Re: Columbia U. caves

On Fri, 21 Mar 2025 20:52:02 -0400, Auric Hellman
<adhellman1@gmail.com> wrote:

Why on
an American college campus is protest being stifled?

Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million

A quarter-century ago, the university was looking to expand. It
considered, and rejected, property owned by Donald Trump. He did not
forget it.

Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University.

When he did not get his way, he stormed out of a meeting with
university trustees and later publicly castigated the university
president as "a dummy" and "a total moron."
...
...
Some former university officials are quietly wondering whether the
ultimately unsuccessful property transaction sowed the seeds of Mr.
Trump's current focus on Columbia. His administration has demanded
that the university turn over vast control of its policies and even
curricular decisions in its effort to quell antisemitism on campus. It
has also canceled federal grants and contracts at Columbia --- valued
at $400 million.

That drama dates back 25 years.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/nyregion/trump-columbia-university-400-million.html