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The administration’s research funding and DEI cuts present an existential threat to regional public universities like Southern Illinois University, the economic backbone of the conservative rural region it serves.

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ProPublicaA University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education
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U Netherlands has also warned researchers about the questionnaire. The USGS questionnaire asks, for example, whether the researcher’s organisation works with ‘entities associated with communist, socialist, or totalitarian parties’, whether the research project has taken ‘appropriate measures’ to ‘defend against gender ideology’ and whether the project has ‘measurable benefits for US domestic industries, workforce, or economic sectors’."
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"Leaving on a Jet Plane" is a #song written and recorded by American singer #JohnDenver in 1966, originally included on his debut demo recording John Denver Sings. Its original title was "Babe I Hate to Go". He made several copies and gave them out as presents for #Christmas of that year. Denver's then-producer #MiltOkun convinced him to change the title; it was renamed "Leaving on a Jet Plane" in 1967. In 1969.
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"Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" is a song written in 1943 by #HughMartin and #RalphBlane and introduced by #JudyGarland in the 1944 #MGM musical #MeetMeInStLouis. #FrankSinatra later recorded a version with modified lyrics. In 2007, #ASCAP ranked it the third most performed #Christmas song during the preceding five years that had been written by ASCAP members.
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