The Trump administration announced on Monday that federal officials will initiate investigations into Harvard University and Harvard Law Review. The authorities have received reports on racial discrimination that penetrated the operations of the magazine.
The investigation comes when Harvard is fighting 2.2 billion US dollars in federal subsidies from the Trump administration after the university refused to satisfy the demands for restricting activism on the campus. In a letter to the university that was sent at the beginning of this month, the institution called for the clarification of its speech policy on campus, which limit the time, place and the type of protests and other activities. In addition, the academic departments in Harvard called for “carrying out anti -Semitic nuisance” to be checked and changed in order to tackle the bias and to improve the ViewPoint variety.
Monday was the first time that both sides met in court through the financing struggle. The investigation by the US Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Health and Human Services was announced separately on Monday. The authorities stated that they examine guidelines and practices that concern membership and article selection of the journal, which they argue about title VI of the Civil Rights Act from 1964.
According to the Federal Government, the Harvard Law Review publisher reported that it is “worrying” that the majority of the people who wanted to respond to an article about police reforms are “white men”. A separate editor supposedly suggested “that an accelerated review is subject to the author was a minority.”
“The article selection of Harvard Law Review seems to choose a winner and loser based on the breed, whereby a prey system is used in which the breed of the lawyer is as important as the merit of the submission,” said the deputy deputy secretary for civil rights Craig Trainor in a statement. “The demands of Title VI are clear: Recipients of the financial support of the federal government may not discriminate against breed, color or national origin. No institution – regardless of family tree, prestige or prosperity – is above the law.”
An e -mail search for a comment was sent to a Harvard spokesman on Monday.
Harvard belongs to several universities across the country where propalestinis -based protests broke out on campus last year. Since then, republican civil servants have greatly examined these universities, and several President of the Ivy League testified before the congress to discuss anti -Semitism allegations. The institution in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the fifth Ivy League School, which aimed at a pressure campaign by the administration, which also forced the federal financing of the University of Pennsylvania, Brown and Princeton universities to comply with their agenda.
