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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Harvard board bars 13 pro-Palestine student protesters from graduating, overruling faculty

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Harvard board bars 13 pro-Palestine student protesters from graduating, overruling faculty

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Harvard University’s governing board rejected an effort from faculty Wednesday to allow a group of 13 students sanctioned due to their participation in pro-Palestine protests to receive their degre…
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    This is what happens at Harvard when you try to do good. Look at their alumni. Filled with IRL super villains.

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      Super villains and comedians. Sometimes combinations of both, as in the case of BJ Novak.

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        BJ Novak is a supervillain…?

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          Nah, just being silly lol.

          The REAL Harvard educated comedian who’s also a super villain is Conan O’Brien, of course 😉

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            How dare you insult the 11th president of Finland like that.

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              I’m just going by his own admissions about his alter ego “superhero” Whirligig and his general self-description on Needs a Friend 😁

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          I think it’s a reference to when BJ Novak played Alistair Smythe in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.

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          I have actually heard, from someone who has worked with him, he’s extremely difficult to work with.

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        Blow Job Novak?

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          I don’t do (letter period letter period). It’s a conscious style choice.

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      I will reluctantly admit that there are good activists who come from Harvard. I work with some and know of many more. But the vast majority is just like you describe

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        Tom Morello graduated from Harvard

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