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newdeal2

(4,765 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 03:58 PM Mar 2025

Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding

Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding

Archive link: https://archive.ph/1elJh

Columbia University will cede to President Trump’s far-reaching demands in negotiations over $400 million in federal funding he revoked this month, according to a memo from the school to the administration.

Columbia agreed to ban masks, empower 36 campus police officers with new powers to arrest students and appoint a senior vice provost with broad authority to oversee the department of Middle East, South Asian and African Studies as well as the Center for Palestine Studies.


Yikes. We are moving into fascism faster day by day.
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Columbia Yields to Trump in Battle Over Federal Funding (Original Post) newdeal2 Mar 2025 OP
I am sick to my stomach. DODI Mar 2025 #1
Freedom, Liberty, Democracy defacto7 Mar 2025 #2
Of course it did. AloeVera Mar 2025 #3
Message: "Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated" dalton99a Mar 2025 #4

defacto7

(14,160 posts)
2. Freedom, Liberty, Democracy
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 04:02 PM
Mar 2025

Filed away into the Columbia University ancient history archives.

AloeVera

(3,990 posts)
3. Of course it did.
Fri Mar 21, 2025, 04:22 PM
Mar 2025

No more Centre for Palestine Studies. To be replaced by the Centre for Eretz Israel Studies. Brainwashing and propagandizing the next generation.

At the cost of killing the First Amendment, terrorizing, harassing and silencing pro-Palestinian students and silencing all dissent next. Oh and the degradation of higher ed and loss of academic freedom.

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