In another of “This is a real nice university, shame if something happened to it” shakedown of the flagship universities of the United States, Cornell has caved.
Remember, the government has been withholding research and other monies from the universities that it has singled out.
This is separate from the 8 universities there were asked to sign the pledge.
And it only cost Cornell $60,000,000 to restart the spigot of $250,000,000 in federal funding. $30,000,000 to be paid directly to the government with another $30,000,000 to be invested in U.S. Agricultural research.
Of course, the government says that this is in response to phantom antisemitic Title VI violations that they have not been found in violation of.
This makes me so angry.
Both that the university rolled over and showed it soft underbelly to the government for pennies. And that the university caved at all.
But don’t worry, in agreeing to this bullshit deal, Cornell is admitting to no wrong doing.
Except selling out which puts pressure on all the other universities to do the same thing.
All so that government and the Department of Education can use them as an example of “doing the right thing”.
Yeah, more like doing what the bullies tell you to do so the floggings and beatings stop.
They should be ashamed.
I would say that the government should be ashamed of running this shitshow but I imagine the opposite is true and they are proud of making the universities submit to the boot on their neck.
Shame on them for running the government like a 2 bit protection racket.
Shame on them for running the government like a 2 bit protection racket.
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