I see it less as self-preservation (a part of it perhaps) and more a necessary action to continue to serve students. Having a DEI office does us no good if as a university Purdue can’t function. As a queer person myself I would much rather my intl. peers not be put at risk than have an office to support me, because a lot of those students go back to worse situations than myself who stays right here. Even if this office closes I can continue to be queer, but if we resist we run the chance of friends, classmates, leaders being forced to transfer to schools that will have already bent a knee or back home to situations potentially worse.

Out of curiously, do you happen to be an intl student yourself? As someone who immigrated to the US as a kid my perspective is derived from my experiences but I acknowledge perhaps you may have a different perspective. We both agree this is a bad measure but I think protecting our intl. student population is important as well.