Following the Money
Here's one Harvard alum, John J. Christman, class of 1955, who's so upset about the goings-on at Harvard that he's cutting off his checks to his alma mater and skipping his 50th reunion.
(Hmmmm...a member of the Harvard class of 1955 panned my book in the LA Times. Must be a cantankerous bunch.)
The unusual thing about this man is that he's not stopping giving because he's mad at Summers; he's stopping because he's ticked at the faculty.
Key graf: "The recent disrespectful antics of the Harvard faculty toward president Lawrence Summers have just turned me off completely. I know of only one way to get this situation turned around. That is for the alumni to shut off the money spigot."
Christman goes on to say, "This conclusion has not come to me recently. I have been disaffected since the nonsense of the 1960s was allowed to get totally out of control. The recent actions are only a manifestation of the fact that the inmates have taken over the asylum. The present faculty and fellow travelers are just the students of the 1960s who forced the university to do away with ROTC and establish such nonsensical courses as women's studies, black studies, etc."
Really, you can't make this stuff up.
Of course, Mr. Christman's decision to stop contributing to Harvard will probably hurt the president he wants to support....
