Two Sets of Rules Week in Higher Education

MIKE LACHANCE OCT 24, 2020 8:00 AM

Across the country, colleges and universities are enforcing strict new codes related to COVID-19. A new trend is emerging however, which looks like selective enforcement.

• Middlebury College Exempted BLM Protest From Coronavirus Rules After Punishing Others
• Arizona State Suspends Students for Some Coronavirus Violations but Not Protests
• Judge Blocks NYU From Punishing Students for Attending Party Without Masks

The approaching election is making people a little crazy.

• Harvard Political Science Prof Compares Republican Party to Fascist Political Party
• Poll Finds Majority of College Students Prepared to Shame People for Not Voting
• Prof Deletes Tweet Hoping for Death of the Republican Party: ‘F**k ’em All’

The horror!

• UW-La Crosse Students Have Meltdown Over Pro-Trump Chalkings on Campus

Higher education doesn’t seem very politically balanced, does it?

• Democrat Employees Outnumber Republicans by Nearly 13 to 1 at University of Pennsylvania
• Beto O’Rourke Expected to Take Teaching Position at Texas State in Spring of 2021
• Peter Strzok Hired by Georgetown University to Teach at Foreign Service School

Do they even hear themselves?

• Harvard Student Op-Ed Suggests School Should Denounce Alumni Working in Trump Administration

Paging Mr. Orwell…

• Emerson College Hosts Panel to Discuss the Removal of Offensive Monuments

How is this acceptable?

• U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Paper Op-Ed Includes Instructions for Making a Molotov Cocktail

Gibson’s vs. Oberlin update.

• Gibson’s Bakery v. Oberlin College – Appeal Oral Argument – November 10

Why do they have a women’s studies department?

• U. Pittsburgh Removes ‘Gendered Language’ From Homecoming Titles

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