The incitement to violence charge against the president concerns the lead-up to that meeting and the aftermath of the vote (seen above):
The cyber theft charge accuses her of “stealing the Central Student Government Instagram account” by changing the password after the meeting:
The dereliction of duty charge is the longest and alleges several failings on the part of the president — not submitting reports, misleading other members, failing to attend meetings, etc.
Similar charges for incitement to violence and dereliction of duty (but not cyber theft) were filed against the vice-president:
The executives (who call themselves “Shut It Down”) had earlier released a statement refusing to resign, saying “We occupy CSG not to maintain the system, but to dismantle it in pursuit of global liberation.”
Now it seems they’re being shut down, and their occupation will end.
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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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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.’”
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.
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.”
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.”
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…
🧵 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.”
Colleges expected to be able to advance their political agendas without external opposition, but that is changing:
The politicization of teaching is a betrayal of one’s discipline and an abuse of power: