After being embroiled in anti-semitism and plagiarism issues, Harvard’s early admission program significantly dropped to only 7,921 applicants for this cycle, compared to 9,553 the previous year. Out of the applicants, 692 students have been accepted.
It’s a remarkable decline as the institution has faced troubles since earlier this month. The university earned criticism as they failed to publicly address growing antisemitism on the campus.
During a hearing in Congress, university administrators failed to outrightly condemn the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack that killed 1,200 individuals.
Harvard University Claudine Gay declined to say that calls for violence against Jews were considered harassment and instead responded: “When speech crosses into conduct that violates our policies, including policies against bullying, harassment or intimidation, we take action and we have robust disciplinary processes that allow us to hold individuals accountable.”
Despite her apology after her remarks, many called for her to be ousted from the job. This also led the Wexner Foundation to sever their ties with Harvard, saying they “feel abandoned” by the institution’s “dismal failure.”
After the scandalous hearing Rabbi David Wolpe, a visiting scholar at Harvard, resigned from the antisemitism advisory committee at Harvard University.
“Without rehashing all of the obvious reasons that have been endlessly adumbrated online, and with great respect for the members of the committee, the short explanation is that both events on campus and the painfully inadequate testimony reinforced the idea that I cannot make the sort of difference I had hoped,” wrote Wolpe.
“The system at Harvard along with the ideology that grips far too many of the students and faculty, the ideology that works only along axes of oppression and places Jews as oppressors and therefore intrinsically evil, is itself evil. Ignoring Jewish suffering is evil. Belittling or denying the Jewish experience, including unspeakable atrocities, is a vast and continuing catastrophe. Denying Israel the right to self-determination as a Jewish nation accorded unthinkingly to others is endemic, and evil.”
Some alumni are enraged by the university’s response and the surge of antisemitic crimes within the campus, about 1,600 threatened to stop donations.
Furthermore, Gay was accused of plagiarizing multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis and three other published works amid calls for her to resign.
The Crimson independently reviewed the published allegations. Though some are minor — consisting of passages that are similar or identical to Gay’s sources, lacking quotation marks but including citations — others are more substantial, including some paragraphs and sentences nearly identical to other work and lacking citations.
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