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Academic heavyweights start to speak out against wokester universities: A tide is slowly turning. One hopes it opens a floodgate
American Thinker ^ | 12/11/2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 12/11/2023 6:51:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 12/11/2023 6:51:19 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This will ultimately only serve as a stregthening of speech codes.


2 posted on 12/11/2023 6:56:53 AM PST by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: SeekAndFind

Apparently the only floodgate being opened is by Vivek.


3 posted on 12/11/2023 6:57:17 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: SeekAndFind
He cites DEI as a villain, discriminating against achievement in favor of skin color, along with racial quotas in admissions

Well, Fareed Zakaria is going to be in trouble - when even leftists like him can see what a disaster DEI is, you'd hope we might see an end in sight. But I expect he will "clarify" shortly and apologize, and universities like Harvard, sitting on billions in endowments, are simply going to ride out the current uproar and keep doing what they're doing.
4 posted on 12/11/2023 6:57:36 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: SeekAndFind
Bullsh!t. This happened at the same time as the schools are pushing DEI on all of the students.

Liar and hypocrites.

5 posted on 12/11/2023 6:58:49 AM PST by dhs12345
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“resignation of woke University of Pennsylvania president Liz Magill”

Resigned as prez.....she’s still a tenured professor there....this isn’t exactly the victory I for one was hoping for.


6 posted on 12/11/2023 7:00:52 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Wokesters are a petty lot always hanging onto mommy’s apron strings about everything useless bunch of parasites in action.


7 posted on 12/11/2023 7:02:25 AM PST by Vaduz (....)
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To: SeekAndFind

I saw this same thing happen in 2001 right after the Twin Towers were attacked on 9/11.

The University I worked for at the time suddenly became all Rah-Rah pro-USA, and even passed out little American Flags to put on our desks, and started selling American Flag crossed with the University’s Flag lapel pins.

It lasted about a year, then slowly went back to the same liberal anti-American crap when we invaded Iraq.

They’ll do or say what is necessary until the attention shifts elsewhere, then they’ll return to their normal Woke agenda.


8 posted on 12/11/2023 7:03:20 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: SeekAndFind

Tide is being held back a bit, for now. The left literally has decades of rot that has infested our educational institutions from Pre-K to the highest levels of miseducation.
Conservatives really just need to wake their sorry asses up and vote the turds out. Too many sit back and just take it.


9 posted on 12/11/2023 7:06:08 AM PST by vpintheak (Pinko misanthrope)
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To: Yo-Yo

As long as no administrator loses their job.


10 posted on 12/11/2023 7:06:36 AM PST by glorgau
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll state the obvious. Being Fareed Zakaria, he may be given a chance to recant. If a white person had said this, he’d be in the tumbrel and en route to the guillotine already.


11 posted on 12/11/2023 7:07:11 AM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (You can vote your way into Socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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As long as no administrator loses their job.

Just like U Penn President Liz Magill who recently resigned but will remain at U Penn, many University administrators are also tenured faculty, and are almost impossible to fire.

12 posted on 12/11/2023 7:13:21 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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Yup. At minimum, the guy’s got courage.


13 posted on 12/11/2023 7:15:50 AM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell)
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To: dhs12345

This “change” is due every bit as much to the potential loss of funding and donations than to a reconsideration of their immoral values.


14 posted on 12/11/2023 7:19:47 AM PST by glennaro (Never give up ... never give in ... never surrender ... and enjoy every minute of doing so.)
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foxnews.com----Harvard beseiged by trucks demanding Gay's firing.


15 posted on 12/11/2023 7:22:43 AM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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To: SeekAndFind

She calls this a paradigm shift but it is way too soon to draw that conclusion. Nobody goes down without a fight, and that includes the totalitarian Left. They will take some casualties, like these ridiculous women, but will continue implacably to march, right over their bodies if need be.


16 posted on 12/11/2023 7:23:22 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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You won't be able to convince them that they are wrong. They are very “religious” about their beliefs. Many (most?) belief that it must be done at all costs. Even if irreparable damage is done.

I don't trust them to correct their problems. Only lie and cover up and “promise” to do better next time.

17 posted on 12/11/2023 7:28:10 AM PST by dhs12345
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The Harvard Crimson

Amid Calls for Gay’s Resignation, Harvard Corporation Convenes for Scheduled Meeting

pic-—The Harvard Corporation, the University’s highest
governing board, meets in Loeb House. Pic By Julian J. Giordano

By Miles J. Herszenhorn and Claire Yuan, theCrimson.com, Dec 10, 2023

The Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers — the University’s governing bodies — convened on campus Sunday for a regularly scheduled meeting that comes five days after calls for President Claudine Gay to resign grew following her congressional testimony, according to a source close to the governing boards.

In a break between the board meetings, Harvard Corporation Senior Fellow Penny S. Pritzker ’81 did not answer repeated questions from The Crimson about whether she would ask Gay to step down, when approached by a reporter Sunday afternoon.

Pritzker, who is on campus for a meeting of the governing boards, ignored the questions as she and Shirley M. Tilghman — another member of the Corporation — entered a vehicle.

While the meeting of the Corporation and the Board of Overseers follows their ordinary timeline, the backdrop against which the convening takes place is nothing but extraordinary.

During the hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, alongside fellow witnesses University of Pennsylvania President Elizabeth Magill and MIT President Sally A. Kornbluth — Gay repeatedly declined to directly answer a question from Rep. Elise M. Stefanik ’06 (R-N.Y.) about whether calls for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s policies on bullying and harassment.

The exchange with Stefanik went viral, and Magill resigned Saturday amid the backlash and pressure from UPenn’s board of trustees.

Gay, who had previously faced only a few isolated calls to resign from the presidency, has received mounting pressure to step down. On Friday, more than 70 members of Congress — including two Democrats — signed a letter to Harvard governance calling on Gay to resign.

The boards are expected to (a) discuss the backlash to Gay’s testimony and (b) make a decision on whether they should issue a public statement in support of Gay, the president they (c) elected to lead Harvard less than one year ago.

While the Corporation has remained silent about the future of Gay’s tenure, an increasing number of Harvard faculty members have spoken up to express support for Gay.

This story will be updated.

—Staff writer Miles J. Herszenhorn can be reached at miles.herszenhorn@thecrimson.com. Follow him on X @mherszenhorn or on Threads @mileshersz.

—Staff writer Claire Yuan can be reached at claire.yuan@thecrimson.com. Follow her on X @claireyuan33.


18 posted on 12/11/2023 7:39:48 AM PST by Liz (Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't do without it. Sidney Sheldon)
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Julie Platt, who replaces Scott Bok as Penn trustees chairman, is every bit as an obnoxious Leftist as Liz Magill. Platt just doesn’t hate secular Jews. Otherwise, they’re the same.


19 posted on 12/11/2023 7:40:42 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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“....this isn’t exactly the victory I for one was hoping for....

And an “interim” angry, leftist racist harpy, post-menopausal bitch, is taking her place, for now...


20 posted on 12/11/2023 8:07:01 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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