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Virginia Commonwealth University ‘Protests’ Cause Over $100,000 in Damage

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 28, 2020 2 Comments

"We are concerned about groups that promote destruction and violence co-opting important social justice reform movements"

Petition Demands Removal of Walt Whitman Statue at Rutgers University-Camden

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 24, 2020 9 Comments

"Rutgers-Camden has been making efforts recently to remove symbols around our campus which continue to perpetuate a racist past"

George Washington U. Will No Longer Recommend Book Equating Conservatism With Racism

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 23, 2020 6 Comments

"The Office for Diversity, Equity, and Community Engagement apologizes for the harm that members of the GW community experienced as a result"

Students and Faculty at Dartmouth Sign Letter Urging School to Fight ‘Structural Racism’

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 22, 2020 11 Comments

"The unrepentant White supremacy evident in this history has also shaped the mission, culture, and traditions of Dartmouth College"

Public Domain https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kurt_Vonnegut_1972.jpg

Harrison Bergeron University

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2020 46 Comments

Reader: "Harrison Bergeron lives!! Only thing Kurt Vonnegut got wrong was that he thought it wouldn't happen until the latter half of the 21st century."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOjHhS5MtvA

NY Times Chief Classical Music Critic: End “blind auditions,” pick orchestra musicians based on race and gender

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 19, 2020 119 Comments

Ending "blind auditions" hurts people who otherwise would have been chosen based on the quality of their music, or in other contexts, their academic performance on standardized tests and other objective measurements. "Equity" is not a victimless crime.

Student Activists at Harvard Want the Board of Overseers to Change its Name

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 19, 2020 13 Comments

"cannot be separated from its historical context and connotations"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8KLnvgk6Mw

Cornell University takes a major step towards compulsory racial activism for faculty, students, and staff

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 16, 2020 101 Comments

Proposed initiatives include an "educational requirement on racism, bias and equity for all Cornell students," a new Anti-Racism Center, "an institution-wide, themed semester ... focus[ed] on issues of racism," and mandatory faculty participation in "programming" regarding "race, racism and colonialism in the United States."

Profs Demand University Police Chief Resign Over Blue Lives Matter Flag in His Home

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 16, 2020 17 Comments

"Students and faculty were outraged by the chief’s choice of wall decor and expressed their grievances with WVU immediately."

https://nmaahc.si.edu/learn/talking-about-race/topics/whiteness

Who said this? Signs of “Whiteness” Are Rugged Individualism, Nuclear Family, Scientific Method, and Work Ethic?

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on July 15, 2020 79 Comments

Umm, these statements which would be deemed anti-Black if said by almost anyone, were made on the website of The National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Art Museum Curator Resigns After Petition Accuses Him of Racism for Not Excluding White Artists

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 15, 2020 31 Comments

The petition from former employees stated: “Gary’s removal from SFMOMA is non-negotiable”

Michigan State Now Considering Removing James Madison’s Name From Dorm

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 14, 2020 3 Comments

“Our college is named after him because we too value academic achievement, intense deliberation, and a liberal society where our differences need not be our undoing."

California Faculty Association Demands Free Tuition for All Black, Native, and Indigenous Students

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 13, 2020 18 Comments

"redress for systemic anti-Black racism in the CSU"

U. Pittsburgh ‘Black Senate’ Demands Segregated Space “Solely for Black Students to Congregate”

Posted by Mike LaChance on July 08, 2020 93 Comments

Long list of Demands also includes severing ties with Pittsburgh Police Dept: "Each day we find ourselves overcompensating to make up for the University’s failures at combating racism on campus, in the classroom, and amongst students."