Harvard Medical School professor Jack Elder told me "I attended the [Harvard Business School] event. Many similar messages were presented. The auditorium was packed."
The Crimson article mentioned that the site of the HBS talk, Klarman Hall, seats 1,000. But Prof. Elder's message conveyed more information about the HBS event than the entire Crimson article.
I read the laugh-and-cry-about-it Crimson report on the demonstrators at this event. Nothing at all about what Bennett actually had to say. So, I appreciate this account.
The Crimson article really is hilarious. Dressed up as high drama and radical "resistance," these demos are just the same old cat-and-mouse game with the almost entirely harmless cops, just as they were in my day in the Sixties (but even less seriously). One leader of the protests hilariously praises the crowd for diverting from one blocked route by saying “In the heat of the struggle, you got to reroute." Not quite Che Guevera or "workers of the world unite," but I guess it makes them feel good.
It is stories like this that make me miss most the good old days of the now disappeared Crimson comments sections, where the real issues and actual facts would be discussed.
The demonstration was against the second event at Harvard Business School. There was no demonstration at the earlier event at Harvard Chabad.
There was a non-disclosure policy for the HBS event, but the Crimson could still have gotten some Chatham House types of impressions. The Crimson, which made a big deal about the headcount at the demonstration could at least have gotten a headcount for the HBS event, which seems to have had 10 times as many people as the demonstration, and 20 times as many if you count only Harvard affiliates (according to Chabad you needed a Harvard ID for the HBS event).
Every time there is a new demonstration the Crimson keeps quoting the same demonstrators. One of them, Violet Barron, was even quoted in an earlier article as being hurt that when she went to Harvard Hillel her fellow students shunned her, as if being one of the highest profile anti-Israel demonstrators is a good way to introduce yourself to Jewish students.
Harvard Medical School professor Jack Elder told me "I attended the [Harvard Business School] event. Many similar messages were presented. The auditorium was packed."
The Crimson article mentioned that the site of the HBS talk, Klarman Hall, seats 1,000. But Prof. Elder's message conveyed more information about the HBS event than the entire Crimson article.
I read the laugh-and-cry-about-it Crimson report on the demonstrators at this event. Nothing at all about what Bennett actually had to say. So, I appreciate this account.
The Crimson article really is hilarious. Dressed up as high drama and radical "resistance," these demos are just the same old cat-and-mouse game with the almost entirely harmless cops, just as they were in my day in the Sixties (but even less seriously). One leader of the protests hilariously praises the crowd for diverting from one blocked route by saying “In the heat of the struggle, you got to reroute." Not quite Che Guevera or "workers of the world unite," but I guess it makes them feel good.
It is stories like this that make me miss most the good old days of the now disappeared Crimson comments sections, where the real issues and actual facts would be discussed.
The demonstration was against the second event at Harvard Business School. There was no demonstration at the earlier event at Harvard Chabad.
There was a non-disclosure policy for the HBS event, but the Crimson could still have gotten some Chatham House types of impressions. The Crimson, which made a big deal about the headcount at the demonstration could at least have gotten a headcount for the HBS event, which seems to have had 10 times as many people as the demonstration, and 20 times as many if you count only Harvard affiliates (according to Chabad you needed a Harvard ID for the HBS event).
Every time there is a new demonstration the Crimson keeps quoting the same demonstrators. One of them, Violet Barron, was even quoted in an earlier article as being hurt that when she went to Harvard Hillel her fellow students shunned her, as if being one of the highest profile anti-Israel demonstrators is a good way to introduce yourself to Jewish students.