The administration’s demands included auditing viewpoints of the student body to address antisemitism at the expense of federal funding.
The federal government on Monday night said it was freezing more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard University after the school said it would not accept Trump administration demands that included auditing viewpoints of the student body.
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Earlier Monday Harvard rejected the administration’s demands.
“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the university’s X account said in a statement posted Monday. “Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.”
Please don’t capitulate. Stand your ground Harvard, fucking please. We need places like this to have and keep a fucking spine against trump.
Harvard University’s endowment is approximately $51.977 billion as of fiscal year 2024. It is the largest academic endowment in the world.
Harvard doesn’t need that funding, they’ll be just fine.
Right?! I think Trump is a piece of shit for doing this (and everything else) but why do they need $2B of our tax dollars to begin with?
The endowments are earmarked for particular use. The grants allow individual researchers to do their research. University funding math is weird.
I have a working theory the reason Trump has not been assassinated is actually because world leaders and powerful institutions recognise how laughably incompetent he is and do not want someone more qualified to fill the role of Dick-Tater.
But at the same time nobody in Germany even knew about any of the times there was an attempt on Hitler unless they wanted the people to know for some reason. There were many attempts, it’s just that most went unnoticed until the end of the war.
you think Vance is more qualified? or competent?
I think he’s a lot more ambitious and dangerous than people give him credit for. I love the image edits of the fat couchfucker, but his gravitation towards Peter Thiel and his affection for Curtis Yarvin’s writings, coupled with the presence of Musk and Zuckerberg who are actively trying to get smart tech into your brain through their Neuralink chips should raise way more alarm bells than it is.
Whether he’s competent or not, he won’t receive the cult following that Trump does and will therefore be neutered. SCOTUS isn’t going to bend over for Vance like they do for Trump and the rest of the party will be scrambling trying to fill the power vacuum.
Ambition and being dangerousness necessarily mean competent.
Hitler was incompetent as fuck; and he was both ambitious and dangerous.
I think you forgot a “don’t” in their pal.
And Harvard tuition fees go, “Brrrrrrrrrr!”
Havard can always go to china for money or just charge student higher fees.
So many are getting Trumpxiety over this.
That is a lot of money.
