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The Issue: Harvard University’s lawsuit in response to the Trump administration’s pressure to reform.
Harvard president Alan Garber was reminded of something he always knew: Federal funds come with rules and regulations (“Harvard dropped Ed. talks: McMahon,” April 24).
Yet, in suing, Harvard’s response to the feds was basically “Screw you.”
Its funding should be canceled for the entire four years of this administration. Same goes for Columbia, Cornell and all the other universities. Each school should get one warning, then any lack of compliance results in immediate cancellation.
Brian Finn
Stamford, Conn.
I’m neither the president of Harvard University, nor a Harvard student, but I stand in solidarity with Harvard’s defiance of President Trump’s illegitimate attempts to govern its educational policies.
Trump has called Harvard a disgrace, but this is coming from someone I’m not confident would have been able to graduate from the school.
Richard Siegelman
Plainview
Harvard University is behaving like a teenager who ran away to escape parental supervision but still calls home for rent and grocery money.
It has no obligation to cede to the demands of our government. But it also has no absolute right to our taxpayer dollars.
You want to teach anti-Americanism and antisemitism? Go ahead — but use your own $53 billion endowment to pay for it.
Farla Frumkin
Great Neck
I agree that Harvard is just one of many universities that have ignored blatant antisemitism. However, to Garber’s point, it is not the government’s role to tell people what to think or read.
Unfortunately, President Trump and his supporters want to control every American. This is what dictators and kings do — not American presidents.
Alan Podhaizer
Brooklyn
Using the president of Harvard’s own words: No government should have “unprecedented and improper control” over a private university.
Therefore, no government should give one penny of taxpayer funds to any private anything, especially universities.
Mike Santavicca
Yonkers
Apparently the president of Harvard University — a k a Anti-Jew U — has no backbone in setting the precedent against antisemitism on campus.
I guess when the lefty hate-mongers pick a new minority to crucify, he can show what a great guy he is.
Lee Fleischman
Stamford, Conn.
The Issue: State AG Letitia James’ response to the Trump administration’s criminal referral against her.
State Attorney General Letitia James goes after Trump on nonsense charges; now she claims the charges against her are retribution (“Trump’s cherry pickin’ on me,” April 25).
What happened to “no one is above the law,” Tish? She seems to have lied on not one but two mortgage applications, and still thinks we should just let that go.
Hypocrite Tish deserves everything that comes her way. What she did to try to get President Trump was nothing but hatred toward one man and, honestly, if I were him, I would also do everything legally to go after her.
The world is round, so what goes around comes around.
Philip Vallone
Ossining
What’s the matter, Letitia James? Are you having a hard time dealing with a criminal referral by the Justice Department?
Remember, Letitia, it is like you said: “No one is above the law” — not even you.
Don’t forget to leave an aisle seat in the courtroom empty, so President Trump can sit in it while you’re on trial this time.
Gene O’Brien
Whitestone
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