From the Harvard Crimson: The White House is pushing Harvard for a major financial settlement in negotiations to restore more than $2 billion in frozen funds, according to a person familiar with the talks — and demanding that Harvard cough up even more than Columbia University did earlier this week. United States President Donald Trump is personally pressing officials involved in the negotiations to ensure Harvard pays more than Columbia’s $220 million deal, the person said, adding that Trump believes exceeding that sum would set an example... The push comes just days after Columbia finalized a deal with the Trump administration, ending a monthslong tug-of-war that began when the Ivy League school accepted a series of demands in March...
It is not yet clear which other demands the Trump administration will press Harvard to accept, though several others are under consideration, the person said. Harvard and the Trump administration have exchanged several offers over the last few weeks, according to another person familiar with the matter — though the terms are hardly finalized. It is also unclear whether any payment would go solely to the White House or also be used to resolve Harvard’s ongoing Title VI case. In late June, the administration issued a formal finding that Harvard was in violation of Title VI because of its slow-walked response to campus antisemitism...
Full story at https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/7/27/harvard-trump-settlement-columbia/.
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On either a lighter or heavier note, depending on how you look at it, there is this from the NY Times:
Tom Lehrer, the Harvard-trained mathematician whose wickedly iconoclastic songs made him a favorite satirist in the 1950s and ’60s on college campuses and in all the Greenwich Villages of the country, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Mass. He was 97...
Full obituary at https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/arts/music/tom-lehrer-dead.html.
Or direct to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J04FRsesBQ.
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