Harvard Can't Embrace the ‘Hillsdale Model'
In 'Harvard and the View From Hillsdale' (Weekend Interview, April 19), Tunku Varadarajan writes that Hillsdale President Larry Arnn 'believes the real problem—a moral crisis, even—was that 'Harvard and Columbia couldn't define a reason to stop' ' protests that disrupted their campuses.
Even worse were the affirmative responses, such as that of Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan, where protesters violated multiple university rules to establish a 'Wesleyan Liberated Zone,' defaced sidewalks and buildings and issued demands. Mr. Roth announced he wouldn't clear the encampment even while acknowledging it violated the rules. A week later, he wrote that he had received many notes from alumni, parents and others criticizing his failure to enforce the rules, but that 'context matters' and 'cops don't always give people tickets for going a few miles over the speed limit.' 'I admire that they're not entirely taken up with grades or lining up their credentials,' he wrote of the protesters, before entering into an agreement with them, granting various demands.
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