The Trump administration has begun negotiations with several universities in an attempt to get them to pay millions of dollars in fines to ensure federal funding keeps flowing—as Columbia agreed to do this week. A White House official said the Columbia deal is the new model, the Wall Street Journal reports. The universities facing the pressure include Harvard, Cornell, Duke, Northwestern, Michigan, and Brown. Columbia's agreement to pay $200 million to settle with the administration over antisemitism allegations had immediately drawn criticism for setting a precedent. A Columbia law professor called it a shakedown, per Reuters. "The agreement gives legal...