Who Owns the University?

American Greatness ^ | 26 Mar, 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

[Bon of Babble]

These universities that allow this - students shouting down and threatening speakers they don't like - tearing statues down of founders (such as at Rice) - or mandating name changes (such as at UC Hastings School of Law) - should be held to account.

The Hastings family is fighting back after the name change:

As of last October, six descendants of S. C. Hastings are suing to undo the name change... or else return to them the $100,000 in gold that Hastings provided to found the school, which with interest is now reckoned to be worth $1.7 billion

Included in the lawsuit is what amounts to a claim of posthumous libel on the benefactor. The suit claims the name change, with the ”genocide” accusations, also defames Hastings’ descendants and even the school’s law graduates.

(T)here is no known evidence that S.C. Hastings desired, requested, or knowingly encouraged any atrocities against Native Americans,” the suit asserted, and neither Hastings nor his descendants have had “any opportunity for a judicial trial as to these horrific allegations,” the suit said. It said the state’s subsequent action “heaps scorn and punishment upon S.C. Hastings, his descendants, and indeed, by association, upon all of the tens of thousands of Hastings law graduates living and deceased.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-11-06/uc-hastings-college-of-the-law-name-change

Good for them. Hope donations dry up as well - my university will never get another penny from me after they went "woke."

[Ford4000]

Tax-exempt status needs to be limited to churches and legitimate charities. That is a tax “increase” I would support.

[minnesota_bound]

What do they do with the $36 billion endowment money?
Same question for Harvard and Yale etc.