[HN Gopher] Administration seeking $1B settlement from UCLA
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Administration seeking $1B settlement from UCLA
Author : SubiculumCode
Score : 28 points
Date : 2025-08-08 21:09 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| strangeloops85 wrote:
| Really outrageous extortion. UCLA and UC as a whole are running
| budget deficits and facing reduced state support (as well as the
| grant cancelations). There's simply no money for this and the
| white house knows it.
| SubiculumCode wrote:
| If they decide to settle, even if for a much smaller amount, its
| a big L for the UC system and the nation. The past Universities
| were much smaller, but the UC system is a beast. They must fight
| this or we are really going down the road of a politicized and
| neutered academia (like in Russia). This along with the recent
| Executive Order claiming to be able to require a political
| appointee to approve every research grant, we are going down the
| wrong road.
|
| I am constantly thinking about this modern misunderstanding of
| what the framers of the Constitution meant by "Executive Power"
| is simple "to execute the law".
|
| "Article II Vests Executive Power, Not the Royal Prerogative"
| [1][2] is critical and needs to be set front stage.
|
| [1] https://repository.law.umich.edu/articles/2062/
| [2]https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-meaning-of-
| article-...
| homeonthemtn wrote:
| Blame Congress. There are 3 branches of power meant to keep the
| others in check. That's not happened in...20, 30 years now?
| jonnycomputer wrote:
| Why not both?
| SubiculumCode wrote:
| Yes. But there are systemic reasons that this has become the
| case.
|
| 1. For the house, since 1932 or so, the number of House
| Representatives has been fixed, meaning what used to be
| 30-50k citizens per representative, is quickly approaching 1M
| citizens:1 ratio. Instead of knocking on your neighbor's
| doors, you need to beg for money to run an expensive
| campaign.
|
| 2. Starting with Radio and TV and into hyperdrive with the
| internet, national political figures like the President can
| command a huge amount of political donations to be under
| their own control. That money can and is used to threaten
| House Representatives with getting primaried by the
| President, see 1. above.
|
| 3. As the law article I posted in the parent comment above
| thoroughly and convincingly investigated, the meaning of
| Executive Powers has changed from "Congress tells me what to
| do, and I do it" to I am a mini-king. Presidents have been
| able to push this growth as well, because see 2, then see 1.
| Amezarak wrote:
| Why would you suppose that a larger House would help keep
| the Executive in check? It seems more likely that the
| effect would be to dilute any individual House member's
| power and strengthen the party system.
|
| > the meaning of Executive Powers has changed from
| "Congress tells me what to do, and I do it" to I am a mini-
| king.
|
| I don't think John Adams, Lincoln, or FDR held anything
| close to the view that "Congress tells me what to do, and I
| do it."
| dfee wrote:
| Beyond the headline - the context seems to be this:
|
| > A draft of a proposed agreement sent to the school Friday and
| obtained by CNN requires UCLA to pay the federal government $1
| billion over multiple installments, along with a $172 million
| claims fund for people impacted by violations of Title VII of the
| Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination based
| on race, color, religion, sex or national origin.
|
| > The agreement the administration is proposing - which, if
| agreed to, would mark the biggest settlement it's received from a
| higher education institution -- requires a resolution monitor to
| oversee the school, as well as a new senior administrator who
| will be focused on compliance with anti-discrimination laws.
|
| > The proposed agreement prohibits overnight demonstrations and
| calls on the school to revise its policies and procedures on
| protests. It also requires UCLA to discontinue race and
| ethnicity-based scholarships and provide the resolution monitor
| with admissions data.
|
| > The proposal would ensure single-sex housing for women on
| campus and ensure athletic recognition for female athletes in
| women's sports. The UCLA hospital and medical school will also be
| expected to stop providing gender-affirming care.
|
| > In return, UCLA's funding would be restored and the school
| would be eligible for future federal grants and contracts.
| jonnycomputer wrote:
| And to stop providing gender affirming care.
| SubiculumCode wrote:
| Not to mention that the lawsuit in question has already been
| settled [1] https://jewishjournal.com/news/383073/settlement-
| reached-in-...
| jonnycomputer wrote:
| >The UCLA hospital and medical school will also be expected to
| stop providing gender-affirming care.
|
| What does this have to do with anything that UCLA is accused of?
| This isn't about discrimination. This is about Trump forcing
| America's institutions to bend to his will. It's about power, and
| nothing else.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| It's "discrimination" when it helps people the admin doesn't
| like, but it's mandatory to actually discriminate against
| people the admin doesn't like.
| sundaeofshock wrote:
| I wish people would stop using the term admin in relationship
| to Trump. This is the Trump Regime and we should all act
| accordingly.
| jonnycomputer wrote:
| the problem is is that doing so makes you automatically
| lose credibility with a large part of the public.
|
| another problem is that Trump is not (yet) a dictator and
| we are (still, for now) a Constitutional democracy.
| shortrounddev2 wrote:
| Any university that settles with that fascist are cowards at
| best, and committing bribery at worst
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