The irony is rich that part of DHS' demands includes ensuring "viewpoint diversity"...--NTodd
The xenophobia of this administration is already starting to harm colleges. Yesterday I saw an article how Union College, a small liberal arts college in upstate NY failed to meet its goal for students attending next autumn. The shortfall was mostly foreign students scared off by Trump. The college is going to have to dip into its endowment to cover the costs that previously would have been bourn by foreign students paying full tuition. Next year for most colleges will be worse, the number of graduating seniors will be substantially less than this year, it will be 18 years from the 2008 recession, a consequence of the downturn being a drop in the birthrate. Unlike previous recessions, the birthrate never recovered when the economy improved. The drop is students is particularly difficult, because the families that stopped having children where most often those in the middle class that send their kids to school. The double whammy of less foreign and less US students will likely drive a number of smaller, regional, liberal arts colleges under. Harvard and Yale have massive endowments and sufficient prestige that they won't lack for students and money, but outside of that thin layer of wealthy and competitive schools, the loss of students is going to very difficult in the long term (and surprisingly short term too.)--rustypickup
It is no end of wild to realize these people, offered the choice of sharing a comfortable couch, would take the dunghill so long as they had it to themselves. Human nature can be a really twisted thing.--jim, some guy in Iowa
And let this be the extended context:
Somebody’s feeling their oats, who really shouldn’t be. I won’t say it’s a price we pay. The same idiots and sentiments were loudly expressed during the Vietnam War. They had to be reminded what a touchstone the 1st Amendment is for this country. It was not a fun time.Rep. Randy Fine: "We should not be bringing people into America to get an education who hate us. They should be coming here to get an education, and frankly they should keep their mouths shut beyond that." pic.twitter.com/aq2xWl0emB
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 23, 2025
I really thought we’d left “America, Love It Or Leave It,” in the’70’s.
I should have known better.
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