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Steve McGuire Profile picture
@sfmcguire79
May 15, 2024 • 19 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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The Princeton protestors have to be some of saddest/funniest of all.

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First, they leaked documents (adapted from Columbia) outlining their plans and strategy before they even started:
nationalreview.com/news/princeton…
Then they set up an encampment…
…only to take it down five minutes later after being threatened with arrest:
Next they occupied Clio Hall with faculty members…
But the faculty members left before getting arrested and at least one later called herself a “non-participant observer”:
The students were immediately arrested:
nationalreview.com/news/chaos-at-…
In the aftermath, they shut down the “Black Princeton” group chat after messages were leaked to @abigailandwords and on Reddit:
nationalreview.com/2024/05/the-sa…
As the encampment continued, they began a hunger strike:
They were not allowed to have tents, BTW, and public safety even took down a tarp they had strung up:
So they were forced to sleep under tarps on the ground, sometimes in the rain.

They made Blair Witch Project clips updating their status:

Meanwhile, they infamously complained that Princeton wasn’t checking their vitals even though they were shaking and immunocompromised:

They did have supporters, though. Several non-participant observer faculty at Princeton wrote letters and op-eds, while others joined the hunger strikers for a 24-hour fast:
It turned out to be a “rotary hunger strike” (probably after the original strikers saw the faculty go out for brunch on Saturday): Image
Finally, President Eisgruber said the encampment had to end and made some shameful concessions that were still totally unsatisfactory to the protestors.
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When admin showed up the next day to discuss clearing the camp, the students put out a call for their fellow students to encircle the camp but no one came. Image
Today they announced the hunger strike is over, noting the university administration has “been forced to tone down their violent rhetoric.”

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And while they have events planned for today, the encampment is expected to be shut down as the university plans for year-end activities. Image
Their parting message:

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Jan 17
NEW: The American Economic Association is encouraging economists to leave X for BS.

A new report cites the decline of hashtag EconTwitter, harassment (especially of women, people of color, and LGBTQ scholars), and policy changes under Elon as reasons to switch.

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The report lists pros and cons of social media use.

Note that one positive impact is in the past tense: “#EconTwitter was once a center of positive interaction but has declined.” Image
The report blames policy changes under Elon, including changes to the block function and the algorithm, for the decline.

It notes that many economists have already moved to BS and that institutions could assist with the process. Image
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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:
dailysignal.com/2024/12/18/tro…
The court filing:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
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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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