Some Students and Faculty at Yale Dislike New President Over Her Handling of Anti-Israel Protesters
“Given her history, there is reason to be concerned about how Dr. McInnis will negotiate the rights of assembly, free speech, and academic inquiry.”
Yale’s new president didn’t cave to anti-Israel protesters at her previous school, so they don’t trust her.
The College Fix reports:
Anti-Israel students, faculty don’t like Yale’s new president
Anti-Israel students and faculty at Yale are miffed at the appointment of Maurie McInnis as the school’s new president, citing her handling of “pro-Palestinian” protests at Yale and her previous post at Stony Brook University.
Several hundred Stony Brook students and faculty had signed on to a letter demanding McInnis “revise free speech policies and increase administrative transparency” after nine anti-Israel protesters were arrested for a sit-in demonstration at a campus building.
One Stony Brook professor had complained McInnis comes off like a “politician,” and worried about the “impact” her decisions to arrest activists would have on students’ “academic and professional careers.”
McInnis told the Yale Daily News her protest decisions were based on “content-neutral time, place, manner restrictions.”
Yale Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Dept. Chair Roderick Ferguson, also a member of the school’s Faculty for Justice in Palestine, said the arrest of anti-Israel activists “chill[s] both assembly and analysis.”
There are “twin threats” facing anti-Israel activists — policing and legal/doxxing threats, Ferguson (pictured) added.
“Both forms of policing are unleashed in this period of advocacy for Palestinians and critiques of Israeli state violence,” Ferguson said. “Given her history, there is reason to be concerned about how Dr. McInnis will negotiate the rights of assembly, free speech, and academic inquiry.”
Anti-Israel students and faculty also ripped McInnis’ creation of Stony Brook’s Enterprise Risk Management, or ERM, which “plays a key role” in the school’s risk portfolio (Yale has a similar department).
Occupy Yale claimed ERM is “a new corporate apparatus that works to militarize and surveil campus and students.” Stony Brook history professor Robert Chase added it is “an incorporated hybrid-corporate state military-like structure with far-reaching and unseen powers.”
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free speech was never and is neverrrr the goal of the left
yes, even in the 1960s
free speech was only for certain people
they never want a pro american pov being expressed
These fascist students want the free speech right to squelch their opponents’ free speech.
From the CV of Prof Robert Chase, it appears that he is familiar with neither corporate nor military organizations. So his comment on the Enterprise Risk Management in Stony Brook for providing investment advice is without foundation. Not exactly a surprise.