By N.S.
Minding the Campus <contact@nas.org>
Thursday, August 17, 2023
Top of Mind: The Great Presidential Resignation Race
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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 02:03:39 PM EDT
Top of Mind: The Great Presidential Resignation
Plus disinvestment, goddesses, and more 
| Top of Mind: The Great Presidential Resignation
Dear Friend,Plus disinvestment, goddesses, and more
The fall semester is upon us—"Hooray!" the professors said—and the higher ed news cycle has geared up accordingly. There is simply too much to discuss here, but I'll do my best to cover the highlights. First up we have the New College of Florida, which continues to dominate the headlines (maybe we should call it the News College of Florida). The school is embroiled in administrative chaos after more than forty professors have resigned in protest of its "conservative restructuring" (e.g., its recent decision to shut down its gender studies program), leading to widespread course cancellations for the fall. And a group of NCF faculty and students have sued the college's trustees, along with the State University System of Florida Board of Governors, over SB 266, a bill that they believe institutes academic censorship in the Sunshine State. Meanwhile, the Education Department has issued guidance urging colleges and universities to continue "advancing diversity and opportunity" despite the Supreme Court's recent SFFA ruling. "Race can be relevant to a person's life or lived experience, and may impact one's development, motivations, academic interests or personal or professional aspirations. That impact can still be considered," said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. Something tells me there are more lawsuits in the pipeline. In other news, the Arizona Board of Regents has axed required DEI statements in university job postings, which many believe serve as litmus tests to filter out right-of-far-left applicants. And Biden has announced that $39 billion in student loans will be "automatically discharged in the coming weeks" due to an alleged failure to count income-driven payments properly. But, as MTC has reported, the administration is actually counting partial payments and non-payments as part of this plan—a strange definition of "payment," if you ask me. Now, on to this week's articles. Article of the Week
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NORAH O'DONNELL THINKS IT WAS IMPORTANT TO REPORT ON "WHITE WOMAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING bLACK JUDGE IN TRUMP CASE."
(Cbs)A Texas woman was arrested last week on allegations that she sent a threatening and racist voicemail to the federal judge in Washington, D.C., who was randomly(GRA:LOL) assigned to oversee the Justice Department's election interference case against former President Donald Trump.
According to a criminal complaint filed last week, on the night of Aug. 5, prosecutors allege that Abigail Jo Shry left a voicemail for Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is Black, that said in part, "You are in our sights, we want to kill you."
In the message to Chutkan, Shry alleged that if Trump were not to be elected president in 2024, "we are coming to kill you," and "you will be targeted personally, publicly, your family, all of it," per the complaint.
In the voicemail, Shry also made similar threats against Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee of Texas, who is also Black, along with threats against the LGBTQ community, the complaint reads.
Three days after the call, special agents with the Department of Homeland Security visited Shry's home in the city of Alvin, located in the Houston metropolitan area, where she allegedly admitted to having made the call, court records state.
She told the special agents that she was not planning to travel to D.C., but "if Lee comes to Alvin, then we need to worry," the complaint states.
Shry was subsequently arrested on a federal count of transmission in interstate or foreign commerce of any communication containing a threat to injure the person of another, per the complaint.
A detention hearing was held Tuesday, according to court records. A Texas federal judge ordered that Shry be detained pending trial.
GRA:They love uppercasing "black".The point of this is to make an example of Shry.The difference is,Whites pay attention and back off.blacks go out and buy extra bullets to kill with.
--GRA
All in the Family rewrite
GRA:
Archie:Hey,Meathead,did you read about the spicano baseball player who 's gettin' kicked out baseball for statuetorial rape?
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Meathead:He's Dominican Republic,Archie.
Archie: Whatever. A wetback is a wetback,no matter which south of the border country he comes from.They all like to doink underage goils--especially the ones related to them.
Meathead:He's not Mexican.
Archie:I never said he was--you racist Polack.
Meathead:I just meant...
Archie:I KNOW what you MEANT--You think Mex do that stuff more than other spics--but you're WRONG--they
ALL commit incense on each other.
Meathead:And I'm NOT racist about Mexicans.
Archie:Correct--you just finally wised up there,Michael.
Edith:What's all the noise in here about?
Archie:Your son-in-law just celebrated the birth of his first brain cell--too bad it wasn't TWINS."
Edith:Yeah,he could have named them Danny and Arnold.
Archie:Whaaaaat?
Edith:You know,from the movie,"Twins"--Danny Devito and Arnold Schwarzesumpthin'--he could have named his brain cells those names.
Archie:Stifle.
Edith:Or Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen.
Archie:Awww jeez--I'm goin' to Kelcey's bar.
At least when a man wins an argument at Kelceys,he doesn't have to go runnin' off to a bar to enjoy it--he's already there.
Edith:Franklin and Eleanore Roosevelt,Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,
Archie:Dingbat for a day--and everyday--goodbye.
(Door slams)
--GRA
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