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A2 DisadsA2 Donors DA – Top LevelRestricting free speech on campuses causes slashes in federal funding – Trump provesRedell 2/2 [Bob Redell, Lisa Fernandez, Rhea Mahbubani, Ian Cull, Raquel Dillon and Scott Budman, "President Donald Trump Takes on UC Berkeley on Twitter: Threatens Federal Funds," NBC Bay Area, 2/2/2017] AZ The morning after violent protests at the University of California, Berkeley prompted the cancellation of a speech by a controversial Breitbart editor, the president of the United States took on the school — on Twitter. "If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?" Trump tweeted at 12:13 a.m. ET on Thursday. Trump's tweet caused a firestorm frenzy, ranging from whether the university would actually lose millions of dollars, to the sanctity of the First Amendment. Many noted the irony of Berkeley, Calif. being the birthplace of the Free Speech movement in the 1960s. And yet, it was the progressive campus that was full of armed "Ninja-like agitators" who ended up wreaking havoc on the campus and canceling the speech that was to be made by controversial Breitbart editor Milo Yiannopoulos. Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin lambasted those who tried to mar that tradition. "Using speech to silence and promote bigotry is unacceptable. Hate speech isn't welcome in our community," he tweeted. But, in a second tweet, he wrote: "Violence and destruction is not the answer." Cal student Juliana Mora agreed: "We don't stand for that. We don't want to get mixed up with the few bad apples. This is the home of free speech." The free speech movement was forged at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. Bettina Apthekar, among those in the thick of it, was targeted for organizing a peaceful protest against the Nazi party on campus. "Their signs said, ‘Burn Aptheker,’” she recalled. But Aptheker supported the opposing side’s First Amendment rights, and said the university did the right thing by not standing in the way of college Republicans who wanted to invite Yiannapoulos. “We have to hold on to” the principle behind the freedom of speech and expression, she said. “It's too much of a slippery slope once you say this person can't speak." A generation later, David Sabes was a UC Berkeley student faced with a similar dilemma. He said the university should be a venue for different perspectives and peaceful protests. A recording of Yiannopoulos’ speech might have been a more powerful vehicle for the polarizing figure’s critics, he said. “That moment could have been caught and those would have been the videos that would be viral right now, as opposed to the videos of innocent individuals being attacked,” Sabes mused. As for Trump's veiled threat, UC Berkeley relies heavily on federal funds. In 2015-2016, for example, the university received $370 million in federal funds for reseach grants alone, 55 percent of the overall research funding budget. And according to the National Center for Education Statistics, Cal receives another $76 million in student aid from the federal government ($38 million in Pell Grants and $38 million in federal student loans). California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom weighed in on the money issue. Just before 8 a.m. on Thursday, he tweeted: "As a UC Regent, I'm appalled at your willingness to deprive over 38,000 students access to an education because of the actions of a few." Outweighs the 1NC link –alumni donations often go to aspects of the college that aren't key to educational quality like new buildings or sports stadiums, but our evidence proves federal funding is key to the parts of the college that their impact talks about. Federal funding cuts crush innovation and researchWatanabe & Khan 2/3 – bracketed for ableist language [Teresa Watanabe, Amina Khan (reporters), "UC would lose $9 billion for research, healthcare, education if Trump cut federal funds," LA Times, 2/3/2017] AZ New treatments for genetic diseases. Advances in solar-based sustainable energy. Financial aid for needy students and medical assistance for the elderly. All of that — and much more — is supported by the $9 billion in federal funds given annually to the University of California for research, education and healthcare. Those funds drew widespread public attention Thursday, when President Trump tweeted that UC Berkeley’s federal funds might be at risk after campus officials cancelled an appearance by conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos to safeguard the public from violent protesters. “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view — NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” Trump tweeted. Legal experts say presidents have no authority to cut off federal funds for alleged violations of the 1st Amendment. Even if they did, pulling funding from UC — the nation’s premier public research university system — would Federal funding makes up a larger portion of public colleges' budgets. Public schools specifically don't get many donationsAF 12 [Alumni Factor (data mining source and news source on performance of universities across the US), "Alumni Giving," 2012 is the last date cited] AZ Small schools with high academic standards and a close-knit community do a better job than larger schools in creating an environment where intellectual development can occur and deep friendships can develop – these two factors appear to have the strongest correlation to alumni giving. Graduates of large, publicly funded schools are less likely to donate, since they feel that government already supports their schools. Smaller, private schools more heavily rely upon the donations of alumni, and hence have become skilled at convincing alumni to support them. Non-unique – donations lowWang 16 [Amy Wang (reporter), "Why alumni donations to Yale and other US colleges are hitting a new low," Quartz Magazine, 2/24/2016] AZ Some two decades years ago, when asked to give to their alma mater, an enthusiastic 50% of Yale graduates opened their wallets. Last year, roughly 33% did, despite steady increases in university solicitation. Alumni donations are now at their lowest levels in two decades, according to Yale’s Office of Institutional Research. Why? Administrators aren’t sure, but Yale’s president Peter Salovey blames “trends in society today that probably work against participation,” according to the Yale Daily News this week. The problem isn’t limited to Yale. For years, colleges and universities across the US have seen their alumni giving rates decline. One reason is that college graduates face a growing slew of philanthropic options: There are more charities, religious institutions, social groups, and Kickstarter campaigns than one can count, and it’s hard to choose where to put your (finite amount of) money. Schools, especially elite schools with big endowments, can seem less appealing than social justice nonprofits or tech innovations. There’s another possible explanation: College solicitation efforts may be getting totally outdated. A 2014 report from Dan Allenby, founder of the Annual Giving Network and an assistant vice president of annual giving at Boston University, notes that schools still use terminology like “giving back” when most young alums don’t actually feel indebted to their schools. Considering the record level of college debt in the country, “how can we expect alumni to ‘give back’ when they haven’t finished paying the original bill?” Allenby asks. No decrease in alumni donations – prefer survey data over mere anecdotesWoodhouse 15 [Kellie Woodhouse, "Appeasing the Ones Who Feed You," Slate Magazine, 12/10/2015] AZ Strauss recalled an institution his firm worked with about a decade ago that was cracking down on its fraternities after a series of troubling incidents. Alumni were contacting administrators expressing frustration with the crackdown, and the university was worried giving would suffer because of alumni concerns. But a survey of 900 alumni found that less than 1 percent of respondents actually said they’d decrease their giving. “They were hearing from all the squeaky wheels,” recalls Strauss, who added that a relatively small proportion of alumni at any institution are substantial donors. It’s the big donors that universities should keep in touch with during times of turmoil on campus. Turn – alumni donors are decreasing support because colleges fail to address censorship –only plan solves alumni backlash by endorsing free speechJeremy Willinger 16 [Adminstrator of Heterdox Academy, apolitically diverse group of social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and other scholars who want to improve our academic disciplines and universities. We share a concern about a growing problem: the loss or lack of “viewpoint diversity.” When nearly everyone in a field shares the same political orientation, certain ideas become orthodoxy, dissent is discouraged, and errors can go unchallenged.], "Protests Rise and Donations Drop: Alumni reactions to campus trends," Heterodox Academy, 8-16-2016, http://heterodoxacademy.org/2016/08/16/protests-rise-and-donations-drop-alumni-reactions-to-campus-trends/, ghs//BZ Heterodox Academy was founded at a time during which issues of free speech and censorship were playing out on college campuses nationwide. While we appreciated the issues being brought to the table, many of us also marveled at the hostile and exclusionary methods used to bring them into focus. As it turns out, so did many alumni who have since decreased their support to many universities where these protests and requests for censorship were taking place. In a recent New York Times article “College Students Protest, Alumni’s Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink,” Anemona Hartocollis writes about the backlash from alumni as “an unexpected aftershock of the campus disruptions of the last academic year.” More than just a reaction, this is a repudiation of the tactics used by students and of the capitulation by administrators. From the piece: Alumni from a range of generations say they are baffled by today’s college culture. Among their laments: Students are too wrapped up in racial and identity politics. They are allowed to take too many frivolous courses. They have repudiated the heroes and traditions of the past by judging them by today’s standards rather than in the context of their times. Fraternities are being unfairly maligned, and men are being demonized by sexual assault investigations. And university administrations have been too meek in addressing protesters whose messages have seemed to fly in the face of free speech. While the article focuses specifically on Amherst College, it also mentions Princeton, Yale, and Claremont McKenna— all schools that had protests that made the national news. How far has fundraising fallen? Hartocollis reports: Among about 35 small, selective liberal arts colleges belonging to the fund-raising organization Staff, or Sharing the Annual Fund Fundamentals, that recently reported their initial annual fund results for the 2016 fiscal year, 29 percent were behind 2015 in dollars, and 64 percent were behind in donors, according to a steering committee member, Scott Kleinheksel of Claremont McKenna College in California. Important to note are the limited avenues alumni have to truly make their voices heard. Letters to the editor of the alumni magazine and campus paper are but small opportunities in context of how much a monetary gift actually means to the school. Whether this is a temporary drop as a response to trending topics and issues or indicative of a larger, more permanent state of fundraising is yet to be seen. But as we get further away from the initial burst of protests last fall, other stakeholders are beginning to make their voices felt. Alumni in particular-whether they are now on the right or the left—generally endorse free speech and free inquiry quite strongly. They may play an increasingly strong role as we enter the second year of student protests. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 1.19 Mb. Share with your friends:
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