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I'm not kidding. This is your chance.
Harvard is soliciting my bio/thoughts for the every 5 year "Red Book." It's a thing.
I have to be polite, but it's also possible to be direct. Here's what I'm inclined to publish. This will be in a big FU to 2k grads and administrators.
Don't hate Harvard in all this silliness. I and older grads will sort it out - I hope. If we do not, then - please I beg you - burn it down.
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Harvard is soliciting my bio/thoughts for the every 5 year "Red Book." It's a thing.
I have to be polite, but it's also possible to be direct. Here's what I'm inclined to publish. This will be in a big FU to 2k grads and administrators.
Give me tips of other ways to, politely, express my disgust with the racism and moral indifference Harvard and the rest of the Ivy league has shown to our society, and the co-religionist Jews that are our brothers and sisters.In 2024, I am looking very forward to renewing lapsed connections with so many of the very fine people I know well from not only '89 but the classes of '87 to '90.
I will, however, be doing that individually and not under the Harvard Banner. I have over the last seven to 10 years begun to feel uneasy with being associated with Harvard - a position I would never have thought possible. But here we are. It began with the racial preferences in the admissions process; I observed that, first hand, working with HU Admissions and interviewing for several years. I made an awkward personal moral accommodation with that, hoping for the best. My mistake. I knew it was wrong, and the US Supreme Court said so this spring.
The culmination was the screeching moral vacuum Harvard leadership as shown in light of the massacre and pogroms against Jews, both abroad, and close to home. Our generation has made many leadership mistakes; I will no longer be part of them; I had for so long thought being under the Harvard Banner made me immune; I now weep at that ignorance.
I will find a way to take monies I would have spent on my own visit for the reunion, or donations, and re-direct to promoting racial equity in education and for victims of anti-semitism. I will, though, reconnect with those valued friends I have missed dearly over the years.
Don't hate Harvard in all this silliness. I and older grads will sort it out - I hope. If we do not, then - please I beg you - burn it down.
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