Last week Harvard rejected demands from the Trump Administration that threatens $9 billion in federal funding and its non-tax status. University president Alan Garber wrote in a message to the Harvard community: "No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.” Harvard's defiant stance is very different from that of major law firms and other universities, notably Columbia, who quickly agreed to the government's demands.
That's made Harvard, or Hahvadh, popular again; with individual donations skyrocketing over the past week. Harvard is elite, it's also wildly rich...so naturally, both the Right and the Left have issues with it. Which has forced many Harvardians over the years to hide where they went to school from their less smarter, less richer, less capable non-Harvard peers. Because, apparently, things become awkward when you drop the "H-bomb."
But now that Harvard finds itself at the forefront of the nation's political/culture wars, people all across the political spectrum have cover to speak about their personal connection to the esteemed university. Not to remind you how smart and capable they are. No, of course not. But to "helpfully" set the context for whatever for/against argument they want to make. But things can still be a little awkward. Take it away Ronnie...
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