Why This Essay Could Cause the University of Virginia to Shut Down

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4. The University founded and partially designed by Thomas Jefferson has fallen under the control of ..

…. Linda McMahon?* Academic freedom and free speech are its cornerstones not the bending
of the knee to Trump and his fascist agenda. America is being burned to the ground more and
more every day.


* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_premature_professional_wrestling_deaths


This shit is scary.

“It’s important to note that this intervention into higher education is unlike the previous mob-like extortion moves on Columbia, Harvard, the University of California, and (again) my own University of Virginia. In those, the Trump administration told these universities they had to make specific changes in how they do their work or who runs the university under the threat of losing substantial research funding—regardless of the public value of that research.

This “compact” is more like an invitation to borrow money from the mob, with substantial control and future penalties assured. If any university agrees to this proposal, it will be under federal control and subject to some unpredictable, arbitrary, extreme penalties.”