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Columbia cedes to Trump admin demands after threat to withhold funds (apnews.com)

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Columbia University has capitulated to Trump Administration demands in order to secure federal funding. The major concessions are as follows.

> Columbia will ban masks on campus during protests.

> The University will hire 36 more on campus police officers.

> The Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Departments will be placed under Academic Receivership for 5 years, meaning the departments will be run by an outside group while the existing staff will be put under their control.

> The University will adopt a "position of institutional neutrality".

> The University will hire more Jewish academics for its Institute for Israel and Jewish Studies in order to counter balance pro-Palestinian staff.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also read up on Mahmoud Khalil, a legal resident of the USA and employee at Columbia, who was nevertheless arrested for deportation in his appartment, without any reason.

Or listen to this WNYC On The Media episode. It's all laid out in the interviews. Those idiots even double down on it: "But he was a legal resident since his graduation in Dec 24?" - "Yeah that will be rescinded too!"

That episode predicted that Columbia might bow to the financial blackmail.