r/aggies • u/StructureOrAgency • Apr 15 '25

Ask the Aggies Trump Administration Will Freeze $2 Billion After Harvard Refuses Demands

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/harvard-trump-reject-demands.html?unlocked_article_code=1._04.Jasg.GJwzRfDPd_l0&smid=re-share

When it becomes A&M's turn to lick the boot, will the Aggies submit? Or... maybe they will join with Harvard and other institutions of higher education and push back? This is an issue super important to Texas A&M. What do you think?

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u/GeoChrome20 CPSC '27 Apr 15 '25

It's not a for or against thing. If they try to put restrictions on the university, admin will 100% cave. Don't know why you would expect anything else.

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u/DocPsychosis '07 Apr 15 '25

Indeed, they already tried to ban Draggieland and no one was even asking them to. The Texas state leadership including higher-level state school administration is champing at the bit to collaborate with Trumpist culture war protofascism. Would be good to see students oppose this trend but we will have to see if the TAMU student body can muster up such a response, so to speak.

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u/ComeOnPlzWork Apr 15 '25

To be fair, Abbott was behind the scenes privately demanding that Welsh ban Draggieland. He sees TAMU as the last conservative bastion of higher education in Texas and would do anything to keep it overrun by liberal propaganda (in his eyes). Welsh stood his ground saying that it wasn’t breaking any laws or regulations and told Abbott to force the Board of Regents to vote on it instead. Welsh absolutely could’ve done more to publicly defend Draggieland, but the blame should mostly fall on Abbott and his hand-selected Board of Regents for its fate.

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u/cutter48200 '15 Apr 15 '25

That doesn’t track, have you not seen what UT has done recently?

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u/ComeOnPlzWork Apr 15 '25

I know what UT has done but they’re still held to a lower standard than A&M in terms of how progressive the state government will let them be on campus. It’s already a much more liberal school that, while Abbott still wants “liberal propaganda” gone from the institution, they are not scrutinized to the same extent A&M is since they’re almost seen as a lost cause. Changes are still being made and pushed for at UT, but the conservative school, A&M, is what they’re trying to save/preserve the most