By Kimberlee Kruesi
The Trump administration announced on Monday that federal officials are launching investigations into Harvard University and the Harvard Law Review, saying that the authorities had received discrimination reports based on the “impregnating operations” of the journal.
Investigations are involved while Harvard is fighting a freezing over $ 2.2 billion in federal subsidies imposed by the Trump administration after the University refused to comply with demands for limiting activism on campus. A letter sent to university earlier this month called on the institution to clarify its speeches on campus policies which limit the time, the place and the manner of protests and other activities. He also demanded that Harvard’s university departments that “anti -Semitic harassment fuel” be examined and modified to resolve biases and improve the diversity of views.
On Monday, on Monday, marked the two parties that the two parties met before the court for the financing struggle. Surveys of the US Department of Education and the Ministry of Health and Social Services were announced separately on Monday, the authorities claiming that they were investigating policies and practices involving the members of the journal and the selection of articles which claim that the title VI of the civil rights law of 1964 could rape.
According to the federal government, the editor -in -chief of the Harvard Law Review would have written that it was “worrying” that the majority of people who wanted to respond to an article on police reform “are white men”. A separate publisher would have suggested “that an article should be subject to an accelerated examination because the author was a minority”.
“The process of selecting Harvard Law Review’s article seems to choose the winners and losers on the basis of the race, using a loot system in which the legal researcher’s race is, if not more, important than the merit of the submission,” said the acting assistant secretary for Civil Rights Craig Train in a press release. “Title VI requests are clear: beneficiaries of federal financial aid cannot discriminate on the basis of the breed, color or national origin. No institution – regardless of his pedigree, his prestige or his wealth – is superior to the law. “
An email asking for comments was sent to a Harvard spokesman on Monday.
Harvard is one of several universities across the country where pro-Palestinian demonstrations broke out on campus in the middle of the war in Gaza last year. Republican officials have since strongly examined these universities, and several presidents of the Ivy League have testified before the Congress to discuss the allegations of anti -Semitism. The Cambridge, Massachusetts institution was the fifth school of Ivy League targeted in an administration pressure campaign, which also interrupted federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania, Brown and Princeton Universities to force compliance with its program.
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California Daily Newspapers
