Very entertaining. Don’t often hear Yanni’s Aria (background).
I’m imgagine it was due to the plagerism rather than her antisemitism.
Nonapod:
I kinda think it was a package deal — plus who knows what other shoes might drop. Gay is such a blatant Woke choice, yet a complete academic mediocrity cum fraud
I like that. Magna cum fraud.
Here’s the celebratory Harvard Crimson puff piece when she was installed as La Presidente:
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The Scholar Everyone Sought: Claudine Gay, Harvard’s Next President
From the moment she finished her Ph.D. in Government at Harvard nearly 25 years ago, Claudine Gay was one of the most sought-after young scholars in the country.
Jennifer L. Hochschild, a Princeton politics professor at the time, recalled trying to recruit Gay to the university — only to have Gay choose Stanford instead, where she attained tenure in just five years.
After coming to Harvard, Hochschild got a second chance to persuade Gay to work with her in 2006, when she served on another search committee seeking to hire Gay.
This time, Hochschild succeeded.
Since then, Gay has had a meteoric rise through Harvard’s administration. Within a decade, she was tapped as dean of Social Sciences. Three years later, she was appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Less than five years after that, on Dec. 15, 2022, Gay was selected as the 30th University president.
Gay, 52, will make history on July 1, when she will become the first person of color and only the second woman to lead America’s oldest institution of higher education. But despite Gay’s historic appointment, many of her colleagues and friends say they were unsurprised by her selection to Harvard’s top post.
Nothingburger. Gay was appointed and defended by the Harvard corp and others. If they are forced out, that would mean something.
The same policies will remain, but with lots of window dressing.
Affirmative action and DEI, CRT are still alive and well.
It’s at least a start.
Jordan Rivers, I appreciate your appreciation of my comments, and I hope you enjoy “Walter.” Any time my scribblings have a positive affect on someone else, it makes me happy. 🙂
My bio is unpublished, and probably won’t ever be. After the effort and expense of “The Wisdom of Walter” didn’t lead to much, I realized my writing doesn’t appeal to many.
My bio was a way of mulling over the events of my life. Now, it appears, the Midway Museum may be interested in taking in the part that deals with my time on the Midway. They now have a collection of “sea stories” told by many who served aboard the ship. We’ll see.
Occasional commenter Kiki invites me to her holiday dinners here in Abq. She makes an incredible Beef Bourguignon, which she served this past Christmas.
Yum! Or as the French say, Miam!
This year I learned Kiki’s secret:
Julia Child, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”
My copy arrived just today. The recipes look incredibly tasty. OK, fattening too. I didn’t realize that Beef Bourguignon includes bacon, as well as red wine, as a secret ingredient.
I am immersing myself in French culture. Sacrifices must be made.
It is no coincidence that frauds proliferate in positions of authority as socialism gains power. Every entity in a socialist system is run by political officers. People with ambitions to become political officers tend to be comfortable with cheating to get what they “deserve.”
Totalitarian socialism cultivates “leaders” based on ideological reliability and political usefulness, not skill at their nominal jobs. In fact, highly skilled people who succeed on merit are often prickly iconoclasts who make lousy political officers. The system weeds them out.
Frauds who owe their success to Party patronage are more reliable as Party apparatchiks. The ideal candidates for positions of authority are people who think they owe everything to the Party and its systems. Almost by definition, such people are not high achievers.
The ladder of success in a socialist system involves loyal service to those in power, making political alliances, moving up because powerful patrons find you useful. Supreme ability and a focus on achievement are detrimental to success. They make you look like a threat.
Also, socialism harvests power by exploiting and “managing” problems, not by SOLVING them. Making a social problem better would shut off spigots of money and power. Highly skilled problem-solvers with inspiring stories of personal achievement are THREATS, not leadership material.
Note how the lefties closing ranks around a ridiculous fraud like Harvard’s Claudine Gay will arrogantly dismiss someone like Dr. Ben Carson. His politics are all wrong. His story of success against long odds is a threat to their beliefs. His achievements mean nothing to them.
Putting people like Gay in charge of a university is guaranteed to make it worse, and that’s exactly what the power structure needs. Frauds, poseurs, and arrogant know-nothings are the model leaders of a totalitarian hive, because they excel at destroying information.
Socialism endures by destroying information, ensuring the Little People don’t know anything that threatens the system. The people are not supposed to think unapproved thoughts, speak forbidden words, or cherish dangerous ambitions. You see this every day across the Western world.
Above all, you’re not supposed to wonder if anything better than the meager, wasteful, corrupt results of socialism are possible. That is why you find yourself living in a system run by frauds, who are the natural enemies of honest ambition. /end
From yesterday’s Auld Lang Syne thread at 4:09 PM:
I have sent him passages from my bio, Sea Stories, Hangar Flying, and Other Assorted Tall Tales.
J.J.,
Is your bio available anywhere?
I’m still reading “The Wisdom of Walter”.
Again, I enjoy reading your comments, and thank you for your service to our country!
One for my baby, and one for the road: Stayin’ Alive – The Bee Gees (Ragtime Rockabilly Cover) ft. Wild Bill
Harvard president Claudine Gay has “resigned”. I’m imgagine it was due to the plagerism rather than her antisemitism.
Very entertaining. Don’t often hear Yanni’s Aria (background).
I’m imgagine it was due to the plagerism rather than her antisemitism.
Nonapod:
I kinda think it was a package deal — plus who knows what other shoes might drop. Gay is such a blatant Woke choice, yet a complete academic mediocrity cum fraud
I like that. Magna cum fraud.
Here’s the celebratory Harvard Crimson puff piece when she was installed as La Presidente:
___________________________________________
The Scholar Everyone Sought: Claudine Gay, Harvard’s Next President
From the moment she finished her Ph.D. in Government at Harvard nearly 25 years ago, Claudine Gay was one of the most sought-after young scholars in the country.
Jennifer L. Hochschild, a Princeton politics professor at the time, recalled trying to recruit Gay to the university — only to have Gay choose Stanford instead, where she attained tenure in just five years.
After coming to Harvard, Hochschild got a second chance to persuade Gay to work with her in 2006, when she served on another search committee seeking to hire Gay.
This time, Hochschild succeeded.
Since then, Gay has had a meteoric rise through Harvard’s administration. Within a decade, she was tapped as dean of Social Sciences. Three years later, she was appointed dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Less than five years after that, on Dec. 15, 2022, Gay was selected as the 30th University president.
Gay, 52, will make history on July 1, when she will become the first person of color and only the second woman to lead America’s oldest institution of higher education. But despite Gay’s historic appointment, many of her colleagues and friends say they were unsurprised by her selection to Harvard’s top post.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/1/27/claudine-gay-presidential-profile/
___________________________________________
Curious. No mention of her scholarly work.
From last night:
But I still say Gay is Dead Harvard President Walking.
And I was right!
Gadi and Mike chat up the news, “The Return of Pre-Oct. 7th Politics”, with bonus Bedoin polygamy coverage!, Rumble (46:48): https://rumble.com/v44kmhr-the-return-of-pre-oct.-7-politics.html
Nothingburger. Gay was appointed and defended by the Harvard corp and others. If they are forced out, that would mean something.
The same policies will remain, but with lots of window dressing.
Affirmative action and DEI, CRT are still alive and well.
It’s at least a start.
Jordan Rivers, I appreciate your appreciation of my comments, and I hope you enjoy “Walter.” Any time my scribblings have a positive affect on someone else, it makes me happy. 🙂
My bio is unpublished, and probably won’t ever be. After the effort and expense of “The Wisdom of Walter” didn’t lead to much, I realized my writing doesn’t appeal to many.
My bio was a way of mulling over the events of my life. Now, it appears, the Midway Museum may be interested in taking in the part that deals with my time on the Midway. They now have a collection of “sea stories” told by many who served aboard the ship. We’ll see.
Occasional commenter Kiki invites me to her holiday dinners here in Abq. She makes an incredible Beef Bourguignon, which she served this past Christmas.
Yum! Or as the French say, Miam!
This year I learned Kiki’s secret:
Julia Child, “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”
My copy arrived just today. The recipes look incredibly tasty. OK, fattening too. I didn’t realize that Beef Bourguignon includes bacon, as well as red wine, as a secret ingredient.
I am immersing myself in French culture. Sacrifices must be made.
Doc Zero treats Gay as an exemplar of a large caste.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1742188169339052417.html
It looks like everything in America is for sale.
https://freebeacon.com/media/ap-quietly-reveals-donation-from-foreign-group-that-trains-journalists-as-climate-change-activists/