The New York Times Says Trump Has ‘Upper Hand’ in Battle With Harvard
“the administration holds the levers of power, and is methodically and creatively using them in a take-no-prisoners assault on the school”
I would think the folks at Harvard also know this is true, especially if the paper of record is saying it.
From the New York Times:
Why Harvard Has No Way Out
The Trump administration’s attempt to block international students from attending Harvard University was a sharp escalation in the showdown between the federal government and one of the nation’s oldest and most powerful institutions.
It also showed how the younger side — the government — is the one with the upper hand.
Harvard has won praise for fighting back, and many legal experts believe the law is squarely on its side. But the administration holds the levers of power, and is methodically and creatively using them in a take-no-prisoners assault on the school.
To cut off the university’s pipeline of international students — who make up about 27 percent of Harvard’s enrollment — the government has turned to an obscure tactic it usually uses to shut down shoddy diploma mills.
“I was dumbfounded,” Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, told me. “What’s becoming increasingly clear is that this administration will use any tool that it can.”
A federal judge has already blocked the move for now, but my colleague Michael Schmidt, an investigative reporter who has been covering every twist in this story, tells me the damage may already be done. Today, he explained just how dire Harvard’s predicament has become — and why the federal government’s power over the nearly 400-year-old institution is even greater than he had appreciated.
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I applied for a position, (Non-academic), 10 years ago at Harvard. Every day I count my blessings that those racist POS’s didn’t hire me.
“I was dumbfounded,” Ted Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, told me. “What’s becoming increasingly clear is that this administration will use any tool that it can.”
“Do da phrase ‘by any means necessary’ strike a familya note?”
What’s increasingly clear is that Universities should have acted to stamp out these foreign agitators years ago and didn’t because the Universities are run by leftists that agree with them. Now they are reaping the whirlwind.
The Dept of State is in charge of issuing Visa’s or pulling them not a university. It’s too bad Harvard went the anti semitism route and allowed students to terrorize others but now we are at this point. Before the giant brain of Milhouse pontificates on how stupid we all are and tells us how to think I have already linked to the law pointing this out and Rubio referenced it in Congressional Testimony this week.
You and the administration keep forgetting that government actions that would otherwise be lawful become unconstitutional if their motive is to retaliate against someone for exercising their constitutional rights.
So it does you no good to point to a statute allowing State to cancel visas. That does not help your case at all. Because it doesn’t matter how many statutes say that, the moment State does it in retaliation for protected speech it’s illegal. And Congress can’t change that. Twenty statutes won’t make it legal.
Except we’re not talking 1st Amendment protected speech, we’re talking Harvard supporting anti-Semitism and those who support terrorism. That’s not protected.
If you were a student with fresh admissions to Harvard and other schools watching this what would you think? I’d be thinking is it worth going to Harvard when they under this assault and perhaps I should consider going elsewhere. This goes double for graduate students and perhaps triple for foreign students.
I say good.