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Government Corruption

Stefanik slams Harvard prof suggesting school doesn't need to cooperate with congressional probes

2023-12-24

[NYPOST] House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik on Friday dismissed comments made by a Harvard University professor who suggested that the Ivy League school doesn’t need to cooperate with a congressional investigation, doubling down on politicians’ authority to probe the institution that’s "funded with billions of taxpayer dollars."

The House Education and Workforce Committee has launched a probe into allegations of rampant antisemitism on Harvard’s campus and academic dishonesty on the part of the school’s president, Claudine Gay.

Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy told the New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
Friday that his support for Gay is "unmoved" despite dozens of instances of alleged plagiarism by Gay uncovered by The Post —— including portions of her 1997 Ph.D. thesis.

Kennedy, 69, also suggested that Harvard leadership could decline to cooperate with the congressional probe if it finds politicians’ inquiries to be "bad faith efforts to harass, embarrass and intimidate."

Stefanik, 39, told The Post that Kennedy’s argument doesn’t hold water given the "billions of taxpayer dollars" that fund the elite school.

"It is not up to Harvard professors or its board to determine where Congress’ attention should be focused or whether or not to comply with the LAW," the New York Republican said in a statement. "Congress and the Committee on Education and the Workforce have the clear legal authority to make inquiry into the conduct of Harvard in relation to its handling of antisemitism on campus and how the University handles discipline against its students and faculty for plagiarism and other violations of the University’s code.

"Harvard is funded with billions of taxpayer dollars. That funding is a privilege and not a right, and Congress has every prerogative to make inquiry of Harvard and its bigwigs as to whether it is worthy of that support, meeting its responsibilities under federal civil rights laws, and conducting itself in a manner consistent with its accreditation," she continued.

"I strongly support Chairwoman [Virginia] Foxx’s investigation and it is required by law that Harvard University will cooperate fully and I call on them to immediately clarify that they will do so."

Posted by:Fred

#7 "We're Harvard. We know everything. You don't."

Posted by: Tom 2023-12-24 17:12

#6 Hillsdale is the new Harvard.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-24 09:49

#5 You put a drop of wine in a barrel of sewage, you get sewage. You put a drop of sewage in a barrel of wine, you get... sewage.

Posted by: M. Murcek 2023-12-24 09:06

#4 Poster child for Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). More please! Shout it from the rooftops.

Posted by: Besoeker 2023-12-24 08:50

#3 That bitch's head needs to meet a cement block.

Posted by: Chris 2023-12-24 08:31

#2 Last year, for example, Harvard University attracted more than $800 million in research funding, with 70 percent coming from the federal government.

Posted by: Jerens Black9355 2023-12-24 08:12

#1 Harvard adopting a limited government stance is laughable hippocracy.

Posted by: Super Hose 2023-12-24 07:51

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