Columbia University agrees to Trump’s demands in attempt to restore funding

Columbia University has agreed to changes demanded by the Trump administration as a precondition for restoring $400 million in federal funding that was pulled this month over allegations the school tolerated anti-Semitism on campus.

The New York-based university, acquiescing to several demands in a memo released on Friday, laid out plans to ban some face masks on campus, empower security officers to remove or arrest individuals, and appoint a new official with broad powers to review departments that offer courses on the Middle East.