Thanks for the 4 years tuition though!
I could see them barring them from walking for their degree, but to hold it completely is messed up. Bullshit that ‘the corporation’ overruled the faculty vote.
And that’s why nobody should ever go to a fot-profit school.
The fun thing is that people say “I graduated” or “I’m graduating” but it’s technically more correct to say “I am being graduated (by the university).” I might be mixing it up a bit, but the idea is that the university always has the final say over whether or not you get that important piece of paper at the end.
One of my teachers in high school taught us this, but I never actually thought I’d see it in action. It’s cruel.
Which is bullshit. If you got the grades and paid your tuition, a university should not be able to withhold your degree. They can ban you from the graduation ceremony, but that’s it.
It is crazy that a university hold such power over someone.
Seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
Harvard doesn’t give grades. You either pass, fail, or pass with honors, more or less entirely at the whim of your professors.
It’s much more of a social club than a school, and being denied a degree is more akin to having your country club membership revoked than your credentials refuted.
It’s almost pro-forma, as the real benefit of attending Harvard is rubbing shoulders with the children of billionaires. The goal is to find someone willing to become your financial patron, not to hold a piece of paper confirming that you did all your homework.
If these kids are on the outs with the school board, they’ve already been blacklisted by anyone that matters.
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Yeah, it’s in the TOS.
Personal attack instead of considering the point. It’s easier than addressing the reductio ad absurdum that undercuts the whole argument.
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Headline is misleading. The article notes that they arent necessarily withholding them permanently, but because they are going through the disciplinary process, and so currently not in good standing, they can’t get them at graduation.
Similar to Israel telling Palestinians that they can’t have a state “right now” and have to come to “agreeable” terms first.
If there is no term given it means permanently.
But they did “give the terms”: they are not in good standing right now, and when the disciplinary action is complete then a final decision will be made.
As long as the students are not allowed to graduate the headline remains correct.
It might be technically correct because bar does not necessarily mean permanently, but it implies that, and your claim that it means permanent is definitely false, especially if you’re basing it on the logic you used to claim it’s permanent.
Technically are permanently barred unless overturned. But the title never used the word permanent.
Technically are permanently barred unless overturned.
The articles notes that they are not in good standing because they are in the process of disciplinary action. So considering this is not a ruling against them that needs to be overturned. If you have some kind of evidence otherwise, I would like to see it.
This is what happens at Harvard when you try to do good. Look at their alumni. Filled with IRL super villains.
Super villains and comedians. Sometimes combinations of both, as in the case of BJ Novak.
BJ Novak is a supervillain…?
Nah, just being silly lol.
The REAL Harvard educated comedian who’s also a super villain is Conan O’Brien, of course 😉
How dare you insult the 11th president of Finland like that.
I’m just going by his own admissions about his alter ego “superhero” Whirligig and his general self-description on Needs a Friend 😁
I think it’s a reference to when BJ Novak played Alistair Smythe in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.
I have actually heard, from someone who has worked with him, he’s extremely difficult to work with.
Blow Job Novak?
I don’t do (letter period letter period). It’s a conscious style choice.
I will reluctantly admit that there are good activists who come from Harvard. I work with some and know of many more. But the vast majority is just like you describe
Tom Morello graduated from Harvard
Fucking pathetic
Look, the most important voices are the non-scholastic billionaire donors. Why would you care about the opinions of those engaged in pedagogy? This is a business, not a school!
Vile. I hope those students sue those bigoted, genocidal pigs into the dirt.
Outrageous.
McCarthyism is well alive.
Nah, To many republicans sucking Russian Dick for McCarthyism to be doing anything but spinning furiously in its grave.
This is the New McCarthyism, there’s a different enemy now didn’t you hear?
Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia…
Yeah, they’re Russians now, not Commie USSRians
I can just see an alumni from another institution waiving their fees just to go after Harvard for this “decision”.
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My read on the article was that this was the corporation tipping their hand on how that process was going to play out, but I could certainly be wrong. read to me like the faculty voted for them to graduate, but this was the board vetoing that and affirming that they were still to be dealt with, and that the consequences were going to be grim. Hopefully that’s not the case.
That is Islamaphobic.
I don’t even think you have to go that far. You paid money, you earned grades, you graduate. It’s almost like a contract?
Islamophobic discrimination, breach of contract and just generally being a bunch of reactionary Zionists who learned the wrong lessons from dystopian sci-fi are far from mutually exclusive, you know…
High time people use this word
I remember that word
Inhumane.
So they aren’t being given their first amendment rights… Oh boy I can’t wait to see how this plays out at other companies.
Harvard isn’t a government funded organization, so the first amendment doesn’t apply. Hopefully the students find a way to sue based on the college’s own rules though.
I should like to think the law sees this a violation of the right the students have. Because to me if a private organization that has the power to give you a degree as you’ve paid for it’s services and proven yourself as competent and that degree is recognized by employers, the government etc. Then it should have no right to impose it’s values on people while withholding the end product of their use of services provided in the first place.
Anything otherwise would imply the organization can supercede the government. That would mean cases like this could come from other organizations that prop up would-be government functions and cause a ton of chaos.
I would understand if the protest was a major violation of the rules or it was intended to be a riot or some such other violent event but if my source for what happened is correct then that’s not the case and this whole thing is a petty squabble coming directly from the board of Harvard.
Good ol’ United States of Israel. Once the Global South becomes the new world order, the global power, chit is gon’ get really real.
I wonder when Americans, or better yet, the citizens of the world will ever realize that… the only form of protest that works is BDS.
Money is their god. Disrupt their money and they will listen.
What do you think they were protesting for? Divestment from Israel. Student activist groups have been successful in getting universities to divest, other activists are pressuring their local governments to divest. I agree with the thrust of what you’re saying, although “United States of Israel” is exactly backwards. But I think you lost the thread at some point
Think about it. The chomos in the U.S. Government are protecting Israel and Zionism by trying to push anti-free speech laws against its own citizens. The U.S. Government is directly threatening the ICJ/ICC with sanctions for warrants against Netanyahu and other top officials.
Look up BDS laws in the U.S., states like Florida make it illegal to promote/support BDS.
In May 2023, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed legislation that prohibits businesses from supporting BDS policies against Israel to do business with the state. The legislation also requires businesses to divest their holdings in companies that boycott Israel.
I feel it… our politicians have blackmail material against them by the Mossad/Israel by actors like Jeffrey Epstein. Israel operates fully by deception. It is in their nature to.
Mossad is just an extension of the American CIA. I think what you’re picking up is the larger project of imperialism and imperialist interests that govern both the US and Israel. Israel isn’t in charge of the USA, it’s the other way around, but only because the USA is the seat of international imperialism. I’m not denying those connections you’re making, i dont even deny that they make some sense, but I think you are missing the forest for the trees.
That’s not me down voting you BTW, I don’t use them
I don’t see how the U.S. in is charge of Israel. When our government churns out tax dollars and gives it to Israel for their military/intelligence, (free) healthcare for their citizens, firearms for their citizens, economic assistance etc… pretty much we’re Israel’s wage slaves. At gun point, income is taxed, then sent to another part of the world to give those people comfortable lives. More comfortable than the lives of the actual people who are giving them that comfortable life.
Like I said its the larger imperialist project. After WWI, Britain broke up the Ottoman empire and divided it up into all these different regions based on what worked for the British. Even back in 1918 they had already picked out that strip of land on the Mediterranean as strategically essential to keeping the whole middle east destabilized so that the abundant resources could be controlled by western interests. At this time, GB was still the heart of global imperialism, it was where capitalism was born and global finance was invented and perfected. it was the world’s colonial juggernaut, and now the feudal classes of Europe were in their death throes.
The imperialists knew they wanted to have control of this land but had the foresight that old school military occupational colonialism was too messy. Better to just buy out a layer of administrators to create a ruling class to rubber stamp western interests in the region. This is the way colonialism works now but back then it was still pretty new. There needed to be westerners in this strip of land to convert it into the headquarters of imperialism in the middle east. Enter the Zionist project, Jews who were looking for a national identity, who had basically internalized centuries of antisemitism, that there was nowhere in Europe for the Jews. The British linked up with the Zionists and started moving people into the region end masse.
But less than 30 years later, after WW2, Britain was a bombed out flaming pile of rubble and the USA was an ascendant super power. Russia had just suffered 20 million+ casualties and the invasion left little of the forced industrialization under Stalin that made it possible for Russia to turn the tide of the Nazi’s wave of mass destruction. The US on the other hand stayed out of the war until they realized that the USSR was actually starting to win, at which point the USA mobilized to the western front, and used the military effort and patriotic support to carry out their own super mass industrialization. The US was flush with capital, so the interests of imperialism shifted from Britain to the USA. And the project that had begun with the British changed hands. Well, not really since it was the same people working for the same interests, only the national character had changed.
See you’re saying that the Israelis own the USA because the USA sends tax dollars to Israel. I’m saying that both the USA and Israel (and GB, basically the whole world) are all owned by a capitalist imperialist ruling class. The Israelis benefit from our taxes, or at least the leaders of Israel benefit, but the capitalists benefit from a perpetually unstable middle east whose own domestic national ruling class keeps wages low and resources free for foreign investment and international markets.
Harvard must not be what it used to be, a little strategy would have told them to keep up their efforts but lay low until they get the degree. Don’t worry, this conflict will be around long enough for your kids to act like maniacs with you. Sticks and stones may break my bones but idgaf about your down votes!
Sticks and stones may break my bones but idgaf about your down votes!
People who don’t care about downvotes don’t announce how much they don’t care. You’re like the people who are very insistent on how straight they are: we all know it’s a BS cover.
Ok
Once they get the degree:
a little strategy would have told them to keep up their efforts but lay low until they’re financially independent.
Over and over until
a little strategy would have told them to keep up their efforts but lay low until their kids get their degree.
Or don’t, it’s their tuition and time that was wasted. Not mine.If you want to look at it like that maybe they never should have went at all. Is that what you want to hear? Keep running into walls your entire life so I can have entertainment.
Actually yes. I appreciate the intellectual honesty of just saying you want them to never protest at all.
Never went to college is what I was referring to. It’s ironic that they are here protesting for countries that aren’t as friendly towards protests even during non war times, ain’t it fellow intellectual? Don’t think about that though, Muslim countries are super straight to live in. There’s no one that is alive to disagree.
Most people are protesting against the atrocities that Israel is inflicting upon innocent civilians. Outside of a few crazy people, most who are protesting realize that Hamas is also pure trash as well. It’s not black and white, you can be against Israel starving children to death and also realize that Hamas is not your friend.
You’re jerking yourself off over your own misconception. They’re protesting for the Palestinian people (including women and children), not Hamas.
Your comment history is cancer. Easiest block ever.
Run and hide baby
