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Re:Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/childr... by toasterlovin on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:13PM (#21131336)
What we, as a society, are willing to accept isn't really relevant to Harvard, which is a private institution.
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Re:Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/childr... by Analemma_ on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:23PM (#21131456)
As tharne mentioned in another comment, this isn't really true. Harvard (like all private universities) gets tons of government funding: directly via grants and indirectly via the federal loans that a lot of its students get. Society therefore arguably gets to have some say in how Harvard does business; if Harvard doesn't like that, it can stop taking federal grant money.
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Re:Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/childr... by jlawson on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @06:32PM (#21131570)
Add on to that the massive tax break they get on they endowment's huge investment earnings.

Harvard is a hedge fund with a school attached. They should be taxed like one.

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Re:Nearly half of white Harvard students are athletes/childr... by NeoBasilisk on Tuesday October 01, 2019 @07:07PM (#21131849)
Private institutions are bound by laws that we (society) create.
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