And in other news…
…(yes, there is other news) the geniuses at Amherst join their illustrious fellows at Yale, Mizzou, and Claremont McKenna, among other colleges.
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Bravo to some brave voices at Claremont McKenna
In my earlier post today, I used an addendum to discuss this editorial by the student editors at Claremont McKenna College. But I decided it needed a post of its own, in order to spotlight it. Reading it may give … Continue reading →
The resignation of Mary Spellman: another bear dances
[NOTE: The dancing bear reference is to this quote from Allan Bloom’s 1989 description of the behavior of most faculty and administrators in response to Cornell’s crisis in 1969: [S]tudents discovered that pompous teachers who catechized them about academic freedom … Continue reading →
Demonstrators want a black-only “healing space”
So they ask their white supporters to leave: Prominent Black Lives Matter activist Johnetta Elzie seemingly confirmed those with Caucasian skin were asked to leave the area, tweeting that the group had created a “black only healing space for the … Continue reading →
There may not have been any KKK at Mizzou, but the poop swastika…
…appears to have been real. That’s a load off my mind. Apparently, there’s evidence of a police report, minus a photo* [see ADDENDUM below]. I still don’t understand why it wasn’t photographed or otherwise documented (DNA, anyone?), because if the … Continue reading →
Payton Head, student body president at Mizzou, spreads false rumor of racism at the school
A new false rumor, that is. Take a look. I’m in a hurry right now, but I’ll have more to say about this later.
Continue reading →Another resignation at Mizzou
But this time it was assistant professor Melissa Click: An assistant communications professor at the Missouri School of Journalism resigned from her courtesy appointment Tuesday after she was caught on video confronting a student journalist and attempting to block him … Continue reading →
The tale of the racist string, and the college administrators who responded
Somehow I’d missed this story when it first came out in September. But it certainly fits in quite nicely with recent events. It involves an incident that occurred at the University of Delaware: When the black studies student saw a … Continue reading →
The poop swastika: real or phantom?
When I wrote my first post on the University of Missouri racism flap, I included these observations: And if the origins of that [excrement] swastika are anything like many such incidents in the recent past at other universities, the perpetrator … Continue reading →
And then there was Yale
I’ve been too busy to follow what’s been happening at Yale. But since we’ve have talking about what’s going on at college campuses, I’ll take a moment to pay some attention. Conor Friedersdorf has a piece on the subject at … Continue reading →
More on Missouri—and more and more and more
The University of Missouri story is not over. It has legs, and it has tentacles. I wrote two posts about it yesterday, and one at Legal Insurrection today that’s even longer, and I’m still not done. Nor are they. If … Continue reading →
The photographer versus the mob
Watch it: Articles about what happened are here and here. Heather Mac Donald writes the following in City Journal (before this particular incident occurred, by the way; she is speaking of another video, one of an incident that occurred at … Continue reading →