Harvard Says Yes to Discrimination, No to Western Civ

Article here. Excerpt:

'As for Harvard’s white male undergraduates, their skin color and sex are obstacles to academic advancement.

“[T]he best student at Harvard—he won the prize for the graduating senior with the best overall academic record—was rejected from all the graduate programs to which he applied. He too was a white male,” the historian recounts.

“I called around to friends at several universities to find out why on earth he had been rejected. Everywhere it was the same story: Graduate admissions committees around the country had been following the same unspoken protocol as ours.”
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Harvard’s last president, Claudine Gay, was a black woman whose scholarship was infected with plagiarism.

She’s still employed by Harvard, with a compensation package said to be in the neighborhood of $900,000.

The contrast between Gay’s treatment as a black woman and the white male students with exemplary records who have been discriminated against the way Hankins describes should make even a Theda Skocpol question her premises about why conservatives criticize higher ed.'