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Harvard professor spews contempt for Chris
Rufo who brought down Claudine Gay, brings
up his Harvard night school degree as proof

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Posted By: Judy W., 1/8/2024 8:26:31 AM

Now that Claudine Gay is out as Harvard's president on evidence that she plagiarized research and failed to counter antisemitism on campus, Harvard's elites are steaming with fury. They had, after all, signed a letter urging that the university keep her and her wokester policies on board. But that wasn't the worst of it. The biggest indignity was in the knowledge of who took her down: Not a top Harvard scholar but a lowly Harvard night school student with the equivalent of a master's degree named Christopher Rufo, writing on his humble Substack. He was the one who found the plagiarism. And here's a Harvard professor who let the cat out of the bag:

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A self-declared high-status (and clueless) professor tries to bring down the great Chris Rufo who not only is highly educated, but knows how to put his beliefs into effective action.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: mifla 1/8/2024 8:46:50 AM (No. 1631756)
"We demanded that she not be fired. Don't you know who we are!"
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DonQuijote 1/8/2024 9:15:21 AM (No. 1631781)
Her statement should be forever linked to any search anyone ever does on Harvard Extension classes. That's horrible that she would say that! She should be dismissed for maligning the university. And how about the "he pulled himself up from his bootstraps" bit. Isn't that something people should be proud of? That woman and her ilk are nuts and academic snobs who should be out of jobs!
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Reply 3 - Posted by: New Mexico Rider 1/8/2024 9:21:28 AM (No. 1631786)
She didn't lose any money and she is still a professor with a job. She is paid twice what the president of the United States is paid for doing what?... This is Affirmative Action at work.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: EJKrausJr 1/8/2024 10:31:36 AM (No. 1631852)
So Rufo brought the plagiarizer down. DEI's finest brought down by a night schooler. Even Shifty Shift couldn't write that script. So Gay is not the brightest bulb at Harvard after all. Could it be that Gay never had an original thought, that she copied (npi) everyone elses thoughts? Kudos to Harvard's night school.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: PESSIMIST 1/8/2024 10:59:15 AM (No. 1631876)
Here's the juicy irony -- this Professor teachers at Harvard's Public Policy outfit, NOT part of "presitigious" Harvard College, home to the real snobs. Harvardians look down on degrees from her shcool as not giving out "real" Harvard degrees.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: dwa 1/8/2024 11:58:41 AM (No. 1631919)
The interesting part of this is that all these so called highly intelligent elites at Harvard are denigrating their own school by slamming their night time classes. Apparently, at least according to these self proclaimed intellectuals, Harvard's night classes aren't very good or worth anything. But they still charge a lot for them.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: paral04 1/8/2024 12:01:52 PM (No. 1631921)
Harvard needs to donate its endowment to a homeless cause and shut their doors. They no longer are the bastion of learning and high principals and right now with what they admit about Gay, any minority who graduates on their own merit will be thrown into the EEOC graduation column and treated accordingly. If I were one of them I would really be angry.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: gramma b 1/8/2024 12:09:59 PM (No. 1631927)
His night school degree probably reflects more academic merit than any of Harvard’s affirmative action degrees.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 1/8/2024 1:16:25 PM (No. 1631983)
I earned my master's degree in night school. While in school, my university made a big effort to get the night school students to transfer into the day school. We were told that the night school students brought practical work experience to the classes that the day students lacked. My guess is they also brought more motivation and focus as well.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: BarryNo 1/8/2024 2:17:05 PM (No. 1632030)
Harvard is a trash degree. In fact any school operating like Harvard, is a trash degree. Who you know, as opposed to what you know, doesn't cut it with me.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: FormerDem 1/8/2024 3:20:27 PM (No. 1632056)
speaking not only as a harvard graduate but also as a see-attached-pages type of a legacy, I think Rufo did great, and emphasizing that he is the Extension School mainly suggests the Extension students are more agile and free-moving, and ALSO smart enough to overcome the Harvard President and Board. Having no debts probably helped. whatever Rufo did, is a good idea. I took extension courses bc I changed concentrations, and they were just the same afaik.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Heraclitus 1/8/2024 4:41:45 PM (No. 1632079)
Hochschild exposes herself as an ignoramus and arrogant. I, too, finished my college education and master's at Harvard Extension. I started there as I was working while hubby finished law school. I began with creative writing, as an enjoyable diversion, and soon began taking courses to complete my undergraduate degree. At that time, surveys of the professors -- who were all Harvard professors, one a visiting scholar in government and political philosophy (late wife of Harvey Mansfield)-- proved that they preferred teaching Extension students to day students because in general the former were more serious and focused, in part because it was a sacrifice for most to be there. I had some of the greatest scholars and professors, in Classics (lit, history, languages), and in Russian and Soviet history, politics and foreign policy (my second field of concentration). I took Latin and Ancient and Homeric Greek... no "pass/fail" in any of my courses. Careful scholarship was demanded by all professors. Also, the students I knew came from diverse backgrounds, some who already held degrees, including graduate degrees, and were taking classes of interest, or changing careers, or other. Some were younger than I, others were a lot older. One graduated at the beautiful old age of 90. You had to be motivated to go to night classes after working all day, and to produce research papers which had to pass careful scrutiny. The people I knew were intelligent and interesting and serious. So, when Hochschild tries to demean or dismiss Harvard Extension students she is doing the same to many of her fellow Harvard professors who teach these students.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Miss T 1/8/2024 5:25:42 PM (No. 1632098)
Ms. Showalter has stooped to an ad hominem attack on the personal appearance of the professor. Anaxios! Whether a person is attractive has no bearing on the strength of her argument.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: anotherctyankee 1/9/2024 8:55:49 AM (No. 1632548)
Re #13 I read the article and he one comment was under the picture. I took it to imply an attitude rather than impugning her looks.
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