Washburn University to Create Statue of Outgoing President Who Accused Conservative Speaker of Hate
“While I am strongly in the support of first amendment rights, I am disappointed when those rights are used to make others feel unwelcome and even unsafe in our community”
How long do you think it will take for campus activists to find problems with the statue and demand its removal?
The YAF blog reports:
University to Increase Salary, Erect Statue of Outgoing President Who Declared Knowles Speech ‘Hate and Misinformation’
A public university in Kansas will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to pad the pockets (and ego) of its outgoing president who condemned a YAF lecture by Michael Knowles as “hate and misinformation,” according to a tip received through Young America’s Foundation’s Campus Bias Tip Line.
Washburn University President Dr. Jerry Farley, who is set to retire at the end of the month, will receive a pay raise of nearly $80,000 throughout the first two years of his retirement, local news station WIBW reports. The outgoing administrator, who currently makes $283,000 per year, will receive $327,000 in 2023, and $360,000 in 2024. In addition to the raise, Farley will be allowed to live in his taxpayer-funded residence until 2027, and will have a statue built of himself.
Just months ago, campus conservatives at Washburn hosted a YAF-sponsored lecture by Michael Knowles. The Daily Wire commentator gave a speech arguing that young children should never be subjected to life-altering “gender affirmation” surgeries.
Amid mounting pressure from a leftist group on campus, “Washburn Queers and Allies,” Farley sent a university-wide email condemning the speaker, the organizers, and the students who planned to attend as hateful ignoramuses:
“While I am strongly in the support of first amendment rights, I am disappointed when those rights are used to make others feel unwelcome and even unsafe in our community,” Farley wrote. He continued, adding that Washburn “does not condone the hate and misinformation spread by the speaker and his supporters.”
Despite the president’s attempt to shame students out of attending the highly-anticipated lecture, the event went forth as scheduled, with the entire auditorium filled to capacity, and many more turned away due to fire code restrictions.
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So, the president of Washburn University, with a 2021 enrollment of about 5,600 students, caved to a campus grievance organization with 32 members (https://washburn.presence.io/organization/queers-allies). As a result, he publicly insulted at least half the student body as well as the speaker and organizers. But on the plus-side, he’ll be retiring at more than full salary, live for five years in a house on the taxpayers’ dime, and be memorialized by a statue for the campus pigeons to crap on into posterity.
My fellow Kansans should be incensed.
Well, at least we will have a nice supply of statues to tear down when the pendulum swings back…
I have a relative who graduated with a degree in law from washburn. Can’t pass the bar, can’t get a job, now bucks packages loading trucks at Fedex…
Sounds like the high school kids that are pushed through school but can’t read, write or do much of anything other than share TikToks..
I would say that this particular law degree isn’t worth squat if he/she can’t pass the bar.