Now that the University of Arizona has rejected a White House bargain to trade administration influence for grants, the question is what now?

After 20 days of suspense the University of Arizona said it was not going to take a White House offer of a bargain: to trade access to Federal funding for commitments to some of the administrations ideals but the university does say it still wants to talk about some of the things raised in that compact.

Before U of A said no to the offer, students and faculty protested. They said it was a threat to free speech and a threat to academic freedom.

The deal set ten conditions: Among them, remove sex and ethnicity as criteria for admissions and hiring, forbid transgender people on sports teams, and forbid actions that would suppress conservative ideas.

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