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President Donald Trump’s aim of Harvard University and other elite schools was met with praise and return among conservatives and advocates of free speech.
Wall Street Journal Editorial The accused Trump to exceed “his power to the Constitution” in his demands at Harvard.
Trump’s administration has announced that they will freeze $ 2.2 billion In many years of grants and contracts on Monday, after Harvard University President Alan M. Garber announced the same day that the school would not be in line with Trump administration demands in the fight against anti -Semitism.
“Few Americans will shed tears for a bunch of Cambridge, but there are good reasons to counteract this unprecedented attempt to govern the Government to manage a private university,” the editorial board wrote. “The administration runs away from legal rails by ordering Harvard to reduce” gut, multiplication or decentralization. “
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President Donald Trump’s actions against Harvard welcomed the Wall Street Journal editorial board. ((Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)/Screenshot/WSJ)
The administration has asked the University to change to comply with “employment and reception practices and reform its employment of international students to” prevent students from accepting students with hostile US values and institutions enrolled in the US Constitution and independence declaration, including students supporting terrorism or anti-Seminism. “
Other requested reforms included securing “diversity of views in reception and employment,” a change in programs with “terrible records of anti -Semitism or other bias”, and the abolition of policies and initiatives for diversity, equality and inclusion (dei).
“These reforms may be worth following, but the Government has no work that requires them. His greatest overstreaming requires a” diversity of views “, which does not define. Does that mean that the English department must hire several Republican faculties or Shakespeare scientists? The external monitor will decide such questions,” wrote WSJ editor.
President Donald Trump participates in the signature ceremony on January 20, 2025. In the president’s room at the US Capitol in Washington, DC (Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images)
“The Congress can bring a law to improve Mr. Trump reforms, such as reporting receiving data. But the administration cannot unilaterally and retroactively attach to support wires that are not associated with their purpose. President Trump has enough balls in the air without even trying to run Harvard,” the editorial board continued.
Editors of the national review Also with some Trump’s efforts, they wrote that the administration was “engaged in Trump’s habit to do loud and explicitly what was previously done with more subtlety.”
They wrote: “The administration of Obama and Biden were ruthless in the use of a federal law for influence or directly dictated how universities are managed.”
The editors claimed that the government should not have the power to monitor the way universities management.
Nico Perrino, Executive Vice President of the Ecipities for Individual Rights and Expression (Fire), told CNN that, although Harvard has a bad result of free speech protection in the campus, Trump’s administration to punish the institution that breaks into its rights.
“This is a loaded pistol. Perrino told CNN Host Audie Cornish.
The head of the fire, Robert Corn-Revere, said in a statement: “President Trump suggested the recall of the Harvard tax exempt from what he called” political, ideological and terrorist “ideas expressed in the campus. But revenge on the university because of his curriculum or to be presented by his students ideas acceptable in higher education. “
CNN political commentator Scott Jennings claimed during the panel on Wednesday that Harvard would have to deal with the president because they were getting federal money.
“There is no diversity of thought among the faculty there,” he said. “They take federal money. They have a $ 53 billion award. They take federal money. If you want to continue taking federal money, you will have to listen to the people who allow it. And that is Trump’s administration that advocate for these Jewish students. If they want to give up federal money, you can understand, but you can do it.
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Trump has publicly criticized Harvard University in recent weeks. (Getty Images | East)
Evan Mandery Magazine Politico, Alumnus of Harvard, praised his university In return, but he noted that Harvard was an “economic inequality in America.”
“If Harvard and his peers become reasonably intact after this episode, they should take the opportunity to expand their appeal and reform themselves to serve the public interest – not Trump’s personal interest – giving the opportunity to many, not privileged few,” Mandy wrote.
Chris Rufo Institute of Manhattan applauded Trump’s actions and said Harvard should lose his tax exempt status, which – asked the president Internal income service (IRS) to remove Wednesday.
Heather Mac Donald, also an associate of the Manhattan Institute, considered that the efforts of Trump’s administration “clumsy” in a piece for a city magazine.
“The administration is becoming increasingly bolder in its crusade against the institutions responsible for the left ideology of the elite law firm or university. This crusade is unquestionably justified. His goals deserve little compassion. But the question is: is the management more interested in maximum disorders, not to achieve two goals? Wrote Mac Donald.
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Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews joined MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” on Tuesday and responded to the return between Trump’s administration and Harvard University. (Screen/MSNBC recording)
Liberal commentators are generally critical of Trump’s efforts, claiming that the demands go beyond the fight against anti -Semitism at the college campuses. However, ex MSNBC host Chris Matthews He suggested on Tuesday that the president “smart” was aiming for elite institutions with respect to the widespread anti-Israelic protests that took place at the faculty campuses after the terrorist attack on October 7 against Israel.
Matthews claimed that students who pay tuition Harvard had the right to go to class and that the school had to be told to do so after these protests.
“And the fact that they were to be told to do so, they had to tell them that they were letting students go to school, which is what they are concerned, they should have told them to have a problem in their own heads. So, I think elite universities are currently moving. It’s probably a smart move,” he added.
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Matthews also said the move would not hurt the President politically.
“It’s Trump after the Elite. He knows what he’s doing. Politically he won’t hurt him. I think those universities have enough money to cover their heritage. They have a lot of money to submit it. So they will be able to take care of themselves. I don’t want to be loose with that, but I think Trump ever said,” he said he was, “he said he was,” he said. ”
Fox News’ Gabriel Hays and Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
