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I have had my umn account since summer 2000, and it has been my email since.
It is basically like a diary of University life at this point and now I hear they are going to be shut down.
The accounts should not be shut down, very shortsighted by the University.
(Harvard-Radcliffe 1975) Dr. Garber, I was disappointed to read your "Our Resolve" email, which I felt was capitulating in advance to pressure from the Trump administration. Harvard has the standing and the means to take a stand against these attacks on free speech, intellectual freedom, and our university communities. I hope that it will have the integrity to do so as well.
Looking at Columbia's experience it is plain to see that capitulation has not protected them or their students. Now ICE is snatching students off campus without even informing the university in advance. In my time the university protected the students fiercely, and was strong enough to stop police from setting foot on campus.
My graduating class is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year. If my alma mater would set an example to the rest of U.S. academia, it would really give us something to celebrate.
(Harvard-Radcliffe 1979)
You can never appease a bully; they thrive on creating pain, not on your concessions. Harvard and other universities should stand up to Trump's administration; and call them out on their bogus concerns about anti-semiticism. They don't like Jews any more than they like people of color, LGBTQ+, and anyone else who might fall under the DEI umbrella. This is just setting up Jewish people as fall guys later. The attack on universities is an attack on science, rigorous and free thought, and intelligence.
(AB '07, MD '12) President Garber, I was deeply disturbed by your "Our Resolve" email, which shows no resolve but rather capitulates to the Trump regime's unreasonable demands. Of course we should always fight antisemitism, but it is clear that Trump's actual goal is to intimidate and disappear students who advocate on behalf of the Palestinian people, such as my Tufts colleague Rumeysa Ozturk. Harvard needs to show moral courage in resisting the erosion of our freedoms and protecting the students under threat.
Harvard is an important, cherished institution. It should speak truth to power, not cower before it. Let’s not look back in shame years later at the wrong path taken.
I’m Class of 1991 - we were at Harvard when the Berlin Wall fell. History will take note of who stood up against oppression and who capitulated. This is the moment for Harvard to lead for democracy and free speech.
Decades ago, as I dreamed of opportunities to live in a better world, and to leave the better world for future generations, the attitudes and events we see across the nation today were not the vistas of 'America' that beckoned to me.
I remember the first time I saw and learned about a school called Harvard University. It was in a very old encyclopedia, and the image of the school stood above the disintegrating elements of the pages, buoyed by the spine of the graceful texts that attended it.
If our universities and all centers of higher education can't stand up to a regime of utter injustice, what hope do we have for the present and future of this country! If Harvard can't be in front of this necessary resistance, what would a future young girl or boy, somewhere in the world, read along with the image of the university years to come.