Aug. 12, 2025 8 AM PT
To the editor: Inasmuch because the state of California is the largest net tax donor among the many 50 states, a fantastic towards one in all our main universities is each economically and morally questionable (“‘Uncharted territory’: Newsom and UC go to battle against Trump’s UCLA sanctions,” Aug. 11).
That is a part of the assault on variety, fairness and inclusion. It appears that evidently, if this stuff have to be eradicated, what’s sought is a return to segregation. In view of California being a internet donor, Californians are to be required to subsidize this shabby try at re-segregation.
I wish to see the state struggle this and, to the extent practicable, to hunt not solely a dismissal of this doubtful fantastic but in addition reparation for the bills of preventing it. It’s unlucky that punitive damages can’t be assessed towards the plain instigator of this try at monetary penalization for making an attempt to dwell 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 faculty alum, I’m personally affronted and shocked, however not shocked, 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 towards this blatant try by Trump to decrease the facility and status of main universities throughout the nation.
No matter might have occurred in the course of the campus protests over the warfare in Gaza, UCLA shouldn’t be antisemitic as a complete and to make use of this declare as a false foundation for the college to come back 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 apply of acquiring one thing, particularly cash, by means 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 companies and firing workers. Then, he spends federal funds on a new ballroom for the White House and extra Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. We, the folks, are paying the worth with all of the cuts to packages that had been truly serving to us — to not point out the local weather of concern and uncertainty that he cultivates each day.
Joanna Ryder, Hermosa Seashore
