“Claudine Gay was in Rome on a family vacation on Dec. 27 when Penny Pritzker, the leader of Harvard University’s governing board, called to ask: Did she think there was a path forward with her as the school’s president?”
Informative account of Gay’s resignation in the NYT.
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Dr. Gay was planning a “spring reset,” but some board members thought the plan “showed that she didn't understand the urgency of the expanding crisis.”
The first member of the Corporation to turn was Timothy R. Barakett, the treasurer.
(Others joined him, as we know, after having dinner with members of the Council on Academic Freedom at Harvard.)
Board members received a fresh round of input from friends, family, and acquaintances over Christmas vacation:
BOMBSHELL: Members of @cafharvard met with two @Harvard board members, including Tracy Palandjian, who “told the dinner group…that replacing the university’s president might not be going far enough to get Harvard back on course. Harvard required ‘generational change,’ she said.”
The NYT also reports “there are signs of tensions among board members.”
Not surprisingly, they’re aware of the criticism they’re facing:
“The idea is to appeal to people who know nothing.”
In this New Yorker piece on Students for Justice in Palestine, a member of the national steering committee says their model is to attract ignorant kids and indoctrinate them into Marxism (): newyorker.com/news/annals-of…
Wow…Brown had 41 students arrested and booked for occupying a university building yesterday.
They were “photographed, fingerprinted and provided their arrest paperwork” on site.
A university spokesperson said, “the disruption to secure buildings is not acceptable, and the University is prepared to escalate the level of criminal charges for future incidents of students occupying secure buildings.”
The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.
“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views.”