Some more details in The Crimson article: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/1/faculty-pledge-salary-donations/
> Government and Sociology professor Theda R. Skocpol said in an interview that though her pledge to donate was "significant money" for her and her husband, she felt it was necessary to support Harvard in its efforts to defend "basic constitutional rights."
> "The letter that the Trump administration sent to Harvard University is one of the most Stalinist things I've ever read, and I've studied communist revolutions," Skocpol said. "It requires a firm and very broad response inside and beyond the universities."
Meanwhile, #Harvard administration tries hard to play it both ways: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/4/30/Harvard-Fights-Retreats/
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