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Incoming medical students at the University of Minnesota were forced to give a pledge vowing to 'honor all Indigenous ways of healing,' including those that have been 'historically marginalized by Western medicine.' The students also pledged to fight 'white supremacy, colonialism [and] the gender binary' at the school's white coat ceremony on August 19. In a video from the ceremony, Dr Robert Englander — the associate dean for undergraduate education — could be heard reading the pledge to the new students, donning their new doctor's coats.

A high-ranking member of the Minnesota Student Association, Lauren Meyers, called on her peers in student government to harass campus law enforcement officers. “When you say disrupt [the University of Minnesota Police Department], what exactly do you mean by that?” Ranking At-Large Representative Andy Knuppel asked. -snip The goal, according to Meyers, is to “use up their resources.” She encouraged students to place fake calls for help to “make officers show up to something. ”The comments were made on a video conference call where members of the student government were discussing a letter calling on UMPD Chief Matt Clark to...

The University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series recently hosted what they called a Special Webinar Series that was titled, “Deconstructing & Decentralizing White-ness in Practice: A Three-Part Series,” in which a lecture titled “Recovery from White Conditioning” taught white people how to use a “12-step” program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous to “recover and reclaim our full humanity.” Therapist Cristina Combs, who created the program, spent “years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys,” the website for the series claims. “Combs began the lecture by acknowledging...

-aimed to teach white people about their white supremacy- The University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work hosted a virtual lecture recently that aimed to teach white people about their white supremacy and how to counteract it by using a “12 step” program mirrored after the one used by people in Alcoholics Anonymous. The two-hour “Recovery from White Conditioning” lecture, hosted through the school’s Center for Practice Transformation, featured therapist Cristina Combs. Combs is a University of Minnesota alumnus who created the white supremacy 12 step program -after years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in...

The leftist takeover of higher education has been accomplished not merely by recruiting progressive faculty, but also by installing a vast and expensive bureaucracy intended to enforce thought control on the campus. All in the name of “diversity.” A vivid example comes from the University of Minnesota this week.

It cost more than $600,000 for security so that Ben Shapiro could safely deliver a fairly conventional conservative speech at UC Berkeley on Thursday night. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Shapiro (an orthodox Jew and #NeverTrump conservative) was heavily targeted with anti-Semetic attacks by the alt-right. He was nevertheless greeted on the Berkeley campus by signs calling him a “white supremacist.” This was just one more example of how the assault on free speech at America’s college campuses has become pervasive. You’ve probably heard of last year’s high-profile incidents at Middlebury College, Evergreen State College, and (yes) U.C. Berkeley, but...

A display in a University of Minnesota residence hall provides an 11-point “checklist” to help students identify their “white privilege.” The “White Privilege Checklist,” found hanging in Mark G. Yudof Hall and photographed by a current student, features 11 statements that ostensibly apply exclusively to white people.

From deep inside the sprawling asylum at the University of Minnesota we have received a copy of today’s correspondence to the “campus community” from the Office for Equity and Diversity: Office for Equity and Diversity Dear Twin Cities campus community, Like many of you, I am processing the divisiveness that has characterized the prolonged election season, and am working to understand how it will impact our communities, our university, our nation and our world.

University of Minnesota stem cell researchers, together with collaborators at Stanford University, have successfully used adult stem cells to replace the immune system and bone marrow of mice, offering the promise of new therapies for people in the future. With this advance and other recent discoveries, the researchers are winning over previous skeptics.   For decades, researchers have tried in the lab to expand hematopoietic stem cells (cells that give rise to the blood system). Success in this venture would mean increasing the supply of cells available for bone marrow transplant patients. The researchers used multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs), which...

Adult stem cells continue to outperform embryonic stem cells in medical applications. Three examples: Stem cells grown from amniotic fluid have been successful in developing heart valves potentially helping more than 1 million babies worldwide with heart defects. The cells are obtained by amniocentesis (placing a needle into fluid around a growing baby, not damaging that baby at all). This research is from Switzerland. The University of Minnesota developed an important type of lung cell using umbilical cord blood cells. The lung cells are responsible for secreting a substance that allows the air sacs in the lungs to stay open,...

Minneapolis, MN (LifeNews.com) -- A new research report from scientists at the University of Minnesota shows that adult stem cells taken from bone marrow can replenish immune systems ravaged by radiation. They found the bone marrow cells can also make brain and liver cells in mice. Dr. Catherine Verfaillie, of the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute, said that these adult stem cells can be grown indefinitely in the lab and show some of the same properties as embryonic stem cells. "The cells not only survived when transplanted but they completely repopulated the blood system of the mice," Verfaillie said...

University of Minnesota OKs anti-Catholic play "The Pope and the Witch," snubs bishops January 30, 2007 The blasphemous play “The Pope and the Witch” is scheduled to stage at the University of Minnesota on March 1. Written by avowed communist Dario Fo, the play describes the Pope as a heroine-addict with a ‘crucifixion stroke,’ a mockery of the Crucifixion. And click here to sign petition: http://tfp.org/student_action/activities/protests/univ_minnesota_blasphemy2.htm (where it says: "Click here."

Next spring, the University of Minnesota will stage "The Pope and the Witch," by Italian radical playwright Dario Fo. The play "features a paranoid, drug-addled pope, a witch in a nun's habit and a chaotic comedy of errors," according to a Star Tribune report. It depicts "the Vatican as corrupt," according to the Pioneer Press. Apparently the comic genius of it all is lost on Archbishop Harry Flynn of the Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis. He has asked the U to consider withdrawing the play. But earlier this month, university President Robert Bruininks and the regents said the...