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Fifth Column

Harvard dean threatens faculty who protest school's mistreatment of Jews

2024-06-28

[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] "Snitches get stitches" is a threat typically made by adolescents to avoid punishment by intimidating those who might expose their misdeeds. Yet it seems Harvard is a glorified junior high these days, with Lawrence Bobo, its dean of social sciences, threatening faculty who publicly criticize the university for its mistreatment of Jewish students.

Writing in the Crimson, Bobo argued that it is "outside the bounds of acceptable professional conduct for a faculty member to excoriate University leadership, faculty, staff, or students with the intent to arouse external intervention into University business."

You can always tell a Hahvahd Man but, they say, you can’t tell him much. No insult intended to Rantburg’s own Harvard men, who are of course very much out of the common way.

Faculty who appeal to external actors to reverse gross injustices at Harvard may not get literal stitches, but Bobo could deny them tenure or lower their pay. His piece has not been made official Harvard policy, but more senior administrators have not repudiated his interpretation of "acceptable professional conduct," and his discretion to punish snitches remains intact.

Bobo’s hostility to "external intervention" is reminiscent of something more menacing than junior high taunts about snitches. It echoes George Wallace’s complaints about "outside agitators." The segregationist governor of Alabama claimed in a 1964 letter that efforts by him and other Southern leaders to improve the condition of the "Negro citizen" were being undermined by "the national news media and the propaganda distributed by various organizations." If only outside agitators would avoid stirring up trouble, both "white and colored" could continue to live in "peace and equanimity."

Bobo similarly expresses a preference for managing Harvard’s problems through "internal discussion on key policy matters," threatening to sanction "behaviors that plainly incite external actors — be it the media, alumni, donors, federal agencies, or the government — to intervene in Harvard’s affairs." It’s as if Bobo were saying that Harvard’s Jews could be living in "peace and equanimity" without outside agitators in the media and government stirring up trouble.

Bobo and other Harvard leaders are right to fear outside intervention. Despite its more than $50 billion endowment, Harvard is a financial house of cards built on government subsidy and donor largesse. Harvard’s operating budget last year was $5.9 billion, of which about $650 million came from federal research grants, $55 million came from government student aid and loans, and another $500 million came from the "current use" gifts of donors

Posted by:Fred

#11 Empty threats.

Posted by: Deacon+Blues 2024-06-28 19:38

#10 taxing excess college trusts and endowments, e.g., endowments which are greater than 2 years of the average of past 3 years of budgets would do a lot of good

Posted by: Lord Garth 2024-06-28 15:38

#9 Hahvahd gets $1.15 billion from research ~~grafts~~ grants and ~~dupe~~ donor "current use" gifts a year. When those stop, they will just have to get by on the other $5.9-$1.15 billion they are accustomed to. The horror!

Posted by: Gromble+Dribble4342 2024-06-28 10:06

#8 Harvard’s operating budget last year was $5.9 billion. In comparison, the operating budget of the Legislative Branch of the US Government was 7.6 billion. And, for example the budget of the Small Business Administration was 1.5 billion.

Posted by: Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-06-28 08:34

#7 This is the 'institutional racism' you have been talking about.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2024-06-28 07:46

#6 Failure to heal is also called necrosis or putrefaction.

Just sayin'...

Posted by: M. Murcek 2024-06-28 07:41

#5 Dr. Bobo: "A failure to heal!"
Larry, baby, quit squealing and deal
With your failure to thrive:
Give up speaking that jive
And stop judging the juice by the peel.

I mean, let's face it -- if you were half the dude your daddy was, you'd be a real doctor, and your "notable students" would be stitchin', not bitchin'. But there you stand, surfing a vast endless wave of government preference into the sunset of the greatest country in the history of the world, backwards, whining to the most powerful powers that ever were about the very people whose inhuman patience and generosity have empowered you and all the rest of your worse than useless class.

And if you were half the dude your mamas were... well, sociology?

Posted by: Pancho Poodle8452 2024-06-28 07:38

#4
After Trump returns to Office and purges the DC Swamp of the National Liberal Socialist element now in the DC Swamp. The Harvard Dean, and many others like him, will be charged for Hate Crimes, Racial discrimination, and Civil Rights violations.

Posted by: NN2N1 2024-06-28 07:33

#3 The faculty, and not the students or presidents, are responsible for the campus uprisings Social- cultural Marxism now rules the academic social sciences and arts in America, and actively promotes antisemitism

Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-06-28 06:15

#2 Bobo - perfect name for a college bureaucrat.

Posted by: Raj 2024-06-28 00:33

#1 Bobo argued that it is "outside the bounds of acceptable professional conduct for a faculty member to excoriate University leadership, faculty, staff, or students with the intent to arouse external intervention into University business."

"The basic principle of omertà is that one must not seek aid from legally constituted authorities to settle personal grievances. "

Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2024-06-28 00:20

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