Spring semester halted. Will Harvard house the homeless in their empty dorm rooms?

In Campus Reform, Leo Thuman reports,

When Harvard told students to leave its dorms for the rest of the spring term earlier in March, most would have expected that they would be empty until the fall. But if some students have their way, the dorms will soon be filled with a new kind of resident.

A petition calling for Harvard to house homeless people in its residential properties has gained serious momentum, having already amassed over 1,000 signatures.

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"Leftists, whose religion is atheism, in which they are the gods; small-minded, unforgiving, anti-freedom."

Andrew talks about the small, mean, anti-freedom philosophy of Leftism. First, he looks at Harvard's practice of discriminating against Asian students. Then he looks at Harvard's changing their minds about admitting conservative Parkland, Florida student Kyle Kashuv. The other Parkland shooting survivor, David Hogg, is a gun control activist and got into Harvard, despite not having grades as high as Kyle's.

Leftists, whose religion is atheism, in which they are the gods; small-minded, unforgiving, anti-freedom.

Andrew speaks about the Oberlin College case. Andrew believes the college administrators actually do not think they did something wrong when they defamed the bakery that was the victim of shoplifting by three black students. Oberlin created the culture in which the black students believed they could do this.

Andrew talked about the millions of people in free, capitalist, Hong Kong demonstrating against their government's caving in to the Communist Chinese attempts to extradite accused Hong Kong residents to the Chinese Communist system of "justice."

Prisoners in maximum security prison win debate against Harvard students

Peter Holley writes in the Washington Post,

Last month, a debate team of three inmates with violent criminal records defeated a team of three Harvard University undergraduates.



It sounds like an underdog story plucked from the pages of a yet unwritten Walt Disney screenplay — and in some ways, it is.

But it’s also worth pointing out the fallacy of our underlying assumptions about such a matchup — the first (and most pernicious) being that criminals aren’t smart. If a definitive link between criminality and below-average intelligence exists, nobody has found it.

...The debate took place last month at the Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison about an hour southwest of Bard College. The hosts beat a Harvard team that had won three of four American Parliamentary Debate Association national championships.

To prepare for the competition, the inmates, members of Bard’s Prison Initiative, were forced to acquire knowledge the old-fashioned way: Without access to the Internet, according to the Wall Street Journal. In 2015, can you seriously imagine preparing for anything — purchasing a movie ticket, looking up directions or researching basically anything — without going online?

Complicating their challenge, the Journal noted, was the fact that research requests for books and articles had to be approved by the prison administration, something that could take weeks.

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From a Rwandan garbage dump to Harvard

This young man is Justus Uwayesu, who was rescued at 9 from the streets of Rwanda, is enrolled as a freshman at Harvard.


Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist for The New York Times

Michael Wines reports:

Nine years old and orphaned by ethnic genocide, he was living in a burned-out car in a Rwandan garbage dump where he scavenged for food and clothes. Daytimes, he was a street beggar. He had not bathed in more than a year.

When an American charity worker, Clare Effiong, visited the dump one Sunday, other children scattered. Filthy and hungry, Justus Uwayesu stayed put, and she asked him why.

“I want to go to school,” he replied.

Over the 13 years since his escape from the smoldering trash heap that was his home, Mr. Uwayesu did not simply rise through his nation’s top academic ranks. As a student in Rwanda, he learned English, French, Swahili and Lingala. He oversaw his high school’s student tutoring program. And he helped found a youth charity that spread to high schools nationwide, buying health insurance for poor students and giving medical and scholastic aid to others.

Fresh from a land dominated by two ethnic groups — the majority Hutu and the Tutsi, who died en masse with some moderate Hutu in the 1994 conflict — he says he is delighted by Harvard’s stew of nationalities and lifestyles. He was pleasantly taken aback by the blasé acceptance of openly gay students — “that’s not something we hear about in Rwanda”— and disturbed to find homeless beggars in a nation otherwise so wealthy that “you can’t tell who is rich and who isn’t.”

“People (in America) work hard for everything,” he said. “They do things fast, and they move fast. They tell you the truth; they tell you their experiences and their reservations. In Rwanda, we have a different way of talking to adults. We don’t shout. We don’t be rowdy. But here, you think independently.”

Born in rural eastern Rwanda, Mr. Uwayesu was only 3 when his parents, both illiterate farmers, died in a politically driven slaughter that killed some 800,000 people in 100 days. Red Cross workers rescued him with a brother and two sisters — four other children survived elsewhere — and cared for them until 1998, when the growing tide of parentless children forced workers to return them to their village.

They arrived as a drought, and then famine, began to grip their home province. “I was malnourished,” Mr. Uwayesu said. “My brother would tell me, ‘I’m going out to look for food,’ and then he would come back without it. There were times we did not cook the whole day.”

Read more here.

Thanks to Ann Voskamp
An ABC interview with the woman Christ used to save this boy is here.

Thanks to Ann Voskamp