"A year ago, Harvard's commencement, our graduation, was really, in a significant way, disrupted by students protesting, including some faculty protesting, marching out of the graduation, speakers denouncing the president and the corporation of Harvard, which is what we call our board of directors. This year, commencement was pretty much the polar opposite. There was literally a standing ovation for our president, Alan Garber, when all he had done was come up to the podium. And speaker after speaker hinted at the importance of supporting the university. So what's happened is that Donald Trump's assault on the university has led to a deep unification of the campus. And that's an important transformation from a year ago. I would say it's a fundamental transformation."
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Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard University & founding director of the University's Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law, in an interview with Terry Gross on 3 June 2025, billion-dollar war on Harvard, explained", NPR, 4 June 2025
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