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UPenn, Harvard raked in $20 million from Saudis

Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania received $19,772,237 in donations from Qatari and Saudi entities over the past two years, including from both nation’s governments, according to data collected by the Department of Education. Under federal law, colleges and universities that receive donations from foreign sources that total at least $250,000 must disclose such […]

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Upenn, Mit, Harvard presidents ‘cancelled’

The growing chorus of donors, politicians, business leaders and other prominent figures calling for the immediate ouster of University of Pennsylvania President Liz Magill has reached a crescendo after her disastrous testimony at a House hearing earlier this week. During Tuesday’s House hearing, Magill, along with the presidents of Harvard and MIT, did not explicitly […]

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America’s worst college for free speech? Harvard!

Harvard University has been ranked as America’s worst college for free speech, with its attitude to open expression described as “abysmal”. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has today published its annual rankings of US colleges for how freely students feel they can speak. Harvard, the Ivy League college based in Massachusetts, sits […]

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Tom Hanks says truth is ‘no longer emperical’ at Harvard speech

Actor Tom Hanks lectured new graduates on truth during his commencement speech at Harvard University Thursday. Hanks himself attended Chabot Community College in California, but he received an honorary doctorate degree and a Harvard volleyball in homage to his Castaway character’s prop, Wilson, during the ceremony. The actor attempted to motivate graduates to pursue “sacred” […]