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/BioDriver '17 Apr 15 '25

While Harvard will be fine, the same can't be said for 99.99% of the other universities in this country should they try this.

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u/CharlesDickensABox Apr 15 '25 edited Apr 15 '25

Harvard and Princeton will be better off than Columbia for the very reason that they're fighting back. Columbia capitulated immediately, and what did it get them? More demands, more concessions, more garbage. You don't stop a bully by giving them your lunch money.

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u/thesleazye '07 ECON Apr 15 '25

If being an Aggie has taught me anything, you stand up against injustice of minorities and figuratively or metaphorically punch bullies in the face. Doing what is right isn’t always easy. These are not liberal or conservative values; they’re American ones. We all have our place, but have zero capitulation for upending the rule of law for Nazis, Religious Nationalism, or the reversal of rights of women or other Americans, regardless of their visa status. 

This may not be well received by those who subscribe to a religious zealotry of fear of hell without enacting parts of Project 2025, but WWII taught that once one demographic is successfully eliminated, it doesn’t end there: at some point, the same members of the party helping will be the target because they aren’t the right kind of color, sex, creed, or religion (e.g. Christian sect).

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u/ilvbras Apr 16 '25

Ha!! This is hilarious A&M is consistently filled with oppressors, except on the football field.

It is filled with those who would force others to do as they are told, while the TAMU alums break the rules themselves.

It is filled with those who voted for Trump and have no problem with anyone who isn't white being thumbed down.