Jodi Hilton

6 days ago | cambridgeday.com | Jodi Hilton

In Donald Trump’s escalating war on academia and particularly Harvard, he has threatened to wield his presidential powers to cut off $9 billion in funding, the school’s tax exemption and now its right to host international students.

1 week ago | cambridgeday.com | Jodi Hilton

Following pressure from students, faculty and the greater community, Harvard president Alan Garber issued a strong statement Monday condemning the Donald Trump administration’s threat to freeze up to $9 billion in federal funding. In it he notes that the administration’s move “violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI,” the federal prohibition against discrimination.

1 week ago | cambridgeday.com | Jodi Hilton

More than a thousand people gathered on Cambridge Common on Saturday to demand that Harvard stand up to the latest threats coming from the Donald Trump administration. Late last month, the administration threatened to freeze nearly $9 billion in federal grants, part of an attack on elite universities including Princeton and Columbia ostensibly to weed out antisemitism on campus.

4 weeks ago | cambridgeday.com | Jodi Hilton

Thousands gathered at the apex of the storied Powder House Square in Somerville on Wednesday in support of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts graduate student and Fulbright scholar who was detained by federal agents in front of her Somerville home Tuesday.

Sep 6, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Ruby Cramer |Jodi Hilton

NORFOLK, Mass. — Here was the town where Kevin Roche grew up: empty sidewalks, a coffee shop, a pharmacy, two pizza parlors, two ambulances, two roundabouts and no grocery store. A small, quiet town, people in Norfolk said. Pleasant. Safe. Nothing much to do, and that meant nothing much changed from one morning to the next or the next, until this morning, when Kevin woke up and knew that the town would be different by the time the day was over.