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We didn't allow them to do anything. They're just not accountable to us.

If you've been following Harvard's anti-Semitism drama over the last 4 months, it appears they're not really accountable to anybody. Neither US Congress nor their wealthiest donors have been able to force action from them.

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It's not at all obvious to me that (or why) Yale or Harvard ought to be accountable to us. They're private universities and, as far as I know, they appear to be following the laws that they're subject to. (Following the law is a form of accountability, but a very weak form.)

If they want to suddenly condition admissions on a hash function of the applicant's name, I think that would be absurd, but I don't think I ought to have any say in that matter.

But Harvard's president was forced to resign?

Due to a citation scandal, that wasn’t as big a deal as it was presented in context.

The wrong reason to go…

A better reason to go was that her research was crap based on bad statistics.

Things like the citation scandal are a signal for the kind of problem that lead to that.

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