Friday, May 05, 2006

Rumor has it Plan B is a time machine to send alumni back to have lunch with Hitler...

"HARVARD University has abruptly scrubbed plans for a luxury alumni tour to Stalinist North Korea complete with instructions for Harvard grads to bow down to the rogue nation's paranoid rulers to show proper "respect."

The Harvard Alumni Association tour memo told travelers that it's "important" to show respect and "you will be expected to bow as a gesture of respect" at a statue and mausoleum for notorious human rights violator Kim Il Sung.

The trip got cancelled a week after The Post revealed the $636-a-night totalitarian tourism. But Harvard alumni spokeswoman Sarah Friedell said it wasn't because the university was embarrassed - rather, Harvard simply couldn't arrange satisfactory insurance and medical evacuation, she said.

Five Harvard grads had signed up for a chance to tour North Korea, stay at four-star hotels and see a giant gymnastic performance in a land known for deliberate starvation of thousands, concentration camps and gas chambers, trafficking in women and children and likely genocide."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

For $636 a night, you could have a nice time at Monaco.

Fits said...

For $636 a pop you could buy a small village in the Indonesian island chain and be crowned king.