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Subject: VICTORY: Arizona professor fights back to defend academic freedom
| When professor Nicholas Damask's test questions about Islamic terrorism drew criticism on social media, his college drafted an apology for him to sign. Instead of signing, the professor worked with FIRE to defend his right to academic freedom — and won! Read more > FIRE President & CEO Greg Lukianoff dives deep into trigger warnings, rising rates of depression and anxiety among students, and the mental toll of COVID-19. This is his second blog in a series on developments since the publication of "The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting up a Generation for Failure." In 1970, the University of California Regents declared that they "deplore[d] the frequent use of campus student newspapers as instruments of socio-political advocacy and for the dissemination of lewd and obscene articles and photographs." UC Davis answered this call by creating the Media Board, tasked with ensuring student media content conforms to administrative expectations. Last week, FIRE and the Student Press Law Center called on UC Davis to abolish the board. Advocates for due process on college campuses won one of our biggest-ever victories last week. The Department of Education's new regulations reflect a far more balanced approach and will, thankfully, have the actual force of law. FIRE's Joe Cohn explains what the new regulations mean for students' due process rights. How will the Department of Education's long-awaited Title IX regulations change the landscape of campus due process? In this episode of So To Speak, FIRE Executive Director Robert Shibley and Senior Fellow Samantha Harris take a closer look at the new regulations and the history of Title IX abuse on campus. |
MICHIGAN NAACP DEMANDS THAT WHITE STATE SENATOR ZORN RESIGN OVER "CONFEDERATE" MASK.
ReplyDelete(WOOD-TV)Leaders of West Michigan chapters of the NAACP are calling for the resignation of a southeast Michigan senator who wore a mask with a design that resembled the Confederate battle flag.
State Sen. Dale Zorn, R-Ida, came under fire after wearing the mask on the Senate floor in late April. After initially denying the mask depicted the confederate flag, he later apologized for wearing it.
(GRA:Why don't blacks ever have to resign for anything?Corruption,racism,insane remarks[like Maxine Waters makes countless times].No one says "Mr. Racist Negro,you have to go.")
Leaders of West Michigan chapters of the NAACP say the apology isn’t enough. Presidents of NAACP branches representing Grand Rapids, Lake and Newaygo counties, Battle Creek, metropolitan Kalamazoo, Muskegon County and Albion released a joint statement (PDF) on the matter.
“We cannot allow those types of behaviors to go unchecked. And so an apology is just not enough,” Cle Jackson, president of the NAACP chapter in Grand Rapids, told News 8 Tuesday.
(GRA:ALLOW!!!How about that?)
Jackson and the other presidents also denounced some of the behavior displayed during protests at the Michigan Capitol over Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic. They specifically addressed the display of symbols including swastikas and the Confederate flag, as well as those carrying long guns.
“They’re simply dog whistles to a base that, of course, will use this as a social political ploy,” Jackson said. “I thought it was absolutely disgusting.”
Jackson said the leaders felt it important to address concerns that have emerged during a pandemic that is having a significant impact on communities of color. According to figures from the state, COVID-19 deaths have disproportionately impacted black people. The chapter presidents lauded Whitmer’s efforts.
GRA:If Zorn resigns,it's a 100 times worse action than wearing a mask that "resembles" a Confederate flag.I hope he has the balls to tell the NAACP to go f**k themselves.
--GRA