U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt status on Tuesday (April 15) and said the university should apologize, a day after it rejected what it called unlawful demands to overhaul academic programs or lose federal grants. Harvard students Reuters spoke to say they lent support to the school's stand against the Trump administration. - REUTERS
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00:00The president of Harvard's decision to, you know, not obey by Trump's administration attacks on the university is pretty courageous and I fully support it. I think it's important as a community here to, you know, gather and face this all together. And I think this is an attack on academic freedom and I think it's a threat to democracy.
00:30I definitely hope that Harvard is going to use some of its endowment to, you know, support continued financial aid for students. Some of the critical research and, you know, cancer research, medical research and innovation that is happening at this place. But it is definitely going to be going to be felt all over campus and we'll have to see, you know, exactly what is going to be cut and, you know, if professors are going to have to be fired or they're going to be able to admit less students.
01:00We simply don't know at this point, but I am, I feel a lot of confidence in Harvard to make good decisions on this.