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(26,563 posts) Mon Aug 4, 2025, 12:44 AM Aug 4

Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump

Source: Harvard Crimson

Updated August 3, 2025, at 11:06 a.m.

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 has told faculty that a deal with the Trump administration is not imminent and denied that the University is considering a $500 million settlement, according to three faculty members familiar with the matter.

The University is seriously considering resolving its dispute with the White House through the courts rather than a negotiated settlement, Garber said, according to the three faculty members.
. . .

The Trump administration has pushed Harvard to cut an even costlier deal, and the New York Times reported last Monday that the University is considering a settlement with a price tag of half a billion dollars.

But Garber, in a conversation with one faculty member, said that the suggestion that Harvard was open to paying $500 million is “false” and claimed that the figure was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials, according to the three faculty familiar with the conversation.

Read more: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/8/3/garber-500-million-trump/

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Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump (Original Post) swag Aug 4 OP

Go to court! Bayard Aug 4 #1

This message was self-deleted by its author Bayard Aug 4 #2

Harvard! Don't capitulate! Bread and Circuses Aug 4 #3

Note to journalists: there are no reliable sources in the White House. hay rick Aug 4 #4

I had a good laugh at thought that he has just made this whole thing up and his media will go with ANYTHING? Brainfodder Aug 4 #5

How did we, the general public, get the obviously false information about Harvard capitulating Buddyzbuddy Aug 4 #6

If the NYT reported that "White House officials say Settlement with HArvard is immanent..." it is not a lie. SomewhereInTheMiddle Aug 5 #9

If what you say is true then Faux News is only repeating Buddyzbuddy Aug 5 #10

If Texas gets away with this every blue state should do the same thing. totodeinhere Aug 4 #7

NYT lied. Period mcar Aug 4 #8

Bayard

(26,974 posts)

1. Go to court!

Reply to swag (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 12:59 AM

Aug 4

Hold his feet to the fire, Garber. I don't see how he can win this. Ok.....maybe if it goes to the Supremes.

Fight! Fight! Fight!

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Bread and Circuses

(1,141 posts)

3. Harvard! Don't capitulate!

Reply to swag (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 05:10 AM

Aug 4

hay rick

(9,043 posts)

4. Note to journalists: there are no reliable sources in the White House.

Reply to swag (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 10:43 AM

Aug 4

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)

5. I had a good laugh at thought that he has just made this whole thing up and his media will go with ANYTHING?

Reply to swag (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 11:04 AM

Aug 4

Buddyzbuddy

(1,451 posts)

6. How did we, the general public, get the obviously false information about Harvard capitulating

Reply to swag (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 05:28 PM

Aug 4

by agreeing to pay $500,000,000?

It seems simple enough to have reported the truth, had the press just asked Harvard President Garber, is this true? And, his response would be no. How difficult would that have been?

It's obvious this Administration lied to the American public via the press that continues to capitulate to the Felon by just regurgitating what has been fed to them by "un-named Whitehouse sources". You are not reporters, you are spokespeople. An embarrassment to real journalists.

I will tell you what I used to tell my daughter when she didn't want to do her homework.
"Repeat after me, would you like fries with that?" Because, that's the only job you will be qualified for if you don't exercise some self discipline and do the job at hand.

SomewhereInTheMiddle

(568 posts)

9. If the NYT reported that "White House officials say Settlement with HArvard is immanent..." it is not a lie.

Reply to Buddyzbuddy (Reply #6)

Tue Aug 5, 2025, 05:39 AM

Aug 5

Just bad journalism, as you point out. Because it implies that what the White House says is the truth without confirming it with Harvard.

Depending on how the NYT reported it, it could be accurate yet misleading at the same time.

I expect more from them and other "reputable" news outlets and am often disappointed.

I almost typed media outlet instead of news and that would have been more accurate and carried less expectation of ethical and unbiased reporting. We don't have a lot of actual journalism around anymore.

[Kids today ... get offa my lawn!]

Buddyzbuddy

(1,451 posts)

10. If what you say is true then Faux News is only repeating

Reply to SomewhereInTheMiddle (Reply #9)

Tue Aug 5, 2025, 03:01 PM

Aug 5

what has been told (reported) to them. That would let them off the hook and nothing they "report" is a lie. This administration has told lies again and again, not untruths, not exaggerations but outright lies. At what point does a reporter no longer accept reports from the White House as the truth. Either make them prove their statements to be true or stop calling their reports news. They might want to go work for the National Enquirer and call it a day.

I get your point but I disagree.

totodeinhere

(13,667 posts)

7. If Texas gets away with this every blue state should do the same thing.

Reply to swag (Original post)

Mon Aug 4, 2025, 05:52 PM

Aug 4

Gerrymander the heck out of California, New York, Illinois and Massachusetts and every other blue state.

mcar

(45,305 posts)

8. NYT lied. Period

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Mon Aug 4, 2025, 06:16 PM

Aug 4

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