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Departure Of Harvard’s Claudine Gay Plays Into Campus Culture Wars

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Conservatives who have objected to Claudine Gay’s appointment as president of Harvard University on ideological grounds have hailed her resignation as a high-profile win.

Although plagiarism allegations in her PhD thesis played a role in her departure from Harvard’s top job, her departure is more than just an academic dishonesty controversy.

In December, Dr. Gay came under fire for her participation in a congressional hearing panel on antisemitism on college campuses. The panellists’ lacklustre, bureaucratic responses to calls for Jewish annihilation, including Dr Gay, spurred University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill to quit.

After that incident, Harvard pledged its support for Dr. Gay’s presidency. But the fight was far from done.

Departure Of Harvard’s Claudine Gay Plays Into Campus Culture Wars

Dr Gay, who is black, epitomizes much of what her right-wing critics despise about current American higher education, which they see as being driven by a left-wing philosophy that prioritizes ethnic and gender diversity over intellectual rigour.

“It was a thinly veiled exercise in race and gender when they selected Claudine Gay,” Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a Harvard graduate, remarked on social media after she resigned.

Bret Stephens, a New York Times columnist, blasted the “social justice model of higher education,” citing Dr Gay’s comparatively modest academic record, which includes no published books and 11 journal articles.

He warned that what he called the “intellectual rot” in American institutions of higher learning “won’t stop spreading until universities return to the idea that their central purpose is to identify and nurture and liberate the best minds, not to engineer social utopias”.

Departure Of Harvard’s Claudine Gay Plays Into Campus Culture Wars

Christopher Rufo, a right-wing activist best known for the cultural war over supposed Critical Race Theory teaching in US schools, made the plagiarism charges that led to Dr Gay’s resignation.

Mr Rufo sketched out a now-familiar tactic for conservatives attempting to generate attention to subjects they believe the mainstream media is avoiding in a December social media post.

“We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the right,” Mr. Rufo wrote in a letter. “The next step is to smuggle it into the left’s media apparatus, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors with the power to destabilize her.” After that, squeeze.”

Mr Rufo’s efforts were bolstered by the New York Post and the Washington Free Beacon, which reported details of a fresh anonymous complaint filed with Harvard on Monday, which included additional proof of suspected plagiarism in Dr Gay’s published work.

Dr. Gay stated in her resignation letter that she had been “subjected to personal attacks and threats fuelled by racial animus,” and that the last few weeks had demonstrated that more must be done to “combat bias and hate in all its forms.”

Others on the left echoed this attitude, albeit with more focused rage.

“So what we’ve learned is this: Bad-faith bigots pretending they’re concerned about antisemitism will happily use women of colour – especially black women – as a scapegoat and lightning rod for large systemic issues,” Celeste Ng, a writer, posted on social media. “And that people invested in maintaining those systemic issues will comply.”

Dr. Gay’s retirement brought the current Harvard debate to a close, but the greater conservative movement to undermine – and eventually supersede – liberal-dominated institutions of higher learning continues.

In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis, a current Republican presidential candidate, overhauled the administration of the New College of Florida, cancelling its diversity and inclusion programs, sacking faculty members, and placing right-wing extremists on its board of trustees, including Mr Rufo. He aims to provide a conservative alternative to the current liberal arts college.

Donald Trump has advocated for reforms in how US institutions are recognized as part of his “Agenda 47” plan for a second term in office, emphasizing “defending the American tradition and Western civilization.” He has also promised to remove equality programs, push universities to cut overhead costs and tax noncompliant schools’ endowments.

Harvard may eventually replace Dr. Gay with someone who shares his intellectual and political views and who continues to advocate for methods to diversify Harvard’s student body.

Conservatives have won a significant win by removing the president of one of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, the one involved in the Supreme Court battle over racial considerations in admissions earlier this year.

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Roku Will Stream Weekly MLB Game On Sundays. Viewers Won’t Need One Of The Service’s Devices

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The streaming service announced Monday that Roku will begin broadcasting Major League Baseball games on Sundays this week, and fans will be able to watch for free without needing a device.

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Roku Will Stream Weekly MLB Game On Sundays. Viewers Won’t Need One Of The Service’s Devices

The company has secured multiyear rights to MLB Sunday Leadoff games, beginning this Sunday with the Boston Red Sox versus the St. Louis Cardinals. The telecasts will be created in partnership with local broadcasting teams. They were originally available via the subscription service Peacock.

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Roku Will Stream Weekly MLB Game On Sundays. Viewers Won’t Need One Of The Service’s Devices

Viewers without Roku can watch the games via the free Roku Channel app, available on Amazon Fire devices, Samsung TVs, and Google TVs. The app is also available at therokuchannel.com, and no login is necessary.

The games will also be available to MLB.TV subscribers.

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Roku Will Stream Weekly MLB Game On Sundays. Viewers Won’t Need One Of The Service’s Devices

“With free games available to anyone, MLB games on Roku will be widely accessible to fans,” said Noah Garden, MLB deputy commissioner for business and media. “Since Roku serves as an entertainment gateway for millions, this partnership offers a valuable new promotional and distribution platform for MLB games and content.”

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Boeing Orders Tumble As Troubled Aircraft Maker Struggles To Overcome Its Latest Crisis

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Another sign of Boeing’s predicament is the fact that canceled sales outweighed falling orders in April.

Boeing announced Tuesday that it received orders for seven planes last month, which is an exceptionally low figure. That wasn’t enough to overcome canceled sales for 33 planes, 29 of which were due to the closure of Lynx Air, a cheap Canadian airline that ceased operations in late February.

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Boeing Orders Tumble As Troubled Aircraft Maker Struggles To Overcome Its Latest Crisis

As expected, deliveries of new Boeing jetliners were low, at 24 in April, putting the American company further behind its European rival Airbus.

In the first four months of the year, Airbus delivered 203 commercial jets, compared to 107 for Boeing. Deliveries are a key source of cash for businesses.

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Boeing Orders Tumble As Troubled Aircraft Maker Struggles To Overcome Its Latest Crisis

The Federal Aviation Administration is halting the construction of new Boeing 737 Max jets as the firm works to enhance manufacturing quality.

The production halt came when a piece known as a door plug burst out of an Alaska Airlines 737 Max shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon, in January. The pilots were able to safely land the plane, but the incident has plunged Boeing into its most serious crisis since the fatal crashes of two Max jets in 2018 and 2019.

Current and former Boeing employees have accused the firm of cutting corners on safety, and the FAA, National Transportation Safety Board, and Justice Department are all looking into the matter.

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Boeing Orders Tumble As Troubled Aircraft Maker Struggles To Overcome Its Latest Crisis

While Boeing’s April results were disappointing, the company said it achieved a milestone last month when it delivered the 1,500th 737 Max to Ireland’s Ryanair.

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Bumble’s Billboard Ads Sneered At Celibacy As An Alternative To Dating — And The Company Got Stung

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SAN FRANCISCO — Bumble received backlash after airing billboard commercials that appeared to mock celibacy as an alternative to meeting people online.

On Monday, the company apologized for ads that said, “You know full well a vow of celibacy is not the answer” next to an introduction to “the new Bumble.” The app announced a brand revamp in April, hoping to recover dwindling user enthusiasm.

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Bumble’s Billboard Ads Sneered At Celibacy As An Alternative To Dating — And The Company Got Stung

Women on social media chastised the corporation for suggesting that celibacy isn’t a legitimate personal choice. Some online critics interpret the tagline as representing patriarchal beliefs that women must be willing to have sex with males even if they do not want to.

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Bumble’s Billboard Ads Sneered At Celibacy As An Alternative To Dating — And The Company Got Stung

Bumble apologized on Instagram for eliminating advertisements that it described as a poor attempt to “lean into a community frustrated by modern dating.” The corporation has long advocated for women and their ability to “fully exercise personal choice,” but it conceded that the ad campaign did not reflect those beliefs and regretted “the harm it caused.”

The corporation will also make payments to the National Domestic Violence Hotline and other groups to support global efforts to “support women, marginalized communities, and those impacted by abuse.” The corporation stated it would also provide billboard space to these organizations for their chosen advertisements.

Bumble did not answer concerns about the number of billboards used in the campaign or where they were positioned. It is unclear whether the adverts appeared in other media.

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Bumble’s Billboard Ads Sneered At Celibacy As An Alternative To Dating — And The Company Got Stung

The dating app company has been experiencing difficulties. Its stock has plummeted significantly since last July, about 45% over doubts about its capacity to engage younger people. In February, it fired off 350 employees, or nearly 30% of its personnel, as it revealed plans to update its app to make it more appealing to Generation Z.

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