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#StateThinking: The moral failure of university administrations. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 25 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#StateThinking: The moral failure of university administrations. @MaryKissel Former Senior Adviser to the Secretary of State. Executive VP Stephens Inc.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/elite-universities-face-donor-revolt-over-mideast-conflict-6c93662f?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1

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0:00.0

I'm John Bachelor with my colleague, Merrick Kistle, executive vice president, Steven's

0:09.3

incorporated, former senior adviser to the Secretary of State, former Wall Street

0:14.4

journal editorial writer, member of the board, based in Hong Kong and then New York.

0:19.8

And before that, a very pleased and successful graduate of Harvard University.

0:25.3

I mentioned that, Mary's alma mater, mine is Princeton University.

0:29.8

We have a great number of questions being asked these days about the most elite universities

0:35.0

in America who have vowed safety, the provocation, and deliberate vanity of aggression by protests,

0:44.8

by marches, by student letters, signing of letters has been in the news for days.

0:51.0

The story has moved to donors.

0:53.8

Major donors, Mr. Huntsman's foundation is one of them mentioned.

0:58.2

Mr. Waxner's expressing their rejection of the way the administrations have handled these

1:05.0

protests, these marches, these provocations, march of it anti-Semitic, all of it anti-Semitic,

1:11.7

sometimes mass, sometimes not.

1:13.8

I noted Princeton University, there was some calculation that the people who showed up for

1:19.8

the demonstration, at the same time there was a memorial for the dead in Israel.

1:25.4

The provocation was to show up in March for Hamas, pro-Hamas, whatever the language was.

1:31.3

Recommendation that the students who show up be massed, so their identities wouldn't

1:36.0

be revealed.

1:37.0

The administration stood by and talked freedom of speech, first amendment, right to assemble.

1:44.0

Mary, how's it been for your colleagues at Harvard?

1:46.9

Oh, gosh, John, there's so much to say here.

1:50.8

I too am an extremely strong proponent of free speech, and I think the way that you combat

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