In the Wake of Donors Revolting Against Terrorism-Supporting Ivy League Schools, The Cost of a Bribe to Get a Billionaire's Idiot Spawn Admitted Gets Cut from $20 Million to $2 Million

They're the Crazy Eddie's of education -- prices so low they must be in-sane!

Last week, the Daily Caller reported that Harvard is "worried" that their hard pro-terrorist/anti-Jewish stance might just possibly cost them money from donors.

Harvard University is concerned about losing more donors after its response to the Israel-Hamas conflict, according to The Harvard Crimson.
Many donors publicly cut ties with Harvard and condemned the university following its response to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel that killed over 1,400 people. Harvard gift officers, who maintain relationships with donors, are worried that the administration's response to the conflict and to concerns about antisemitism on campus may result in more donors fleeing, according to the Crimson, the student-run newspaper.
"I have talked to people in the administration of the University and I know they're concerned. Everyone's concerned about it," Kenneth G. Lipper, a former member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of University Resources, which consists of people who've donated at least $1 million to the elite school, told the Crimson.
"It's a difficult time for the president and it's a difficult time for the University," he continued.

In the face of donors closing their wallets to these terrorist institutions, Ivy League schools are forced to slash the level of bribe they take to let in the stupider children of the ultra-rich from $20 million to... $2 million.

Quite the fire sale!

Yes, I'm as shocked as you that there's an official level of bribe you have to pay to get your stupider sons into the Ivy League. I figured this was all a bit more vague. Like, if you donate $10 million, we're not saying your kid will get in, but, we will view his application favorably. Wink.

But no, they actually have a stated going rate to admit trust-fund imbeciles.

And that rate is now slashed by 90%.

Elite colleges are quietly slashing the level of donations which can secure admission as mega-donors close their checkbooks to the Ivy League over antisemitism on campus.
Their long-term practice of giving special consideration to big donors' children and grandchildren has been badly hit by a growing backlash against college leaders' failure to keep Jewish students safe.
Now, according to one college counselor, a $2 million check might be the new $20 million.
"If a billionaire has committed $50 million or $100 million a year and now they're backing out, colleges need to figure out how to fill that gap," Command Education founder Christopher Rim told The Post.
"The only way to do that is by recruiting lower amount donors."
...

"University presidents' main focus is to fundraise. It's their business. And they have to fill this gap one way or the other."

It's long been known that a donation to a school could curry favors in the admissions process.
A 2019 analysis of Harvard's admissions files by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that an applicant on the "dean's interest list" -- often code for someone whose family donated to the school -- had a 42.2% shot of being admitted between 2009 and 2014.
By comparison, the overall admissions rate for those years hovered around 6% -- meaning interest list status translates into a seven-fold increase in odds.

Oh, okay, that's what I figured it was: It's not an automatic admission. Just getting you on to the "Dean's Interest List," which then converts to a high likelihood of getting in. But not an outright guarantee.

(Unless you donate even more, I guess.)

"It's an open secret that this is what you get because why else would somebody be donating hundreds of millions or even tens of millions of dollars to the school without wanting anything in return," Rim said.
He said the dollar value required to make a splash has been on the rise for decades.

Until recently, he said, the position of colleges would be, "$2 million is not going to get you in. To those universities, it's nothing. Maybe that could work 25 years ago, but in the past few years add a zero and maybe that's enough."
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He predicts opportunists will rise to the occasion and start forking over a couple million in the hopes it makes a difference.
"That is what my intuition and my experience says," he explained. "A 90% discount on the current quote unquote 'rate' could be pretty compelling to a lot of these families."
Although he's often asked whether it's worth it to donate, he says no, regardless of the recent discount: "My general recommendation still is not to donate to these schools, even if the price tag is 90% cheaper."

Jewish students are now offering their public testimony about being harassed and threatened by antisemites on campus -- while the harassers are coddled and protected.

"Mulitple times a week on my way to class, I walk by mobs of people chanting 'from the river to the sea'...I talk to my Jewish friends on campus every day. They tell me how afraid they are to go to class..." - @Harvard student Jonathan Frieden. pic.twitter.com/t8uy94rQoD
— House Republicans (@HouseGOP) December 5, 2023

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:19 PM (Zz0t1)

2 We're grays, man. We're greys.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

3 HTML tags.

HOW DO DEY WERK!!???

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

4 This whole reality is insane.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2023 03:20 PM (di6C2)

5 *kicks back*

*waits for the call*

Posted by: Lamont The REAL Big Dummy at December 05, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

6 Speaker Mike Johnson: House will vote on December 10th on formalizing Joe Biden impeachment inquiry.

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 03:21 PM (kNb1U)

7 See, prices are coming down! Inflation is at an end! Thanks Biden!

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 05, 2023 03:21 PM (fKIdX)

8 Yes, I'm as shocked as you that there's an official level of bribe you have to pay to get your stupider sons into the Ivy League. I figured this was all a bit more vague. Like, if you donate $10 million, we're not saying your kid will get in, but, we will view his application favorably. Wink.
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I am not shocked in the slightest to learn that there's a price book.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:22 PM (d04cU)

9 Bought my first Pioneer System from Crazy Eddie!

Also, my first CDs.

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2023 03:22 PM (/S2W0)

10 Again kids, keep voting for the magic -d I am certain they did not REALLY mean any of it.

Posted by: sven at December 05, 2023 03:22 PM (X0I7i)

11 I remember before Obama "healed" America and we brought in 40M illegals that this kind of stuff would be inconceivable.

Well, Obama was the change he was waiting for or whatever the quote was...happy about what we've changed into America?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 03:22 PM (XqcwY)

12 This is like Disney cutting ticket prices on the E-rides.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 03:23 PM (w90eX)

13 I say, cut their federal funds.

All of the federal funds.

End the department of education.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:23 PM (cD1dp)

14 12 This is like Disney cutting ticket prices on the E-rides.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 03:23 PM (w90eX)

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This doesn't need to be a Disney thread!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (cD1dp)

15 A 2019 analysis of Harvard's admissions files by researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research, found that an applicant on the "dean's interest list" -- often code for someone whose family donated to the school -- had a 42.2% shot of being admitted between 2009 and 2014.

By comparison, the overall admissions rate for those years hovered around 6% -- meaning interest list status translates into a seven-fold increase in odds.
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Or it means that wealthy alumni are smart and high-achieving, which makes it more likely that their children will be smart and high-achieving (as well as having better-than-average educational attainment for any given age), so their admittance is significantly more likely on average due to background conditions and that these gifts to the school are indeed just gifts.

I doubt it, but it won't surprise me if that's the line.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (d04cU)

16 The Cost of a Bribe to Get a Billionaire's Idiot Spawn Admitted Gets Cut from $20 Million to $2 Million

Same as in town?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (mu+VK)

17 Kinda makes you wonder how David Hogg's dumbass got into that shithole, doesn't it.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)

18 "If a billionaire has committed $50 million or $100 million a year and now they're backing out, colleges need to figure out how to fill that gap,"

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Learn to code

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (fKIdX)

19 7 See, prices are coming down! Inflation is at an end! Thanks Biden!
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at December 05, 2023 03:21 PM (fKIdX)

This was exactly my spouse's reaction/joke

...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (exHjb)

20 In a perfect world, you could celebrate all the bloody terrorists you wanted and never have to suffer for it.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (krQz2)

21 Another day, I am glad my son does not go to Harvard. To be fair, he didn't apply, but I couldn't have paid a two million dollar bribe to get him in anyway.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (RSbhh)

22 iirc, there are specific words used to describe selling oneself.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (qoGsy)

23 "It's an open secret that this is what you get because why else would somebody be donating hundreds of millions or even tens of millions of dollars to the school without wanting anything in return," Rim said.
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School spirit? Access to the graduate pipeline?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (d04cU)

24 Yes, I'm as shocked as you that there's an official level of bribe you have to pay to get your stupider sons into the Ivy League

They don't just get you to get in the door either.

A is either a semester of sex or beejers
B is weekly handies
C is a Harvey Weinstein "watch me while I do something bad to this ficus"

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 03:25 PM (XqcwY)

25 We’ll take a Biden for $750k. This week only!
- Duke

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:25 PM (WY6dk)

26 It's long been known that a donation to a school could curry favors in the admissions process.

Known by who? Not to steadfast meritocrators like myself. Sounds like some inaudible bigitude of no expectations or something. Tell you what, sounds Bushphobic.

Posted by: George W. Bush "I'm smart, not dumb, like everyone says." at December 05, 2023 03:25 PM (ttzpt)

27 Rassmussen has receipts on how the WI election was stolen. The Green Bay Hyatt gave them plenty of comps and a hidden wifi access for the machines.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 05, 2023 03:26 PM (JIPOo)

28 Stefanik also asks her if speech calling for genocide against blacks is allowed at Harvard. Of course it's not, but Gay refuses to respond. She just keeps lying robotically about Harvard's absolute commitment to free speech.
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It's true. Harvard is fully committed to freedom of expression - within the confines of the hardest-left ideological framework.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:26 PM (d04cU)

29 Harvard president Claudine Gay.
lol

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 03:26 PM (v0R5T)

30 Things are getting so bad they may have to cut their DEI staff.

Just kidding. White math and physics professors will have to be let go to close the gap and make the faculty staffing even more equitable.

Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2023 03:26 PM (JojsZ)

31 Kinda makes you wonder how David Hogg's dumbass got into that shithole, doesn't it.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (Zz0t1)
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You misspelled "explains".

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (krQz2)

32 >>Harvard president Claudine Gay.

Trans Steve Erkel

Posted by: garrett at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (/S2W0)

33 28 Stefanik also asks her if speech calling for genocide against blacks is allowed at Harvard. Of course it's not, but Gay refuses to respond. She just keeps lying robotically about Harvard's absolute commitment to free speech.
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It's true. Harvard is fully committed to freedom of expression - within the confines of the hardest-left ideological framework.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:26 PM (d04cU)

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I want to see the local KKK chapter show up chanting the exact same slogans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (cD1dp)

34 6 Speaker Mike Johnson: House will vote on December 10th on formalizing Joe Biden impeachment inquiry.
Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 03:21 PM (kNb1U)

We gonna get some 'formalizing' red meat?! Awwww yeah!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (di6C2)

35 Also Reid Hoffman is a Haley benefactor:

Haley, a defense contractor's wet dream, received a $250,000 contribution to her PAC from Hoffman, who also donated $759,600 to President Biden's reelection effort.

Hoffman joins several other billionaires who have historically donated to Democrats, including JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s Jamie Dimon and investor Bill Ackman, who have expressed support for the former South Carolina governor in recent weeks. Dmitri Mehlhorn, who advises Hoffman on politics, confirmed the donation, which was first reported by the New York Times.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (JIPOo)

36 Is the President of Harvard a graduate of the school? Because other than being a Black woman why was she picked?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (RSbhh)

37 Does your alma mater? Then send us money.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (WY6dk)

38 Just one more reason ot to ever hire an ivy league graduate... or pretty much any other big indoctrination organization pretending to be universities.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (17s+e)

39 "Meritocracy"

When do the suckers wake up and revolt?
Explain again why the game isn't rigged and we just have to study harder.

Posted by: Ross Perot at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (d0fsD)

40 End the department of education.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:23 PM (cD1dp)

Then where will our public schools get lesson plans for teaching how to don a condom and have anal sex and explaining the fatal flaw in the founders of this country?

Don't you care about the children?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (3Gtis)

41 It's true. Harvard is fully committed to freedom of expression - within the confines of the hardest-left ideological framework.

Your free speech is literal violence

Our literal violence is free speech

The left has been clear on this for a while - so ANY answer you get from them has to be considered in this light.

Allowing people to say Biden sucks or Hamas shouldn't behead babies? LITERAL violence. Beating Jews or conservatives? That's free speech

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (XqcwY)

42 I stupidly once donated $100 to my college. All that did was put me on a list to call up every month and beg for more money. Never made that mistake again.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (WY6dk)

43 Harvard gift officers, who maintain relationships with donors

Gift officers. Hilarious.

I wonder if they look like Mannix Girls.

Posted by: spindrift at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (QtgEt)

44 Holy crap.

Harvard has had an increase of islhamophobia?

That bitch is soo incredibly full of shit. How embarrassing that bunch of manure she flung all over that committee.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (Zz0t1)

45 Send your kid to a party school.

As I recall, to get into Illinois I provided sexual favors to chubby girls from Naperville. Like 1980s chubby, not 2020s chubby.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (1LjKR)

46 I want to see the local KKK chapter show up chanting the exact same slogans.

Anyone doing that, either ironically or to prove a point, would be arrested, cancelled, and likely shanked in jail.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (XqcwY)

47 I wouldn't pay 2 cents for my kid to attend that pesthole.

Posted by: hobbitopoly at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (XPM1I)

48 >>Kinda makes you wonder how David Hogg's dumbass got into that shithole, doesn't it.....

He brought Harvard to type of publicity they wanted.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (ZLI7S)

49 I think the fire-sale on the price of Harvard admissions is not intended to be anything other than a temporary fix.

Harvard and other "elite" colleges -- most notably NYU -- have been whoring out to rich foreigners for decades. I expect that will now launch into overdrive to make up for the shortfall from most-Jewish and Jewish-friendly donors. Harvard would sooner change its donors than change its aggressive terror-coddling policies.

There are very very many rich Asians, Arabs, Persians, Russians, and Eurofags who don't give a shit about Jews or Israel and likely actively hate them. These will be the new big Harvard donors.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

50 iirc, there are specific words used to describe selling oneself.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (qoGsy)
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Same as in town.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (krQz2)

51 "Harvard ~~gift~~grift officers..."

FIFY

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (wtvvX)

52 40 Then where will our public schools get lesson plans for teaching how to don a condom and have anal sex and explaining the fatal flaw in the founders of this country?

Don't you care baout the children?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (3Gtis)

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It's true. I do not care about anyone's child but my own.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (cD1dp)

53 Get me Qatar on line 1!

Posted by: Ivy League Presidents at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (lg881)

54 Kinda OT but I'm glad I got to experience the teevee ads of both Crazy Eddie and Tom Carvel back in the day.

Good times.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (N3zMI)

55 It's long been known that a donation to a school could curry favors in the admissions process.
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For decades. Hell, at the risk of sounding like a Cuck pundit from ConInc, "The Simpsons Did It."

https://youtu.be/IbNdcdO3_Go

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (d04cU)

56 Just what do those high falutin, expensive, rayciss and Jew hatin Yankee kolleges do with all that money those idiots pay them to attend their high falutin, expensive, rayciss and Jew hatin Yankee kolleges?

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (mQ8ar)

57 ---
You misspelled "explains".
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 03:27 PM (krQz2)

I don't think Hogg's family had $20 mil to chuck at Harvard to get his worthless ass enrolled as he got in BEFORE they were openly calling for the extermination of Jews.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (Zz0t1)

58 So I'm confsed Isn't bribing colleges to get your kid in one of the top things that the FIB goes after? SUre that is below terrorists and murder but still high enough to make a splash for Aunt Becky.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (17s+e)

59 Well "Giving Tuesday" was last week, so, I guess some billionaire(s) were a little less "giving"?

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, LTD. at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (ntk8v)

60 X link to the rasmussen vote fraud:

https://tinyurl.com/mr23m6da

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (JIPOo)

61 I sent a check for $0 to my old fraternity when they made a big spectacle about supporting SCOAMF in 2008. Haven’t received anything since.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (1LjKR)

62 Another day, I am glad my son does not go to Harvard. To be fair, he didn't apply, but I couldn't have paid a two million dollar bribe to get him in anyway.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (RSbhh)
.......

How on earth is he going to get a gubmint job?

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 03:31 PM (v0R5T)

63 17 Kinda makes you wonder how David Hogg's dumbass got into that shithole, doesn't it.....

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He's an Icon of Wokeness. He heroically survived a right-wing school shooter and is a thoughtful Anti-Gun violence spokesman. He has the moral authority to take on the 2nd amendment!

Posted by: Professor Plum at December 05, 2023 03:31 PM (qIjx1)

64 So Hollywood dolts Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin could have avoided jail by just bribing the colleges. Fools

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2023 03:31 PM (wukIh)

65 58 So I'm confsed Isn't bribing colleges to get your kid in one of the top things that the FIB goes after? SUre that is below terrorists and murder but still high enough to make a splash for Aunt Becky.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (17s+e)

Aunt Becky is married to a conservative. That’s the difference.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:31 PM (WY6dk)

66 SUre that is below terrorists and murder but still high enough to make a splash for Aunt Becky.

Aunt Becky had a chance to, uh, pay the fine to the arresting officer and said no.

I tell you I would have given her the best 30 seconds of her life and then no jail time

Posted by: Some FBI agent at December 05, 2023 03:31 PM (XqcwY)

67 49 I think the fire-sale on the price of Harvard admissions is not intended to be anything other than a temporary fix.

Harvard and other "elite" colleges -- most notably NYU -- have been whoring out to rich foreigners for decades. I expect that will now launch into overdrive to make up for the shortfall from most-Jewish and Jewish-friendly donors. Harvard would sooner change its donors than change its aggressive terror-coddling policies.

There are very very many rich Asians, Arabs, Persians, Russians, and Eurofags who don't give a shit about Jews or Israel and likely actively hate them. These will be the new big Harvard donors.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

It's been shown Dems don't donate like Rs...so, that's gonna be a problem...

Posted by: Nova Local at December 05, 2023 03:32 PM (exHjb)

68 OT: Tommy Tuberville has withdrawn his hold on military promotions, except for promotions to four-star general.

Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis, Domestic Terrorist at December 05, 2023 03:32 PM (woPEM)

69 He heroically survived a right-wing school shooter

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The little bitch wasn’t even inside the school when it happened.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:32 PM (WY6dk)

70 I stupidly once donated $100 to my college. All that did was put me on a list to call up every month and beg for more money. Never made that mistake again.
Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (WY6dk)
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My school, bluntly, screwed me. I hold one diploma instead of two due to a weird rule *nobody* knew, and about which I was not advised. This rule, coupled with simple school regulation, resulted in a fairly serious problem. I could stay an extra semester at great expense or, in their words, "pick which degree you want." I took door #2.

They used to call and ask me for money. I would tell the same thing every time: that I would consider making a donation when they could turn back the block and fix what they did (usually followed by a tirade about the out-of-control costs of the school). The eventually quit calling me. I still get the semi-annual pleas in the mail, but no more phone calls.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:32 PM (d04cU)

71 "If a billionaire has committed $50 million or $100 million a year and now they're backing out, colleges need to figure out how to fill that gap..."

There are some pretty big gaps that can be filled with members of the Harvard Soylent Green Club.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at December 05, 2023 03:32 PM (wtvvX)

72 Brian "Tater" Stelter - Walter Shorenstein Fellow - Harvard University
lol

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 03:32 PM (v0R5T)

73 Crazy people feed off the media and this will arm them against whomever.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at December 05, 2023 03:33 PM (J8LnB)

74 There is only one thing you need to know about Harvard: it chose Claudine Gay as its president. She's a toxic, terror-fellating, Jew-hating, bitter hag diversity hire.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:33 PM (iFTx/)

75 Just wait until Charles Emerson Winchester III finds out about this! Imagine having to slum it with riff raff who's parents could only scrounge a measly $2 mill to grease some skids.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 05, 2023 03:33 PM (c12Xv)

76 Or it means that wealthy alumni are smart and high-achieving, which makes it more likely that their children will be smart and high-achieving (as well as having better-than-average educational attainment for any given age), so their admittance is significantly more likely on average due to background conditions and that these gifts to the school are indeed just gifts.

I doubt it, but it won't surprise me if that's the line.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:24 PM (d04cU)

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LOL. If it weren’t for you last sentence I would’ve thought you were serious.

#systemisrigged

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 03:33 PM (cMXNt)

77 63 17 Kinda makes you wonder how David Hogg's dumbass got into that shithole, doesn't it.....

Has Hogg Boy said anything stupid about Israel and Hamas?

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 05, 2023 03:33 PM (hCt6Y)

78 9 Bought my first Pioneer System from Crazy Eddie!

us, too!

Posted by: nasa at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (oY6Yp)

79 Harvard and other "elite" colleges -- most notably NYU -- have been whoring out to rich foreigners for decades.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

Not just them...the elite public universities have been doing it for years also. UC Berkeley charges full freight plus a foreign student charge...that's where the real money is, because most of their CA students are subsidized.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (3Gtis)

80 Kinda OT but I'm glad I got to experience the teevee ads of both Crazy Eddie and Tom Carvel back in the day.

Good times.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Add in Earl Scheib for the trifecta.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (h/xVB)

81 Now, according to one college counselor, a $2 million check might be the new $20 million.

Bidenomics is working!

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (kNb1U)

82 Yes, I'm as shocked as you that there's an official level of bribe you have to pay to get your stupider sons into the Ivy League. I figured this was all a bit more vague. Like, if you donate $10 million, we're not saying your kid will get in, but, we will view his application favorably. Wink.

I'm not shocked exactly, I'm just more surprised that they have an official price.

Posted by: Ian S. at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (2ocoG)

83 LOL. If it weren’t for you last sentence I would’ve thought you were serious.
#systemisrigged
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 03:33 PM (cMXNt)
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What's funny is that what I wrote probably *is* true, at least in part. It just isn't the primary factor.

The stacks of Benjamins are the primary factor.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (d04cU)

84 Harvard undergrad degree was considered crap in my day. A Harvard graduate degree was considered excellent.

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (w9Wax)

85 71 There are some pretty big gaps that can be filled with members of the Harvard Soylent Green Club.

this is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: sandra fluke at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (oY6Yp)

86 I wonder how much Jonah “hot dog is a sandwich” Goldberg donates to Goucher College every year. 🤣

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (WY6dk)

87 Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 03:31 PM (v0R5T)

I don't think he wants a government job.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (RSbhh)

88 Or it means that wealthy alumni are smart and high-achieving,...

I doubt it, but it won't surprise me if that's the line.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

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The opposite is much more likely to be true.

The 42% rate is probably misleading. There are probably several ways to get on the Dean's Interest List, and donating $10M probably gets you on a very special list. If something is worth that much money, no one would gamble on the outcome.

Posted by: Ross Perot at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (d0fsD)

89 "Elite colleges are quietly slashing the level of donations which can secure admission as mega-donors close their checkbooks to the Ivy League over antisemitism on campus."

I heard they also let you wear the smaller Jewish Star of David pin, as opposed to the five inch sew on Jewish Star of David. But that may just be a rumor.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (XASq/)

90 64 So Hollywood dolts Felicity Huffman and Lori Laughlin could have avoided jail by just bribing the colleges. Fools
Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2023 03:31 PM (wukIh)

As near as I can tell, that's their real sin: they either were not wealthy enough or in the know enough to use the corrupt system in place for buying the university off.

Posted by: You have to game the crooked system the right way. Or else. at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (ttzpt)

91
A black wymyn of color named Gay is being scolded into resignation on Capitol Hill?

How is this not worse than Jan 6?

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (j4U/Z)

92 58 So I'm confsed Isn't bribing colleges to get your kid in one of the top things that the FIB goes after? SUre that is below terrorists and murder but still high enough to make a splash for Aunt Becky.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:30 PM (17s+e)

———-

#twolaws

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (cMXNt)

93 Harvard undergrad degree was considered crap in my day. A Harvard graduate degree was considered excellent.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (w9Wax)
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Harvard (and most if not all of the Ivies) is stupid for undergrad. The undergrad schools are small and outlandishly expensive.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (d04cU)

94 "It's a difficult time for the president and it's a difficult time for the University," he continued. "I suppose it's also a difficult time for the Jews," he reluctantly admitted. "But not as bad as the poor Muslims. I mean, the Jews are used to it. Allahu Ackbar. Wait, cut that last part out."

Posted by: RealClearTranscripts at December 05, 2023 03:35 PM (qUkBO)

95 Is it just me or does it seem that the hiring of the President of Harvard was an obvious affirmative action hire.....

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

96 I just read that Sen. Tuberville dropped opposition to 400 officers waiting to become Generals. How many hundreds of Generals do we need? The services can’t recruit, but they have plenty of leadership at the top.

Posted by: Ron at December 05, 2023 03:36 PM (AtKtr)

97 80 Kinda OT but I'm glad I got to experience the teevee ads of both Crazy Eddie and Tom Carvel back in the day.

Good times.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Add in Earl Scheib for the trifecta.

will no one think of cal worthington's dog spot?

Posted by: anachronda at December 05, 2023 03:36 PM (oY6Yp)

98 The two stupidest women I ever worked with had a degree from Emory and UPenn respectively. But I have known some really smart Ivy grads as well.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:36 PM (WY6dk)

99 So basically Jewish donors were happy to fund Ivy League schools to vilify and preach hate against white, Christian males, American history, and conservatives.

Only when those institutions failed to support Israel, did they have a problem.

Gotcha. Understood.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 05, 2023 03:37 PM (onFzJ)

100 Didn't that actress get convicted for bribing a school to accept her kid?

Posted by: anon at December 05, 2023 03:37 PM (RqMDa)

101 WTF?

Posted by: Becky's Mom at December 05, 2023 03:37 PM (d0fsD)

102 Add in Earl Scheib for the trifecta.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (h/xVB)

I'LL GET ANY KID INTO HARVARD FOR $2 MILLION!! NO UPS AND NO EXTRAS!!!

Posted by: Earl Scheib at December 05, 2023 03:38 PM (wtvvX)

103 There’s 400 new generals? Man I thought being a general was something unique and special. Sheesh. It’s like being a VP at a bank it seems. Everyone gets that title eventually.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:38 PM (WY6dk)

104 79 Harvard and other "elite" colleges -- most notably NYU -- have been whoring out to rich foreigners for decades.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:29 PM (iFTx/)

Not just them...the elite public universities have been doing it for years also. UC Berkeley charges full freight plus a foreign student charge...that's where the real money is, because most of their CA students are subsidized.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (3Gtis)
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Yup, all of them are doing it -- as are lower-tier schools as well. The New School in NYC is notorious for whoring out to foreigners. Having a kid graduate from an elite (or even non-elite) American college is YUGE prestige to the parents, opens doorways for the kid, and helps with any immigration issues. Even non-rich foreigners will sell their souls to get their kid an American education.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

105 Now, according to one college counselor, a $2 million check might be the new $20 million.

Bidenomics is working!

Posted by: lost in space
==

Another example is how Biden solved the economic quandary of 10 hot dogs in a pack but only 8 hot dog buns by increasing the hot dog pack from 10 to 8 while only making it 45% more expensive.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:39 PM (17s+e)

106 Harvard undergrad degree was considered crap in my day. A Harvard graduate degree was considered excellent.
Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (w9Wax)
++++
Harvard (and most if not all of the Ivies) is stupid for undergrad. The undergrad schools are small and outlandishly expensive.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

I am under the impression that the point of Ivy League schools is to be a place where the .1% can send their spawn so they can bone other .1% spawn.

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 03:39 PM (kNb1U)

107 Kinda OT but I'm glad I got to experience the teevee ads of both Crazy Eddie and Tom Carvel back in the day.

Good times.
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher

Add in Earl Scheib for the trifecta.
Posted by: Tonypete

Cal Worthington and his dog Spot have entered the chat.

Posted by: Stu Podaso at December 05, 2023 03:39 PM (c12Xv)

108 If only FSU had paid a bribe to the NCAA….

…thus preventing the Greatest Travesty in All of Human History

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (1LjKR)

109 Harvard, MIT, Penn presidents defend actions in combatting antisemitism on campus.Source: Associated Press

DU has this thread up for over 20 minutes, and no comments yet. Weird. They're really struggling with this anti-Semitic streak they have lol. They do report, though:

Guitarist and Songwriter Denny Laine has passed. He was one of the founders of both Moody Blues and Paul McCartney & Wings.

Plenty of comments there

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (JCZqz)

110 Diversity Hire Harvard President did not impress.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (lZVy/)

111 Gotta give it to Stefanik, she ripped that dimwitted robot a new one. Perhaps Harvard's pres could be the new press secretary. She couldn't do worse than the current one.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (I/Qkd)

112 The little bitch wasn’t even inside the school when it happened.

---

That doesn't matter. He's a victim!

Posted by: Professor Plum at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (rsua0)

113 Requirements to graduate from Harvard in the 17th century:

During its early years, the College offered a classic academic course based on the English university model, but consistent with the Puritan philosophy of the first colonists. The mission of the College, according to the 1650 Charter, was: “the advancement of all good literature, artes, and Sciences.” Latin was the language of instruction (although the Latin speaking requirement was not renewed in the College Laws of 1692). Students were expected to arrive at Harvard well-versed in Latin grammar and, once enrolled, followed a prescribed course of studies in Latin, Greek and Hebrew; the examination of classical languages through histories and drama providing the base for scholarly pursuits. Other disciplines included Rhetoric and Logic, Ethics and Politics, Arithmetic and Geometry, and later, Algebra, Astronomy, Physics, Metaphysics and Theology (although Harvard College never functioned strictly as a divinity school).

And now they have David Hogg (maybe he's graduated now) who speaks-progressivism . LOL.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (RSbhh)

114 "Admitting someone like your umm son, would require a donation, of around, say an international airport."

"Yale could use its own international airport..."

*Mr. Burns pulls out checkbook*

Posted by: brak at December 05, 2023 03:41 PM (AR07F)

115 Not just them...the elite public universities have been doing it for years also. UC Berkeley charges full freight plus a foreign student charge...that's where the real money is, because most of their CA students are subsidized.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:34 PM (3Gtis)
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When I attended at the University of Colorado, a fellow student who worked in the admissions office told me (he probably didn't know it was a secret) that the school enforced admissions requirements much less strenuously against out-of-state or foreign students, because they paid full freight at very high prices.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:41 PM (d04cU)

116 Yup, all of them are doing it -- as are lower-tier schools as well. The New School in NYC is notorious for whoring out to foreigners. Having a kid graduate from an elite (or even non-elite) American college is YUGE prestige to the parents, opens doorways for the kid, and helps with any immigration issues. Even non-rich foreigners will sell their souls to get their kid an American education.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

Non elite schools are full of Indian and Chinese students for this reason. It practically guarantees a visa and eventual citizenship here. Well worth $50k a year.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:41 PM (WY6dk)

117 101 WTF?
Posted by: Becky's Mom at December 05, 2023 03:37 PM (d0fsD)
__________

[Shakes head]

-- Stacy's Mom

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

118 109 Harvard, MIT, Penn presidents defend actions in combatting antisemitism on campus.Source: Associated Press

DU has this thread up for over 20 minutes, and no comments yet. Weird. They're really struggling with this anti-Semitic streak they have lol. They do report, though:

Guitarist and Songwriter Denny Laine has passed. He was one of the founders of both Moody Blues and Paul McCartney & Wings.

Plenty of comments there
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (JCZqz)

========

"These are all reich wing false flag operators. I can't believe we're even talking about this. Everyone knows that Arabs love Israel except for those who watch Fox News. Wake up, people. This is just Trump MAGAts dressing up in brown face because they're racist."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:41 PM (cD1dp)

119 There’s 400 new generals? Man I thought being a general was something unique and special. Sheesh.
Posted by: Montec

If our O-7s executed warfighting as viciously as their efforts to advance from Colonel/Captain to General/Admiral, we'd have no issues at all.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 03:42 PM (h/xVB)

120 117 101 WTF?
Posted by: Becky's Mom at December 05, 2023 03:37 PM (d0fsD)
__________

[Shakes head]

-- Stacy's Mom
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

She's got it going on.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at December 05, 2023 03:42 PM (di6C2)

121 Another example is how Biden solved the economic quandary of 10 hot dogs in a pack but only 8 hot dog buns by increasing the hot dog pack from 10 to 8 while only making it 45% more expensive.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Lol....you think so small. As meat becomes more expensive, you won't be able to afford hotdogs, making the question moot. Plus, poor Bernie will rest easy, with fewer choices to make.

Posted by: Bidenomics Commissar at December 05, 2023 03:42 PM (JCZqz)

122 Now if the movers and shakers at the huge corporations announce they are done hiring Haaahhhvarhrd grads that might actually get the schools to straighten up and fly right. Or at least the company is not hiring either imbecile bribed in alumni or "diversity so standards waived" alumni so said company has a better chance of getting a decent employee. Of course the feral government will still prefer the Ivy league Borg drones.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2023 03:42 PM (3cGpq)

123 If I become a General will they give me one of those cool Darth Vader face shields?

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 03:43 PM (v0R5T)

124 Stefanik pretty much lay waste to that dizzy broad in that discussion.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:43 PM (Zz0t1)

125 116 Yup, all of them are doing it -- as are lower-tier schools as well. The New School in NYC is notorious for whoring out to foreigners. Having a kid graduate from an elite (or even non-elite) American college is YUGE prestige to the parents, opens doorways for the kid, and helps with any immigration issues. Even non-rich foreigners will sell their souls to get their kid an American education.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:38 PM (iFTx/)

Non elite schools are full of Indian and Chinese students for this reason. It practically guarantees a visa and eventual citizenship here. Well worth $50k a year.
Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:41 PM (WY6dk)
___________

Correct

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:43 PM (iFTx/)

126 We’ll need those extra FlagOs after Trump’s Stalinist purge.

That’s actually something I can get behind.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at December 05, 2023 03:43 PM (1LjKR)

127
What is that thing testifying to Congress? Based on the title, I was expecting the President of Harvard University, not a second-rate Urkel impersonator.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (4Aqsh)

128 So other than the Paid admissions, Full ticket foreign admissions, and Full ride sports scholarships, we're doing OK, right?

Posted by: Admission Officer at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (d0fsD)

129 >The Cost of a Bribe to Get a Billionaire's Idiot Spawn Admitted Gets Cut from $20 Million to $2 Million
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"We're going medieval on prices!"
brought to you by DegreesRUs

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (geLO8)

130
That doesn't matter. He's a victim!
Posted by: Professor Plum at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (rsua0)

He actually took part in the bullying of the guy that eventually lead to the whole incident, so there's that.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)

131 Stefanik also asks her if speech calling for genocide against blacks is allowed at Harvard.

==

Uh oh ....

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (V13WU)

132 Ivy Leaguers are toxic employees. I wish I could write about a few examples at my employer and a few of our clients. They have a dangerous combination of arrogance, confidence, and ignorance, with a need to engage in resume enhancing "overhauls" at their employer that are at best time wasters but often destructive. They also have a propensity for running off valuable employees who don't kiss their rings. I'm hopeful that small and mid sized businesses are finally catching in to the danger of hiring these ignoranuses.

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (d9Cw3)

133 I finally realized the true meaning of the old line "you can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell them much". The reason you can't tell them much is they're stupid nepos

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 05, 2023 03:45 PM (wukIh)

134

The billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is ramping up his public pressure campaign on Ivy League schools, specifically Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, after she declined to attend a viewing of footage from the October 7 attack in southern Israel. Mr. Ackman is a leading figure among wealthy Americans who are calling for a divestment from their prestigious alma maters.

Ackman's "open letter" to the president of Harvard:

https://tinyurl.com/3a9r3e4r

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2023 03:45 PM (63Dwl)

135 Eighth grade exit test. The funny part is this is from the WAPO and I'd bet everything I have that less than 11 people at the WAPO could pass it. Under 1% of today's college grads.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3mns9y

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:46 PM (17s+e)

136 Felicity Huffman hardest hit ...

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 03:46 PM (VK0gW)

137 Stefanik also asks her if speech calling for genocide against blacks is allowed at Harvard.

You wonder at what point it dawned on the Harvard pres that she was about to get obliterated. She's doubtless used to people kissing her ass.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 03:46 PM (I/Qkd)

138 We’ll need those extra FlagOs after Trump’s Stalinist purge.

That’s actually something I can get behind.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie

Me too.

Posted by: Cannon Fodder at December 05, 2023 03:46 PM (lZVy/)

139 All the uniformed services combined are around 2.1 million personnel, so there are going to be a lot of generals/admirals. Just in my little State National Guard (army and air combined around 9,000 troops) we have what...5-6 generals at any time.

Posted by: Military Moron at December 05, 2023 03:47 PM (eSVmh)

140 Crazy Eddie
https://youtu.be/Ml6S2yiuSWE

Earl Scheib
https://youtu.be/_V3RowpnHyo

Cal Worthington
https://youtu.be/wyD0QDImMfM

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 03:47 PM (kNb1U)

141 I'm hopeful that small and mid sized businesses are finally catching in to the danger of hiring these ignoranuses.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (d9Cw3)

Best new word creation of the day.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 05, 2023 03:47 PM (3cGpq)

142 "DU has this thread up for over 20 minutes, and no comments yet. Weird. They're really struggling with this anti-Semitic streak they have lol. They do report, though:

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions"

They are holding their fire for when Musk makes some comment that could possibly, maybe be twisted into a hateful anti-Semitic rant with enough effort and editing. And will then use this to show the world they are bravely standing up to Nazis.

Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2023 03:48 PM (JojsZ)

143 130
That doesn't matter. He's a victim!
Posted by: Professor Plum at December 05, 2023 03:40 PM (rsua0)

He actually took part in the bullying of the guy that eventually lead to the whole incident, so there's that.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (Zz0t1)
______

Yea, that part of the story has been buried. Shocker. Hogg is a truly toxic scumbag rump ranger who should have been killed that day. Some of the kids that were killed seemed like normal kids. Hogg should have taken one of their places. The world would be a better place.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:48 PM (iFTx/)

144 >The Cost of a Bribe to Get a Billionaire's Idiot Spawn Admitted Gets Cut from $20 Million to $2 Million
---
"We're going medieval on prices!"
brought to you by DegreesRUs

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (geLO

.......

"Don't forget to use your promo code" - MyDegree

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 03:48 PM (v0R5T)

145 I am not shocked in the slightest to learn that there's a price book.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:22 PM (d04cU)
----
Leo Wong - "How much for Phi Beta Kappa?"

Mars University Dean - "How much you got?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at December 05, 2023 03:48 PM (7fElN)

146 "University presidents' main focus is to fundraise. It's their business.

Wow.... I know I'm naive, but I thought his primary job would be... oh... I don't know... EDUMACATION?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 03:49 PM (xaFKb)

147 Best people I’ve worked with were from top tier public universities like Michigan, UNC, etc. Smart but not too arrogant.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:49 PM (WY6dk)

148 I saw These Ignoranuses open for Buck Cherry at Arcadia in '96.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:49 PM (Zz0t1)

149 We gonna get some 'formalizing' red meat?! Awwww yeah!
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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Formal impeachment grants wide constitutional powers to the House to conduct the investigation and have it hold up under court for all sorts of records and that includes breaching a lot of areas where executive privilege might be asserted.

Posted by: whig at December 05, 2023 03:49 PM (JAi95)

150 All of you are wrong. Hogg boy got in on an athletic scholarship, weightlifting.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:49 PM (17s+e)

151
What is that thing testifying to Congress? Based on the title, I was expecting the President of Harvard University, not a second-rate Urkel impersonator.
Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug

Did she do that?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2023 03:50 PM (63Dwl)

152
The "No white dudes at all unless they're flaming or transitioning" enrollment policy must have a money loophole then, or bonus hole, or whatever term they came up with in today's struggle session.

Posted by: Auspex at December 05, 2023 03:50 PM (j4U/Z)

153 150 All of you are wrong. Hogg boy got in on an athletic scholarship, weightlifting.
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So, just like Barry Sotero, rite?

Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (cPl+1)

154 How is this even legal?

Posted by: Joe kidtoucher at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (W+TLY)

155 Too Fucking High!! (BLAMMO goes the shotgun)

Posted by: Used Cars at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (SYTee)

156 Only when those institutions failed to support Israel, did they have a problem.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 05, 2023 03:37 PM (onFzJ)

Failing to support Israel is not the issue. Allowing unfettered Jew-hate to become the baseline, and allowing violence against Jews to creep onto campus is the issue.

There is a difference.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (3Gtis)

157 The schools are bullet proof. The private ones have enormous endowments, and could care less what alumni think. The public schools fight against regulation, tooth and nail. Look at the battle for New College in Florida, where DeSantis fired the whole board, and many faculty.

Penn, for example, has refused to fire its President, and has a $20 Billion endowment to protect her.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (6Z76e)

158

Posted by: lori loughlin at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (krqg6)

159 This whole reality is insane.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at

Insanity predates the fall.

Posted by: Last Days of the Republic at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (362/q)

160 154 How is this even legal?
Posted by: Joe kidtoucher at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (W+TLY)

Right?

Posted by: Aunt Becky at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (WY6dk)

161 I'm hopeful that small and mid sized businesses are finally catching in to the danger of hiring these ignoranuses.
Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at December 05, 2023 03:44 PM (d9Cw3)
......

"That's "ignorami" bub."

Posted by: Hahvahd grad at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

162 If it's not those darn joos, it's their money. Amirite?
-Penn President Liz Magill and the other over-educated bints

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (RIvkX)

163 150 All of you are wrong. Hogg boy got in on an athletic scholarship, weightlifting.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at December 05, 2023 03:49

Maybe a pipe cleaner scholarship.

Posted by: That Northernlurke embracing the suckd at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (hCt6Y)

164 So this is kindof proof that the Becky's mom (or was her name Becky?) from Full House got imprisoned not for bribed, but for bribing the wrong people.

She bribed a coach or something, and I guess the people at the top got pissed. This was state enforcement of an organized crime dispute. Like when the "informant" rats out his competition.

Posted by: Admission Officer at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (d0fsD)

165 153 150 All of you are wrong. Hogg boy got in on an athletic scholarship, weightlifting.
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So, just like Barry Sotero, rite?
Posted by: Pudinhead at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (cPl+1)
______

Fake news. Both got in on athletic scholarships. For dicklifting.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (iFTx/)

166 Failing to support Israel is not the issue. Allowing unfettered Jew-hate to become the baseline, and allowing violence against Jews to creep onto campus is the issue.

There is a difference.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

True. They shouldn't have any allowance to pick designated groups for two-minute hate sessions. Any group.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 05, 2023 03:53 PM (IG4Id)

167 Is it just me or does it seem that the hiring of the President of Harvard was an obvious affirmative action hire.....
Posted by: Sponge

No, why do you ask?
~SC Justice Affirmative Action Jackson

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2023 03:54 PM (kRFVk)

168 Any Californians around?

What was the electronics store that was..."Top Of The Hill! Daly City?"

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:54 PM (3Gtis)

169 @134
I'd be more impressed with his letter if he hadn't included the following:

Harvard’s Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
I have heard from many members of the Harvard community that Harvard’s Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging (“OEDIB” is an important contributing factor to the problem. I was surprised to learn from students and faculty that the OEDIB does not support Jewish, Asian and non-LGBTQIA White students. I had never read the OEDIB DEI statement until today when I wrote this letter. The DEI statement makes clear that Harvard’s conception of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging does not include Jews "

Oh, come on. You didn't know that DEI is code for anti-white and anti-straight male? You knew, but you were okay with that as long as it didn't include Jews. DEI is nothing but discrimination and you knew it. If you want to convince me of your sincerity, then call for the total abolition of DEI in all its forms, and a return to a colorblind system.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 03:54 PM (I/Qkd)

170 At least the kid getting in via $2M can read and write and probably has some basic skills. Meanwhile “student” athletes can’t spell their name. So whatever.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:54 PM (WY6dk)

171 164 So this is kindof proof that the Becky's mom (or was her name Becky?) from Full House got imprisoned not for bribed, but for bribing the wrong people.

She bribed a coach or something, and I guess the people at the top got pissed. This was state enforcement of an organized crime dispute. Like when the "informant" rats out his competition.
Posted by: Admission Officer at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (d0fsD)
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This is exactly what happened. Plus, as part of the bribe, I recall Becky and the coach deliberately defrauded the school on the application, pretending her girl's had accomplishments they didn't.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (iFTx/)

172 >>Penn, for example, has refused to fire its President, and has a $20 Billion endowment to protect her.

Also has a POTUS to protect her. When Joe was a "professor" at Penn the money from China rolled in. So did the patent dollars for the China virus vaccines.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (ZLI7S)

173 Fake news. Both got in on athletic scholarships. For dicklifting.
Posted by: Elric Blade

When one does that for The Paolo, she, how you say, is involved in an Olympic sport.

Posted by: The Paolo at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (h/xVB)

174 All of you are wrong. Hogg boy got in on an athletic scholarship, weightlifting.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

Also, on the rowing team. As Coxswain.

Posted by: Joe Mama at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (lZVy/)

175 139 All the uniformed services combined are around 2.1 million personnel, so there are going to be a lot of generals/admirals. Just in my little State National Guard (army and air combined around 9,000 troops) we have what...5-6 generals at any time.
Posted by: Military Moron at December 05, 2023 03:47 PM (eSVmh)

Roughly 4:1 Enlisted per Officer in the US Army... 5:1 in the Navy...

But with 900 Generals/Admirals? About 2300 per General / Admiral.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (xaFKb)

176 Right Side Broadcasting is streaming the House Hearing on saving Title IX from men in panties. This should have some fireworks once the lunatic Democrats each get their 5 minutes.

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (kNb1U)

177 157 The schools are bullet proof. The private ones have enormous endowments, and could care less what alumni think. The public schools fight against regulation, tooth and nail. Look at the battle for New College in Florida, where DeSantis fired the whole board, and many faculty.

Penn, for example, has refused to fire its President, and has a $20 Billion endowment to protect her.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (6Z76e)

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Yes, Congress should pass a law limiting all endowments to $100 million.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (cMXNt)

178 "That's "ignorami" bub."

Posted by: Hahvahd grad at December 05, 2023 03:52 PM (v0R5T)

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Origami > Ignorami

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (VK0gW)

179 What was the electronics store that was..."Top Of The Hill! Daly City?"
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:54 PM (3Gtis)
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I think Fry's??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2023 03:56 PM (RIvkX)

180 Yes, Congress should pass a law limiting all endowments to $100 million.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (cMXNt)

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You misspelled $1.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 03:56 PM (VK0gW)

181 Oh, come on. You didn't know that DEI is code for anti-white and anti-straight male? You knew, but you were okay with that as long as it didn't include Jews. DEI is nothing but discrimination and you knew it. If you want to convince me of your sincerity, then call for the total abolition of DEI in all its forms, and a return to a colorblind system.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 03:54 PM (I/Qkd)
++++
There are truths that must never be uttered.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at December 05, 2023 03:56 PM (d04cU)

182 Origami > Literati > Ignorami

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (I/Qkd)

183 135 Eighth grade exit test. The funny part is this is from the WAPO and I'd bet everything I have that less than 11 people at the WAPO could pass it. Under 1% of today's college grads.

https://tinyurl.com/2s3mns9y
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

I've seen this before, but hadn't seen its origin. I was born in Salina...guess that explains my brilliance. I should chime in as my Lefty alter-ego and note an 1895 Kansas Schoolhouse would be WOEFULLY lacking diversity...and probably wouldn't even acknowledge the EXISTENCE of gay and trans kids, which they certainly had dozens of, that lived painful, unfulfilled and ultimately suicide-ended lives....right?

Posted by: Military Moron at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (JCZqz)

184 Wasn't it Mel Brooks who did that bit, "Guess Whose the Jew" or something where they had Nazis and others clearly not Jewish as contestants. I can't find the video.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (XASq/)

185 Every acronym is growing.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (WY6dk)

186 OT:

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (cD1dp)

187 167 Is it just me or does it seem that the hiring of the President of Harvard was an obvious affirmative action hire.....
Posted by: Sponge

No, why do you ask?
~SC Justice Affirmative Action Jackson
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at December 05, 2023 03:54 PM (kRFVk)
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Look at her wiki. A whole string of mediocre accomplishments and a lightweight resume led to being President of Harvard. Her sole qualification for the job was her parents were Haitian immigrants.

Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

188 "Harvard president Claudine Gay."

"Trans Steve Erkel"

I thought it was the Humpdy-Hump dude...

Posted by: Gunslinger at December 05, 2023 03:58 PM (cWet5)

189 I wish I was on social media so I could post that if you support Hamas at all, whatsoever that I don't want to be your freind any longer, I don't wish to speak with or do business with anyone that does so GFY if you do.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2023 03:58 PM (bqazj)

190 132 Ivy Leaguers are toxic employees...
They have a dangerous combination of arrogance, confidence, and ignorance, ...

They also have a propensity for running off valuable employees

osted by: Buck Throckmorton
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You left off my favorite attribute - after they screw up they push the blame on others and get them in trouble.
They are ruthless and very skilled at creating an image. Worse in a company led by people who can not suss out their games

Posted by: Admission Officer at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (d0fsD)

191 So basically Jewish donors were happy to fund Ivy League schools to vilify and preach hate against white, Christian males, American history, and conservatives.

Only when those institutions failed to support Israel, did they have a problem.

Yep. The Pali-supporters are doing NOTHING different now to American Jews then they did before to American conservatives. The difference is that Jews in the left's leadership are pushing back...somewhat.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (XqcwY)

192 I think Fry's??

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2023 03:56 PM (RIvkX)

Nope...something else.
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.
.
Found it! Matthews!

https://youtu.be/RsPTgYMjNcs?
si=LFZj3uuDiW-mC52U

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (3Gtis)

193 Somehow what it costs to bribe your way into a Cultural Marxist Seminary isn't my care

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (fwDg9)

194 Her sole qualification for the job was her parents were Haitian immigrants.
Posted by: Elric Blade at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (iFTx/)

You go grrrrrrl.
-Katherine Jean Pierre

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (WY6dk)

195 Matthew's. top of the hill etc.

Not to be confused with Marty and George for the Saw Mill.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (Z8Yh2)

196 Origami > Illuminati > Literati > Ignorami

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (v0R5T)

197 170 At least the kid getting in via $2M can read and write and probably has some basic skills. Meanwhile “student” athletes can’t spell their name. So whatever.

SEC! SEC!

Posted by: alumni continuing to donate because sportsball at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (V2LtA)

198 Also has a POTUS to protect her. When Joe was a "professor" at Penn the money from China rolled in. So did the patent dollars for the China virus vaccines.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 03:55 PM (ZLI7S)
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That President, Amy Gutman, "retired" when Joey got sort-of-elected, and she's now an ambassador to somewhere fancy.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (6Z76e)

199 "It's a difficult time for the president and it's a difficult time for the University," he continued."

Really? As difficult as the women and children kidnapped and raped? "Difficult time," my ass. Here's an idea -- stop being wicked anti-Semitic assholes.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (cYpPN)

200 184 Wasn't it Mel Brooks who did that bit, "Guess Whose the Jew" or something where they had Nazis and others clearly not Jewish as contestants. I can't find the video.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (XASq/)

SNL gameshow, Jew or Not a Jew?

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (SYTee)

201 "Oh, come on. You didn't know that DEI is code for anti-white and anti-straight male? You knew, but you were okay with that as long as it didn't include Jews. DEI is nothing but discrimination and you knew it. If you want to convince me of your sincerity, then call for the total abolition of DEI in all its forms, and a return to a colorblind system.
Posted by: Archimedes"

I am shocked, shocked I tell you!, to discover discrimination in the Office of Discrimination.

Posted by: Ripley at December 05, 2023 04:00 PM (JojsZ)

202 Failing to support Israel is not the issue. Allowing unfettered Jew-hate to become the baseline, and allowing violence against Jews to creep onto campus is the issue.
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Yes, it's clear from 'protesters' here that it's about killing all the Jews, everywhere, and not just fighting back against the "Zionist Israelis" because they're protesting/vandalizing Canadian Jewish-owned businesses that have SFA to do with Israel. BTW...

Avi Yemini @OzraeliAvi 1h
🚨 Thousands of Aussies UNITE against rise in Jew-hatred
As anti-Israel demonstrations continue to spread hate on Australian streets, Jewish community members and supporters gathered in Melbourne to take a stand against the growing threat.

Dean Skoreyko @bcbluecon 1h
Holy shit. CTV News needs to fire @omarsachedina and his producer for lying about the Israeli rally in Ottawa. Disgusting disinformation.

I'm seriously stunned that he said the people attending "supported the war".

Ezra Levant @ezralevant Dec 4
Thousands here at the “rally for the Jewish people” on Parliament Hill. Trudeau, who is just up the street, refuses to attend.

Posted by: andycanuck (krqg6) at December 05, 2023 04:01 PM (krqg6)

203 Didn't a bunch of Hollywood ilk just go to jail for this? Which I never understood (or cared about) exactly what they did wrong and how it differs from the subject of this thread.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at December 05, 2023 04:01 PM (ctyxQ)

204 Don’t think a pesky scotus ruling will end affirmative action. They’ll call it something else but the practice won’t change. Colleges have been very open about their plans.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 04:01 PM (WY6dk)

205 Dr Gay has a doctorate in political science and was a professor at Stanford. She also was the Dean of Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences so she moved up the ladder.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (RSbhh)

206 >>That President, Amy Gutman, "retired" when Joey got sort-of-elected, and she's now an ambassador to somewhere fancy.

Replacement is no different. Penn is now in China's pocket. The CCP doesn't give money away, they buy favors.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (ZLI7S)

207 Every acronym is growing.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (WY6dk)

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"And Leon's getting larger ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (VK0gW)

208 That must be one really stupid spawn to have to pay $20 million to get his or her sorry ass into the Ivy League.

Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (Gsmsg)

209 "...He predicts opportunists will rise to the occasion and start forking over a couple million in the hopes it makes a difference.

"That is what my intuition and my experience says," he explained. "A 90% discount on the current quote unquote 'rate' could be pretty compelling to a lot of these families."

Wow. I guess Felicity Huffman was just doing it the wrong way, then. Oops.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (4j1D9)

210 TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante

50's B Movies!!! Yes! I recently came across The Fast and the Furious (1955). From Prime Video: This action-packed thrill ride stars John Ireland as a man wrongly imprisoned for murder who breaks out of jail, finds a fast sports car, picks up a beautiful woman, and heads for the Mexican border, the cops hot on his trail.

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (kNb1U)

211 OT:

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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, celebrating anarchy and 50s B-movies with Joe Dante at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (cD1dp)

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Posted by: Jordan61 at December 05, 2023 04:03 PM (DRSnL)

212 the EXISTENCE of gay and trans kids, which they certainly had dozens of, that lived painful, unfulfilled and ultimately suicide-ended lives....right?

Posted by: Military Moron at December 05, 2023 03:57 PM (JCZqz)

No...they suffered until the 1930s, when they all picked up stakes and moved to California!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 04:03 PM (3Gtis)

213 "SNL gameshow, Jew or Not a Jew?
Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (SYTee)"

Maybe that's it. And of course no video available.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 05, 2023 04:03 PM (XASq/)

214 That President, Amy Gutman, "retired" when Joey got sort-of-elected, and she's now an ambassador to somewhere fancy.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 03:59 PM (6Z76e
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She's the one who posed for photos with a student in Nazi uniform "for Halloween."

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2023 04:03 PM (RIvkX)

215 It'll be one big dem love fest with all the progs back in love in time to all vote for Biden in 2024. Have no fear!

Posted by: nckate at December 05, 2023 04:04 PM (SnxUt)

216 Failing to support Israel is not the issue. Allowing unfettered Jew-hate to become the baseline, and allowing violence against Jews to creep onto campus is the issue.
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And, forcing marxism down every throat is the issue.

This guy gets it:

https://shorturl.at/qsEO0

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 04:04 PM (6Z76e)

217 Crazy Eddie's prices ARE IN_SANE! (Oy, the New England Roots!)
Ace, your words...LET THEM BURN!

Posted by: DefendUSA at December 05, 2023 04:05 PM (QwnRn)

218 I recently came across the latest biography of Sylvia Plath, Red Comet (2020). I try not to judge Miss Plath for the naivete of her liberal politics (Psst! The Rosenbergs really were Communist spies!) Also back in the Fifties, Gentile boys were routinely admitted to the Ivy League as a legacy over smarter Jewish boys. Still, the actual education itself was sound, wasn't it?

Also, I think it's funny that the author feels obligated to apologize to the modern reader because Plath used the phrase "light-skinned Negro". Does that author not realize that this phrase was the nicest one in use back then?

I'm more offended that Plath looked down on another girl who spoke with a Midwestern accent.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at December 05, 2023 04:05 PM (pgyt4)

219 Dr Gay has a doctorate in political science and was a professor at Stanford. She also was the Dean of Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences so she moved up the ladder.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (RSbhh)
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Her name is Dr. Gay??

Case closed

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2023 04:05 PM (RIvkX)

220 Dr Gay has a doctorate in political science and was a professor at Stanford. She also was the Dean of Harvard's faculty of arts and sciences so she moved up the ladder.

She did, and it is incorrect to say she has no apparent accomplishments. She does. The problem is that affirmative action makes all of those accomplishments suspect, just as they did when Barry was made editor of HLR.

Are her accomplishments real? How the hell would I know? But you can't call for a different set of standards for one group, without casting doubt on everything they do.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:05 PM (I/Qkd)

221 If you can pony up even 2 or 3 million to get your kid in college, does the kid even need to work? 150k a year for 30 years is 4.5 mil.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM (Z8Yh2)

222 50's B Movies!!! Yes! I recently came across The Fast and the Furious (1955).
Posted by: lost in space

Not nearly as action packed as "The Fist and the Furious".

-- Obummer

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM (h/xVB)

223 My late FIL would be so bummed about how Harvard has morphed into such a trash fire. His stories of attending, hitting up the girls at Wellesley, his amazing list of dorm room mates and suite mates who were people that made headlines in a good way.

His BA and MBA degrees were '50 and '52 and he was there when Teddy Kennedy got kicked out for cheating. He told us how Joe paid to get him back in after he went through Army boot camp and having to settle for a UVA law degree. Contemporaries were George Plimpton, Fred Gwinn, Bobby Kennedy and a gay writer of bizarre literature named Gore that was not Vidal (the gay reference was assumed since he would not go to Wellesley with the rest of them).

What a shit show Harvard is now. I heard it gets $800m/year in gov subsidies while sitting on a $40 billion endowment.

Posted by: DanMan at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM (8uzBS)

224 I would consider sending a grandson to an Ivy League school if the appointed JJ Sefton University President.

Posted by: Eromero at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM (NxC5+)

225 If you can pony up even 2 or 3 million to get your kid in college, does the kid even need to work? 150k a year for 30 years is 4.5 mil.
Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM (Z8Yh2)

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Yeah but then you don't get to say your kid goes to Harvard.

Posted by: Jordan61 at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM (DRSnL)

226 She's the one who posed for photos with a student in Nazi uniform "for Halloween."
Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2023 04:03 PM (RIvkX)
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Not funny, Amy. Not even close, you twisted weirdo. Especially given the attacks on Jews going on right now.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 04:07 PM (6Z76e)

227 Wow. I guess Felicity Huffman was just doing it the wrong way, then. Oops.
Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2023 04:02 PM (4j1D9)

I see that I'm very, very late to the party here.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at December 05, 2023 04:07 PM (4j1D9)

228 50's B Movies!!! Yes! I recently came across The Fast and the Furious (1955).
Posted by: lost in space

Not nearly as action packed as "The Fist and the Furious".

-- Obummer
Posted by: Tonypete

I am pretty sure the correct title was "The Fist and the Fistula".

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 04:07 PM (kNb1U)

229 Are her accomplishments real? How the hell would I know? But you can't call for a different set of standards for one group, without casting doubt on everything they do.

However, based on her performance at that hearing, I would not be inclined to credit her with much in the way of brains, at least when it comes to thinking on her feet.

I can just imagine what Christopher Hitchens would have done with Stefanik

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:08 PM (I/Qkd)

230 And, forcing marxism down every throat is the issue.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 04:04 PM (6Z76e)
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It's not Marxism so much as it's how much private property thwarts the total control the Management Class yearns for.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 04:08 PM (krQz2)

231 DEI is code for Cultural Marxism

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2023 04:08 PM (fwDg9)

232 What does the president of Harvard do all day anyway?

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

233 What a shit show Harvard is now. I heard it gets $800m/year in gov subsidies while sitting on a $40 billion endowment.

I suspect you're mixing subsidies with research grants, of which Harvard gets a lot, and should, at least in the sciences.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:09 PM (I/Qkd)

234 Elite colleges are quietly slashing the level of donations which can secure admission

Let me know when they get down to tree fiddy.

Posted by: Loch Ness Monster at December 05, 2023 04:09 PM (xttsV)

235 Not funny, Amy. Not even close, you twisted weirdo. Especially given the attacks on Jews going on right now.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 04:07 PM (6Z76e)
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Sorry to confuse, this was many years ago...

Posted by: San Franpsycho at December 05, 2023 04:09 PM (RIvkX)

236 Never mind Marxist Re-Education Camps.

US Universities are now Marxist Education Camps.

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 04:09 PM (SYTee)

237 What does the president of Harvard do all day anyway?

What they all do: raise money.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:10 PM (I/Qkd)

238 She doesn't look like him, but she must be Wray's sister.

Posted by: Eeyore at December 05, 2023 04:10 PM (brAQZ)

239 So they're re-emphasizing the original style of affirmative action, where individuals pay to get their mouth breathing kin into Hahvahd et al.

It turns out the full tuition furriners and the government certified oppressees du jour that Uncle Sugar will pay the freight to train as "activists" are jumping the gun on ramping up to actual violence.
That's not in the plan until after the election, at which time whether Trump wins or loses, it's going to be riot season.

Posted by: Peter B at December 05, 2023 04:11 PM (KGz4E)

240 What does the president of Harvard do all day anyway?
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It must be what all the lube is for.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 04:12 PM (krQz2)

241 It's not Marxism so much as it's how much private property thwarts the total control the Management Class yearns for.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 04:08 PM (krQz2)

Marx said if you could distill down his entire philosophy to one objective it would be the abolition of private property.

Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (cYpPN)

242 What does the president of Harvard do all day anyway?
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 04:09 PM (v0R5T)

Maintains standards of excellence in the make-up of the student body that are the envy of the entire academic world. Right?

RIGHT???

Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (Gsmsg)

243 ...of which Harvard gets a lot, and should, at least in the sciences.

(censored)

Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (Z8Yh2)

244 Are her accomplishments real? How the hell would I know? But you can't call for a different set of standards for one group, without casting doubt on everything they do.
Posted by: Archimedes

Affirmative Action Rules!
(And curses every member of a class chosen to benefit from it.)

Posted by: Admission Officer at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (d0fsD)

245 Elise Stefanik is a perfectly cromulent conservative from New York State.

You take what you can get there.

Posted by: Harun at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (c2WeP)

246 "Didn't a bunch of Hollywood ilk just go to jail for this? "

I was just thinking the same thing. Big Feeb bust, well publicized.

Posted by: gourmand du jour at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (MeG8a)

247 I appreciate the Harvard students having the courage to speak up-and I know many think poorly of Republicans, but I am glad they had a venue for the Jewish students to speak, and I do think that Mike Johnson cares about the students.

I also think it might get some of them to rethink their connection to the Democrat party which I am sure they have voted for.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (RSbhh)

248 ...of which Harvard gets a lot, and should, at least in the sciences.

(censored)

Feel free. They produce many top flight people and much research of the highest quality.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:14 PM (I/Qkd)

249 221 If you can pony up even 2 or 3 million to get your kid in college, does the kid even need to work? 150k a year for 30 years is 4.5 mil.
Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM

4.5 million, invested and making just 3.3% return, is also $150k a year.

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2023 04:15 PM (JCZqz)

250 156 Only when those institutions failed to support Israel, did they have a problem.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at December 05, 2023 03:37 PM (onFzJ)

Failing to support Israel is not the issue. Allowing unfettered Jew-hate to become the baseline, and allowing violence against Jews to creep onto campus is the issue.

There is a difference.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 05, 2023 03:51 PM (3Gtis)

But a distinction without a difference for purposes of Bitter Clinger's comment, because that kind of violence has been there for others for quite a while (e.g., refusal to allow conservative speakers on campus or charging huge security fees due to the violence anticipated from students the university fully stands behind, shouting down conservative speakers and allowing mobs to take over their events, subjecting conservatives to all kinds of free-speech policing, allowing whole university departments to engage in anti-white agitation that amounts to encouragement of violence). The campus environment has been toxic for quite a while now for others.

Posted by: This really isn't new, it's just a new manifestation of an existing phenomenon at December 05, 2023 04:15 PM (ttzpt)

251 Anybody notice how female dominated all this nuttery is?

Posted by: Scuds Lonigan at December 05, 2023 04:15 PM (j8pp5)

252 House scheduled Impeachment Inquiry vote for week of Dec 10... just announced.

About damn time.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 04:15 PM (xaFKb)

253 42 I stupidly once donated $100 to my college. All that did was put me on a list to call up every month and beg for more money. Never made that mistake again.

Posted by: Montec at December 05, 2023 03:28 PM (WY6dk)

I had a friend who started a fund at the school we both attended. I gave him a sum of cash and told him to keep my name out of it.

Posted by: Javems at December 05, 2023 04:15 PM (4UJrj)

254 Sounds like a made-up job to me.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 04:15 PM (v0R5T)

255 I also think it might get some of them to rethink their connection to the Democrat party which I am sure they have voted for.

Excuse my eyeroll. It's involuntary.

Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:16 PM (Gsmsg)

256 Maintains standards of excellence in the make-up of the student body

False eyelashes and rouge?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the struggle to maintain Moron standards at December 05, 2023 04:16 PM (mu+VK)

257 Wait now, what in the hell is this? A medical degree from Harvard University for twenty million dollars?

That's too. Fuckin' HIGH!

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 04:16 PM (geLO8)

258 Who is a congresswoman to demand that a college president resigned? New Congress people think they are over anything they want to be over? And what things that they are supposed to regulate they don’t

Posted by: Susan D Harms at December 05, 2023 04:16 PM (FDFdw)

259 Random Godzilla question:

Do you think Japanese real estate developers create basket ball size mockups for a guy in a rubber suit to trash just to see what Toho will eventually do to them?

Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2023 04:17 PM (FhXTo)

260 I wanna thank this Harvnerd place for teaching me about white privilege. Yeah! I totally had no idea what it was, or that I had it! Now, I have to go to Wall Street to get that job they said my Dad has lined up for me...anyone know where that is?

Posted by: Beavis at December 05, 2023 04:17 PM (JCZqz)

261 https://youtu.be/RsPTgYMjNcs?
si=LFZj3uuDiW-mC52U
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Did you watch the ad? Fascinating time capsule. 25" stereo TV w/remote control for $598 - get a free bike too! 30 some years later, that $600 will get you a TV only Star Trek fans could have conceived of.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (KAi1n)

262 232 What does the president of Harvard do all day anyway?
Posted by: wth

A very pivotal and telling point in the history of our decline is when they pushed Larry Summers out as prezy for saying men and women *might* have different distribution of intelligence, or something very vague and impartial like that.

They pushed him to resign. He did not say anything absolute, only that it was worth investigating. You know, finding the truth. That was unacceptable. That was almost 20 years ago.

Posted by: Admission Officer at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (d0fsD)

263 The Speaker of the House is in attendance.

______________________________

Ah, he must have finished blurring the faces of the participants of Jan. 6th in the videos. We can't have those FBI agents and informants recognizable. That wouldn't be fair.

Posted by: Orson at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (dIske)

264 If you can pony up even 2 or 3 million to get your kid in college, does the kid even need to work? 150k a year for 30 years is 4.5 mil.
Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 04:06 PM

No, it's not about the kid needing to work, it's about the kid needing an "authentic college experience."

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (dPmj/)

265 Who is a congresswoman to demand that a college president resigned? New Congress people think they are over anything they want to be over? And what things that they are supposed to regulate they don’t

They are the financial gatekeepers for federal money. That money is terribly politicized already, usually to our detriment, so I'm okay if she wants to say "no money for universities that conduct pogroms".

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (I/Qkd)

266 University of Texas has an endowment of $31 billion. Second biggest in the country I believe. They still blow me up for donations despite not giving them one cent in the years since I graduated ("Giving Tuesday" is right after Cyber Monday, didn't you know?)

Also, tuition goes up every single year, not to mention all the fees. And that's a state school. They get lots of tax money, too. It's all a scam.

Posted by: brak at December 05, 2023 04:19 PM (AR07F)

267 >House scheduled Impeachment Inquiry vote for week of Dec 10... just announced.

6/5 it fails

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 04:19 PM (geLO8)

268 I stupidly once donated $100 to my college. All that did was put me on a list to call up every month and beg for more money. Never made that mistake again.

I always get begs from my law school. Seems there are a lot of disadvantaged wretches out there who dream of becoming a lawyer. Please donate to the scholarship fund!

My reaction is always the same. Of all the causes in the world, the very last one that I would consider funding is the one dedicated to putting more lawyers out into the world.

Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:19 PM (Gsmsg)

269 Too Fuckin' High!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqHZWdFVyyQ

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 04:19 PM (SYTee)

270 It will be nice weather everywhere and freezing balls in Daly City. True story.

Posted by: DOYLE at December 05, 2023 04:20 PM (Z8Yh2)

271 Harvard already has an endowment that's so big that they can't even count the dough. And now they are worried that their rank anti-Semitism may cut the flow of moola to the Harvard Yard?

Haven't they listened to one of their outstanding alumnus? Didn't the New Light Worker (and former President of the Harvard Law Review) say, "At some point you've got enough money"? Well did they fail to understand that?

Posted by: Comanche Voter at December 05, 2023 04:20 PM (cB7nX)

272 Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:16 PM (Gsmsg)

I am sorry it makes your eyes roll, but that is possible. If I can change my allegiance to the Democrat long before this they can too, and not being Jewish I wasn't affected by this virulent anti semitism. And yes, it was Republicans who invited them to speak.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 04:21 PM (RSbhh)

273 Feel free. They produce many top flight people and much research of the highest quality.
Posted by: Archimedes

Some of which is actually true and not destructive to society.

I have worked with and hired Harvard Business and Physics PhDs, and they aren't worth shit. Maybe some are, but I am yet to meet them.

Posted by: Admission Officer at December 05, 2023 04:21 PM (d0fsD)

274 No, it's not about the kid needing to work, it's about the kid needing an "authentic college experience."

Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (dPmj/)

-----------

AKA eight years in a drunken and/or stoned stupor making important networking connections with other trust fund babies.

Posted by: ShainS -- CISA Cognitive Security Agent at December 05, 2023 04:22 PM (pParF)

275 No, it's not about the kid needing to work, it's about the kid needing an "authentic college experience."

I'm guessing at the $2Mill level the kid gets to skip the defending himself against baseless rape charges part of the experience.

Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2023 04:22 PM (Bd6X8)

276 255 I also think it might get some of them to rethink their connection to the Democrat party which I am sure they have voted for.

Excuse my eyeroll. It's involuntary.
Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:16 PM (Gsmsg)

Young Adults like to Rebel... as they try to find their place in the world...

Now, if the Government, College Admins, and Media, are all ultra Liberal and Gay.... how would one Rebel as THAT IS THE ESTABLISHMENT!

Oh... be Conservative and Straight?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 04:22 PM (xaFKb)

277 3 HTML tags.
HOW DO DEY WERK!!???
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at December 05, 2023 03:20 PM (Zz0t1)

It's complicated.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2023 04:22 PM (x5hic)

278 It's not Marxism so much as it's how much private property thwarts the total control the Management Class yearns for.
Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 04:08 PM (krQz2)

Marx said if you could distill down his entire philosophy to one objective it would be the abolition of private property.
Posted by: Ordinary American at December 05, 2023 04:13 PM (cYpPN)
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Good point.

So I guess it's essential Marxism, but not the same history timeline. Because, just like every other Marxist leader in history, the Dictatorship in the name of the "Proletariat" is not going away.

The people who rejected Marxism will always need to be led.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 04:22 PM (krQz2)

279 I stupidly once donated $100 to my college. All that did was put me on a list to call up every month and beg for more money. Never made that mistake again.

Posted by: Montec

Even if you don't give them money they'll find alumni faster than the IRS.

Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM (FhXTo)

280 It will be nice weather everywhere and freezing balls in Daly City. True story.
Posted by: DOYLE

Pacifica has entered the chat.

Posted by: SFGoth at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM (KAi1n)

281 Harvard already has an endowment that's so big that they can't even count the dough. And now they are worried that their rank anti-Semitism may cut the flow of moola to the Harvard Yard?

Instead of hearing Harvard just bleating about how its land was stolen from the Indians, I'd like to see them forced to give it back.

Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM (Gsmsg)

282 I'm guessing at the $2Mill level the kid gets to skip the defending himself against baseless rape charges part of the experience.
Posted by: Blanco Basura - Z28.310 at December 05, 2023 04:22 PM (Bd6X

Probably more apt to get that type of charge... for the settlement.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM (xaFKb)

283 In the Wake of Donors Revolting. . . .

The donors are revolting?

Yeah, they stink on ice!

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM (h/xVB)

284 I have worked with and hired Harvard Business and Physics PhDs, and they aren't worth shit. Maybe some are, but I am yet to meet them.

Ditto, except not the Business people, mostly chemists and physicists. Many were exceptional.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM (I/Qkd)

285 House scheduled Impeachment Inquiry vote for week of Dec 10.
.......

Failure Theatre. Get your tickets now.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 04:24 PM (v0R5T)

286 No, it's not about the kid needing to work, it's about the kid needing an "authentic college experience."
Posted by: Joe, living dangerously at December 05, 2023 04:18 PM (dPmj/)

Lambda Lambda Lambda?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (xaFKb)

287 I heard the good Physics Ph.D.s all come from Princeton.

Posted by: Cicero (cicero43) at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (Gsmsg)

288 Just seventeen more days and the daylight will start getting longer again.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (BdMk6)

289 270 It will be nice weather everywhere and freezing balls in Daly City. True story.
Posted by: DOYLE

Tell me about, girlfriend! I wore this cute little skirt there and WOW! Two raisens, frozen on the vine!

Posted by: Dylan Mulvaney at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (JCZqz)

290 AKA eight years in a drunken and/or stoned stupor making important networking connections with other trust fund babies.
Posted by: ShainS

One of my boys earned his MBA at a big name school. He told me much of the 2nd year was spent with alumni networking to be selected for the big job after they were graduated.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (h/xVB)

291 House scheduled Impeachment Inquiry vote for week of Dec 10.
.......

Failure Theatre. Get your tickets now.
Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 04:24 PM (v0R5T)
---
A guided tour of the myriad hills not to die on.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (krQz2)

292 Order before Mid-Night and get a Free Poster of Big Mike benching 250 lbs with Hillary watching in a Thong Bikini.

Posted by: FRanklin Stein at December 05, 2023 04:26 PM (rcLES)

293 I heard the good Physics Ph.D.s all come from Princeton.

My personal hero and mentor was an Hispanic kid from the Bronx who got his PhD there.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:26 PM (I/Qkd)

294 >House scheduled Impeachment Inquiry vote for week of Dec 10.

When is Christmas/New Years break for them?

Posted by: davidt at December 05, 2023 04:27 PM (SYTee)

295 288 Just seventeen more days and the daylight will start getting longer again.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (BdMk6)

I look forward to this.

Posted by: m at December 05, 2023 04:27 PM (x5hic)

296 One of my boys earned his MBA at a big name school. He told me much of the 2nd year was spent with alumni networking to be selected for the big job after they were graduated.

It is my understanding that that is true of all MBA programs. The better programs just have better contacts.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:27 PM (I/Qkd)

297 Even if you don't give them money they'll find alumni faster than the IRS.
Posted by: DaveA at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM

I never gave a dime to mine and they STILL found me after numerous moves.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2023 04:28 PM (bqazj)

298 > A very pivotal and telling point in the history of our decline is when they pushed Larry Summers out as prezy for saying men and women *might* have different distribution of intelligence, or something very vague and impartial like that.

Harvard's been on a downward spiral ever since they started giving Gentlemen's Cs. That accelerated manyfold when Harvard inflated grades so students could evade the draft in Vietnam.

Now it's guaranteed you'll graduate undergrad if you gain admission. See David Hogg as a recent example. His tweets are littered with embarrassing mis-spellings, grammar atrocities, and utterly devoid of logic or reason. He's a Harvard graduate.

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:28 PM (R38qh)

299 If I became dictator, every college would pay for their own students for a decade or two.

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2023 04:28 PM (fwDg9)

300 "I just read that Sen. Tuberville dropped opposition to 400 officers waiting to become Generals. How many hundreds of Generals do we need? "

Up or out.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 05, 2023 04:28 PM (ou9hh)

301 AOC: Banning men in panties from playing in women's sports intersects with the Dobbs ruling and forcing women to prove they are having their period. I can honestly never say I saw that connection being made. But there it is.

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 04:28 PM (kNb1U)

302 292 Order before Mid-Night and get a Free Poster of Big Mike benching 250 lbs with Hillary watching in a Thong Bikini.
Posted by: FRanklin Stein

And Dr. Biden bending over to spot Big Mike while wearing her fishnets.

Posted by: Vomit at December 05, 2023 04:29 PM (JCZqz)

303 Now it's guaranteed you'll graduate undergrad if you gain admission. See David Hogg as a recent example. His tweets are littered with embarrassing mis-spellings, grammar atrocities, and utterly devoid of logic or reason. He's a Harvard graduate.

I just read an article that says 80% of the grades at Yale are A's.

Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:29 PM (I/Qkd)

304 > @ insty: KitchenAid KSMMGA Metal Food Grinder Attachment.

for when you need to grind metal food

Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 04:31 PM (geLO8)

305 It's Christmas in July!

Posted by: InZona at December 05, 2023 04:31 PM (D/GbM)

306 why do these anti-Semitic colleges even care about the bribes, I mean, when you have 20-40+ billion in endowments, they don't need any money, ever again? We sure shouldn't be funding them anymore

Posted by: ziggggeeee at December 05, 2023 04:32 PM (AsMdZ)

307 An Ivy League diploma is now damaged goods anywhere outside the Bos-Wash corridor.

You would be better served by sending your child to a smaller school adjacent to an Ivy and giving her a big party budget to schmooze the suckers going to the big school. At that tier it is more about social connections with other students than education.

Posted by: Rick T at December 05, 2023 04:32 PM (xeXUW)

308 304 > @ insty: KitchenAid KSMMGA Metal Food Grinder Attachment.

for when you need to grind metal food
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 04:31 PM (geLO

MMGA = Make Metal Great Again?

Posted by: m at December 05, 2023 04:32 PM (x5hic)

309 In the Wake of Donors Revolting. . . .

The donors are revolting?

Yeah, they stink on ice!
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 04:23 PM (h/xVB)

Finally !

*took 283

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2023 04:32 PM (V13WU)

310 What a shit show Harvard is now. I heard it gets $800m/year in gov subsidies while sitting on a $40 billion endowment.

I suspect you're mixing subsidies with research grants, of which Harvard gets a lot, and should, at least in the sciences.
Posted by: Archimedes at December 05, 2023 04:09 PM (I/Qkd)
====================
He's talking about total Federal payments of all types to Harvard, per year. The number was part of todays Congressional hearing. For purposes of todays discussion, the categories weren't important but half of that was described as tuition subsidies of various types.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 04:33 PM (M1UiX)

311 308 304 > @ insty: KitchenAid KSMMGA Metal Food Grinder Attachment.

for when you need to grind metal food
Posted by: Don Black at December 05, 2023 04:31 PM (geLO

MMGA = Make Metal Great Again?
Posted by: m at December 05, 2023 04:32 PM (x5hic)

or

MMGA = Make Metal Grate Again!

Posted by: m at December 05, 2023 04:33 PM (x5hic)

312 Typical Harvard Grads:

https://tinyurl.com/4reukyjj

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2023 04:33 PM (gmo/4)

313 I just read an article that says 80% of the grades at Yale are A's.

true of all higher ranked schools and has been. for awhile

when I was in law school (at a state school) they actually adjusted the curve at our school (only 10% of any class was allowed an A) because it was far too strict against the other similarly-ranked schools that were giving out upwards of 40-50% A marks per class (Berkely was one of the worst I recall)

Posted by: brak at December 05, 2023 04:33 PM (AR07F)

314 One of my boys earned his MBA at a big name school. He told me much of the 2nd year was spent with alumni networking to be selected for the big job after they were graduated.
Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 04:25 PM (h/xVB)

In the medical profession I was in, the second year is when the recruiters started sending out their letters.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2023 04:34 PM (BdMk6)

315 Anyone at Harvard going to jail? I seem to recall Lori Laighlin went to jail bribing someone to get her stupid daughter into Stanford.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 05, 2023 04:34 PM (xT7BI)

316 And I think that Jewish law student will make an excellent lawyer. Let's hope and pray he doesn't get beaten up or killed before he graduates. Harvard's response-or rather lack thereof- as was that the other "elite" institutions-an utter disgrace.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 04:35 PM (RSbhh)

317 "It's a difficult time for the president and it's a difficult time for the University," he continued.

Sheesh!
And here I thought college was a place where students could go and learn new and different things in an environment of mutual respect and security.
Silly me.

Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2023 04:36 PM (uSHSS)

318 And here I thought college was a place where students could go and learn new and different things in an environment of mutual respect and security.
Silly me.
Posted by: Diogenes at December 05, 2023 04:36 PM (uSHSS)
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That sounds totally racist.

Posted by: Axeman at December 05, 2023 04:37 PM (krQz2)

319 Elite colleges are quietly slashing the level of donations which can secure admission as mega-donors close their checkbooks to the Ivy League over antisemitism on campus.

--

Wasn't this what that Hollywood actress got in trouble for about four years ago? A literal FBI investigation and everything?

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023 04:37 PM (sIl7T)

320 I just read an article that says 80% of the grades at Yale are A's.

-

This is an outright and utter lie. It's likely 95%+

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023 04:38 PM (sIl7T)

321 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc

Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM (R38qh)

322 Quick! Get Hollywood to do a reboot of the movie The Paper Chase and make sure they put a woman in it and make her gay and make it lame.

Posted by: Harvard Admin at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM (4iIQh)

323 These Ivy league schools used to have some swagger to them being on a resume. Now, it's a deterrent. Ah I see here you went to Harvard. Well, thank for coming in. We'll be in touch.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM (bqazj)

324 Wasn't this what that Hollywood actress got in trouble for about four years ago? A literal FBI investigation and everything?
Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023

***
Two of them -- Felicity Huffman of Desperate Housewives and the lady from the original Full House series. I can picture her face but have forgotten her name. Neither did any serious jail time, I think.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 04:40 PM (J2vNu)

325 @ insty: KitchenAid KSMMGA Metal Food Grinder Attachment.

for when you need to grind metal food
Posted by: Don Black

Once bugs replace meat, how else are you supposed to get your iron?

Posted by: Moron Analyst at December 05, 2023 04:40 PM (JCZqz)

326 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM (R38qh)
=====================
what a fucking idiotic thing to say. We should award her zero points, and may God have mercy on her soul.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at December 05, 2023 04:41 PM (M1UiX)

327 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.
.......

Shit. They're on to me.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 04:41 PM (v0R5T)

328 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM (R38qh)

Well somebody's gotta do it.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at December 05, 2023 04:41 PM (BdMk6)

329 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM

Yea that's it. Now shut up and show us your tits.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2023 04:41 PM (bqazj)

330 The Full House actress has a name worthy of a Superman comic, like Lois Lane and Lana Lang: "Lori Loughlin."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 04:41 PM (J2vNu)

331 With all the horrific antisemitism occurring there are still places where the Chanukah celebration is shared with the larger community. The one that is happening in Mesilla, NM is a small bright spot but it is bright none the less.

https://tinyurl.com/y8kjrc2w

Posted by: lost in space at December 05, 2023 04:42 PM (kNb1U)

332 The thing for me is it's been known for a VERY long time that major universities, especially Ivies, are hotbeds of Jew hatred. It's just reached an undeniable fever pitch lately. Why the hell were Jewish megadonors making megadonations to institutions that already hated the fuck out of them?

Posted by: Seriously, what the actual fuck? at December 05, 2023 04:43 PM (r/JV0)

333 Lori Laughlin, starring in Chained Heat. Felicity. Meh. Fluffer maybe.

Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2023 04:43 PM (bqazj)

334 321 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM (R38qh)

Everybody thought AOC was stupid, but really she's a genius.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2023 04:43 PM (eYoxG)

335 326 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM (R38qh)

———-

That sort of thing is necessary when a significant enough part of the population can’t adequately distinguish between male and female.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at December 05, 2023 04:43 PM (SLYB/)

336 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc
Posted by: bonhomme

Well somebody's gotta do it.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons

Unlike some here, I didn't go to Medical School but I'd be happy to take a look at it.

Posted by: Tonypete at December 05, 2023 04:43 PM (h/xVB)

337 "Executive Committee of the Committee of University Resources"

Now that is some high quality bullshit title.

Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2023 04:43 PM (iziT8)

338 Yea that's it. Now shut up and show us your tits.
Posted by: Minnfidel at December 05, 2023 04:41 PM (bqazj)

Could you please ask her to show her tits in private, because I would prefer not to see them?.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 05, 2023 04:44 PM (RSbhh)

339 Nood Nikki Haley

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2023 04:44 PM (eYoxG)

340 "Do you think Japanese real estate developers create basket ball size mockups for a guy in a rubber suit to trash just to see what Toho will eventually do to them?
Posted by: DaveA"

I would love it if one of Japan's architectural standards were "Would this building look good while being smashed by Godzilla"

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 05, 2023 04:44 PM (ou9hh)

341 Off to dentist, hope it won't be too bsd

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2023 04:44 PM (fwDg9)

342 315 Anyone at Harvard going to jail? I seem to recall Lori Laighlin went to jail bribing someone to get her stupid daughter into Stanford.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 05, 2023 04:34 PM (xT7BI)

that other actress (Married to William H. Macy) was just in the news, folks were acting like she was throwing her daughter under the bus, but it basically sounded like she felt she HAD to do it to get the daughter a swell edumakation. I still can't figure out what either actress did wrong...guessing they weren't born rich, and didn't have the right connections to make the bribe less noticable

Posted by: ziggggeeee at December 05, 2023 04:45 PM (AsMdZ)

343 NOOD NIKKI

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at December 05, 2023 04:45 PM (N3zMI)

344 BOOYAH!!!

Posted by: Nikki Haley at December 05, 2023 04:45 PM (sIl7T)

345 Executive Committee of the Committee of University Resources"
*
Now that is some high quality bullshit title.
Posted by: eleven at December 05, 2023

***
ECCUR

If only it were the "Operational" Committee: OCCUR!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 05, 2023 04:45 PM (J2vNu)

346 "I just read an article that says 80% of the grades at Yale are A's."
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My son was recruited by Brown. They gave only A's and B's according to their brochures. He ended up at Texas.

Posted by: Javems at December 05, 2023 04:45 PM (4UJrj)

347 AOC sez ACTUALLY, the men who are against men in women's spaces are setting up a diabolical plot to demand women girls drop their pants for intimate inspection before entering the locker room or bathroom.

https://is.gd/RA9UMc
Posted by: bonhomme at December 05, 2023 04:39 PM

LOL, in 1986 we were having a Party to raise funds for Navy Relief at the Wahiawa Enlisted Club. Toga Party, Live Band... Kegs o'beer.... well... CO the day of the party heard about it and got a bit flustered, so Ordered everyone to wear underwear under their Togas.... and someone at the Door had to check...

So... we raffled it off as a door prize... Girl to check the guys... guy to check the girls.

It was the last party of that type they allowed us to have on base... for some reason.

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 05, 2023 04:46 PM (xaFKb)

348 Out: Show us yer tits.
In: Drop yer panties.

Posted by: wth at December 05, 2023 04:46 PM (v0R5T)

349 Isreali forces are reporting today as the most intense fighting of the war so far. Hundreds of Hamas fighters have been killed, and the IDF is engaged in all out full strength attacks with aircraft, tanks, and ground troops in both northern and southern Gaza. Some in the cabinet are calling it the Decisive Battle.

Also the 5 pipelines to the Mediterranean have been hooked up, and the pumping of water into the tunnel network has begun. (300 miles of tunnels, this will take some time to complete)

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 05, 2023 04:46 PM (i9ffA)

350 Why the hell were Jewish megadonors making megadonations to institutions that already hated the fuck out of them?

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two reasons: 1) that was not always the case 2) because Harvard (or Yale, Princeton) - prestige

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2023 04:46 PM (V13WU)

351 350 Why the hell were Jewish megadonors making megadonations to institutions that already hated the fuck out of them?

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two reasons: 1) that was not always the case 2) because Harvard (or Yale, Princeton) - prestige
Posted by: runner at December 05, 2023 04:46 PM (V13WU)

Ivy League schools have traditionally been more anti-Semitic than they are today.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2023 04:48 PM (eYoxG)

352 The Nazis recruited heavily at elite German Universities. A huge number of commanders of Einsatzgruppen units had the title Doctor attached to their names - PhD.

Posted by: Archer at December 05, 2023 04:48 PM (gmo/4)

353
"I just read that Sen. Tuberville dropped opposition to 400 officers waiting to become Generals. How many hundreds of Generals do we need? "

Just have nothing but Sergeants and Generals.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 05, 2023 04:49 PM (63Dwl)

354 Ivy League schools have traditionally been more anti-Semitic than they are today.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at December 05, 2023 04:48 PM (eYoxG)

about a century ago, quotas and all that; that was not the case in the 90s for example

Posted by: runner at December 05, 2023 04:50 PM (V13WU)

355 Some may recall, from 'other sources,' that Crazy Eddie wasn't just famous for low-low prices and grating ads. He had a certain creative genius for...bookkeeping. Pretty famous for it.

Posted by: Stuff Adams wrote to Jefferson at December 05, 2023 04:53 PM (FCs/J)

356 The Nazis recruited heavily at elite German Universities.

How fares Mathematics at Gottingen?

Posted by: Stuff Adams wrote to Jefferson at December 05, 2023 04:54 PM (FCs/J)

357 One people group has a disproportionate number in the senior ranks of medicine, finance, technology, entertainment, business, government, etc. etc.

Only Ivy League faculty and students would demand the annihilation of that people group while simultaneously demanding that the aforesaid people group give them jobs and money.

Posted by: Queequeg the Harpooner at December 05, 2023 04:55 PM (9X60i)

358 [i[When Jamie Dimon, the chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, urged Democratic donors last week to rally behind Nikki Haley to provide Republican voters

these dumb elite twats actually think it was Republicans who got Trump elected...both times

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2023 04:57 PM (YAdUC)

359 Nude Nikki would be a thread worth seeing

Posted by: Skip at December 05, 2023 04:57 PM (VYnsI)

360 If it wasn't for the secret rituals and compromat that Skull and Bones has on these stoopid dumb elite twats, they'd have no options in life and would be destined to turning tricks at the bus station.

that's how freaking clueless and stoopid they are. They're only successful because of their, umm..."networking"

Posted by: kallisto at December 05, 2023 04:59 PM (YAdUC)

361 Now, it's a deterrent. Ah I see here you went to Harvard. Well, thank for coming in.

Yeah, now that you're on the Morons and InstaShitlist, there's no chance your Yale degree will get you into our suburban insurance agencies and janitorial services. We are all Moo-Moo now!

Posted by: Way, Way Downriver at December 05, 2023 05:00 PM (FCs/J)

362 #357: One people group has a disproportionate number in the senior ranks of medicine, finance, technology, entertainment, business, government, etc. etc.

Anyone who uses the term "disproportionate," which suggests that there is some sort of objective "right" or "proper" proportion of participation in a particular field, is using bigoted Leftist "thinking."

Posted by: buzzsawmonkey at December 05, 2023 05:02 PM (PkFjB)

363 Yeah, sorry, but Harvard doesn't need to have a bake sale for funding purposes. They have BILLION dollar endowment. I think they can manage without too much trouble

Posted by: deadrody at December 05, 2023 05:13 PM (JrxHT)

364 Oh, did I say a BILLION ? It's actually over $50 BILLION

Posted by: deadrody at December 05, 2023 05:13 PM (JrxHT)

365 Harvard intelligentsia don't think Jews are 'people'.
That's the problem.

Posted by: torabora at December 05, 2023 06:15 PM (DVJUU)

366 Remember all the folks who were prosecuted by the federal government and went to jail in the Varsity Blues scandal for paying bribes to get their kids admitted to schools? I guess their real crime was not paying it through the proper channels.

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