Just another brick in the wall/rev II

A woman walks by a Cornell University sign on the Ivy League school’s campus in Ithaca, New York,
on Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Yours truly has always admired Cornell, not only for its unique blend of tech and the arts (computer graphics and English) but also for its quiet confidence in knowing it's one of the great centers of learning for the entire world. Upon reading about Agent Orange withholding US funding to the tune of 1 billion, based on "contrary" ideological issues, the connect to the two bricks in the wall blurbs along with the Smithsonian fubar come to mind as this is exactly what dictatorial governments do to curtail creative thinking from entities like Cornell and Northwestern.

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University has been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, the White House said.

It’s part of a broader push to use government funding to get major academic institutions to comply with President Donald Trump’s political agenda. The White House confirmed the funding pauses late Tuesday night but offered no further details on what they entail or what grants to the schools are being affected.

The moves come as Trump’s Republican administration has increasingly begun using governmental grant funding as a spigot to try to influence campus policy, previously cutting off money to schools including Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania. That has left universities across the country struggling to navigate cuts to grants for research institutions.

Just another brick in the wall applies.