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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by eli_gottlieb on Friday May 23, 2025 @01:20AM (#44070065)
>And because Harvard has a lot of HNW alumni, they always try to meddle in some shape or form - Wen Jiabao's best friend funds the Fairbank Center, Kraft funds and hosts events at Chabad, some al Saud branches fund a couple Islamic clubs, a bunch of alt-right leaning Catholic traditionalists fund the Abigail Adams Institute, etc. It's just inter-elite fratricide at this point because no one truly gives a poo about Harvard.

When you put it like that... should I make some popcorn?

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Re:Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll in... by alephnerd on Friday May 23, 2025 @02:47AM (#44070515)
When elephants fight, it's the grass that gets trampled.

Harvard plays a significant role multiple fields of study (from social science to humanities to hard sciences), and a significant portion of their grad students are affected by the SEVP revocation.

Furthermore, a number of fields just don't have that many domestic graduate students because the domestic pipeline for a number of fields such as Distributed Systems is almost non-existent, and students often get poached with just a bachelors for industry. Not bad for students, but applied research or part-time industrial PhDs don't exist in the US.

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