Posted on 10/11/2024 10:51:10 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The governing body of Brown University, an Ivy League school known for its left-wing politics, rejected a proposal Wednesday to divest the university’s holdings from Israeli companies or companies with ties to the Israeli military.
The Brown Daily Herald reported:
Brown University will not divest from companies with Israeli military ties, its governing body voted Tuesday.
The decision, announced publicly Wednesday, follows a recommendation against divestment issued by Brown’s Advisory Committee on University Resource Management, or ACURM. The committee voted 8-2 against recommending divestment, with one member abstaining.
As Breitbart News had reported in May, Brown University was the first in the nation to capitulate to demands made by pro-Palestinian activists at an “encampment” on campus. According to an agreement with the activists, Brown would hold a vote on divestment if the activists dismantled their encampment peacefully, without police intervention.
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Amazing! There appears to be at least particle of common sense wisdom left in some of Brown administrators’ brain pans. It remains to be seen, however, if those administrators have the will and fortitude to resist the inevitable ideological and propagandistic assault by lunatic Marxist elements in the faculty and student body?
I once wandered into Brown campus.
There were rooms for student organizations.
I saw club houses for young communists, socialists, democrats, and many other leftist clubs.
I do not recall finding any Republicans or similar groups. They are probably there, but well hidden.
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