Hereโs how we got here ์ฌ๊ฑด์ ๊ฒฝ์๋ ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ๋ค.
Harvard emerged as the first elite US university to publicly rebuke the White Houseโs demands, which Trump officials have said aim to combat antisemitism following contentious campus protests in response to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Among the demands in the letter were the banning of masks at campus protests, reforms to merit-based hiring and admissions, and reducing the power held by faculty and administrators โmore committed to activism than scholarship.โ
The university president has said the demands go beyond the power of the federal government, and the majority โrepresent direct governmental regulation of the โintellectual conditionsโ at Harvardโ rather than combating antisemitism.
In the days that followed, the administration threatened Harvard Universityโs funding from multiple angles.
On Monday, the Trump administration announced it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value after Harvard said it would not follow policy demands from the administration.
Then on Wednesday, CNN reported that the Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of the University, according to two sources familiar with the matter. That same day, the administration also threatened Harvardโs ability to enroll foreign students.
The April 11 letter from the federal task force outlined policy demands โas the basis for an agreement in principle that will maintain Harvardโs financial relationship with the federal government.โ
The letter was signed by Josh Gruenbaum, a top official at the General Services Administration; Thomas Wheeler, the acting general counsel for the Department of Education; and Sean Keveney, acting general counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services.
After Harvard received the letter and rejected its demands, Gruenbaum called a Harvard lawyer initially saying that the letter wasnโt authorized to be sent, according to two people with knowledge of the calls, the New York Times reports.
Gruenbaum then changed his story, the Times reported, saying that the letter was always going to be sent, but not on Friday as parties from both sides were still in โconstructiveโ talks.
The statement from the Harvard spokesperson Saturday said the letter โwas sent on April 11 as promised.โ
โRecipients of such correspondence from the U.S. governmentโeven when it contains sweeping demands that are astonishing in their overreachโdo not question its authenticity or seriousness,โ the statement continued.
โHarvard will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. It remains unclear to us exactly what, among the governmentโs recent words and deeds, were mistakes or what the government actually meant to do and say,โ the statement added. โBut even if the letter was a mistake, the actions the government took this week have real-life consequences on students, patients, employees, and the standing of American higher education in the world.โ
The White House says is still leaving the door open to negotiation with the university.
โThe White House remains open to dialogue, but serious changes are needed at Harvard. The letter underscores President Trumpโs commitment to these reforms,โ the White House official told CNN Saturday.
โInstead of grandstanding, Harvard should focus on rebuilding confidence among all students, particularly Jewish students, by prioritizing their safety, holding radical activists accountable, and ending discrimination on campus,โ the official said.
A spokesperson released a statement on behalf of the task force Gruenbaum, Keveney and Wheeler are part of in response to CNNโs request for comment Saturday, saying, โthe entire Trump administration, is in lockstep on ensuring that entities who receive taxpayer dollars are following all civil rights laws.โ
The spokesperson would not confirm whether the letter was sent in error.
- in lockstep: ๋ณด์กฐ๋ฅผ ๋ง์ถ์ด, ์ผ์นํ์ฌ
The team is working in lockstep to meet the deadline. ํ์ ๋ง๊ฐ์ผ์ ๋ง์ถ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์๋ฒฝํ๊ฒ ํ๋ ฅํ๊ณ ์๋ค.
- Grandstanding: ๊ณผ์, ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์ ํ๋
The speech was full of grandstanding rather than real solutions. ๊ทธ ์ฐ์ค์ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ํด๊ฒฐ์ฑ
๋ณด๋ค๋ ๋ณด์ฌ์ฃผ๊ธฐ์ ๋ฐ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๊ฐ๋ํ๋ค.
- constructive talks: ๊ฑด์ค์ ์ธ ๋
ผ์
ํ๋ฒ๋๋ ํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ์ ์๊ตฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณต๊ฐ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๋ฐํ ์ฒซ ์ฃผ์ ๋ํ์ผ๋ก, ๋ฐฑ์
๊ด์ ์ด ๊ฐ์ ์๊ตฌ๊ฐ ๊ฐ์์ง๊ตฌ์ ์ด์ค๋ผ์-ํ๋ง์ค ์ ์๊ณผ ๊ด๋ จ๋ ์บ ํผ์ค ์์ ์ดํ ๋ฐ์ ๋์ฃผ์ ๋์ ์กฐ์น๋ผ๊ณ ์ค๋ช
ํ๋ค.
์ํ์ ์ฃผ์ ์๊ตฌ ์ฌํญ์๋ ์บ ํผ์ค ์์ ์ ๋ง์คํฌ ์ฐฉ์ฉ ๊ธ์ง, ์ฑ๊ณผ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ ์ฑ์ฉ ๋ฐ ์
ํ ์ ๋ ๊ฐํ, ํ๋ฌธ๋ณด๋ค ํ๋์ฃผ์์ ์น์คํ ๊ต์ยทํ์ ์ง ๊ถํ ์ถ์ ๋ฑ์ด ํฌํจ๋๋ค.
์ด์ ๋ํด ํ๋ฒ๋ ์ด์ฅ์ โ๋๋ถ๋ถ์ ์๊ตฌ์ฌํญ์ ๋จ์ํ ๋ฐ์ ๋์ฃผ์ ๋์์ ๋์ด ์ฐ๋ฐฉ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ๋ํ์ โ์ง์ ํ๊ฒฝโ์ ์ง์ ํต์ ํ๋ ค๋ ์๋โ๋ผ๊ณ ์ง์ ํ๋ค.
ํ๋ฒ๋๊ฐ ์ํ์ ๊ฑฐ๋ถํ์, ํ์ ๋ถ๋ ๊ณง๋ฐ๋ก 22์ต ๋ฌ๋ฌ ๊ท๋ชจ์ ๋ค๋
๊ฐ ๋ณด์กฐ๊ธ๊ณผ 6์ฒ๋ง ๋ฌ๋ฌ ์๋น์ ๊ณ์ฝ๊ธ ์งํ์ ์ค๋จํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํํ๋ค. ์ด์ด IRS(๊ตญ์ธ์ฒญ)๊ฐ ํ๋ฒ๋์ ๋น์๋ฆฌ ๋ฉด์ธ ์ง์ ์ฒ ํ๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ์ค์ด๋ผ๋ ๋ณด๋๋ ๋์๋ค. ๊ฐ์ ๋ , ์ธ๊ตญ์ธ ์ ํ์ ์ ์น ๋ฅ๋ ฅ์๋ ์ ํ์ ๊ฐํ๊ฒ ๋ค๊ณ ์ํํ๋ค.
ํด๋น ์ํ์ ์ฐ๋ฐฉ ์ ๋ถ์ ํ๋ฒ๋ ๊ฐ์ โ์ฌ์ ๊ด๊ณ ์ ์ง๋ฅผ ์ํ ์์น์ ํฉ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ฐโ์ผ๋ก ์ ์๋์ผ๋ฉฐ, GSA(์ด๋ฌด์ฒญ) ์์ ๊ณ ์ ๊ด๊ณ์ ์กฐ์ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ์๋ฐ์, ๊ต์ก๋ถ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์๋ฌธ๊ด ๋ํ ํ ๋จธ์ค ํ ๋ฌ, ๋ณด๊ฑด๋ณต์ง๋ถ ๋ฒ๋ฅ ์๋ฌธ๊ด ๋ํ ์ ์ผ๋ฒ๋๊ฐ ์๋ช
ํ๋ค.
ํ๋ฒ๋๊ฐ ์ํ์ ๋ฐ์ ์งํ ๊ทธ๋ฃจ์๋ฐ์์ ํ๋ฒ๋ ์ธก ๋ณํธ์ฌ์๊ฒ ์ ํํด โ์ด ์ํ์ ๋ฐ์ก ์น์ธ๋์ง ์์ ๊ฒโ์ด๋ผ๊ณ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋, ์ดํ ์
์ฅ์ ๋ฐ๊พธ๋ฉฐ โ๋ฐ์ก ์์ ์ด์๋ ์ํ์ด์์ง๋ง ๊ธ์์ผ์ ์๋์๊ณ , ์์ง ์์ธก ๊ฐ์ ๊ฑด์ค์ ์ธ ๋ํ๊ฐ ์งํ ์ค์ด์๋คโ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๋ค.
ํ๋ฒ๋ ๋๋ณ์ธ์ โํด๋น ์ํ์ ์ฝ์๋๋ก 4์ 11์ผ์ ๋ฐ์ก๋์๋คโ๊ณ ๋ค์ ๊ฐ์กฐํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ โ์ค์ฌ ์ด ์ํ์ด ์ค์์๋๋ผ๋, ์ ๋ถ๊ฐ ์ด๋ฒ ์ฃผ์ ์ทจํ ์กฐ์น๋ ์ค์ ๋ก ํ์, ํ์, ๊ต์ง์, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ณ ๋ฑ๊ต์ก์ ๊ตญ์ ์ ์์์ ์ค์ง์ ์ธ ์ํฅ์ ๋ฏธ์น๊ณ ์๋คโ๊ณ ๋ง๋ถ์๋ค.
๋ฐฑ์
๊ด์ ํ๋ฒ๋์์ ํ์ ์ฌ์ง๋ ์ด๋ ค ์๋ค๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ค.
๋ฐฑ์
๊ด ๊ด๊ณ์๋ CNN์ โ๋ํ ๊ฐํ์ ์ํด ์ง์งํ ๋ณํ๊ฐ ํ์ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฒ ์ํ์ ํธ๋ผํ ๋ํต๋ น์ ์์ง๋ฅผ ๋ณด์ฌ์ค๋คโ๊ณ ์ ํ๋ค.
๊ทธ๋ โํ๋ฒ๋๋ ์ ์น์ ์ ์ค์ฒ ๋์ ์ ๋์ธ ํ์๋ค์ ์์ ์ ๋ณด์ฅํ๊ณ , ๊ณผ๊ฒฉ ์์์๋ฅผ ์ฑ
์์ง๊ฒ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์บ ํผ์ค ๋ด ์ฐจ๋ณ์ ๊ทผ์ ํ๋ ๋ฐ ์ง์คํด์ผ ํ๋คโ๊ณ ๋งํ๋ค.
ํํธ CNN์ ๋
ผํ ์์ฒญ์ ๋ํด ์ฐ๋ฐฉ ํ์คํฌํฌ์ค ๋๋ณ์ธ์ โํธ๋ผํ ํ์ ๋ถ ์ ์ฒด๊ฐ ๋ฉ์ธ์ ์๊ธ์ด ํฌ์
๋๋ ๊ธฐ๊ด์ด ๋ชจ๋ ๋ฏผ๊ถ๋ฒ์ ์ค์ํ๋๋ก ํ๊ฒ ๋ค๋ ์
์ฅ์ ์์ ํ ์ผ์นํ๊ณ ์๋คโ๊ณ ๋ฐํ๋ค. ๋ค๋ง, ์ํ์ด ์ค์๋ก ๋ฐ์ก๋ ๊ฒ์ธ์ง์ ๋ํด์๋ ํ์ธํ์ง ์์๋ค. |