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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. Image
This was the scene inside yesterday:
The Vanderbilt Hustler reported that at least seven students were suspended on an interim basis: Image
Here’s more video showing the students taunting a police officer:
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: Image
A reporter was arrested yesterday but later released. It sounds like charges will not be pursued. Image
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.


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Some students started to realize they might get arrested while trying to report that one young woman was in danger of toxic shock:
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:
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.
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Dec 19, 2024
What is going on at George Mason University?

First, police found weapons and terrorist propaganda in the home of two SJP leaders.

Now, a third student at GMU, an Egyptian national, has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly planning an attack on the Israeli consulate in NYC: Image
From this @DailySignal piece by @Gundisalvus:
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The court filing:
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Dec 18, 2024
BREAKING: The Idaho Board of Education has passed resolutions requiring the state’s public universities to:

-Shut down DEI offices and policies.

-Commit to political neutrality.

-Protect free expression.

-Provide free expression training to faculty, students, and staff.

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The DEI resolution says institutions

“shall not use personal identity characteristics in decisions affecting the employment or education of any employee or student.”

“shall not establish or maintain a central office, policy, procedure, or initiative that promotes DEl ideology.”
It also resolves that:

“no student resource or student success center serves students based on DEI ideology.”

“no institution employee or student shall be required to declare gender identity or preferred pronouns in any form of communication.” Image
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Dec 16, 2024
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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In response to the attempt to boost the candidate, he wrote,

“[Candidate X] is lively and charming—and yes, Black, which is great—but I can’t say that I found his sophistication and experience up to the level of our top candidates.”

He also expressed concern that his “colleagues would…make the applicant’s race their ‘overriding criterion.’”Image
Someone complained, and he was asked to meet with administrators. They said he “upset people” but wouldn’t tell him how or why.

He was asked to resign from the search committee.

He refused, but Dean Daryle Williams removed him anyway — and then filed a complaint against him. Image
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Dec 8, 2024
NEW: Students at Sarah Lawrence College have published a strategy guide in which they say they were ANSWERING THE CALL OF HAMAS when they recently occupied a building and set up an encampment on campus.

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They call themselves “fighters in the Student Intifada” and declare that “the third stage of the Student Intifada at SLC has just begun.” Image
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They say “to escalate requires education” and report that encampment participants were educated “on the Palestinian resistance, the Student Intifada here at home, and the tactics used by other militant student movements.” Image
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Dec 5, 2024
BREAKING: The University of Michigan will stop using DEI statements in faculty hiring and promotion.

The decision was made by Provost Laurie McCauley and announced this morning.

This is a great day for @UMich and American higher education!

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A faculty committee recommended that the university “Discourage Solicitation of Standalone Diversity Statements” but didn’t want to give up screening faculty for their DEI commitments…
…so it added that “search committees and promotion committees should gather evidence for DEI contributions through submitted teaching dossiers, research agendas, and curriculum vitae” and made two further recommendations… Image
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Nov 21, 2024
🧵 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.” Image
Colleges expected to be able to advance their political agendas without external opposition, but that is changing: Image
The politicization of teaching is a betrayal of one’s discipline and an abuse of power: Image
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