Students on Campus Weigh In On Trump's Battle with Harvard University

TIME

As Harvard University prepares to award degrees to thousands of undergraduate and graduate students, members of the student body are decrying the Trump administration's attacks on the prestigious institution.

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00:00I think it's a real shame because I've met so many incredible students from the

00:04Graduate School of Education who are international students and some of my

00:07best friends are from the international space and I've learned so much from them

00:12and I think when we start limiting the diversity of the student body then it's

00:19really limiting the learning experiences for students because it's not just about

00:22what we learn in the classroom it's also about the interactions in the space in

00:26out of classroom spaces and peer interactions I do think that cutting

00:31funding not only for you know this university but universities generally is

00:35very ridiculous I think that research funding intellectual independence are

00:40things that have made the United States strong have made universities strong or

00:43is the reason that we are like a beacon for the rest of the world and I think

00:46that undermining those things cutting those things is not only a bad short-term

00:51view but a horrendous long-term view I just think it is so ridiculous and

00:56abominable to one to do that to students who are coming here for their own

01:01interests and for the benefit of all of us actually but to do that and harm them

01:06with the goal of coercing a university is just abominable to be honest it just

01:11feels like our learning or the freedom of learning is under attack essentially

01:18and so it's it's worrying really worrying I see that Harvard's really standing up

01:24against what he's doing and I'm very proud that they've it really stood up

01:29against what he's doing and standing up for what's right in in this education so

01:34I hope that other schools can know that there are schools who are are it's it's

01:40not easy to do the right thing so I hope that it inspires other schools to not

01:45take the easy route and choose to do the right thing and stand up against this

01:49administration

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