DHS Secretary Noem Announces the Freezing of $2.7 Million in Grants to Harvard

I know I've reported that this was in the offing, but this makes it official.

These new cuts are in addition to the $2.2 billion (with a b) that Trump already froze.

DHS Sec. Kristi Noem announces $2.7 million of Harvard's grants are canceled
Quick Hit:
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has canceled more than $2.7 million in federal grants to Harvard University, citing the school's alleged tolerance of pro-Hamas extremism and anti-American ideology on campus.
Key Details:
Noem rescinded two DHS grants totaling over $2.7 million.
Harvard is accused of enabling antisemitic and extremist behavior.
The Trump administration has frozen $2.2 billion in multiyear federal grants and is scrutinizing the school's nonprofit tax status.
Diving Deeper:
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced Wednesday the cancelation of two Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants to Harvard University, citing national security concerns and the university's failure to confront what she called "anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology" on its campus.
The decision revokes a combined $2.7 million in federal funds. One of the grants, valued at $800,303, reportedly supported a study that characterized conservatives as "far-right dissidents." The second, totaling $1,934,902, was described by DHS as financing "public health propaganda." The department's press release stated that both projects "undermine America's values and security."
"Noem's move is a clear signal from the Trump administration: institutions that benefit from taxpayer dollars must uphold American principles, not promote hostility toward them," the DHS said. In a separate letter, Noem also demanded records from Harvard detailing any foreign student visa holders involved in "illegal and violent activities."
Her blunt assessment of Harvard's trajectory struck a nerve.
"Harvard bending the knee to antisemitism -- driven by its spineless leadership -- fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security," Noem said. "With anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, Harvard's position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory."

Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding? It's true. They love admitting rich foreign students because they pay the full nominal cost of tuition, no scholarships, no breaks for coming from a low-income family.

I mention this because Trump is also looking to block any foreign Harvard student from obtaining an educational visa to come get "educated" at Harvard, which will also badly damage Harvard's finances.

He wants Harvard to turn over disciplinary records for its foreign agitators so that the government can review their visa status. Harvard is refusing -- and might get their ability to enroll any foreign student terminated.

It gets even better🔥

Trump admin now threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, which make up 20%+ of their student body, unless they turn over disciplinary records

Harvard is trying to protect Hamas supporters

Trump is trying to deport them

And he… pic.twitter.com/amFMH4Djd9
— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) April 17, 2025

BREAKING: If Harvard does not fully comply with all reporting requirements to DHS, including providing detailed records of foreign students’ misconduct on campus, Harvard will no longer be able to enroll foreign students. pic.twitter.com/azcn1Q9NhH
— Ben B@dejo (@BenTelAviv) April 17, 2025

This is fun, too:

My favorite part about the Trump Administration's letter to Harvard is the demand that "all existing and prospective faculty shall be reviewed for plagiarism." Twisting the knife. pic.twitter.com/30sQOldldA
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2025

Posted by: Ace at 03:35 PM

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1 "We can discriminate based on race against existing caselaw because we're important."
-Harvard

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:36 PM (GBKbO)

2 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 17, 2025 03:36 PM (Zz0t1)

3
lol @ the plagiarism part

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 03:36 PM (+5V9V)

4 Harvard plagiarists hardest hit.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (Q4IgG)

5 Has the Left found their inner keep your govt out of my schools yet?

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (pWnkL)

6 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (rbKZ6)

7 Harvard does not realize their brand and reputation have already been irreparably harmed.

Such a shame.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (RIvkX)

8 NO YELLOW!

Posted by: Harvard at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (F30Ty)

9 Harvard going to throw a Roman toga party now?

Posted by: Sen. Blutarsky at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (Aqu9a)

10 Isn't the granting of student visas entirely with the President's core power? Are there any laws controlling this?

Posted by: toby928 at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (jc0TO)

11 The left might yet come to regret cancelling people for saying things like "there are only two sexes" or "perhaps we shouldn't force everyone that won't take a poison shot to lose their jobs" - because if you can cancel people for that cancelling people and orgs for calling for a second Holocaust becomes a lot easier...

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)

12 Not first!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at April 17, 2025 03:38 PM (Wnv9h)

13 Couldn't happen to a nicer band of communist blood sucking destroyers.

Posted by: uniparty, Raping and Mutilating the Children They do not Kill at April 17, 2025 03:38 PM (gxokI)

14 My favorite part about the Trump Administration's letter to Harvard is the demand that "all existing and prospective faculty shall be reviewed for plagiarism." Twisting the knife. pic.twitter.com/30sQOldldA

— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) April 17, 2025

SOME POO CAME OUT!!!

Posted by: Harvard Faculty at April 17, 2025 03:38 PM (Zz0t1)

15
No one thinks the President's blunt remarks today on Fed Queer Jerm Powell are significant? I do.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 03:38 PM (+5V9V)

16 I'm of two minds about all this. It kind of depends on which hat I'm wearing.

When donning my "principled conservative" hat, I don't like it because while I am pleased that the taps are being turned off for Harvard, I think they should be turned off *everywhere* and the argument of "you didn't toe the line, so you got cut off" fails to repudiate the operational norm of the FedGov dumping money into universities.

When donning my "fuck those guys" hat, I *love* it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (yjAVs)

17 Hah, losers!

Posted by: Yale at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (Dv3i1)

18 Look for the thundering exit of faculty prior to the plagiarism review board meetings.

Posted by: Just Lily at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (xDQJU)

19 >>Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding? It's true.

Did you know that many of those programs are funded by the US gov (USAID, State Dept.)

I don't know if it is true, but I do know of several cases personally. The money is washed through the foreign gov, but it is US taxpayer money.,

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (GqN6L)

20 Harvard has had it coming for a long time.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (2UnvF)

21 >>Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding? It's true. They love admitting rich foreign students because they pay the full nominal cost of tuition, no scholarships, no breaks for coming from a low-income family.

You also have to account for the Foreign Funding (Qatar, for example) which insists on Foreign Student Acceptance to continue their Donations.

Posted by: Harvard at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (F30Ty)

22 "Who pays the Piper calls the tune"

This particular piper is so wiked smaht they seem to have forgotten

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (FCbAQ)

23 because if you can cancel people for that cancelling people and orgs for calling for a second Holocaust becomes a lot easier...
Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (t0Rmr)

You are such a scamp

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (pWnkL)

24 Remember when Biden through a Russian woman in jail because she advocated for RKBA rights in the US?

How are all of these foreign college students involved in political orgs/protests not committing the same crime?

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (t0Rmr)

25 IvySockOFF

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (F30Ty)

26 As I've mentioned before, REPUTATION is the coin of the realm with regards to universities.

If Harvard is knocked out of its top spot as America's premier institution of higher learning, a lot of other Ivy League universities will gladly take their spot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (7fElN)

27 $2.7 million is a rounding error in their endowment earnings.

Sadly ...

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 17, 2025 03:40 PM (euBs+)

28 He who pays the piper calls the tune. Dance, Harvard, dance.

Posted by: toby928 at April 17, 2025 03:40 PM (jc0TO)

29 I don't get the anti-Semitism. Harvard is half Jewish, in both students and faculty. WTF?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)

30 16 When donning my "principled conservative" hat, I don't like it because while I am pleased that the taps are being turned off for Harvard, I think they should be turned off *everywhere* and the argument of "you didn't toe the line, so you got cut off" fails to repudiate the operational norm of the FedGov dumping money into universities.

When donning my "fuck those guys" hat, I *love* it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (yjAVs)

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And yet...it's the basic assumption of accepting any federal dollars anyway: that continued flow of money is about keeping those in power happy.

Acting like it's not the actual system in place is just opening things up for one side to take over completely.

Make the other side feel pain within the system, and maybe they'll agitate for good change. Or worse. In the end, the current system is not worth saving.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

31 50% of Harvard teachers could be replaced with the AI robots that wrote their doctoral theses.

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2025 03:40 PM (Cus5s)

32 Thus is unfortunate. I wish them well while the reorganize their finances.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2025 03:40 PM (B8wFh)

33 Woke Hillsdale (formerly Harvard University).

Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (pMi6S)

34 Note: Even if you ignore how much middle class Americans are forced to pay to the Ivies, we would be better off if Trump shuttered all of them and sold off their assets tomorrow.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (t0Rmr)

35 Oh NO!!!

Anyway......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

36 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (yjAVs)

Can't argue with either hat there.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (FCbAQ)

37 First, President Trump destroyed the cuckold titty babies in the GOPe like Jeb! and Mitt. Then he curb stomped Hillary's labia on the way to the white outhouse. Then he proceeded to destroy the democrat media complex. Now he has the overpaid, oversexed, underworked layabouts in our fake universities and colleges in his crosshairs and being exposed for the frauds they are and always were. Viva La Trump!

Posted by: Unbelieveable! at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (R/m4+)

38 "He wants Harvard to turn over disciplinary records for its foreign agitators so that the government can review their visa status."

Ace, I doubt it's "foreign agitators" Harvard is worried about. Even the most feral advocacy of Jew-hating goat-rapers won't get you in any trouble. So there will be no disciplinary records for that. There weren't any for that Khalil cockroach, were there?

I think more likely what Harvard is trying to cover up is the disproportionately high number of offenses its foreign scumbags commit against women. These foreign scumbags aren't any different from all the other foreign scumbags who rape and abuse women and girls at alarming rates.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (iFTx/)

39 The Unabomber was not their fault. More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (QSrLX)

40 How many white and Asian kids would get the opportunity to go to harvard if they paid the full price foreigners do?

Posted by: mishdog at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (Hzymx)

41 Yeah, Joo hate is bizarre and dumb and Hahvahd keeps doubling down on it but... they have spent decades blocking qualified asian and white applicants simply because of their race.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (OlZEO)

42 IMVHO Harvard is guilty of much more than supporting anti-semitism, as it is one of the leading institutions undermining the very idea of America and its legitimacy and standing in the world. As does all the rest of so called higher education in the country, but Harvard, because of its history and prominence needs to be taken down to the ground as an example to all of the other communist, anti-American 'educational' institutions in the country.

They all need to be taken down with a wrecking ball.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 03:41 PM (vHfLU)

43 >>I don't get the anti-Semitism. Harvard is half Jewish, in both students and faculty. WTF?

I would wager that less than 10% of the Harvard Faculty and Student Body that claim Jewish Heritage are actually practicing Jews.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (F30Ty)

44 Look for the thundering exit of faculty prior to the plagiarism review board meetings.

Posted by: Just Lily at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (xDQJU)
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The African-American Studies department is sweating bullets.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (YqDXo)

45 27 $2.7 million is a rounding error in their endowment earnings.

Sadly ...
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White

Its like one grant.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (B8wFh)

46 Maybe this will lead to Pocahontas’s expulsion from Harvard!

Posted by: Avi at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (cBCwV)

47 I don't get the anti-Semitism. Harvard is half Jewish, in both students and faculty. WTF?

Leftist, atheist Jews pretend that Islam has a problem with only with religious Jews and Israelis.

Of course the Islamists are pretty clear they want to kill all Jews...I mean Muhammed told them to pretty clearly.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (t0Rmr)

48 Noem rescinded two DHS grants totaling over $2.7 million.

Shouldn't she be canceling DHS instead? All grants should already be dead. Why is The Department of Homeland Security making grants in the first place?

Posted by: t-bird at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (iSdyJ)

49 "Harvard trying to protect it's Hamas supporters."

Say, I have a sudden hankering to re-watch Taps.

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (Aqu9a)

50 A little OT, but when does usage of AI, even lateral usage, become plagiarism?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (XeU6L)

51 I suspect that there are many more Chinese students than Middle Eastern students.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

52 Trump admin now threatening to revoke Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, which make up 20%+ of their student body, unless they turn over disciplinary records

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Imma gonna go out on a limb and guess there are no disciplinary records kept on student domestic terrorists (or if so, will be disappeared/memory-holed).

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (euBs+)

53 $2.7 million is a rounding error in their endowment earnings.

Sadly ...
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White

Its like one grant.
Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM

My boss used to say 'Pain is at the margins'.

Posted by: toby928 at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (jc0TO)

54 Look for the thundering exit of faculty prior to the plagiarism review board meetings.

Posted by: Just Lily at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (xDQJU)
_____________

The African-American Studies department is sweating bullets.

The exodus will be VERY department-specific.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (s8j++)

55 I would wager that less than 10% of the Harvard Faculty and Student Body that claim Jewish Heritage are actually practicing Jews.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (F30Ty)
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I know differently.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

56 We'll just turn off those nasty keystoke loggers. More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (QSrLX)

57 Ctl-C, Ctl-V, Ctl-C

Wait.

Undo Undo Undo.

Posted by: Claudine Gay, Noted Harvard Scholar at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (PiwSw)

58 Hey Harvard. You like apples?
How do you like these apples?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (N39Ws)

59 27 $2.7 million is a rounding error in their endowment earnings.

Sadly ...
Posted by: ShainS

Ny the time I have written thi reply to your comment, their investment portlolio has earned $3 million in dividends.

Ooops, there's another million.

I better hit "Post" before this gets out of hand....

Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (pMi6S)

60 However, it just takes a few bad instances of Harvard letting foreign students off for criminal behavior for the administration to have the political and, potentially, legal ammunition it needs to cut Harvard off from foreign students.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (GBKbO)

61 Say, I have a sudden hankering to re-watch Taps.
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM

IT'S BEAUTIFUL, MAN!!

Posted by: Tom Cruise's Fistpump at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (jc0TO)

62 The FSU thing is starting to stink. Almost four hours after someone opened fire in the busiest building on campus, and i can't find a single eyewitness account online.

Posted by: mrp at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (rj6Yv)

63 The decision revokes a combined $2.7 million in federal funds. One of the grants, valued at $800,303, reportedly supported a study that characterized conservatives as "far-right dissidents." The second, totaling $1,934,902, was described by DHS as financing "public health propaganda." The department's press release stated that both projects "undermine America's values and security."
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Sounds like bullshit. Not the stated purpose of the contracts - that sounds like normal government malfeasance - but the actual reality. I strongly suspect there are *no* real deliverables for these contracts. Probably just some profs at Harvard shitting out an unreferenced, unrigorous report and some low-rent ads that don't see the light of day.

Straight-up cash giveaways, in other words. Maybe these contracts were actually for meaningful wrongdoing, but my bet would be on "cash grab as such" more than anything else.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (yjAVs)

64 I suspect that there are many more Chinese students than Middle Eastern students.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)
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That's Berkeley. Not so much Harvard.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

65 58 Hey Harvard. You like apples?
How do you like these apples?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

But the problem is, then you have to fuck Minnie Driver.

Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (pMi6S)

66 The FSU thing is starting to stink. Almost four hours after someone opened fire in the busiest building on campus, and i can't find a single eyewitness account online.

Posted by: mrp at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (rj6Yv)
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You know what that means.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

67 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (yjAVs)

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (pWnkL)

68 My favorite part about the Trump Administration's letter to Harvard is the demand that "all existing and prospective faculty shall be reviewed for plagiarism." Twisting the knife.

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Extend that to all past faculty as well.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (euBs+)

69 LUL but muh scientific research ,get fucked

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (KQk9m)

70 >>I know differently.

OK.
So. Where would you peg that number?

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (F30Ty)

71 Interest on that $4.9 Billion, not bad.
+/- $147,000,000

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (MGY3l)

72 You know what that means.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

Florida moved to Las Vegas?

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (pWnkL)

73 Two point seven meeeeelyon dollars.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (QSrLX)

74 27% of Harvard's undergraduate class is foreign.

That's a lot of money.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)

75 I guess one could say this is a form of lawfare against the left, and I wholeheartedly approve.

Posted by: kallisto at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (dCxaZ)

76
I would wager that less than 10% of the Harvard Faculty and Student Body that claim Jewish Heritage are actually practicing Jews.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (F30Ty)

Maybe they are practicing, just not enough to get any good at it.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (FCbAQ)

77 The FSU thing is starting to stink. Almost four hours after someone opened fire in the busiest building on campus, and i can't find a single eyewitness account online.
Posted by: mrp at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (rj6Yv)

Smells like Troon Spirit.

Posted by: Pray The Gay Away at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (R/m4+)

78 But the problem is, then you have to fuck Minnie Driver.

Can you employ a ball gag?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (OlZEO)

79 Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding? It's true. They love admitting rich foreign students because they pay the full nominal cost of tuition, no scholarships, no breaks for coming from a low-income family.
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The private colleges don't have to give anyone a single break. They have endowments for that, but they don't *have* to unless it's tied to a donation with that specific purpose.

They love foreign students because it's never a question, and they love foreigners, and they love spies. Foreign students tick all the boxes. A lot of them are spies, none of them are Americans, and a foreign state is likely footing the bill and so will pay.

The *real* nastiness on this front is with the public colleges. State universities adore out-of-state students (which includes foreigners) because they pay full freight.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (yjAVs)

80 Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (yjAVs)

Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.

*cough*
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds
*cough*

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (s8j++)

81 And yet...it's the basic assumption of accepting any federal dollars anyway: that continued flow of money is about keeping those in power happy.

Acting like it's not the actual system in place is just opening things up for one side to take over completely.

Make the other side feel pain within the system, and maybe they'll agitate for good change. Or worse. In the end, the current system is not worth saving.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Xanatos gambit, Comply or Not, Trump is likely to win under either condition.

Ivies have really crapped over their reputation for the last fifty years but survived okay due to their tap into the federal treasury and their connections in the world. Their reputation is secure among elites but elites don't realize that doesn't matter anymore to the angry peasants.

They shoulda let him win in 2020 instead of cheating Biden into office.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (ctrM5)

82 Point and laugh!!!
Same for the David Hogg news.

Posted by: m at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (CQE5S)

83 64 I suspect that there are many more Chinese students than Middle Eastern students.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)
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That's Berkeley. Not so much Harvard.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Walked around the Cal campus earlier this week. 75% Asian girls, at a minimum.

(And before you get your fantasies up: most of them are mousy nerdy STEM majors.)

Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (pMi6S)

84 >>But the problem is, then you have to fuck Minnie Driver.

She always kinda looked like she was just barely not Downs.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (F30Ty)

85 27% of Harvard's undergraduate class is foreign.

That's a lot of money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
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I'll bet it's more than that. I'd like to know what they count as "foreign" for that stat. And what about grad school?

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

86 81 Xanatos gambit, Comply or Not, Trump is likely to win under either condition.

Ivies have really crapped over their reputation for the last fifty years but survived okay due to their tap into the federal treasury and their connections in the world. Their reputation is secure among elites but elites don't realize that doesn't matter anymore to the angry peasants.

They shoulda let him win in 2020 instead of cheating Biden into office.
Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (ctrM5)

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"People should have read my book! And then I wouldn't have had to start a magazine."
-William F. Buckley

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

87 65 58 Hey Harvard. You like apples?
How do you like these apples?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed

But the problem is, then you have to fuck Minnie Driver.
Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (pMi6S)

Not bad in 1998....but now she's more British looking.

Posted by: mishdog at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (Hzymx)

88 I mention this because Trump is also looking to block any foreign Harvard student from obtaining an educational visa to come get "educated" at Harvard, which will also badly damage Harvard's finances.
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Student visas should be a default "denied" anyway. Fuck Harvard in particular, but tremendous numbers of foreign students are spies or layabouts spending daddy's money to goof off. There should be *extremely* thorough vetting of foreign students.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (yjAVs)

89 LUL but muh scientific research ,get fucked

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (KQk9m)
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Scientific research is not the problem. Social "science" and "studies" departments are where the plagiarism problem lives.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (YqDXo)

90
Price of Diesel at the pumps seems to be down under $4/gal for the first time in a long time.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 03:48 PM (zVUHX)

91 Walked around the Cal campus earlier this week. 75% Asian girls, at a minimum.

(And before you get your fantasies up: most of them are mousy nerdy STEM majors.)
Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM

Hmm, I will have to see dez azz before deciding.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 03:48 PM (jc0TO)

92 I guess one could say this is a form of lawfare against the left, and I wholeheartedly approve.
Posted by: kallisto at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (dCxaZ)

Looks like the upper hand is on the other foot, Saddam.

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:48 PM (pWnkL)

93 85 27% of Harvard's undergraduate class is foreign.

That's a lot of money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
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I'll bet it's more than that. I'd like to know what they count as "foreign" for that stat. And what about grad school?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

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https://oneworld.worldwide.harvard.edu/
international-students-at-harvard/

6,793 students.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)

94 78 But the problem is, then you have to fuck Minnie Driver.

Can you employ a ball gag?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (OlZEO)

Yeah but all the tax withholding paperwork is a pain

Posted by: Could sub...contract them at April 17, 2025 03:48 PM (TbWk/)

95 Scientific research is not the problem. Social "science" and "studies" departments are where the plagiarism problem lives.

I know but the left is pushing the line that scientific research is being hurt.

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2025 03:49 PM (KQk9m)

96 "Okay, here are those disciplinary records you asked for. Dorfman, 0.00. Fat and stupid is no way to go through life, son."

Posted by: spongeworthy at April 17, 2025 03:49 PM (CDWlY)

97 *cough*
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds
*cough*
Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 03:46 PM (s8j++)

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:49 PM (pWnkL)

98 LUL but muh scientific research ,get f***ed

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (KQk9m)
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Scientific research is not the problem. Social "science" and "studies" departments are where the plagiarism problem lives.

Shhhhh, he's rolling.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 03:49 PM (s8j++)

99 But now how are degenerates going to learn how to sew fish onto sexually mutilated teenage boys?

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 17, 2025 03:49 PM (iwVGi)

100 Minnie Driver>>>>>>> Adam Driver

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (KQk9m)

101 Show of hands: comments are devotional or liturgical. Devotional first. Now liturgical. Hands down. Thats what I thought,

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (QSrLX)

102 What I find so amusing is the entitlement involved.

This is not Podunk U, this is *Harvard.* Harvard does not, will not and has never needed the money. Harvard can live off its endowment for generations, even if it stopped charging tuition. It is a self-regenerating capital engine at this point, because the base value is so staggering.

Harvard is screaming about this not because of the money, but because of what it implies about Harvard's status and broader conditions. They are in charge, dammit, and *they* are the paragons of American society. That's what this is about in its case. It ain't the money.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (yjAVs)

103 The *real* nastiness on this front is with the public colleges. State universities adore out-of-state students (which includes foreigners) because they pay full freight.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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More pain is coming to academia is my suspicion. Ending AID is even hurting pocketbooks of Aussie universities.

The whole Globo Homo project was based on feel good One world bullshit where a Chinese or Palestinian are going to be so influenced by their stay here that it will give good vibes for the US throughout the world. Instead, higher ed used foreign students as a racket.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (ctrM5)

104 >>I know but the left is pushing the line that scientific research is being hurt.

Seems like an Institution that claims to care about Research would dip into their Endowment to Fund the research, no?

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (F30Ty)

105 Trump and/or Congress should deny all federal funding to any school with a majority foreign student body

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (V6W16)

106 And before you get your fantasies up: most of them are mousy nerdy STEM majors.

You're saying that like its a bad thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (OlZEO)

107 Walked around the Cal campus earlier this week. 75% Asian girls, at a minimum.

(And before you get your fantasies up: most of them are mousy nerdy STEM majors.)

Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (pMi6S)
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Exactly.

The funny part is that tend to make good students, but lousy scientists. I called it "CFS" - Chinese female syndrome. They'd study like mad, master all the material, but if you asked to extend what they'd learned to a new (but related) situation, they'd complain that they hadn't been told what to do about that, and seemed to think that that was grossly uncalled for.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

108 88 I mention this because Trump is also looking to block any foreign Harvard student from obtaining an educational visa to come get "educated" at Harvard, which will also badly damage Harvard's finances.
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Student visas should be a default "denied" anyway. Fuck Harvard in particular, but tremendous numbers of foreign students are spies or layabouts spending daddy's money to goof off. There should be *extremely* thorough vetting of foreign students.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (yjAVs)

This. Why are we exporting all this intellectual firepower. Maybe keep American colleges for American eduction to keep jobs in america?

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (B8wFh)

109 My favorite part about the Trump Administration's letter to Harvard is the demand that "all existing and prospective faculty shall be reviewed for plagiarism." Twisting the knife.
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Which they won't, of course. There are some plagiarists at Harvard to be sure, especially in the soft subjects. But they won't because they have a "how DARE you question me" attitude.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (yjAVs)

110 I'm just glad Chinese students have no connections to the CCP

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (iwVGi)

111 Minnie Driver>>>>>>> Adam Driver
Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM

Hmm. Darth Emo.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (jc0TO)

112
Will the Kennedy School of Government be forced to close the Fiddle & Faddle naked swimming pool assistance class?

Posted by: Auspex at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (j4U/Z)

113 27% of Harvard's undergraduate class is foreign.

That's a lot of money.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (GBKbO)
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I'll bet it's more than that. I'd like to know what they count as "foreign" for that stat. And what about grad school?
Posted by: Elric Blade at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (iFTx/)

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https://oneworld.worldwide.harvard.edu/
international-students-at-harvard/

6,793 students.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:48 PM (GBKbO)
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I don't doubt they claim it's 27%. I suspect it's higher. Also look at how the percentage of "International Students" has shot up over time. Oh and what's an "International Student"? Is that the same as a foreign student? What's the criteria?

I'll say again that the percentage of what normal Americans would consider "foreign" students is higher than 27%.

Posted by: Elric Blade at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (iFTx/)

114 liturgical
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I think they make a cream for that now.

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (pWnkL)

115 You know what that means.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (YqDXo)

Florida moved to Las Vegas?
Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:45 PM (pWnkL)

1) The FBI is on the scene and assisting local law enforcment

2) US AG Pam Bondi is being kept up to date

3) President Trump has been fully informed on developments.

Posted by: mrp at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (rj6Yv)

116 Seems like an Institution that claims to care about Research would dip into their Endowment to Fund the research, no?

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (F30Ty)
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Overhead of scientific research grants provides the operating budget of major research universities.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

117 I know several millionaire Professors (California) who do 'Research' every year, by being flown to Kamchatka and Fishing on Guided Trips for several weeks at a time.

I don't really care how much 'Research' is damaged, personally.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (F30Ty)

118 The funny part is that tend to make good students, but lousy scientists. I called it "CFS" - Chinese female syndrome. They'd study like mad, master all the material, but if you asked to extend what they'd learned to a new (but related) situation, they'd complain that they hadn't been told what to do about that, and seemed to think that that was grossly uncalled for.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

-

H1B Indian "engineers" wave hello

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (iwVGi)

119 Scientific research is not the problem. Social "science" and "studies" departments are where the plagiarism problem lives.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (YqDXo)

Anytime a modifier is applied to 'science' or the word 'studies' appended to a subject you have neither science nor any legitimate course of study. All you really have is lies and brainwashing.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (vHfLU)

120 Cute. But Nyet.
- Hawaiian Judge in the next couple of days

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM (DKKgv)

121 The funny part is that tend to make good students, but lousy scientists. I called it "CFS" - Chinese female syndrome. They'd study like mad, master all the material, but if you asked to extend what they'd learned to a new (but related) situation, they'd complain that they hadn't been told what to do about that, and seemed to think that that was grossly uncalled for.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

They must get stale in bed fairly quickly, then. What to do when the novelty has worn off?

Posted by: Count de Monet at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM (Aqu9a)

122 >>Overhead of scientific research grants provides the operating budget of major research universities.

It's a scam. Has been for decades and decades.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM (F30Ty)

123 The funny part is that tend to make good students, but lousy scientists. I called it "CFS" - Chinese female syndrome. They'd study like mad, master all the material, but if you asked to extend what they'd learned to a new (but related) situation, they'd complain that they hadn't been told what to do about that, and seemed to think that that was grossly uncalled for.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM

According to Boy928, they cheat like crazy so you want one as a lab partner. Apparently the shame of cheating is way way less than the shame of failing.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)

124 1636: Harvard was founded in order to provide the best broad education to young men in preparation for sending them out on the mission field.

2025: Harvard administration cries because they are told not to keep harboring students who want to eliminate Israel.

Posted by: red speck at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM (0Id0S)

125 Part of how we got here is that State decided that a good way to "Westernize" countries that hate us is to pay them to send their kids to our schools.

So State pays these countries, and they run programs, and coincidentally only the ruling class kids qualify for full payment to go to USA schools.

But they hate us. Instead of us changing them, they changed our schools. And these countries realized that they can give money to the schools for Chairs and power and really fuck up our country. And they did.

You even notice that these foreigners paying full fare are never from friendly countries? It is always Middle East countries or China - the countries that State is funding to "Westernize"

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM (GqN6L)

126 Anytime a modifier is applied to 'science' or the word 'studies' appended to a subject you have neither science nor any legitimate course of study. All you really have is lies and brainwashing.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (vHfLU)

Much like 'justice'

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:54 PM (pWnkL)

127 know several millionaire Professors (California) who do 'Research' every year, by being flown to Kamchatka and Fishing on Guided Trips for several weeks at a time.

I don't really care how much 'Research' is damaged, personally.
Posted by: garrett
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But whut bout muh akademic frehdumb!!!

Posted by: Social justice studies chair at April 17, 2025 03:55 PM (qlIEW)

128 You know what that means.

Sure. They are trying to hide something. When they get their talking points together and come up why it's all whiteys fault they will let us know.

Posted by: Case at April 17, 2025 03:55 PM (OrSPY)

129 114 liturgical
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I think they make a cream for that now.
Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:51 PM (pWnkL

I'll add it to my Amazon manual typwriter order. Thanks!

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 17, 2025 03:55 PM (QSrLX)

130 More pain is coming to academia is my suspicion. Ending AID is even hurting pocketbooks of Aussie universities. ...
Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (ctrM5)
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Oh yes, in the general. Even without the clandestine US government funding, the open funding has driven prices up so high that it's hard to justify even if the colleges were *good.* They're not, especially not for men and enrollments have likely already peaked. The cutting off of bullshit grants will just accelerate things.

Not for Harvard. Harvard is fine and will remain fine.

Most universities, however, are not like Harvard. My alma mater can survive 24 months with its endowment (assuming no revenues). That's it. Some significant structural debts (big campus building spree, etc.), catastrophically expensive administration and ancillaries, declining enrollment. There are a lot of colleges in fairly weak financial position and a whole lot of them are going to go the way of Antioch.

Which they richly deserve.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (yjAVs)

131 And after the dust settles, Harvard lies in ruins, the Mooselums deported, the Jews will still vote 80+ % for the Democrats.

Posted by: ss at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (xlrNs)

132 Frederick Larrabee: I must point out to you that foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
Judy: Emerson!
Frederick Larrabee: I beg your pardon?
Judy: Ralph Waldo Emerson, born 1803 died 1882.
Frederick Larrabee: You like Emerson?
Judy: I adore him.
Frederick Larrabee: I adore anyone who adores Emerson.
Judy: And I adore anyone who adores anyone who adores Emerson, your turn!
Frederick Larrabee: She's a delight Bannister, a delight and you're a lucky dog.
Howard: I...
Frederick Larrabee: Admit it! Admit you're a lucky dog.
Howard: I'm a lucky dog.

Posted by: Art Rondelet of Malmsey at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (FEVMW)

133 27 $2.7 million is a rounding error in their endowment earnings.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 17, 2025 03:40 PM (euBs+)
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Yes but it's cash and most of Harvard's wealth is in real estate, etc.

Posted by: Ciampino - easy to to do at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (sPQoU)

134 Praise Allah for President Biden and this Trump guy is evil and Hitler. The peace-loving people of Gaza and Iran call on the UN to designate Trump and the USA Nazis and Terrorists.

We call on the UN, Senator Shumer, Rep Omar, and the US Socialist-Marxist Democrat Party to restore this money so we can continue kill Isreal and its people.

Posted by: Usama Bin Laden Jr. at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (0oV4I)

135 There's another aspect to this that probably is requiring Harvard to remain uncooperative. When a private benefactor/alumni provides donations to Harvard, they get to dictate where that money goes on a departmental basis. So, should their records reflect that they are not honoring those directives, then they are in a tight space and are opened up to a fraud investigation.

Harvard put a hiring freeze in place in March (which suggests that they aren't as flush as advertised). Additionally, private donations have decreased in the recent past reflective of the behavior of students on campus.

Posted by: Orson at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (dIske)

136 Posted by: ss at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (xlrNs)

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Look! It's Montec!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

137 123 The funny part is that tend to make good students, but lousy scientists. I called it "CFS" - Chinese female syndrome. They'd study like mad, master all the material, but if you asked to extend what they'd learned to a new (but related) situation, they'd complain that they hadn't been told what to do about that, and seemed to think that that was grossly uncalled for.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM

According to Boy928, they cheat like crazy so you want one as a lab partner. Apparently the shame of cheating is way way less than the shame of failing.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM (jc0TO)

I've heard that the Chinese international students do well in mathematics up to a certain level, and that this was attributable to approaching mathematics as a series of arbitrary rules to memorize instead of a coherent system.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at April 17, 2025 03:57 PM (okun6)

138 Anytime a modifier is applied to 'science' or the word 'studies' appended to a subject you have neither science nor any legitimate course of study. All you really have is lies and brainwashing.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (vHfLU)

Everything is rigged.
Everything is bullshit and lies.
Everything's a scam.
Everything's a rip-off.
Everything's an op.
Everything is fake and ghey.

Posted by: One more time, with feeling at April 17, 2025 03:57 PM (TbWk/)

139 They must get stale in bed fairly quickly, then. What to do when the novelty has worn off?
Posted by: Count de Monet at April 17, 2025 03:53 PM

Two at a time?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 03:57 PM (jc0TO)

140 Anytime a modifier is applied to 'science' or the word 'studies' appended to a subject you have neither science nor any legitimate course of study. All you really have is lies and brainwashing.
Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (vHfLU)

Much like 'justice'
Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:54 PM (pWnkL)
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And "American"

The presence of a modifier is simply a signal of inversion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:57 PM (yjAVs)

141 Sure, a lot of money is at stake, but not for "research" or professors.

Most of the money goes to administration. They would thrive if they cut out 1/2 their budget and just cut administration.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (GqN6L)

142 Instead of us changing them, they changed our schools

The abyss looks also into you.

Posted by: Black Orchid at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (Pv3Rg)

143 Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on anti-Semitism.

The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, or else lose its federal funding.

Harvard retorts that it won’t be bullied by Washington.

Among its other requirements, the Trump administration also warned Harvard to cease using race as a criterion in its admissions, hiring, and promotion, contrary to law.

https://is.gd/br4ZI8

I don't get this. Forget getting federal dollars, Harvard is saying they'll just ignore SCOTUS. Isn't that a criminal offense?

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (s8j++)

144 If you just got by born here vs not born here, “international” students easily is 60% of Harvard. Because someone who moved to the US at 16 and completed 1 or 2 years of high school would be technically counted as American. But they’re not really.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (DKKgv)

145 2.7 mil is a drop compared to 2.2 Billion. Wtf were we giving billions to Harvard?! Who the fuck are they, Ukraine?!?!

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (8HNt+)

146 Much like 'justice'

Posted by: ... at April 17, 2025 03:54 PM (pWnkL)

Exactly. And it burns me how many fools we have in this country that don't see that.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (vHfLU)

147 Anytime a modifier is applied to 'science' or the word 'studies' appended to a subject you have neither science nor any legitimate course of study. All you really have is lies and brainwashing.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (vHfLU)
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Appending "education" does the same thing. Math, physics, chemistry or engineering "education" attempts to arrogate to itself the respect of the base subject to what is in essence an intellectual sandbox.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

148 Conservatives have been salivating at the notion of defunding NPR for about 45 years, but, like Lucy and the Football, Charlie Brown just never learned.

Americans instead come to find out the looting operation runs into the billions and trillions, infesting every nook and cranny of government enriching some of the worst people on the planet for decades and causing untold misery. Easily the worst scandal in US history and it isn’t even close.

Donny Two Scoops is merely doing what should have been done 50 or 60 years ago and continuing to the present time. I knew Republicans were pretty much as useless as a bucket of warm spit, but Dayuuum. The only concern really is if they will go far enough in doing what needs to be done.

“What Is To Be Done?” Indeed

Posted by: Common Tater at April 17, 2025 03:59 PM (+0VYM)

149 Harvard is screaming about this not because of the money, but because of what it implies about Harvard's status and broader conditions. They are in charge, dammit, and *they* are the paragons of American society. That's what this is about in its case. It ain't the money.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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Its both. From Axios.

Harvard's operating budget is about 6.4 Billion and endowment earnings were 2.4 billion that were spent on the budget. Federal funds were about 700 million, leaving current gifts, student tuition, etc. to fund the rest. About 50 percent.

Only about 20 percent of their endowment aka about ten billion can be used for discretionary spending--the rest are bequests for specific purposes. Donations dropped 150 billion as well last year over the previous year.

That is why a simultaneous ban on foreign students along with no funding from fedgov will really hurt. Plus, out of that student revenue, a fair chunk comes from federal student aid which if the non profit status comes about and banning of student aid there for discrimination, Harvard will sink faster back to its regional finishing school rep before you know it.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 03:59 PM (ctrM5)

150 I bet Ike and The Gipper are up in heaven sharing a some suds and looking down and saying, Damn! This Guy is Good.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 17, 2025 03:59 PM (XV/Pl)

151 The funny part is that tend to make good students, but lousy scientists. I called it "CFS" - Chinese female syndrome. They'd study like mad, master all the material, but if you asked to extend what they'd learned to a new (but related) situation, they'd complain that they hadn't been told what to do about that, and seemed to think that that was grossly uncalled for.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM
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It's akin to the problem with AI. They study and learn the subject as rote, and can adapt or maintain something someone else created, but a depth of knowledge is not creativity. The "synthesis" stage of knowledge-creation can't be acquired through cramming the course material.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 03:59 PM (yjAVs)

152 Overhead of scientific research grants provides the operating budget of major research universities.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:52 PM (YqDXo)
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Our Vice Chancellor of Research sent out an email today about the new cap of 15% overhead. They are still working out what that will mean for the university finances.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)

153 Among its other requirements, the Trump administration also warned Harvard to cease using race as a criterion in its admissions, hiring, and promotion, contrary to law.
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They should include "sex" as a banned criterion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

154 So- foreign students pay all that money to learn how to hate the Jews and become socialists. Huh, who knew.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 17, 2025 04:00 PM (Lp05i)

155 Our Vice Chancellor of Research sent out an email today about the new cap of 15% overhead. They are still working out what that will mean for the university finances.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)
____________

Short version: nothing good.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

156 It's just sickening how much money is sloshing around and half the country is pissed if even a few crumbs are taken away from the absolute most elite of benefactors.

Posted by: Leupold at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (4pwAx)

157 Appending "education" does the same thing. Math, physics, chemistry or engineering "education" attempts to arrogate to itself the respect of the base subject to what is in essence an intellectual sandbox.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (YqDXo)

Standard commie MO. Get something that has respect, gain co trol, force anyone who disagrees with you out. Demand respect. Then move on to the next cherished institution.

Same with entertainment properties. Same with Everything.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (8HNt+)

158 I don't get this. Forget getting federal dollars, Harvard is saying they'll just ignore SCOTUS. Isn't that a criminal offense?
Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 03:58 PM (s8j++)

It is. And who’s gonna do anything about it?
- Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (DKKgv)

159 I still say Kelo the University System.

They closed Campuses for Covid and didn't return ANY of the monies spent on Admissions.

They don't need a physical campus at this point.

Eminent Domain their Real Estate Holdings and Develop them.

The Supremes said it is fair game. Let's do this.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (F30Ty)

160 So- foreign students pay all that money to learn how to hate the Jews and become socialists. Huh, who knew.

Posted by: Vengeance at April 17, 2025 04:00 PM (Lp05i)
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Actually, I think a lot of them show up having already learned those things.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (YqDXo)

161 ... Only about 20 percent of their endowment aka about ten billion can be used for discretionary spending--the rest are bequests for specific purposes. Donations dropped 150 billion as well last year over the previous year. ...
Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 03:59 PM (ctrM5)
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Pump the brakes.

Is that correct? Donations to Harvard fell by $150 billion? That can't be right, can it? Harvard isn't pulling in that much every year is it?

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (yjAVs)

162 Our Vice Chancellor of Research sent out an email today about the new cap of 15% overhead. They are still working out what that will mean for the university finances.

I'm going out on a limb, and guessing "nothing good".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (s8j++)

163 Short version: nothing good.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

I'm going out on a limb, and guessing "nothing good".

Posted by: Archimedes

Great minds...

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 04:02 PM (s8j++)

164 UC Berkeleyloves it some foreign students. Why? Not for political or ideological reasons, but for the $$$:

University of California tuition, 2025–26 academic year

California residents -- $14,934

Non-residents and foreign students -- $50,328

The school was founded specifically to cater to California residents only, but they allowed a few foreign applicants in at a much higher tuition.

Now that "exception" has become the rule.

The only thing preventing Cal from being 100% foreign students is a state law REQUIRING them to admit the top 10% of CA high school graduates.

Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 04:02 PM (pMi6S)

165 It would be a crying shame if PDT were to instruct the federal government to cease recruiting at, or hiring from, the Ivies.

A low down dirty shame, it would be

Posted by: 2009Refugee at April 17, 2025 04:02 PM (Amt00)

166 141 Sure, a lot of money is at stake, but not for "research" or professors.

Most of the money goes to administration. They would thrive if they cut out 1/2 their budget and just cut administration.
Posted by: bob

I can see that you have never been on staff at a college or university. Administrators are always the last ones to milk every last dollar from the ship before it sinks. Harvard is much more likely to cram students into big classes taught by part time adjuncts paid by the course.

The old joke is that students would love college with no students and no administrators. Faculty would love college with no students and no administrators.

Punchline: Administrators would love a college with no students nor faculty.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:02 PM (ctrM5)

167 Our Vice Chancellor of Research sent out an email today about the new cap of 15% overhead. They are still working out what that will mean for the university finances.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2025 04:00 PM (7fElN)
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They should cap it on tuition, too...

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:02 PM (yjAVs)

168 It amuses me universities, once they start facing financial pain, will have to choose between international homoerotic interpretive dance basket weaving and classes which actually prepare students for the real world. Meanwhile, they also risk students rioting because their favorite international homoerotic interpretive dance basket weaving class has been terminated.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM (tT6L1)

169 They use the same playback for everything. They are a Zombie virus that attacks the host, sucks it dry and then when it is worn out and useless they move on.

Like a plague of locust.

They are the aliens from Independance Day.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM (8HNt+)

170 43 >>I don't get the anti-Semitism. Harvard is half Jewish, in both students and faculty. WTF?

I would wager that less than 10% of the Harvard Faculty and Student Body that claim Jewish Heritage are actually practicing Jews.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 03:42 PM (F30Ty)
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That is immaterial to 'joo-haters'. Who cares if you are a practicing joo.

Posted by: Ciampino - plagiarists - bets on the worst school? at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM (sPQoU)

171 Just read a story on the Tufts University gal that was picked up for deportation.

You know, the one where all the lefties spazzed out over the video, calling the officers Gestapo, etc.

Bond? Denied.
Government filed one document in opposition to bond:
The one-paragraph statement by Rubio that she was a negative impact on foreign relations.

Lots and lots of whining by her lawyers about her 1st Amendment rights, how she didn't get to speak to a lawyer for 24 hours, how the food and board are not 5-star.

LOLGF.

PS: You can end all this today by consenting to deportation back home to Turkey.
Again: LOLGF

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM (JpbSW)

172 Standard commie MO. Get something that has respect, gain co trol, force anyone who disagrees with you out. Demand respect. Then move on to the next cherished institution.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 17, 2025 04:01 PM (8HNt+)
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It grinds my gears when somebody pontificates about chemistry (in my case) who turns out to be either in chemistry "education" or chemistry "history." Belly up to the lab bench or shut up.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

173 I was really naive about this stuff. I assumed state colleges were funded with tax dollars. And private colleges are funded with private money. Turns out they’re both tax funded. But the “private” ones get to have their own special rules not subject to govt rules. It’s a neat trick.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:04 PM (DKKgv)

174 This bikini brunette on the beach doesn't care about Harvard because she didn't go there and doesn't want to shack up with some Hogg-alike anyway:
http://tiny.cc/p0wg001

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:04 PM (yjAVs)

175 That is immaterial to 'joo-haters'. Who cares if you are a practicing joo.
Posted by: Ciampino - plagiarists - bets on the worst school? at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM

It's like they think it's congenital or something.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 04:04 PM (jc0TO)

176 Wait, chemistry history?

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 17, 2025 04:05 PM (iwVGi)

177 from federal student aid which if the non profit status comes about and banning of student aid there for discrimination, Harvard will sink faster back to its regional finishing school rep before you know it

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At this point Harvard would need to rise to get to the level of a regional finishing school. It's a cesspit now.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero43) at April 17, 2025 04:05 PM (Zi/1w)

178 Wait, chemistry history?
Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 17, 2025 04:05 PM

Chemistry Studies.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)

179 It grinds my gears when somebody pontificates about chemistry (in my case) who turns out to be either in chemistry "education" or chemistry "history." Belly up to the lab bench or shut up.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

'Everyone is most conservative about the things they know or love the best.'

Who was that? Conquest? Reagan?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at April 17, 2025 04:06 PM (8HNt+)

180
PDT really put the wood to powell, today.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:06 PM (TNYgq)

181 Foreign students are attracted to our schools for the fundamentals they teach in their fields of study, the prestige and the access it provides them post graduation. That includes the ability to become a US citizen. The Ivy League schools are quickly stamping out a lot of that value and only attracting, largely, a very specific student antithetical to our values and more radicalized. I would argue that will eventually create and organic reduction in enrollment, especially if FedGov starts saying bye to their visas and green cards. Plus the fact many businesses are now screening out a lot of these graduates. It ain’t what it used to be.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 17, 2025 04:06 PM (/m8zC)

182 I don't get the anti-Semitism. Harvard is half Jewish, in both students and faculty. WTF?

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Nowhere near half.
10% student body.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:06 PM (DKKgv)

183 PDT really put the wood to powell, today.
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:06 PM

Did anyone call an amberlamps?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 04:06 PM (jc0TO)

184 This bikini brunette on the beach doesn't care about Harvard because she didn't go there and doesn't want to shack up with some Hogg-alike anyway:

You're going to have to branch out. There are loads of YT AI videos now with achingly beautiful women who are only distinguishable from real women because they have no flaws whatsoever. This will not do good things for our national fertility.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 17, 2025 04:07 PM (s8j++)

185 Sooner or later they all bend the knee.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2025 04:07 PM (AThW+)

186 These student visas Trump is revoking?

So far, I've not heard one of the students were in STEM.

All of them are in soft bullshit degrees

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (JpbSW)

187 I was really naive about this stuff. I assumed state colleges were funded with tax dollars. And private colleges are funded with private money. Turns out they’re both tax funded. But the “private” ones get to have their own special rules not subject to govt rules. It’s a neat trick.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:04 PM (DKKgv)
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The USAID stuff has put a lot of light on a lot of things.

My big curiosity, for many years now, was around Soros. Soros is rich, but he's not *that* rich. He can't afford everything that Tides and the other associated "foundations" do. Some of his results have been through shrewd decisions (like buying up relatively cheap DAs), but the amount of shit attributed to his organizations is far too large for him to have financed.

It's been clear for some time that either it isn't really his orgs doing those things, or there is a *ton* of non-Soros money sluicing through those orgs, with spending directed by him and his crew but not financed directly by him.

A whole lot of it is tax money, and we're starting to get a *very* occluded glimpse of just how much of it is involved.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (yjAVs)

188 51 I suspect that there are many more Chinese students than Middle Eastern students.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 03:43 PM (GBKbO)
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Yes but did you notice the number of Chinese and other Asiatic women in the protests?

Posted by: Ciampino - plagiarists & racyss - bets on the worst school? at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (sPQoU)

189 It amuses me universities, once they start facing financial pain, will have to choose between international homoerotic interpretive dance basket weaving and classes which actually prepare students for the real world. Meanwhile, they also risk students rioting because their favorite international homoerotic interpretive dance basket weaving class has been terminated.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at April 17, 2025 04:03 PM (tT6L1)
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A sweet young thing from Berkeley called me to get me to donate to the College of Chemistry there, because they needed money. I told her to give me a clipboard, a bunch of pink slips, and directions to, e.g., the sociology department, and I'd fix the budget problem in a jiffy.

She said she didn't disagree, but that that major was very popular. I replied, "Popularity is not a measure of intellectual merit. If there were a department of beer drinking, it would be popular as all hell."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

190 Punchline: Administrators would love a college with no students nor faculty.
Posted by: whig
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Oh, I understand this.
My point is that they are in desperate need of a reckoning.

(I have never been on staff other than RA and TA)

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (GqN6L)

191 184 This bikini brunette on the beach doesn't care about Harvard because she didn't go there and doesn't want to shack up with some Hogg-alike anyway:

You're going to have to branch out. There are loads of YT AI videos now with achingly beautiful women who are only distinguishable from real women because they have no flaws whatsoever. This will not do good things for our national fertility.
Posted by: Archimedes

Kimberly-Clark stock skyrocketing, though.

Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (pMi6S)

192 Posted by: zombie
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In part, state funding of higher education has withered and now in most states is less than they spend on correctional facilities. Higher ed operating costs, due primarily to administrators and staff, consumes well over 50 percent of revenue now in most universities.

Most are also on the hook for huge bond payments because students want creature comforts of a deluxe resort paid for by Uncle Sam and student fees in a lot of cases and modern facilities, labs, etc. are expensive infrastructure to maintain.

Retired academic. By the time I left my rather large university, over 60 percent of English lower level 1101 type courses were taught by ill paid adjuncts. History was approaching that. My department in Humanities was at 40 percent for the basic 1101 class and climbing. I was one of the rare ones that liked teaching 1101 classes but due to demand for my other classes, only did so occasionally after my first couple of years teaching. Administrators and staff, however, were expanding so fast that I couldn't keep up with the various new assistant to the assistant deans, etc.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:09 PM (ctrM5)

193 international homoerotic interpretive dance basket weaving class has been terminated.

Did they drain the pool?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 17, 2025 04:09 PM (QSrLX)

194 Punchline: Administrators would love a college with no students nor faculty.
Posted by: whig
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We used to joke that universities would be great places to work but for the students and administrators. A research institute would be heaven.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:10 PM (YqDXo)

195 If there were a department of beer drinking, it would be popular as all hell.

*shifty eyes*

Posted by: Collegiate Toby928 at April 17, 2025 04:10 PM (jc0TO)

196 Chemistry Studies.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at

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Ah, thanks. For a moment I thought we'd already progressed beyond the studies silliness into an even lesser excuse for student loans.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 17, 2025 04:10 PM (iwVGi)

197 ...She said she didn't disagree, but that that major was very popular. I replied, "Popularity is not a measure of intellectual merit. If there were a department of beer drinking, it would be popular as all hell."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

LOL! Excellent answer!

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at April 17, 2025 04:10 PM (vHfLU)

198 She said she didn't disagree, but that that major was very popular. I replied, "Popularity is not a measure of intellectual merit. If there were a department of beer drinking, it would be popular as all hell."
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:08 PM (YqDXo)

Pretty sure ASU has a major in beer drinking. It pairs nicely with the hot sororities minor.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:10 PM (DKKgv)

199 Harvard should make Obama President of Harvard.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (pZ64F)

200 This belongs in the last thread but, I just wanted to say that the David Hogg controversy is simply another fake and gay manipulation by the Democrats.

Ol' Snakehead gave the game away this morning with his tweet that the "pronoun" left should break away and form their own party and not mess up the Democrats election chances.

Then he went on to say, that he and the leadership really believe in the same things that the "pronoun" crew do so when they're elected, they can work in tandem with the Real Democrats(TM) just like they do in Europe.

So, clearly the plan is to be able to run moderate sounding Democrat candidates, effectively complete with Republicans, while the "pronoun" left win with their insane voters and then when they win they can combine with the "moderate Democrats" deferring to the "Pronoun" Progtards for insane policy after insane policy.

Hogg wasn't a mistake. He's an incompetent weasel but he wasn't a mistake.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (iJfKG)

201 Billions in endowment funds so I still don't understand why any university with that should receive any tax money unless it is for grants for research that will benefit the taxpayer.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (VofaG)

202 the Jews will still vote 80+ % for the Democrats.

Posted by: ss at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (xlrNs)

There were record high levels of Republican support among American Jews in the 2024 elections.

So...what is your point?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (L5An7)

203 But the problem is, then you have to fuck Minnie Driver.
Posted by: zombie at April 17, 2025 03:44 PM (pMi6S)
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Peak Minnie Driver? Like in 1997's "Grosse Pointe Blank?" Because that'd be alright.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:12 PM (yjAVs)

204 It's even better when I think about the elite cocksuckers of Harvard slowly coming to the realization that they've been outsmarted by an icky builder from Queens.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2025 04:12 PM (2UnvF)

205 202 There were record high levels of Republican support among American Jews in the 2024 elections.

So...what is your point?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (L5An7)

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Montec has rejoined us!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (GBKbO)

206 You're going to have to branch out. There are loads of YT AI videos now with achingly beautiful women who are only distinguishable from real women because they have no flaws whatsoever. This will not do good things for our national fertility.
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I mean, they ALSO don't need no man, so there's likely not going to be much change for men.

Posted by: Boron Quidquid - you realize Darwin disproved evolution, right? at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (iwVGi)

207 I was one of the rare ones that liked teaching 1101 classes
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I taught freshman chemistry for years, and enjoyed it. I also taught cozy upper division and graduate classes, but I especially enjoyed the energy of a lecture theater with several hundred students.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

208 So, clearly the plan is to be able to run moderate sounding Democrat candidates, effectively complete with Republicans, while the "pronoun" left win with their insane voters and then when they win they can combine with the "moderate Democrats" deferring to the "Pronoun" Progtards for insane policy after insane policy.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (iJfKG)

But we don't have a parliamentary system, so it is extremely difficult to succeed that way.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (L5An7)

209 199 Harvard should make Obama President of Harvard.
Posted by: Pudinhead at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (pZ64F)

He would be a good fit for those antisemitics.

Posted by: ALH, Sister Golden Hair at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (AThW+)

210 I don't get this. Forget getting federal dollars, Harvard is saying they'll just ignore SCOTUS. Isn't that a criminal offense?
Posted by: Archimedes

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They have the advantage that on any federal court, there is at least one harvard grad and more than half the court are ivy league grads.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (GqN6L)

211 It's even better when I think about the elite cocksuckers of Harvard slowly coming to the realization that they've been outsmarted by an icky builder from Queens.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2025 04:12 PM (2UnvF)
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The dude went to Penn. He's Ivy League, too. He's not of the body, of course, and he's terribly uncouth, but he's in their club.

They must hate it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (yjAVs)

212 Florida Man >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Delaware Man

Convince me otherwise.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (0sNs1)

213 OT but I can't believe I was in my 40's when I started reading aos and I will be start on Medicare in May.

Time flies at ludicrous speed.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (VofaG)

214 http://tiny.cc/p0wg001
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Duck lips. Still...

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2025 04:14 PM (Dv3i1)

215
President said powell is "playing politics" and trying to be "cute."

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:14 PM (TNYgq)

216 I thought they got $2 Billion or so from uncle sucker?

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 17, 2025 04:15 PM (LOIQT)

217 204 It's even better when I think about the elite cocksuckers of Harvard slowly coming to the realization that they've been outsmarted by an icky builder from Queens.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at April 17, 2025 04:12 PM (2UnvF

There you have it: blood and soil

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 17, 2025 04:15 PM (QSrLX)

218 Oh, I understand this.
My point is that they are in desperate need of a reckoning.

(I have never been on staff other than RA and TA)
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Retired tenured professor here. I also grew up in a college town in a subdivision filled with college professors, deans, etc. and have some friends/colleagues that are now university presidents, provosts, deans, etc.

College costs too damn much like medicine because a) student/patient demands, b) too much government redtape for both, c) government student aid/insurance+gubmint means there that someone else is or appears to be paying for the ride so why not get the best.

Have one friend at Grove City College (they fought and won a Scotus case that caused Congress to change the law putting Harvard in the noose ironically). They do quite well in educating students at well under half the cost of most private schools around them but NO Student Aid nor government contracts of any kind.

Cheaper and effective education can be done as Hillsdale and Grove City have proven but for most college administrators, the extra money coming in for all kinds of things precludes that choice for them.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:15 PM (ctrM5)

219 Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding? It's true. They love admitting rich foreign students because they pay the full nominal cost of tuition, no scholarships, no breaks for coming from a low-income family.
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Harvard's 1/4 (if not more) student population is foreign.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:15 PM (g47mK)

220 Who thinks academia is mostly there to recruit pliable fools for terror attacks on US soil? "Mostly."

It seems like every college or university has a real problem with pro-terror groups these days. It's cosplay now, but later...

Someone(s) might want to look into that particular issue.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2025 04:15 PM (Q4IgG)

221 eak Minnie Driver? Like in 1997's "Grosse Pointe Blank?" Because that'd be alright.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:12 PM (yjAVs)

She seems to have aged relatively well.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:15 PM (VofaG)

222
David Hogg is a Harvard graduate.
You are bashing Harvard.
Therefore, you are bashing David Hogg.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 17, 2025 04:16 PM (0sNs1)

223 You already know the Harvard lawyers have their trips booked to judge shop in Hawaii.

Posted by: Adrienne Barbeaubot at April 17, 2025 04:16 PM (ViEsK)

224 President said powell is "playing politics" and trying to be "cute."
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:14 PM (TNYgq)
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Until the chips are down and it's a "defend the Dollar or die" situation, the Fed *always* plays politics.

But in this case, the two more or less align. Trump's probably not going to be able to squeeze a rate cut out of Powell.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:16 PM (yjAVs)

225 67 80 Hobgoblins have their place. They're cheaper labor than orcs.

Posted by: Saruman at April 17, 2025 04:17 PM (zkQme)

226 The dude went to Penn. He's Ivy League, too. He's not of the body, of course, and he's terribly uncouth, but he's in their club.

They must hate it.
Posted by: Joe Mannix
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I think that is Trump's graduate degree from Wharton. His undergraduate is Fordham University and before that New York Military College.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:17 PM (ctrM5)

227 the Jews will still vote 80+ % for the Democrats.

Posted by: ss at April 17, 2025 03:56 PM (xlrNs)

There were record high levels of Republican support among American Jews in the 2024 elections.

So...what is your point?
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (L5An7)

or what that has to do with Harvard's embrace of antisemitism as recruiting tool

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:17 PM (g47mK)

228 224 But in this case, the two more or less align. Trump's probably not going to be able to squeeze a rate cut out of Powell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:16 PM (yjAVs)

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He could just fire Powell.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, looking for laughs with Ivan Reitman at April 17, 2025 04:17 PM (GBKbO)

229 Academy not College re: New York Military Academy.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:18 PM (ctrM5)

230 Harvard plagiarists hardest hit.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at April 17, 2025 03:37 PM (Q4IgG)

They will be reduced to doing off-Broadway plagues.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at April 17, 2025 04:18 PM (8zz6B)

231 Hmm, I will have to see dez azz before deciding.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at April 17, 2025 03:48 PM

Cut. Jib. Newsletter?

Posted by: Sir Mix-A-Lot at April 17, 2025 04:18 PM (0sNs1)

232 225 Plus they have an extra hitpoint and a 5% lower Thaco.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 17, 2025 04:18 PM (LOIQT)

233 If Harvard loses its tax exempt status, it will become very poor.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:18 PM (g47mK)

234 Now I want to see the Treasury Secretary Bessent come out with an order to the IRS that Harvard's Endowment to be taxed at corporate rates for the income generated as a separate entity to Harvard itself.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 17, 2025 04:19 PM (17s+e)

235 "Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding?"

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That's been the case for decades. As an undergrad, we had 20%-30% international students and 90+% of those were crazy wealthy. I doubt 10% of the American student base were in the same income bracket... I love these guns blazing from Trump. When you take away federal loans & grants and international student tuition, I don't know how these guys keep their lights on...

Posted by: bearski at April 17, 2025 04:19 PM (Bhsk7)

236 I taught freshman chemistry for years, and enjoyed it. I also taught cozy upper division and graduate classes, but I especially enjoyed the energy of a lecture theater with several hundred students.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (YqDXo)

Hi Jay. Just a lurker here from Cal. I was a chem grad. student in the '90s. Were you there then?

Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at April 17, 2025 04:19 PM (AXit5)

237 227 the Jews will still vote 80+ % for the Democrats.

Posted by: ss
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Wrong plus the fastest growing sect of Judaism are Orthodox and they most certainly do not vote at that rate for Democrats. Times are changing and the old truisms are no longer in effect. I think we are seeing a rolling realignment in the electorate and ending cheating is likely to accelerate that.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:20 PM (ctrM5)

238 The university I retired from last year has 4 Nepalese undergraduates and 100 Nepalese graduate students. My department's graduate program has 33 of those grad students and every single one is on an assistantship and pays no tuition. Ten years ago this was the number of Chinese students we had (all also on assistantships) but the number of Chinese students applying for our program dropped off the cliff. We are now mostly filled with Nepalese (our foreign students are 70% of our grad students; ALL on assistantships). So I suppose other schools may not give out assistantships like we do, but I doubt it, based on what we heard from applicants trying to get a better $$ deal from us than the ones they had already been offered.

Posted by: Brunnhilde at April 17, 2025 04:20 PM (3AwA+)

239 >>But in this case, the two more or less align. Trump's probably not going to be able to squeeze a rate cut out of Powell

Rate Cutting is a horrible idea. As horrible as seeking out 2-2.5% inflation.

The Fed only has weapons that hurt the Economy as a whole and force the average person to suffer the damages.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 04:21 PM (F30Ty)

240 Harvards endowment is over 53 billion dollars.

with just a return of 3% that's a 159 million per year.

And they don't have to pay tax on it.

why are we giving them tax payer money?

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:21 PM (VofaG)

241 How bad is Trumps economy? So bad that Netflix revenue jumped 13% in Q1. It’s like 1931 all over again man.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:21 PM (DKKgv)

242 So, clearly the plan is to be able to run moderate sounding Democrat candidates, effectively complete with Republicans, while the "pronoun" left win with their insane voters and then when they win they can combine with the "moderate Democrats" deferring to the "Pronoun" Progtards for insane policy after insane policy.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2025 04:11 PM (iJfKG)

But we don't have a parliamentary system, so it is extremely difficult to succeed that way.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at April 17, 2025 04:13 PM (L5An7)

I would just say, look at how things work with Bernie Sanders.

He's a Democrat in all but name. He even ran as Preezy in the Democrat Primaries.

That's how it would work.

Democrats might lose to Reps with votes for the House but if the Democrats + Pronouns > Republicans.

The Republicans would never run the place policy-wise.

Posted by: naturalfake at April 17, 2025 04:22 PM (iJfKG)

243 I think that is Trump's graduate degree from Wharton. His undergraduate is Fordham University and before that New York Military College.
Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:17 PM (ctrM5)
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The graduate degree is what counts. Most Ivy League sheepskins ain't undergrad.

Harvard has around 7k undergrads out of a total student population of around 25k. The Ivies are graduate schools with colleges bolted onto the side.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:22 PM (yjAVs)

244 Everything on Netflix can be watched for free.

Posted by: Boss Moss at April 17, 2025 04:22 PM (LOIQT)

245 But in this case, the two more or less align. Trump's probably not going to be able to squeeze a rate cut out of Powell.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
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Humphrey's Executor is on the chopping block at Scotus. Arguably setting monetary policy is an executive department decision as it was under the Treasury system before teh Fed.

So Powell is on the scrap heap sooner or later and with new Trump appointments to the Fed Board, he may run out of votes before then.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:22 PM (ctrM5)

246 I have noticed lately that whenever Ace or a Cob is actively uploading/editing, the Blog refuses to load completely.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 04:23 PM (F30Ty)

247 Good, moar

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at April 17, 2025 04:23 PM (xcxpd)

248 Harvard's Jewish students are at most @ 10%. The 50% are jews11!! is Bull-shit.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:23 PM (g47mK)

249 The highest at any of Ivy's was probably in the high teens.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:24 PM (g47mK)

250 Now I want to see the Treasury Secretary Bessent come out with an order to the IRS that Harvard's Endowment to be taxed at corporate rates for the income generated as a separate entity to Harvard itself.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 17, 2025 04:19 PM (17s+e)
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That's a tricky subject that arises in university tech transfer departments. They license IP to startups and other businesses for a fee and sometimes (for startups) an equity position. That generates income not related to the universities' operations. Taxable, or no?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:24 PM (YqDXo)

251 shall be reviewed for plagiarism.

No more of this cheap copy antisemitism.

Posted by: DaveA at April 17, 2025 04:25 PM (FhXTo)

252 People are confusing Columbia with Haaahvaaahd. Columbia is very Jewish something like 1/3 of the students. But even there it’s nowhere near 50%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:25 PM (DKKgv)

253 Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.

Posted by: THURSTON HOWELL 111 at April 17, 2025 04:25 PM (IUmF8)

254 Anything generating income is taxable.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:26 PM (g47mK)

255 The Fed only has weapons that hurt the Economy as a whole and force the average person to suffer the damages.
Posted by: garrett
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Thanks to Congress, the Fed has two jobs, minimize unemployment and minimize inflation. Humphrey Hawkins Act in the 70's. Thus, it is always caught between the devil and deep blue sea.

I think the era for central banks may be coming to a close soon simply because they do the wrong thing at the wrong time. And like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, cause distortions in the economy and put risks/losses on the taxpayers but privatize the gains.

The EU central bank is even worse and is actively impoverishing Europeans. Japan's is hardly better and China's is a bomb waiting to go off.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:26 PM (ctrM5)

256 The plagiarism thing is particularly funny because this actually *is* a problem that can be solved with AI. It *was* solved by AI, some time ago. There are services out there for teachers (some colleges and even public school districts) subscribe to them to catch students submitting not their own work.

The academic journals could do the same. They don't because they don't to. It's a con.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:27 PM (yjAVs)

257 Hi Jay. Just a lurker here from Cal. I was a chem grad. student in the '90s. Were you there then?

Posted by: stuckInCalifornia at April 17, 2025 04:19 PM (AXit5)
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Nope. I was long by then.

My lawn ... well ... you know ...

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:27 PM (YqDXo)

258 Did you know that American universities rely on foreign students for their funding? It's true. They love admitting rich foreign students because they pay the full nominal cost of tuition, no scholarships, no breaks for coming from a low-income family.

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Not really. Some pay full boat. Some don’t. You think that Hamas activist who is about to deported was paying $80k a year?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:27 PM (DKKgv)

259 Hmmm....

X
@IamSean90

Weird how Austin Metcalf's father was asked to leave the press conference but managed to not stab anyone in the heart

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 17, 2025 04:27 PM (Dv3i1)

260 Orange Hitler sure is bad at Hitlering.

Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at April 17, 2025 04:27 PM (kTd/k)

261 Therefore, you are bashing David Hogg.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Bashing the Hogg sounds similar to self abuse there.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:28 PM (ctrM5)

262 222
David Hogg is a Harvard graduate.
You are bashing Harvard.
Therefore, you are bashing David Hogg.
Posted by: Duncanthrax

Does he squeal when you bash him?

Posted by: nurse ratched at April 17, 2025 04:29 PM (qtzft)

263 Not really. Some pay full boat. Some don’t. You think that Hamas activist who is about to deported was paying $80k a year?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
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Possible that British or CIA intel were paying for it.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:29 PM (ctrM5)

264 People are confusing Columbia with Haaahvaaahd. Columbia is very Jewish something like 1/3 of the students. But even there it’s nowhere near 50%.
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Whoa , slow down there little feller. As I mentioned, upthread, Jewish students are around 10% or so in the Ivys. Probaly never reached 20%, even in the more vegetarian 80s. I 've seen 18% in Pen. That was the highest. And Pen has a million undergrads.

Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)

265 The Jewish population in the US is less than 3% last I looked. I don't think they are a big voting block except in NYC so though I wish it weren't so I don't put any blame for their dem voting percentage.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:29 PM (VofaG)

266 Scientific research is not the problem. Social "science" and "studies" departments are where the plagiarism problem lives.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 03:47 PM (YqDXo)
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Need to add Education Dept. and Communications to that plagiarism list.

Posted by: Ciampino - plagiarists & racyss - bets on the worst school?? at April 17, 2025 04:30 PM (sPQoU)

267 Google got its pp whacked in court today
cnn.it/4cC47ft

Posted by: gKWVE at April 17, 2025 04:31 PM (gKWVE)

268 >> The Jewish population in the US is less than 3% last I looked.

I think the only other Minority that is less represented in the Population is Native Americans...but, I could be wrong.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 04:31 PM (F30Ty)

269 The Jewish population in the US is less than 3% last I looked.

But, they do control the weather.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 17, 2025 04:32 PM (3Ope8)

270 Posted by: runner at April 17, 2025 04:29 PM (g47mK)

it is much higher than their percent of the population but I think that is a complimentary.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:32 PM (VofaG)

271 Google AI bot says 22.5% Jewish at Collumbia.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:32 PM (DKKgv)

272 But, they do control the weather.
Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 17, 2025 04:32 PM (3Ope

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And delicious corned beef sandwiches.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 17, 2025 04:33 PM (6K6Eu)

273 People are confusing Columbia with Haaahvaaahd. Columbia is very Jewish something like 1/3 of the students. But even there it’s nowhere near 50%.
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To be clear, I was sloppy when I said "half." I meant that it was a hefty proportion, not necessarily 50%.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 17, 2025 04:33 PM (YqDXo)

274 And delicious corned beef sandwiches.
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Where? I can't find a good deli anywhere.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 17, 2025 04:34 PM (pZ64F)

275 I think that is Trump's graduate degree from Wharton. His undergraduate is Fordham University and before that New York Military College.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:17 PM (ctrM5)

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IIRC (in the middle of reading The Art Of The Deal), Trump transferred from Fordham to Penn's prestigious Wharton School as an undergrad ( I think receiving an Economics degree) and never attended graduate school.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 17, 2025 04:34 PM (fACzi)

276 Or... Trump and Noem could read the Constitution, especially the enumerated powers, take note of the fact that federal support for education is NOT among those powers delegated to the (inferior) feds by the (superior) states, and treat EVERY college, university, k-12, like Hillsdale, seeing as how federal funding of education is an unconstitutional usurpation of state 10A authority.. and STOP VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION...

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at April 17, 2025 04:34 PM (029Oi)

277 And delicious corned beef sandwiches.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at April 17, 2025 04:33 PM (6K6Eu)
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True, but here's a pro tip for you, should you find yourself in a proper Jewish deli: ox tongue.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at April 17, 2025 04:34 PM (yjAVs)

278 Screw autocorrect. I give up. Still not going to proof read though.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:35 PM (VofaG)

279 100 Minnie Driver>>>>>>> Adam Driver

Posted by: steevy at April 17, 2025 03:50 PM (KQk9m)
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But I'm not driving Officer, I'm traveling.

Posted by: Ciampino - Googled lawyer at April 17, 2025 04:35 PM (sPQoU)

280 222
David Hogg is a Harvard graduate.
You are bashing Harvard.
Therefore, you are bashing David Hogg.
Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 17, 2025 04:16 PM (0sNs1)

David Hogg is hardest hit.

Sad.

Posted by: Just Lily at April 17, 2025 04:35 PM (xDQJU)

281 It’s 3% but heavily concentrated in a handful of states. So the influence is outsized. Much like how Cubans only make up a small percent but they’re practically all in Miami so they have political influence.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:35 PM (DKKgv)

282
livestream of President signing fishing EO's

https://is.gd/DHzETt

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:35 PM (RGjYe)

283 2 dead five injured at FSU
shooter at hospital ... identified

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2025 04:36 PM (Cus5s)

284 Or... Trump and Noem could read the Constitution, especially the enumerated powers, take note of the fact that federal support for education is NOT among those powers delegated to the (inferior) feds by the (superior) states, and treat EVERY college, university, k-12, like Hillsdale, seeing as how federal funding of education is an unconstitutional usurpation of state 10A authority.. and STOP VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION...

Posted by: Alexander Scipio at April 17, 2025 04:34 PM (029Oi)
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STOP!!

I can only get so hard.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at April 17, 2025 04:36 PM (17s+e)

285 >> The Jewish population in the US is less than 3% last I looked.

I think the only other Minority that is less represented in the Population is Native Americans...but, I could be wrong.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 04:31 PM (F30Ty)

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Correct, about 2%.

Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White Supremacy at April 17, 2025 04:36 PM (fACzi)

286
the FSU Democrat shooter....

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:36 PM (RGjYe)

287 livestream of President signing fishing EO's

https://is.gd/DHzETt
Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:35 PM

Fly fish is outlawed?

Posted by: toby928 at April 17, 2025 04:36 PM (jc0TO)

288 >>True, but here's a pro tip for you, should you find yourself in a proper Jewish deli: ox tongue.

If you can eat Beef / Ox Tongue without having to prepare said tongue, I highly endorse it.

Extremely tasty stuff.

The Mexicans make great Tacos out of the stuff.

Posted by: garrett at April 17, 2025 04:36 PM (F30Ty)

289
I'm seeing 5 dead, 6 injured.

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:37 PM (RGjYe)

290 David Hogg is a Harvard graduate.

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That right there should sink Harvard's reputation alone.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 17, 2025 04:37 PM (qBdHI)

291 Girl928 made us ox tongue once. It tasted good but it was literally a giant tongue in a crockpot. Visually disturbing to my wife.

Posted by: toby928 at April 17, 2025 04:37 PM (jc0TO)

292 shooter is Phoenix Eichman (just ho I heard it)
his father was a deputy ... probably an FSU student

2 dead are not students

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2025 04:38 PM (Cus5s)

293 Posted by: Alexander Scipio at April 17, 2025 04:34 PM (029Oi)

Or you could realize he's not controlling the educational institutions. He's controlling the money that the Feds are giving them which is part of his constitutional powers. Harvard or any other private college can do what ever they want or they can accept Federal money.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:38 PM (VofaG)

294 291 David Hogg is a Harvard graduate.
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That right there should sink Harvard's reputation alone.
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So was Obama.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 17, 2025 04:38 PM (pZ64F)

295

NOOOOD

noood Fake "astronauts!"

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:38 PM (RGjYe)

296 Posted by: Aliassmithsmith at April 17, 2025 04:37 PM

Heh.

Posted by: toby928 at April 17, 2025 04:38 PM (jc0TO)

297

noood

Posted by: Soothsayer at April 17, 2025 04:38 PM (RGjYe)

298 UnitedHealth (UNH) stock cratered just over 22% Thursday

said policy changes during the Biden administration reducing reimbursement rates from the government for Medicare Advantage patients —

Adding to its troubles, senior patients in its Medicare Advantage business began using more services "far above" the increase planned for this year, the company said.

asking in Church Lady voice_ And they were all citizens?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 17, 2025 04:39 PM (MGY3l)

299 I HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME!!

Posted by: toby928 at April 17, 2025 04:39 PM (jc0TO)

300 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 17, 2025 04:39 PM (GYt5+)

301 Girl928 made us ox tongue once. It tasted good but it was literally a giant tongue in a crockpot. Visually disturbing to my wife.

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Oh my lord! I don't think I'd ever get my appetite back after seeing a giant tongue in a crockpot. Let alone eating it! Gadzooks, that sounds awful.

Posted by: Lady in Black at April 17, 2025 04:39 PM (qBdHI)

302
27 $2.7 million is a rounding error in their endowment earnings.

Sadly ...
Posted by: ShainS --Waking Up Early is White

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It's a demonstration of earnestness, and things to come for non-compliance. It's like sending a finger in the mail.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 17, 2025 04:40 PM (Ijbq0)

303 Columbia is very Jewish something like 1/3 of the students. But even there it’s nowhere near 50%.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 17, 2025 04:25 PM (DKKgv)

I doubt it's more than 20%.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at April 17, 2025 04:40 PM (L5An7)

304 Sorry I think I misread your point Alexander Scipio.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 17, 2025 04:41 PM (VofaG)

305 sorry, his mother was a deputy
seems he got her gun from home

Posted by: illiniwek at April 17, 2025 04:41 PM (Cus5s)

306 IIRC (in the middle of reading The Art Of The Deal), Trump transferred from Fordham to Penn's prestigious Wharton School as an undergrad ( I think receiving an Economics degree) and never attended graduate school.
Posted by: ShainS
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You are correct when I checked. Made an unwarranted assumption regarding Wharton as I think of it as a grad degree program.

Posted by: whig at April 17, 2025 04:43 PM (ctrM5)

307 Some pay full boat. Some don’t. You think that Hamas activist who is about to deported was paying $80k a year?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

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Not having researched that one but yeah, it's a very safe assumption that he was the child or relative of someone in Hamas leadership or well-to-do businessman patron of Hamas. American colleges don't have sweeping databases and recruitment of high schools and profiling for 'admission fairness' for international students the way they do for Americans. They just need to see they have money, no crazy conflict with the school, and a base education (usually fulfilled by the crazy expensive private international schools they went to, also thanks to their money)...

Posted by: bearski at April 17, 2025 04:43 PM (Bhsk7)

308 All of these gimmiegrants are Hobosexuals...A hobosexual person is one that dates you in order to have a place to stay.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 17, 2025 04:44 PM (VJc7E)

309 152 Overhead of scientific research grants provides the operating budget of major research universities.
Posted by: Deplorable J

It provides for the operations related to research. It does not provide funding for undergraduate activities in anyway.

Posted by: Cuthbert the Witless at April 17, 2025 04:52 PM (OA79/)

310 Is this any different than what that guy from Dude Perfect did? Why couldn't they dock with the ISS and spend 8 months there.

Posted by: mishdog at April 17, 2025 05:07 PM (Hzymx)

311 As I've mentioned before, REPUTATION is the coin of the realm with regards to universities.

If Harvard is knocked out of its top spot as America's premier institution of higher learning, a lot of other Ivy League universities will gladly take their spot.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 17, 2025 03:39 PM (7fElN)
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The rest of the Ivies are in the queue. There is that old adage about swimming with sharks. Claudine Gay was the wrong DEI hire at the wrong time. Harvard has an excellent chance to never be what it once was.

Posted by: Black JEM at April 17, 2025 05:07 PM (GZYu7)

312 The US Dept. of Education pays colleges several thousand dollars for each minority, non-white student enrolled, including foreign students. So Harvard not only receives full tuition from foreign students, Harvard is paid by the US DOE for every foreign, non-white student.

Posted by: broken knee at April 17, 2025 05:09 PM (Ge3yH)

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