IA ‘suck it up, buttercup’ bill punishes colleges catering to Trump protests & post-election blues
RT.com
17 Nov, 2016
Many colleges responded to the result of the 2016 presidential election by offering to reschedule exams or providing additional counseling services. This greatly bothered an Iowa state representative who hopes to cut the budgets of participating schools.
Calling it the “Suck it up, buttercup bill,” State Representative Bobby Kaufmann (R-Wilton) plans to introduce legislation that would calculate how much state universities spent providing additional support to students after the election and cut their budget by half that amount.
In addition, the legislation would punish protesters who shut down highways.
Kaufmann plans to introduce his buttercup legislation in the Iowa House in January 2017. However, the opposition might say zero divided in half is still zero.
A spokesmen for Iowa public universities told the Des Moines Register that no additional state resources went to extra support for students traumatized by Trump’s election victory. Both students and faculty at Iowa State University organized rallies and marches, and some student groups at the University of Iowa held demonstrations of their own. However, none of them reportedly cost the schools additional money.
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