USC to Trump: Pound sand

According to the LA Times, the University of Southern California has become the third major university (after MIT and Brown) to tell the Trump administration exactly where it can put its extortion demands.

USC interim president Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer, which would give priority funding access to universities that agree to follow the president’s mostly conservative vision of higher education.

In a virtual meeting of the university’s Academic Senate, 

participants [called] the [proposed Trump] compact “egregiously invalid,” “probably unconstitutional,” “antithetical to principles of academic freedom” and

— my personal favorite —

“a Trojan horse.”

Fight on!

UPDATE: (h/t OldCootess in the comments) And now the University of Pennsylvania joins the list of institutions rejecting Trump’s ridiculous extortion proposal.