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Apr 18 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

BREAKING: Police have entered the encampment at Columbia and are preparing to arrest anyone who won’t leave:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1781009976300827088

They have buses lined up to take people away:

Apr 11 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

BREAKING: Harvard has reversed course and will require applicants to submit standardized tests scores in the next application cycle.

“For the Class of 2029 admissions cycle, Harvard will require submission of scores for the SAT or ACT. In exceptional cases in which applicants are unable to access SAT or ACT testing, other eligible tests will be accepted.”

Harvard had previously announced it would remain test optional through the next two admissions cycles:

Apr 11 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

This longer video of the confrontation at Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Fisk’s home shows in more detail just how insufferable these students are.

And Chemerinsky has confirmed it’s a private residence (see below), which, as you can see, they were asked to leave repeatedly.

Here’s his confirmation as well as statements of support for Chemerinsky and Fisk from other UC leaders:

Apr 6 • 5 tweets • 4 min read

BREAKING: Reports that multiple Pomona College students have been arrested after rushing into an administrative building to protest.

The president threatened them with suspension immediately upon entering the building.

Police arrived within minutes.

The students say 19+ students were arrested.

Mar 28 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

“In essence, they tried to break us. They tried to break our bodies, they tried to break our spirits.”

One of the Vanderbilt protestors speaks after their 21-hour sit-in:

h/t @lawyergonerogue

"We were deprived of medical attention, we were deprived of sleep, we were deprived of food, water, resources."

"In jail I experienced better conditions than at Vanderbilt University."

A Vanderbilt protestor who was arrested talks about his experiences:

H/t @lawyergonerogue

Mar 27 • 17 tweets • 5 min read

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.

Mar 9 • 13 tweets • 4 min read

When Dartmouth, Yale, and Brown reinstituted standardized testing in admissions, they said it would help them to admit more diverse classes.

The NYT explores a few basic models to illustrate how they can use class as a proxy for race to do so.

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The basic idea is to correct for the facts that lower income students tend to do worse on the SAT and that black and Hispanic applicants tend to be poorer.

Feb 22 • 4 tweets • 2 min read

NEW: @Yale is the second Ivy League school to reinstitute required standardized testing in admissions:

“Yale’s research from before and after the pandemic has consistently demonstrated that…test scores are the single greatest predictor of a student’s future Yale grades.”

Like Dartmouth, Yale emphasizes that using test scores helps to increase diversity in the student body:

Feb 5 • 6 tweets • 3 min read

NEW: Dartmouth College is the first Ivy League school to reinstitute a standardized testing requirement for admissions:

“Standardized testing requirement will improve—not detract from—our ability to bring the most promising and diverse students to our campus.”

Consistent with other studies, Dartmouth found that SAT scores are predictive of college GPA:

Jan 19 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

The tyranny of DEI: A dean at the University of Alberta explains that they “embedded” DEI into “every faculty meeting” because most people didn’t want to attend DEI trainings.

“EDI training should be a mandatory training for all people.”

Jan 19 • 5 tweets • 3 min read

U of Wisconsin Law School is requiring 1L students to attend a DEI training.

The reading is directed only at whites and says colorblindness, individualism, arguments against affirmative action, and distancing oneself from white supremacists are “racist attitudes and behaviors.”

Those are only a few of the “28 Common Racist Attitudes and Behaviors that Indicate a Detour or Wrong Turn into White Guilt, Denial or Defensiveness.”
will-law.org/wp-content/upl…

Jan 13 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

In a series of emails, Harvard Professor Jennifer Hochschild has apologized to Harvard Extension School students and staff:

She did so after the Harvard Extension Student Association issued a statement expressing concern and disappointment regarding her remarks on @X:

Jan 9 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

University of Michigan now has at least 241 paid DEI employees.

“The payroll costs are $23.24 million for salaries and $7.44 million for benefits, or $30.68 million, an amount that would cover in-state tuition and fees for 1,781 undergraduate students.” thecollegefix.com/umich-now-has-… The growth of this bureaucracy is astounding:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1725698617191575644

Jan 6 • 6 tweets • 3 min read

“Claudine Gay was in Rome on a family vacation on Dec. 27 when Penny Pritzker, the leader of Harvard University’s governing board, called to ask: Did she think there was a path forward with her as the school’s president?”

Informative account of Gay’s resignation in the NYT.

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Dr. Gay was planning a “spring reset,” but some board members thought the plan “showed that she didn't understand the urgency of the expanding crisis.”

Dec 24, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read

BOMBSHELL: Members of @cafharvard met with two @Harvard board members, including Tracy Palandjian, who “told the dinner group…that replacing the university’s president might not be going far enough to get Harvard back on course. Harvard required ‘generational change,’ she said.”

The NYT also reports “there are signs of tensions among board members.”

Dec 16, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

“The idea is to appeal to people who know nothing.”

In this New Yorker piece on Students for Justice in Palestine, a member of the national steering committee says their model is to attract ignorant kids and indoctrinate them into Marxism (): newyorker.com/news/annals-of…

For example:

https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1736155926988550191

Dec 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

Wow…Brown had 41 students arrested and booked for occupying a university building yesterday.

They were “photographed, fingerprinted and provided their arrest paperwork” on site.

A university spokesperson said, “the disruption to secure buildings is not acceptable, and the University is prepared to escalate the level of criminal charges for future incidents of students occupying secure buildings.”

Link: browndailyherald.com/article/2023/1…

Nov 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read

The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally.

Some of the comments from TikTok;

Nov 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

Harvard's Freshman class:

65% progressive, 8% conservative

53% Democrat, 6% Republican

Oct 13, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read

New message from Harvard President Claudine Gay:

“Our university embraces a commitment to free expression. That commitment extends even to views that many of us find objectionable, even outrageous. We do not punish or sanction people for expressing such views.”

Oct 6, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read

Pamela Paul has written an excellent op-ed critiquing the ascendency of Ibram Kendi’s brand of antiracism.

Just for fun, let’s look back at some of the coverage Kendi has received in the NYT during the last few years.

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January 2017:

I believe this is Kendi’s first op-ed for the NYT (written after Stamped from the Beginning won a National Book Award):

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