Despite my TPM rep, I’m a bit optimistic (I’m almost a Pollyanna), but this is a guy who might be indicted in the future and Harvard is ok with hiring him.
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Snyder is still going to prison. Some of the fatalities were white after all.
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Well, the place does have 33% legacy matriculation rate (undergrad).
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“Governor Snyder brings his significant expertise in management, public policy, and promoting civility to Harvard Kennedy School,” Jeffrey Liebman, the director of the Taubman Center, said in the announcement.
He, however, forgot or never gave a shit about doing no harm. His management skill is typical tRUmp, that is cost as little as possible, fuck if its the correct thing to do. Then when he was told about possible problems, fuck that, he still demanded and got the system. Did not give a fuck about anyone that might suffer because of the cost shortsightedness. Was all about saving a couple of pennies. Who cared they were those poor and being poor is there own damn fault. Penny wise, pound foolish.
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Seems to be getting that way, I’d be asking for my tuition money back.
Harvard graduates: Barack and Michelle Obama and daughter Malia, Elizabeth Warren, Laurence Tribe, Al Gore, Tommy Lee Jones, RFK, Ted Kennedy, Pete Buttegeig. I’ll stop there.
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At this rate, the august institution will soon establish the Kushner School of Graft.
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Harvard continues its decline as a pillar of academic excellence with such blatant pandering to the Far Right. Maybe the University of Phoenix isn’t such a bad investment for students after all?
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If he don’t poison ya, amirite? ; - )
TPM is not helping by referring to a “Harvard fellow.”
The appointment is not from Harvard as a whole but from its Kennedy School of Government. Cultivating political connections is exactly what KSG does for its students, none of whom are naïve college kids, many of whom are dyed-in-the-wool Republicans, and all of whom want to make political connections.
You can stop there, precisely because because you’ve made your point.
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What happens here way too often is someone leads off saying “Harvard bad.” Next bunch of comments echo that. “Harvard very bad.” “Harvard full of criminals and war profiteers.” “Harvard kills puppies on demand.” And then come the likes.
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I get it that people who go to Harvard are very bright and will eventually be handed the task of making policy, be it hospital ethics, changes in labor laws, monetary stance, diplomacy with Uzbekistan, or urban planning. But what is a government policy geared to killing innocent people called? Particularly when a specific group is singled out for poisoning or execution? That seems like the kind of bad policy that Harvard might discuss in the abstract but seek to prevent in the real world.
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One caveat: Liz Warren does not have a degree from Harvard.
Not that it matters.
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Not all are eventually handed the task of making policy.
Pete Seeger, for example.
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I went to a certain prominent science-engineering school down the Charles River (soon to be full of lead, I expect) and lived in Cambridge for about seven years after that. I assume that Snyder’s handers aren’t dumb enough to let him actually show up there, because there will be riots.
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They rescind admission of a kid who wrote dumb things, but give a fellowship to a man who poisoned a city. Wow, how the Ivies have fallen.
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In that case I’ll substitute Leonard Bernstein.
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Your characterization of the students is spot on. However, each of the individual schools DO identify with and represent the university. The schools have some autonomy, but they would need approval from the university (i.e. Harvard) for any such appointment.
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Pete is a policy guy:
If I had a hammer
I’d hammer in the morning
I’d hammer in the evening
All over this land …
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Actually, no.
Who wouldn’t?