Harvard President Alan Garber admitted that ‘we have a lack of approach’

Elon Garber, president of Harvard University, accepted a lack of conservative voices in the campus and a climate, where some students and employees feel unable to express “unpopular” ideas.In an interview with the NPR on Tuesday, Garber responded to the recent steps by the Trump administration, which for freezing billions of dollars in federal funding for the IV League Institution, citing anti-Jewish-Jewishism, and citing lack of diversity of approach.“In my view, the federal government is saying that we especially need to address the anti-Jewishism, but it has raised other issues, and it includes claims that we lack approach,” Garber said.He also recognized problems around free manifestations, “We think it’s a real problem if – especially a research university – students do not feel free to talk about their mind, when the faculty feels that they have to think twice before talking about the subjects they are teaching.”The president of the Ivy League further said that it is related to this when people think that they feel that they are unpopular. Quoting New York Post,Asked whether the issue of Alapapriya Rai was true, he replied that some people are heard that they feel like this.Garber also pushed back against Trump’s intense attacks on Harvard, describing the US President’s campaign as “surprising”.On Monday, Trump said that he was considering redirecting $ 3 billion in federal grants, which he called “very anti-Jewish” university, instead the target was to invest money in trade schools instead. The next day, the White House indicated a plan to cancel all the remaining federal contracts with the institute.So far, about $ 3.2 billion in grants and contracts remains frozen, the administration has accused Harvard of failing to work against the anti-Jewish and alleged breed-based discrimination in entry and recruitment.Garber criticized the funding freeze, arguing that it not only harms Harvard but also national research efforts. He said, “Why the research fund was cut? Certainly, it damages Harvard, but it damages the country because finally, research funding is not a gift,” he said, saying, saying that universities and other research institutes are provided to do research work, which the federal government names as the work of high-purpose. “This is the work they want to do. They are paying to organize the work.”He said, “Closing that work does not help the country, even punish Harvard, and it is difficult to see the link between it and says, anti-Jewish,” he said.