Harvard gift officers, who maintain relationships with donors, are worried that the administration’s response to the conflict and to concerns about antisemitism on campus may result in more donors fleeing, according to the Crimson, the student-run newspaper.
“I have talked to people in the administration of the University and I know they’re concerned. Everyone’s concerned about it,” Kenneth G. Lipper, a former member of the Executive Committee of the Committee of University Resources, which consists of people who’ve donated at least $1 million to the elite school, told the Crimson.
“It’s a difficult time for the president and it’s a difficult time for the University,” he continued.
[It’s an entirely self-inflicted wound. All they needed to do was enforce their own rules and demonstrate some sort of support for their Jewish students and alumni. Instead, Harvard made clear its hostility toward them. Now they “worry” that their donors have second thoughts on supporting Jew-hatred in Academia. Boo f***ing hoo. — Ed]
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