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Christopher Bao and Cynthia Torres
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: The Trump administration has suspended several dozen research grants to Princeton, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 wrote in a campus-wide email on Tuesday. The grants were issued from several federal agencies, including the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Defense Department.
The exact amount in question and the reasoning for the pause itself are unclear, and Eisgruber acknowledged only the latter in his statement. But the Daily Caller, a right-wing news organization, reported last night that the government would halt $210 million in federal funding to Princeton due to an ongoing investigation of antisemitism on campus, citing an anonymous Trump official.
City Journal
Excerpt:
Princeton University, like all Ivy League schools, has sunk more deeply into administrative activism over recent years. The school maintains a robust Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) bureaucracy, with more than six DEI employees per 1,000 students. The school also displays several other activist commitments that distract it from its educational mission—most notably, Princeton’s decision to intervene in the Students for Fair Admissions case at the Supreme Court in favor of affirmative action.
Elizabeth Hu
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 addressed conflicts between free speech and censorship on college campuses during a discussion at the Princeton Public Library on Monday. He was joined in conversation by Deborah Pearlstein, Director of Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Policy.
He also addressed the difference between censorship and controversy through a reference to Judge Kyle Duncan, who was invited to speak at Stanford Law School in 2023. Duncan’s talk was interrupted by student protesters throughout and was eventually cut short. “That’s real censorship,” Eisgruber said. “It made it impossible for a speaker that some people on campus wanted to hear to be heard, and that should be recognized.”
Rodrigo Menezes
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: Recently, Princeton University announced a policy that would require members of eating clubs and co-ops living in University housing to buy a second meal plan, costing about $900 a year. I, along with all the other members of the Graduate Interclub Council (GICC), believe that this policy would be disastrous for Princeton’s undergraduate experience.
Ken McCarthy '81
April 04, 2025
It would be useful to know what these grants were for. Climate change? (NASA) Encouraging gender fluidity in the foxhole? (Defense Department) That no one is detailing the specific grants that were cancelled is typical journalistic malpractice.
My guess is the Trump administration wanted a twofer: 1) Cut a bunch of nonsensical pork-barrel “research grants” and 2) do it under the red herring of “fighting antisemitism on campus”. The latter earns him an attaboy from Miriam Adelson and other pro-genocide deviants who helped put him in office (See “Christian Zionists” – which includes some leaders of PFS).
That’s how you get ahead in life, friends. Make everything you do accomplishes two or more goals. Trump didn’t get into the White House by being a dummy.
It’s too bad the pro-genocide crowd has been the more effective in controlling him. He’s ruining his legacy and creating a planet full or people who have contempt for our country, something we will be paying for for generations. What’s the end game here? Every Palestinian dead? And that gets us what exactly? You’d think a brilliant CEO would be better at basic scenario planning.