George Mason University To Angry Students: Kavanaugh’s Teaching A Course For Us Whether You Like...

Hot Air ^ | 6:41 pm on April 19, 2019 | ALLAHPUNDIT

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FULL TITLE: George Mason University To Angry Students: Kavanaugh’s Teaching A Course For Us Whether You Like It Or Not

First Camille Paglia’s university stands up to students on her behalf, now this. Since when do universities resist the whims of the woke brigades?

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If you find it gross that college students would support blackballing someone on the basis of a bare allegation, remember that that’s how students themselves are treated on campus under Title IX. Guilty until proven innocent is academia’s version of due process when it comes to sexual misconduct. If you can destroy a young adult’s future on someone’s say-so in the name of zero tolerance for rape, surely you can deny a Supreme Court justice his summer side hustle for the same reason.

And before you ask: Yes, of course Bill Clinton has spoken at GMU before. In 2008, at a campaign event for Hillary, in fact.

Here’s HuffPost reporting on a campus town hall held on Tuesday night by the university’s president and other officials to let students vent about their decision to hire Kavanaugh for a part-time teaching gig. Students won’t even have to interact with him on campus: His summer class will be taught in England during July and August, when the Court — and school — aren’t in session. Even so, 10,000 people have signed a petition cancel his gig. The crowd on Tuesday night was aghast that administrators seemingly didn’t share their disgust that GMU was about to employ someone accused of something terrible:

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If your mental health is so fragile that the mere thought of having someone teaching a class is enough to cause great trauma, perhaps the university is not the institution that you should be in.

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They’re not going to do that. They want the students’ tuition money.