{"id":2235847,"date":"2024-05-02T17:22:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-time-to-defund-the-universities\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:29:24","slug":"its-time-to-defund-the-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-time-to-defund-the-universities\/","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Cut Funding for Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fits-time-to-defund-the-universities%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2235847&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Summary: Columbia University professors express discontent with \u2063the administration&#8217;s response to campus protests. The\u200d faculty criticizes\u2063 the handling \u200dof student demonstrations and questions the university&#8217;s \u2062evolving purpose. The university&#8217;s historical mission\u2062 focused\u2062 on academic excellence and character development,\u200b but societal \u200cshifts \u2062in the 1960s led to a more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberal-activists-rebrand-sex-changes-as-gender-affirming-medical-care-to-bully-state-officials-into-allowing-the-mutilation-of-children\/\" title=\"Liberal Activists Rebrand Sex Changes As \u2018Gender-Affirming Medical Care\u2019 To Bully State Officials Into Allowing The Mutilation Of Children\">activist approach<\/a>, impacting its core values over time.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The professors at Columbia are fighting mad at the administration because the administration dared to call the cops on the good little cosplay terrorists. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Columbia professor Joseph Slaughter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/columbia-professor-slams-gross-mismanagement-by-uni-leadership-after-cops-storm-campus\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">declared<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I can understand that the building occupation is a different matter than a completely peaceful, nonviolent encampment that had existed on the campus for the last ten days or so. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the fact that the building can be occupied is partly, is due partly to the gross mismanagement of this administration. It has escalated consistently for the last seven months. These students have been attempting to get what they understand to be a human rights message about justice for Palestine out for seven months, and at every turn, they have been met with repressive actions to shut down their ability to speak, to demonstrate, to try to make their voices heard and what they see as the greatest human rights crisis of the moment. <\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yes, the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">administration<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  is at fault, according to the faculty. According to the faculty, the good little cosplay radicals, the good little cosplay pro-Hamas, pro-terrorism radicals, must be protected by the university. That\u2019s the job of the university.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Which does raise the question: What is the purpose of these universities anymore?<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The purpose of Columbia was clear when it was originally founded as King\u2019s College in 1754.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The very first president of King\u2019s College, William Samuel Johnson, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/yalestandard.com\/current-topics\/columbias-founders-they-left-the-lights-on\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CThe%20chief%20thing%20that%20is,such%20useful%20knowledge%20as%20may\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stated<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chief thing that is aimed at in this college is to teach and engage the children to know God in Jesus Christ, and to love and serve Him in all sobriety, godliness, and righteousness of life, with a perfect heart, and a willing mind; and to train them up in all virtuous habits and all such useful knowledge as may render them creditable to their families and friends, ornaments to their country, and useful to the public weal in their generations.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In short, Columbia University was founded to teach eternal truths, to pursue the knowledge of nature and nature\u2019s God, and to create good citizens and good men.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-1956-time-to-defund-the-universities-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the social changes of the 1960s hollowed out the mission of Columbia University, mainly by fostering an entire generation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-appease-privileged-college-radicals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">pseudo-revolutionaries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  devoted to overturning the status quo. By 1968, Columbia University was faced with a choice: to continue to promulgate its original mission of fostering virtue and good citizenship in accordance with eternal knowledge, or to become an activist training center. It opted for the latter with an adjunct school attached.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1968, the president of Columbia University was Grayson Kirk. That year, he gave a speech in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he tore into the spate of university unrest plaguing the country. He <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=9H2YplGQb5MC&#038;pg=PA9&#038;lpg=PA9&#038;dq=grayson+kirk+Our+young+people,+in+disturbing+numbers,+appear+to+reject+all+forms+of+authority,+from+whatever+source+derived,+and+they+have+taken+refuge+in+a+turbulent+and+inchoate+nihilism+whose+sole+objectives+are+destruction&#038;source=bl&#038;ots=kq8GfLtdq1&#038;sig=ACfU3U33OBCrwumfHovUZzerhlMVS_9Apg&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwjky9n51O-FAxU0TTABHSYcANMQ6AF6BAgJEAM#v=onepage&#038;q=grayson%20kirk%20Our%20young%20people%2C%20in%20disturbing%20numbers%2C%20appear%20to%20reject%20all%20forms%20of%20authority%2C%20from%20whatever%20source%20derived%2C%20and%20they%20have%20taken%20refuge%20in%20a%20turbulent%20and%20inchoate%20nihilism%20whose%20sole%20objectives%20are%20destruction&#038;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our young people, in disturbing numbers, appear to reject all forms of authority, from whatever source derived, and they have taken refuge in a turbulent and inchoate nihilism whose sole objectives are destruction.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That statement proceeded to touch off an extraordinary crisis at Columbia University when Mark Rudd, a leader of the Radical Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), led a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/liberation-education-student-intifada-and-masked-guards-heres-what-columbias-hamilton-hall-looks-like-hours-after-takeover\/\" title=\"Columbia's Hamilton Hall After Takeover: A Glimpse of 'Liberation Education' and 'Student Intifada\">student takeover<\/a> of multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-campus-anti-semitism-skyrockets-even-as-coronavirus-forces-remote-learning\/\" title=\"Report: Campus Anti-Semitism Skyrockets Even as Coronavirus Forces Remote Learning\">campus buildings<\/a>, including Hamilton Hall. Sound familiar?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Professional activists from around the country, including Tom Hayden and Stokely Carmichael, quickly descended on the campus. Sound familiar?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One week later, the police were called in. Hundreds of people were arrested. Some were wounded. Weeks later, another student takeover broke out. The university promptly canceled finals, dropped charges against the offenders, and finally capitulated to student demands to divest from cooperation with the Pentagon. Kirk was then forced out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">His eventual replacement was William James McGill, a committed man of the Left who\u2019d gotten famous at the University of California San Diego, having hired Herbert Marcuse, one of the heroes of the Left. He quickly pledged to \u201ccement the rapport\u201d between students, faculty, and administration. In 1971, McGill said the university should take the lead in enforcing the federal government\u2019s equal rights mandates because \u201cno other part of society is as responsive to social change as we are.\u201d In 1972, when protesters took over campus buildings again, he refused to involve the police, preferring to \u201cride this one out.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fast forward about half a century, and universities are now full-scale Left-wing activism centers. The current president of Columbia University is an Egyptian-American economist, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minouche <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shafik. In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.columbia.edu\/article\/get-know-minouche-shafik-columbias-twentieth-president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Columbia magazine<\/a> upon taking this role, Shafik explained what a university is for:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The problems the world is facing today are so complex, and so pressing, that new ideas are needed to address them. Great universities like Columbia excel at generating new ideas. \u2026 Supporting faculty and students who want to get their ideas out into the world will help, but there\u2019s more to it.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The chaos we are now seeing at universities from ignorant radicals masquerading as incisive, revolutionary truth-tellers is not a bug of the college system. It is now the point. Our universities increasingly treat activism as the main focus. These universities are, in fact, little indoctrination machines generating activists. That\u2019s what they are for. They recruit activists, and then they promote those activists. Why? Because this is the jet fuel of Left-wing movements. The reason these administrators are selecting these people is because these people are the vanguard.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is why they\u2019re negotiating with them. It\u2019s an inside-outside game in which outside agitators make a lot of trouble. And then inside, the administrators say, \u201cWell, we do have to negotiate with them. We have to deal with them.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">That is now the position of the Democratic Party writ large. Joe Biden is in the same exact position as <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minouche <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Shafik. Not only is he scared of young voters, but he also sees them as the future. He sees them as the most passionate, most dedicated members of his coterie. They\u2019re the vanguard of the revolution because these are the makings of the future Democratic Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are the activists being trained at Columbia University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Columbia professors are outraged at the administration for calling the police on protesters. 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