Columbia is just the first, a trial balloon, as it were. The administration was backed into a corner, to be certain. Their choices were to cave to Trump demands and have their reputation decimated, or to stand up to those demands and be ruined by Trump. Other universities will face the same.
4-6 years of work and enormous tuitions and peaceful protests leave them with nothing because they protested for Gaza. Unconstitutional. This is not Russia.
"It also comes after the government cut $400m in federal funding for Columbia on March 7. The university was one of 60 institutions threatened with further cuts in a letter from US authorities this week." So that is the reason.
My father attended Columbia in the 50’s. He went on to found a rigorous academic preparatory school with my mother in Guadalajara, Mexico. He would’ve been infuriated and disgraced by this action by Columbia! Sickening!
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