Two Harvard board members and four faculty held a private dinner where they reportedly discussed a culture of 'self-censorship' on campus, amid growing outrage over the school's response to the Israel-Hamas conflict.
However, the four professors in attendance on Tuesday said they didn't address the elephant in the room for the Ivy League institution - Claudine Gay's uncertain future as president - despite reports stating otherwise.
Harvard Law School professor Jeannie Suk Gersen, Psychology professor Steven A. Pinker, lecturer Flynn J. Cratty, and former Harvard Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier were present along with board members Tracy Palandjian and Paul J Finnegan.
The dinner at Bar Enza in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was first reported by the New York Times, - and it sparked rumors that Palandjian and Finnegan could be breaking ranks with the Harvard Corporation's decision to stand by the beleaguered president.
Gay, who took office in July this year, sparked fury during a congressional hearing after she said that it depended on context whether calls for the genocide of Jews at Harvard constituted harassment and violated the
