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A little more context in the IU situation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/07/01/indiana-university-to-discontinue-more-than-100-academic-programs/
SpoilerOne of the budget bill’s provisions — inserted by the Republican majority as the legislative session reached its final hours — established a minimum average number of graduates that degree programs at Indiana’s public colleges and universities must produce over a three-year period.
If that number falls below 10 students in an associate degree program, 15 students in a BA program, seven students in master’s degree program, and three students in a doctorate degree program, the institution would have to request permission from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education to continue offering the program.
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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:
We are going to do more to make sure that no teenager can see tits on the internet
AI is pretty good at some things (loosely walking through technical problems, writing grammatically correct yet asinine prose, cooking advice) and terrible at other things (namely accuracy and truthfulness).
My uniformed guess is that this is a result of its training, largely internet writing. ChatGPT’s default tone is the same as Reddit posters.
With that in mind, and considering the history of the internet, AI will no doubt make access to more and weirder porn even more ubiquitous.
Considering AI’s disinterest in factual accuracy and its ability to confidently argue against reality (again, consider its training), I see us going one of two ways: 1.) learning to value factual learning and actually knowing stuff in your head again or 2.) losing our grip on reality. It’ll probably be some of both.
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1 hour ago, Goredho said:
One interesting (to me, anyway) use I have for AI is when I cook. Take a pic of the contents of your fridge and pantry and tell it to give you a recipe that matches what you have on hand. I'll typically know the main ingredient, so I'll say something like, "I have 4lbs of chicken breasts. Analyze the images of ingredients on hand and give me an interesting recipe for the chicken." Have had 3-4 new recipes that people raved over. Now those people speak in binary, but hey, they got a good meal out of it.
It’s turned me into a pretty good pastry chef. On the downside, my family will all end up with diabetes.
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In good faith, you can make an ethical case against abortion or at least certain instances, but that good faith rings a little hollow when the most notable and hardline advocates are harassing women with anal asteroid rape spam.
Its hard to coherently argue for the sanctity of life when your sticky fingered auto correct changes life begins at conception to: observe my C-type as I ram this Trojan asteroid up Uranus while you’re on your orbital period; you got me at Perihelion baby.
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On 6/22/2025 at 4:07 PM, atomheartbevo said:
Probably be a lot of teachers printing out a small copy and putting it with the bullshit on the walls that kids don’t pay attention to.
I think I’ll work up a Velcro version that you can slap over the “I CAN” statement each day and sell it on TeachersPayTeachers.
On 6/22/2025 at 8:13 PM, hookem2010 said:I'm sure the people who have no problem with this would be totally cool with passages from the Quran or the Seven Tenets of Satanism adorning an elementary school classroom.
On 6/24/2025 at 12:56 AM, CoachTex said:As an educator, if they make me do this shit, I will also be posting the pillars of Islam, Hinduism Yamas and Niyamas, Buddhism's Five Precepts, and any other religious equivalents.
Two conflicting thoughts of mine:
1. If I were king of education, we’d do more to embrace religious (and irreligious) traditions. If you have to fill your walls with pieces of flair, they might as well come from foundational texts of our culture. Understanding what people believe or don’t believe, and dealing with that openly and respectfully should be possible, but we don’t do it well or even try.
2. My faith is a big part of my life. I can’t imagine trusting some random school teacher to teach that to my child. Theology is a thorny subject and I’d rather deal with that in my home and church. I don’t want some flat earther teaching their nonsense when the overwhelming evidence — both scientific and biblical — is that the earth is shaped like a tesseract. Your average school teacher lacks the theological, historical, and scientific training to grasp such concepts.
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23 minutes ago, Nivek said:
The active duty marines picked their king over the country this week. Yeah, it is cosplay. Dress-up, or whatever else we want to call it.
You’re welcome to your ignorant views — and they are no doubt built upon ignorance — but internet people pretending to love their country and their community and calling active duty soldiers “cosplayers” is the height of irony.
They signed their life over in service of something bigger; you’re playing the ignorant troll role on a college football website. Those specific “cosplayers” are the ones responsible for representing OUR country at Arlington when WWII, Korean War, etc. vets are interred. Today they marched in a dumbass parade; tomorrow they’ll be guiding a grieving family through a terrible day.
Trump is the most unamerican president even if you include Jefferson Davis. Stop being shitty and reclaim the pro-America side. It’s so easy to not be anti-soldier.
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13 minutes ago, Pancho said:
I mean the Old Guard has been at every presidential event since before most of us were born. Every inauguration, state arrival, etc. Those guys in blue are all active duty infantry soldiers.
Whatever your thoughts about Trump are — hopefully mostly bad — calling active duty soldiers cosplay is pretty ignorant and shitty.
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3 hours ago, Anastasis said:
Not even close.
I agree; you’ve posted way dumber stuff.
Also, I have no idea who that Andor chick is, but those pictures look like a strung out Reece Witherspoon.
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — One of the lowest moments of Badar Khan Suri’s two months in federal custody was being crammed onto an airplane with hundreds of other shackled prisoners.
The Trump administration was trying to deportthe Georgetown University scholar over statements he made against Israel’s war in Gaza. The guards wouldn’t say where they were headed, but the Indian national was convinced it was out of the United States.
Then Khan Suri had to use the plane’s bathroom. He said the guards refused to unshackle his wrists.
“They said, ‘No, you have to use it like this or do it in your trousers,’” Khan Suri recalled of the trip, taking him to a Louisiana detention center. “They were behaving as if we were animals.”
Khan Suri, 41, was released on bond last weekas his lawsuit against the U.S.'s deportation case continues. In an interview with The Associated Press, he spoke Thursday of a cramped cell, crowded with other detainees, where he waited anxiously, fearful about what would happen next.
He also addressed the Trump administration’s accusations that he spread “Hamas propaganda.” Khan Suri said he only spoke in support of Palestinians, who are going through an “unprecedented, livestreamed genocide.”
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“I don’t support Hamas,” he said. “I support Palestine. I support Palestinians. And it is so deceiving for some people who just publish canards ... They will just replace Palestine with Hamas.”
Yet, because of his comments, he said U.S. authorities treated him as if he had committed a high-level crime. Fellow inmates said his red uniform was reserved for the most dangerous offenders.
“I said, ’No, I’m just a university teacher. I did nothing,” Khan Suri recalled.
Still, there were rays of hope. He said more than a hundred people from the Georgetown community wrote letters on his behalf to the federal judge overseeing his case, including some who are Jewish.
A crowd also greeted him when he arrived back in the Washington, D.C., area.
“Hindus, Jews, Christians, Muslims — everyone together,” said Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow who studies religion, peace and violence. “That is the reality I want to live with. That’s the reality I want to die for. Those people together.”
In a statement to the AP on Friday afternoon, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin refuted Khan Suri’s allegations of lack of due process and inhumane treatment.
McLaughlin said Khan Suri was in communication with attorneys “within hours of his arrival at the facility” and did not have to sleep on the floor. She said Immigration and Customs Enforcement “takes its commitment to promoting safe, secure, humane environments for those in our custody very seriously.”
‘I was not in Russia or North Korea’
U.S. Immigration authorities have detained international college students from across the country — many of whom participated in campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war — since the early days of Trump’s second administration.
The administration has said it revoked Khan Suri’s visa because he was “spreading Hamas propaganda and promoting antisemitism on social media,” while also citing his connections to “a senior advisor to Hamas,” which court records indicate is his wife Mapheze Saleh’s father.
Saleh is a Palestinian American whose father worked with the Hamas-backed Gazan government in the early 2000s, but before Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Khan Suri’s attorneys have said.
Khan Suri’s attorneys said he barely knew his father-in-law, Ahmed Yousef. His lawyers said he wouldn’t comment on Yousef during Thursday’s interview, which mostly covered his arrest and time in custody.
Khan Suri said he was arrested just after he taught his weekly class on minority rights and the majority. Masked police in plain clothes pulled up in an unmarked car outside his suburban Washington home.
They showed no documents, he said. Other than saying his visa was being revoked, they refused to explain the reason for his arrest, which he described it as a “kidnapping.”
“This is not some authoritarian regime,” Khan Suri said. “I was not in Russia or North Korea. I was in the best place in the world. So, I was shocked.”
‘How can this be happening?’
As police whisked him away, Khan Suri realized they wanted to deport him.
The “dehumanizing procedures” came next: A finger scan, a DNA cotton swab and chains binding his wrists, waist and ankles, he said. They also said he could talk to his wife at a detention center in Virginia, but “that never happened.”
He said he slept on a floor without a blanket and used a toilet monitored by a camera. The next day, he said he and other detainees were placed in a van, which soon rolled up to an airplane.
“I asked them where I am going now? Nobody would reply anything,” Khan Suri said. “They just pushed us in.”
He said the bathroom situation did not get better at a federal detention center in Louisiana, where Khan Suri was taken next. It lacked a privacy barrier and was also watched by a camera.
He was finally able to call his wife, but he said she couldn’t hear him. Khan Suri said he was “extremely terrified,” thinking that someone was making his family not reply.
He was not able to speak to a lawyer, while fellow inmates said everyone there is deported within three days, Khan Suri said.
“I was crying from inside, ‘How can this be happening?” he said. “A few hours back, I was in Georgetown teaching my students, talking about peace and conflict analysis.”
Through the abyss
Khan Suri said his first seven or eight days of captivity were the same: “Same terror. Same fear. Same uncertainty. Same mockery of rule of law. Same mockery of due process.”
“I was going more and more deeper, reaching to my abyss,” he added. “And I was discovering that the abyss also has more and more depth.”
But he was still praying five times a day, uncertain which direction Mecca was.
“I was very strong like that, that God will help me. American Constitution will help me. American people will help me,” he said.
Afterward, Khan Suri was transferred to a detention facility in Texas, where he said he slept on the floor of a crowded cell for the first two weeks. Eventually, he got his own cot.
And, finally, he was allowed to speak to his attorneys, which he said led to a change in treatment. Khan Suri, who is Muslim, soon received a Quran and then a prayer rug. As for the rug, he rolled it up like it was his young son.
“My eyes would become wet, and I would give that blanket a hug as my son so that this hug should reach him,” Khan Suri said. “And when I came back, he told me the same, that he was hugging a pillow.”
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On 5/18/2025 at 10:44 PM, Anastasis said:
I can't even believe that I am entertaining the notion of getting involved in a conversation with an aggie of how people with academic doctorates refer to themselves in real life situations compared to physician's use of the term doctor.
I’m in academia, but even usually get called Dr. in most social settings outside of my academic colleagues; I also never refers to myself as Dr — just my first name. I don’t advertise the doctorate. I live in a community that seems to place a higher value in formality than many places.
The only place that calls me Mr. is the doctor’s office. The only people that call me by first name are my parents and a few colleagues and close friends. Everyone else says Dr., which was weird for me when it first started happening, but now it’s weird if I hear anything else.
My wife has other names for me depending on other factors.
2 hours ago, Sawbonz said:Quit fucking quoting him assholes
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20 minutes ago, Nivek said:
A mediocre white man is what is needed right now.
It’s time for the Surley PAC to get to work. We’ve got a target-rich environment here. Secretary of State Derka solving the Middle East crisis seems as reasonable as anything else that’s happened in recent years.
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On 5/7/2025 at 2:01 PM, 956 Worldwide said:
Well, it’s not even the real verse but a loose and fairly questionable paraphrase:
“In their hearts humans plan their course but the Lord establishes their steps.”
For better or for worse what exists here (as everywhere) is a set of folk beliefs and not a real attempt to grapple with pre-modern wisdom poetry.
Which, it needs to be said, was not written in the first case as the Literal Word of God. The whole Literal Word of God take on the 66 books of the Protestant canon is itself a bit of folk religion that sprung from a certain place and time.
Besides the dishonest misquote, most of the book of Proverbs consists of lessons on how to live a productive, Godly life. It very clearly says that how we act, think, do business, etc., directly impacts our quality of life. Taking some fatalistic view of religious life from that book in particular is madness. At least pick Job or something where you can at least put together a case for it. It’s not surprising that things would be so corrupted: bad company corrupts good morals.
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On 4/27/2025 at 10:50 AM, texas08 said:Had no idea this thread existed.
Some of these thread titles are dumb af.
I thought it was a thread dedicated to the old scat site.So you’d say that the thread titles on this site are deteriorating and getting worse? I bet there’s a thread to discuss this phenomenon; if only the thread titles made any sense.
On 5/7/2025 at 10:18 AM, Brisketexan said:My kids have both messed around with AI generated writing in both academic and work contexts. Both of them are pretty dismissive, saying that it's fine for elementary stuff that requires no real thought (form-letter type writing), but for anything that requires any real analysis, 1) it's not that good, and 2) it is glaringly obvious that it's AI.
Which should probably be something at the top of every high school and college syllabus: if you try to use AI to do your work for you, know that 1) it's not that good (so, it would get a mediocre grade), and 2) it's generally obvious as hell that it's AI (meaning that you'll get a failing grade, because I'll spot it and give your paper an F).
College professor perspective: I’ve changed most of my writing assignments to prioritize thoughtful student engagement with the materials. AI really likes to tell you about things, but so far, doesn’t do a great job of engaging with things in a meaningful way. There’s a difference between a student thoughtfully considering and struggling with new concepts and a machine telling me about everything that’s ever been written on the subject. On the surface, the AI version looks smarter, but it demonstrates no real analysis or human thought. It’s just a catalogue of ideas.
Also, its tone sucks. I like to run important emails through AI just to make sure it hates my tone.
I’ve have learned a new appreciation and respect for students who are bad writers, since they are likely not cheating and failing honestly.
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For this thread, the iPhone keyboard is getting worse every year. I have more and more typos and it sometimes randomly inserts several words in place of one or two letters.
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On 4/22/2025 at 10:06 AM, Gatorubet said:
I took that to mean that while religious organizations do not meet those standards, lots of folks expect religious leaders to act more morally - even if they don’t.
You even see it in criminal statues. There are harsher penalties if the exploiter is in charge of the youth that he or she molests. It’s like how I would prefer that my politicians do not get caught with a mistress. But I have a different standard if that politician is always banging the familyvalues drum. Which is not to say it’s OK to cheat on your wife if you’re not a family values Republican, it’s just not as hypocritical as when you are personally posing as a moral example to the public.
I think that is what he means by saying held to a higher standard.
Some think that the worst part is the hypocrisy, but I disagree. I think it’s the raping.
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9 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:
Who is behind this?
As a reminder from slightly less crazy times in 2017: https://www.texastribune.org/2017/11/01/russian-facebook-page-organized-protest-texas-different-russian-page-l/
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Semi-connected thoughts:
1. I’d recommend reading and rereading the Sermon on the Mount. Contemplating everything in there and its application could be a lifetime exercise. Actually following it would make for a life well-lived.
2. We should remember that church isn’t a commodity or service that we shop for and purchase — or at least it shouldn’t be. If your church community is actively living out the Sermon on the Mount, it might be worth it to deal with services that don’t move you. If the purpose of the music is to worship God, then your feelings on the music aren’t all that important.
3. That said, church meetings are important for a healthy church. Congregational singing is important for a community and for our own spiritual well-being. It’s harder to hate someone if I’m engaged in music-making with them, even if the music feels asinine to me. You don’t have to jump around or act super emotionally, but I’d recommend making yourself sing along, even with the sillier songs.
4. I used to count the lyric references to self (I, me, etc.) vs. the reference to God (You, he, God, etc.) and see which was more. I figured that if we’re singing more about ourselves, we might be worshipping ourselves. I don’t do this anymore and think it’s probably unhealthy spiritually and overly cynical, but I still agree with the general premise. There are modern hymns-writers that don’t write the in the style of Cartman’s Faith +1. Maybe see if you can turn the worship folks on to them. They are much better sing along songs.
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On 3/27/2025 at 5:02 PM, wildcat09 said:
"Existential" and "external" are different words that mean different things. You're really not beating those illiteracy allegations.
I’m a bit behind on this thread, but in short, an external threat is like space aliens or something, and existential threat is Jean-Paul Sartre pulling a gun on you. It’s a pretty simple distinction.
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On 3/28/2025 at 7:23 AM, HornOnTheBayou said:
Can we talk about power cords? Electronics these days come with power cords that are less than six inches long. I've got a new watch and headphones that have to charge on the floor, because I don't have an outlet close enough to a table anywhere in the house that these power cords for ants can reach.
And they don't come with a USB wall charger. I'm not going to charge every damn piece of electronics through my computer. Just toss in a damn wall converter.
Old man rant over.
USB stands for universal, so why is it so hard to find the right USB cord?
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I teach at a small NAIA college. Some realities that I had never considered before coming here:
1. There are certainly some good athletes and high performers, but a less gifted or relatively unskilled kid could get a scholarship as well. They might never play though. A kid who will be relatively headache-free and help the coach meet their recruiting goals will be appreciated. An ok high school player could certainly find a spot on our rosters.
2. Scholarships are discounts off the sticker price. The school knows how much on average they need to get per student and scholarship accordingly. There often isn’t some magical pool of cash they are drawing from — instead they are just balancing out average costs. Tuition at lots of private schools is so high in order to allow the schools to offer bigger scholarships.
3. Even at our level, the student athletes are busy. It is a lot for them to keep up with.
4. At least at my institution, the coaches are good about supporting academic goals. If a student-athlete isn’t getting it done in my class, their coach is usually the first person I reach out to.
5. At least at my institution, while they celebrate winning, there isn't the same pressure like the higher levels. Coaches surely have been let go, but I don’t think winning or losing has been a big part of that equation.
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Blaming the reporter; another example of that conservative personal responsibility they love to crow about. Obviously our country has a stupidity problem, but it goes hand in hand with the run away character problem.
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I get unsolicited text messages all the time but I usually just ignore them. How many times have I ghosted the Secretary of Defense trying to send me not war plans? It feels rude of me to just ignore the guy.
At least in the iPhone App Store, I was disappointed to find no mention of this in the app reviews.
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Ubiquitous porn usage is probably frying some brains, but I’m inclined to immediately dismiss any article pointing to decreased alcohol use — and thereby abuse — as contributing to declining mental health. A lot has gotten worse for the kids, but decreased boozing isn’t making things worse. It’s asinine. Let’s take these depressed kids and throw alcohol into the mix and expect it to get better.
Assuming the truth of the claim regarding mental health and political affiliation made by the Baptist deacon who lives out the Sermon on the Mount by belittling the least among us, it makes sense that religious people — with a healthier social structure as well as social pressure to not express mental health problems — would report better mental health outcomes. Maybe some good reasons, maybe some unhealthy reasons.
And the peacocking about how virile and sex obsessed we are is satire, right? The pervs from those 80s movies weren’t heroes anymore than Andrew Tate is. Or maybe this is locker room talk? I love talking about how much sexy sex my sexy sex brain thinks about all day and if it weren’t for all of that sexy sex, I would have dropped out of school, but thanks to all of those sexy sex girls I was chasing — I’m so virile you see — I read Boethius (you see the ladies swoon when you tell them how Boethius mistranslated some Greek sources and then the panties start flying) and now am so rich and manly. I hope I’m doing it right because my manhood is at stake.
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Calling my shot here: since they like to use asinine interpretations of long-forgotten laws, we’ll see Greenland or parts of Canada claimed under the Guano Islands Act of 1856.
SpoilerWhenever any citizen of the United States discovers a deposit of guano on any island, rock, or key, not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government, and not occupied by the citizens of any other Government, and takes peaceable possession thereof, and occupies the same, such island, rock, or key may, at the discretion of the president, be considered as appertaining to the United States.
The New York Times will soberly discuss the relative quantities of useable bird guano in the disputed territory, we’ll hear from some condescending, self-appointed MAGA fertilizer experts, and we’ll be left debating if it’s the stupidest thing or just the stupidest thing so far.-
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Busy day for killing off what actually makes America great in the name of MAGA. Besides the unhinged “deweaponizing” of the justice department speech, we have a wild attack on academic freedom. Of course, as shocking as it is, it’s never surprising.
SpoilerNEW YORK (AP) — The Trump administration brushed aside decades of precedent when it ordered Columbia University to oust the leadership of an academic department, a demand seen as a direct attack on academic freedom and a warning of what’s to come for other colleges facing federal scrutiny.
Federal officials told the university it must immediately place its Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies Department under “academic receivership for a minimum of five years.” The demand was among several described as conditions for receiving federal funding, including $400 million already pulledover allegations of antisemitism.
Across academia, it was seen as a stunning intrusion.
President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Friday, March 14, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
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“It’s an escalation of a kind that is unheard of,” said Joan Scott, a historian and member of the academic freedom committee of the American Association of University Professors. “Even during the McCarthy period in the United States, this was not done.”
President Donald Trump has been threatening to withhold federal funding from colleges that do not get in line with his agenda, from transgender athletes’ participating in women’s sports to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. On Friday, his administration announced investigations into 52 universities as part of his DEI crackdown.
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But he has held particular fervor for Columbia, the Ivy League campus where a massive pro-Palestinian protest movement began with a tent encampment last spring. Officials continued to ratchet up pressure on the school Friday, with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying the Justice Department is investigating whether it hid students sought by the U.S. over their roles in the demonstrations.
Pro-Palestinian demonstration encampment is seen at the Columbia University, April 26, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)
As light rain falls, New York City police officers take people into custody near the Columbia University campus in New York, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, after a building taken over by pro-Palestinian protesters earlier in the day was cleared, along with a tent encampment. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)
Trump and other officials have accused the protesters as being “pro-Hamas,” referring to the militant group that attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
The letter also demands that Columbia ban masks on campus meant to conceal the wearer’s identity “or intimidate others,” adopt a new definition of antisemitism, abolish its current process for disciplining students and deliver a plan to ”reform undergraduate admissions, international recruiting, and graduate admissions practices.”
The letter “obliterates the boundary between institutional autonomy and federal control,” said Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council on Education.
For generations, the federal government has given colleges space to manage their own affairs, within the constraints of federal law. The Supreme Court has long treated academic freedom as an extension of the First Amendment. Higher education leaders say autonomy is what sets America’s colleges apart and makes them a destination for top international scholars.
Trump has never hidden his contempt for the country’s most prestigious colleges, and he’s aggressively pressing his will. The federal government has almost never used its authority to cut off money from schools and colleges. But along with the initial action at Columbia, a Trump administration letter sent Monday to 60 colleges promised that penalty if they fail to make their campuses safer for Jewish students.
Still, few predicted the Trump administration would pursue the type of control it’s demanding at Columbia.
Putting an academic department under receivership is “beyond the authority of the federal government and would violate academic freedom and the First Amendment,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, a constitutional law scholar and dean of the Berkeley School of Law.
“It is chilling to see the government try to control universities in this way,” he said.
Academic receivership is a rarely used practice that puts an academic department under the oversight of a professor or administrator outside the department. It’s sometimes used to reset a department in financial or political turmoil.
The letter didn’t specify who should take control of the department at Columbia. Scott, of the AAUP, said the department appeared to be singled out because it was viewed as being overly critical of Israel.
“Receivership is a nice way of basically saying get rid of the department,” Scott said.
The Trump administration announced last week it was pulling $400 million in contracts from Columbia and reviewing another $5 billion in grants over complaints of antisemitism. The cuts have already affected research studies at Columbia’s medical center, which has long relied on grants from the National Institutes of Health.
U.S. government agencies said they made the cuts because of the school’s “continued inaction in the face of persistent harassment of Jewish students.” Some Jewish groups and the president’s supporters have argued the government should be free to condition funding to colleges as it does other entities.
The university said it’s reviewing the Trump administration’s letter. “We are committed at all times to advancing our mission, supporting our students, and addressing all forms of discrimination and hatred on our campus,” it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, it’s leaving college leaders across the U.S. on edge. Mitchell, of the American Council on Education, said college presidents he spoke with were aghast at the letter.
“It doesn’t matter whether they’re in red states or blue states or whether they’re religious institutions or sectarian institutions. This is not the government’s role,” he said.
The letter was condemned by some faculty members and free speech groups.
“Half of this stuff you can’t just do and the other half is insane,” said Joseph Howley, a Columbia professor of classics. “If the federal government can show up and demand a university department be shut down or restructured, then we don’t have universities in this country.”
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression called it “a blueprint to supercharge censorship” at colleges.
“Our colleges need to protect free expression and comply with anti-discrimination laws, but important civil rights investigations cannot be resolved by ad hoc directives from the government,” said Tyler Coward, the group’s lead counsel for government affairs. ___
Binkley reported from Washington, D.C.
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Jimmy Swaggart has passed
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He was definitely a harbinger of the our present day cultural rot. Someone so obviously dishonest, disingenuous, and sleazy feels so warm and familiar these days. Some of us sure do love our cartoon characters.
Of course him admitting to “sin,” even so disingenuously, would put him in the top 1% of his type in terms of character and personal responsibility today. It’s almost quaint that someone would lie to us in such a way.