The Harvard Crimson announces:
The House Committee on Education and the Workforce launched a congressional investigation into Harvard over allegations of antisemitism on campus, the committee announced on Thursday.
The investigation into Harvard comes two days after Harvard President Claudine Gay testified before Congress during a tense hearing about antisemitism on college and university campuses. Gay, who testified alongside MIT President Sally A. Kornbluth and University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill, faced a wave of backlash over her testimony.
Rep. Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) announced the investigation in a statement to The Crimson Thursday afternoon.
“After this week’s pathetic and morally bankrupt testimony by university presidents when answering my questions, the Education and Workforce Committee is launching an official Congressional investigation with the full force of subpoena power into Penn, MIT, & Harvard and others,” Stefanik wrote. “We will use our full Congressional authority to hold these schools accountable for their failure on the global stage.”
I have been bemoaning MIT administrations for the past decade. These are not the people who helped win WW II. They are no Vannevar Bush, no Conant. The above is not from some politically oriented press but from The Crimson itself. The continuing shame is that MIT fails in this regard. The MIT press is the Politburo of the Academy.
Where Penn and Harvard tried to walk back their horrifying statements, the President of MIT seemed like the proverbial deer in the headlights, leaving her pathetic statement to stand. A century and a half of serving the country and honoring all of its students has been left in the trash bin. In my opinion that is what one gets selecting someone with no history at MIT.
The only corrective act is for the Boards to seek out leaders and not politically correct appointments, if any could be found.
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