The following legal mumbo-jumbo is required for Harvard’s team of fancy, expensive lawyers and far-too-many extra administrators dedicated to shutting up regular people like us–often by using their clout to drown us in an array of intimidation tactics or drag us into non-stop, frivolous litigation aimed at wearing down or bankrupting its critics. I’ve seen it done, in myriad ways, in my over-a-decade that Harvard has held my degree hostage–and saddled me with, literally, hundreds of thousands of dollars in loans (because I had no choice but to take, in order to make up for the extra years added by their antics to my doctoral program). Over those years–from the beginning, but especially since about 2017–applied a long list of willful, malicious harms, in nearly every conceivable category on me, my financial future and present, my reputation, my professional goals, my mental and physical health, and a long list of other areas.
SCOPE
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