Trump’s College Memo Sparks Backlash at UPenn, Students Call It Divisive & Out of Touch

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US President Donald Trump’s new college memo linking federal funds to stricter rules on ideology, foreign enrollment, SAT/ACT tests, and admissions diversity has triggered uproar. At UPenn, students slammed it as 'baseless' and 'out of touch,' warning it threatens academic freedom and fuels campus polarization.  #TrumpMemo #USColleges #FreeSpeech #CampusControversy #UPenn #StudentProtests #World  🔊 LIKE ➡ SHARE ➡ SUBSCRIBE  Download the Asianet News App now!  Available on Android & iOS  👉 Android:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vserv.asianet&hl=en_IN   👉 iOS:  https://apps.apple.com/in/app/asianet-news-official/id1093450032   For More Updates:  Follow us on our What's app Channel: https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029Va5Bq3yKwqSLSQTxam0r  English: https://newsable.asianetnews.com/  Hindi: https://hindi.asianetnews.com/  Malayalam: https://www.asianetnews.com/  Kannada: https://kannada.asianetnews.com/  Tamil: https://tamil.asianetnews.com/  Telugu: https://telugu.asianetnews.com/  Bengali: https://bangla.asianetnews.com/  Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AsianetNewsa...  Follow us on Twitter:  https://twitter.com/AsianetNewsEN  Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ann.newsable/  ➡ If you like our video, give us a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel to get the daily dosage of news, entertainment, sports and more.

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00:30So, I definitely think that Penn shouldn't accept this

00:59kind of offer, and I say this because I think it's considering the diversity here at Penn

01:09and just like the various ideas that are present, I think it would kind of be too polarizing,

01:18like it would, like the decision would, I feel, kind of strip away some of that diversity

01:24that is here at Penn, and so I definitely think that, and in addition to like funding,

01:29UPenn doesn't need it.

01:30We have a lot of alumni networks, and I feel like if there was a case, like the alumni would

01:34just help more, and like we don't really need that support in comparison to other schools

01:40that may need more of that funding.

01:43So, yeah, that's my opinion.

01:45I think I look at this in two different lenses.

02:04I think one of them is the political science lens of, do we want officials, elected or

02:10not, to be saying how experts on the situation, like experts in the world, in a place of academia,

02:17to what extent do we want electeds telling experts to do?

02:20I think there's that piece, and honestly, I think there are some places where a very much

02:25like a prescribed curriculum can be super valuable, but I don't think higher education is one

02:30of them.

02:31I think the other piece is that the statements say a lot about these radical left values,

02:37these like Marxist values, and I mean, you look at Penn, and you see that 50% of people

02:43are going into either international banking or financial consulting.

02:49My professors must be pretty bad Marxists if 50% of students are going into the banking

02:55sector.

02:56I think it's ridiculous.

02:57I think it's, I don't think it's something that Penn should sign at all.

03:02I recognize the need for federal funding, but I think about, you know, the words that

03:07are written on my shirt.

03:09Penn's motto is, laws without morals are useless, and this would be a moment where we ask what's

03:14more important, the money or the morals, and I implore Penn to take the moral side, but

03:19we'll see.

03:20I'm scared, but, you know, at the end of the day, like I'm here, I'm here to learn and

03:24develop and grow as a person and leave my mark on the world.

03:27I think for me, no matter what happens at the federal level, I have confidence that somehow

03:34in the end of the world, it'll be okay, or at least I will have fun in this time that

03:38I'm here.

03:39So I'm not like, like, you know, I'm not like in my room screaming about it all day,

03:45but I do think that, you know, at the end of the day, I do have a responsibility and

03:49a role to play in sharing my stories and my thoughts.

03:54But yeah, I think it's ridiculous to say that Penn has crazy radical left views if half

03:58of, half of Penn is going into financial services.

04:01I mean, the president himself has gone to Wharton and knows the process, and I don't,

04:06I would not consider it very radical left in there.

04:15I feel that something that is education-based, it should be supported and not forced into

04:39anything that it is not structurally meant to do.

04:41There's a reason that those kind of laws were made and those motions were made to support

04:46students for education, and I think that the message is getting lost in the action, and

04:52we just need to back off and maybe mind our business a little bit and let the institution

04:56do what it was meant to do and support the students.

04:59I feel like this is kind of sort of an attack on me, who I am, a lot of my family, and a

05:10lot of my friends here at Penn and, you know, throughout my life.

05:14And also, I guess I can kind of see where they're coming from, but to me it's coming from a very

05:19privileged standpoint of this doesn't directly impact me, this doesn't directly benefit me,

05:24so here's why we're going to cut it and do other things and move a certain direction,

05:30where I believe America is founded based off diversity, based off equity, and the inclusion

05:35of all of that into our modern society, which manifests in many, many ways that we see today.

05:41And furthermore, I just think, you know, the connotation of DEI can sometimes aggressively

05:48take on just race, and it becomes like this racial divide, which we've seen through years

05:52in America, and it actually is much, much more than that.

05:57Like, it can span to things like getting extra testing for students with ADHD or ADD who take

06:04medication or anything like that.

06:06Like, it's much more broad than just race, which is like kind of how the media likes to

06:11portray things nowadays.

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