Trump’s fund-freezing punishment for Harvard: – Latest News
The Issue: Harvard University loses federal money after rejecting Trump calls for to fight antisemitism.
Shalom, Harvard University: The US authorities will finish all of your federal funding, tax your endowment into oblivion and finish all of your overseas funding (“Harvard rejects Trump’s demands,” April 15).
It will situation no overseas scholar visas. Disagreeing alumni will stop all donations. Jewish mother and father, whose youngsters make up 20% of your scholar physique, will ship their tuition money elsewhere.
You will merely stop to exist and also you deserve no much less.
Jeffrey Levy
Brooklyn
This shouldn’t be an assault on academia however a demand for accountability.
Harvard’s $50 billion endowment and its analysis on most cancers and climate options underscore its privilege — however accountability should match.
Columbia’s $400 million cut, later negotiated back, reveals the stakes. Federal funds aren’t an entitlement; they’re a contract.
Ronald Beaty
West Barnstable, Mass.
President Trump views the whole lot as transactional. He is utilizing financial threats — pulling analysis grants, revoking accreditation and taxing endowments — to divide and weaken universities, simply as he has performed with law companies, international locations and different establishments.
Trump’s aim in this isn’t negotiation — it’s domination.
Jagjit Singh
Los Altos, Calif.
Poor Harvard? I really feel no compassion for Ivy League faculties that enable Jew-hatred to run rampant throughout their campuses.
They will endure tremendously, dropping billions of taxpayers’ {dollars}, threatening their capability to draw analysis contracts.
The long-term penalties of not complying with the Trump administration’s requests would be the loss of Jewish PhD candidates — with out which any accreditation system will likely be distinctly second-rate.
Len Bennett
Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Harvard’s angle is extremely ignorant, smug and harmful. If it have been in my energy, I’d not present a penny of federal funds to Harvard University.
Surely the backlash will trigger Harvard to endure in lots of different methods.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
Why are we giving these faculties a penny of our hard-earned tax {dollars} within the first place?
Let them dig into their own piggy-banks, not mine (particularly with their lefty training).
Patricia Fletcher
Massapequa Park
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The Issue: Fines in New York City for buildings failing to separate food waste from different rubbish.
What variety of authorities would examine your rubbish, trying for food scraps, so it may wonderful you (“Can the Compost Mandate,” Editorial, April 14)?
The composting mandate reveals simply how far the left will go to micromanage what people do, trying for a strategy to get more money out of us.
They are petty, power-hungry and wish to degrade New Yorkers’ high quality of life. They have no respect for us in any respect.
Leftists are usually not sensible enough, or well-intentioned enough, to deserve the ability they wish to maintain.
Gary Mottola
Brooklyn
I simply obtained discover within the mail about composting laws that every one tenants should observe, or else the building supervisor will get a wonderful. Who goes to implement this regulation?
Do I’ve to make an appointment with my tremendous so I can have my rubbish inspected to make sure I’m following the foundations?
We have already got recycling laws for cans, bottles, plastic and paper cardboard to observe.
Anyone on the City Council who voted for this must be fired for having no common sense.
Jimmy Durda
The Bronx
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