Harvard Students Describe Campus Environment ‘Hostile’ For Conservatives

Specialties: Three students from Harvard University talk about their experiences as members of the political movement in what they feel is a campus “hostile” to their views.

The students, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described feelings of innocence and experiences that undermined the idea that the school community was tolerant of all political views.

“A good example of this, would be something like this, the university is very strict in not using events with outside groups when it comes to the Republic Club, let’s say, we try to dress events,” said one student. “But the Democrats often get away with doing that. No questions asked.”

The student also described what they believe is “selective enforcement” of campus rules when it comes to right-wing events on campus.

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“There have been other things, like this, the Republican club puts on a big event, and they send a bunch of managers to use their seats, while the Democrieds sit well in their seats, while the Prim Democrats can manage the seats well and everywhere they can speak well and there is nothing,” said the student.

Inside the classroom, the student described a culture of silence by those who disagree with the leftist professor, for fear of academic and social reprisals.

“I think most of the students get the idea that the sensible thing to do is just sort of toe the line, for sort of academic and social reasons,” the student said. “I mean, planning, especially in the social sciences, is on the right side of getting degrees to graduate students, usually good quality workers.”

Harvard President Alan Garber accepts an additional round of applause during Harvard University’s commencement ceremony, May 29, 2025, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo / Charles Krupa)

The student also described the feeling of “ostracization” in society from “class.” The student later added that the “freedom of orthodoxy” was “reported to the center.”

As proof of the last claim, this student pointed to a panel held on Oct. 9 by the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics called “Across the Divide: Planning to Build Bridges in Corporate Times.”

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He noted that the three speakers on the panel about closing the division were all Democrats: former massachusetts rep. Joe Kennedy III; Derrick Johnson, NAAC President of the Travel Division; and New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.

One student described the social backlash he faced from fellow students after he said he was considering joining a new right-wing movement on campus.

“They give you dirty looks. They don’t want to be together with you. They start arguing with you, they start attacking you,” said the student.

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While we noted that some students have expressed political speech in good faith, the student said that most are hateful.

“A lot of people are saying, ‘Well, do you support Trump’s racism? Do you really support the deportation rates that are tearing families apart and, you know, leaving children without parents?'” the student said.

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“The main thing I have faced [Trump] The administration went down and fought with Harvard, if people know that you are a Trump sponsor, they think of you as an enemy of the university, just as they think that Trump is an enemy of the university. And because of that, they think of you as their enemy, because their identity is tied to the fact that, you know, ‘I’m a Harvard student.’ So if you’re pro-trump, that means you’re anti-harvard, that means you’re anti-me. “

The student noted similar attitudes between the faculty.

“I believe that the faculty of the university, through their views in public and in the classroom, have proven that they do not tolerate conservative views,” they said. “Professors have been attacked more on the other side, and they share more of their comments in public and in the classroom and they don’t respect the views of conservative students.”

The Trump administration announced it was freezing more than $2 billion in grants and contracts after Harvard University said it would not comply with federal demands regarding antisemitism. (Reuters / Nicholas PFOSI)

The broad sentiment shared by all three students is what they consider to be Harvard’s current effort to remove the Trump administration by appearing to accept favorable policies. None of the students believe that the effort is sincere.

“Harvard is under a growing magnifying glass now,” said one student. “And so the administration of Harvard has tried to just move itself to make friends in the last ways, or at least it appears that way. Everything is coming up with the necessary softening measures to try and soften the blow of the [Trump] money cuts. “

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That student referred to Carole Hooven, who spent 20 years teaching biology until 2021. Appearances on “Fox” and “men” were removed despite the idea of ​​ending the words. His language was called “Transpobic” by the Dei Coordinator in the department of human and environmental biology.

The situation is set there, of the students who attack and the administrators reject his representation, as he explained in a comment piece last year. He retired from teaching in 2023, never recovering from the famous damage his comments caused.

Banners at the Harry Elkins WEGENENER Memory Library on the Harvard University Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)

“So it’s clear when they had a bid on their side, they … The shooters who shoot oppressors, oppress people,” said the student. “When they’re like, guys, they’re remembered by whatever presidential administration they call at that time, they go crazy.”

The reader then compared Hoven’s case to that of Dean Gregory Davis, who recently came under fire for fighting social media postings. He’s on semester break, but still employed by the University, proving, according to a student, that anti-conservative racism is alive and well on campus.

One student said that when Trump won the Presidency in 2024, there was a brief weight lifted, and some conservative students just flashed their support for Trump while the school administration focused on open discussion.

But it was too little, too late, the student said.

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“For us that, that seemed to like it too much, well, it’s too late now,” said the student. “It was completely hostile, and now to save face so that your donors and [Trump] Management isn’t crazy about you, you just kind of change your tune. “

The student also brought Davis social media posts to raise awareness of leftist racism on campus.

“This recent incident with this dean, I think proves the point,” the student said. “Everything is done, because when there is a person in a position of power who says … He has a history, even an incomplete history, as a person who has some kind of making violent statements, they would not remove him, right?”

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“Any service they’re doing for us right now and trying to make us feel better about the situation and trying to say all the views and things like this, and it’s because they have to deal with federal investigations and different situations,” the student said later.

The Trump administration this year investigated Harvard for antisemitic discrimination on campus.

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Despite what students consider an anti-conservationative bias, one predicted a conservative revival, citing the Charlie Kirk assassination as fuel for conservative college students to speak out.

“I will say that I think between the small contradictions of the saved students, when they are facing the fire, when they are facing the enemy, as you can say, or at least when there is a stronger passion than before.”

Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.