To the editor: Inasmuch because the state of California is the most important web tax donor among the many 50 states, a high-quality in opposition to certainly one of our main universities is each economically and morally questionable (“‘Uncharted territory’: Newsom and UC go to battle in opposition to Trump’s UCLA sanctions,” Aug. 11).
That is a part of the assault on range, fairness and inclusion. Plainly, if these items should be eradicated, what’s sought is a return to segregation. In view of California being a web donor, Californians are to be required to subsidize this shabby try at re-segregation.
I need to see the state struggle this and, to the extent practicable, to hunt not solely a dismissal of this doubtful high-quality but in addition reparation for the bills of preventing it. It’s unlucky that punitive damages can’t be assessed in opposition to the apparent instigator of this try at monetary penalization for trying to reside as much as the assertion of equality on the very starting of the Declaration of Independence.
Invoice Seckler, Riverside
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To the editor: It truly is time to struggle again. As a UCLA undergrad and regulation college alum, I’m personally affronted and shocked, however not stunned, by President Trump’s tried extortion of $1 billion from UCLA. I problem the UCLA Alumni Assn. (of which I used to be as soon as a board member), the college, the Related College students (of which I used to be as soon as president) and the college’s administration to face up and struggle in opposition to this blatant try by Trump to decrease the ability and status of main universities throughout the nation.
No matter might have occurred throughout the campus protests over the conflict in Gaza, UCLA just isn’t antisemitic as an entire and to make use of this declare as a false foundation for the college to return to its knees is sophistry. All Bruins ought to rise up and struggle.
James Stiven, Cardiff
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To the editor: The Oxford dictionary defines extortion as “the follow of acquiring one thing, particularly cash, by way of pressure or threats.” I’d say this describes what our president is doing to a tee. His efforts to extract enormous sums of cash from UCLA and different distinguished universities is disgusting.
I’m positive Trump is thrilled with all the cash he’s bringing in from tariffs, program cuts, settlements from different universities and regulation corporations and firing workers. Then, he spends federal funds on a new ballroom for the White Home and extra Immigration and Customs Enforcement brokers. We, the individuals, are paying the value with all of the cuts to applications that have been really serving to us — to not point out the local weather of concern and uncertainty that he cultivates every day.
Joanna Ryder, Hermosa Seaside
