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memento mori's avatar

While I am sure you are aware of this, It is questionable whether Columbia actually acceded. In a Columbia faculty Zoom call, Columbia president Katrina Armstrong suggests the "changes" at Columbia are all show. https://freebeacon.com/campus/what-columbia-university-president-really-told-faculty-members/

These people play dirty and I don't trust Columbia or any other organization that Trump may "leverage."

In my opinion, it begins with the media. If the legacy media outlets don't change their tune (fat chance) or they crumble one-by-one (slim chance), no amount of leverage on other institutions will result in real change.

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Tom's avatar

Columbia is not actually cooperating. All they did was write a single non-binding letter, while the President of the University privately tells faculty that nothing will change. There were already masked protests the day after masked protests were "banned."

There are so many other examples of this, both externally visible and visible inside to people inside the university (but not yet reported).

The Trump admin's approach needs to be MUCH more aggressive. "Pausing" $400M is not enough -- they need to cancel 100% of all of Columbia's federal grants. They are blowing a generational opportunity for reform.

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