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Christopher Bao and Cynthia Torres
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: The Trump administration has suspended several dozen research grants to Princeton, University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 wrote in a campus-wide email on Tuesday. The grants were issued from several federal agencies, including the Department of Energy, NASA, and the Defense Department.
The exact amount in question and the reasoning for the pause itself are unclear, and Eisgruber acknowledged only the latter in his statement. But the Daily Caller, a right-wing news organization, reported last night that the government would halt $210 million in federal funding to Princeton due to an ongoing investigation of antisemitism on campus, citing an anonymous Trump official.
Oliver Wu
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: University President Christopher Eisgruber ’83 spoke about defending free speech on college campuses during a book talk at the new Princeton University Art Museum’s Grand Hall on Wednesday. The event was open to University students, faculty, and staff, but had limited spots. Eisgruber spoke for over half an hour before taking questions from the audience.
Eisgruber noted the tense climate for higher education under the second Trump administration. “American research universities are the best in the world, but today, they face unprecedented and withering attacks from our country’s own government,” he said. “Much of this attack is both unlawful and broadly unpopular.”
By Tal Fortgang ‘17
What is an Ivy League university? The simplicity of the question is deceiving. Everyone knows what Harvard is. Except increasingly, no one does – not the students who attend, and certainly not the administrators who shape the institution, thereby answering that question every day.
Isaac Barsoum
Daily Princetonian
Excerpt: On Friday, Nov. 7, 2025, Sunrise Princeton, alongside the Princeton Progressive Coalition, organized a rally of more than 100 demonstrators. We called on the University to act as a leader by defending life-or-death climate research, divesting from weapons manufacturers to end the genocide in Palestine, protecting immigrants and international students, and safeguarding academic freedom in a time when rising authoritarianism threatens progress across the world.
As a lead organizer for this rally, I learned an important lesson: Princeton students care a lot about progressive change, and are willing to publicly display their support because they’re optimistic that their actions can make a difference on a policy level. They just feel like they’re too damn busy.
Ken McCarthy '81
April 04, 2025
It would be useful to know what these grants were for. Climate change? (NASA) Encouraging gender fluidity in the foxhole? (Defense Department) That no one is detailing the specific grants that were cancelled is typical journalistic malpractice.
My guess is the Trump administration wanted a twofer: 1) Cut a bunch of nonsensical pork-barrel “research grants” and 2) do it under the red herring of “fighting antisemitism on campus”. The latter earns him an attaboy from Miriam Adelson and other pro-genocide deviants who helped put him in office (See “Christian Zionists” – which includes some leaders of PFS).
That’s how you get ahead in life, friends. Make everything you do accomplishes two or more goals. Trump didn’t get into the White House by being a dummy.
It’s too bad the pro-genocide crowd has been the more effective in controlling him. He’s ruining his legacy and creating a planet full or people who have contempt for our country, something we will be paying for for generations. What’s the end game here? Every Palestinian dead? And that gets us what exactly? You’d think a brilliant CEO would be better at basic scenario planning.