Harvard Sucks: JSID edition

Harvard is using its $39 billion endowment to snap up massive amounts of rights to aquifers all over California, making a dark bet on water scarcity to profit off forthcoming mega-droughts [t.co]

— april glaser (@aprilaser) December 12, 2018

Trotsky
This is going to be really funny when President Ocasio-Cortez nationalizes them in 2040.

billhoward
Consider also the possibility Harvard plans to make Stanford die of thirst.

Harvard University has fired longtime fencing coach Peter Brand, who was involved in an admissions scandal having to do with the extremely suspect circumstances of the sale of his home to the family of a high school junior who was later admitted to Harvard as a fencing recruit.

The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that an independent investigation initiated by Harvard determined that Brand violated the university’s conflict-of-interest policy when he sold his home to wealthy Maryland businessman Jie “Jack” Zhao for $989,500 in 2016, or about $440,000 more than its assessed value.

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Possibly the best part of all this was Zhao’s explanation for the purchase of the house. Zhao said he felt bad about Brand’s commute to and from Harvard from Needham, so he asked Brand for an estimate of the home’s value and bought it. Of course, Brand’s estimate overshot the value by more than 44 percent, but at least Zhao’s largesse saved Brand from making the [checks notes] 12-mile commute to work.

billhoward

Trotsky
This is going to be really funny when President Ocasio-Cortez nationalizes them in 2040.

Harvard not amused when the bi--sorry, Congressperson-elect, says she went to school in Boston, usurping the Harvard gentleman's way of hinting at without screaming that he went to Harvard.

Consider also the possibility Harvard plans to make Stanford die of thirst.

Harvard Crimson 11/16/85
Princeton Report: Students Reject Us If Harvard or Stanford Accepts Them
High school seniors who are admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Stanford will choose any of the other three before Princeton, according to a report released by the central New Jersey school last week. They are most likely to attend Harvard.

Two-hundred-and-seventy members of the class of 1989 chose Harvard over Princeton, while only 73 turned down a chance to come to Cambridge for a four-year stay at Princeton.

"Harvard is a very attractive place to go," said Spencer Reynolds, Princeton's assistant dean of admissions. "The numbers have been fairly consistent over the years. Harvard has been the college students choose [over the other three] and represents the largest loss we have."