By New York Post (Opinion) | Created at 2025-03-11 00:14:51 | Updated at 2025-03-11 03:14:27
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The Issue: Columbia University loses $400 million in grants, contracts for mishandling campus antisemitism.
Hitting Columbia University in the pocket could not have come any sooner (“WH $laps Poisoned Ivy,” March 8).
This has lingered on long enough. The university was given an ample amount of time and warnings to put its house in order.
No matter what Columbia administrators have said about taking this very seriously, they haven’t done enough. The time has come for alumni to speak up and pressure the university to put an end to this insanity.
President Trump’s initiatives with Columbia should serve as a clear warning to all other universities as well.
Ronald Frank
West Orange, NJ
I am no fan of President Trump, but I applaud the administration’s decision to withhold $400 million in funding from Columbia University for its glaring inaction in the face of the campus-wide endangerment of Jewish students last year.
I find the left’s predictable objection, saying that this stifles students’ free speech, to be hysterical and hypocritical.
Remember: When the NYPD finally entered the campus, more than 40% of those arrested had no connection to Columbia University.
I distinctly remember a photograph of a huge banner unfurled on campus that read: “Welcome to the people’s university for Palestine.”
“People’s university?” Columbia University has an approximate acceptance rate of 4%. Does anyone believe that an actual student, who worked diligently for four years in high school to achieve the prize of Ivy League admission, hung that banner? Highly unlikely.
Warren Nitti
Edgewater, NJ
Trump’s cancelation of $400 million in handouts to Columbia shows a long-overdue respect for taxpayers’ dollars.
After all, why should we pay for antisemitism when we already get it free from indoctrinated students, leftists and hate-mongerers everywhere?
Bill Marsano
Manhattan
President Trump has set a thoughtful and strong precedent by defunding Columbia University by $400 million.
If an institution wishes to be anti-American and anti-America’s allies, it is free to do so — but only on its own nickel.
Anthony Parks
Garden City
The Issue: Claims that Trump’s tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China aim to stop the deadly fentanyl crisis.
If it means ending the fentanyl crisis that is killing 100,000 young people per year, I’m willing to endure a little more short-term pain via higher prices for the greater good (“United vs. fentanyl, or else,” Peter Navarro, March 8).
I can understand China not caring about unnecessary American deaths from fentanyl — but what is the excuse here for Canada and Mexico?
Is it really too much to ask them to police their borders and stop the flow of this poisonous drug?
What kind of “friends” would these countries be if they sat idly by while so many Americans are poisoned by fentanyl every year when it is a very solvable problem?
These countries already have American blood on their hands. Like it or not, this tariff war is designed to avoid a real war.
Luana Dunn
Medford
Instead of penalizing all Americans by imposing tariffs on goods coming from Canada, Mexico and China, perhaps we should ask why Americans have an overwhelming desire to take drugs.
I’m still waiting for justice to be served on the Sackler family for kick-starting this addiction crisis with the introduction of OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin. I don’t just mean monetary fines but actual jail time.
Kathryn Ruskin
Boynton Beach, Fla.
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