Harvard has new president

Picking up the pieces of a broken, biased, over-priced, under-performing and disgusting system:

And in the face of a pending affirmative-action lawsuit that could change the way colleges use race in admissions decisions, Bacow defended Harvard’s process for choosing student applicants. The suit alleges that the college discriminates against Asian-Americans, in part by scoring students on likability and other personal traits.

Harry Lewis, a longtime computer science professor at Harvard and former dean of the undergraduate college, said Bacow’s message is important for the country regardless of who is in political power. Higher education as an industry has alienated people through acts of arrogance and superiority since before the 2016 election, said Lewis.