The War of Words and Statues Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE JUL 4, 2020 8:00 AM

This recent Harvard grad lost her job for making threats of violence.

• Recent Harvard Grad Loses Job After Posting Video Threatening to Stab Anyone Who Says ‘All Lives Matter’

This UMass nursing dean lost her job for saying “everyone’s life matters.”

• UMass Lowell Nursing Dean Reportedly Fired After Saying ‘Everyone’s Life Matters’ in Email

Meanwhile, the battle of the statues continues.

• California State University-Fresno Students Petition for Removal of Campus Gandhi Statue
• UW-Madison Chancellor Announces Abraham Lincoln Statue Will Stay on Campus
• Hofstra University Agrees to Relocate Jefferson Statue, Student Activists Unsatisfied

With some people cheering from the sidelines.

• ‘Art Crime’ Prof Offers Advice on How to More Easily Topple Monuments

These schools are considering name changes.

• Dixie State University in Utah Reportedly Considering Name Change
• Washington and Lee University Reportedly Considering Name Change

But not Yale.

• Yale Dismisses Demands to Change its Name Following #CancelYale Campaign

Notice a pattern here?

• UC-Irvine Law Apologizes for Highlighting Conservative Group After Students Call it ‘Racist’
• Stanford Student Newspaper Refuses to Run College Republican’s Op-Ed Over Alleged Racism
• Incoming Student Govt. President Faces Calls to Resign for Supporting Police

Oberlin is still Oberlin.

• Gibson’s Bakery: ‘Amicus’ Groups are “really only friends of the Oberlin Parties and not friends of the Court”
• Oberlin College loses appeal in suit by expelled male student, case reinstated

Brave words.

• Astronomer at U. Florida Calls Racial and Gender Diversity ‘Nonsense’

Their worries are justified.

• University Presidents Grow Increasingly Concerned About Perceived Value of College

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