Vanderbilt University students and faculty rallied against Chancellor Daniel Diermeier underneath the stately brick clocktower of Kirkland Hall on Wednesday morning. The event, organized by Indivisible’s Vanderbilt chapter, is the latest display of public opposition to Diermeier as campus tensions escalate following the chancellor’s noncommittal Oct. 20 response to a sweetheart funding deal offered by the Trump administration. The Trump compact, as it's come to be known, was offered to nine top American academic institutions in exchange for broad control over university life.

Frustrated faculty and students spoke to a raucous crowd outside Kirkland Hall — the school’s administrative center, where Diermeier and other top officials have offices — to rally supporters against Trump’s univer

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