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Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

Mar 27, 2024 • 17 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X

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NEW: Yesterday Vanderbilt students pushed their way into a campus building to conduct a sit-in in the lobby of the chancellor’s office:

They’re protesting the administration’s decision to shut down a student referendum on BDS.

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1772746929178657153

This was the scene inside yesterday:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1772746929178657153

The Vanderbilt Hustler reported that at least seven students were suspended on an interim basis:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1772747871655211248

Here’s more video showing the students taunting a police officer:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1772747871655211248

The number of students suspended is up to 16.

The university is reiterating its commitment to free expression but indicting that the protestors are violating time, manner, place restrictions and risking campus safety:

A reporter was arrested yesterday but later released. It sounds like charges will not be pursued.

Later in the evening, the students said the administration brought Panera Bread for security but was denying food and bathroom access to students.

They were peeing in bottles.

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1772809758673629347

Some students started to realize they might get arrested while trying to report that one young woman was in danger of toxic shock:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1772809758673629347

Students outside chanted, “Let them pee! Let them eat!”

They report that one of the students outside was detained or arrested:

Nashville police (“at least 20 officers in 15 cars”) were called to the scene in addition to the Vanderbilt police who were already there.

The student was arrested for allegedly breaking a lane of glass.
vanderbilthustler.com/2024/03/26/bre…

The Vanderbilt Hustler has a ton of great coverage here:
vanderbilthustler.com/tag/kirkland-h…

Three students have now been arrested:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1773326912116416972

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1773326912116416972

In the end, four students were arrested (three inside and one outside), and all the students inside were given interim suspensions, which means they can’t be on campus and had to leave by 5pm local yesterday.

Disciplinary hearings start today.

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1773422353994646007

The day after:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1773422353994646007

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Steve McGuire

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Apr 23

BREAKING: The FBI raided three homes of University of Michigan anti-Israel activists today, briefly detaining and questioning some of them while reportedly seizing electronics.

Recall that the homes and offices of several UMich Leaders have been vandalized in recent months.

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The report from TAHRIR coalition, the anti-Israel group at the University of Michigan:

Crowds gathered at two of the locations to call the police Nazis…

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Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

Apr 19

In a new analysis, @StandColumbia estimates “Harvard faces $1.2 to $5.5 billion in annual institutional risk exposure, or up to 43% of its adjusted operating budget.”

They argue Harvard should still try to make a deal with the government.

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What does Harvard stand to lose?

First, and most obviously, government grants, which Stand Columbia estimates to be worth $2.4 billion per year.

They say this is a high probability loss, quite reasonably since the government is already freezing grants.

Second, revenues from international students. Losing this money is also a high probability risk and adds up to $560 million per year.

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Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

Apr 10

Wow — the federal government wants to place Columbia University under a consent decree.

It sounds like this is because former Interim President Katrina Armstrong failed to convince the government that Columbia is serious about change.

“The Trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University into a consent decree, according to people familiar with the matter, an extraordinary step that could significantly escalate the pressure on the school as it battles for federal funding.”

“A consent decree, which can last for years, would give a federal judge responsibility for ensuring Columbia changes its practices along lines laid out by the federal government. If a consent decree is in place, Columbia would have to comply with it. If a judge determines they are out of compliance, the school could be held in contempt of court—punishable by penalties including fines.”

“In order for a consent decree to take effect, Columbia would have to agree to enter it. It is unclear whether the university board has discussed the possibility.”

“Columbia could fight the move in court; the Justice Department would need to prove that the arrangement is warranted. But a court case could take years, and Columbia would likely lose federal funding in the interim—and might ultimately lose. Fighting the move would also open the school up to required depositions and legal fact-finding, which could keep the school’s campus politics in the spotlight.”

“The task force is aiming at the consent decree, people familiar with the matter said, because it doesn’t think Columbia is a good-faith actor willing to make the significant changes on campuses necessary to curb what it believes are civil rights infractions against Jewish students.”

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https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1904335907781595162

First, former President Armstrong played down the promised changes to faculty.

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1904335907781595162

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Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

Mar 26

“DEI, Redundancy, and Bullshit Jobs”

Here’s a crazy story:

A Brown U. student built a website, “Bloat at Brown,” with a database of about 3,500 university staff and emailed them, asking “what tasks you performed in the past week” and “how Brown students would be impacted if your position was eliminated.”

About 20 people replied. One told him to “f**k off.”

The school advised employees not to respond and referred the student to the disciplinary office (he hasn’t been charged with any violations yet). Then his website was hacked by someone with a Brown IP address.

The website: bloat.brownspectator.com

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Steve McGuire

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She “told faculty there was no mask ban.”

And she said the new vice provost to be appointed to review Middle East Studies “wouldn’t impact how the department operates.”

On the mask ban:

On the new vice provost position:

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Steve McGuire

@sfmcguire79

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This. Is. Incredible.

The LGBTQ center at Binghamton University hosted an Israeli trans activist via Zoom to talk about life as a trans person in Israeli society.

SJP freaked out and disrupted the event.

“No pride in genocide.”

“Your whole identity is political.”