Columbia University at first appeared to have surrendered to President Trump’s demands that the New York school stop coddling antisemitic and anti-Israel demonstrators. The school announced it was buckling, not on principle, but because it wants the $400 million in federal grants and contracts restored. Trump had frozen the money to get the administration to act against protesters.
Now the protesters are protesting what Columbia’s interim president, Katrina Armstrong, did to have the grant restored. The New York Post reports that Armstrong “privately told faculty that Columbia has not, in fact, banned masks — even after it promised the White House ..
. that it would ban them. Yet Armstrong turned around Tuesday to insist Columbia’s promises to ban masks and make other changes are ‘real.
’ “ As of Tuesday face coverings were still on many protesters. People are also reading..
. Cal Thomas There is a larger question emanating from the ongoing demonstrations on several college campuses since the Hamas attack on Israel and their seizing of hostages on Oct. 7, 2023: Why are so many of these elite schools, some of them with huge endowments and high tuition, receiving taxpayer money? Among the top 20 universities receiving federal largesse are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT and Dartmouth College.
Their endowments range from more than $50 billion (Harvard) to nearly $8 billion (Dartmouth). Added together, the total for the top 20 is close to $2 trillion. In a ne.
