Elite colleges scramble to backtrack after evading questions about antisemitism

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Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before Congress
Liz Magill, president of University of Pennsylvania, testifies before the House Education and Workforce Committee in Washington, DC.

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Harvard, MIT, and UPenn missed a very easy chance to do their most important job

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Three college presidents speaking at a cognressional hearing.
L-R) Dr. Claudine Gay, President of Harvard University, Liz Magill, President of University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. Sally Kornbluth, President of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, testify before the House Education and Workforce Committee at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 05, 2023 in Washington, DC

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I'm a Harvard student. Our freshman dining hall looks amazing, but some of our meals lack seasoning and variety.

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Ezekiel Wells with his lunch in Annenberg at Harvard
The dining-hall food at Harvard isn't great.

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I'm a freshman at Yale and just went to my first Harvard-Yale football game. The weekend was one of my favorites at college so far.

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Miles Kirkpatrick at yale football game
The author and his friends at the Yale-Harvard football game.

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Big money donors are slamming Ivy League universities and pulling funding over their response to the Israel-Hamas war

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Bill Ackman and a photo of Harvard's campus
Wealthy college donors like billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman have slammed Ivy League universities like Harvard for their responses to the Israel-Hamas war, while others have gone a step further and stopped their donations to the schools.

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Billionaire founder of Victoria's Secret pulls funding from Harvard, accusing the school of 'dismal failure' to take a stand for Israel

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Les Wexner
Les Wexner

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A college counselor said a parent offered him $1.5 million to deny service to their child's classmates — highlighting the cut-throat battle for Ivy League admissions

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Harvard University campus
Harvard University, which ranks No. 3 in US News' latest rankings, accepted less than 4% of applicants for class of 2027.

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The strange, twisted logic behind the sky-high cost of college

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A blue graduation cap and yellow diploma tied with a red ribbon sit on a gray background. The red ribbon unties, unraveling the diploma's insides--which show a green dollar bill with an the animation of a nervous post-grad student in a suit, sweating.
Without any way to slash the cost of higher education, it's time to consider a dramatically different approach.

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