The Deuce: It's not ideal, but it's also not fair to just label them as cowards.

The main thing is to get the funding back so that the work that was promised to students when they enrolled at NW can be done. The main goal of the university is the students that are there.

It sucks, but most people have figured out the only way to fight Trump is in protracted legal battles that can take years. So do you do that, when it means that thousands of students are going to be completely screwed? Or do you cave and wait out the next four years until things get normal again?

It's a tough call, but calling NW officials "cowards" doesn't even begin to acknowledge the complexity of the situation.

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Northwestern agreed to pay $75 million to the federal government in a deal reached on Friday with the Trump administration that restores hundreds of millions in research funding and closes multiple investigations into antisemitism on campus.

The deal was the sixth agreement that the Trump administration had reached with an elite university, and the second-highest payment, since the White House began blocking research funding from major colleges that it viewed as out of step with its policy agenda for academia.

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Should be a quiet week