War on Universities, Lawyers & Expertise

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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

www.theguardian.com

Whoa

 

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[nycfan]

Here are the details of Trump's $1.2-billion call to remake UCLA in a conservative image

The Times describes the details, for the first time, of the 28-page proposal the Trump administration has made to remake the UCLA campus.

www.latimes.com

“… The Department of Justice’s August demands reach into numerous aspects of campus life and call for the university to make public declarations that it has agreed to significant elements of President Trump’s vision of higher education. In exchange, the government will release roughly half a billion dollars in suspended research grants from the National Institutes of Health and Department of Energy to UCLA. …



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See, this one is a little clever but it is not onion quality. Humor depends on brevity and that headline is too long, in my view. The "entire" is ballast and weights down the joke at the outset. "American university system" is a little clunky, though without entire it could stand on its own. But "Entire American University System" strangles the joke. You could put it at the end, like, "new terrorist designations include entire American university system," -- which is not at all good and would not be publishable but I'm using it as an example and spent 15 seconds thinking about it -- making it land as a payload punchline.

The article is even worse. Too wordy and too obvious.

 

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[Healing]

Just to be clear, this wokie is a four star general, former member of the joint chiefs, and sits on the board of Northrop Grumman.