Harvard Yanks 10 Acceptance Letters Over Offensive Facebook Posts
Source: Fortune
They posted memes about rape and dead children and the Holocaust. They joked that hanging a Mexican child should be called "pinata time." And now Harvard has decided it doesn't want them anymore.
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In the group, students sent each other memes and other images mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust, and the deaths of children, according to screenshots of the chat obtained by The Crimson. Some of the messages joked that abusing children was sexually arousing, while others had punchlines directed at specific ethnic or racial groups. One called the hypothetical hanging of a Mexican child “piñata time.”
The Facebook group in question reportedly came about after some students last December started an obscene version of another Facebook group devoted to funny memes. The students in both groups met each other through an official Facebook group run by Harvard for newly admitted students.
The university did not explain the decision to rescind the offers, saying it does not comment publicly on the admission of individual applicants. But a school policy states that Harvard reserves the right to withdraw its offers of acceptance if an "admitted student engages in behavior that brings into question his or her honesty, maturity, or moral character."
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/06/05/harvard-acceptance-rescinded/?utm_campaign=time&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&xid=time_socialflow_facebook
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Or should I be asking "Just how rich WERE their parents?"
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My guess is that these are all scholarship recipients as well. Harvard was probably picking up a large percentage of their education expense. Had these students' parents all been paying "sticker price" for a Harvard education, I doubt they'd have been made an example of. Maybe I'm being too cynical, but in the Trump era there's really no other way to be.
