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Barack Obama: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
there were about 1.1 million foreign university students in the US for the 2023-2024 school year
Barack Obama: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
(oh wait, that was Linda McMahon)
Rubio announces official crackdown on Chinese students in the US
Rubio knows what they're doing to foreign students is incredibly stupid and bad for the country but he has to do whatever Trump wants or be fired.Rubio announces official crackdown on Chinese students in the US
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what a coward
from the Harvard Crimson
Recently, the Harvard administration has engaged in an admirable strategy which might be summarized as: “We shall fight in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. We shall fight in mild-mannered Jewish doctor interviews with the Wall Street Journal. We shall fight in the court of public opinion by subtly taking on many of the reforms that are being asked of us, but claiming we were going to do it all along.”
It is hard to tell which approach, exactly, would land with the Trump administration. Some have argued that the MAGA right only respects self-respect, and that in order to win against Trump we need to stand up and be strong. (That hasn’t worked yet.) Some argue that there is no way to win, and universities must swallow major concessions in order to retain their funding. (So far that hasn’t worked, either.)
I propose an alternate strategy: I shall fight Secretary of Education Linda E. McMahon in a televised cage match, the winner of which gets $2.7 billion in federal grants and the power to uphold or destroy America’s continued technological and economic success. Secretary, I hope you brought your mouth guard.
Linda — can I call you Linda? — I’ve spent weeks trying to get into your head. My Google Docs is littered with abandoned drafts for every time you have promised this is really it, you are really taking Harvard’s funding this time, no please notice me, here goes another $60 million.
But I have been met with failure. Maybe it’s because I didn’tget married at 17, or because I’ve never witnessed my husband get his head shaved by Donald Trump on national television, or because my pedagogical experience leans more front-of-classroom, rather than distributing-bookmarks-featuring-scantily-clad-lady-wrestlers. Some way or another, I’ve never been quite able to figure out how you think.
Until now.
Secretary, you spent nearly three decades as a WWE executive, where you orchestrated such spectacles as “The Undertaker vs. Kane: WrestleMania XIV” and “WWF Badd Blood: In Your House.” Suffice to say, you respect a good fight. And thus I say: Come at me, bro.
In my Jewish name you and your entourage have destroyed research on cancer and heart disease, threatened to essentially deport my friends, and tried to increase Harvard’s tax burdenfifteenfold. Stop it. Put that down. Let’s settle this like biological women: knock-down, TKO, cage match.
Each of us will get a backup. I choose Joe Blitzstein, he’s huge. You can have Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem; I’ll be sure to hide my dog. If Harvardians are really the lib wimps you say we are, surely you aren’t afraid to throw hands.
Some might argue that putting somebody in a figure-four leg lock has little relevance to “combating antisemitism” or “encouraging common-sense reforms of disciplinary procedures and ideological bias in hiring.” I would argue, though, that choreographed physical violence has about as much to do with the issues at hand as the current strategy of slashing research funding via Twitter diatribes and Canva graphics. Cut the political kayfabe. You want to make us bleed? Then why not just throw a chair at us.
I know, I know, that all this is really because Harvard is the symbol of everyone’s least favorite concept: the elite. But why don’t we make this whole punching bag metaphor literal? I understand if lucha libre is too ethnic for you; Anarchy in the Arena works too.
Right now, as a (non-Marxist) friend of mine wisely pointed out, “this is like in elementary school when one person doesn’t clean up snack so they take away snack for everyone.” We don’t need to indulge this ridiculous collective punishment, which if anything, is more similar to when one person doesn’t clean up snack, so they demolish the part of the classroom where that kid never plays anyway. I promise you, the “Free Palestine” people aren’t spending all their free time in the protozoa lab.
And I know, I know, you love the bit where you’re like “I am working tirelessly to protect the Jewish students abandoned by rabid antisemite Alan Garber!!!” But let me tell you, missy, when you threaten to deport my co-conspirator in writing the weekly Shabbat joke newsletter, along with the literal Israelis who I practice my literal Hebrew with on literal Wednesday mornings, then you really start to lose whatever credibility you had left.
Enough is enough (is enough). I’ll see you on the mat.https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2...n-harvard-wwe/Yona T. Sperling-Milner ’27, an Associate Editorial Editor, is a Social Studies concentrator in Cabot House. Like Secretary McMahon, she too sometimes wonders, “Why is there so much HATE?”???
State Dept vetting all visa holders at Harvard for "antisemitism"
Having nonpublic social media pages will be considered "evasion"
US/Texas collusive lawsuit repeals in-state tuition for 20,000 Texas dreamers
ruling reportedly came within seven hours of the lawsuit being filed
https://storage.courtlistener.com/re...5008.8.0_1.pdf
using antisemitism pretextually to wreck ins utions and thousands of people's lives puts a target on the backs of Jews
so does conflating criticism of a political state with antisemitism
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...rd-university/
Picture Trump was a foreign asset working for a hostile nation. What would he be doing any differently?
Nothing
Trump hates America and Americans
He is wrecking radically
Are you think of Russia? This seems to be more about Israel interests.
"You got the papers the Chinaman gave you?"
"Here they are, Dad"
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censorship and ideological vetting at the water's edge
"no criticizing the US"
https://apnews.com/article/student-v...a63594345dd8c7The U.S. State Department said Wednesday it is restarting the suspended process for foreigners applying for student visas but all applicants will now be required to unlock their social media accounts for government review.
The department said consular officers will be on the lookout for posts and messages that could be deemed hostile to the United States, its government, culture, ins utions or founding principles.
in the Trump regime, free speech and universities take it on the chin
https://wfiunews.wordpress.com/2025/...-disappearing/There are going to be big changes for this university, and the pace at which this is being pushed through is not designed for positive outcomes,” she said. “I have to say that my faculty colleagues are in panic to a degree that I have never seen before.”
Most of the low enrollment degrees are in the humanities and languages. Jewish Studies, Classical Studies and multiple language departments could lose their main offerings.
From 2020 to 2022, IU Bloomington conferred more humanities doctorates than any other university in the country, according to data from Carnegie Classifications. It also ranks first for number of languages taught, for now.
New STEM programs in areas deemed critical to the state also failed to reach the threshold in 2022-23. Those included artificial intelligence, microbiology and cyber operations and warfare.
https://www.politico.eu/article/meet...ience-program/The first American ‘scientific refugees’ arrive in France
MARSEILLE, France — The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump's America for France have arrived.
Aix-Marseille University last week introduced eight U.S.-based researchers who were in the final stage of joining the ins ution's “Safe Place for Science" program, which aims to woo researchers who have experienced or fear funding cuts under the Trump administration. AMU offers the promise of a brighter future in the sun-drenched Mediterranean port city.
While both France and the European Union have launched multimillion-euro plans to woo researchers across the pond since Trump assumed the U.S. presidency in January, AMU's initiative was the first of its kind in the country — meaning the eight researchers who were welcomed are the first academic refugees planning to trade the United States for France.
Speaking from the university’s hilltop astrophysics lab, AMU President Eric Berton likened the situation to that of European academics who fled persecution by Nazi Germany both before and during World War II.
“What is at play here today is not unrelated to another dark period of our history,” he said.
...
Trump's war on civilization and US prosperity
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/...deral-funding/
Columbia caves
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