I do not concur with the argument expressed by many that the University of Arizona administration’s capitulation in response to bullying by the Trump administration can righteously be described as “staying above the fray.” Far from it. To me it is a craven example of “flying under the radar.”
I get it that resistance could conceivably result in the withholding of many millions of dollars of funding that would be a devastating blow to the University. But there is a larger issue at stake. The system of higher education in this country has traditionally been a shining beacon to the world, and with its free and open exchange of ideas it has been a bastion of protection for our democracy.
Submission to the demands of a bully is a self-defeating concept. I urge my alma mater … rage, rage against the dying of the light!
John Barringer
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