The University of Arkansas recently purchased a training program that teaches students to communicate &quot;OUCH! That Stereotype Hurts.&quot; Campus Reform&nbsp;obtained a copy of the contract signed to purchase the training for members of the campus community to use, which shows that the University paid at least $40, 680 to offer the training to students, faculty, and staff. Portions of the contract, such as the one-time licensing fee and any discounts given to the university, were redacted. The Associate Vice Chancellor of University Relations, Mark Rushing, told&nbsp;Campus Reform&nbsp; &ldquo;funding for the training software was split by many colleges, schools and units across campus. This was a one-time cost as the licensing is now perpetual.&rdquo;&nbsp;The training is provided free to all students, faculty, and staff at the University. The University <a href="https://news.uark.edu/articles/56047/-ouch-training-now-available-to-campus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">news site</a> <a href="https://news.uark.edu/articles/56047/-ouch-training-now-available-to-campus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> explains that the training is &ldquo;not required but highly encouraged,&quot; and is intended to teach participants how to identify and respond to stereotypes in today&rsquo;s society. The university hopes participants will &ldquo;gain communication skills for promoting inclusion and respect.&rdquo; <p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/502116492/University-of-Arkansas-OUCH-Diversity-Training-Contract#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View University of Arkansas OUCH Diversity Training Contract on Scribd">University of Arkansas OUCH Diversity Training Contract</a> by <a href="https://www.scribd.com/user/289329148/Campus-Reform#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Campus Reform's profile on Scribd">Campus Reform</a> on Scribd<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" title="University of Arkansas OUCH Diversity Training Contract" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/502116492/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-FCnIQ0gysuBMP4NVEgnt" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" scrolling="no" id="doc_87339" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>&nbsp;&nbsp;The training consists of five parts and takes students 30 minutes to complete. The five parts include a basic concept review, a video on the impact of stereotypes, methods to shut down hurtful conversation, a practice training with vignettes, and a final assessment.&nbsp;&nbsp;For example, the training gives the following example for a situation where they think yelling &ldquo;OUCH!&rdquo; would resolve the issue at hand.&ldquo;So, about the holiday schedule.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Let Jenny work the holiday shift. She&rsquo;s single; she doesn&rsquo;t have family.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Ouch!&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;What do you mean?&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;I know that you&rsquo;re trying to help out the other employees, but is that fair to Jenny?&rdquo;The training explains that &quot;Ouch communicates a lot with little effort,&quot; introduces the idea of &ldquo;Ouch and Educate,&rdquo; which can be used instead if you &ldquo;have the time and the energy.&rdquo; <p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/502678063/University-of-Arkansas-OUCH-Training#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View University of Arkansas OUCH Training on Scribd">University of Arkansas OUCH Training</a> by <a href="https://www.scribd.com/user/289329148/Campus-Reform#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Campus Reform's profile on Scribd">Campus Reform</a> on Scribd<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" title="University of Arkansas OUCH Training" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/502678063/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-fDro1Qk56Luluiah1HEi" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.75" scrolling="no" id="doc_1039" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>&nbsp;&ldquo;Trainings such as these help to make our campus a more welcoming and belonging place for all members of our campus community,&rdquo; the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion <a href="https://diversity.uark.edu/leadership-initiatives/ouch.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>. Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/profile?pid=6097034" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Addison Pummill </a>

Portions of the training obtained by Campus Reform state that "Ouch communicates a lot with little effort."

University of Arkansas spends over $40k teaching offended students to say 'Ouch!'

After the University of Tampa <a href="https://www.ut.edu/commencement/may-commencement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that it will hold only a virtual commencement ceremony in the Spring, a group of students launched a movement to hold an in-person ceremony of their own for UT graduates. The college <a href="https://www.ut.edu/commencement/december-commencement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> in December that it hoped to hold an in-person ceremony to honor all 2020 and 2021 graduates in May 2021. However, due to &ldquo;continued uncertainties of COVID-19 and UT&rsquo;s commitment to protecting the health and safety of the community,&rdquo; the ceremony is set to be fully virtual. In response, senior Jacie Steele started a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/ron-desantis-may-2021-commencement-university-of-tampa?redirect=false" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> calling on UT to hold an in-person commencement ceremony. &ldquo;While safety and health is important, it is the decision of the individual to walk across a stage and receive their diploma,&rdquo; the petition states. The petition also points out that Super Bowl LV was held in Tampa while taking COVID-19 precautions and asks why their college cannot do the same. University of Tampa senior Ryan Rondeau told Campus Reform that the university&rsquo;s &ldquo;choice to hold a virtual graduation in these times in the same city that hosted the Super Bowl without high spikes is inexcusable.&rdquo; Steele told&nbsp;Campus Reform that students who emailed UT advocating for an in-person ceremony received generic, &ldquo;drafted&rdquo; responses.&rdquo; Another one of the movement&rsquo;s organizers, Alli Clark, told Campus Reform that she was &ldquo;frustrated, disappointed and honestly furious&rdquo; when she heard this.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17045" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17045" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17045" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley &#39;Black Graduation&#39; under fire for bringing back &#39;Democrats&#39; segregationist history&#39;]</a> Since the university did not budge, Clark, Steele, and a group of fellow students and parents launched a movement to host an in-person graduation of their own at the Tampa Convention Center that will take place immediately after UT&rsquo;s virtual ceremony. The registration period closed at the end of March, with students registering for tickets through <strong style="font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ut-student-parent-graduation-event-sign-up-tickets-146415297095?fbclid=IwAR3BYMqfae_FSa-KK8VRDVzA2peuCMvhj786fUbwvcVhVRP45ePGA5mPOmE" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: var(--red); text-decoration: none !important; user-select: auto; font-weight: 600;" target="_blank">EventBrite</a>. The movement&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/2021-commencement" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GoFundMe</a> has raised almost half its $6,000 goal. Should the event fail to take place, proceeds will go to a local charity. In a <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tv/CMkmxzXpZnZ/?igshid=ns78gwq77ngp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video</a> on the group&rsquo;s Instagram, one of the organizers, Alli Clark, stated that the ceremony will require attendees to wear masks, social distance, abide by CDC guidelines, and have their temperatures checked upon arrival. Steele told Campus Reform that the movement has been met with some backlash as some have questioned how the ceremony can be &ldquo;safely operated.&rdquo; &ldquo;We are not hosting this ceremony because we are mad or do not care about safety, because we do care. We are hosting this ceremony because people deserve to be recognized for their achievements,&rdquo; Steele said.<a href="http://campusreform.org/article?id=17048" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://campusreform.org/article?id=17048" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="http://campusreform.org/article?id=17048" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Full stadiums, full classrooms: University of Alabama plans return to pre-pandemic normalcy in fall 2021]</a> UT <a href="https://www.axios.com/university-of-tampa-students-revolt-to-throw-their-own-graduation-f28df0c5-8ad5-42bf-943c-138495566a9e.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">issued</a> a statement to Axios&nbsp;distancing itself from the in-person commencement ceremony. &quot;This event is not supported nor sponsored by The University of Tampa,&quot; said spokesperson Eric Cardenas. &quot;Therefore, we are unable to ensure that this independent event follows the Spartan Shield Health Safety Plan or CDC regulations.&quot; When asked if the school has reached out to her regarding the movement, Steele told Campus Reform&nbsp;that UT &ldquo;still will not speak directly to us or authentically reply to emails regarding graduation but has made statements for news stations. Each time there has been a story, their statement has expanded.&rdquo; Steele also pointed out that UT just announced its plans for fully in-person classes in the fall. &ldquo;This adds to the confusion, why can&rsquo;t the university hold a safe in person graduation?,&rdquo; Steele asked. &ldquo;It didn&#39;t make sense in regard to all the in person events the University was continuing to hold and Universities across the country, not to mention down the street from us (USF) were figuring out ways to hold in person ceremonies to honor their students,&rdquo; Clark said. Rondeau told Campus Reform that having the opportunity to walk across a stage &ldquo;just feels right.&rdquo; &ldquo;Walking across the stage on May 8th would just be a proper send off to not only my college career but also my educational career. Being on that stage and posing for a picture with my diploma, just feels right. [It] just feels like I accomplished something major and [that] my achievement of graduation is being highlighted,&rdquo; Rondeau said. &ldquo;So far, we have sold over 100 tickets and have plans to make this as close to a traditional commencement as possible,&rdquo; Clark told Campus Reform. The University of Tampa did not respond to Campus Reform&rsquo;s request for comment in time for publication. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/redwave1776" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@redwave1776</a>

One group of students is organizing their own in-person graduation that is not affiliated with the university.

U of Tampa students plan separate in-person graduation after university announces virtual plans

Two researchers at Montclair State University claim that &ldquo;LGBTQ-inclusive&rdquo; sex education should begin in elementary school.<a href="https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=goldfarbe" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=goldfarbe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=goldfarbe" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Eva Goldfarb</a> and <a href="https://www.montclair.edu/profilepages/view_profile.php?username=liebermanl" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lisa Lieberman</a> of Montclair State University examined studies on sexual education ranging from grade school to twelfth grade. They <a href="https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S1054139X20304560?token=EFFEDF8194204F8C3F570446CC91ABEDA121EE357F8C7F4FAC9FFC047BF1078BDE8485C88152E99F3A25B7CF662F108D" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">found</a> that &ldquo;substantial evidence supports sex education beginning in elementary school, that is scaffolded and of longer duration, as well as LGBTQ-inclusive education across the school curriculum and a social justice approach to healthy sexuality.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16402" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16402" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16402" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: LGBT advocates want potential Biden admin to threaten Christian college accreditation]</a> The researchers examined several studies that involved preschool classrooms. According to the researchers, one indicates that &ldquo;young children are, in fact, quite capable of understanding and discussing issues related to gender diversity, including gender expectations, gender nonconformity, and gender-based oppression.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09575146.2015.1104899" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Another</a> shows that &ldquo;4-year-olds expressed an inclusive understanding of marriage and a social justice stance on LGBTQ rights.&rdquo; After their review of 218 scholarly articles, the researchers concluded that there exists &ldquo;substantial evidence that sexuality education is most effective when begun early and before sexual activity begins.&rdquo; &ldquo;This review suggests that not only are younger children able to discuss sexuality-related issues but that the early grades may, in fact, be the best time to introduce topics related to sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, gender equality, and social justice related to the LGBTQ community before hetero- and cisnormative values and assumptions become more deeply ingrained and less mutable,&rdquo; said the study&rsquo;s conclusion.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16773" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16773" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16773" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Baylor students want Christian lecturer fired after she questioned Biden&#39;s transgender policies]</a> Likewise, the authors found evidence that beginning sexuality education early would promote &ldquo;a more accepting and welcoming environment for sexual minority youth.&rdquo; They also suggest additional research on &ldquo;expanding social justice pedagogy within the sex education curriculum beyond the topics of gender and sexual orientation.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to Goldfarb and Lieberman for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Their literature review concludes that the early grades may be the best time to introduce sexual orientation, gender equality, and social justice “before hetero- and cisnormative values and assumptions become more deeply ingrained.”

Profs argue that LGBTQ-inclusive sex education should begin early, before ‘cisnormative values and assumptions become more deeply ingrained’

After discovering the tenets of what is referred to as &quot;anti-racism,&quot; one University of Nevada-Reno professor will stop teaching songs like &ldquo;Jingle Bells&rdquo; and &ldquo;Baa Baa Black Sheep.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.unr.edu/music/people/kate-pollard" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.unr.edu/music/people/kate-pollard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.unr.edu/music/people/kate-pollard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kate Pollard</a> &mdash; a senior music lecturer at the University of Nevada-Reno &mdash; <a href="https://www.unr.edu/nevada-today/blogs/2021/my-own-anti-racist-journey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">wrote</a> about her &ldquo;anti-racist journey&rdquo; in music education for Nevada Today, the school&rsquo;s news outlet. Referring to her first days as a middle school teacher in the late 1990s, Pollard wrote that &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t think I even knew what these songs were about, and I am fairly certain that none of my middle school students asked about their historical context.&rdquo; However, when she &ldquo;learned what authenticity and appropriateness meant in the mid-2000s,&rdquo; she began to dive into &ldquo;culturally relevant pedagogy.&rdquo; Between that time period and the present day, Pollard has had &ldquo;many conversations and read a lot of literature on anti-racist curriculums and appropriation&rdquo; She realized that &ldquo;many of the songs I taught as a middle school educator and even as a college educator are not appropriate and even potentially harmful to certain peoples.&rdquo; Examples include &ldquo;Jingle Bells,&rdquo; &ldquo;Shortnin&rsquo; Bread,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Polly Wolly Doodle&rdquo; &mdash; all of which, according to Pollard, have links to &ldquo;blackface minstrelsy.&rdquo; Pollard told Campus Reform that &ldquo;Jingle Bells&rdquo; is problematic because she read that &ldquo;slave owners used to put bells on slaves to keep track of them, which the jingle bells are referencing.&rdquo; &ldquo;Out of all the songs I mentioned in my article, Jingle Bells is probably the most divisive,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;Maybe it&rsquo;s a ubiquitous familiarity; maybe it&rsquo;s associated with Christmas. Either way, many teachers don&rsquo;t want to remove it.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16178" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16178" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16178" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UMass prof: We don&rsquo;t say White male composers&rsquo; full names because of &lsquo;inequity&rsquo;]</a> She also wrote that white Americans used the songs &ldquo;5 Little Monkeys&rdquo; and &ldquo;Baa Baa Black Sheep&rdquo; to &ldquo;stereotype and degrade Black Americans.&rdquo; Pollard asserted to Campus Reform that &ldquo;5 Little Monkeys seems innocuous enough especially when sung to toddlers. However, it used to be sung with the n word in place of monkeys. And as you probably know, Black Americans have been called and referred to as &ldquo;monkeys.&rdquo; &ldquo;Therefore, I have made the difficult decision to acknowledge my ignorance,&rdquo; continued Pollard in her article. &ldquo;I have made strides to change the repertoire I use and pass on to future and current music educators.&rdquo; She will also refrain from teaching songs like &ldquo;Oh, Susanna!&rdquo; and &ldquo;America,&rdquo; which also goes by the name &ldquo;My Country Tis of Thee.&rdquo; The song &ldquo;is a different issue in which it is sung from the white colonizer perspective,&rdquo; Pollard told Campus Reform. &ldquo;Most Native Americans who know the song find it hurtful as it erases their stories entirely.&rdquo; &ldquo;Some educators defend using these songs, stating they have historical value,&rdquo; admitted Pollard. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t feel the need to preserve the music. I would rather promote songs that are inclusive than promote songs that although may have been popular also marginalize and degrade a population.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16960" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16960" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16960" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: REPORT: UTexas donors succeed in saving &#39;Eyes of Texas&#39; song from cancel culture]</a> &ldquo;Also, I don&rsquo;t feel the need to use these songs as a vehicle to address racism. I don&rsquo;t want my students of color to bear the burden of explaining why these songs are racist, potentially requiring them to defend themselves in class,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;In fact, some may argue that having these kinds of conversations in class is centering a white perspective, making the assumption there is no harm or trauma in opening &ldquo;academic&rdquo; conversations about these songs.&rdquo; &ldquo;I apologize to my students to whom I taught these songs and even more, I apologize to those who quietly knew these things about the songs I taught, but never felt comfortable speaking up,&rdquo; she concluded. &ldquo;I can do better. I will continue to do better.&rdquo; In that interest, Pollard directed Campus Reform toward a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q1jVGqOgKxfiUZ8N3oz0warXefGIJill2Xha-3X5nUY/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">list&nbsp;</a>of &ldquo;crowd sourced insensitive songs.&rdquo; Among the 78 songs that users condemned were &ldquo;Buffalo Gals,&rdquo; &ldquo;Do Your Ears Hang Low,&rdquo; &ldquo;Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo,&rdquo; &ldquo;Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,&rdquo; and the &ldquo;Hokey Pokey.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to the University of Nevada-Reno for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The professor directed Campus Reform toward a list of “crowd sourced insensitive songs.” Among the problematic songs were “Buffalo Gals,” “Do Your Ears Hang Low,” “Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo,” “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah,” and the “Hokey Pokey.”

'Anti-racist journey' prompts UNR lecturer to apologize for teaching 'Jingle Bells,’ ‘Baa Baa Black Sheep' 

Weeks before Project Veritas&nbsp;revealed that a CNN director admitted that the outlet produces &ldquo;propaganda,&rdquo; a University of Georgia ecology professor lauded it to students as a reliable source. In a video sting operation, <a href="https://www.projectveritas.com/news/part-1-cnn-director-admits-network-engaged-in-propaganda-to-remove-trump/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Project Veritas</a> obtained footage showing CNN Technical Director Charlie Chester admitting that the network casts a positive light on President Biden, reports on COVID-19 to sell &ldquo;fear,&rdquo; and worked to remove Trump from office via &ldquo;propaganda.&rdquo; &ldquo;We would always show shots of him [Biden] jogging and that [he&rsquo;s] healthy, you know, and him in aviator shades,&rdquo; said Chester about the network&rsquo;s coverage of the President. &ldquo;Like you paint him as a young geriatric.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15932" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15932" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15932" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: CNN analyst, Yale lecturer says US has a &lsquo;biological terrorist&rsquo; in the White House]</a> &ldquo;Look what we did, we got Trump out,&rdquo; said Chester about the 2020 election. &ldquo;I am 100% going to say it, and I 100% believe that if it wasn&#39;t for CNN, I don&#39;t know that Trump would have got voted out&hellip;I came to CNN because I wanted to be a part of that.&rdquo; Remarking on the network&rsquo;s coverage of President Trump holding a drink of water, Chester said that &ldquo;[Trump&rsquo;s] hand was shaking or whatever, I think. We brought in so many medical people to tell a story that was all speculation &mdash; that he was neurologically damaged, and he was losing it. He&rsquo;s unfit to &mdash; you know, whatever. We were creating a story there that we didn&rsquo;t know anything about. That&rsquo;s what &mdash; I think that&rsquo;s propaganda.&rdquo; Speaking of CNN&rsquo;s coverage of COVID-19, Chester said that &ldquo;fear sells&rdquo; and signaled that the outlet will employ similar tactics with climate change. Despite these admissions, Campus Reform reported weeks ago that a University of Georgia ecology professor recommended CNN to students as a reliable source.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17051" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17051" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17051" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: REPORT: UGA prof tells students &#39;do not draw from questionable sources&#39; like Fox News. Use &#39;reliable&#39; news like NY Times, CNN.]</a> According to screenshots obtained by Young America&rsquo;s Foundation, professor <a href="https://www.ecology.uga.edu/directory/scott-connelly/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Scott Connelly</a> told students to &ldquo;not draw from questionable sources such as National Inquirer, Fox News, OAN, blogs, etc&rdquo; for an assignment. As YAF reported, Connelly instead touted &ldquo;left-leaning sources like CNN and the New York Times as &lsquo;reliable&rsquo; for student usage.&rdquo; Despite Chester&#39;s self-admitted fear-mongering through the issue of climate change, Connelly sees the outlet as a reliable source for scientific information. &ldquo;If a student were able to find an appropriate article from any news source they may use that, although it will be much easier to complete the assignment in a reasonable amount of time if students start with the reliable news organizations that I suggested, which have run countless articles that are scientifically factually correct and also address the topic we are studying,&rdquo; he told YAF. Campus Reform asked Connelly whether the Project Veritas footage changes his mind about the validity of CNN, particularly on the issue of climate change. This article will be updated with any comment. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

He believes this is particularly true for scientific news, although Chester admitted that CNN will “milk” climate change to viewers because “fear sells.”

Weeks before Project Veritas report that CNN department director admits site is 'propaganda,' this prof called it a 'reliable' source

Black Lives Matter co-founder and self-described Marxist Patrisse Cullors &mdash; who has accumulated over $3 million in luxury real estate in recent years &mdash; told college students just last summer that &ldquo;capitalism&quot; is &quot;more tragic&quot; than COVID-19.In March, Cullors purchased a $1.4 million home in Topanga Canyon, California &mdash; a town near Malibu in which less than 2 percent of the <a href="https://datausa.io/profile/geo/topanga-ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">population</a> is African-American. The property <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/10/inside-blm-co-founder-patrisse-khan-cullors-real-estate-buying-binge/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">features</a> &ldquo;soaring ceilings, skylights and plenty of windows,&rdquo; as well as a guesthouse.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17201" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: UW-La Crosse shells out $5,000 for speech from transgender activist]</a>According to the New York Post, Cullors also purchased a $415,000 home outside of Atlanta last year. In 2016, she purchased a three-bedroom home in Inglewood for $510,000, and in 2018, she acquired a four-bedroom home in South Los Angeles for $590,000. The values of the latter two properties have appreciated to $800,000 and $720,000, respectively.She has also reportedly eyed homes in Nassau priced between $5 million and $20 million.&nbsp;Despite her large expenditures on luxury real estate holdings, the social activist decried capitalism to an audience of college students as recently as last summer.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15432" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: WATCH: BLM co-founder shares thoughts on looting &amp; capitalism with Penn State students]</a>Between luxury home purchases, Cullors told college students on at least one occasion that capitalism is &quot;tragic.&quot;In August, Campus Reform revealed via exclusive video comments that Cullors made to students at the Pennsylvania State University Programming Association &mdash; a group that &quot;brings amazing live entertainment to students with your student activity fee!&quot;&ldquo;While the COVID-19 illness is tragic, what&rsquo;s more tragic is capitalism. What&rsquo;s more tragic is racism,&rdquo; remarked Cullors. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s more tragic is our inability to actually create a safety net for communities that are most attacked in this moment by both the crisis and the pandemic of racism, but also the crisis and pandemic of COVID-19.&rdquo;Cullors &mdash; whose newest real estate holding is far from urban Los Angeles &mdash; also spoke highly of business owners who will &ldquo;take that L&rdquo; as their property is destroyed in riots, so that &ldquo;black lives matter someday.&rdquo;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Cullors — whose newest $1.4 million real estate property is far from urban Los Angeles — lauded business owners who will “take that L” during riots so that “black lives matter someday.”

While spending millions on luxury homes, BLM co-founder told college students that capitalism is 'more tragic' than COVID-19

Students at Cornell University are pushing back against a proposed dual-degree program with China, citing ethics violations and hindrance to academic freedom. The <a href="https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/3/6798/files/2021/02/SHA.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">proposal</a> with Peking University in China would enroll students to pursue both an MBA from Peking University and a Masters in Management Hospitality from Cornell, over a span of two years. According to the <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2021/03/28/sa-passes-resolutions-to-help-undocumented-community-debate-ethics-of-partnering-with-chinese-universities/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cornell Sun</a>,&nbsp;passed with nobody against and four abstentions, Cornell University&rsquo;s Student Assembly <a href="https://cornell.app.box.com/s/xaw2mz29s084kod42fzlswzw9j27q37i" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Resolution #39</a> demands Cornell to &ldquo;halt all plans&rdquo; for the program. The resolution cites Peking University&rsquo;s suppression and detaining of protestors, dismissal of sexual assault claims, and firing professors over ideology. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17026" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Cornell considers dual degree program with Chinese university; admin insists academic freedom not threatened]</a> Peking University has also amended its charter, according to NPR, to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/01/20/796377204/chinese-universities-are-enshrining-communist-party-control-in-their-charters" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">emphasize loyalty&nbsp;</a>to the Chinese Communist Party. Further cited in the resolution was China&rsquo;s genocide towards Uighurs, a Muslim community, who have been <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-22278037" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">forced into</a> concentration camps. Student senators also demand Cornell to follow their own <a href="https://statements.cornell.edu/2019/20191114-guidelines-ethical-international-engagement.cfm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">guidelines</a> on international engagement, which call for academic freedom, &ldquo;free and open inquiry and expression&rdquo; and &ldquo;justice and human rights.&rdquo; Ample criticism at a February 10 faculty senate meeting from professors pushed back a vote on the <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17026" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">proposal</a>. Associate Dean <a href="https://sha.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty/ams76/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alex Susskind</a> laid out the proposal. &ldquo;When I talk to my colleagues at Peking University, there&#39;s a dean and then there&#39;s apolitical officer...I&#39;m wondering how we maintain Cornell&#39;s independence and freedom of bias,&rdquo; computer science professor <a href="https://www.cs.cornell.edu/ken/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ken Birman</a> rebuked at the February 10 <a href="https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/3/6798/files/2021/02/Feb-10-draft-meeting-minutes.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">meeting</a>. What about &ldquo;a situation where a political officer might order a person teaching on our behalf to express -- like the Uyghurs question that was just raised, to express an opinion other than what we would want to hear expressed,&rdquo; Birman continued.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17090" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17090" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17090" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Conservatives celebrate as another university waves goodbye to its Confucius Institute]</a> Citing a similar China partnership, Susskind replied &ldquo;our faculty control our part of the curriculum. It&#39;s managed by us and they agree to what it is that they&#39;re doing.&rdquo; After later meetings about the proposal, Birman told Campus Reform, &ldquo;I did ask for clarifications of those policies but personally, I&rsquo;m satisfied now that they are strong and adequate.&rdquo; &quot;If Cornell disengages, as some are advocating with respect to China, Russia, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and other countries, we lose leverage that let us help people who are in difficult situations. &nbsp;When we work with students and faculty, we also create channels and dialog that has a positive impact,&quot; Birman said. &quot;So I think we are more effective when we maintain engagement. &nbsp;True, we do need to be cautious, and need to make sure our faculty are property protected and able to teach without political constraints.&quot; &ldquo;Does the memorandum of understanding that Cornell would sign with Peking University have asserted stipulations about how academic freedom will be protected for Cornell participants, academic freedom as we define it?,&rdquo; associate professor <a href="https://www.bme.cornell.edu/faculty-directory/chris-schaffer" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chris Schaffer</a> asked. &ldquo;It&#39;s my understanding that&#39;s part of how this process works that they know exactly what they&#39;re getting from us and we know exactly what we&#39;re doing for
them.
Again, because we&#39;ve done a similar program like this already, we understand the concerns, but we don&#39;t see them as being overwhelmingly significant,&rdquo; replied Susskind. Before being tabled, Susskind responded to criticism mentioning profitability four times. At the next faculty senate<a href="https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/3/6798/files/2021/03/Feb24-draft-meeting-minutes.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;meeting</a> on Feb. 24 additional criticism towards the proposal ensued, which prompted Provost <a href="https://provost.cornell.edu/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Michael Kotlikoff</a> to clarify the purpose of the senate. The senate&rsquo;s job is &ldquo;not to individually examine the details of each individual program. Some of the comments here today are general comments about China. We have many programs, existing programs with China. Those comments could be leveled at many of those programs.&rdquo; The faculty senate has also passed a <a href="https://theuniversityfaculty.cornell.edu/faculty-senate/archives-and-actions/ongoing-senate-business/resolution-on-joint-or-dual-degree-programs-with-other-institutions/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">resolution</a> which &ldquo;reaffirms its responsibility to consider and advise on all joint or dual degree programs involving other academic institutions.&rdquo; In a non-binding March 31 <a href="https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/blogs.cornell.edu/dist/3/6798/files/2021/04/Edited-chat-Mar-31-with-voting.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">vote</a>, the faculty senate expressed their opposition to the partnership between <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Peking University, with a vote of 16 members in favor, and 39 opposed. However, 51 people did not vote, and 20 abstained. Campus Reform has reached out to Cornell University for comment, but did not receive a response. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SergeiKelley?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SergeiKelley</a><a href="https://twitter.com/SergeiKelley?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" style="text-decoration:none;"></a>

The Cornell University student government passed a resolution calling for Cornell to halt a proposed dual-degree partnership with China-based Peking University.

Cornell students vote to 'halt' China partnership, citing human rights concerns

Some students at California Polytechnic State University will now be required to live on campus for two years while enrolled at the school. Freshman enrolled at either the <a href="http://www.caed.calpoly.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">College of Architecture and Environmental Design</a> or the <a href="https://cafes.calpoly.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">College of Agriculture, Food &amp; Environmental Sciences&nbsp;</a>at the university will now be required to live on campus during their sophomore years. Furthermore, for the upcoming Fall 2021 semester, freshman students from the College of Engineering will also be required to live on campus during their sophomore year. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17041" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: &#39;Under the surface&#39; of Critical Race Theory is &#39;old Marxist language,&#39; expert warns]</a> A Cal Poly University Housing spokesperson Nona Matthews <a href="https://mustangnews.net/cal-poly-implements-sophomore-housing-requirement-despite-student-opposition/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">told</a> the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Mustang News&nbsp;that the move will help with student&#39;s academic success. &ldquo;The academic success of our students is a significant focus for Cal Poly, and this plays a central role in our decision to expand our on-campus housing policy to both first and second-year students,&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Matthews said. <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">According to documents obtained by Mustang News,&nbsp;Cal Poly lost $14.5 million from student housing in fiscal year 2019-2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. At the end of the fiscal year, the &quot;ending fund balance&quot; for Cal Poly housing was just over $1.5 million, the lowest it has been in the past six years. The student newspaper, however, reported that 80 percent of Cal Poly students are opposed to the requirement for sophomores to live on campus. Former Associated Students Inc. Board Chair Rob Moore <a href="https://mustangnews.net/housing-not-proven-to-increase-retention/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> at an Academic Senate meeting on February 11, 2020, &ldquo;The ASI Board, elected board members who represent students, are very, very opposed to this. We have huge, huge grievances with this.&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">A statistics professor at Cal Poly told Mustang News that the move to require some students to live on-campus doesn&#39;t make sense. &ldquo;You cannot reasonably conclude that students who are required to live on campus two years are more likely to move into their third year,&rdquo; Steve Rein said. Cal Poly Media Relations Director Matt Lazier told Campus Reform, the decision to require students to live on campus has already been implemented with its student-athletes and Cal Poly Scholars. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17035" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17035" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student gov impeaches senator who defended Blue Lives Matter, but the fight is far from over]</a> &ldquo;What&rsquo;s happening now is an expansion of that requirement to all students, being phased in over the next few years. The university has long stated its aim of housing about 60 percent of its student body on campus, a goal reflected in the university&rsquo;s campus master plan,&rdquo; he said. Lazier went on to say that there are many &ldquo;facets of on-campus living that we believe benefit our students and our campus community as a whole and that have played a part in the expansion of the policy.&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;asked Lazier if the housing requirement was financially motivated as well, but he said that the move may cause prices for rental properties off-campus to fall. &ldquo;Housing more of our students on campus will shift the dynamic in the off-campus rental market in a positive way for students. With more supply than demand, we expect to see two significant developments: prices falling for rentals and landlords being more motivated to improve the quality and health/safety of their rentals. Both of these are good for students,&rdquo; he said. Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/ashleyecarnahan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ashleyecarnahan</a>

One professor at the university says that the move doesn't make sense.

Cal Poly will require some sophomores to live on campus, claims it's for students' own good

Professors launched a nonprofit to promote free expression on college campuses.The <a href="https://academicfreedom.org/about/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Academic Freedom Alliance</a> describes itself as a consortium of &ldquo;college and university faculty members who are dedicated to upholding the principle of academic freedom.&rdquo; Their members range &ldquo;across the political spectrum&rdquo; and recognize that &ldquo;an attack on academic freedom anywhere is an attack on academic freedom everywhere.&rdquo;In addition to defending academics&rsquo; freedom of thought in their work as professors and citizens, the Academic Freedom Alliance&rsquo;s members will &ldquo;aid in providing legal support to faculty whose academic freedom is threatened by institutions&rsquo; or officials&rsquo; violations of constitutional, statutory, contractual, or school-based rights.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16957" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: STUDY: Academics systemically hostile toward conservatives]</a>Members of the group &ldquo;pledge to support fellow AFA members whose rights have been violated or are threatened.&rdquo;Keith Whittington, a politics professor at Princeton University who chairs the organization, said in a <a href="https://academicfreedom.org/200-faculty-across-u-s-launch-non-partisan-academic-freedom-alliance/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press release</a> that &ldquo;AFA will counteract the pressure on school administrators to crack down on controversial views and will provide faculty with strength in numbers to defend their academic freedom.&rdquo;&ldquo;The AFA&rsquo;s defense will not depend on a faculty member&rsquo;s viewpoint, nor will it endorse the content of what they express,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;It will simply defend their right to expression.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16944" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: St. Joseph&rsquo;s prof placed on paid leave after criticizing reparations]</a><a href="https://academicfreedom.org/members/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Members</a> range ideologically from <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16865" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cornel West</a> of Harvard University to Robert P. George of Princeton University, a leading conservative intellectual. Most of America&rsquo;s premier universities &mdash; including Stanford University, Yale University, and MIT &mdash; are represented.Speech First President Nicole Neily told Campus Reform that she is &ldquo;absolutely delighted by the launch of the Academic Freedom Alliance &mdash; a cohesive, strong voice defending the rights of professors has been sorely needed in this fight.&rdquo;&ldquo;They&#39;ve assembled a spectacular coalition of talent from across the political spectrum, and they have real legal firepower to back them up,&rdquo; Neily explained. &ldquo;So much of the discussion about campus speech centers around students, yet professors are frequently targeted by programs like bias response teams.&rdquo;Neily looks forward to &ldquo;complementing the efforts of the AFA in the future.&rdquo;Campus Reform has reported on several recent instances of professors receiving sanctions for teaching in a manner that was interpreted by students as offensive.For instance, Richard Taylor of St. John&rsquo;s University was terminated after students found his question about slavery to be racist.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16967" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: History prof asks slavery question that campus &#39;radicals&#39; deem &#39;racist.&#39; So university fires him.]</a>In another incident, a business professor at the University of Southern California was placed on leave after he said a Chinese filler word that sounds similar to an American racial slur.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15580" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: USC prof no longer teaching after using Chinese word that sounds like racial slur]</a>Following the 2020 election, professors lobbied university administrators to permanently ban former Trump officials from serving as faculty members on their campuses.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16676" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Professors nationwide flock to join Biden admin as Trump officials are &#39;canceled&#39;]</a>Campus Reform reached out to the Academic Freedom Alliance for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Members range ideologically from democratic socialists to conservatives.

Hundreds of profs unveil 'Academic Freedom Alliance' to promote 1st Amendment on campus

Led by former university academics and citing current critical race theorists, the state of California created the nation&rsquo;s first high school ethnic studies curriculum.&nbsp;The state&rsquo;s 900-page Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum was officially approved during a March 18 California State Board of Education meeting, during which the officials voted unanimously to adopt the new programming. &nbsp;The <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/cr/cf/esmc.asp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">curriculum</a> was approved under the <a href="https://women.ca.gov/california-secretary-of-state-dr-shirley-weber/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">auspices&nbsp;</a>of California Secretary of State Shirley Weber &mdash; a former ethnic studies professor at San Diego State University who voted in favor of the curriculum.&ldquo;My former students are different professionals because they have a different level of respect for others,&rdquo; she said in a California Department of Education <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/nr/ne/yr21/yr211rel21.asp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press release</a> in reference to her past academic work. &ldquo;These benefits are overwhelming for our students.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17040" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &#39;The endpoint of critical race theory&#39;: Columbia University faces backlash for segregated graduations]</a>Likewise, California State <a href="https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/ms/mm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Board</a> of Education President <a href="https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/person/linda-darling-hammond" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Linda Darling-Hammond</a>, who founded Stanford University&rsquo;s Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. As recently as March 16, Darling-Hammond co-authored a <a href="https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/product/wce-restorative-approach-equitable-education-brief" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">paper&nbsp;</a>arguing that COVID-19 revealed a need to address &ldquo;structural inequities&rdquo; faced by &ldquo;Black and Latinx&rdquo; students.The curriculum stresses the importance of utilizing the concept of intersectionality &mdash; which &ldquo;recognizes that people have different overlapping identities, for example, a transgender Latina or a Jewish African American&rdquo; &mdash; in defining ethnic studies.&nbsp;In the state&rsquo;s implementation guide for districts, a section entitled &ldquo;Useful Theory, Pedagogy, and Research&rdquo; states that instructors should &ldquo;familiarize themselves with current scholarly research around ethnic studies instruction, such as critically and culturally/community relevant and responsive pedagogies, critical race theory, and intersectionality, which are key theoretical frameworks and pedagogies that can be used in ethnic studies research and instruction.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17038" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Tufts removes portraits of past presidents because they&#39;re too White]</a>Accordingly, the new curriculum refers to the work of academics who subscribe to critical race theory.The curriculum defines the concept of &ldquo;humanization&rdquo; as &ldquo;the values of love, respect, hope, and solidarity, which are based on celebration of community cultural wealth.&rdquo;&nbsp;This line of thinking draws from University of California-Santa Barbara education professor Tara Yosso&rsquo;s<a href="https://www.iirp.edu/images/pdf/AvNtDE_EDUC_701_-_Yossos_Community_Cultural_Wealth_Model.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;article</a> &ldquo;Whose Culture Has Capital? A Critical Race Theory Discussion of Community Cultural Wealth.&rdquo;Yosso&rsquo;s 2005 article &ldquo;conceptualizes community cultural wealth as a critical race theory (CRT) challenge to traditional interpretations of cultural capital.&rdquo; The proposed &ldquo;CRT approach to education&rdquo; entails a commitment to &ldquo;to develop schools that acknowledge the multiple strengths of Communities of Color in order to serve a larger purpose of struggle toward social and racial justice.&rdquo;California State Board of Education Communications Director Janet Weeks told Campus Reform that the curriculum is &ldquo;optional guidance for districts that are looking to develop such an elective.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16548" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: How the California government helped fuel campus madness in 2020]</a>National Association of Scholars Director of Research David Randall told Campus Reform that the movement to &ldquo;impose critical race theory requirements is nationwide.&rdquo;&ldquo;California&#39;s move would have been surprising even a decade ago,&rdquo; said Randall. &ldquo;Unfortunately, since radical activists have now nearly completed their takeover of educational institutions and bureaucracies, it is now surprising when they don&#39;t make such moves.&rdquo;&ldquo;Parents should note that we may expect CRT standards to be imposed on private schools and home schools,&rdquo; he continued, &ldquo;as well as to take over putatively independent assessors such as the College Board.&rdquo; Randall noted that &ldquo;the radical activists will seek to ensure that there is no escape from the agenda simply by withdrawing from the public schools.&rdquo;Referring to California&rsquo;s new curriculum, Randall said that &ldquo;taxpayers should note that the requirement to &lsquo;familiarize themselves with current scholarly research&rsquo; is above all a diversion of money to radical activists.&rdquo;&ldquo;Would-be teachers will take undergraduate courses in CRT; so too will the teachers going for MAs, PhDs, and continuing education,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;The requirement will shift a large proportion of education employment to radical activists. Even teachers who are not themselves radical activists will have to pay radical activists to be taught sufficient CRT to qualify for a job.&rdquo;&ldquo;This move, extended nationwide, will create secure employment for millions of radical activists on the taxpayer dime, using the excuse of &lsquo;professional standards,&rsquo;&rdquo; he added.Campus Reform reached out to the California State Board of Education for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The curriculum stresses the importance of intersectionality — which “recognizes that people have different overlapping identities, for example, a transgender Latina or a Jewish African American” — in defining ethnic studies. 

California draws from Critical Race Theory profs  for K-12 'ethnic studies' curriculum

After a University of Vermont professor criticized the notion of &ldquo;whiteness,&rdquo; administrators denounced his comments and students called for his resignation. The professor refuses to resign. In a YouTube <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_PyTwXPre8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video</a> entitled &ldquo;Racism and the Secular Religion at the University of Vermont,&rdquo; education professor Aaron Kindsvatter said that &ldquo;whiteness falls under the umbrella&hellip; of critical social justice, and the thinking that informs it is so crude and so lacking in falsifiability.&rdquo; He also commented that because the notion of whiteness &ldquo;speaks so eloquently to our tribal impulses,&rdquo; the same logic &ldquo;can easily find its way to desperate persons who need a group to hate and who will adopt the suppositions that inform whiteness towards their own ends.&rdquo; Kindsvatter said that he first heard of the term whiteness when &ldquo;a faculty member offered to help me with it like it was some kind of disease&rdquo; &mdash; an experience that he described as &ldquo;dehumanizing.&rdquo; &ldquo;Would you please stop reducing my personhood to a racial category in your teachings?&rdquo; asked Kindsvatter at the end of the video, mentioning that feeling pressure to find wisdom in Ibram X. Kendi and other authors produced a &ldquo;spiritual sickness&rdquo; within him.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17032" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17032" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17032" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Canada joins Britain, France in combatting cancel culture &#39;coming from the United States&#39;]</a> In response to the video, University of Vermont Provost Patricia Prelock said in an <a href="https://vtcynic.com/news/students-call-for-professor-to-resign-over-his-video-claiming-white-discrimination/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">email&nbsp;</a>to student newspaper The Vermont Cynic that &ldquo;we will continue to lean into our [diversity equity and inclusion] efforts, and in so doing, create further opportunities to strengthen our community.&rdquo; She added that &ldquo;this event has given us further clarity and resolve about the importance of our commitment to our Common Ground values and DEI work.&rdquo; &ldquo;We know there is anger, pain, and sadness when the lived experiences of individuals committed to DEI are denied or diminished,&rdquo; the email stated. &ldquo;We hear you, and we value the voice you are giving to the concerns many of us share about these messages.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16960" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16960" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16960" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: REPORT: UTexas donors succeed in saving &#39;Eyes of Texas&#39; song from cancel culture]</a> A <a href="https://www.change.org/p/university-of-vermont-demand-the-immediate-resignation-of-uvm-asst-prof-aaron-kindsvatter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> calling for the resignation of Kindsvatter has earned over 3,400 signatures as of. The authors state that Kindsvatter&rsquo;s statements are &ldquo;harmful to our campus&rsquo; community of color.&rdquo; &ldquo;Claims of being &lsquo;suppressed&rsquo; for his &lsquo;moderate views&rsquo; are unsavory and asinine &mdash; the first step towards any kind of progress on campus is through accountability and having honest discussions,&rdquo; continued the petition. &ldquo;Furthermore, the fact that you go so far as to claim notable, respected literature on anti-racist work as to cause you a sort of &lsquo;spiritual sickness&rsquo; is beyond comprehensible.&rdquo; A rival <a href="https://www.change.org/p/the-university-of-vermont-put-prof-aaron-kindsvatter-in-charge-of-all-dei-initiatives-at-the-university-of-vermont?recruited_by_id=93e0c010-08f1-11e7-8cae-1348d45121c7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> &mdash; which has garnered over 4,400 signatures &mdash; asks that Kindsvatter assume control of all diversity measures at the University of Vermont.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16967" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16967" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16967" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: History prof asks slavery question that campus &#39;radicals&#39; deem &#39;racist.&#39; So university fires him.]</a> In another <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE7G7c0wFb4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video</a> posted on March 16, Kindsvatter refused to resign. &ldquo;Nope, not a chance, never going to happen, no way,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Haven&rsquo;t even thought about it.&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Kindsvatter and the University of Vermont for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Administrators denounced his comments and students asked for his resignation. The professor refused.

Professor rebukes social justice theory in scathing video. Despite student pressure, he refuses to resign.

The NCAA signaled that it may pull championship games from places that stop biological males from competing in women&rsquo;s sports. The collegiate sports league released a <a href="https://www.ncaa.org/about/resources/media-center/news/ncaa-board-governors-statement-transgender-participation?division=d1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">statement</a> on Monday reaffirming that it supports &ldquo;the opportunity for transgender student-athletes to compete in college sports,&rdquo; which is grounded in the value of &ldquo;fair competition.&rdquo; &ldquo;The NCAA has a long-standing policy that provides a more inclusive path for transgender participation in college sports,&rdquo; continues the statement. &ldquo;Our approach &mdash; which requires testosterone suppression treatment for transgender women to compete in women&rsquo;s sports &mdash; embraces the evolving science on this issue and is anchored in participation policies of both the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17201" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17201" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17201" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: UW-La Crosse shells out $5,000 for speech from transgender activist]</a> The statement closed by saying that &ldquo;only locations where hosts can commit to providing an environment that is safe, healthy and free of discrimination&rdquo; should be selected for championship events. Presumably referring to states&rsquo; moves to stop biological males from competing in girls&rsquo; and women&#39;s sports, the NCAA stated that it will &ldquo;continue to closely monitor these situations to determine whether NCAA championships can be conducted in ways that are welcoming and respectful of all participants.&rdquo; Many conservative-leaning states, such as <a href="https://twitter.com/tatereeves/status/1370059736746446852" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mississippi</a> and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/idaho-falls-idaho-laws-1db9278e3349c21d2951ffc9147f98f0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Idaho</a>, are moving to protect female athletes&rsquo; capacity to compete against members of their own sex.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17173" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17173" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: LGBTQ+ students sue Dept of Ed to defund their own Christian universities]</a> Surveys indicate that the general American public by no means agrees with the NCAA&rsquo;s decision. According to a recent <a href="https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2021/03/10/trump-position-against-transgender-athletes-draws-broad-support-492061" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Politico</a> poll, the majority of Americans support banning biological males who claim a transgender identity from competing against women. The results indicated that 53 percent of registered voters would support such a policy. Elizabeth Najjar &mdash; a Campus Reform correspondent and rugby player at Norwich University &mdash; is staunchly against the NCAA&rsquo;s policy. &ldquo;Especially in a sport like rugby, having biological males play against females can cause serious injury and it also takes away athletic opportunities for females,&rdquo; she explained. Najjar added that &ldquo;many females seek athletic scholarships and opportunities out of high school to play at a higher level, and now high schools are allowing biological males to compete in girls sports.&rdquo; She fears that &ldquo;the NCAA doing the same thing is directly going against women and taking away opportunities from female athletes.&rdquo; When reached for comment, NCAA Associate Director of Communications Michelle <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Hosick told Campus Reform that the &quot;Board of Governors continues to monitor the situation and has not made a decision regarding championships.&quot;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The majority of American voters oppose such a policy, according to a recent poll done by Politico.

NCAA signals that it may pull championships from states that protect women's sports

The University of California-Berkeley list of student holidays includes a day off for Cesar Chavez Day. Columbus Day did not make the cut. The university&rsquo;s academic <a href="https://registrar.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/UCB_AcademicCalendar_2020-21_V3.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">calendar </a>reflects that students received a break on March 26 to commemorate the Mexican-American community organizer and activist, but does not list a break to commemorate the Italian explorer&rsquo;s landfall in the Americas. In recent years, Columbus has been the subject of increasing ire from left-leaning Americans, with many universities commemorating &ldquo;Indigenous Peoples Day&rdquo; on October 12, 2020. In contrast, Chavez is seen by many leftists as a social justice champion; indeed, after his inauguration, President Biden added a bust of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/us/cesar-chavez-bust-oval-office-trnd/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chavez</a> to the Oval Office. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15907" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Colleges nix Columbus Day, instead host events for Indigenous Peoples Day]</a> Administrators at Berkeley were no exception. As a 2020 <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/03/27/a-wellness-message-for-cesar-chavez-day/#:~:text=A%20wellness%20message%20for%20Cesar%20Chavez%20Day.%20UC,equity%20in%20the%20workplace%20and%20all%20of%20society" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press release</a> explained, the school takes Cesar Chavez Day off to honor &ldquo;the principles of fairness, social justice, and the struggle for equity in the workplace and all of society.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16801" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16801" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16801" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley backtracks on closing social justice center amid leftist backlash]</a> &ldquo;As we continue to adjust to our new reality created by COVID-19, both with respect to work and our personal lives, it is more important than ever to pause and think about the broader values and personal meaning that this day represents,&rdquo; continued the press release. &ldquo;Managers should encourage all employees (unless required to perform emergency services) to take the time to rest, reflect and renew.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to the University of California-Berkeley for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. <span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora,serif;color:#cc0000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">@BenZeisloft</a>

The university did not provide a day off for Columbus Day.

Berkeley takes a day off for Cesar Chavez Day, but not Columbus Day

A group of Stanford University administrators and faculty blamed former President Donald Trump for recent violence toward Asian-Americans.An email sent from Associate Dean of Students and Asian American Activities Center Director <a href="https://a3c.stanford.edu/about/staff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cindy Ng</a> to students, a copy of which was obtained by Campus Reform, expressed desire for justice following the murder of eight people in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian-American women.Several additional deans involved with the Asian American Activities Center also signed the email, as well as 14 professors from various departments.The email claimed that &ldquo;the recent exponential increase in violent attacks has been fueled by a former president who blamed the COVID pandemic on the Chinese.&rdquo;It added that &ldquo;anti-Asian racism and violence must be addressed in the context of dismantling structural and institutionalized systems created to maintain white supremacy.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16970" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford Law launches &#39;Youth Justice Lab&#39; to address racism in public schools, combat &lsquo;insidious&rsquo; meritocracy]</a>&quot;We have a right to be angry, we have a right to demand justice,&quot; the email continued. &quot;We know that anti-Asian racism and violence must be addressed in the context of dismantling structural and institutionalized systems created to maintain white supremacy. We are committed to this work.&quot;We also know that recent events and what happened in Atlanta weighs heavy and may have you worrying about your own safety and that of your family and loved ones. We are here for you and encourage you to reach out to one or all of us should you need support.Conservative students at Stanford were not pleased.Stanford College Republicans directed Campus Reform toward a statement pointing out that &ldquo;Stanford administrators are actively promoting the vicious lie that the horrific onslaught of anti-Asian violence and the shootings in Atlanta...were incited by President Trump and &lsquo;white supremacy.&rsquo;&rdquo;The group said that the message used &ldquo;the lives of those who died...to mount a cheap shot against President Trump,&rdquo; which represented a &ldquo;baseless lie and distortion.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16374" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford bestows free speech policy spot on &#39;Campus Antifascist Network&#39; co-founder]</a>The students demanded that Ng apologize &ldquo;for using the lives of those who died&quot; in Atlanta &quot;as political tools.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Ng and Stanford University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

 An email signed by multiple Stanford professors and deans blamed former President Donald Trump for the recent mass shooting in Atlanta.

Stanford officials & faculty blame Trump for mass shooting in email to students

Chinese state media released a hit piece on Fairfax University of America&rsquo;s foreign policy think tank after it discussed China&rsquo;s human rights infringements. In a policy <a href="https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Chinas-Breaches-of-the-GC3.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">report</a>, Fairfax University of America&rsquo;s Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy released &ldquo;the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.&rdquo; The think tank invited &ldquo;dozens of experts in international law, genocide studies, Chinese ethnic policies, and the region&rdquo; to examine &ldquo;all available evidence that could be collected and verified from public Chinese State communications, leaked Chinese State communications, eye-witness testimony, and open-source research methods.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16875" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16875" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16875" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Biden chalks up China&#39;s Uyghur genocide to different cultural &#39;norms.&#39; Can he be trusted to keep CCP off college campuses?]</a> The report concluded that the People&rsquo;s Republic of China bears responsibility &ldquo;for committing genocide against the Uyghurs in breach of the 1948 Convention.&rdquo; Pointing to the Chinese Communist Party&rsquo;s deliberate actions in killing members of the group, inflicting serious bodily harm, and preventing births, the report concluded that China has the &ldquo;intent to destroy, in whole or in part&rdquo; the Uyghur ethnic group under the framework of the Geneva Convention.<a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218020.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218020.shtml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218020.shtml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Times</a> &mdash; a Chinese media outlet under the thumb of the nation&rsquo;s central government &mdash; questioned the Newlines Institute&rsquo;s independence. &ldquo;A so-called US &lsquo;think tank&rsquo; recently released report to stigmatize China on Xinjiang affairs and hype the rumor of &lsquo;genocide&rsquo; with cooked-up evidence, and Chinese analysts said on Wednesday that this &lsquo;think tank&rsquo; is actually lying to the international community and it&#39;s actually an institute that serves specific political forces rather than an independent and neutral institute,&rdquo; alleged the article.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16774" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16774" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16774" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Did a Huawei employee ghostwrite this MIT professor&#39;s pro-China op-ed?]</a> Continuing in its liberal use of scare-quotes, Global Times said that &ldquo;this &lsquo;think tank&rsquo; is talking lies to create a sensation in the international community, which indicates that it is not a pure academic think tank but one with very strong political bias and is aligned with certain forces in the US and Western society to demonize and attack China, Chinese observers noted.&rdquo; The outlet added that Chinese experts believe &ldquo;the intent of hyping Xinjiang &lsquo;genocide&rsquo; reports is very insidious as they are also trying to instigating the relationship between Muslims and Chinese society, so as to make Muslim countries stand by those who hold tough to China.&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Fairfax University of America for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Chinese state media was not happy.

Chinese state media is not happy after university think tank reveals CCP's human rights violations

‘Maybe try praying it to Satan or Lil Nas X’: Smith SHREDS theology professor for praying to God to ‘hate white people’ 

<a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>The editor-in-chief of the student newspaper at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania accused Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) of not being a &quot;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">true intersectional feminist,&quot; because she voted against a $15 per hour federal minimum wage.On March 10, just two short days after International Women&rsquo;s Day concluded, Jordyn Hronec published a piece titled &lsquo;<a href="https://ppuglobe.com/2021/03/the-problem-with-girl-bosses/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Problem with &lsquo;Girl Bosses</a>,&rsquo;&rsquo; in which she discussed the issues that exist in &ldquo;girl boss&rdquo; culture. &ldquo;I, as the Editor-in-Chief of this newspaper, am a certified girl boss. And on the day that I am writing this, it is International Women&rsquo;s Day. So it&rsquo;s the perfect time to discuss the problems that exist within &lsquo;girl boss&rsquo; cultures,&rdquo; starts Hronec. The opinion piece focuses on <a href="https://www.sinema.senate.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sinema&rsquo;s</a> recent vote against a rise in the federal minimum wage and her opinion about what feminism should truly embrace. &ldquo;Sinema&rsquo;s &lsquo;no&rsquo; vote was significant because she was one of eight Democratic senators who voted &lsquo;no,&rsquo; along with the Republicans, and the amendment failed as it missed the threshold filibuster mark of 60 &lsquo;yes&rsquo;s by two. It was also significant for the manner in which it was done. In the video, Sinema happily gave a wordless thumbs down before walking out of the chamber,&rdquo; states Hronec.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">After Sinema received backlash regarding the way she voted<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, Hannah Hurley, the press secretary for Sen. Sinema, said that the commentary surrounding the vote &quot;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">does not belong in a serious media outlet.&rdquo;&nbsp; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;Commentary about a female senator&rsquo;s body language, clothing, or physical demeanor does not belong in a serious media outlet,&quot; Hurley&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/HannahLHurley/status/1368037118262542336" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/HannahLHurley/status/1368037118262542336" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Hronec took issue with that statement, stating that it&#39;s &quot;tone deaf.&quot;&ldquo;This statement, which blames the criticism towards Sinema on sexism, is tone deaf. The criticism directed towards Sinema is not due to the femininity in her body language, the clothes she was wearing or the fact that she identifies as a woman. Sinema is being criticized because she voted to deny hard working Americans better wages,&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Hronec wrote. To conclude her piece, Hronec wrote, &ldquo;It is not enough to advocate for the rights of women. To be a true intersectional feminist&mdash;the only kind of feminist that matters&mdash;you must advocate for the rights of trans women, women of color, disabled women and women in the LGBTQ+ community. And you must advocate for progressive policy-making that rejects systemic racism and sexism.&rdquo;<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Campus Reform<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&nbsp;reached out to Hronec, who declined to comment. Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/logandubil" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@logandubil</a>

The Editor-in-Chief claimed that Sen. Krysten Sinema is not a "true intersectional feminist," because she voted against a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour.

Campus newspaper editor-in-chief: An ‘intersectional’ feminist is the ‘only kind of feminist that matters’

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse paid $5,000 to a transgender activist for two hours of speaking time. According to a contract obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, Campus Reform learned that the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse paid <a href="https://www.alokvmenon.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alok Vaid-Menon</a> &mdash; an &ldquo;internationally acclaimed gender non-conforming writer, performer, and public speaker&rdquo; &mdash; for a <a href="https://www.uwlax.edu/pride-center/clubsevents/events/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">talk</a> on February 16 about the activist&#39;s new book Beyond the Binary. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17030" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17030" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &lsquo;Graygender, Maverick, Feminine of Center&rsquo;: NYU lists TWO DOZEN gender options]</a> The book encourages readers to &ldquo;see gender not in black and white, but in full color.&rdquo; Vaid-Menon draws upon experience &ldquo;as a gender-nonconforming artist&rdquo; to show that &ldquo;gender is a malleable and creative form of expression.&rdquo; &ldquo;The only limit is your imagination,&rdquo; says the book&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Gender-Binary-Pocket-Collective/dp/0593094654/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=beyond+the+binary&qid=1616084512&sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">description</a>. The contract obtained by Campus Reform states that Vaid-Menon was paid $5,000 to speak for a total of two hours on the evening of February 16. The event included a forty-minute period of questions and answers, as well as a meeting with &ldquo;Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, and other students and staff of color.&rdquo;<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/502069095/UW-La-Crosse-shells-out-2-500-per-hour-for-speech-from-trans-activist#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View UW-La Crosse shells out $2,500 per hour for speech from trans activist on Scribd">UW-La Crosse shells out $2,500 per hour for speech from trans activist</a> by <a href="https://www.scribd.com/user/289329148/Campus-Reform#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Campus Reform's profile on Scribd">Campus Reform</a> on Scribd<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" title="UW-La Crosse shells out $2,500 per hour for speech from trans activist" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/502069095/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-Jleq25xDPrPjCSxp0Us2" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.75" scrolling="no" id="doc_35937" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16980" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16980" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16980" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: While universities nationwide seek to erase history, Rutgers is taking a different approach]</a> According to the university&rsquo;s Pride Center, Vaid-Menon<a href="https://mtouch.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3557427614384292&id=234522890008131" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;told</a> students that &ldquo;true freedom isn&rsquo;t choosing from pre-selected, societally-accepted options, but writing in your own option for who you are.&rdquo; &ldquo;Transness is strength and the trans community is powerful,&rdquo; he also said. Months earlier, the University of Wisconsin-Madison paid Robin DiAngelo &mdash; the author of bestselling critical race theory book White Fragility &mdash; $12,750 for a two-day speaking event. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16393" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16393" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University pays $12,750 for author of &lsquo;White Fragility&rsquo; to speak on campus, pays Black speaker thousands less]</a> Campus Reform reached out to the University of Wisconsin La-Crosse for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The activist told students that “true freedom isn’t choosing from pre-selected, societally-accepted options, but writing in your own option for who you are.”

EXCLUSIVE: UW-La Crosse shells out $5,000 for speech from transgender activist

Georgetown University donated $1 million to a Jesuit racial healing initiative.According to an <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-continues-support-as-jesuits-descendants-of-enslaved-form-foundation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcement</a> from Georgetown President John DeGioia, Georgetown committed $1 million to &ldquo;support the planning and technical work necessary&rdquo; to create the Descendants Truth &amp; Reconciliation Foundation, a newly-formed Jesuit nonprofit.Georgetown also &ldquo;committed to contributing $400,000 a year&rdquo; to a &ldquo;reconciliation fund to support work to benefit the Descendant community.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17037" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Race-based COVID vaccine distribution is needed, profs say, because US is racist]</a>According to its website, the Descendants Truth &amp; Reconciliation Foundation is <a href="https://www.descendants.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">seeking</a> to &ldquo;mitigate the dehumanizing impact of racism on our human family while dismantling the continuing legacy of slavery in America through truth, racial healing and transformation.&rdquo;&nbsp;It seeks to aid the descendants of slaves allegedly exploited by Jesuits.As The New York Times originally reported, the organization pledges to <a href="https://www.descendants.org/news" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">give</a>&nbsp;$100 million toward educational initiatives and <a href="https://www.descendants.org/what-we-do" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">support</a> for elderly descendants.Georgetown students and faculty have long called for and implemented initiatives to atone for the school&rsquo;s involvement in slavery.In 2019, Georgetown students approved a fee of $27.20 per semester to support GU272 &mdash; a coalition representing the slaves sold by Georgetown in 1838. The move &mdash; upon which Georgetown&rsquo;s $400,000 annual contribution is based &mdash; was one of the first reparations initiatives from an American university.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12094" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: IT&#39;S OFFICIAL: Georgetown students approve mandatory reparations fee (UPDATED)]</a>More recently &mdash; especially since the death of George Floyd in May of 2020 &mdash; universities accelerated their pushes toward reparations funds.As Campus Reform reported, Macalester College&rsquo;s student government approved &ldquo;care packages&rdquo; to students, with a &quot;priority given to students identifying as Black.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Macalester College student gov approves &lsquo;care packages&#39; with &#39;priority&#39; for Black students]</a>Campus Reform also reported that President Joe Biden has surrounded himself with former academics who have written in favor of racial reparations.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16894" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Press Sec says Biden may consider reparations policies. What will former academics in his circle advise?]</a>In March, students at Brown University voted in favor of reparations for descendants of slaves, as Campus Reform reported.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Though Georgetown has a long history of approving racial healing policies, more recently — especially after George Floyd’s death — campus leftists ramped up their pushes toward reparations funds.

Georgetown shells out $1M  for racial equity

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Chicago students reveal plan to counter 'the mobs' crusade' against conservatives

In an<a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/illinois-professor-threatens-to-fail-conservative-student-tells-class-trump-is-pathological-liar/?fbclid=IwAR2xzDTX6i-ikqXFGPCSkAuk5q5cADmQCfc5Uowk97TBfd-4zsAPPwv9gBI" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;email</a> sent to students, Illinois Central College History Professor Troy Daugherty offered students a variety of options to write about for a research paper on President Donald Trump. Among the topics listed were &ldquo;pathological liar, beauty pageants, sexual predator, and Stormy Daniels.&quot; Daugherty also suggested books for students to read, including from John Bolton, James Comey, and Mary Trump, all of which were negative books about President Trump.Now, the college is &quot;actively investigating&quot; the allegations, a spokesperson told Campus Reform.&nbsp;The<a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/illinois-professor-threatens-to-fail-conservative-student-tells-class-trump-is-pathological-liar/?fbclid=IwAR2xzDTX6i-ikqXFGPCSkAuk5q5cADmQCfc5Uowk97TBfd-4zsAPPwv9gBI" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;homework assignment</a> that Daugherty assigned to students was to either write a 5-7 page research paper or book review. He allowed students to choose their exact topic, so long as it had to do with the incumbent president.&nbsp;&ldquo;This year is an election year, so you will be either doing a book review on a book dealing with Donald J. Trump or a research paper on some aspect of Donald J. Trump,&quot; the professor instructed students, according to a screenshot obtained by Young America&#39;s Foundation.&nbsp;Daugherty went on to say that he is currently reading The Room Where it Happened by John Bolton and that &ldquo;it is fascinating and confirms for anyone interested that Donald J. Trump is not<a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/illinois-professor-threatens-to-fail-conservative-student-tells-class-trump-is-pathological-liar/?fbclid=IwAR2xzDTX6i-ikqXFGPCSkAuk5q5cADmQCfc5Uowk97TBfd-4zsAPPwv9gBI" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;fit for the office of the Presidency.&rdquo;</a>&nbsp;He went on to list authors and titles of books, all of them about Trump being corrupt, dangerous, and not fit for office.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15801" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Vanderbilt class of 800+ students forced to choose between calling Constitution racist or losing grade points]</a>The professor explained the option of writing a research paper on Trump,<a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/illinois-professor-threatens-to-fail-conservative-student-tells-class-trump-is-pathological-liar/?fbclid=IwAR2xzDTX6i-ikqXFGPCSkAuk5q5cADmQCfc5Uowk97TBfd-4zsAPPwv9gBI" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;listing potential topics</a>: &nbsp;&quot;Donald J. Trump and Immigration policy, or pathological liar, or Middle East Policy, or 2017 Tax Reform, or Beauty Pageants, or Sexual Predator, or Stormy Daniels, or Impeachment...&quot;&nbsp;He also gave students the option to write about Trump&#39;s &quot;Post Office Scandal.&quot;&nbsp;A student emailed Daugherty expressing concern that writing the research paper expressing a differing opinion would affect their grade.&nbsp;&ldquo;I realize that we are going to have differing opinions, which is okay. I am willing to listen to other views, but I know that we will disagree on many topics&hellip;&rdquo; the student wrote in the email to Daugherty.<a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/illinois-professor-threatens-to-fail-conservative-student-tells-class-trump-is-pathological-liar/?fbclid=IwAR2xzDTX6i-ikqXFGPCSkAuk5q5cADmQCfc5Uowk97TBfd-4zsAPPwv9gBI" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;</a>&ldquo;I am wondering if our differences will affect my grade in class,&quot; the student inquired.The student went on to say that the topic he chose is Trump&rsquo;s view on abortion, hoping that differences could be set aside.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15823" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Trump impeachment witness joins UPenn as visiting fellow]</a>Daugherty<a href="https://www.yaf.org/news/illinois-professor-threatens-to-fail-conservative-student-tells-class-trump-is-pathological-liar/?fbclid=IwAR2xzDTX6i-ikqXFGPCSkAuk5q5cADmQCfc5Uowk97TBfd-4zsAPPwv9gBI" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;responded</a> in an email saying that he approved of the topic, but to make sure that the student is, &ldquo;&hellip;truly writing about his personal view and his political view.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.pjstar.com/news/20200904/icc-professorrsquos-assignment-highlighted-on-conservative-website-was-lsquoinconsistentrsquo-with-school-values" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;</a>&quot;Know his history, be wide-eyed, and recognize what he has personally done in his own life relative to his current political stance and how even that has changed, the professor wrote. <a href="https://www.pjstar.com/news/20200904/icc-professorrsquos-assignment-highlighted-on-conservative-website-was-lsquoinconsistentrsquo-with-school-values" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">At the end of the email</a> Daugherty stated, &ldquo;If you simply recite his political view espoused for political reasons and fail to dig deeper, you will get an F. Do you understand?&rdquo;In a<a href="https://www.pjstar.com/news/20200904/icc-professorrsquos-assignment-highlighted-on-conservative-website-was-lsquoinconsistentrsquo-with-school-values" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;statement</a> to a local news outlet, ICC said, &ldquo;While the professor&rsquo;s published grading rubric establishes unbiased criteria for grading, the assignment was presented in a manner that presents a biased approach.&rdquo; They go on to say, &ldquo;Presentation of a biased approach, of any sort, is inconsistent with the free exchange of ideas we promote and is not condoned by the college. This serves as a great reminder to us all to practice etiquette regarding political preferences and beliefs.&rdquo;Daugherty has also gone viral on social media for a video in which he discusses why America isn&rsquo;t a great country, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/professor-who-threatened-to-fail-student-for-not-trashing-trump-is-now-plagiarizing-aaron-sorkin-in-class/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">reciting&nbsp;</a>lines from the HBO series The Newsroom.&ldquo;ICC was recently made aware of certain claims related to academic integrity. As an institution of higher learning, ICC takes any such claims seriously and is actively investigating this matter. Thank you,&quot; ICC told Campus Reform.Daugherty did not respond to a request for comment in time for publication. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/mn_turn" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@mn_turn</a>

An Illinois history professor encouraged students to submit a 5-7 page paper on Trump, offering them a variety of potential topics.

College investigates prof who encouraged students to write about 'pathological liar,' 'sexual predator' Donald Trump

A communist-linked group descended outside an appearance by the president&rsquo;s son earlier in November at the University of California-Los Angeles. The event required heavy security to ensure that the confrontation did not become violent.On Nov. 10, the Turning Point USA chapter at UCLA hosted Donald Trump Jr. and TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk. The event was accompanied by protesters with &quot;Refuse Fascism.&quot; The &ldquo;Revolutionary Communists&quot; published a post on its website Nov. 12, promoting the Nov. 10 protests by &quot;Refuse Fascism&quot; at UCLA, along with photos of the same demonstration that Campus Reform attended. &nbsp;The Revolutionary Communists also has on its website a link to Refuse Fascism&#39;s website under &quot;What you can do now.&quot;While the protesters waved &ldquo;Trump/Pence Must Go&rdquo; signs, hundreds of attendees lined up at the gates with &ldquo;Make America Great Again&rdquo; hats.&nbsp;The event was secured by heavily-guarded campus security, ensuring that the protesters did not engage with the attendees physically. &nbsp;During the event, Donald Trump Jr. introduced his recently released book Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14008" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: &nbsp;VIDEO: Two arrested after &#39;Antifa&#39; shuts down campus conservative event]</a> <center><iframe width="950" height="666" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5IaBRRLipjY" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>&nbsp; &nbsp;The stated goal of <a href="https://revcom.us/rcp/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA</a> is to &quot;overthrow&quot; the current U.S. government through a revolution and replace it with a new system of government.Protesters organized members at the front door of UCLA&rsquo;s Moore Hall. Many protesters told Campus Reform that they were not UCLA students. &nbsp;&nbsp;The audience members attended this event expecting the potential backlash from the left-wing groups who disagreed with Trump. Gregg Donovan, a Hollywood tour guide, told Campus Reform that &ldquo;I am used to this [protest], I see it a lot in Hollywood as well. The [Donald Trump] star, when they demolished it, I was the one guarding it.&quot; &nbsp;&nbsp;Some others found it surprising that the event received extreme reactions from far-left groups from outside of campus. Orange County TPUSA Ambassador Sara Rodriguez stated that she came all the way to UCLA to support Trump Jr.&rsquo;s new book and to see Kirk. &nbsp; &nbsp;&ldquo;This is the first time I&rsquo;ve seen the protest so it is a little overwhelming to me,&rdquo; she told Campus Reform. &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=14000" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: VIDEO: Leftists taunt conservative students]</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;&ldquo;Everybody has the right to their opinion and I feel compassionate toward them because it is hard to feel a certain way and not be heard but I am not sure if they are willing to sit down and actually have a conversation instead of having chaos,&rdquo; Rodriguez said. &ldquo;But they have to understand that we are all here for our country and once our rights are gone their rights are gone. We are here for everybody.&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;They don&rsquo;t want to have a conversation and they don&rsquo;t want to talk. They just want to create violence,&rdquo; UCLA alumna Mina Ghorbani, told Campus Reform, adding &ldquo;How are you going to fix something if you are not willing to have a conversation?&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;The protesters also showed their disdain toward UCLA administrators for giving Trump Jr. and Kirk a platform. Protesters held signs with phrases like &ldquo;#100 years still racist&rdquo;, &ldquo;UCLA loves white supremacy&rdquo; and &ldquo;UCLA funds fascism&rdquo; signs. They also engaged with some of the attendees and verbally attacked them for attending the event. &nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14005" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Campus Reform reporter &#39;mobbed&#39; while covering protest]</a>&nbsp; &nbsp;Ralph Sun, a Chinese-American student from the University of Southern California and a member of College Republicans and Young Americans for Freedom said told Campus Reform that the protesters&rsquo; behavior was &ldquo;representative of the failed American college system.&rdquo; &nbsp;&nbsp;&ldquo;I go to college to get a job and be more open to views,&rdquo; Sun said. &ldquo;I think this is the whole point of college, to get more diverse opinions and just to have a broader representation of what is out there from the real world.&rdquo; Ghorbani also stated that &ldquo;L.A. is full of minorities who support [Trump]. It is great the event is at UCLA because it is one of the best schools.&quot; &nbsp;&nbsp;The Revolutionary Communists declined to comment.</center>

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Communist-linked group protests Donald Trump Jr., Charlie Kirk at UCLA

The University of Florida (UF) announced Donald Trump Jr., along with his girlfriend and adviser to the Trump campaign Kimberly Guilfoyle, will give a speech on campus through UF Student Government&rsquo;s ACCENT Speaker&rsquo;s Bureau.&nbsp;ACCENT, which <a href="https://www.sg.ufl.edu/accent" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">claims</a> to be the largest student-run speakers bureau in the country, paid the pair $50,000 for the speech, <a href="https://www.alligator.org/news/donald-trump-jr-and-kimberly-guilfoyle-to-speak-at-uf/article_7a075744-e495-11e9-aacb-ff1644218f3e.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">according</a> to the Independent Student Alligator newspaper.Student reaction to the announcement compared Trump Jr.&rsquo;s speech to Richard Spencer&rsquo;s speech on campus two years ago. Spencer, a noted white nationalist, paid to rent space on UF&rsquo;s campus for a speech. As a public institution, UF could not <a href="https://news.ufl.edu/for-media/media-advisories/archive/2017/10/national-policy-institutes-richard-spencer-speech-confirmed-for-oc.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">prevent</a> Spencer from speaking.&nbsp;Students on Facebook claimed that by inviting Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle, students were funding &ldquo;blatant corruption&rdquo; with their student fees. Many also referred to the pair as &ldquo;racists.&rdquo;&nbsp;In just a few hours after the announcement, students also announced a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1100852060118682/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">protest</a> of the event. More than 300 people have marked that they will attend the protest on Facebook, at the time of press. Exclusive images of a private Facebook group obtained by Campus Reform also show that students privately discussed heckling and drowning out Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle&rsquo;s speech.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11998" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: At UF, squelching conservative speech is routine (OPINION)]</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/13817/1570204288312.jpg" style="width: 500px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">Some have suggested hoarding tickets to the event to prevent others from going.&nbsp;One student, Minh Nguyen, sarcastically wrote &ldquo;wouldn&rsquo;t it be terrible if a large group of people reserved these free tickets and then didn&rsquo;t go so there would be a whole bunch of empty seats? That would really suck if people did that.&rdquo;Similarly, Chelsea Dexter called on students to &ldquo;get in there and drown them out!&rdquo; UF staff member <a href="https://directory.ufl.edu/indv/?f=Cory&l=Watson&e=corywatson%40ufl.edu&g=corywatson&a=staff" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Cory Watson</a> also called on students to obtain tickets and then throw them away.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/13817/1570201133810.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/13817/1570201171379.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">In another set of images obtained by Campus Reform, UF College Democrats privately discussed heckling the speech. One member even asked the group whether anyone was &ldquo;down to get body tackled by Secret Service,&rdquo; apparently suggesting protesting to the point of getting the attention of Secret Service.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/13817/1570204214824.jpg" style="width: 500px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">College Democrats signed onto a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/100002643245806/posts/2398733286891423?sfns=mo" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">resolution</a> written by some members of student government that condemns Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle&rsquo;s speech. The resolution criticizes the pair&rsquo;s &ldquo;hateful, bigoted, and offensive beliefs.&rdquo;UF&rsquo;s student newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator, also expressed student frustration to Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle&rsquo;s speech. An <a href="https://www.alligator.org/opinion/accent-speakers-bureau-s-conservative-bias/article_69dbb7ca-e652-11e9-8048-7ffd3b5d9229.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">op-ed</a> accused ACCENT of harboring &ldquo;conservative bias&rdquo; for speakers, and suggested Trump Jr. should not have been invited to campus because he &ldquo;has little to sell in the marketplace of ideas&rdquo; and because &ldquo;no one would ever mistake him for being an intellectual.&rdquo; A letter to the editor <a href="https://www.alligator.org/opinion/letter-to-the-editor-a-conversation-i-wish-i-had/article_90e76050-e650-11e9-9c91-df8bdfc8b80f.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">criticized</a> ACCENT for inviting a &ldquo;hatemonger,&rdquo; but offered no explanation of how Trump Jr. fit that description.&nbsp;ACCENT <a href="https://www.wcjb.com/content/news/Donald-Trump-Jr-K-562140551.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">defended</a> its decision to invite Trump Jr. and Guilfoyle in a statement.&nbsp;&ldquo;Both speakers provide varying viewpoints and provide an opportunity for students to engage in thought-provoking dialogue and civil discourse,&rdquo; the statement read. &ldquo;At ACCENT, we respect every student&#39;s opinion, and part of our mission is to engage the UF campus community in discussions on important issues by bringing prominent, influential, and, oftentimes, controversial speakers to campus.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11681" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Conservatives sue Univ. of Fla. over mandatory student fees]</a>UF also <a href="http://statements.ufl.edu/statements/2019/october/university-statement-on-oct-10-accent-speakers.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">issued</a> a statement about the event and welcomed the conservative pair to UF.&nbsp;&ldquo;For more than 50 years, ACCENT, the Student Government speakers bureau at the University of Florida, has selected and invited speakers to campus, and the University welcomes those speakers as its guest. Those speakers are paid with student activity fees, which are separate from tuition. This year, the invitation has been extended to Donald Trump, Jr., and Kimberly Guilfoyle and as with their predecessors, we will welcome them to campus.The school also reiterated its commitment to freedom of expression:&ldquo;The University, in its <a href="http://statements.ufl.edu/statements/2019/october/university-statement-on-oct-10-accent-speakers.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">statement on freedom of expression</a>, has committed itself to ensuring that a wide variety of viewpoints are heard on campus as well as to protecting the First Amendment rights of all those in attendance. The University believes it is an essential component of its academic mission to foster an environment where divergent ideas, opinions and philosophies, new and old, can be rigorously discussed and critically evaluated.&rdquo;The statement also called for respectful protest that is &ldquo;civil&rdquo; and that &ldquo;does not stifle the open expression of the opposing ideas.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Such challenges must not interfere with speakers&rsquo; ability to speak or with their audience&rsquo;s ability to hear the speakers.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to UF and ACCENT for comment but received no response in time for publication.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/eduneret" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@eduneret</a>

The University of Florida announced Donald Trump Jr. and his girlfriend and adviser to the Trump campaign Kimberly Guilfoyle would be speaking on campus in early October.

EXCLUSIVE: UF students plot to silence Donald Trump Jr., Kimberly Guilfoyle in leaked messages

A shocking new video shows a Western Washington University student screaming for at least two-minutes straight after seeing a Donald Trump sign on campus.
According to a video of the incident obtained by Campus Reform, an unknown student reacted to a street preacher&rsquo;s pro-Trump sign by spiraling into a two-minute fit, at some points even splattering paint on the ground in an apparent attempt at artistic protest.
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At certain points throughout the video, passers-by stop to ask the woman if she&rsquo;s alright, to which she seems to indicate that she&rsquo;s screaming as a form of protest.
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7528">[RELATED: UMass Amherst student throw temper tantrum at free-speech event] </a>
&ldquo;Right here on the Western Washington campus, she&rsquo;s going nuts with a Trump sign&mdash;she doesn&rsquo;t like the Trump sign. She&rsquo;s anti-Trump,&rdquo; preacher Eric Bostrom can be heard explaining in the video, holding a sign that reads &ldquo;Trump: Borders, Laws, Jobs, Liberty, USA,&rdquo; and another intentionally-obtrusive sign containing shocking bible verses about judgement.
In the video, Bostrom claims that the woman screaming is &ldquo;an art major,&rdquo; and at one point in the video another woman who appears to be an administrator runs into the shot to ask the student if she is alright, to which the student replies &ldquo;call the police, bitch.&rdquo;
Campus Reform reached out to the school for more information on the incident, and is currently awaiting a response.
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VIDEO: Student freaks out at Donald Trump sign on campus

Rapper YG, infamous for his popular song &ldquo;Fuck Donald Trump,&rdquo; was paid $60,000 to perform at a San Diego State University festival celebrating diversity.
SDSU Associated Students hosts an annual event called <a href="https://as.sdsu.edu/greenfest/about.php">GreenFest</a>, which features numerous events and initiatives that &ldquo;encourage, celebrate, and advocate for sustainability, SDSU Pride, and diversity.&rdquo;
This year, YG was invited to headline the annual GreenFest concert, and students cheered and sang along when he played &ldquo;Fuck Donald Trump,&rdquo; reports <a href="http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/entertainment/music/sd-me-music-sdsu-rapper-20170306-story.html">The San Diego Union-Tribune</a>.
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8152">[RELATED: Ray LaMontagne cancels UT show over campus carry &lsquo;concerns&rsquo;]</a>
The school denied <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7710263/yg-performs-fdt-san-diego-state-university-video">initial reports</a> that YG&rsquo;s $60,000 contract contained a clause forbidding him from playing the song, though this did not stop his fans from praising him as a First Amendment hero on social media.
&ldquo;At SDSU's GreenFest concert this weekend, the song in question was played by YG and he was paid for his performance that evening,&rdquo; SDSU Interim Chief Communications Officer Gina Jacobs told the Union-Tribune.
According to an anonymous source familiar with the event, SDSU Associated Students initially asked YG not to play the song, but caved when YG objected to the request, perhaps fueling the rumors about the contract.
<a href="../?ID=8718">[RELATED: OU Student Union: &lsquo;Trump does not deserve our respect&rsquo;]</a>
Confusion also arose because several students took to social media to praise YG for playing the song, apparently convinced that he was forfeiting the $60,000 by doing so.
Campus Reform reached out to SDSU and GreenFest to clarify how the concert was funded, but did not receive a response by press time.
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The school denies that any such stipulation was ever part of the contract, however, and an anonymous source claims the clause was merely a request from student government that was later dropped.

SDSU pays $60,000 for “F--- Donald Trump” rapper

The University of Central Florida Knights for Socialism beat effigies of President Trump, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, and presidential adviser Steve Bannon at its &ldquo;Whack-a-Trump&rdquo; event Friday.
Video footage of the festivities <a href="http://eastorlandopost.com/ucf-socialist-club-incites-young-kids-kill-donald-trump" >obtained by the East Orlando Post</a> shows students screaming violent profanities and encouraging elementary- and middle school-aged children to join them.
<a href="../?ID=8752" >[RELATED: Socialist group at UCF plans &lsquo;Whack-a-Trump Pinata&rsquo; event]</a>
&ldquo;Punch his ass!&rdquo; one student screams while another takes a swing at the pinata, eliciting cheers from the crowd with every impact.
At one point, following a number of fruitless efforts to attract participants, a small group of minors walks by the event, and members of the Knights for Socialism blindfold one child. Just before he swings at the pinata, though, a chaperone realizes what is going on and demands that the child take the blindfold off and not participate.
Later, a larger group of school children approaches, surrounding the pinata and cheering while one child asks, &ldquo;Can I hit Donald Trump?&rdquo;
<a href="../?ID=8741" >[RELATED: &lsquo;Leftist Fight Club&rsquo; trains UCF students to fight Republicans]</a>
Knights for Socialism President Dylan Tyler claims that his organization is not negative and is completely welcoming, <a href="http://knightnews.com/2017/02/knights-for-socialism-hold-whack-a-trump-pinata-event/" >telling Knight News</a> that &ldquo;There&rsquo;s been no negativity by any means but definitely a lot of interest and a lot of good conversations with people.&rdquo;
In the video, however, Tyler can be heard yelling, &ldquo;Come beat Pete Sessions' face in!&rdquo;
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The UCF College Republicans aren't thrilled about the Knights for Socialism&rsquo;s radical behavior.
&ldquo;Bashing a pi&ntilde;ata of our president is an unnecessarily violent act as it was meant to provoke people and spark conflict,&rdquo; CR member Jarrett Cathcart told Campus Reform. &ldquo;Events like these add negatively to the already tense political climate in our country and on our campuses. What happened to, &lsquo;When they go low, we go high?&rsquo;&rdquo;
<a href="http://wwwt.campusreform.org/?ID=8747" >[RELATED: UCF socialist compares &lsquo;Leftist Fight Club&rsquo; to trapshooting]</a>
The video footage also shows a bearded man wearing an &ldquo;Antifa International&rdquo; sweatshirt. The Antifa movement, an abbreviation for &ldquo;anti-fascist,&rdquo; has been responsible for many of the recent violent rioting, both at Trump rallies and on college campuses like the University of California, Berkeley, which was recently <a href="../?ID=8729" >forced to cancel a Milo Yiannopoulos speech because violent rioters had seized the campus</a> to protest &ldquo;hate speech&rdquo; while breaking windows and shooting fireworks at police officers.
According to the East Orlando Post, a local news station recently reported that several parents had emailed UCF threatening to withdraw their children from the university if the Knights for Socialism group is not banned.
UCF officials, however, say the group is not an officially sanctioned student group and therefore has no formal relation to the university.
The &ldquo;Whack-a-Trump&rdquo; event comes just days after the Knights for Socialism held its controversial &ldquo;Leftist Fight Club&rdquo; training students (&ldquo;EXCEPT REPUBLICANS&rdquo;) to &ldquo;BASH THE FASH.&rdquo;
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Dylan Tyler, the group's president, claimed there was "no negativity by any means," but can be seen in the video telling, "Come beat Pete Sessions' face in!"

UCF socialist club urges young children to 'kill Donald Trump'

A student-body political coalition <a href="https://twitter.com/EMPOWER_UTC/status/715933532732985344" >swept a recent election</a> at the University of Tennessee of Chattanooga (UTC) and is now calling for the resignation of a senator because of her open support of Donald Trump.
Hailey Puckett, the senator in question, participated in a chalking campaign on her campus during which she and her peers scrawled pro-Trump messages on the sidewalks of UTC&rsquo;s campus.
&ldquo;Super proud of our art work, but I have a feeling half of UTC&rsquo;s campus is gonna hate it,&rdquo; she <a href="http://3o1vag3go95yqxhrk3yk15pv.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/12935405_1052410941484253_79235658_n-1.jpg" >posted to her Twitter</a>, predicting her future doom.
In response, a group known as &ldquo;Empower UTC&rdquo; issued a statement calling for Puckett&rsquo;s removal from her student government position.
&ldquo;Tonight we&rsquo;ve asked for Hailey Puckett&rsquo;s resignation from SGA because we realize that her values do not line up with the pillars we&rsquo;ve established ourselves on. We do not support bigotry or hatred or the messages spread by Donald Trump&rsquo;s ignorance,&rdquo; Empower UTC posted to its Twitter page.
Notably, several members of Empower UTC campaigned for seats on the student government, including the position of president, and won.
The new student-body president, Phillip Stubblefield, later <a href="https://twitter.com/EMPOWERPhillip" >tweeted </a>Empower UTC&rsquo;s call for Puckett&rsquo;s resignation, expressing his support for the motion.
&ldquo;We do not support the mission of those who wish to spread that ignorance. We do not support those who bask in that ignorance. We promised to represent you, and by you we mean everyone,&rdquo; the statement continues.
But writers of the statement then make an exception to their rule, saying they are not required to represent Trump supporters and even ask their fellow students to refrain from forgiving Puckett.
&ldquo;We will not, however, represent those who support the oppression of others. We do not ask that you forgive or forget her actions, but that you start conversations,&rdquo; writers of the statement said before adding, &ldquo;We ask that you spread messages of love and inclusion to everyone you encounter.&rdquo;
Stubblefield&rsquo;s vice president and treasurer also expressed their support for Puckett&rsquo;s impeachment on twitter.
UTC&rsquo;s student government released a statement Wednesday stating that it would not entertain calls for Puckett&rsquo;s resignation.
&ldquo;To clarify confusion regarding the call for resignation of a newly elected senator, the UTC SGA has not asked the senator-elect to resign from next year&rsquo;s 2016-2017 senate,&rdquo; the student government wrote in <a href="https://twitter.com/UTCSGA/status/717763267381354497" >its statement</a>.
Campus Reform reached out to Stubblefield to ask if he thinks it is right to call for the resignation of a senator solely because of her political views but no response was received in time for publication.
(<a href="http://hypeline.org/student-senator-called-to-resign-over-chalking/" >H/T: Hypeline</a>)
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Student senator being asked to resign for supporting Donald Trump 

Marxist feminist Sharon Smith told students at the University of Maryland last week that &ldquo;family values&rdquo; are really just the way that capitalism perpetuates sexism.
Addressing members of the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/UMDsocialists/" >International Socialist Organization</a> (ISO) student group last Friday as part of a book tour for the new edition of <a href="http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Women-and-Socialism-Revised-and-Updated-Edition" >Women and Socialism: Class, Race and Capital</a>, Smith asserted that she need only say the words &ldquo;Donald Trump&rdquo; to prove that modern society promotes &ldquo;rape culture and porn culture, as well as generalized misogyny,&rdquo; a condition she described as symptomatic of the capitalist system.
&ldquo;I want to be able to assume, first of all, that everybody here already stands with Planned Parenthood and believes in the right of women to abort,&rdquo; she began, setting the tone for the rest of the speech. &ldquo;Secondly, I want to make sure that the people in this room are already fed up with the never-ending victim-shaming and slut-shaming that substitutes itself for discourse about sexual assault and rape today.&rdquo;
Smith mentioned advertising as one of the ways that capitalism promotes sexist stereotypes, for instance by suggesting that women must become wives and mothers in order to achieve fulfillment, a point she illustrated by asking, &ldquo;have you ever seen a TV commercial showing a man scrubbing a toilet, smiling and delighted at how clean his toilet is?&rdquo;
Smith noted that Marxists like herself believe &ldquo;all women are considered inferior&mdash;second-class citizens&mdash;because of the rigid gender roles that are imposed by the nuclear family,&rdquo; which she defines derisively as &ldquo;a strong and stoic male breadwinner, who of course is the head of the household, and a subservient nurturing female homemaker enthusiastically devoting her life to housework and childcare, and together they live in holy matrimony.&rdquo;
That stereotype, she claimed, is &ldquo;what politicians mean when they talk about &lsquo;family values&rsquo; as a justification, for example, in most recent years for opposing same-sex marriage or justifying a tax on contraception and abortion, or when they talk about forcible rape as if there&rsquo;s any such thing as non-forcible rape.&rdquo;
Smith then went on to argue that capitalism is the reason society continues to adhere to family values, asserting that, &ldquo;for capitalists, this is a cheap way of reproducing labor power for them,&rdquo; and referring to normal household chores as &ldquo;unpaid domestic labor&rdquo; that capitalist societies exploit for profit.
&ldquo;Family values are intended to shore up that traditional nuclear family ideal,&rdquo; she elaborated. &ldquo;What it does in practice is it requires working-class women, whether or not they work outside the home, to be the ones who are mainly responsible for all the unpaid domestic labor that families need to keep going.&rdquo;
Smith then criticized corporate institutions for assuming that all women have a male spouse or partner to provide financial support, saying this creates a situation in which single mothers are forced into poverty but still expected to care for their children.
&ldquo;All corporate and government institutions assume that every mother has a male breadwinner providing for her and her children, and that&rsquo;s how corporations systematically justify paying women lower wages in the workforce and why so many single mothers today are living with their children in poverty,&rdquo; Smith said.
At that point, she finally made the case for socialism as a more humane alternative, contending that &ldquo;socialism is based on fulfilling human needs instead of the never-ending quest for profits that drives a capitalist system.&rdquo;
In defense of her much-maligned ideology, she argued that socialism does not mean what the &ldquo;right wingers&rdquo; claim it does&mdash;&ldquo;forcing people into army barracks or whatever&rdquo;&mdash;but then proceeds to outline a rather authoritarian vision of socialist rhetoric, saying, &ldquo;when we say, for an example, &lsquo;the traditional hetersexual, nuclear family should disappear,&rsquo; we mean that economic unit for reproducing labor in society.&rdquo;
After Smith&rsquo;s lecture, the ISO handed out copies of the <a href="http://socialistworker.org" >Socialist Worker</a>, a weekly socialist tabloid, which featured headlines such as &ldquo;They fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate&rdquo; and &ldquo;Who supports this racist asshole?&rdquo; in reference to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Bill O'Reilly.
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