To the editor: I simply spent a yr and 4 months making a movie at Harvard, the third movie I’ve made there up to now seven years. I labored intently with school and undergraduates, together with worldwide college students, on two of these tasks. The accusations in opposition to Harvard by President Trump through Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem are full nonsense (“Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students,” Could 22). By no means in my life have I had the great fortune to be immersed in such a welcoming, stimulating place of scholarship and sources for studying about each topic one can think about.
It’s apparent that Trump is throwing each weapon in his arsenal at Harvard for one motive solely: Harvard defied his strong-arm try to inform the college whom to confess, whom to rent and what to show. If Harvard succeeds in retaining its mental freedom, Trump will probably be revealed as an emperor with no garments. He put himself able the place he can’t again down. He’s made all-out conflict his solely possibility.
This can be a defining second for America. “Let this function a warning to all universities and educational establishments throughout the nation,” Noem belligerently threatened. If Trump succeeds in crushing Harvard, all different American establishments of studying, science and humanities will probably be in danger. Harvard has a novel reservoir of authorized and monetary sources, however it might’t face up to the ability of america authorities alone. All universities should unite in defying Trump’s absurd, malevolent calls for.
Peter Coonradt, Redlands
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To the editor: Trump is clearly hostile to elite non-public universities, however his antipathy towards Harvard stands out.
It appears the motivation is to destroy Harvard. Why? Maybe the president, identified for holding grudges and wanting revenge, has a motive particular to Harvard. We all know he attended Fordham, then transferred to Penn, an Ivy League faculty. What we don’t know is the place else he utilized, solely to be rejected, 60 years in the past. Harvard?
Richard Merel, Hermosa Seashore
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To the editor: Trump and Noem couldn’t care much less concerning the security of Jewish college students. They care deeply about dissent. We’re on a really slippery slope.
Patrick Mauer, Pasadena
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To the editor: As a former U.S. overseas pupil in Asia and a Fulbrighter in Canada, I’d hate to see different nations reciprocate in sort.
T.D. Proffitt, Santa Ana
