RULES ARE FOR THE LITTLE COLLEGES.

The powers that be at Princeton still don't understand what being made to play by their own rules means.  Here's Power Line's Paul Mirengoff.  "Princeton will have to thread the needle between [president Christopher] Eisgruber’s admissions of systemic, embedded, and damaging racism at the university on the one hand, and its legal obligation not to discriminate on the other."

The first reaction from the house organs of business as usual in higher education is ... nothing yet from Inside Higher Ed and something hiding behind a pay-wall at the Chronicle of Higher Education.  I got a glimpse of the article before the carp-about-ad-blocker-circuitry kicked in and it included some professor griping about politically motivated standards.  As if there's anything that involves public money that doesn't involve politically motivated standards.  If Princeton don't like being held to federal standards as a condition of getting federal money, let them emulate Hillsdale College and refuse to participate in any federal funding that has strings attached.  Princeton, being one of the finishing schools for Official Region high rollers, likely has the endowment and fundraising chops to make that happen.

Oh, and don't even bother mentioning censorship.

Dear reader, the use of public funds to support any sort of content delivery is censorship per se, and it has been the obligation of the faculty and the trustees to exercise their powers properly.  How many times must I remind you.  "Set up no machinery of repression you would not entrust your most severe critic to operate."   Even the most perceptive among you will benefit by a modicum of repetition.  "Professional protesters misuse academic respectability for non-academic ends."  Put another way, higher education's Republican problem, or Trump problem, or whatever it is, is self-made.

It's not as if Donald Trump is antagonizing his core constituency on the Princeton faculty.