[FRIAM] Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities - The New York Times

[Stephen Guerin]

And below the Trump letter this page is Harvard's April 14th response.
 https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/15/harvard-denies-trump-demands/
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM cody dooderson <d00d3rs0n at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for the article and all of the tricks. I am ready to fish for my
> news. Also, the synthetic narration feature on the nytimes site is pretty
> cool.
>
> I still think that reading the actual letter is pretty informative
> especially when you imagine every University in the country receiving a
> similar one. No other University will have the endowment to fight this
> inquisition.
>
> _ Cody Smith _
> d00d3rs0n at gmail.com
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM glen <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Also note that many NYT articles can be read by turning off scripting. I
>> can't imagine they don't *know* this. I think it's their way of kindasorta
>> being open. Some other sites are readable by using the "reader" function in
>> FF. But I've seen them trickle away over time.
>>
>> On 4/18/25 11:29 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
>> > Gift link below (Cody, which is an interesting authorization pattern
>> for partial licensing of content and code. Eg clipboard scenario links)
>> >
>> > Inside Trump’s Pressure Campaign on Universities
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/trump-pressure-universities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.du6b.i8iKUf0iLNom&smid=nytcore-android-share
>> <
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/trump-pressure-universities.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ak8.du6b.i8iKUf0iLNom&smid=nytcore-android-share
>> >
>> >
>> > ____________________________________________
>> > CEO Founder, Simtable.com
>> > stephen.guerin at simtable.com <mailto:stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
>> >
>> > Harvard Visualization Research and Teaching Lab
>> > stephenguerin at fas.harvard.edu <mailto:stephenguerin at fas.harvard.edu>
>> >
>> > mobile: (505)577-5828
>> >
>> > On Fri, Apr 18, 2025, 11:40 AM cody dooderson <d00d3rs0n at gmail.com
>> <mailto:d00d3rs0n at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >     I don't have access to that article, but I did read the letter from
>> the White House to Harvard. I found it to be a sickening use of
>> doublespeak. For instance, It demands for a critical mass of approved
>> "ideologically diverse faculty", and then in the next paragraphs demands
>> the removal of all DEI programs and policies. Presumably "Ideologically
>> diverse" means "MAGA republicans" and "DEI" means "people who are not white
>> men".
>> >
>> >
>> >     Here is a link to it:
>> https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf
>> <
>> https://www.harvard.edu/research-funding/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2025/04/Letter-Sent-to-Harvard-2025-04-11.pdf>
>> .
>> >
>> >     _ Cody Smith _
>> >     d00d3rs0n at gmail.com <mailto:d00d3rs0n at gmail.com>
>> >
>> >
>> >     On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM Tom Johnson <
>> jtjohnson555 at gmail.com <mailto:jtjohnson555 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/trump-pressure-universities.html
>> <
>> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/politics/trump-pressure-universities.html
>> >
>> >
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