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Nov 13 8 tweets 3 min read Read on X
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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The impeachment comes after students outmaneuvered the activists running their government and restored funding for student activities:
This was the reaction after that vote:

@thestustustudio
The incitement to violence charge against the president concerns the lead-up to that meeting and the aftermath of the vote (seen above): Image
The cyber theft charge accuses her of “stealing the Central Student Government Instagram account” by changing the password after the meeting: Image
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. Image
Similar charges for incitement to violence and dereliction of duty (but not cyber theft) were filed against the vice-president: Image
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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. Image
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More from @sfmcguire79

Dec 19
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…
Read 6 tweets
Dec 18
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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Read 8 tweets
Dec 16
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
Read 16 tweets
Dec 8
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
Read 5 tweets
Dec 5
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
🧵 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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