Hillsdale College President: Harvard should have “courage and faith” and go alone
The president of a prestigious Christian college in Michigan responded to Donald Trump’s battle with Harvard on Thursday — which would lose billions of dollars as federal funds freezes the response to anti-Semitism on campus.
“We all have the right to freedom of speech, but if you join academia, you won’t say anything.
“Now say, of course, you shouldn’t say ‘dirty Jews’. It’s totally reasonable to say, “I don’t agree.” But said: “Israel has occupied this land and they have no rights,” the response was, “Okay, see if you can prove it.” “That was an academic cause,” he said.
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“Scream, stop people from attending classes, individuals threaten them. This breaks the academic world. They shouldn't do that. [1964] Civil rights laws are made in some way; if they allow such activities, Harvard will violate the bill, which applies to every organization in the United States. ”
Arnn added that universities that become incubators of learning should be especially an organization to ban this toxic behavior altogether.
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Earlier this month, Trump's anti-Semitism task force frozen Harvard's $2 billion grant, and later Trump issued a statement in the school administration saying it would not comply with the requirements.
Arn said universities must agree to thousands of regulations in order to obtain funds from the federal Department of Education, whether anti-Semitic or not.
“The government has changed a lot since 1960, and now everything, including education. Harvard doesn't like some of the things that need to be done lately, but it follows hundreds of pages of rules that are detailed and they have to follow because they have a lot of government money,” he said.
Hillsdale College president Larry Arnn criticized Harvard University. (Getty)
“So the obvious solution is not to take money from the government, that's what we're going to do,” he said.
Founded in the mid-19th century, Hillsdale was partly formed by friends of then-Illinois attorney Abraham Lincoln, and has never been as wealthy as Harvard, but remains a distinguished institution.
“The facts they are defending [themselves] Very good, maybe they should have full belief, just give [the funding] Get up,” he said.
Arnn added that if the frozen fund states the annual federal donation to the school, it would be calculated at $90,000 per student, noting that the school also has a large donation.
“Maybe they can do it themselves,” he said.
“Every transaction at Hillsdale Academy…is a voluntary transaction… [N]Unless they want, Opody comes here and they must sign the code of honors. ”
President Donald Trump freezes federal funds to Harvard University. (Getty Image)
Arnn has tied Hillsdale to politically emerging Lincoln to Harvard as the country’s oldest university, and Princeton University to founding fathers like President James Madison.
He said: “If James Madison was here to go to college, I would never shut up, right? Frederick Douglass spoke twice on our campus. I never shut up.”
Arnn cited the first Trump administration to investigate the digital propaganda after Princeton University.
“[Madison] He is personally proud of the fact that they put the term “slave” outside the constitution, because although they have to make a compromise rather than repeal it in some way, this compromise is for a big reason. ”
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Harvard has been a criticism of its response to anti-Semitic protests. (Reuters)
“The problem is, we have a set of perfect principles, but we will never serve perfectly,” Arn said.[T]He tried to do this, depending on what the attempt was, which could cause a lot of damage. ”
“My advice [to Harvard] It will be moving in the right direction. It is written in your own history. If you don't like the Washington bureaucrats tell you what to do, you should probably do it with your own resources. ” he said.
Harvard President Alan Garber said in a statement that Harvard will “not hand over independence or waive its constitutional rights” and “no government…should not decide what private universities can teach, who they can acknowledge and hire…”
