There's another story today which I'm fairly certain is going to set off protests of some kind. Harvard handed information on international students over to DHS.

Harvard shared information with the Department of Homeland Security in response to its request for information on international students’ disciplinary records and illegal activity, the University announced in a Wednesday evening email to affiliates...

Under Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations, the law Noem cited in the letter, universities must provide the DHS with information on international students’ degree program, course enrollment, grades, and academic status — including withdrawal, probation, suspension, or expulsion — upon request.

It sounds like Harvard didn't have any choice under current law. Nevertheless, this probably isn't the resistance progressives were looking for. Someone is bound to be outraged.

Speaking of progressives at Harvard, a group of 80 faculty members have offered to put up 10% of their salary in order to fight the good fight.

More than 80 Harvard faculty members pledged to donate 10 percent of their salaries for up to a year to support the University in its resistance against the Trump administration’s attempts to exact concessions and freeze billions in federal funding.

The group is still collecting pledges, but faculty members’ commitments currently amount to more than $2 million, according to Government professor Ryan D. Enos...

The pledged donations come as Harvard faces lean times and continuing attacks on its funding. The Trump administration froze $2.2 billion in federal funding on April 15, as well as an additional $1 billion on April 21 after Harvard publicly rejected the White House’s sweeping demands for policy changes at the University.

Obviously, $2 million is not going to make up for the $3.2 billion in funding that has already been cut. Harvard has about 2,400 faculty plus another 7,500 or so administrators (not including Harvard Medical School which has thousands more faculty). But even if participation in this goes from 80 people to 8,000 we're probably talking about less than $200 million dollars a year. That's a lot of money but it's still just a fraction of $3.2 billion.

Based on this page, it looks like Harvard's total spending on salaries, wages and benefits in FY2024 was $2.6 billion. So even if everyone gave everything and worked for free all year, they could not make up for the amount lost in federal funding. I'm not sure what the point of this effort is other than to signal opposition to Trump. Harvard shouldn't need anyone to give back their salaries when it is sitting on the largest endowment of any university, around $53 billion.

Finally, a few days ago Ed wrote about apparent racial discrimination taking place at the Harvard Law Review. That story, published originally by the Washington Free Beacon, led to an investigation by HHS and the Department of Education. Today, the WFB is back with another follow-up. It seems the Law Review is conducting a mole hunt trying to figure out who talked.

The journal’s top editors asked members of the law review last week to come forward with any information that might help identify the leaker, writing, "The information contained in the article should not have been shared."

"We are looking into the matter," the editors said Friday in an email. "Our inboxes and offices are open to anyone with information about these recent events. We will update you with developments."

There's a degree of hypocrisy here. When the law review killed an article accusing Israel of genocide, documents about the decision were leaked to the Nation and the Intercept. And yet, "The law review took no action against the editors and did not launch an investigation, the person familiar with the matter said." So the application of the rules is pretty selective. If a far left screed is killed, you can leak all you want about that. If the law review's pattern of racial discrimination is leaked, that's a problem and they'd like to get to the bottom of it.