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To the editor : Gov. Gavin Newsom is acting like an extortionist ( “Newsom chides USC to ‘do the right thing’ for academic freedom and resist Trump compact,” Oct. 3). His threat to withhold university funding unless schools refuse to sign President Trump’s compact is political coercion. Public universities should not be strong-armed into adopting the governor’s preferred positions. Their mission is education and open inquiry, not serving as instruments of partisan pressure.

What makes this especially troubling is the hypocrisy. Newsom built his current political brand by criticizing Trump for using federal funds as a political weapon. Yet now he is employing the same tactic, un

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