Does anyone ever just get fired anymore? This person’s behavior is unacceptable.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:
UW-Eau Claire professor who flipped over College Republicans table loses job for a yearA University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire professor is on unpaid leave for the next school year after flipping over a table set up by the university’s College Republicans chapter on Election Day this spring.UW-Eau Claire removed Professor José Felipe Alvergue, 45, as chair of the English department in the days after the April 1 incident and initiated disciplinary proceedings against him for potential termination. The university agreed to an unpaid suspension for the 2025-26 year and other disciplinary actions, according to records released to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on July 24.In Alvergue’s first public interview since the incident, he expressed remorse and said he is now working a full-time, minimum-wage job to offset his loss of income.He said he felt restricted by a new policy that took effect in the wake of weekslong campus protests over the Israel-Hamas war. The policy requires UW institutions and officials, including department chairs, to maintain neutral viewpoints when referencing any political or social controversy.”As a low-level administrator, I was in a situation of being position-neutral,” he told the Journal Sentinel. “I wasn’t fully honoring that I’m a human being and that I was starting to have pretty intense feelings about things, and regretfully I didn’t examine those feelings or their intensity until I did something that I really regret doing.”Alvergue, who joined UW-Eau Claire in 2013, said he was feeling overwhelmed by the election and Elon Musk’s attempts to sway Wisconsin voters with $1 million checks. As the child of immigrants, he said he was also distressed by the Trump administration’s mass deportations.”I still care about these things, “he said. “But that doesn’t mean I get to go out and knock tables over.”
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