Steve McGuire
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Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom @goACTA. Writings in @WSJ, @nypost, @Newsweek, @FoxNews, @RCPolitics, etc. Opinions are my own. RT ≠ endorsement.
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Joined April 2019
60% of students at Arizona’s public universities “believe their universities should take action to promote political diversity among faculty.”. Today @goACTA released a new Survey Report and a Report Card evaluating the state’s public universities on freedom of expression.
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The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.
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“I wanted this victory at all costs. Just for my father.”. Italian boxer Angela Carini emotionally discusses winning for her late father after securing a spot at the Paris Olympics. She just forfeited her match against Imane Khelif, who is male.
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BREAKING: The University of Michigan student government has impeached its anti-Israel president and vice-president for:. -incitement to violence;. -cyber theft; and,. -dereliction of duty. The students are taking their government back. 🧵
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Former Jill Biden Press Secretary Michael LaRosa in response to MSNBC guest Sherrilyn Ifill calling Pete Hegseth a white supremacist:. “This sh*t has to stop. Opposing DEl initiatives does not make you a white supremacist.”. “Voices like this on the left are turning the
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Jon Huntsman, in an email to @Penn President Liz Magill, says the “university’s silence in the face of reprehensible and historic Hamas evil against the people of Israel…is a new low.”. “Consequently, Huntsman Foundation will close its checkbook on all future giving to Penn.”
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Staff at George Washington University have hung a huge American flag from a building overlooking the encampment!
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NEW: The University System of Georgia has:. -Banned DEI statements in hiring and admissions. -Added free expression training to student orientation. -Declared political neutrality. -Required the teaching of the Declaration, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and more. 🧵.
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“I am deeply disappointed by the intolerance for freedom of speech and the right to civil disobedience on campus.”. A student speaker at Harvard’s commencement went off-script to discuss the protestors who were not allowed to graduate:
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This is a new one:. The University of Colorado has renamed its DEI office the “Office of Collaboration.”
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When Pomona College students (and possibly others) rushed into an administrative building last night, President Gabi Starr told them they had 10 minutes to leave. Then she suspended them and had them arrested. (Warning: language)
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Wow…Brown had 41 students arrested and booked for occupying a university building yesterday. They were “photographed, fingerprinted and provided their arrest paperwork” on site. A university spokesperson said, “the disruption to secure buildings is not acceptable, and the
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BREAKING: The Harvard Corporation has rejected the faculty attempt to allow sanctioned student protestors to graduate:. “Today, we have voted to confer 1,539 degrees to Harvard College students in good standing. Because the students included as the result of Monday’s amendment
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“I do not want my family’s name associated with the University of Pennsylvania — ever.”. Steve Eisman, famous for “The Big Short,” instructed @Penn to remove his family’s name from a scholarship at the university:.
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BREAKING: MIT has published the profile of its incoming class, the first admitted in the wake of the SCOTUS decision again affirmative action. Here is a chart comparing the ethnic profile of last year's class to this one:
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Billionaire Ken Griffin, who gave Harvard $300 million last year:. “I’m not interested in supporting the institution.”. He asks if Harvard will return to educating young people to be leaders or remain “lost in the wilderness” of DEI.
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Jerry Seinfeld says he couldn’t understand why the Harvard grads on his staff were so embarrassed about it: . “I’m not talking about Harvard now. I’m talking about the way it used to be. You’re never going to believe this, but Harvard used to be a great place to go to school.”
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One of the leaders of Harvard’s encampment (and many protests this year) was removed from commencement this morning:
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NEW: Another major @Penn donor, David Magerman, has said he will no longer support the university:. “I am deeply ashamed of my association with the University of Pennsylvania. I refuse to donate another dollar to Penn. There is no action anyone at Penn can take to change that.”
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This is how white women for Harris want to govern you (yes, it’s the same woman):
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“On Wednesday the U.N. will refuse to renew the contract of Alice Wairimu Nderitu, the Kenyan who is the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide.”. “She is being dismissed because she has stood firm in her belief that Israel’s war with Hamas isn’t genocide.”
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This guy got into Stanford, Princeton, and Yale a few years ago. He went to Yale. These schools are what they want to be.
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No elections, no free speech, no constitution…. What would you call that?
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Pro-Israel students singing “God Bless America” at Columbia:
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This guy is one of the lead protestors at Cornell. When the student government denied his group’s divestment resolution, he and others vowed to repeatedly disrupt the campus, which they did. He was suspended last year too. Looks like Cornell might be done messing around.
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The Princeton protestors have to be some of saddest/funniest of all. 🧵
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“Do you believe in karma?”. “I hear it’s a motherf*cker.”. Roland Fryer in response to @bariweiss when she asks him about Claudine Gay.
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“The university’s purpose is not political action or social justice. It is to create an environment in which learning thrives.”. —New Stanford President Jonathan Levin. He says they must work “to foster searching discussion, to listen with curiosity, and to ensure the freedom of
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Roland Fryer has no time for DEI foolishness:. “You can’t put me on a task force where we’re going to spend a semester talking about the new name for black people.”. “You go to my neighborhood and call someone BIPOC, they’ll punch you in the face.”
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This longer video of the confrontation at Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Fisk’s home shows in more detail just how insufferable these students are. And Chemerinsky has confirmed it’s a private residence (see below), which, as you can see, they were asked to leave repeatedly.
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“The rote incantations of a state religion.”. This is an incredible exposé of academic DEI. It confirms so many things critics of DEI have been saying for years. Better late than never, NYT!. Some highlights:. 🧵
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Joe Edelman, CEO of Perceptive Advisors, has resigned from the board of Brown University because its leadership has capitulated to protestors and agreed to vote on divestment from Israel. It’s a powerful letter:. “I find it morally reprehensible that holding a divestment vote
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NEW: Dartmouth College is the first Ivy League school to reinstitute a standardized testing requirement for admissions:. “Standardized testing requirement will improve—not detract from—our ability to bring the most promising and diverse students to our campus.”
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New NYT poll:. Society has gone too far or far enough accommodating trans people:. Total: 77%.GOP: 93%.Dem: 62%. Trans women should NOT be allowed in women’s sports:. Total: 79%.GOP: 94%.Dem: 67%. Minors should NOT be able to get puberty blockers:. Total: 71%.GOP: 90%.Dem: 54%
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BREAKING: North Carolina public universities have closed their DEI offices, eliminated 59 DEI positions, and saved $17,118,889, according to a new report today:
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NEW: The 13 protestors who occupied Stanford President Saller’s office have been charged with felony burglary.
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NEW: Students at the University of Minnesota set up an encampment at 4am. Police have already cleared it and arrested the students.
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Nicholas Kristof:. “The West Coast’s central problem is not so much that it’s unserious as that it’s infected with an ideological purity that is focused more on intentions than on oversight and outcomes.”
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University of Michigan now has at least 241 paid DEI employees. “The payroll costs are $23.24 million for salaries and $7.44 million for benefits, or $30.68 million, an amount that would cover in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students.”
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And the NYT gives the signal. It’s officially over for the campus protestors in the court of public opinion:
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The student protestors at Yale are being zip-tied and loaded into a university shuttle.
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Why don’t more professors object to race-based discrimination in faculty hiring?. Consider the story of 79-year-old UC Riverside Professor Emeritus Perry Link. He objected to “boosting” a candidate based on race and was subjected to a nearly two-year inquisition. 🧵
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The WSJ reports that @realchrisrufo “has an invitation to Mar-a-Lago, where he will present the president-elect’s team with a plan to geld American universities by withholding money if they don’t pull back on diversity measures.”
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The deans at Harvard brought Twizzlers and burritos to student protestors when they occupied a building. At Vanderbilt, the admin prevented the students from getting any food and sent Panera Bread for the police.
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BREAKING: The judicial branch of the University of Michigan student government has found its anti-Israel president and vice president guilty of dereliction of duty. They “are removed from office with immediate effect, and…barred from holding CSG office in the future.”
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She showed up at a dinner party to protest with a microphone and now she’s playing the victim and claiming Professor Fisk is a racist:
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UPDATE: Statement from Dean Chemerinsky:. “I am enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”. Two more “dinners will go forward on Wednesday and Thursday. I hope that there
Antisemites at @BerkeleyLaw are targeting their professors. When Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and Prof. Catherine Fisk invited 3Ls to dinner, students called for a boycott and then came to their home with a mic to protest. Now @sairasameerarao is spreading this video without context.
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Honestly, it feels wrong to cheer for the Harvard Corporation, but this was absolutely the right call.
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BREAKING: Billionaire Len Blavatnik, whose family foundation has given over $270 million to @Harvard, is pausing donations:
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I cannot believe @MattWalshBlog disguised himself with a man bun and scored an interview with Robin DiAngelo. I will absolutely pay to see this.
Over a year ago I embarked on a personal journey into anti-racism and DEI. Now I can finally share it with all of you. My new film “AM I RACIST?” is only in theaters on September 13th.
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Jonathan Haidt now says we need to eliminate DEI:. “Identitarianism is completely incompatible with the mission of the university.”. “There’s no future for DEI as long as it’s based on identity.”. “Get rid of the entire thing, get rid of all the departments.”
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Ann Coulter was shouted down last time she spoke at Cornell, so the provost reinvited her to speak. This time an assistant professor was removed by police after repeatedly disrupting the event:. H/t @russnelson
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Yet another major @Penn donor, Jonathon Jacobson, has written to President Magill. He pledges $1 per year until she leaves. “Enough. It is time to reverse this trend and restore our ‘elite’ universities to the principles upon which they were founded: as places of inquiry, where.
Jonathon Jacobson of Highsage Ventures, who has given tens of millions to @UPenn, has closed his checkbook. Calls Magill “feckless” and “laughable.”
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BREAKING: Police have just told protestors at Yale they will be arrested if they don’t leave:
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BREAKING: Pro-Israel Binghamton University students voted yesterday to repeal a BDS resolution passed by their student government last spring. They also passed motions advocating for a ban on masks during protests and condemning BDS as “inherently antisemitic.”. SJP is enraged.
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I’ll take things you shouldn’t need to be told by a judge for $200, Alex.
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The @NewYorker published an essay on some of the students behind the now infamous statement supported by 30+ student groups at Harvard, and this is the concluding paragraph:
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BREAKING: Enrollments at Emerson College are way down, in part due to protests, and the school is planning to lay off staff, including possibly faculty:
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Wow!. Three of the Vanderbilt students who participated in the sit-in have been expelled. Another has been suspended and the rest are on probation.
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🧵 Colleges have committed themselves to partisan political values, and now they “have no compelling justification for their existence to give when the opposing political party comes into power. We have nothing to say to the half of America who doesn’t share our politics.”
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Guys, this is weird, right? I feel like I’m watching a train wreck…
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BREAKING: The University of Pennsylvania has announced it will stop issuing official statements on social and political events. “It is not the role of the institution to render opinions—doing so risks suppressing the creativity and academic freedom of our faculty and students.
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“It has not gone unnoticed…that many of those who are now demanding the right to protest have previously sought to curtail the speech of those whom they declared hateful.”. Excellent editorial by the NYT:. “Establishing a culture of openness and free expression is crucial to the
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UPDATE: some of the students seem to be panicking. They called 9-1-1 because they’re worried one of them could go into toxic shock. They’re also worried she’ll be arrested if she leaves the building.
Vanderbilt has suspended at least 7 students for occupying the lobby of the chancellor’s office today. They’re there because the admin cancelled a student BDS referendum.
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New message from Harvard President Claudine Gay:. “Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views.”
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This appears to be video of Brown University students being told they would face administrative and legal consequences for remaining in the building past 5pm. It ends as international students are told they “may experience those…consequences differently if it leads to. ”
Wow…Brown had 41 students arrested and booked for occupying a university building yesterday. They were “photographed, fingerprinted and provided their arrest paperwork” on site. A university spokesperson said, “the disruption to secure buildings is not acceptable, and the
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Dr. Vivian Burt, founder of the Women’s Life Center at UCLA (which helps women with psychiatric conditions related to pregnancy) explains that she took a leave of absence in June because she is “no longer welcome” since she has spoken out against antisemitism:
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NEW: The University of Wyoming has banned mandatory DEI statements and closed its DEI office:. President Seidel: “We will not allow units of UW to require job candidates to submit statements regarding diversity, equity and inclusion. We will not have a requirement for employees
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“When I grow up, I want to be offended by my coworkers, and walk around the office on eggshells, and have my words policed by HR.”. This is pretty funny:.
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BREAKING: The DOJ has just created an anti-semitism task force:. “The Task Force’s first priority will be to root out anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on college campuses.”
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A student who sits on @Harvard’s Honor Council weighs in:. “There is one standard for me and my peers and another, much lower standard for our University’s president. The Corporation should resolve the double standard by demanding her resignation.”
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UChicago President Paul Alivisatos ended discussions with protestors because their demands were incompatible with institutional neutrality:. “It is a principle animated by the idea that authority can’t establish truth for an entire institution dedicated to truth-seeking; rather,
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The @Penn donor revolt continues. Clifford Asness:. “I do not like making something like this about money — but it appears to be one of the only paths that has any hope of mattering.”. He calls the Palestine Writes event an “antisemitic Burning Man festival.”
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The University of Wisconsin has agreed to freeze hiring for DEI positions through 2026 and restructure 43 current DEI positions “to serve all students.”
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UCLA protestor under arrest:. “I’m a student here! I’m an English major!”. “Please! Don’t fail us! Don’t fail us!”
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BREAKING: Four University of Rochester students have been charged with felony criminal mischief in connection with the wanted posters targeting Jewish faculty and staff that were plastered all over campus last week. One more person remains under investigation.
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“In what world is a call for violence against Jews protected speech, but a belief that sex is biological and binary isn’t?”. Citing @BillAckman, @RepWalberg asks @Harvard President Claudine Gay about @hoovlet and Tyler Vanderweele, but she has nothing to say about them:
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CONSEQUENCES: Harvard has suspended 5 encampment participants and placed more than 20 on probation. 12 seniors will not be able to graduate this year, and one has jeopardized his Rhodes scholarship.
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UMich has fired a DEI officer who allegedly said “Jewish students were ‘wealthy and privileged’ and not in need of her office’s diversity services.”. DEI is not the solution to campus antisemitism.
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🧵 Violence at UCLA again yesterday. Protestors assaulted and harassed multiple people: a rabbi, a journalist, a security guard, and a vice chancellor. First, the security guard was hit with what appears to be a smartphone:
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BREAKING: Ruth Marcus says Claudine Gay should resign:. “Her track record is unbefitting the president of the country’s premier university. Remaining on the job would send a bad signal to students about the gravity of her conduct.”
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UPDATE: Cornell grad student Momodou Taal has shared a message he received regarding his suspension and immigration status:. "There is no grace period for exiting the US."
This guy is one of the lead protestors at Cornell. When the student government denied his group’s divestment resolution, he and others vowed to repeatedly disrupt the campus, which they did. He was suspended last year too. Looks like Cornell might be done messing around.
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A nurse at Meritus Medical Center in Hagerstown, MD was fired for writing this on Facebook (without any reference to his employer):. “No employer has the right to invade the unconscious spaces of it’s [sic] employees minds in an attempt to reprogram them into thinking certain
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The Orwellian world of DEI in academic hiring:. You’re hiring based on race, but you’re not. You can talk about race, but you can’t. You must follow the law, but you must not. You’re screening for ideology, but you’re not. This has to end.
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“Harvard economist Roland Fryer…has published more in a single year than Ms. Gay has in her entire career. But while serving as the dean of faculty, Ms. Gay led the charge to strip Mr. Fryer of almost all of his academic privileges.”.
New piece with @maxeden99: “Ms. Gay’s institutional rise was marked by a pattern of destroying the careers of genuinely brilliant Black scholars who had the stature to point out her mediocrity…. Play DEI games, win DEI prizes.”
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We know why, but it’s still remarkable that Harvard and Penn did not turn to their elaborate DEI apparatuses to address antisemitism. They had to create new bureaucratic offices instead. Remember that.
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How bad was 2020 in academia?. A USC professor was removed from teaching after he used a Chinese word as an example during a discussion of filler words. Students complained that it sounded like the n-word. The dean said, “it is simply unacceptable for faculty to use words in
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New statement by @Penn President Liz Magill:. “I want to be clear, a call for genocide of Jewish people is threatening—deeply so. It is intentionally meant to terrify a people who have been subjected to pogroms and hatred for centuries and were the victims of mass genocide in the
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The NYT says DEI at UMich is not working. It “has helped fuel a culture of grievance.”. “Michigan has struggled to improve Black enrollment—and students overall feel less included, not more.”. “After Oct. 7, Michigan’s D.E.I. bureaucracy was tested like never before—and failed.”
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Harvard's Freshman class:. 65% progressive, 8% conservative
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@CBradleyThomps1 @RepStefanik @EliseStefanik @elonmusk @BillAckman @realchrisrufo @realChrisBrunet @MZHemingway @mtaibbi The contrast between this and her response to antisemitism at Harvard is damning, as is the fact that this helped her to secure the presidency. It shows just how deeply and thoroughly Harvard has abandoned its highest purpose: the free pursuit of truth.
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