In the middle of the threats and pressure of Donald Trump administration, the University of Harvard is organized on Thursday, May 29, on May 374. The beginning that includes honor students. Abraham Verghes, doctor and writer.
Harvard’s opening comes as Donald Trump a pile of unprecedented pressure on the university
Trump’s administration has intensified its actions against the institution of Ivy League and directed federal agencies to cancel around $ 100 million in contracts.
This is followed by earlier steps to cancel over $ 2.6 billion in federal research grants, stopped the registration of international students in Harvard and questioned the status exempt from tax.
“Harvard treats our country with great disrespect and everything they do is get deeper and deeper,” Donald Trump said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, interviews with visas for foreign students admitted to schools at nationwide and Trump said on Wednesday that Harvard should reduce its international record from 25 percent to about 15 percent.
The oldest and richest university in a country that has been maintained by $ 53 billion is testing whether it may be a wall of Trump’s efforts to limit what anti -Semitic activism on the campus that Harvard considers to be an insult to freedom and learned nationwide.
Before the start of the opening day, Hall of Famer and activist Kareem Abdul-Jabbar “class” and journalist Christiane Amanpour addressed Harvard’s graduates Kennedy School.
They both appreciated Harvard for standing by Trump’s administration, with Abdul-Jabbar specifically provoking Harvard’s President Alan Garber.
“When the Tyranian administration tried to bully and threaten Harvard, abolish their academic freedom and destroy freedom of expression, Dr. Alan Garber rejected illegal and immoral pressures,” Abdul-Jabbar said.
“After he saw that he crouched so much to billionaires, media magnals, legal companies, politicians and other universities, they bend the knee to the administration that systematically connects the American constitution, inspiring to see how the University of Harvard takes care of freedom,” he continued.
In response to the steps of the administration, Harvard filed a lawsuit against questioning the freezing of financing and successfully ensured a temporary court order blocking the entry.
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