Harvard’s latest low: indulging demented ‘safe space’ demand

As ridiculous as college students’ demands for “safe spaces” have become, the way the schools indulge them is worse. The latest travesty comes from Harvard University, where a dean whose life work rests on standing up for dubious defendants is under attack.

Student protesters and groups such as the Association of Black Harvard Women are calling for the ouster of Ronald Sullivan as faculty dean of Winthrop House — that is, as the adult head of a dorm — because he joined the legal defense team for Harvey Weinstein.

We’re no fans of Harvey, but he’s got every right to legal representation in facing all those allegations of sexual misconduct.

And Sullivan has spent his career on tough cases. He helped Aaron Hernandez, the Patriots player, win an acquittal in his double-murder case. He assisted Michael Brown’s family in suing the city of Ferguson, Mo.

And his work has led to more than 6,000 people winning release from prison on grounds of wrongful incarceration.

His guiding belief: “To the degree we deny unpopular defendants basic due process rights, we cease to be the country we imagine ourselves to be.”

The leader of the student drive against Sullivan is Danukshi Mudannayake; her change.org petition calls his work for Weinstein “deeply trauma-inducing”; she says he has proven he doesn’t “value the safety of students he lives with in Winthrop House.”

Rather than slap down this obvious idiocy, Harvard’s dean of freshmen is launching a “climate review” of Sullivan. Pathetic.

Source: Read Full Article