Politics in education

The welcome at Ellis Island, New York, has for over 100 years stated, "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free", but now someone has used a black Sharpie marker to add "unless they want to go to Harvard".

Australia has over 100 students there at the moment, and despite Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem suggesting Harvard was “fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party” I doubt this involves Australia students, or the other overseas visitors. The Australian students will be studying hard, as they tell their parents, or having a few beers, the more likely reality.

Doesn't the US constitution have a first amendment that protects 'freedom of speech' even if Harvard was speaking inappropriately, which they aren't, or has it been crossed out with that big black Sharpie marker? Harvard University has a great reputation built over almost 400 years, Trump University didn't last a decade. Come to Australia, we have a number of great universities and you will be welcomed.

Dennis Fitzgerald,

Melbourne, Australia