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Update. Also see the coverage in the _Harvard Crimson_, the student newspaper …
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/15/harvard-denies-trump-demands/
… and in _Harvard Gazette_, the official source of Harvard news …
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/harvard-wont-comply-with-demands-from-trump-administration/
… and in _Harvard Magazine_, an independent source of Harvard news.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/04/harvard-resists-trump-administration
Update. Also see the coverage in the _Harvard Crimson_, the student newspaper …
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/15/harvard-denies-trump-demands/
… and in _Harvard Gazette_, the official source of Harvard news …
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/04/harvard-wont-comply-with-demands-from-trump-administration/
… and in _Harvard Magazine_, an independent source of Harvard news.
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/04/harvard-resists-trump-administration
Update. Here's the letter of demands from the #Trump admin to #Columbia.
https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/6d3c124d8e20212d/85dec154-full.pdf
Note that it's much shorter and less extreme than the letter to #Harvard.
https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf
There are probably many reasons why. Thinking out loud:
* Trump and Trumpists had a long-standing animosity against Harvard.
* Columbia's capitulation emboldened them to reach for more.
* Harvard receives more federal money than Columbia, giving Trump more leverage.
New #Trump admin position on its letter to #Harvard: It was a mistake but we're standing by it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/business/trump-harvard-letter-mistake.html
Trump : Harvard
:: Trump : Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Update. " #Harvard University sued the #Trump administration in federal court Monday…The lawsuit…seeks to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding 'as leverage to gain control of academic decision making at Harvard.' Alan M. Garber, the president of Harvard, said in a message to the university community Monday that the Trump administration’s actions are unlawful and beyond the government’s authority."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/21/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-antisemitism/
PS. Exactly. Every university subject to this kind of unlawful pressure should sue. Same for law firms.
Update. After #Harvard said 𝙣𝙤 to the #Trump admin …
https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2025/the-promise-of-american-higher-education/
… and took the further step of suing the Trump admin …
https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2025/04/21/harvard-sues-trump-administration-funding-antisemitism/
… and after independent lawyers and law professors said its lawsuit was strong …
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/23/legal-analysis-harvard-trump-lawsuit/
… and after its strong stance stirred student, faculty, staff, alumni, and donor enthusiasm …
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/us/harvard-donors-trump.html
… some other donors, all wealthy, "implored the [university] to slow down and negotiate."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/harvard-trump-deal.html
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