The “Welcome BBQ” flyer states that the free event is for “students of color,” and is intended to welcome back students who are “self-identified people of color.”
Batshit crazy Universities
University tells students not to use the term “African-American” because it’s now offensive
Merely existing on a college campus these days can feel like you’re walking through a minefield while blindfolded and juggling nine sticks of unstable dynamite. You just never know if you’re going to offend someone by blinking in a culturally appropriative fashion. Thankfully, one school has done the hard work of identifying many things that students simply must avoid saying at all costs.
Harvard’s new chaplain is an atheist — and ‘Good Without God’
Harvard University’s organization of chaplains is getting a new president to coordinate the campus’ Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist and assorted other religious communities. Only the new president, 44-year-old Greg Epstein, does not identify with any of those traditional religions himself.
h/t Marvin
Quinnipiac University Announces WiFi Restrictions For Unvaccinated Students
The university imposed mandatory vaccination for students and staff returning to on-campus learning. In an email sent to students, school leadership stated that approximately 600 students have yet to fulfill the vaccination mandates, or at least they have yet to upload a copy of their COVID-19 vaccination record.
University Courses, T-Shirts, and Vodka: Drop ‘Romantic Notions’ of Communism, Says Victims of Communism Advocate
Canadians should be cautious about embracing “romantic notions” of Marxism or communism, a political ideology and system responsible for the deaths of millions of people since the early 20th century, says the chair of a charity working to establish a Canadian memorial to commemorate the victims of communism.
Racism Reaches Outer Space: Cornell Course Teaches Black Holes are Linked to ‘Racial Blackness’
Cornell University has introduced their new course titled “Black Holes: Race and the Cosmos” which explores the connection between the decades-old term “black holes” and … racism.
An Opening for Dissenters? Thanks to the 2018 Janus ruling, professors who disagree with resolutions like the CUNY faculty union’s condemnation of Israel have options.
Three years ago this month, the Supreme Court protected the First Amendment rights of public employees. In Janus v. AFSCME, Justice Samuel Alito wrote that requiring nonmember workers to help fund government unions violated the employees’ free speech rights “by compelling them to subsidize private speech on matters of substantial public concern.” At its core, Janus recognized the impossibility of distinguishing between clearly political causes—for which even union leaders conceded that they could not charge non-members—and allegedly apolitical workplace matters, for which unions could demand an “agency fee.”
North Korean Defector After Attending Ivy League School: Even North Korea Was ‘Not This Nuts’
Famed North Korean defector Yeonmi Park offered a chilling account of her time at Columbia University, saying that not even North Korea went to the level of brainwashing that she witnessed.
Eisenhower Also Predicted Fake Science, Virus Lockdowns, Big Tech, and Leftist Colleges
This was Eisenhower warning about the military sinking into the Swamp. With its leaders becoming slaves to the Deep State. Very, very prescient.
Canadian University Music Society publishes demands to ‘decolonize’ music, including abolishing ‘rudiments of music’ and scales
Queen’s University professors Margaret Walker and Robin Attas wrote a guest editorial for the Canadian Music Society, in which they argue for “decolonizing” music.
In their editorial, addressed “to all who should be concerned,” the co-authors argue that Canada’s music education systems contain “white supremacist and settler colonial structures.”
h/t Marvin
UMass Amherst suspends three students over maskless photo at off-campus party, banning them from virtual learning and taking finals
This photo has led to the suspension of three UMass Amherst students, who were also blocked from remote learning and from taking their finals this semester.
What about everyone else in the photo?
Left-wing Students at University of California: ‘Abolish’ the Campus Police
At universities across California, students and workers refused to attend class or meetings, answer emails and clock into work Monday as part of a “day of refusal” organized by the group Cops Off Campus Coalition. The work stoppage began Abolition May, a series of actions grounded in a central demand: Remove police from all campuses.
Do it.
McGill University students doxing fellow students that broke Public Health decree
In a Facebook group dedicated to McGill University students, many have recently taken to creating posts and polls about issuing student-led consequences for those that have defied Quebec’s Public Health decree.
Scholarships for liberal arts majors threatened under controversial Florida bill
Florida lawmakers are weighing a bill that would cut state-funded scholarship money for college students pursuing degrees with low employment prospects.
SB-86, sponsored by Sen. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, passed the Senate Education Committee earlier this month and is on its way to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Education, which will consider the measure next week.