

Well yeah, the article specifically mentioned that Harvard admins saw the demands as excessive and illegal.
Harvard has a lot of clout, and I think it’s reasonable to assume that someone very high-up at the school got on the phone with somebody very high-up at WH (if not POTUS himself) and straight up told them a narcissist’s least-favorite word: “No.”
Yep. I fell for that exactly once, and looking back on it I was incredibly lucky it worked in my favor (I’m also white, which absolutely helped).