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Indiana’s Butler University is toning down the rhetoric surrounding an anti-Donald Trump course being offered to students this fall.Students now have the option to sign up for a “Special Topics” class titled “Trumpism & U.S. Democracy.” An initial course description charged the president with “perpetuating sexism, white supremacy, xenophobia, nationalism, nativism, and imperialism.”ANTI-TRUMP COURSE AT BUTLER UNIVERSITY OFFERS ‘STRATEGIES FOR RESISTANCE’“This course explores why and how this happened, how Trump’s rhetoric is contrary to the foundation of the U.S. democracy, and what his win means for the future,” read the first description on Butler’s website. The course also promised to...

Butler University has awarded endowed scholarships on the basis of race and gender, The College Fix has learned. Butler removed the listing of all endowed scholarships, totaling approximately $2.4 million, from the university website before the 2013-2014 school year after inquiry from a parent of a prospective student. The ScholarshipsThe “race-conscious” scholarships Butler has offered include scholarships that are only awarded to African-American students, an award limited to “a female student of Hispanic descent,” an award limited to “a woman of Indian descent” (unless Butler cannot find one) and an award that declares, “Preference will be given to Caucasian undergraduates...