The incoming Undergraduate Council president has written an op-ed about his fellow council members, and it reveals a lot about the inner workings of America's next generation of movers and shakers in tech, science, and beyond.
The senior and president-elect of Harvard, Michael Cheng, decried his peers on the rarefied institution's Undergraduate Council for trying to cling to power using a number of underhanded tactics.
The university that still employs Alan Dershowitz has produced many heavy hitters.
Cheng describes the council as throwing wrench into the student elections before they happened. He detailed how the outgoing council passed rules that retroactively gave them new powers, including the establishment of a purportedly independent "Election Commission" that disqualifies candidates for things like "violations of the spirit of the election rules."
Cheng said that after he was elected, the council passed rules that would require a supermajority of votes in order to change the constitution.
Is it any wonder that Harvard, a storied university that symbolizes the absolute best in American, is home to student politicians who take "vending machines" and "free doughnuts" so seriously that they're willing to do anything to get elected?
In popular culture, Harvard is just as likely to stir up recollections of Jeffrey Epstein's dirty money and its drawn-out admissions scandal as it is its academic laurels.
For those who don't know, "Friends from College" is a show about a grownup toxic friend group who were produced and can be watched by anyone who has ever interacted with Harvard graduates.
People enter the Ivy League from a lot of different places, including legacies, star athletes, and high-performing students. The cutthroat student culture of that ivory tower enclave is as well-illustrated in Cheng's op-ed as it is in "Legally Blonde."
There is more on that school in Cambridge.
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