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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s extortion. No previous White House has ever tried to use the power of the state to steer the nation’s preeminent institutions of higher learning in an ideological direction favored by the president.

“U.S. research universities, and the federal funding that supports them, are one major reason Americans have collected more Nobel Prizes than citizens of any other country. They also help make the United States the world’s innovation engine and the top destination for foreign students. No other country is as adept at converting raw human talent and ideas into cutting-edge products. Research universities anchor innovation clusters such as Silicon Valley, which in turn fuel the country’s economic growth.”

Nearly a month ago, for example, Columbia University agreed to most of the White House’s demands in the hopes that Trump and his team would restore $400 million in federal funding. Not only were those hopes soon dashed — Columbia didn’t get its money back — but the administration soon after proposed installing oversight personnel to help run the school in ways that would make the president happy.

In effect, the White House responded to Columbia’s appeasement by trying in part to take over Columbia.

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People cheering for this are puppets.  It’s the beginning of a fascist regime.  They want to control all of the elite universities so there are no alternative ideas or push back. Much like firing all the IGs. [/quote]

Obama sent letters threatening universities to install DEI or lose funding. Full compliance. [/quote]

It is the government's responsibility to uphold civil rights and non-discrimination laws. Call it "control" if you want - but it's controlling fairness.
The Trump administration's demands work against civil rights and are controlling ideology they agree with and eliminating opposing views. That is not appropriate government "control."
It isn't federal regulations or government policies that are to blame if students with more conservative views don't feel comfortable expressing those views on their campus, or similarly employees in a company. That's the result of the school and the company's chosen practices.
Is Trump going after Liberty University for being too conservative or too Christian?[/quote]

Trump administration is demanding as one of several conditions that Harvard stop discriminating against Asians and Harvard said no. Very simple. [/quote]

Half the country thinks it’s just swell to discriminate against those uppity Asian Americans.  How dare they quote the plain English of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. [/quote]

You know that Trump and MAGA do not like the Asian infiltration of the tech industry, right? And that many cannot even distinguish between foreign Asians and Asian-Americans? For crying out loud, open your eyes and turn on your brain. [/quote]

So just ignore the anti Asian racial discrimination?

One racist at a time.  If Harvard is ever in the position to deal a blow to white supremacy, we will support it.  But right now Trump is in a position to attach real consequences to racially discriminating against Asians.  Sure the academic disruption is unfortunate but how important would you think the disruption was of it was attaching consequences to anti black discrimination or anti Hispanic discrimination?[/quote]

It's NOT racial discrimination.  Having a perfect GPA, and a perfect SAT doesn't EARN you a spot at Harvard, which you are then being denied.  This isn't Beijing University.  This isn't Moscow State University.  We don't have a national university or a national placement test where there might be such specific admissions standards.  Each university is allowed to set whatever admissions criteria they like and they are allowed to decide that extracurriculars or whatever are part of that package.  You don't get to decide as the parent of a child what criteria you think they should emphasize.  Find another school where your child fits the profile and where the profile emphasizes what you think it should emphasize. [/quote]

Asians had better extracurriculars.  Better recommendations.  Better everything.  The one area they dropped was personal score.  Things like honesty integrity character likability.

The alumni interviewers have Asians the same personal score as other races.  The admissions office that never met the applicants ignored those alumni interview scores and gave Asians lower personal scores than Whites.  White got lower personal scores than Hispanics.  Hispanics got lower personal scores than Blacks.  And this accounted for the difference.

So either Asians actually had substantially less integrity honesty character and likability than black applicants but in a way that only admissions officers that never met them could tell.  Or they were being discriminated against.[/quote]

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