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Could you be denied admittance to Harvard because you showed up on campus at some kind of freshman event and started telling extremely offensive jokes in front

• danso 9y ago
  You probably couldn't if you did so as a student, especially if doing so for a student publication. Reminds me of how the University of Illinois rescinded a tenure offer to Steven Salaita after he was accused of being anti-Semitic in tweets about Gaza. He would have been safe if he had tweeted after officially accepting the job: https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/world/middleeast/professors-angry-tweets-on-gaza-cost-him-a-job.html?_r=0 https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/13/world/middleeast/professo...
• objclxt 9y ago
  > Could you be denied admittance to Harvard because you showed up on campus at some kind of freshman event and started telling extremely offensive jokes in front of the whole gathering? Probably depends how offensive you were. But yeah, sure you could. I am absolutely positive there are some prospective freshmen at Harvard who have had their admission rescinded based on their behavior during the pre-frosh weekend. Such incidents tend to be less publicized because they involve a single student, and there's normally an embarrassment factor involved. Once you are on campus and admitted it would be more difficult...it would depend on the context. Certainly people have been kicked out (or rather, "asked to leave") based on sharing offensive material and memes, but in the cases I know of it was because that material was targeting specific individuals / people.