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  • The Ivy League Hoodlums Are Getting What They Deserve

    05/12/2025 4:28:49 AM PDT · by george76 · 16 replies
    Hot Air ^ | May 11, 2025 | Betsy McCaughey
    You and I have to pay more taxes so elite universities that willfully break the law discriminating against Jews, whites and Asians can get tax exemptions. It's a slap in the face. Yet Harvard alum Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is trying to turn the tables, accusing the Trump administration of "weaponizing" the IRS to strip Harvard of its 501c3 tax exempt status. Truth is, Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status because it's guilty of illegally allowing the civil rights of Jewish students to be trashed. The case against Harvard is a slam dunk. Numerous other universities where Jewish students are...
  • Bill Ackman says Trump is doing ‘precisely the right thing’ as admin freezes billions of dollars for Harvard

    05/07/2025 4:05:02 AM PDT · by george76 · 5 replies
    New York Post ^ | May 6, 2025
    Billionaire investor Bill Ackman on Tuesday said Harvard University, one of the nation’s oldest and wealthiest, should not be entitled to taxpayer funds when the school wastes money on what he calls “administrative bloat.” Ackman, who earned undergraduate and business degrees from Harvard more than three decades ago, was speaking hours after the Trump administration said it was freezing future grants to Harvard. He also criticized the school’s investment policies, saying the Ivy League university is facing a financial crisis and that its $53 billion endowment is “poorly invested.” ... “They have lost all future grants, their tax exemptions are...
  • Harvard rebrands DEI office as Office of Community and Campus Life

    05/06/2025 7:22:19 AM PDT · by george76 · 26 replies
    Campus Reform ^ | May 5, 2025 | Patrick McDonald
    Harvard University has renamed its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office following the Trump administration’s decision to freeze billions in federal funding to the school. The university made the announcement on Monday; the name adjustment was announced by Sherri A. Charleston, the school’s former chief diversity officer. ... Harvard University has renamed its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) office following the Trump administration’s decision to freeze billions in federal funding to the school. The DEI center, which was previously called the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, has been renamed to the “Office of Community and Campus Life,” as...
  • Columbia Med Students Condemn University After Classmate Who Stormed Library Returns to Campus

    05/06/2025 6:16:54 AM PDT · by george76 · 9 replies
    Washington Free Beacon. ^ | May 5, 2025 | Jessica Costescu
    Gabrielle Wimer’s suspension ‘effectively is an extended vacation,’ one person who spotted her says ... Columbia University medical students accused the Ivy League school of pushing a double standard after a classmate who was suspended following her arrest for storming a Barnard College building returned to campus. The student, Gabrielle Wimer, appears to be on course to graduate later this month. Wimer was one of the four anti-Israel Columbia students arrested for storming Barnard’s Milstein Library in March. The Ivy League university promptly suspended the quartet and restricted them from campus, though officials didn't say how long the punishments would...
  • Director of Middle East Forum @greggroman reveals Columbia University Palestine activists reactivated their social media account just hours before the Oct 7th attack on Israel.

    04/28/2025 6:58:08 AM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies
    X ^ | Apr 27, 2025 | Oli London
    Director of Middle East Forum @greggroman reveals Columbia University Palestine activists reactivated their social media account just hours before the Oct 7th attack on Israel. “Columbia activists…reactivated the Students for Justice for Palestine social media accounts, which had been dormant for months prior to October 7th, 3 hours before the October 7th attacks took place.” Roman made the revelation while speaking with a panel of military experts at the @JNS_org International Policy Summit in Jerusalem today. .... Palenstine activists knew about the October 7th massacre hours before it happened should frighten every American citizen & every parent with children in...
  • Ancient Fossils Reveal Massive Rhino Herds Once Roamed Nebraska

    04/23/2025 4:04:37 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 28 replies
    Scitech Daily ^ | April 23, 2025 | Michael Miller, University of Cincinnati
    Ancient rhinos in Nebraska lived in large local herds and died slowly from volcanic ashfall, not sudden disaster. Credit: John Haxby/The University of Nebraska State Museum ************************************************************************* Volcanic eruption from 12 million years ago preserves a snapshot of extinct animal life. Rhinos that once roamed much of North America 12 million years ago likely lived in large herds, according to a new study by the University of Cincinnati. Researchers examined isotopes in the teeth of rhinos found in what is now northeast Nebraska. At this site, more than 100 rhinos died at a single water hole and were buried in...
  • “When Must We Kill Them?”: George Mason Student Captures the Growing Violent Ideation on the Left

    04/22/2025 6:57:08 AM PDT · by yesthatjallen · 120 replies
    jonathanturley.com ^ | 04 19 2025 | Jonathan Turley
    There is controversy at George Mason University after Nicholas Decker, an economics PhD student published an essay asking “When Must We Kill Them?” in reference to Trump and his supporters. The essay captures the growing violent ideation on the left, fueled by rage rhetoric from politicians and commentators. The danger is that, for some on the extremes of our society, the question is not “when must we kill them?” but “when can we kill them?” On his Substack “Homo Economicus,” Decker warns that “evil has come to America” and that Trump is “engaged in barbarism” and seeking “to destroy the...
  • Anxiety at US colleges as foreign students are detained and visas revoked

    04/19/2025 2:30:44 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 31 replies
    BBC News ^ | April 19, 2025 | by Brandon Drenon and Robin Levinson-King
    For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. The combination of targeted detentions and reports of wide-scale visa revocations have left campuses on edge, from the biggest public universities to elite Ivy League institutions. "I could be next," said one student visa-holder attending Georgetown University, who has written articles about Israel and the war in Gaza. Another student in Texas said he's afraid to leave his apartment,...
  • ROOKE: Grad Student Released Manifesto Exposing The Left’s Depraved Fantasies

    04/18/2025 8:54:55 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 49 replies
    Daily Caller ^ | April 17, 2025 | Mary Rooke, Commentary and Analysis Writer
    The left’s embrace of violence has reached the edge of the cliff. “The ultimate source of political power is, and always will be, violence,” George Mason University graduate student Nicholas Decker posted, promoting his recent Substack titled “When Must We Kill Them?” Decker is working on his PhD in economics, but his post had nothing to do with President Trump’s economic policy. Instead, it was a fantasy piece about the left murdering Trump administration officials, including Trump, over some perceived attack on Americans’ freedom. “Evil has come to America,” Decker said. “The present administration is engaged in barbarism; it has...
  • Will Harvard Go Full Hillsdale?

    04/17/2025 5:06:58 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 35 replies
    American Greatness ^ | 17 Apr, 2025 | Victor Davis Hanson
    Harvard risks $2.2B in federal funds as it defies anti-discrimination mandates, drawing comparisons to Hillsdale's stand-alone model of rejecting government strings. Harvard University has rejected various demands of a presidential commission on anti-Semitism. The task force wants to persuade Harvard to ensure Jewish students on its campus are no longer harassed, or else lose its federal funding. Harvard retorts that it won’t be bullied by Washington. Among its other requirements, the Trump administration also warned Harvard to cease using race as a criterion in its admissions, hiring, and promotion, contrary to law. And it also directed the campus to ban...
  • IRS making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax-exempt status

    04/16/2025 2:53:24 PM PDT · by hardspunned · 60 replies
    CNN ^ | 4/16/25 | Evan Perez and Alayna Treene
    The Internal Revenue Service is making plans to rescind the tax-exempt status of Harvard University, according to two sources familiar with the matter, which would be an extraordinary step of retaliation as the Trump administration seeks to turn up pressure on the university that has defied its demands to change its hiring and other practices. A final decision on rescinding the university’s tax exemption is expected soon, the sources said. The administration already has blocked more than $2 billion in funding from the nation’s oldest university, which is fighting the White House’s policy demands, citing the constitutional right of private...
  • Princeton Says Trump Administration Has Suspended Dozens of Research Grants

    04/04/2025 12:43:38 PM PDT · by cgbg · 33 replies
    The Epoch Times ^ | April 1,2025 | Aaron Gifford
    The Trump administration has suspended several dozen federally funded research grants to Princeton University as part of its investigation into campus anti-Semitism, according to a Princeton University email published by the Daily Princetonian student newspaper. The email, dated April 1 and sent to the campus community by university President Christopher Eisgruber, said the university received the notification from the funding agencies, including the Departments of Energy, Defense, and NASA.
  • Columbia Concedes to Trump’s Demands After Federal Funds Are Stripped

    03/21/2025 6:05:31 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 23 replies
    The New York Times ^ | March 21, 2025 Updated 7:16 p.m. ET | Troy Closson
    The administration has moved to cut $400 million in federal funding to the university without changes to its policies and rules.Columbia University agreed on Friday to overhaul its protest policies, security practices and Middle Eastern studies department in a remarkable concession to the Trump administration, which has refused to consider restoring $400 million in federal funds without major changes. The agreement, which stunned and dismayed many members of the faculty, could signal a new stage in the administration’s escalating clash with elite colleges and universities. Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan and dozens of other schools face federal inquiries and...
  • Maine universities agree to keep transgender athletes out of women's sports after Trump admin pauses funding

    03/21/2025 7:35:42 AM PDT · by george76 · 42 replies
    Fox News ^ | March 20, 2025 | Jackson Thompson
    Any false claim by the UMaine can, and will, result in onerous and even potentially criminal financial liability,' the USDA warned.. The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Wednesday that the University of Maine System (UMS) has agreed to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order to keep transgender athletes out of women's sports. UMS, a network of eight public universities in Maine, was subject to a temporary pause in funding from the USDA last week during an ongoing battle between the state and the federal government over trans inclusion in women's and girls sports. The funding was reinstated just days...
  • How Christian universities crash and burn

    03/20/2025 8:33:36 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 12 replies
    Chr ^ | 03/20/2025 | John G. West
    Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and many other universities were founded explicitly as Protestant Christian institutions, only to devolve over time into something else. So, in the latter half of the nineteenth century, Evangelical Protestants in America started again, creating a new generation of colleges and seminaries that they hoped would avoid the mistakes of their predecessors. But as the current controversy over Wheaton College attests, history seems to be repeating itself. And the problem reaches far beyond Wheaton. For 12 years I served as a professor at Seattle Pacific University (SPU). Founded by pious Free Methodists in the 1890s, the school...
  • 'Great uncertainty': UC system orders hiring freeze amid steep Trump cuts

    03/20/2025 3:58:33 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 20 replies
    SF Gate ^ | March 19, 2025 | By Madilynne Medina
    The University of California announced a systemwide hiring freeze as the Trump administration threatens to dramatically slash its funding. In a Wednesday statement, UC President Michael Drake said university leaders are preparing for “significant financial challenges ahead.” He also instructed every UC campus to create individual plans to cut and conserve costs as state and federal budget cuts loom, such as delaying maintenance and cutting back on business travel. Some of the executive orders and proposed policy changes by President Donald Trump have threatened the institution’s “lifesaving research, patient care, and education support,” Drake said. On the state level, the...
  • 60% of Columbia University’s Students Are International Students

    03/16/2025 5:17:12 PM PDT · by george76 · 35 replies
    Geller Report ^ | March 15, 2025 | Pamela Geller
    What fresh hell is this? Why are American taxpayers funding this? Columbia has one of the largest international student and scholar populations in the US. Columbia University has 35,978 students enrolled ...: Columbia University has more than 23,000 international students and scholars from 162 countries
  • Colleges Are in Trouble and Suddenly Realizing They Have Few Allies

    03/16/2025 4:07:35 PM PDT · by george76 · 46 replies
    Hot Air ^ | March 15, 2025 | John Sexton
    Columbia University is just the start of a long-brewing backlash. On Monday of this week the Trump administration's Department of Education put 60 schools on notice that they will lose federal funding if they don't do more to crack down on antisemitism on campus. “The Department is deeply disappointed that Jewish students studying on elite U.S. campuses continue to fear for their safety amid the relentless antisemitic eruptions that have severely disrupted campus life for more than a year. University leaders must do better,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “U.S. colleges and universities benefit from enormous public investments funded...
  • Columbia Encampment Leader Known for Owning 'Emotional Support Rabbit' Among Students Expelled for Storming Hamilton Hall

    03/14/2025 3:26:39 PM PDT · by george76 · 33 replies
    Washington Free Beacon. ^ | March 14, 2025 | Jessica Costescu
    An expulsion for Palestine is an honor, a sacrifice that pales in comparison to those of the Palestinian people,' Aidan Parisi wrote Thursday... Aidan Parisi, the son of a longtime State Department official who emerged last spring as a Columbia University encampment leader and is best known for owning an "emotional support rabbit," was among the students Columbia expelled for storming Hamilton Hall, he announced Thursday night. Parisi, a graduate student in Columbia’s School of Social Work, wrote on X that he was among the student activists expelled nearly a year after they stormed and occupied Hamilton Hall. Last spring,...
  • High school seniors reject Columbia over campus chaos: ‘Why would you want to go there?’

    03/13/2025 5:03:36 AM PDT · by george76 · 18 replies
    New York Post ^ | March 12, 2025, | Rikki Schlott
    Over the next month, high school seniors across the country will find out whether or not they got into their first-choice college. But for some students who had dreamed of going to Columbia University, acceptance suddenly doesn’t sound so hot. “If you were to compare Columbia with virtually any Ivy League, virtually any other Ivy League will win [in terms of desirability with students] — and even non-Ivies like Duke, Emory and Washington [University] in St. Louis,” college admissions consultant and Command Education CEO Christopher Rim told The Post. As President Trump has cut Columbia’s federal funding in an effort...