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,’ DEIOhio 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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