The guidance of President Donald Trump of Harvard University and other elite schools has been with praise and setback between conservatives and defenders of freedom of expression.
The editorial board of the Wall Street Journal accused Trump of exceeding “his power under the Constitution” in his demands to Harvard.
Trump administration announced that Be freezing $ 2.2 billion In subsidies and contracts of several years on Monday after Harvard University, Alan M. Garber, announced the same day that the school would not meet the demands of the Trump administration to combat anti -Semitism.
“Few Americans will spill tears for the multitude of Cambridge, but there are good reasons to oppose this unprecedented attempt of the micrognition government of a private university,” the editorial board wrote. “The administration leaves the legal rails ordering Harvard to reduce” swelling of government, duplication or decentralization. “
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The actions of President Donald Trump against Harvard were with the rejection of the editorial board of the Wall Street Journal. ((Photo of Win McNamee/Getty images)/screen capture/wsj)
The Administration asked the University to make changes to adhere to the “merit -based” and reform their recruitment of international students to “avoid admitting hostile students to the values and starts registered, incudio of independence, incudio of terrorism of independence or anti -Semitism.”
Other requested reforms included guaranteeing the “diversity of the point of view in admissions and hiring”, changing programs with “atrocious records of anti -Semitism or other bias”, and discontinuing diversity, equation and initiatives.
“It is possible that it is worth pursuing these reforms, but the government does not have business that requests them. Its greatest overreach is the diversity of requirement points’, which does not define. Does this mean in English or shake the replacement republitor? Questions,” wrote the WSJ editorial board.
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“The Congress can approve a law to advance in the reforms of greater edition of Mr. Trump, such as informing admission data. But the Administration cannot unilateral and retroactively attacked subsidies that are not related to its purpose. The Board continued.
The National Reviews also play with some of Trump’s efforts, writing that the administration was “enjoying Trump’s habit to make noisy and explicit what was previously done with more subtlety.”
They wrote: “The administrations of Obama and Biden were implacable when using federal law to directly influence or dictate how universities were administered.”
The editors argued that the government should not have the power to monitor how universities are governed.
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Nico Perrino, executive vice president of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (Fire), told CNN that thought has a bad history of protecting freedom of expression on the campus, the impulse of the Trump administration to punish the trampling of the initiation.
“This is a loaded gun. These are tools that the presidential administration is using at this time to obtain some results that perhaps as conservatives like it, are the same tools that can be used by a liberal administration to obtain Myns results” perceive power as once that the power as the power of power “once the power of power is the power of the power channel.
Fire’s main lawyer, Robert Robert-Revere, said in a statement: “President Trump suggested to revoke Harvard’s exempt state due to what he called ‘political, ideological and inspired ideas inspired by the terrorist’ expressed in the campus. But the first kindness of the university due to his curriculum or the opinions expressed by his students and the faculty violate academic freedom and the first kindness.
CNN’s political commentator Scott Jennings, argued a duration on Wednesday that Harvard would have to deal with the president who receive federal money.
“There is no diversity of thought between the faculty there,” he said. “Take the federal money. They have an endowment of $ 53 billion. They take federal money. If you want to take federal money, you will have to listen to the people who distributed it. And that is the triumph. Federal Money, you can create, the culture of the entire hate culture you want, and that is fine.
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Evan Maryry of Poly magazine, a Harvard student, praised his university to defend himself, but said Harvard is “an engine of economic inequality in the United States.”
“If Harvard and his classmates reasonably intact after this episode, they should take the opportunity to expand their appeal and reformed to serve the public interest, not to Trump’s personal interest, providing opportunities for many,” instead of. ”
Chris Rufo of the Manhattan Institute applauded Trump’s shares and said that Harvard should lose his tax exempt, which the president requested the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to eliminate Wednesday.
Heather Mac Donald, also a fellow of the Manhattan Institute, considered the efforts of the Trump “clumsy” administration in an article for the City Journal.
“The administration is becoming increasingly bold in its crusade against the institutions responsible for the ideology of the left, whether firms of lawyers or elite universities. Is that crusade unquestionally justified. Your reservation or to achieve its long -term objectives?
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The former MSNBC presenter, Chris Matthews, joined “Morning Joe” of MSNBC on Tuesday and reacted to the Trump administration and Harvard University. (Screen capture/msnbc)
Liberal commentators have largely criticized Trump’s efforts, arguing that the demands go far beyond fighting anti -Semitism in university campuses. However, the former MSNBC host, Chris Matthews, suggested on Tuesday that the president was “intelligent” to attack elite institutions in the light of generalized protests against the Israel that occurred on the university campus after the terrorist attack of October 7 against Israel.
Matthews argued that the students who paid Harvard registration had the right to go to class, and that the school had to go do this following these protests.
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Matthews also said that the measure would not politically hurt the president.
“It is Trump to chase the elites. He knows what Doe is. Political, he will not hurt him. I think these universities have enough money to cover their legacies. They have a lot of money to handle it, I am underway.
Gabriel Hays and Danielle Wallace of Fox News contributed to this report.