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Doyle Rowland's avatar

MSU Board of Trustees are elected officials. Vassar completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey. For the question, "What characteristics or principles are most important for an elected official?", she answered, "Integrity and relationships." I guess she didn't specify good relationships.

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Those who get their skivvies in a twist, when gov't cuts its largesse to Harvard need a deep, mind-cleansing breath.

Pro-Palestinians should be able to speak in Palestine's favor. That is not the point.

But pro-Palestinians should not stop pro-Israelis from speaking, drowning them out with noise, deplatforming speakers, trespassing, occupying or defacing buildings, threatening, urging others' harm or death, striking, spitting on, pushing, shoving, blocking their passage or assembly in public places. Such prohibitions apply to everyone.

Harvard whose motto is 'Veritas', ie, 'Truth' --one of three transcendental values, forgets the very point of free speech and respectful silence to let ALL points of view to be heard.

With both a PhD and and MD, Pres Garber is surely intelligent, yet one would never know it. He recognises all of free speech's requirements when applied to one faction's right but not to another's.

So to ensure Harvard honors the Constitution's guarantee of free speech to all citisens, our vulgarian President Trump has tried getting Harvard's attention by withholding funding that was given assuming Harvard would always honor free speech and a half dozen other rights of peaceful students. Maybe losing its tax exemption will finally wake Garber up.

Even a vulgarian like Trump can be right and an intellectual brahmin like Garber can be wrong.

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