President Obama Threatens to Cut Off University Funding Unless Colleges Run Their Sports Programs the Federal Way
The White House discovers a heretofore unknown Article II power to referee, using billions in research grants as the flag on the play
Tallying the outrage…
Rewritten from real coverage of the administration tying federal college funding to compliance with its agenda — same threat, opposite president. Tap flip and watch 'accountability' become 'federal overreach' in one click.
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Ink = the flip (fiction). Red = real Republican · Blue = real Democrat.
WASHINGTON — President Obama's administration this week tied a school's eligibility for federal grants and contracts to whether it runs its athletic programs according to new federal preferences, deputizing the national research budget as an enforcement mechanism for the rules of college football.
The Press's campus desk confirms that conditioning school funding on ideological compliance is a grave assault on academic freedom when the other party does it and a common-sense guardrail when one's own does, and that university presidents have learned to keep both statements pre-written.
