


Shalom, Harvard University: The US government will end all your federal funding, tax your endowment into oblivion and end all your foreign funding (“Harvard rejects Trump’s demands,” April 15).
It will issue no foreign student visas. Disagreeing alumni will cease all donations. Jewish parents, whose children make up 20% of your student body, will send their tuition money elsewhere.
You will simply cease to exist and you deserve no less.
Jeffrey Levy
Brooklyn
This is not an attack on academia but a demand for accountability.
Harvard’s $50 billion endowment and its research on cancer and climate solutions underscore its privilege — but responsibility must match.
Columbia’s $400 million cut, later negotiated back, shows the stakes. Federal funds aren’t an entitlement; they’re a contract.
Ronald Beaty
West Barnstable, Mass.
President Trump views everything as transactional. He is using financial threats — pulling research grants, revoking accreditation and taxing endowments — to divide and weaken universities, just as he has done with law firms, countries and other institutions.
Trump’s goal in this is not negotiation — it is domination.
Jagjit Singh
Los Altos, Calif.
Poor Harvard? I feel no compassion for Ivy League schools that allow Jew-hatred to run rampant across their campuses.
They will suffer greatly, losing billions of taxpayers’ dollars, threatening their ability to attract research contracts.
The long-term consequences of not complying with the Trump administration’s requests will be the loss of Jewish PhD applicants — without which any accreditation system will be distinctly second-rate.
Len Bennett
Deerfield Beach, Fla.
Harvard’s attitude is incredibly ignorant, arrogant and dangerous. If it were in my power, I would not provide a penny of federal funds to Harvard University.
Surely the backlash will cause Harvard to suffer in many other ways.
Thomas Birnbaum
Manhattan
Why are we giving these colleges a penny of our hard-earned tax dollars in the first place?
Let them dig into their own piggy-banks, not mine (especially with their lefty education).
Patricia Fletcher
Massapequa Park
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What kind of government would inspect your garbage, looking for food scraps, so it can fine you (“Can the Compost Mandate,” Editorial, April 14)?
The composting mandate shows just how far the left will go to micromanage what people do, looking for a way to get more money out of us.
They are petty, power-hungry and want to degrade New Yorkers’ quality of life. They have no respect for us at all.
Leftists are not smart enough, or well-intentioned enough, to deserve the power they want to hold.
Gary Mottola
Brooklyn
I just got notice in the mail about composting regulations that all tenants must follow, or else the building manager will get a fine. Who is going to enforce this regulation?
Do I have to make an appointment with my super so I can have my garbage inspected to make sure I am following the rules?
We already have recycling regulations for cans, bottles, plastic and paper cardboard to follow.
Anyone on the City Council who voted for this should be fired for having no common sense.
Jimmy Durda
The Bronx
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