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Passers-by walk walk on the campus of Harvard University, Tuesday, Dec. 12, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism, the university's highest governing body announced Tuesday. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Gospel of Luke reveals important truths that Harvard and Claudine Gay have forgotten

By Dr. David Murphy – Special to Higher Ground

Harvard President Claudine Gay speaks during a hearing of the House Committee on Education on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2023, in Washington. The university presidents called before last week’s congressional hearing on antisemitism had more in common than strife on their campuses: The leaders of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard and MIT were all women who were relatively new in their positions. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Harvard stands by President Claudine Gay despite calls for her removal

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

FILE - Joan Donovan, then-research director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, speaks remotely during a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, on Capitol Hill, April 27, 2021, in Washington. The prominent disinformation scholar who left Harvard University in August 2023 has accused the school of muzzling her speech and stifling — then dismantling — her research team as it launched a deep dive in late 2021 into a trove of Facebook files she considers the most important documents in internet history. (Al Drago/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Harvard muzzled disinformation team after $500 million Zuckerberg donation, whistleblower alleges

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

The Dalai Lama (right) laughs with Harvard's Kennedy School Prof. Marshall Ganz after playfully pulling his mustache at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Friday, Oct. 31, 2014. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Harvard lionized professor after finding he discriminated against Jewish students

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition on Nov. 18, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher) **FILE**

Larry Hogan pulls out of Harvard fellowships amid backlash over university response to Israel attack

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Students walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. (AP Photo/Michael Casey) ** FILE **

Nonprofit quits Harvard over leadership’s attitude to student groups’ statement on Hamas attack

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

A gate opens to the Harvard University campus Dec. 13, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass. More than 30 Harvard University student organizations released a joint statement saying that the "Israeli regime [is] entirely responsible" for the surprise attack from Hamas that has killed hundreds of Israelis. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Free speech and consequence-free speech are two different things

By David S. Jonas and Michael Samarov

This photo provided by Harvard University shows Claudine Gay. Harvard University announced Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, that Gay will become its 30th president, making her the first Black person to lead the Ivy League school and only the second woman. (Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University via AP)

Harvard alumni in Congress call for university’s president to resign

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

This photo provided by Harvard University shows Claudine Gay. Harvard University announced Thursday, Dec. 15, 2022, that Gay will become its 30th president, making her the first Black person to lead the Ivy League school and only the second woman. (Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University via AP)

Harvard president condemns letter by student groups blaming Israel for Hamas attack

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Claudia Goldin speaks to a reporter on the phone in her home in Cambridge, Mass. after learning that she received the Nobel Prize in Economics Monday, October 9, 2023. Goldin, a professor at Harvard University, for advancing understanding of women's labor market outcomes. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Nobel economics prize goes to Harvard’s Claudia Goldin for research on the workplace gender gap

By Paul Wiseman, David Keyton and Michael Casey - Associated Press

A gate opens to the Harvard University campus Dec. 13, 2018, in Cambridge, Mass. More than 30 Harvard University student organizations released a joint statement saying that the "Israeli regime [is] entirely responsible" for the surprise attack from Hamas that has killed hundreds of Israelis. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Harvard student groups blame Israel for attack by Hamas

By Mallory Wilson - The Washington Times

Students walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni. At Harvard, which released years of records as part of the lawsuit that ended up before the Supreme Court, legacy students were eight times more likely to be admitted, and nearly 70% were White, researchers found. (AP Photo/Michael Casey) **FILE**

Harvard’s legacy admissions policy helps White students, but is it illegal?

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Students walk through a gate at Harvard University, Thursday, June 29, 2023, in Cambridge, Mass. In the wake of a Supreme Court decision that removes race from the admissions process, colleges are coming under renewed pressure to put an end to legacy preferences, the practice of favoring applicants with family ties to alumni. At Harvard, which released years of records as part of the lawsuit that ended up before the Supreme Court, legacy students were eight times more likely to be admitted, and nearly 70% were White, researchers found. (AP Photo/Michael Casey) **FILE**

Civil rights groups challenge Harvard over ‘mostly White’ donor admissions policy

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

People protest outside of the Supreme Court in Washington, Thursday, June 29, 2023. The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Supreme Court rules race-based affirmative action unconstitutional

By Stephen Dinan and Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot speaks during a press conference in the Greektown neighborhood, of Chicago, Sept. 14, 2022. While the 2024 race for the White House is brewing, a scattering of states will hold elections next year. (Pat Nabong/Chicago Sun-Times via AP, File)

Lightfoot goes from Chicago mayor to teaching health at Harvard

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Students walk through Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., on April 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa) ** FILE **

Fake bomb on Harvard campus leads to arrest

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A man places a mask over the eyes of the John Harvard Statue in Harvard Yard as close to 100 students and faculty demonstrated against strict anti-virus measures in China, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. Protests in China, which were the largest and most wide spread in the nation in decades, included calls for Communist Party leader Xi Jinping to step down. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds)

Harvard students show solidarity with Chinese protesters

By Mark Pratt - Associated Press

Harvard students Shruthi Kumar, left, and Muskaan Arshad, join a rally with other activists as the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on a pair of cases that could decide the future of affirmative action in college admissions, in Washington, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Supreme Court eyes end of race-based preferences in school admissions

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Members of the Supreme Court sit for a new group portrait following the addition of Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022. Bottom row, from left, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts, Associate Justice Samuel Alito, and Associate Justice Elena Kagan. Top row, from left, Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, and Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justices’ past affirmative action views, in their own words

By Jessica Gresko - Associated Press

In this March 7, 2017, file photo, rowers paddle along the Charles River past the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Supreme Court faces chance to settle racial preferences in school admissions

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times