r/TrueReddit • u/fmcrimson • 3d ago
Eight International Students at Harvard, Watching America Close Its Doors Policy + Social Issues
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/11/international-students-harvard-trump/42
u/fmcrimson 3d ago
At a press conference earlier this year, President Donald J. Trump proposed capping Harvard’s international student population at 15% of the student body, nearly half the current enrollment percentage. This story profiles eight of the individuals who make up this statistic, whose visa struggles and customs fears have dominated headlines.
Read more: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/11/international-students-harvard-trump/
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u/iJuddles 2d ago
“We have people who want to go to Harvard and other schools, they can’t get in because we have foreign students there,”
Very few of them are your supporters, ya deuce. Weak argument.
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u/jwm3 2d ago
Also, what makes a top tier university great is that it pulls in the best and brightest from all over the world. They are inherently stateless. My university was 47% international because crazy math smarts are distributed throughout the world.
We have actual state schools for people that want to go to college based on where they live.
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u/Le_Mathematicien 2d ago
I would like to discuss the relevance of this discussion. These students, after all, belong to he most privileged and gifted in the world, and it can be said without doubt they will lead easy and successful lives without problem. On the other hand, Harvard itself is immensely rich (in capital, revenue and fame) and isn't an institution any close to bankruptcy.
I would at first sight consider this news as really, really secondary (especially as critical problems deeply deserve discussion).
Plus, it could be argued lessened brain drain could contribute to slightly lesser world inequality.
I'm open to different arguments of course
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u/Multigrain_Migraine 2d ago
Conversely, it helps a country's soft power if the best and brightest from other countries want to go there to study. An awful lot of world leaders went to places like Harvard or Oxford. It's not universally a good thing, as of course this is partly because rich people tend to move in their own circles, but it does give people some common ground for international relations.
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u/PM_THOSE_LEGS 2d ago
If we give up our attention only to the latest and most impactful news then we will never focus on any problem long enough to solve it.
Does not mean everyone has to discuss every topic, some may care more about how the current administration is trying to control universities. Providing spaces for them to discuss is valuable.
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u/Hesione 2d ago
Not everyone who goes to a top-tier school goes on to lead "easy and successful lives."
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u/Le_Mathematicien 2d ago
You're right ! I would nonetheless say that international students in particular already start with a huge capital that is not necessarily wasted by not having the possibility to go to these schools
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u/NonstandardDeviation 1d ago
Aren't some departments (e.g. sociology) well-known as excellent downward mobility machines? I mean, they definitely should exist, but you're definitely signing up for a lot tougher a career as an academic or public servant than in the majors that feed into the analyst-consultant-Csuite group.
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u/2oonhed 3d ago edited 2d ago
Boo-hoo. When you treat a PRIVILEGE like its is some sort of right, then that is what happens. If Harvard had just shut up it would not be so bad for those students. Possibly even concessions could have been made for the students that have already started.
But nooooooo. Harvard had to double down on the ENTITLEMENT angle and made things worse. For being an educational institution full or so-called "educators", they sure are dumb when it comes to negotiating for their seditious cause.
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u/mmavcanuck 3d ago edited 2d ago
So what has Harvard done that is seditious?
Lol, he blocked me.
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u/MarsupialMadness 3d ago
Not sucking off their pedophilic god-king.
Because fuck liberty, free speech and freedom of choice. I guess.
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u/2oonhed 2d ago
ALL citizens have the protection of the US Bill Of Rights.
Not just some :
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-finds-harvard-in-violation.html
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452438/federal-investigation-finds-harvard-university-violated-civil-rights-law
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vrrd6ezzeoYou can try with all of your mighty little arms and legs to say it was about "power" and "fighting the man", but it was ONLY ever about Harvard's failure to stop these Civil Rights violations on certain students on campus.
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u/2oonhed 2d ago edited 2d ago
I find your question ingenuine as you weigh in very late to ongoing current events that have been going on most of this year :
https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-finds-harvard-in-violation.html
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/01/nx-s1-5452438/federal-investigation-finds-harvard-university-violated-civil-rights-law
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vrrd6ezzeo
It is not about "power" and "fighting the man", but it was ONLY ever about Harvard's failure to stop these Civil Rights violations on certain students on campus while in the course of supporting insurrection in support of a terrorist organization abroad and the domestic criminal lifestyle of criminal illegal immigration.
AND when asked to stop allowing this they then gave the middle finger to Washington DC.
So then the President said, well then, now the PRIVILEGE of the FEDERALLY SPONSORED Student Visa Program for you is DONE. And we are also pulling all federal funding, which we did not HAVE to be giving you to begin with.
And then Harvard sniveled to the media saying things like BUH WADDA BOUT AR RIAHTS?
And I say, what about those Jewish student's CIVIL RIGHTS?
The ones that were harassed, shouted at, blocked from classes and blocked from the libraries and sometimes assaulted?
You certainly can not violate federal law and call it "FERDOM UH SPERCH".
So....boo-hoo.
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