Trump Admin Strips Columbia of $400 Million in Grants
Trump already threatened higher education institutions to pull federal funding over illegal protests.
The Free Press learned that President Donald Trump stripped Columbia University of $400 million in grants:
Leo Terrell, the head of the DOJ’s antisemitism task force, said the funding cuts are “only the beginning.”
“Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding,” Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement. “For too long, Columbia has abandoned that obligation to Jewish students studying on its campus.”
Columbia did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Trump already threatened higher education institutions to pull federal funding over illegal protests.
Antisemitic protests have ravaged Columbia since last spring.
The Department of Education and Health and Human Services didn’t provide details.
These people are still terrorizing the campus:
The Free Press mentioned how others claimed cutting grants interferes with important science research.
Well, if those projects yield such important results, then you would think the college would clean up its act.
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Step 1) No masks or keffiyehs on campus
Step 2) Arrest and identify students for expulsion, non-students for trespassing. Bar both from returning on campus
Step 3) Fire faculty participating in unlawful activities or discrimination
Step 4) Ban all campus US designated terrorist supporting organizations organizations
deport foreign agitators
Keffiyehs are not masks. They are scarves. If you want to ban them, then OK, but you then need to ban all scarves.
You know that that’s not true.
Keffiyehs are definitely a political statement and it’s disingenuous of you to pretend otherwise.
the problem is that anyone who would be bold enough to wear an anti blmplo clothing would have to face the lefty violence that is sanctioned by the leftist in charge
aka L.I.C
Political statements are fine. I have no problem with college students doing that. The problem is when they then wrap them around their heads to prevent identification and commit illegal acts like vandalizing a building or terrorizing people based on the peoples religion.
When a keffiyeh is worn as a mask, dummy, it’s a mask, not a scarf.
And masks should be banned.
That’s like saying that a Nazi flag is a flag and therefore all flags must be banned.
Keffiyehs are specifically identifiable and convey a political message.
Still too complicated for you? Let’s say a decorate a pine tree with various assorted ribbons and even perhaps little models of the planet Saturn.
Could you distinguish it from a Christmas tree which is laden with symbolism?
I bet you could.
Keffiyehs Are the equivalent of Klan robes. Burkas are the equivalent of Klan robes also.
So a ban on pointy white hoods would only be OK if all other hats are banned?
When scarves are used to cover the mouth and nose in order to conceal identity, they become masks. That’s obvious to anyone to watch cowboy movies as a kid. Maybe you didn’t, which would explain your skewed sense of right and wrong.
Step 2.5: Bill the expelled students for all damages caused during protests.
Step 2.6: Publish the names and pictures of those expelled so other schools and potential employers know to stay far away from them.
Step 3.1: All students expelled and faculty fired should, if they are not citizens, be reported to ICE so they can be immediately deported,
Score me as opposed to a ban on keffiyehs. Because they are worn to project a political message (even if it indicates support for terror or a terrorist organization), they are protected by the First Amendment, which specifically protects political speech and expression.
I can imagine there snowflakes who are intimidated by MAGA hats. Would it be OK to ban them? Obviously, not. (“Snowflakes” You can tell how old I am.)
I actually bought a keffiyeh to wear as sun protection on mountain hikes. Although I no longer wear it (my personal political statement), I used to draw admiring and approving looks from the Muslim ladies I encountered on the trails.
They are practical, especially in hot dry weather. I agree it should be allowed so long as they are not used as masks. But frequently they are. So our bandannas, but I wouldn’t propose banning them. But when used as a mask, there should be no exemption.
When I first moved to Arizona, I was amused to realize that banks didn’t give a damn if you open-carried a handgun into the lobby, but don’t you dare wear your motorcycle helmet inside!
Change step one to “No masks”. If they want to wear a scarf go ahead but if they get used as a mask then immediate arrest.
I’d also insert into Step 2 “upon arrest all head coverings are removed for positive ID. Let’s take a look at who these people are.
Step 4 “All identified foreign students engaging in illegal activity will have their student visa’s revoked, be expelled from the country and a permanent bar to re entry invoked.
If someone wants to wear a keffiyeh around his neck or as a head cover Arafat Y”Sh style, I will think him an evil idiot who will pay for it in this world or the next, but with the constitutional right to advertise it. But the minute it’s used to thwart identification, there needs to be criminal consequences.
2 to the head, 1 to the chest, let God sort it out,
Leo Terrell has come a long way. His meltdowns on Hannity 15-20 years ago were always entertaining. I’m glad that he saw the light and ditched leftism.
Leo had a “retro-moment” Saturday night on Levin’s show… He really tore into the schools, especially the “Ivys” for their acceptance of the anti-Israel violence.
Another good Trump pick.
I’m listening right now to a seminar on Marx from Columbia on the Grundrisse. Unusual in that the invited speakers don’t have a thick French accent that’s so difficult to understand that they put subtitles on it. This guy sort of hums in empty intervals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-ox1NlJElg
Groucho or Chicko?
To me, this is the wrong course of action.
The DOJ should seek criminal charges against protesting individuals, administration, and the police hierarchy (who ordered police to stand down) for civil rights violations and not the school in general.
The number of protestors is relatively small compared to the total number of students, faculty, workers, etc.
In essence, the withholding of funds penalizes the Jewish students who where the subject of the civil rights violations as the number of opportunities for them using grant money is reduced. The same is true for those students who wanted nothing to do with the protests and stayed away completely. It also doesn’t penalize the protestors who are not even students or staff members but are professional agitators.
Arrest and convict the people who participated in the protests and those who allowed the protests to continue. Let them pay the price as individuals rather than punishing innocent students and students that are victims.
The withholding of funds penalizes all the students on the campus, making it likely the majority will bring social pressure on the minority troublemakers to stop their agitation and threats.
Still not keen on putting pressure on an institution to stop political expression on campus. I believe Nazis and the KKK should be able to demonstrate and recruit anywhere, like every other political persuasion. But supporters of Palestine aren’t? If there’s a problem on campus, it’s that the Jewish students are being cowed into not expressing themselves for fear of violence. So I have to agree with those supporting actual criminal charges against anyone who violates the law, and investigations (followed by firings) of any employees who either encouraged lawlessness or didn’t use their legal authority to prevent the lawlessness.
I assume the principle is one of police powers. Sure, the federal government can cancel the visa of an arrested troublemaker, but when you run into a school who routinely doesn’t arrest or even identify their troublemakers, what are they going to do? You give the school incentive to up their game and do what they should be doing. And perhaps this is the only leverage Trump has against such a school.
More where this came from, please — extended to all the other major universities that take federal funding and have fecklessly enabled, coddled and kowtowed to genocidal, Jew-hating Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists and their non-Muslim, Dhimmi-crat allies.
No more Columbia football scholarships!
A long time ago I shared an office (not on campus) with Columbia graduate students. I was a grad student myself at another university at the time, and could compare my experience with those at Columbia. Wow at that time, Columbia treated engineering and math students terribly. Another friend was a statistics major there, and told me a story about a professor teaching a course in group theory. A student asked him a question, and the professor drew a diagram on the blackboard to help him with the answer. BUT he covered up the diagram with his body. He was not about to reveal this helpful trick to his students.
Shut the whole place down. It’s beyond redemption. Tolerating and even encouraging violence against Jewish students qualifies as unforgivable. Make an example of Columbia by putting it out of business. My daughter was accepted there, but I wouldn’t let her go. Not on my dime. I hate the place with a passion. It’s only gotten worse since the time I had a connection.
I can’t imagine a stat student in group theory. How did they end up in n abstract algebra course?
Do a search on “group theory and statistics.” Using the Brave search engine, the very item to come up:
“Group theory and statistics intersect in various ways, particularly through the application of group theory to understand and analyze statistical problems. One notable example is the use of group theory in the context of permutations and their representations, as illustrated by Persi Diaconis’s work on using group theory to better understand statistics and machine learning.”
Group theory permeates virtually everything. Lie groups come up in differential equations, and differential geometry (DG). You need DG in statistics. For example the EM algorithm. I had abstract algebra in graduate school and my major was primarily applied mathematics. As an electrical engineering undergraduate I took topology.
Ok now?
It’s a good start.
Very very good news. Now we just need to see more and more of this until the garbage is stomped out
Solutions to problems are to FOLLOW THE MONEY. Well if no other solution is found, STOP THE MONEY – feds, states, parents, scholarship entities.
NO ONE wins in this situation until the rot is removed.
>”Trump Admin Strips Columbia of $400 Million in Grants”
And a federal district court orders him to reinstate the $400 million in grants and imposes a permanent injunction/restraining order on the Trump administration from attempting to do it again at any university/college. Guaranteed.
When are people going to understand the country is now being governed by the judicial branch of government and until they courts are reined in nothing will change.
Unless that judge has a key to the cash register, his opinion means dick. Things aren’t what they purport to be unless there is substance behind them. A store security guard without a gun is a speedbump at best. My dad taught us that there are only 3 laws, and they all have to do with physics. Everything is is a suggestion, at best. When I look at a crosswalk, I think more about the law of inertia than about some made up traffic regulation.
There are some basic laws of economics, as people who forget about supply & demand soon learn, unless they are in government.
Trump!
redstate has an article on who some of the agitators are along with pictures. There is also a story out there that 1 unnamed foreign student had their visa pulled and is being kicked out.
Actually LI has these stories in quick takes. I knew I saw it somewhere.
A United States Federal District Court judge, in the Southern District of New York, will issue an order reversing the ban. The order will be treated as a sacred religious icon by Democrats everywhere. The New York Times will call this Judge courageous and a a sacred advocate of academic freedom.
This needs to be done with engineering schools, in that they play a big role in our competiveness.
Witholding $400 million is a slap on the wrist.
“Columbia University currently holds more than $5 billion in federal grant commitments.”
And fire any and all involved professors or staff, regardless of tenure.
Now do it to every last sanctuary city.
This is cutting off the head of the snake, if you take out Columbia and their factory of hate the other dominoes will fall: UCLA, Harvard, Cornell, the entire UC system, CUNYs, DePaul, etc. They all copy cat off of Columbia and their raging encampments of hate. I hope this miserable school shuts down and is disgraced, they are disgusting and beyond the point of fixing. No education has been going on there for a long time, and a degree from this school at this point is worthless.
There’s a reason it’s called Bir Zeit on the Hudson.
tax money should not be supporting anything if its not the
military
courts
treasury
everything else is local
Places like Hillsdale college would find better uses for that money.
Being a Hillsdale alumna, I can tell you that the college is very adamant about NOT taking any federal money at all. I know what you mean by finding better use for that money at a good conservative school, but Hillsdale wouldn’t even consider taking a thin dime. It’s not in our DNA.
It’s stupid to complain that cutting funding would halt important work. Of course it does. A threat to withhold funding that doesn’t threaten anything important isn’t much of a threat.
The “protests” have crossed the line into civil rights violations of intimidation and harassment of individuals on a religious basis. DHS should step in and arrest the thugs engaged in this if the local police and college officials refuse.
$400 million is not much in light of federal support of Columbia’s big physical science centers (e.g. Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Goddard Institute of Space Studies among others), medical/NIH funding at Presbyterian, big government at School of International and Public Affairs, etcetera, etcetera. Would be interesting to know which funding stream was pulled. National Science Foundation maybe?
Seems I read somewhere they have a huge endowment fund. They can draw from that. The amount they charge for tuition should cover their expenses. No more taxpayer dollars.