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Harvard
has
been
fighting
against
the
Trump
administration
on
multiple
fronts.
Not
only
has
the
government
frozen
billions
of
dollars
in
funding
that
could
have
gone
to
the
school,
it
also
wants
to
prevent
Harvard
from
hosting
and
teaching
international
students.
As
if
those
weren’t
enough,
the
school
is
also
being
accused
of
fostering
antisemitism.
That
was
grounds
for
revoking
Columbia’s
accreditation
status
—
now,
Harvard
may
be
forced
to
negotiate
with
the
administration
to
avoid
a
similar
fate.
New
York
Times
has
coverage:
The
Trump
administration
said
Monday
that
Harvard
University
violated
federal
civil
rights
law
by
failing
to
address
the
harassment
of
Jewish
students
on
campus,
increasing
the
pressure
on
the
Ivy
League
school
as
it
negotiates
a
possible
settlement
with
the
White
House.
…
In
their
letter,
the
Trump
administration
officials
said
that
Harvard’s
“commitment
to
racial
hierarchies”
had
“enabled
antisemitism
to
fester”
at
the
nation’s
oldest
and
wealthiest
university.
They
warned
that
not
making
“adequate
changes
immediately
will
result
in
the
loss
of
all
federal
financial
resources
and
continue
to
affect
Harvard’s
relationship
with
the
federal
government.”
The
“adequate
changes”
here
should
probably
be
read
as
“break
your
back
bending
over
backward
to
make
us
happy.”
Whatever
“solutions”
Harvard
could
come
up
with
to
address
the
antisemitism
accusations
would
still
have
to
work
within
the
“global
equity
and
inclusion
is
bad”
framework
Trump
&
Co.
are
holding
everyone
to.
It
isn’t
like
Harvard
could
prove
their
commitment
to
challenging
the
harassment
of
Jewish
students
on
campus
by
actively
recruiting
Jewish
faculty
or
students
—
that’s
affirmative
action.
Maybe
devote
funding
to
a
Harvard
Jewish
affinity
group
that
would
let
them
cover
the
costs
of
consciousness
raising
on
campus?
Not
likely:
a
consequence
of
Trump’s
anti-DEI
purge
is
that
everyone
is
doing
their
best
to
disband
affinity
groups
to
avoid
his
displeasure.
What
if
Harvard
wanted
to
“develop
a
faculty
panel
that
would
investigate
and
discipline
people
in
connection
with
certain
accusations
of
misconduct”?
Director
of
the
Office
for
Civil
Rights
at
the
Department
of
Health
and
Human
Services
Paula
M.
Stannard
hand-waved
it
as
being
too
little
too
late.
Whatever
that
magical
solution
would
be,
it
looks
like
negotiations
are
underway:
“Acting
extremely
appropriately”
reads
a
lot
more
Paul,
Weiss
than
it
does
Perkins
Coie.
Between
pulling
funding
and
nixing
Harvard’s
accreditation
like
they
did
with
Columbia,
Trump
has
some
high-powered
cards
in
his
hands.
Harvard’s
“negotiation”
could
look
a
lot
more
like
folding
very
shortly.
Trump
Administration
Finds
Harvard
Violated
Civil
Rights
Law
[New
York
Times]
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Punished
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Harvard
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Down
On
‘Protest’
Retaliation
&
Punishes
Teachers
For
Studying
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Harvard
Triples
Down
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Punishing
Campus
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To
Divest
From
Israel
Chris
Williams
became
a
social
media
manager
and
assistant
editor
for
Above
the
Law
in
June
2021.
Prior
to
joining
the
staff,
he
moonlighted
as
a
minor
Memelord™
in
the
Facebook
group Law
School
Memes
for
Edgy
T14s
.
He
endured
Missouri
long
enough
to
graduate
from
Washington
University
in
St.
Louis
School
of
Law.
He
is
a
former
boatbuilder
who
is
learning
to
swim, is
interested
in
critical
race
theory,
philosophy,
and
humor,
and
has
a
love
for
cycling
that
occasionally
annoys
his
peers.
You
can
reach
him
by
email
at [email protected]
and
by
tweet
at @WritesForRent.