HARVARD SUCKS

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Fuck them

+100

[KenP]

I know it may not be good for our NCAA aspirations but this is still personal. LET'S GO RED!!!!!  #harvardsucks

[David Harding]

Social media footprints are nothing new, so what were those Harvard kids thinking?  Actually, it was a group who had been admitted, but had their offers rescinded when Harvard noticed the inappropriate postings on a messaging group called "Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens"

[Trotsky]

Social media footprints are nothing new, so what were those Harvard kids thinking?  Actually, it was a group who had been admitted, but had their offers rescinded when Harvard noticed the inappropriate postings on a messaging group called "Harvard memes for horny bourgeois teens"

The lead sentence of that article goes immediately to the Journalism Hall of Fame.

[billhoward]

Harvard a decade ago rescinded the admission offer to HS senior Blair Hornstine who sued her Moorestown, NJ HS to be the sole valedictorian, no co-valedictorian. The publicity about the lawsuit resulted in a closer look at some articles she'd published in a local paper. They were plagiarized. Admission was rescinded.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/7/11/harvard-takes-back-hornstine-admission-offer/
https://tow.com/2003/06/07/the-blair-hornstine-project/

Be interesting to see where this year's crop of Harvard late-rejects wind up in college.

[CU2007]

Harvard a decade ago rescinded the admission offer to HS senior Blair Hornstine who sued her Moorestown, NJ HS to be the sole valedictorian, no co-valedictorian. The publicity about the lawsuit resulted in a closer look at some articles she'd published in a local paper. They were plagiarized. Admission was rescinded.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/7/11/harvard-takes-back-hornstine-admission-offer/
https://tow.com/2003/06/07/the-blair-hornstine-project/

Be interesting to see where this year's crop of Harvard late-rejects wind up in college.

HA! That makes me smile.

[Trotsky]

Harvard a decade ago rescinded the admission offer to HS senior Blair Hornstine who sued her Moorestown, NJ HS to be the sole valedictorian, no co-valedictorian. The publicity about the lawsuit resulted in a closer look at some articles she'd published in a local paper. They were plagiarized. Admission was rescinded.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/7/11/harvard-takes-back-hornstine-admission-offer/
https://tow.com/2003/06/07/the-blair-hornstine-project/

Be interesting to see where this year's crop of Harvard late-rejects wind up in college.

As a Long Islander I am shocked and appalled that woman wasn't from Long Island.

[billhoward]

Harvard a decade ago rescinded the admission offer to HS senior Blair Hornstine who sued her Moorestown, NJ HS to be the sole valedictorian, no co-valedictorian. The publicity about the lawsuit resulted in a closer look at some articles she'd published in a local paper. They were plagiarized. Admission was rescinded.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/7/11/harvard-takes-back-hornstine-admission-offer/
https://tow.com/2003/06/07/the-blair-hornstine-project/
Be interesting to see where this year's crop of Harvard late-rejects wind up in college.

As a Long Islander I am shocked and appalled that woman wasn't from Long Island.

You Long Islanders are the people who think White Plains is upstate. You've already had your 15 minutes with Amy Fisher (figuratively). You've got Billy Joel, we've got Bruce. (Also Chris, for another six months.) Odds favor one of the 10 rescindees calling the Guyland home. The more I think about it, the lives of these 10 deserve to be followed by Pro Publica.

[Trotsky]

Odds favor one of the 10 rescindees calling the Guyland home.

Maybe one, but those guys got pulled because they were bringing the Alt-Reich stupidity, or its ironic cousin anyway.  Maybe a Brooklyn Hipster hellspawn, but more likely these were bro-ed out bros on a rocketship from Choate to whatever douche Harvard* frat Zuckerberg** bought his way into.  They also smell more Masshole than Lawn Guyland.  Our little dicks and dickettes (but I am willing to bet they were all male) would have been shawpping at the mawl.

 * tautology
** White Plains native

[alexintwn]

Harvard a decade ago rescinded the admission offer to HS senior Blair Hornstine who sued her Moorestown, NJ HS to be the sole valedictorian, no co-valedictorian. The publicity about the lawsuit resulted in a closer look at some articles she'd published in a local paper. They were plagiarized. Admission was rescinded.

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/7/11/harvard-takes-back-hornstine-admission-offer/
https://tow.com/2003/06/07/the-blair-hornstine-project/

Be interesting to see where this year's crop of Harvard late-rejects wind up in college.

Well, many years later Blair Hornstine is now a practicing lawyer in the Philly area, at the law firm she co-founded with her father (a retired NJ judge). No mention of her past lawsuit, as expected.

[Swampy]

Over at Laxpower on the Harvard 2018 thread they're discussing the administration's current attempts to limit or actually eliminate Final Clubs as a way to reduce drinking, sexual misconduct, and elitism. There's mention of a dispute over the data used to justify such policies, with those who allegedly interpreted the data more rigorously advocating instead that Harvard focus "more on education than in banning clubs."

Boy, talk about naiveté! If Harvard started focusing more on education, it might have to make the most common grade something less than A.

Footnote: The author of the latter article is a Princeton grad.

[Scersk '97]

Over at Laxpower on the Harvard 2018 thread they're discussing the administration's current attempts to limit or actually eliminate Final Clubs as a way to reduce drinking, sexual misconduct, and elitism. There's mention of a dispute over the data used to justify such policies, with those who allegedly interpreted the data more rigorously advocating instead that Harvard focus "more on education than in banning clubs."

The lawyer retained by one of the final clubs sums this current thrust in institutional governance up nicely:

"[The draft policy] exhibits a contempt for student autonomy that is breathtaking."

Reminds me of the RPI stuff. At the same time as I think they're curiously unwilling to stand up for themselves and overwhelmingly unprepared to do so, I kind of feel bad about what "kids these days" face on so many fronts. They're caught under the whipsaw of societal trends toward greater surveillance and institutional trends toward administrative embiggening.

Considering their general herd-like habits, maybe encouraging a bit of autonomy wouldn't be such a bad thing. (Oh, wait, the point of higher education is to prepare them for the cubicle—I forget!)

[Swampy]

Over at Laxpower on the Harvard 2018 thread they're discussing the administration's current attempts to limit or actually eliminate Final Clubs as a way to reduce drinking, sexual misconduct, and elitism. There's mention of a dispute over the data used to justify such policies, with those who allegedly interpreted the data more rigorously advocating instead that Harvard focus "more on education than in banning clubs."

The lawyer retained by one of the final clubs sums this current thrust in institutional governance up nicely:

"[The draft policy] exhibits a contempt for student autonomy that is breathtaking."

Reminds me of the RPI stuff. At the same time as I think they're curiously unwilling to stand up for themselves and overwhelmingly unprepared to do so, I kind of feel bad about what "kids these days" face on so many fronts. They're caught under the whipsaw of societal trends toward greater surveillance and institutional trends toward administrative embiggening.

Considering their general herd-like habits, maybe encouraging a bit of autonomy wouldn't be such a bad thing. (Oh, wait, the point of higher education is to prepare them for the cubicle—I forget!)

Touché! +1

[Jim Hyla]

Has anyone heard when Harvard puts their single game tickets on sale?

[crodger1]

Cornell Club of Boston emailed to say it was going to be Tuesday, 9/5 at 9am.