by the ruling governors.
The former Secretary of the Treasury speaks the truth. Pandering to student groups has been in the college playbook for more than a decade; that’s why the trustees play it safe. The kids pay the insane tuitions — or their parents do — and hence, they wield the power. That equation is warped.
Students graduate with crushing debt and a worldview that doesn’t jibe with reality on the street. The deans, provosts, and professors are more concerned about their jobs than preparing young minds for the workforce.
What will a degree from Harvard mean beginning with the class of 2024?
Insensitivity comes to mind.
Privilege. Snobbishness. Arrogance and antisemitism are now also on the list.
This is not what great universities aspire to be. Harvard is risking it all over semantics. In today’s society, anyone who advocates genocide in any form should be shunned. And, yes, expelled.
The fact that President Gay would not just speak from the heart and promise that any student found uttering hate would be kicked out of the college will be her downfall. So what’s the delay?
It’s frustrating to think this very editorial will ever make it onto the presses. The trustees should announce now as we type that President Gay is gone and will never return to Harvard.
Hostages are still being held, or dead, by Hamas terrorists. Gaza is in ruins because killers violated a truce without a conscience.
President Gay attempted to rationalize it all to a Congressional committee that, thankfully, wasn’t biting. Legalese has no place when women and children are being tortured.
Gay has since apologized for her remarks, but it should be too late.
It takes courage to lead, and President Gay and the Harvard trustees are failing us all.
“Where there is no vision, there is no hope,” wrote George Washington Carver. It just fits what’s going on here.
Harvard is floundering. It’s doing so while violating its own promise: “The mission of Harvard College is to educate the citizens and citizen-leaders for our society,” the university states.
Except when it’s not easy to do, sadly, it appears.
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