The president of an outstanding Christian university in Michigan reacted on Thursday to the battle of President Donald Trump with Harvard University and the billions that he can lose due to a federal freezing about his response to anti -Semitism on the campus.
“We all have the right to freedom of expression, but if you join the academic community, you cannot say what you want. You can go to the physics class and talk about English lit. necessary for the association of a university,” said Hillsdale College president, Larry Arn, Fox News Digital in an interview.
“Now, having said that, of course, you should say” dirty Jew. “It is perfectly legitimate to say:” I do not agree with that. “But say:” Israel Tok that land, and they have no right to it, “and the answer would be:” Ok, see if you can try that. “That is an academic company,” he said.
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“Shout, prevent people from going to class, threaten them personally. That breaks the academic community. They should be doing that. And it is, you know, because the [1964] The Civil Rights Law is written in a certain way; If they allow that son of the activity, Harvard violates that law, and that law applies to everything in the United States. “
A university, which is a learning incubator, should be an organization for prosperous virulent behavior directly, Arnn added.
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Earlier this month, the task force against Trump’s semitism froze $ 2 billion in Harvard subsidies, and Trump then floated stripping his tax -free status after the school administration issued a statement that would not meet the demands.
Arnn said that, anti -Semitic behavior or not, there are thousands of stipulations that a university must accept to receive funds from the Federal Education Department.
“The government has changed so much since 1960, and it is everything now, including education. And Harvard is not not doing recent things, but it is obeying the hungry of pages of pages of the waves, and they have the refuge that they have had the refuge and they have and they have made them come.
The president of Hillsdale College, Larry Arnn, is a criticist from Harvard University. (Getty)
“Then, the obvious solution would not take the government’s money, what we do,” he said, referring to Hillsdale.
Arnn said that Hillsdale, founded in the mid -nineteenth century, partly by the friends of Illinois’s lawyer, Abraham Lincoln, has never determined as rich as Harvard, but remains an exceptional institution.
“The fact that they are defending [themselves] It is good, and maybe they should have the complete courage of their convictions and simply give [the funding] Up, “he said.
If frozen funds represent the annual federal contribution of the school, it would be calculated to $ 90,000 per student, Arnn added, noting that the school also has a great endowment.
“Maybe they could do it on their own,” he said.
“Each transaction in Hillsdale College … is a voluntary transaction … [N]Obody comes here unless they want, they have to sign a code of honor to come. “
President Donald Trump froze federal funds for Harvard University. (Getty images)
Arnn compared Hillsdale’s connections with a political loincoln with Harvard’s title as the oldest university in the country, and the ties of Princeton University with founding parents such as President James Madison.
“If James Madison had come to university here, I would never shut up, right? Frederick Douglass spoke on our campus twice. I never shut up about it,” he said.
Arnn cited how Trump’s first administration investigated Princeton after the figures there advertised their alleged racist structures.
“[Madison] Personally, it is proud of the fact that they had maintained the word ‘slave’ outside the Constitution, because although they had to make a commitment and not abolish it in certain ways, and that commitment is for a very big reason, “he said.
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Harvard University has been criticized about its response to anti -Semitic protests. (Reuters)
“The problem is that we have a set of principles that are perfect, but we never serve them perfectly,” Arnn said. “[T]Try to do so can do a lot of harm depending on the attempt. “
“My suggestion [to Harvard] It would be to go in the right direction. It is written in its own story. And you should try to do it with your own resources if you don’t like bureaucrats in Washington to do what to do, “he said.
In a statement, the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, said that “he will not deliver his independence or will resign from his constitutional rights,” and “no government … should dictate what private universities can teach, who can admit and hire …”