Reviewing Harvard Law Review: On Friday, we blew the lid off pervasive racial discrimination at the Harvard Law Review. On Monday, the Trump administration launched an investigation.
The Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services “will conduct separate investigations” to determine “whether Harvard violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which bans race discrimination by the recipients of federal funds. They will also examine the university’s relationship with the law review, including ‘financial ties’ and ‘oversight procedures,'” the Free Beacon‘s Aaron Sibarium reports. The journal claims to be separate from Harvard Law School, though its tax forms “state that it is ‘functionally integrated’ with the university.”
“The probes—to be conducted by each agency’s office for civil rights—come days after former Texas solicitor general Jonathan Mitchell vowed to sue Harvard over the journal’s policies, which include evaluating articles on both the race of the author and the racial diversity of its citations,” writes Sibarium. “The probes could result in further cuts if HHS decides that there is no meaningful difference between Harvard Law School and the Harvard Law Review—long considered the top law journal in the country—and could make private litigants’ lives easier by surfacing additional evidence of discrimination.”
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Out of order: The two Harvard University students who faced criminal charges for assaulting an Israeli classmate during an October 2023 “die-in” protest, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo and Ibrahim Bharmal, have finally learned their fate: 80 hours of community service and an anger management class.
Those are the terms of a pretrial diversion program a Suffolk County judge ordered during a hearing on Monday, our Collin Anderson reports. The conclusion is a mixed bag for the prosecution, which won out when it comes to the community service time (the students’ attorneys wanted only 40 hours) but did not secure a statement from Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal admitting fault. The pair will return to court in late July for a “Pretrial diversion completion” hearing, court filings show.
It’s unclear what Harvard will do—if anything—in response to the case’s conclusion. Both Tettey-Tamaklo and Bharmal were expected to graduate this year, the former from the divinity school and the latter from the law school. As their case progressed, Harvard did not say whether it would award them degrees if the proceedings remained open or if they were convicted. Both students remained in good standing with the school in the wake of the “die-in.”
READ MORE: Harvard Students Ordered To Enter Pretrial Diversion Program Over Assault of Israeli Classmate
Pants on fire: Eugene Daniels, the MSNBC host, embattled WHCA president, and self-described “walking Beyoncé encyclopedia,” kicked off his speech at Saturday’s nerd prom White House Correspondents’ Association annual gala by saying journalists are “pushy” and “sometimes think we know everything” but are also “human,” “care deeply about accuracy,” and are “not the opposition.” Our Andrew Stiles checks his facts.
Analysis: “It goes without saying that journalists are often ‘pushy’ and think they ‘know everything.’ But are they also human, as Daniels so boldly claimed? Technically, yes, as far as we can tell. But certainly not in the broader sense. By most scientific standards, the average journalist is both morally and temperamentally aberrant compared to the average member of the human species. We couldn’t find any evidence to support Daniels’s claim that journalists ‘care deeply about accuracy and take seriously the heavy responsibility of being stewards of the public’s trust.’
“Meanwhile, Daniels’s insistence that journalists are not ‘the opposition’ is difficult to assess without further context. The statement is true if referring to the time period between January 20, 2021, and January 19, 2024, or any time a Democrat is president. If Daniels meant to imply that journalists are currently not behaving like an opposition party under President Trump, then of course that is false.”Verdict: “We rate this claim 4 Flaming Clintons.”
Away from the Beacon:
- Last week, the American Association of Colleges and Universities published a public statement, signed by 514 administrators, criticizing the Trump administration’s higher education reforms. Absent from the list of signatories are administrators from Vanderbilt, the first school to discipline students over anti-Israel protests, and Dartmouth, the only Ivy League school not under federal investigation. Faculty members at Dartmouth seem to think that’s a bad thing.
- Harvard is changing the name of its DEI office to “Community and Campus Life,” a move that will also see the school’s chief diversity and inclusion officer and accused plagiarist, Sherri Ann Charleston, operate under a different title: “Chief Community and Campus Life Officer.”
- In a “return to the national stage,” Kamala Harris will make “her most extensive public remarks since losing to Trump last fall” in a speech to… a progressive group that has long supported her political career, Politico reports. Tune in on Wednesday for this barnburner!
This article was originally published at freebeacon.com
