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Ohio College Students Protest Bill That Would Ban DEI Policies

Ohio College Students Protest Bill That Would Ban DEI Policies

“protested so loud that when the lawmakers tried to talk to the press in another room, their chants were in the background”

These students know that this represents a loss of power for the left in higher education. That’s all this is about.

ABC News in Ohio reports:

Ohio students protest reintroduction of higher education overhaul bill that would ban ‘liberal bias,’ DEI

Ohio Republicans have reintroduced their higher education overhaul bill that will ban diversity efforts, so-called “bias” in classrooms and faculty strikes. College students and professors from across the state protested so loud that when the lawmakers tried to talk to the press in another room, their chants were in the background.

One of the most opposed bills in recent Ohio history is back.

“My first demonstration out here was summer of freshman year,” OSU junior Brielle Shorter said. “Two years later, I’m back.”

Shorter and a group of roughly 20 college students rallied at the Statehouse while state Senator Jerry Cirino reintroduced his higher education overhaul bill — Senate Bill 1 — formerly known as S.B. 83 last General Assembly.

“We are promoting more speech, not less speech as some of our opponents said,” Cirino said. “More discussion and debate on all topics, less indoctrination.”

This massive bill focuses on what Cirino calls “free speech,” banning public universities in Ohio from Diverstiy, Equity and Inclusion initiatives, having “bias” in the classroom and limiting how “controversial topics” can and can’t be taught. The elimination of DEI would mean no diversity offices, training or scholarships.

“I talked with a lot of professors and students who are self-censoring and feel the need not just, not just the DEI side, but it’s also the lack of diversity of thought accepted,” the Republican continued.

Shorter said there is nothing wrong with her education and that lawmakers have no place in choosing how her professors teach a topic.

“When people who haven’t been to undergrad at a public institution at all, let alone haven’t been to undergrad in decades, talk about our university — it hurts,” Shorter said.

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Comments

The Gentle Grizzly | January 23, 2025 at 6:34 pm

I wonder what major Shorter is taking?

Miss shorter does not appear to have a clue as to what a really good education is. I do wonder what an our major is as to others; and wonder what her work was/is.

    GWB in reply to B. | January 24, 2025 at 8:00 am

    Work? You expect her to work?! No, no, she’s there to actualize her self, She’s there to learn how to crusade for things at the command of her “betters” in the Church of Progressivism. She’s there to fill her head with received wisdom so she can strut through life as a moral arbiter of everything other people do, and to do nothing herself.

Why are college students stupid? Maybe the faculty taught them to be stupid? May the faculty are stupid?

I just know all the stupid ideas start on college canpuses

Wait till she learns it is just a football school, albeit a pretty good one.

Introducing the next bill: Everybody who delivers a “land acknowledgement” must deed at least one acre of land over to the people he claims really own it.