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Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online Comments (go.com)

Posted by msmash on from the pay-the-price dept.

Reader joshtops shares a report: Harvard University's student newspaper says the school has revoked admission offers to at least 10 prospective freshmen over offensive online messages. The Harvard Crimson says the students posted images and comments in a private Facebook group mocking sexual assault, the Holocaust and racial minorities. The newspaper reported that several group members said at least 10 people were told by Harvard in April that their acceptances had been withdrawn.

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  1. Good news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Good news for 10 people on the waitlist.

  2. Man by mewsenews · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those kids who are blaming Cards Against Humanity are going places! Not Harvard.. but places..

  3. Re:Harvard indoctrinates rather than educates. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Any place that throws people out because they espouse an opposing view is not a place which is engaged in education,
    but a place which is engaged in disseminating propaganda and groupthink.

    Huh. With all those Jews, Chinks, Pakis, blacks, and those terrorist bomb throwing Muslims there, I don't know if a decent person would attend Harvard. And god forbid if there were Irish there! Unfortunately, all one has to do is be none white and Harvard just let's you in - so, it's not a very good school. Isn't it interesting that all the biggest Harvard success stories were dropouts?

    And I wish they'd stop teaching the Holocaust myth like it was truth. The Nazis gave the Jews a decent and moral living in their camps - got them away stealing with banking and other vocations they like because they like to steal - as much as black people do.

    And then we have those cunts who bitch and moan about rape. Plah-ease! They like it!! No means yes! Nothing turns a woman on more than a smack across the face and ass!

    So, about my "opposing view" ... it's my free speech. Would the above be considered a valid opposing view by you, or just the rantings of a very ignorant, angry person that has no place in a unversity setting?

  4. Re: Seriously? by c6gunner · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're comparing mocking sexual assault, racism and the holocaust to religious beliefs?

    Uh, yeah? Have you ever read the Bible/Koran/Torah? They make 4chan look tame in comparison.