Harvard campus community split as university board decides to keep president

Adolf Goebbels
Published on Dec 18, 2023
(12 Dec 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Cambridge, Massachusetts - 12 December 2023
1. Wide of Harvard University entrance
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Chananel Weiner, Aish Campus Boston:
“The unfortunate circumstances we're facing today is that the Jewish people are under attack and we're under attack from all angles, academia being one of them. This is the heart of academia.”
3. Close of Harvard University logo, symbol
4. Wide of campus
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Chananel Weiner, Aish Campus Boston:
“The academic leaders have not stepped up. Academic leaders should be leading and teaching people on campus what's right, what's wrong. And yes, that might not be the exact course material, but what's right and what's wrong needs to be fought out in these halls.“
6. Wide of founder John Harvard statue
7.SOUNDBITE (English) Rabbi Chananel Weiner, Aish Campus Boston:
“And if they can't do that, then we have a generation of leaders who are going to be confused. And that confusion leads some much, much worse.”
8. Pan down to statue of John Harvard, people touching Harvard’s shoe, a tradition for good luck
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Gündüz Vassaf, visiting scholar, Harvard University:
“Well, I fully support her testimony before Congress. I do believe that the situation has been taken out of context in the emotions of the immediate moment and as long as there's no Incitement and a call for violence, this calls within the freedom of speech."
10. Pan up of Harvard statue
11. Close of statue
STORYLINE:
Harvard President Claudine Gay will remain leader of the prestigious Ivy League school following her comments last week at a congressional hearing on antisemitism.

Gay came under intense scrutiny following the hearing in which she and two of her peers struggled to answer questions about campus antisemitism.

Their responses provoked backlash from Republican opponents, along with alumni and donors who say the university leaders are failing to stand up for Jewish students on their campuses.

The Harvard Corporation, the university’s highest governing body, released a statement Tuesday saying it unanimously stands in support of her.

Rabbi Chananel Weiner of Aish Campus Boston says Jewish people are under attack "from all angles" including academia,
and "what's right and what's wrong needs to be fought out in these halls.“

But visiting Harvard scholar Gunduz Vassaf says he supports Gay. "I do believe that the situation has been taken out of context in the emotions of the immediate moment, he added."

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