After much internal discussion, the team was planning on leaving this thread closed since the topic as outlined in the original post has reached its conclusion and the posts in the last day or so have been simply rehash and debate.
However, since Claudine Gay has a guest column in today’s NYT (which perhaps someone has a guest link to share), we’ll reopen temporarily to allow further discussion, but not debate.
Once this conversation is exhausted, a user is welcome to open a new thread to discuss the search for a new president and next steps for the Harvard Corporation. That thread, should it transpire, will be free of Claudine Gay commentary.
I’ll reiterate that per Terms of Service, any posts not in compliance with ToS are subject to deletion without notice or comment. Since users flagged a ton of posts yesterday, we also ask that users refrain from flagging posts simply because they disagree with them or in “retaliation” for one (or more) of their own posts being deleted. Additionally, don’t flag a moderator note as being off-topic.
Thank you in advance for your cooperation.