veritas

米・ハーバード大学は、反ユダヤ主義への偏向などで批判されている学長の続投を決定しました。

10月に発生したハマスによるイスラエルへのテロ行為の後、ハーバード大学など米の名門大学ではユダヤ人の大量虐殺を容認するような発言などが見られ大きな問題となりました。学長についてはこれ以外にも、発表した論文の中に盗用が疑われる記述などが指摘され、学長としての資質が問われていました。

学長職の続投が正式発表されたことを受け、共和党議員からは一斉に批判の声があがっているようです。

House GOP Conference Chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., slammed Harvard’s decision Tuesday to stand behind Harvard President Claudine Gay despite her testifying last week at a congressional hearing that calls on campus for the genocide of Jews require "context" before they would violate the school's code of conduct. 

Taking a point of personal privilege at the top of the House Republican Conference press conference, Stefanik ripped the "complete moral failure" of Harvard's leadership, saying that in allowing Gay to remain as president, the "only update to the code of conduct" that the Ivy League school has made after the hearing, "is to allow a plagiarist as the president of Harvard."

(Daniel Wallace. Stefanik shreds Harvard over 'complete moral failure' after allowing Claudine Gay to remain president. Fox News. December 12, 2023.)

引用した記事は、自身もハーバード大卒というステファニク議員による批判です。同氏はハーバード大のモットーである"Veritas"を引き合いに、大学側の決定を非難しています。

"As a Harvard graduate, I'm reminded of Harvard's motto, Veritas, which goes back – and it's older than the founding of our country, it goes back to the 1640s. In addition, the motto was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae – Truth for Christ and the Church."

"Larry Summers, who was president of Harvard when I was an undergrad, talked about the meaning of Veritas is divine truth, moral truth. Let me be clear. Veritas does not depend on the context," Stefanik said. "This is a moral failure of Harvard's leadership and higher education leadership at the highest levels, and the only change they have made to their code of conduct, where they failed to condemn calls for genocide of the Jewish people, the only update to the code of conduct is to allow a plagiarist as the president of Harvard."

(ibid.)

"Veritas"とはラテン語で、真理、公正、正義という意味です。

ハーバード大の他、サウスダコタ大も"Veritas"をモットーとし、校章・紋章に"Veritas"の文字が見えます。