NEW: Middlebury College on Monday called for an "immediate ceasefire" in Gaza—but not for the release of the remaining hostages held there.

The one-sided statement comes as Middlebury faces a federal civil rights probe for allegedly discriminating against Jewish students.🧵 In an agreement struck with pro-Palestinian demonstrators, who had set up an encampment on the school’s main green, Middlebury president Laurie Patton issued a statementcondemning "the destruction and debilitation of educational institutions" in Gaza as a result of the carnage.

NEW: 13 federal judges say they will no longer hire clerks from Columbia Law School OR Columbia College after the university allowed an encampment on its lawn to spiral into a destructive occupation of a campus building.

This is the first clerkship boycott to hit undergrads.🧵 The judges cite the "explosion of student disruptions" and the "virulent spread of antisemitism" at Columbia. They’re led by appellate judges James Ho and Liz Branch—who launched the boycotts of Yale and Stanford Law—as well as Matthew Solomson on the US Court of Federal Claims.

THREAD: Certain people on this website keep claiming that the anti-woke movement—and in particular anti-woke Jews—have abandoned their commitment to free speech and are now demanding DEI-style censorship of views they find offensive.

The truth is almost the opposite.🧵 Today the editors of Tablet Magazine—a Jewish, Zionist, and vociferously anti-woke publication—put out an editorial lambasting efforts to police speech in the name of protecting Jews.

The editorial is literally titled, "Not In Our Name."

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NEW: The student editors of the Columbia Law Review have issued a statement urging the law school to cancel exams in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university's encampment, saying the "violence" has left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus."🧵 Signed by 5 other law journals, including "A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual," the statement accused police of "brutalizing" students—though no major injuries have been reported—and claimed canceling exams was a "proportionate response" to the "distress our peers have been feeling."

NEW: One of the most outspoken supporters of the Columbia encampment, classics professor Joseph Howley, is leading a review of the required humanities curriculum for all undergraduates.

Every student at Columbia will have to read the texts he assigns.🧵 Howley has emerged as one of the encampment’s most forceful champions, giving interviews from inside its perimeter and dismissing the idea that the unsanctioned protest—which has included calls to murder Jewish students and threats that "Columbia will burn"—poses a safety risk.

EXCLUSIVE: UCLA medical school is launching a probe of its mandatory "health equity" class—and warning whistleblowers they could be punished if there are any more leaks.

It's also promised to address concerns that the course is antisemitic with—you guessed it—more DEI.🧵 The dean of the medical school, Steven Dubinett, announced today that his office had formed a task force to review all first-year courses, including "Structural Racism and Health Equity," after the Washington Free Beacon published materials from the mandatory class.

NEW: Organizers of the Columbia encampment advised activists at Princeton on how to take over their own campus, giving them tips on disrupting university operations and stressing that there is "safety in numbers."

We've obtained documents showing extensive coordination.🧵 The tips were dispensed last week during a meeting between Aditi Rao, a Ph.D student at Princeton, and members of Columbia's encampment. Rao relayed the advice to her fellow Princeton activists in a strategy session last Saturday, notes from which were obtained by the Beacon.

NEW: UCLA medical school's mandatory health equity class teaches students that weight loss is a "hopeless endeavor" and that "ob*sity" is a slur "used to exact violence on fat people."

The full syllabus has shocked prominent doctors—the former dean of Harvard Medical School.🧵 All first year students are assigned an essay by Marquisele Mercedes, a self-described "fat liberationist," who "describes how weight came to be pathologized and medicalized in racialized terms" and offers guidance on "resisting entrenched fat oppression," per the syllabus.

NEW: What happened at Yale this weekend? Pro-Palestinian protesters tore down an American flag from a WWII memorial and sent a Jewish student to the hospital—all while administrators stood by and refused to call the police. 🧵

freebeacon.com/campus/at-yale… The protest on Beinecke Plaza—a quad in the center of campus dedicated to Yale students who fought in WWII—focused on the university’s investments in military contractors and included graduate students participating in a "hunger strike," now in its second week.

NEW: Pro-Palestinian activists claimed in January that an Israeli student had deployed an IDF-made chemical weapon against peaceful student protesters at Columbia.

That "weapon" appears to have been a harmless fart spray purchased on Amazon for $26.11.🧵freebeacon.com/campus/columbi… The imbroglio started when pro-Palestinian protesters told the Columbia Spectator they had been sprayed with "skunk," a crowd-control chemical developed by the Israeli Defense Forces, at a rally in January. columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/01/2…

NEW: Harvard has tapped an ex-McKinsey consultant who has criticized meritocracy, argued for explicit diversity targets in C-suits, and published shoddy research on the so-called business case for diversity to help select the university’s next president. 🧵freebeacon.com/campus/harvard… Vivian Hunt, who in 2015 co-authored McKinsey’s influential paper, "Why diversity matters,” has been appointed to lead the Harvard Board of Overseers, the head of which has historically sat on Harvard’s presidential search committees.

NEW: UCLA medical school’s psychiatry department hosted a talk this month that glorified self-immolation as a form of "revolutionary suicide."

We have obtained audio of the talk, which argued taboos on self-immolation serve "the interests of power."🧵
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The talk, "Depathologizing Resistance," was delivered on April 2 by two psychiatry residents at UCLA, Drs. Ragda Izar and Afaf Moustafa, under the auspices of the department’s diversity office and UCLA’s Health Ethics Center.

NEW: Hospitals are integrating race into their procurement policies, balancing the cost and quality of life-saving services against the demographics of the firm providing them.

Tldr: Cancer screening firms can lose bids if they aren't diverse enough.🧵
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One of the most extreme examples comes from Tarrant County, Texas, where the public hospital system, JPS Health, evaluates bids for contracts on a 100-point scale.

NEW: During a mandatory "structural racism" class at UCLA medical school, a pro-Hamas guest speaker led students in chants of "Free, Free Palestine" and demanded that they bow down to "mama earth" for a prayer.

We have obtained exclusive audio.🧵 Tiny Gray-Garcia, who has referred to Oct. 7 as "justice," began the March 27 class by leading students in what she described as a "non-secular prayer" to "the ancestors," instructing everyone to get on their knees and touch the floor—"mama earth"—with their fists.

NEW: The chief diversity officer of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, LaVar Charleston, has a decades-long track record of research misconduct.

He passed off old studies as new work at least 5 times.

Oh—and he attempted to strangle a police officer.🧵freebeacon.com/campus/complai… A complaint filed with the university yesterday implicates eight of Charleston’s publications, many of them coauthored, and accuses him of plagiarizing other scholars as well as duplicating his own work.

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NEW: When Middlebury students organized a vigil after Oct. 7, the school told them to avoid the word “Jewish” and just reference “all the innocent lives lost.”

But weeks later, Middlebury approved a “Vigil for Palestine” focused exclusively on Gaza.🧵freebeacon.com/campus/middleb… In an email to students reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon, Middlebury dean of students Derek Doucet, who has oversight of student activities, pushed to rename the vigil and strip it of references to Judaism so as to make it "as inclusive as possible."

NEW: The chief diversity officer of Columbia University's medical school, Alade McKen, plagiarized extensively in his doctoral dissertation, lifting huge chunks of material without attribution.

Two pages in the dissertation come directly from Wikipedia.🧵
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A complaint filed with Columbia yesterday implicates approximately a fifth of McKen's 163-page dissertation. Over two of those pages are a near-verbatim facsimile of Wikipedia's entry on "Afrocentric education," which McKen never cites.

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NEW: Tenured faculty at the University of Pennsylvania could soon be punished for making “shoddy” arguments.

That’s according to the sanctions that Liz Magill—the former Penn president who equivocated about calls for killing Jews—approved for Amy Wax.

We have exclusive docs.🧵 Magill accepted the recommendations of a Penn hearing board in August to suspend Wax—a tenured law professor—for a year at half pay and to strip her of a named chair, according to a report from Philadelphia Inquirer and documents obtained exclusively by yours truly.

NEW: Last month Stanford held a forum on combating anti-Semitism. By the night’s end, protesters had physically threatened Jewish students, harassed a rabbi, and told employees they would "find out where you live."

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.🧵freebeacon.com/campus/run-by-… David Schuller, 24, a yarmulke-wearing graduate student in Stanford’s physics department, found himself surrounded by a mob of hecklers when he approached a protest outside the forum.

"The IDF killed your hostages," the mob chanted at Schuller.

NEW: Yale Law's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, the group that celebrated the murder of 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, is calling on the school to cancel an event with an IDF soldier, arguing that his presence on campus will make students unsafe.🧵freebeacon.com/campus/yale-la… "The platforming of an IDF combatant recently returned from Israel's atrocities in Gaza makes many of us—especially Palestinian Arab, Muslim, Black, and brown students—feel physically and psychologically unsafe and unwelcome in our own school,” the group wrote in a Feb. 1 post.

SCOOP: Harvard's chief diversity officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large chunks of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband.🧵freebeacon.com/campus/not-jus… A complaint filed with Harvard yesterday makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston's thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution. freebeacon.com/wp-content/upl…