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Entire nation of Thailand now hates Harvard
By adamg on Thu, 02/11/2016 - 7:37am
The Crimson and the Bangkok Post report the issue is a Thai dentist who got a government loan for postgraduate work at Harvard Dental School on condition she return to Thailand to teach afterwards and then just stayed in the Boston area.
[T]housands of Facebook users in Thailand have repeatedly given Harvard one-star ratings and authored scathing criticisms of the University’s administration for allowing Jumlongras to remain at Harvard. Since Poonwithayakij’s Facebook post, Harvard’s Facebook rating has dropped to 2.3 stars. Several months ago, it was more than 4 stars, according to retrieved screenshots of the page.
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Oh No!
The worlds best and brightest will discount the idea of attending Harvard because their Facebook rating is only 2 stars!
Harvard admits they will now have to start enrolling only people wearing Canada Goose jackets.
Hey, you might laugh now...
...but after performing literally minutes of research using cutting-edge search technologies such as "Google," I was ready to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on an education at this so-called "elite research institution," until I discovered (much to my chagrin) that Usajaras Nam and Atthawut Vansarochana, along with COUNTLESS others, had given Harvard 1-star reviews, citing such reasons as "Do not support who support cheater" and "You may have outstanding in academic but exactly poor in the moral." Sure, my wife might have a degree from there, but it's not like you can just go and LIE on the internet. You can rest assured that I will now be spending my tuitionmoney elsewhere.
Why is this Harvard's fault?
Sounds like their countrywoman is the problem.
Perhaps the weekend weather will remind her of why she wants to go back.
Isn't her Visa done for by now?
The article says she's a US
The article says she's a US citizen now. I wonder why Thailand can't sue her in US court. Since the scholarship was paid out while she studied here, there might be jurisdiction.
http://www.vocativ.com/world
http://www.vocativ.com/world/thailand-world/thailand-internet-censorship/
Thailand to Harvard: Drop Dead
Zuckerberg isn't liked.
Harvard is a lot better run than Thailand
Pretty sure you can criticize the leaders of Harvard without going to jail.
Oh no!
I hope we don't end up with an embargo of pad thai and hand jobs.
Smile
The issue here is she was given the government loan and probably a stipend to learn about dental care and return to teach in Thailand there's a lot of people in Thailand that need medical care. They shouldn't be angry at Harvard but they really should be angry at The girl who didn't keep her commitment to her country but chances are she fell in love with the USA or someone in the USA . The heart has risen that reason doesn't know ........
The article goes into a lot
The article goes into a lot more detail. Her old friends and coworkers "sponsored" (basically co-signed) for the scholarship. By defaulting on it, she left all of them responsible by law for reimbursing the government.
Really?
If you're picking your university education based on social media ratings, you along with this article, will be archived in the halls of stupidity for the rest of human history. The university itself will not be affected whatsoever by this turn of events, and here's no way you could get excepted anyway.
The only thing more moronic then this article is me posting after it.