News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
CAMBRIDGE, MA — Notorious Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh will soon be relocating to the U.S. as a Senior Fellow at Harvard University in the field of international relations.
“We are honored to welcome such an austere scholar to these hallowed halls,” said Harvard President Claudine Gay. “Mr. Haniyeh brings with him a wealth of knowledge and experience in diplomacy, public relations, and terrorizing innocent Jews — all things we prize highly here at Harvard. We know his valuable and unique perspective will expand the young minds who come here to learn.”
Sources say the position will add to the diversity of the staff and provide Haniyeh with a salary of $780,000 per year.
“Inshallah, I hope to remain in this position for years to come, molding young minds to seek the glory of martyrdom as they spill the blood of the Jews,” said Haniyeh. “Death to Israel and death to America. Allahu Akbar.”
Go here to read the rest. He should fit right in.
This does raise a factual question in my mind. I have no clue as to the percentage of Jewish professors at Harvard today, but in the mid to late 1970’s the faculty of the law school was heavily Jewish, well over 50 percent. I wonder what happened?
I graduated from a mid-sized State school in the south almost six decades ago. When comparing my education with my fellow workers, I noted they used a lot of the same textbooks, their professors, except for some social sciences taught about same facts and events with some minor exceptions of emphasis and the quality of the graduates did not seem more intelligent or talented. After an initial rise in paygrade, almost all settled into career paths not much different than those who attended schools that many believed inferior to the Ivy League. The acid test came during the Vietnam War when the Ivy graduates who couldn’t get exemptions or deferments, served with the rest of us at the same jobs and with about the same distribution of levels of competence. Early on, I came to the conclusion that money or status was no guarantee of a great payoff later without a good dose of practicality and common sense to accompany it. I note the antics of some of these elite over the decades and have concluded that little has changed and a lot of parents wasted a lot of money.
DL- isn’t that interesting that you all ended up with the same opportunities, and even having a greater advantage because you had the street smarts they lacked. Maybe if these Ivy League schools stopped being centres of self-serving elitism and returned to being centres of learning then they might find that the students they churn will possess better qualities to be working individuals.
I’ll have to say that I have a Harvard Ph.D. (1956, Chemical Physics) and it’s got me a lot more credit than my true merit, and more than if the degree had come from, say, a midwest state university. And the science faculty back then made the place exceptional. I had classes from 4 Nobel Prize winners. And in my day, those who were appointed to the Society of Fellows were truly brilliant, physicists who didn’t need a Ph.D., etc.
You graduated Bob well before the rot set in. I can’t even imagine what it took to earn a chemical physics PhD from Harvard in the year before I was born.