It’s an article by Harvard’s newspaper.
The Crimson analyzed the proposed Trump administration funding cuts and estimated that the five hospitals’ multi-year commitment from the NIH is over $6.2 billion and the University’s multi-year federal research funding exceeds $2.7 billion.
The combined figure nears the $9 billion cited by federal officials, but it remains unclear if the funding review is limited to these select grants.
no exaggeration, it often feels like student newspapers are the last place where real, investigative local journalism is practiced in the US. the university i used to work at used to break crazy stories and put everybody’s dirt on main street. it was incredible. they would blow something open and everybody would be talking about it as administration went into damage control/reputation management. i’ve heard the same thing about other schools too.
i think many of them have operating funds from some old little endowment back in the watergate days or earlier, not to mention the students aren’t really getting paid and they are, materially, clients of the university as opposed to employees. they tend to have a faculty advisor who has limited to no power to override the student members. the advertising, if any, tends to be from other student organizations, not like key-political players.
about all administration can do is make an example of the faculty advisor if they are publicly going against administration too, which i saw happen. for all the blather about tenure, it can be stripped away in a month and the faculty member forcibly separated if some star-chamber committee determines an individuals actions or lack of action “might” damage the university’s reputation. and the student paper covered it every step of the way. the whole event was extremely instructive about what a career in higher education really means.
anyway, i’m sure they’re all on administration shit lists, which i am also sure we will see retribution coming as the trump administration gives cover to university administrators and trustee boards to take a hatchet to everything in the name of protecting the federal grants.
Zionists are trying to take school papers over too though. Even before 2023, there would be a few people at my university crying crocodile tears whenever zionism was mentioned. And this was for a “progressive” paper.
My school’s main newspaper was full of fail kids and dipshits. They’d run stories based on hearsay or without sources. Editorials about complete nonsense. There was a more leftwing newspaper, but of course they were trots (what the hell is it with their damn newspapers?).