The University of Pennsylvania pledged to make its endowment portfolio carbon neutral by 2050. Many students, however, are criticizing school officials for not entirely divesting from fossil fuels.&nbsp;On April 7, administrators sent a message to the Penn community explaining that the school&rsquo;s Office of Investments &ldquo;has established the goal of reducing the net greenhouse gas emissions from Penn&rsquo;s endowment investments to zero by 2050&rdquo; in accordance with the 2015 Paris Agreement.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17163" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford student gov passes &#39;carbon pricing&#39; climate resolution]</a>&ldquo;We expect that progress toward the endowment&rsquo;s net-zero goal will occur both through emissions reductions at the many hundreds of companies in which the endowment is invested, as well as through the redeployment of capital towards investments with low or improving carbon footprints,&rdquo; the email said. &ldquo;Any residual emissions across the endowment&rsquo;s holdings would need to be offset, ideally through investments in enterprises that remove carbon from the atmosphere.&rdquo;The university is taking great pains to calculate and measure its investments&rsquo; encouragement of greenhouse gas emissions.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17064" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Rutgers submits to climate activists&#39; demands]</a>As the email explains, &ldquo;this is a complex undertaking, and achievement of our goal will require significant efforts across many fronts.&rdquo; The Office of Investments &ldquo;anticipates collaborating with Penn faculty experts, with organizations developing frameworks and accounting standards, and with other institutional investors who have similar goals.&rdquo;Students quickly released a statement declaring that the university ought to be more aggressive.The Student Sustainability Association at Penn &mdash; an &ldquo;umbrella sustainability community&rdquo; incorporating twelve undergraduate activism groups &mdash; doubled down on its demand for Penn to reach carbon neutrality in its endowment by 2025.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17322ymysbnScreenShotat.39" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&ldquo;A commitment to net zero by 2050 is a commitment to the status quo,&rdquo; the students declared on Instagram, &quot;In fact, Penn&rsquo;s failure to even mention the word &lsquo;divestment&rsquo; highlights how woefully inadequate this plan is in meeting the urgency of the climate crisis.&ldquo;Net zero is NOT divestment.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16935" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Penn requires all sophomores to shell out for expensive dining plan &ndash; whether they need it or not]</a>The students promised to &ldquo;host events furthering [sic] demonstrating divestment&rsquo;s role in the constructive climate solutions conversation&quot; and blamed the university for &ldquo;greenwashing&rdquo; under the guise of &ldquo;a bold act of leadership.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to the Student Sustainability Association and the University of Pennsylvania for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Student activists demanded that the change occur by 2025 — four years from now.

Penn commits to net zero emissions by 2050. Leftist students want it within four years.

Stanford University suspended several COVID-19 restrictions to host a parade celebrating 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;">recent championship victory of the women&rsquo;s basketball team.Over 100 people, including University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell, attended the event on April 5, according to a report by <a href="https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/04/06/university-hosts-parade-to-celebrate-womens-basketball-victory/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Stanford Daily</a>.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16105" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard epidemiologist in Chinese dictator hat wants &#39;accountability&#39; for anti-lockdown academics]</a>Prior to the event, students were sent an email permitting them to &ldquo;attend the parade, per special approval from the Office of Student Affairs.&rdquo;School officials did ask students to &ldquo;observe existing campus COVID-19 protocols, including wearing a mask at all times and maintaining appropriate social distance,&rdquo; but photos taken by The Stanford Daily&nbsp;show Tessier-Lavigne and Drell within close proximity to others.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17168" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: A Stanford researcher was recently indicted for China ties. As new China center opens, has Stanford learned its lesson?]</a>Under the university&rsquo;s policies outlining &ldquo;<a href="https://reapproaching.stanford.edu/news/undergraduate-faq-spring-2021#restricted" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">restricted activity</a>&rdquo; &mdash; to which all undergraduates on campus were bound at the time&mdash; students were barred from leaving their residences except for &ldquo;twice weekly testing with Verily, for medical care, to pick-up meals if you have a Stanford Dining meal plan or if you have groceries or prepared food delivered and solo outdoor exercise.&rdquo;&nbsp;Although Stanford University&rsquo;s current reopening policies say the school &ldquo;will not proceed ahead of the county or state relaxation of social distancing requirements,&rdquo; throwing a parade ignored Santa Clara County &lsquo;s <a href="https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-03-23-2021-Santa-Clara-County-moves-to-orange-tier.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">directive</a> to &ldquo;avoid crowds.&rdquo; There is, however, no specific <a href="https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-officer-10-05-20.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">limit</a> on outdoor event capacity.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17171" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford profs, including Antifa apologist, want investigation into Hoover Institution]</a>Campus Reform reached out to Stanford University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Santa Clara County recommends that residents “avoid crowds.”

Stanford officially suspends COVID restrictions for... basketball parade?

An unknown individual hacked the website of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill&rsquo;s conservative student newspaper. As the<a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/hacker-erases-unc-conservative-student-publications-website/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Washington Free Beacon&nbsp;</a>reported, the hacker erased hundreds of articles from the website of the <a href="http://carolinareviewonline.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carolina Review</a> on April 28, leaving only a note under the name of editor-in-chief Bryson Piscitelli that read: &ldquo;nazi scum fuck off.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17420" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17420" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17420" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Minnesota student leader: make life &lsquo;hell&rsquo; for campus cops]</a> Hours earlier, someone had scrawled the word &ldquo;racist&rdquo; on a Carolina Review distribution box on campus. Piscitelli said on Twitter that the publication &ldquo;is stronger than it has been in 28 years of publication and will not be intimidated by these destructive, illegal attacks.&rdquo; &nbsp;<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Thank you to the <a href="https://twitter.com/FreeBeacon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FreeBeacon</a> for picking up on this story. Our publication is stronger than it has been in 28 years of publication and will not be intimidated by these destructive, illegal attacks. We&rsquo;ll rebuild our site. Our boxes will distribute the newest magazine as planned. <a href="https://t.co/c2O8H5I02J">https://t.co/c2O8H5I02J</a>&mdash; Bryson Piscitelli (@realbpiscitelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/realbpiscitelli/status/1388181131229638660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2021</a></blockquote> UNC-Chapel Hill publicly condemned the hack. According to a statement posted to Twitter, the university &ldquo;condemns vandalism and rhetoric that discourages students from speaking freely on campus.&rdquo; <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Earlier this week, the <a href="https://twitter.com/CarolinaReview?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@CarolinaReview</a>&rsquo;s website was hacked, its content vandalized, and vile language was left as digital graffiti. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UNC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UNC</a> condemns vandalism and rhetoric that discourages students from speaking freely on campus. 1/2&mdash; UNC-Chapel Hill (@UNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNC/status/1388256403819835394?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2021 </a></blockquote> The university added that it &ldquo;strives to foster an environment where everyone, regardless of identity, background or perspective, can enjoy their right to free expression,&rdquo; especially for members of the student press. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17394" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17394" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17394" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student paper opinion editor: &lsquo;spring break reminded me I can&rsquo;t trust white people&rsquo;]</a> &ldquo;Carolina&#39;s campus and community strives to be a place where everyone feels a sense of belonging and that their voice can be heard,&rdquo; stated UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz in another statement posted to Twitter. &ldquo;This is especially true for our student press. We condemn this vandalism.&rdquo; <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Carolina&#39;s campus and community strives to be a place where everyone feels a sense of belonging and that their voice can be heard. This is especially true for our student press. We condemn this vandalism. <a href="https://t.co/s9YGf7u6MC">https://t.co/s9YGf7u6MC</a>&mdash; Kevin Guskiewicz (@KevinGuskiewicz) <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinGuskiewicz/status/1388256875133685764?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2021</a></blockquote> Piscitelli told Guskiewicz that his comment &ldquo;means a lot to our staff, who are always fearful of reprisal for their work.&rdquo; <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Thank you chancellor. This means a lot to our staff, who are always fearful of reprisal for their work. We are proud to be part of one of the best student journalism environments in the nation in Chapel Hill. <a href="https://t.co/50wNru2NE6">https://t.co/50wNru2NE6</a>&mdash; Bryson Piscitelli (@realbpiscitelli) <a href="https://twitter.com/realbpiscitelli/status/1388267592331169797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2021</a></blockquote> &ldquo;The site is functional again, but in a shell of what it used to be,&rdquo; Piscitelli told Campus Reform. &ldquo;We had to rush to get things back up in time for our magazine release, so almost all of the magazine archives still haven&rsquo;t been replaced and we haven&rsquo;t been able to find backups for the years of articles lost.&rdquo; Piscitelli said that hundreds of articles have been lost. &ldquo;The UNC police have assigned an investigator and have so far been helpful to us although we haven&rsquo;t gotten any leads,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re not really anywhere closer to finding the perpetrator than the night of the attack.&rdquo; &ldquo;This stuff, where people try to intimidate us into shutting down, make our staff feel unsafe on campus, is unfortunately expected,&rdquo; noted Piscitelli. &ldquo;Many of the people at UNC enforce a culture of rabid political silencing and a quasi-religious crusade against anything to the right of FDR.&rdquo; &ldquo;They simply don&rsquo;t believe we have the right to exist and in fact believe the university should ban us for the crime of &lsquo;insensitivity&rsquo; or &lsquo;hateful&rsquo; speech, though any normal person reading our material would be absolutely shocked to consider it as such,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;The hypersensitivity of the student body is a serious problem. Nevertheless, we won&rsquo;t be silenced or intimidated and this is our most successful year in 28 years of publication.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to UNC-Chapel Hill 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 university publicly condemned the hacks in an affirmation of the conservative students’ right to free speech.

UNC conservative student newspaper HACKED, has hundreds of articles erased

Northwestern University is spending $4.5 million to upgrade &ldquo;Black House&rdquo; &mdash; its multicultural center for Black students.As described in <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/magazine/spring2011/campuslife/black_house.html#:~:text=Since%20the%20early%201970s%20the,April%20of%20that%20same%20year." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Northwestern Magazine</a>,&nbsp;students originally demanded the creation of a &quot;Black House&quot; in 1968 as &quot;a place to be used for social and recreational activities.&quot; At the time, Black students said that they had &quot;nothing at Northwestern to call our own.&quot;More than five decades later and in the wake of similar activism, Northwestern has <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/inclusion/reviews-and-reports/bh-renovation-pages/updates.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">nearly completed</a> the major renovation. The school allocated $4.5 million for the project, according to <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/education/it-is-a-refuge-for-our-black-students-northwestern-black-house-getting-$45m-facelift/6305371/?fbclid=IwAR2I1-uAPm6JAQxeqiEhqF0IjPW_KzcR7MPGil9e_VGjwA_hXjQbwgP3B4A" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ABC 7 News</a>.The renovations were conducted by GMA, a <a href="https://www.northwestern.edu/inclusion/reviews-and-reports/bh-renovation-pages/updates.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">construction company founded</a> by a Black Northwestern alumnus.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17079" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: ASU dean writes book alleging that grading students&rsquo; writing is &#39;white supremacy&#39;]</a> &quot;It is a refuge for our Black students, it is a space that Black students, Black alum fought for,&quot; said Lesley-Ann Brown Henderson, acting chief of staff for student affairs at Northwestern University, in an interview with <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/black-house-renovation-project-northwestern-45mil/6305371/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">ABC 7</a>.Henderson added that the cries for Black House&rsquo;s establishment in 1968 was much like &ldquo;the rally cries of Black lives matter that we&#39;re hearing today.&rdquo;As student newspaper <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/03/31/campus/university-announces-black-house-reopening-racial-justice-updates/" style="text-decoration:none;">The Daily Northwestern</a>&nbsp;reports, the school&rsquo;s administration is seeking to open the renovated center by June. According to an email sent to students, Black graduating seniors will receive attendance priority.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16816" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Kentucky promotes segregated &#39;racial healing circles&#39;]</a>&ldquo;As we look ahead to the spring &mdash; and as we approach the one-year mark of student, staff and faculty calls for change &mdash; we reaffirm our University-wide commitments to social justice,&rdquo; adds the email.Since the rapid growth and activity of of the Black Lives Matter movement in the summer of 2020, American colleges and universities have continually established campus centers intended specifically for individual racial affinity groups, thereby engaging in what critics call &ldquo;neo-segregation.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16544" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: UPenn diversity initiative is &#39;straightforward neo-segregation,&#39; critic says]</a>As Campus Reform recently reported, the University of Pennsylvania announced the opening of a &quot;permanent shared space for Black student-athletes&quot; on its campus.&nbsp;More recently, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17040" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Columbia University announced</a> that in addition to its main graduation, it would offer several segregated commencement ceremonies for particular racial and sexual groups.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17040">[RELATED: &#39;The endpoint of critical race theory&#39;: Columbia University faces backlash for segregated graduations]</a> Campus Reform has reached out to Northwestern University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.

This move comes as American academia establishes more cultural centers and engages in what experts call “neo-segregation.”

Northwestern drops $4.5 million to renovate its 'Black House'

A university administrator reportedly said that the terms <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;All Lives Matter,&rdquo; &ldquo;Back The Blue,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Blue Lives Matter&quot; are all &quot;white supremacist slogans&quot; when condemning a vandalism incident. In the middle of the night on March 10, the inside of WMU&rsquo;s Gilmore Theatre Complex was vandalized with spray-painted slogans. The three slogans which were spray-painted on the walls and on the floor read out, &ldquo;All Lives Matter,&rdquo; &ldquo;Back The Blue,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Blue Lives Matter.&rdquo; According to <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/local/vandals-paint-white-supremacy-slogans-inside-western-michigan-university-building" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WWMT</a>, <a href="https://wmich.edu/theatre/directory/herrington" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Herrington</a>, the university&rsquo;s theatre department chair, was the one of the first people discovered the vandalism. She declared that the slogans were &ldquo;inflammatory&rdquo; and &ldquo;white supremacist&rdquo; in a letter that she sent out to students. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15941" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &#39;Black Lives Matter&#39; altered to read &#39;All Lives Matter&#39;; UConn calls it an &#39;act of anti-Blackness&#39;]</a> Herrington&#39;s <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/498509749/WMU-Department-of-Theater-Chair-Joan-Herrington-Letter#from_embed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">message</a> to students also asserts that the vandalism was &ldquo;a crime against our community - a willful and shameful effort to cause injury and divide us,&quot; adding, &quot;We will take this as a crucial reminder of the work that must be done to dismantle the racism embedded in our world.&rdquo; WWMT reports that Western spokesperson Paula Davis confirmed the phrases in question, and said &quot;We don&rsquo;t know the intention of this person, but we know the background of how that term is frequently used.&quot; Following the incident, the university even went as far as bringing in counsellors to help students mentally process what happened. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15809" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students call for &#39;immediate firing&#39; of prof who casually observed Back the Blue rally]</a> Meghan Corbett, a senior at WMU described the vandalism as &ldquo;absolutely unacceptable&quot; when speaking to Campus Reform. &ldquo;Not only was this an act of vandalism, but it was also one rooted in hate against the BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) community. It&rsquo;s one thing to hold up a sign on the corner of a street supporting &#39;All Lives&#39; and &#39;Blue Lives,&#39; but it&rsquo;s another to make it permanent,&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;">Corbett said.&nbsp;&ldquo;It was an act of vandalism and it was an act of white supremacy whether you think it or not.&quot; Michael Loftin, also a senior at WMU, told Campus Reform that vandalism is &quot;not the way to go about&quot; disagreement. &ldquo;I feel like people should be able to express their opinions even if people disagree, but vandalizing is not the way to go about it,&rdquo; explained Loftin. Campus Reform reached out to Western Michigan University for comment, but did not receive a response.

A university administrator discovered that a building was vandalized with "white supremacist slogans."

WMU administrator reportedly calls 'Back the Blue' and 'All Lives Matter' slogans 'white supremacist'																									

A New York State Supreme Court judge has reversed Syracuse University&#39;s suspension of a fraternity who was initially punished because a guest yelled a racial slur after being at the fraternity house.According to <a href="https://www.syracuse.com/schools/2021/03/judge-rules-syracuse-university-frat-accused-of-racism-did-nothing-wrong-trashes-sus-suspension.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Syracuse.com</a>,&nbsp;when the fraternity, Alpha Chi Rho, was suspended in 2019, the chancellor for Syracuse University, Kent Syverud said that &quot;substantial evidence&quot; existed which proved that members and guests of the fraternity engaged in racist activities. Initially, the Syracuse University Appeals Board reversed the decision to suspend the fraternity, but their ruling was invalidated by E. Dolan Evanovich, SU&rsquo;s senior vice president of enrollment and the student experience <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14659" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Illinois fraternity fails social distancing test. It&#39;s now paying the price.]</a> However, New York Supreme Court Judge Scott DelConte said in his opinion that Syverud was wrong, and Alpha Chi Rho &quot;did nothing wrong.&quot; &ldquo;The record is clear: Alpha Chi Rho did nothing wrong,&rdquo; DelConte wrote in his opinion. According to DelConte, only one person yelled a racial slur, and that person was not a member of the fraternity, but rather someone who was a guest of a member at the fraternity on the day he made the racial slur. In addition, the remark occurred off-campus. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=11595" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> [RELATED: University suspends fraternity members over constitutionally protected speech]</a> DelConte said that there is no evidence that any members of the fraternity were present when the guest yelled the racial slur, and there&#39;s &quot;no provision in the Fraternity and Sorority Affairs policy, or the Code of Student Conduct, that allows the University to punish fraternities for the independent, off-campus actions of former guests.&quot; &ldquo;There is no provision in the Fraternity and Sorority Affairs policy, or the Code of Student Conduct, that allows the University to punish fraternities for the independent, off-campus actions of former guests,&rdquo; DelConte wrote in his opinion. &ldquo;Fraternities cannot police the statements of their former guests who leave campus, and it would be unreasonable to have, or apply, a policy that punishes fraternities, or other student social organizations, for conduct they cannot control.&rdquo; DelConte also said that there&#39;s &quot;no rational basis&quot; for the fraternity to be responsible for the racist remark. Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Syracuse University, but did not receive a response.

A New York State Supreme Court judge has overturned a suspension of a Syracuse University fraternity.

NY Supreme Court judge overturns suspension of Syracuse fraternity, says they 'did nothing wrong'

The University of Montana&rsquo;s student government - the Associated Students of the University of Montana - unanimously approved a measure to require &ldquo;anti-bias&rdquo; training for all student senators and executives. The bill&rsquo;s passage follows the resignation of a non-white student senator who, according to student newspaper <a href="http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/asum-releases-anti-racism-plan-following-resignation-slur-allegation/article_f7173d94-871e-11eb-8551-db6df3c86472.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Montana Kaimin</a>, alleged that she had been called a racial slur by another member of the Associated Students of the University of Montana.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16159" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16159" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16159" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: RIT student gov loses its mind over request to discuss BLM somewhere else]</a> The senator&rsquo;s resignation letter reportedly included nine recommendations for the student to &ldquo;cultivate a safe community for BIPOCs.&rdquo; The student senate passed one recommendation &mdash; the &ldquo;Resolution Amending ASUM Bylaws to Require Anti-Bias Training for ASUM Executives and Senators&rdquo; &mdash; unanimously. The legislation <a href="https://www.umt.edu/asum/student-government/agendas-and-minutes.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">claims</a> that &ldquo;ASUM has not made meaningful or measurable progress with respect to anti-bias in the governance of the student body&rdquo; while other universities &ldquo;have either implemented or plan to implement anti-bias modules in curriculum and personnel policy.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>According to the student government website, the measure passed unanimously during the March 10 ASUM Senate meeting. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <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> Accordingly, the legislation will &ldquo;implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training mandatory for freshman students to complete at orientation&rdquo; across the university, as well as &ldquo;require anti-bias trainings for all senators and executives&rdquo; in an effort to &ldquo;build authentic and lasting solidarity among BIPOC, dismantle white supremacy, and advance racial justice.&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to ASUM and the University of Montana; 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>

The University of Montana student government unanimously approved legislation to mandate “anti-bias” training for all student senators and executives.

University of Montana student government unanimously passes bill to require ‘anti-bias’ training among leadership

An adjunct faculty member at San <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;">Diego Community College District is running an anti-racist day care facility.&nbsp; Michelle DeJohnette &mdash; an adjunct <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdejohnette" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">faculty member&nbsp;</a>at San Diego Community College District <a href="https://www.michelledejohnette.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">completing</a> a joint doctoral program in education at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University &mdash; studies &ldquo;critical theory, culturally responsible pedagogy, anti-bias/anti-racist education, and issues of equity in early childhood education, focusing on preschool.&rdquo; DeJohnette applies her learnings as <a href="http://www.villagekids.biz/the-village-kids-family.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">director</a> of Village Kids Family Child Care, a day care service in San Diego. Village Kids&rsquo; Twitter and Facebook pages provide resources discussing anti-racism in preschool education. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16400" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16400" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16400" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Yale prof decries &#39;colorblindness&#39; in K-12 education]</a> Following the death of George Floyd in the spring of 2020, Village Kids shared a <a href="https://www.prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-5new4?fbclid=IwAR3I6NHvcFk0lgHlJNwZw8wc23hDXUF1I12nkV7OnaAHJ4wyvcmneuZdzuE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">resource</a> encouraging parents to teach their children about racism from infancy. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17388y9f37bPre.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">The resource states that children as young as three months old gravitate toward faces most similar to the race of their caregivers, with &ldquo;expressions of racial prejudice&rdquo; peaking around four or five years of age. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Ibram Kendi launches ANOTHER anti-racism center at BU]</a> Days later, Village Kids shared another <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/common-sense-media-resources-about-race-and-racism?fbclid=IwAR0S6Opb9L9AkBzQqqUvLymuZU9Rvv0rLPixHbESVUdGPnbGgR7a828iT_M" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">list</a> of resources for parents and educators seeking to teach about racism. Among the recommended resources was Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi&rsquo;s list of anti-racist books for kids. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//1738808wmcdfPre.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Village Kids likewise said that they were excited to watch the Netflix series &ldquo;Bookmarks,&rdquo; in which &ldquo;celebrity readers share children&#39;s books by Black authors to spark kid-friendly conversations about empathy, equality, self-love and antiracism.&rdquo; <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17388eggqf8Pre.jpg" style="width: 607px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Village Kids retweeted an <a href="https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/what-antiracism-really-means-for-educators" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">article</a> titled &ldquo;What Anti-racism Really Means for Educators,&rdquo; which argues that &ldquo;anti-racist work in all schools is essential.&rdquo;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17388z385kPre.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> &ldquo;We must create educational spaces that tend to the harm and violence that has been enacted against BIPOC bodies and minds &mdash; specifically those of our children,&rdquo; reads the article. &ldquo;Anti-racist educators recognize that this is the work of undoing, of dismantling, of liberating, of healing and of truth-telling. This is our collective work.&rdquo; During a phone interview with Campus Reform, DeJohnette explained the differences between &ldquo;colorblind&rdquo; and &ldquo;anti-racist&rdquo; education. &ldquo;Colorblindness is not what we want,&rdquo; she said. Though she believes that proponents of colorblind education &ldquo;have good intentions,&rdquo; she notes that it is impossible to not see color. &ldquo;When you look at me, the first thing you see is that I&rsquo;m a Black woman,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t not see that. So by being &lsquo;colorblind&rsquo;... that means you don&rsquo;t see me. In essence, you&rsquo;re making me and who I am &mdash; my culture, my race, my experiences, and inequities that I&rsquo;ve lived through &mdash; you&rsquo;re making those invisible.&rdquo; DeJohnette described how she actively seeks to craft an anti-racist and unbiased environment in every detail of the classroom. &ldquo;We talk a lot about bias and gender, and we are very intentional about our language,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;For example, I would never say &lsquo;fireman&rsquo; or &lsquo;mailman.&rsquo; We&rsquo;re intentional about using language like &lsquo;firefighter&rsquo; and &lsquo;mail carrier.&rsquo;&rdquo; The classroom also has &ldquo;images and books that are inclusive, that show nontraditional people in these roles.&rdquo; For instance, DeJohnette makes sure that children see &ldquo;Black female doctors&rdquo; and &ldquo;Mexican-American female construction workers.&rdquo;

The day care frequently endorses anti-racism resources for preschool education.

San Diego State researcher runs ‘anti-racist’ day care

One graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago has recently started the &quot;Black Matriarch Archive.&quot; According to the university<a href="https://artandarthistory.uic.edu/newsdetails/828/815" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;website</a>, the &quot;Black Matriarch Diaspora,&quot; created by graduate student <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;">Alkebuluan Merriweather, was on Instagram and is meant to &quot;encourage members of the African diaspora to submit images and video documentation of black elders, whether they may be grandmothers, great-aunts, godmothers, or caregivers.&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;">Merriweather notes that the archive is &quot;not just limited to cisgender black people.&quot; &quot;We encourage everyone to submit imagery of the black women in their lives, whether they are your drag mother, godmother, great-aunt, caregiver, or nonblood related relatives. BMA is intended to be a space for ALL black people, including the LGBTQIA community and nongender conforming folks,&quot; the webpage states. Merriweather told Campus Reform that he doesn&#39;t want the people to view the project in terms of gender, since &quot;Matriarchy&quot; is a gendered term. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16922" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: US House passes &#39;Equality Act.&#39; Religious conservatives warn it&#39;s &#39;conscience-crushing.&#39;]</a> &ldquo;The Black Matriarch Archive seeks to encourage people of African descent to submit imagery of their matriarchs. BMA seeks to create an ongoing record commemorating Black Matriarchs across the African Diaspora,&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;">Merriweather said. &quot;Matriarchy is a gendered term and it is NOT our intention to exclude individuals of the LGBTQIA community. We seek to create an archive that is welcomed and celebrated by all however we must acknowledge that Matriarchy is a gendered term and there may be individuals who might feel excluded.&rdquo; By including all of these individuals it takes away the<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/matriarch" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;meaning</a> of matriarch. Matriarch is a gendered term, so why would a &#39;non-gender conforming folk&#39; want to use this term?&quot; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=13884" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Drag queens dance, read to children in Michigan dorm]</a> &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;">Merriweather also emphacized that&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;">&ldquo;Drag Mothers aren&#39;t always male.&quot; &ldquo;Drag Mothers aren&#39;t always male. Drag does not have a gender, it is an art form that is celebrated and practiced by many,&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;">Merriweather said. &quot;BMA has featured Drag Mothers, Queer icons, and Trans people. In today&#39;s world, it my duty to be ally for the trans and gay community therefore I am more than open to doing the research on drag matriarchy, gender neutral language, and seeking ways to be inclusive to those who don&#39;t identify as cisgender (straight people).&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to <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;">The University of Illinois at Chicago, but did not recieve a response.

The student told Campus Reform that the archive is "not just limited to cisgender black people."

UIllinois project suggests 'drag mothers' and  'nongender' people can be 'matriarchs'																				

Campus Reform&nbsp;has collected data on which major political figures have been announced as college commencement speakers and found that Democrats and liberals outnumber conservatives and Republicans by a margin of 4 to 1. Out of 69 events at which a notable national-level political speaker will participate (or has participated), 48 of them involve Democrats or liberals. Eleven are affiliated with the GOP, and the remaining 10 are officially nonpartisan.&nbsp;For this project, Campus Reform&nbsp;is defining a notable figure in politics and government as anyone who is a current or former national-level political figure, federal official (or nominee for a federal post), governor, or mayor of a major city.&nbsp;Stacey Abrams and Dr. Anthony Fauci are two of this year&#39;s most popular speakers. Abrams will speak to graduates at <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/law/2021/01/27/stacey-abrams-speak-university-colorado-law-school-commencement-recognition-ceremony" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colorado Law</a>, <a href="https://www.cau.edu/news/2021/05/Clark-Atlanta-University-to-Host-Stacey-Abrams-Bakari-Sellers-as-Commencement-Speakers.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clark Atlanta</a>, and <a href="https://bowiestate.edu/about/news/2021/voting-rights-champion-stacey-abrams-to-address-bsu-commencement.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bowie State</a>; she has already delivered the keynote address for <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/heres-every-columbia-class-day-speaker-we-know-so-far" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Columbia University&#39;s Teachers College</a>. Dr. Fauci will appear virtually at<a href="https://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/news/covid-19-researchers-fauci-and-corbett-to-address-new-unc-grads/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;UNC</a>, <a href="https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/02/upress_commencement_speaker/campus.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emory</a>, <a href="https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/03/03/dr-anthony-fauci-to-deliver-2021-vanderbilt-graduates-day-address/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vanderbilt</a>, the <a href="https://publichealth.yale.edu/news-article/anthony-fauci-to-speak-at-ysph-commencement/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yale School of Public Health</a>, and <a href="https://news.rpi.edu/content/2021/04/19/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute-announces-2021-commencement-honorands" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a>.&nbsp;Several schools have invited highly controversial speakers to address their graduates. <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2021/04/19/anti-racism-leader-usms-keynote-speaker/">Ibram X. Kendi</a>, one of the biggest names in critical race theory, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Southern Maine. Bard College graduates heard from <a href="https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=17710">Patrick Gaspard</a>, the former head of George Soros&#39; Open Society Foundation (and a former Obama appointee). <a href="https://www.theatlantavoice.com/articles/spelman-college-2020-2021-commencements-include-angela-davis-danai-gurira/">Angela Davis</a>, an avowed Marxist, is speaking at Spelman College. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17396" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Hunter Biden slated as guest speaker for Tulane political science class]</a>Several major figures in the Biden administration will be speaking to graduates in the coming weeks. President Biden is slated to speak to the Coast Guard Academy. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will speak to <a href="https://www2.gmu.edu/news/2021-04/first-lady-jill-biden-featured-speaker-virtual-spring-commencement-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Mason University</a> graduates, and Vice President Kamala Harris will speak to cadets at the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/30/kamala-harris-to-give-naval-academy-commissioning-/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. Naval Academy</a>, per the Washington Times. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is slated to speak to the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/about/leadership-administration/deans-office/deans-remarks/harvard-kennedy-schools-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harvard Kennedy School</a>, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will address graduates at the <a href="https://commencement.uconn.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Connecticut</a>. President Biden himself has not yet been announced as a commencement speaker.&nbsp;Campus Reform only found one member of the Trump administration that has been announced as a speaker thus far; former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be the commencement speaker at <a href="https://www.regent.edu/news/regent-university-announces-former-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-as-2021-commencement-speaker/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regent University</a>, a small school in Virginia.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17210" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: U of Tampa students plan separate in-person graduation after university announces virtual plans]</a>Campus Reform&nbsp;used the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. News list of top national universities</a> to identify the top 40 of them who have announced their main undergraduate commencement speakers. Of that group of schools, 21 will hear from speakers who donated to Democrats and five will have speakers who donated to Republicans since the start of 2016. (Some of the schools have more than one keynote speaker, and two of the speakers - Delta CEO Ed Bastian and SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell - donated to PACs that funded candidates on both sides of the aisle.) Eighteen of the schools&#39; speakers have made no political donations in that time frame. Since Jan. 1, 2016, this group of speakers has donated more than 40 times more money to Democrats than to Republicans. The group has sent a combined total of $7.6 million to Democrats and $182,528 to Republicans.<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;">View the full breakdown below:<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" title="Graduation Speech Breakdown 2021 -- Campus Reform" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/506750082/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-Oye1CK66lThAX21NnuDh" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" scrolling="no" id="doc_48868" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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Colleges around the country have begun celebrating a pring &quot;Pride Week,&quot; despite LGBT Pride Month traditionally taking place in June. University celebrations for the new week tradition include a variety of virtual events and guest speakers including<a href="https://formidablefemme.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Sarah Brynn Holliday</a>, trauma and sexuality speaker, <a href="https://theblacktransprayerbook.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J. Mase III and Lady Dane</a>, co-editors of &ldquo;The Black Trans Prayer Book.&rdquo; University of Iowa: Students at University of Iowa&rsquo;s <a href="https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/culturalcenters/pridehouse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pride Alliance Center</a> (PAC) hosted their Pride Week from March 29 - April 2, and have a series of virtual events lined up for each day. On March 29 the PAC collaborated with the Afro-American Cultural Center to host a panel about &ldquo;the intersection of Black and Queer identities&rdquo; and &ldquo;reclaiming terms that used to be slurs.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17073" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17073" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17073" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Miami opens new campus housing &#39;for LGBTQIA+ students&#39;] </a> The Pride Week keynote speaker, Sarah Brynn Holliday, hosted a discussion on &ldquo;<a href="https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/celebrations/pride-week/2021-keynote/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Healing, Pleasure, and Sex After Trauma</a>&rdquo; on March 30. The seminar was focussed on talking &ldquo;about positive motivations and affirmations for sexual healing, using sex toys as a tool to heal from trauma, self-care tips for survivors, and finding sex-positive community support.&rdquo; The remainder of the week will feature events called &ldquo;Queer Resiliency,&rdquo; &ldquo;Social media engagement - My Testament to You: On Queer Love&rdquo; and &ldquo;Queer-tivity Corner.&rdquo; University of Utah: Pride Week at the University of Utah went from March 29 - April 3 and<a href="https://lgbt.utah.edu/events/pride.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;feature</a> more than 10 different guest speakers from the LGBTQ community. The school also <a href="https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/university-of-utahs-iconic-block-u-wrapped-in-colors-ahead-of-pride-week/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">decorated</a> their &ldquo;Block U&rdquo; by wrapping it with trans and gay pride flag colors. &ldquo;Gaymer&rsquo;s Night&rdquo; was the first event of the week and featured a keynote speakers <a href="https://www.hostos.cuny.edu/Administrative-Offices/Office-of-Academic-Affairs/Departments/Humanities/Faculty/Juno-Morrow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juno Morrow</a>, Assistant Professor of Game Design at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College and <a href="https://faculty.utah.edu/u0384504-ROGER_ALAN_ALTIZER,_Jr./hm/index.hml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roger Alterizer, Jr</a>., associate professor in Population Health Sciences. <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> Day two features a panel on &ldquo;navigating being LGBTQIA+ in the workplace,&rdquo; followed by day three, which involves a &ldquo;What I Wish I Knew Conference&rdquo; to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility on March 31. &ldquo;Exploring your gender can feel like you are at a crossroads. So many things overlap as you try to find your path. The &lsquo;What I Wish I Knew&rsquo; conference is an event centered on information that will make navigating your path a little easier,&rdquo; states the event&rsquo;s <a href="https://diversity.utah.edu/event/trans-day-of-visibility-what-i-wish-i-had-known-conference/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">description</a>. On Friday, April 2 the university will host a &ldquo;Queer and Trans Students of Color Mixer/Networking Event&rdquo; and a drag performance called &ldquo;Black Benatar&rsquo;s Magic Cabaret.&rdquo; The cabaret will feature <a href="https://www.utahpresents.org/events/black-benatars-black-magic-cabaret/#:~:text=Black%20Benatar's%20Black%20Magic%20Cabaret%20is%20an%20eclectic%20theater%20spectacle,cultural%20allyship%20in%20the%20U.S." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Benatar&nbsp;</a>portraying a straight man &ldquo;while showcasing the talents of local performers telling their stories of being queer, black, or other, in the U.S. right now.&rsquo; Syracuse University: Syracuse started their &ldquo;<a href="https://news.syr.edu/blog/2021/03/24/celebrating-trans-week-of-liberation-2021/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trans Week of Liberation</a>&rdquo; by stating that &ldquo;starting on Monday, March 29, the Trans Pride flag will be raised in front of Hendricks Chapel. Additionally, the grassy knoll will be filled with small flags and educational resources on the trans community.&rdquo; On Tuesday, March 30, the university&rsquo;s LGBTQ Resource Center hosted a &ldquo;Virtual Trans Social,&rdquo; which they stated will be a &ldquo;closed group social for trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, gender fluid and/or gender questioning folks to meet and find community.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14845" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14845" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14845" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard pushes narrative LGBT community is at greater risk of &#39;stress&#39; during pandemic]</a> March 31 will entail a lecture by J. Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, co-editors of &ldquo;The Black Trans Prayer Book.&rdquo; The speakers will discuss &ldquo;how racial justice and religious institutions that perpetuate anti-trans violence are connected to trans liberation.&rdquo; The two co-editors will be giving a presentation for the final day of Pride Week on April 3 in regards to their book, &ldquo;The Black Trans Prayer Book.&rdquo; This publication is described by the university&rsquo;s website as an &ldquo;interfaith, multi-dimensional, artistic and theological collection of stories, poems, prayers, meditation, spells and incantations of Black trans and non-binary people, creates an uplifting foundation of healing and affirmation.&rdquo; George Mason University: From March 28-April 3, GMU will be celebrating Pride Week by hosting a &ldquo;<a href="https://lgbtq.gmu.edu/programs-services/pride-week/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pride Game</a>&rdquo; soccer match and various zoom seminars focussed on the &ldquo;LGBTQIA+&rdquo; community. &ldquo;Thriving with Pride&rdquo; will take place on March 31 and will feature a discussion about &ldquo;sexual health and healthy relationships of all kinds.&rdquo; There will be a &ldquo;LGBTQ+ Faculty, Staff, &amp; Student Mixer&rdquo; on April 1 and registration is open to the public. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16937" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16937" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16937" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Utah lawmakers seek to close remaining Confucius Institutes]</a> The final day of celebration is titled &ldquo;Virtual Drag Bingo ft Monique Heart &amp; After Hours Drag Show.&rdquo; Students and community members are invited to join <a href="https://www.moniqueheart.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monique Heart</a>, a Drag Queen seen on RuPaul&rsquo;s Drag Race, for a game of bingo. This game will be followed by a Drag Show hosted by <a href="https://gmufourthestate.com/2015/04/09/the-drag-royalty-diaries/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mason Drag Royalty</a>. Colorado State University: CSU will also be hosting virtual events to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility, which will include a lecture by <a href="http://www.kaybarrett.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kay Ulanday Barrett</a>, author of &ldquo;More Than Organs.&rdquo; The university&rsquo;s <a href="https://prideresourcecenter.colostate.edu/tdov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a> states that &ldquo;Kay intimately strips down pretense, and engages love and an examination of the world.&rdquo; &nbsp;The seminar on March 31 &ldquo;aims to question notions of desirability, single-issue identity, ableism, and what exactly is mainstream normal. Themes explored during this performance keynote include intersecting identities in struggle with racism, misogyny, cissexism, migration, death/loss, disability, and of course, queer love.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16716" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16716" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16716" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Colorado prof favors tougher censorship against &lsquo;misinformation&rsquo;]</a> On April 1, there will be a workshop to discuss how &ldquo;liberation shows up,&rdquo; and students will learn how to &ldquo;embrace a sexy, complicated, sacred, powerful, and amazing lineage.&rdquo; &nbsp;

George Mason University will be hosting a Drag Queen bingo event which will be followed by a livestreamed Drag Show. 

Colleges implement ‘pride week’ celebrations in outside of existing pride month																									

The opinion editor of the Northwestern University&rsquo;s student newspaper recently published an article asserting that White people walk awkwardly on sidewalks because of their internalized racism.&nbsp;&ldquo;When I first got to Northwestern, I wondered why walking around on campus could be so frustrating. Even when sidewalks were relatively empty, I would often have to walk way around people to pass without bumping into them,&rdquo; &nbsp;wrote Kenny Allen of <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/04/05/opinion/allen-are-the-sidewalks-at-northwestern-too-white-too/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Daily Northwestern</a>, &ldquo;At first, I chalked it up to the geographic diversity of the school; maybe the people that came to this school were used to different ways of moving through a public place.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17235" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Community college gives &#39;preference&#39; to students of color for weed scholarship]</a>However, after &ldquo;talking to [his] Black friends about my experience,&rdquo; Allen concluded that &ldquo;people at this predominantly White school would not move out of our way on the sidewalk.&rdquo;Laying out the claims by University of Richmond sociologist Bedelia Richards for determining &ldquo;whether one&rsquo;s university is racist&rdquo; -- such as which groups feel most &ldquo;at home,&rdquo; whose &ldquo;norms, values and perspectives&rdquo; are legitimated, and &ldquo;who inhabits positions of power&rdquo; -- Allen concluded that &ldquo;white people&rdquo; meet most of the criteria.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16502" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Northwestern scrubs prof over &#39;Dr.&#39; Jill Biden op-ed, keeps Holocaust denier]</a>Allen then asserted that &ldquo;the formal rules of Jim Crow were accompanied by a set of informal ones that governed the way Black people approached White people in public space and vice versa.&rdquo; This social order &ldquo;required Black people to yield to White people whenever possible&rdquo; -- such as &ldquo;stepping off the sidewalk when a White person was walking past.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;White people came to expect the right of way in public spaces,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;White people who were accustomed to moving through the world like that &mdash; intentionally or not &mdash; taught their kids to move through the world in the same way. And the racism that undergirded Jim Crow wasn&rsquo;t eliminated just because the laws were no longer overtly racist.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16867" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Northwestern celebrates Black history month with&hellip; BDSM?]</a>Allen concluded that &ldquo;many White people walk around campus having unknowingly absorbed this particular facet of White supremacy, and the leaders of the institution do little to make us believe that White supremacy is something worth challenging in the first place.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to The Daily Northwestern and Northwestern University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: var(--red); text-decoration: none !important; user-select: auto; font-weight: 600; 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);" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

He added that “the racism that undergirded Jim Crow” is to blame for this behavior.

Blaming Jim Crow, Northwestern student journalist says the way White people walk on sidewalks is too racist

Student government members at California State University, Northridge earmarked tens of thousands of dollars for a social justice scholarship fund. The Daily Sundial&nbsp;&mdash; CSUN&rsquo;s student newspaper &mdash;<a href="https://sundial.csun.edu/163523/news/as-votes-to-give-35000-to-a-new-social-justice-scholarship/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;reported</a> that the Associated Students of CSUN Vice President Deion Turner led a charge to approve funding for social justice scholarship funds, which will be granted to students who continue to show leadership within their communities, despite being in financial need themselves.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Brown University students overwhelmingly vote in favor of reparations]</a> Turner told&nbsp;Campus Reform that the Associated Students partnered with the University Student Union at CSUN, and the CSUN Foundation with &ldquo;hopes to provide support and recognition to those who have done exemplary work in the social justice field in their communities and on campus.&rdquo; Turner explained that the Associated Students Senate &ldquo;approved $35,000 to open the endowment,&rdquo; while the University Student Union approved &ldquo;$40,000 for the endowment.&rdquo; The fund will sponsor three $1,000 scholarships per school year. &ldquo;Pending confirmation and approval by the CSUN Foundation, we are hoping to be able to have the opportunity to award more scholarships based off of their total donation amount,&rdquo; added Turner. &ldquo;As of now, our plan is to award an incoming freshman, one lower division student and one upper division student (including graduate). We are consistently having conversations about this initiative and I am willing to provide as many updates as I can as needed.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <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> Turner also provided Campus Reform with a copy of the finance request approved by the student government. The request states that the funds will aid students who &ldquo;have been active in social justice work throughout their high school careers and their college careers.&rdquo; Students must &ldquo;demonstrate an area of need in order to qualify for this particular scholarship and must submit an essay to a committee that will include members from the Associated Students and the University Student Union.&rdquo; CSUN Director of Media Relations Carmen Ramos Chandler told Campus Reform that the university is &ldquo;committed to creating an inclusive environment for all students and a more just world.&rdquo; &ldquo;Growing from those values, the university&rsquo;s Associated Students, University Student Union and Foundation are collaborating on the formation of a scholarship program designed to further enhance equity and inclusion on our campus,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;Planning discussions include funding from each organization as well as external fundraising efforts.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The funds will help students who “have been active in social justice work throughout their high school careers and  their college careers.”

Cal State student government creates $75,000 social justice scholarship fund

At Michigan State University (MSU), a student government bill aims to pressure university administration to hire an &ldquo;undocumented student affairs&rdquo; position. <a href="https://asmsu.msu.edu/home/general-assembly/resources/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Passed</a> on March 4, Bill <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Sb03dBBJI0pTHRXjY6OZpg6vBgkgXx7oh83ttiEdik/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">57-78</a> calls on the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) to &ldquo;Advocate for the Hiring of a Full-Time Employee for Undocumented Student Affairs.&rdquo; &ldquo;This employee shall have a designated area in order to create a safe space for undocumented students to seek support,&rdquo; states the bill. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Democrat-backed For the People Act draws campus voter fraud concerns]</a> ASMSU demands the new employee be selected by a committee comprised of &ldquo;students and faculty most affected by the current lack of resources and representation for undocumented students.&rdquo; Included in the bill is a statement from DreaMSU, a pro-illegal immigrant student group, which cites MSU&rsquo;s <a href="https://uleadnet.org/mi-undocu-map" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">one-star</a> ranking from uLEAD (University Leaders for Educational Access and Diversity) in relation to &ldquo;financial and general support for undocumented students.&rdquo; The University of Michigan, Oakland University, and Grand Valley State University all received a four star rating. In a November 2019 rally at MSU&rsquo;s administration building, DreaMSU and students <a href="https://www.themorningwatchmsu.com/post/rally-for-undocumented-students-warns-msu-demands-sanctuary-campus-videos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">demanded</a> the university to create a position dedicated to illegal students and to provide resources to non-citizens. Months later in January 2020, MSU published an &quot;undocumented&quot; student resources website, with a<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14292" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;goal&nbsp;</a>to &ldquo;reduce apprehension.&rdquo; <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=14754" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=14754" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=14754" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: New report reveals astonishing number of illegal immigrants enrolled in American universities]</a> To help create a more inclusive environment, MSU Provost Terese Woodruff <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=16026" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> in October 2020, the university&rsquo;s elimination of the terms &lsquo;foreign&rsquo; and &lsquo;alien.&rsquo; Instead, MSU will use &ldquo;non-pejorative terms that describe geography&rdquo; such as &lsquo;non-domestic&rsquo; or &lsquo;international.&rsquo; Campus Reform reached out to the bill authors, DreaMSU, and the student government for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. 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>

The student government is also calling on the administration to create a "safe space" for illegal immigrant students.

MSU student gov calls on admin to hire employee dedicated to illegal immigrant students 

As the number of vaccinated Americans ascends, universities across the nation are announcing plans to return to in-person classes in the fall.&nbsp;Campus Reform spoke to students about the decisions.&nbsp; Arizona State University In the Spring, Arizona State University students were able to attend classes &ldquo;synchronously through a hybrid of in-person and remote attendance,&rdquo; fully in person, or completely online. In an effort to return to normalcy, ASU will be <a href="https://eoss.asu.edu/health/announcements/coronavirus/feb-15-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">returning</a> to &ldquo;Learning Mode 1&rdquo; in Fall 2021 which means classes will largely be offered only on campus and in-person. Some courses, however, will still be offered both online and in person.&nbsp; ASU sophomore Christian Merante told Campus Reform that all colleges should reopen in the fall.&nbsp; &ldquo;With or without the vaccine, our age group has above 95% COVID survival rate, and currently, 1.5 million people nationwide are getting vaccinated daily. Here at ASU, thousands of students are partying, playing intramural sports, going out every[day], just living their everyday life and chilling. We should reopen for fall &lsquo;21,&rdquo; Merante said.&nbsp; ASU junior Ashley Love told Campus Reform that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s about time we give students the option to attend class in person.&rdquo; &ldquo;Students have been paying full price for in person classes and have only been able to receive mostly online lectures, which I believe is unfair. If I&rsquo;m paying for in person classes, I want to be physically in those classes with students and professors. We&rsquo;ve been cooped up for too long and it&rsquo;s time we have some human interaction again!,&rdquo; Love said.&nbsp; University of Oregon The University of Oregon <a href="https://president.uoregon.edu/good-news-about-vaccines-and-fall-term" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that it will implement &ldquo;predominantly in-person education&rdquo; in the fall.&nbsp; &ldquo;I hope you&rsquo;ll join me in my excitement about the governor&rsquo;s announcement and the increased certainty it provides. I look forward to a physical campus environment that is once again humming with energy,&rdquo; university president Michael H. Schill said in the announcement. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16908" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Iowa bill aims to rein in colleges&#39; COVID control]</a> Oklahoma State University As cases decline, Oklahoma State University <a href="https://news.okstate.edu/articles/communications/2021/osu_plans_to_hold_in_person_classes_for_fall_2021_semester.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> its plans to return to on-campus instruction in the fall. The university hopes to achieve &ldquo;herd immunity&rdquo; on campus through &ldquo;widespread vaccination,&rdquo; &ldquo;handwashing, distancing and mask use.&rdquo;&nbsp; Vice Provost Dr. Jeanette Mendez said that OSU&rsquo;s goal has always been to return to in-person learning.&nbsp; &ldquo;While pleased we have online as an option, our top priority is to safely return to in-person classes and labs this coming fall,&rdquo; Mendez said.&nbsp; University of California System The University of California System is <a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-plans-fall-2021-person-instruction-across-its-10-campuses" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">planning</a> to implement in-person instruction for all of its ten campuses in the fall. In the past six months, the university system has been nearly fully online. In the fall, the almost half a million students enrolled in the UC System will be able to attend class face-to-face. Specific plans will be made on a campus-by-campus basis.&nbsp; &ldquo;Current forecasts give us hope that in the fall our students can enjoy a more normal on-campus experience,&rdquo; system President Michael V. Drake, M.D. said. University of California, Berkeley sophomore Megan Wang told Campus Reform that she thinks the return to campus is a &ldquo;good idea.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;The students have been staying home for almost an entire year now, and it&rsquo;s not news that online school has been negatively impacting both their academic performance, interpersonal skills, and most importantly, mental health. They really should&rsquo;ve been allowed to go back a long time ago. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself,&rdquo; Wang said.&nbsp; However, Wang is not entirely hopeful the plan will come to fruition.&nbsp; &ldquo;But with the current Biden Administration clearly having no better idea how to handle the virus than the previous administration, I&rsquo;m not entirely confident that they will follow through with the opening plan,&rdquo; she added. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16810" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley&#39;s draconian COVID-19 restrictions look more like prison than college]</a> Bruin Republicans at 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;">University of California, Los Angeles&nbsp;echoed this sentiment to Campus Reform by noting the &ldquo;lack of details&rdquo; UCLA has provided for the fall semester. This &ldquo;lack of transparency&rdquo; has left students &ldquo;completely in the dark&rdquo; according to the organization.&ldquo;In terms of communication, UCLA&#39;s reopening plans have not been transparent and the efforts are lackluster at best. The absence of a concrete plan for a return to in-person instruction is demonstrative of the school&#39;s continued obedience to unrealistic and unscientific county health ordinances,&rdquo; the group told Campus Reform.&nbsp;&ldquo;Even though the administration knows full well that a majority of the student-aged population would have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine come September. Students, especially first-years, feel cheated out of a year of university by forcibly confining college to a computer screen and a desk,&rdquo; the Bruin Republicans said.Clemson University As reported by the <a href="https://theclemsoninsider.com/2021/02/17/clemson-university-plans-for-typical-fall-semester/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clemson Insider</a>, in an email to students, Clemson announced that it is gearing up for a &ldquo;near-typical&rdquo; fall semester. All furniture and desks in storage will be returned to classrooms so that all students may take classes on campus if they choose. The change is due to low national and campus infection rates and the anticipated increase in vaccinated students and faculty that will be on campus. Clemson will still act with caution as COVID-19 protocols such as mask enforcement, testing, cleaning, and quarantining will be in effect. Campus Reform spoke to Clemson senior Kristen Harvey who said online instruction had a &ldquo;negative impact&rdquo; on her overall college education.&nbsp; &ldquo;The delayed interaction between teachers and students coupled with the lack of dialogue with classmates has prevented me from learning at full capacity. For this reason, I am thrilled that Clemson will be offering more in-person instruction next semester. I believe that a traditional classroom experience will only enhance the learning capabilities on students,&rdquo; Harvey said.&nbsp; Rutgers University&nbsp; Rutgers University <a href="https://www.rutgers.edu/president/january-2021-returning-campus-fall-vaccines-critical-role" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> its intentions to welcome all students back to its three campuses &nbsp;for in-person learning in the fall.&nbsp; President Jonathan Holloway said that he envisions a &ldquo;fall in which all students will have the opportunity for face-to-face instruction in some format, departments will return to campus on staggered and rotational schedules that could include some telecommuting, residence halls will increase their occupancy, and on-campus activities will resume.&rdquo; &ldquo;We intend to be back 100 percent&mdash;just not all at the same time,&rdquo; Holloway said in the announcement. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16952" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students sue UT-Austin over COVID-era tuition]</a> Ohio University System Ohio University System president M. Duane Nellis <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/news/2021/03/ohio-welcome-all-students-increase-person-activities-summer-and-fall-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that students and faculty will experience a &ldquo;more normal summer and fall&rdquo; this year as students will be welcomed back to all campuses for in-person instruction and activities. There will be an increased number of in-person courses available, completely open residence halls on certain campuses and more on-campus student activities. Campus visits for prospective students will be more prevalent, and the annual student orientation will be held in-person during the summer on campus. Purdue University Purdue University <a href="https://protect.purdue.edu/updates/fall-2021-semester-update-from-president-daniels-and-provost-akridge/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> a &ldquo;full restoration&rdquo; of residential learning for fall 2021.&nbsp;Because the university&rsquo;s Medical Advisory Team predicts that every American who wishes to be vaccinated will be, a return to campus is possible. Although face coverings will still be required, restrictions on student activities are expected to be &ldquo;relaxed.&rdquo; Temple University Temple University recently<a href="https://news.temple.edu/announcements/2021-03-01/some-optimistic-news-about-fall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;announced&nbsp;</a>its plans for a &ldquo;primarily in person&rdquo; fall semester. &ldquo;We hope to return to a vibrant campus experience, with our residence halls, dining halls, student center and academic buildings, as well as our athletic and recreational facilities, open this fall,&rdquo; president Richard M. Englert said. Temple senior Grace Bloem told&nbsp;Campus Reform that although she is graduating this year, she thinks it is &ldquo;great&rdquo; for students to &ldquo;actually get to experience real college and not be stuck on the screen.&rdquo; &ldquo;Having everything on zoom has been hard and I think has taken a tole [sic] on us all mentally,&rdquo; she continued. University of Alabama System The University of Alabama System<a href="https://uasystem.edu/news/ua-system-campuses-plan-return-to-full-in-person-classes-for-fall-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;disclosed</a> that its campuses will return to &ldquo;traditional in-person instruction without restrictions on classroom capacity&rdquo; in the fall.&nbsp;The decision was made after the UA System Health and Safety Task Force and UAB Medicine made a &nbsp;&ldquo;unified recommendation&rdquo; to Chancellor Finis St. John IV and the Board of Trustees that the fall semester can return to a higher degree of normalcy. University of Alabama freshman Leelee Shaw told Campus Reform that she thinks the return to normalcy is a &ldquo;great idea.&rdquo; &ldquo;UA has done a great job of keeping their students and faculty safe during this pandemic through a lot of online learning, but it&rsquo;s time to start bringing things back to normal and having in-person classes and full-capacity events! There&rsquo;s so much less productivity and learning happening through online school and it takes away from so much that college has to offer,&rdquo; Shaw said. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/redwave1776" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@redwave1776</a>

Campus Reform spoke with students, who seem pleased with going back to in-person classes.

Colleges seek a return to normalcy in the fall by bringing students back to campus

Boise State University suspended, then reinstated, a diversity class after students were reportedly &ldquo;humiliated and degraded.&rdquo; The school announced that it would cancel all sections of UF 200, &ldquo;Foundations of Ethics and Diversity,&rdquo; on March 16. &ldquo;We have been made aware of a series of concerns, culminating in allegations that a student or students have been humiliated and degraded in class on our campus for their beliefs and values,&rdquo; wrote President Marlene Tromp in an email to the student body obtained by&nbsp;Campus Reform. &ldquo;This is never acceptable; it is not what Boise State stands for; and we will not tolerate this behavior.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16471" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16471" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16471" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: U Iowa threatens probation for student who criticized Critical Race Theory, backtracks amid lawmaker&#39;s involvement]</a> Tromp added that &ldquo;Boise State University is committed to ensuring that each and every one of our students is treated with respect and that all have the right to hold and to voice their own personal and political beliefs.&rdquo; She added that the campus is &ldquo;richer and learning is made more effective because people of all backgrounds and beliefs are invited to meet, exchange ideas, and learn together.&rdquo; Accordingly, Tromp <a href="https://www.boisestate.edu/news/2021/03/24/university-foundations-200-classes-resume/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that the university &ldquo;must suspend UF 200.&rdquo; Students will be able to submit complaints and reports of bias through a midterm evaluation. However, the university announced on March 24 that the course would immediately resume. &ldquo;This decision enables students to continue their education while the investigation into serious allegations continues,&rdquo; said Boise State University Interim Provost Tony Roark. &ldquo;The goal of suspending these courses was to enable the investigation to begin and ensure that this course lives up to our standard of mutual respect for faculty and students.&rdquo; Boise State University&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.boisestate.edu/academics-uf/uf-200-themes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a> says that UF 200 is meant to &ldquo;help students investigate how we practice our ethics together as engaged citizens creating an inclusive community.&rdquo; Students are able to choose from a menu of 34 different emphases &mdash; from EthDiv &amp; Food in the US, which investigates &ldquo;how the concepts of ethics, diversity and human rights apply to the specific issue of food access, quality, safety and production,&rdquo; to &ldquo;EthDiv &amp; Intersectionality,&rdquo; which explores how &ldquo;power and privilege impact the way we live our lives.&rdquo;<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> UF 200 is a &ldquo;foundations requirement,&rdquo; <a href="https://www.boisestate.edu/academics-uf/uf-placement/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">required</a> for students without core certification from another college or university. In the past weeks, state legislators worked to defund colleges pursuing social justice agendas, including Boise State University. In a recent Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/idahofreedom/videos/3748679465199898" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video</a>, state Rep. Priscilla Giddings (R-ID) noted that many universities are promoting &ldquo;blatant racism in their curriculum.&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s got to be rooted out, and the only way we can do it is through their budget,&rdquo; she said. Indeed, new legislation <a href="https://www.idahoednews.org/legislature/we-are-left-with-no-other-option-lawmakers-cut-into-boise-states-budget/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">removed</a>&nbsp;$409,000 from Boise State University&rsquo;s budget in response to their <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2021/legislation/S1179.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pursuit</a> of &ldquo;social justice ideology.&rdquo; The budget has not yet been passed. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Boise State pulls, then reinstates diversity class after students ‘humiliated and degraded’

The editor in chief of a University of Denver campus newspaper wrote an <a href="https://duclarion.com/2021/03/lfte-dear-white-people/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">op-ed</a> expressing her anger toward white people about the Atlanta shootings targeting Asian women.&ldquo;The shooting cannot be defined as an either/or where one must pick between gender and race,&rdquo; wrote editor in chief of the DU Clarion&nbsp;Kiana Marsan in the piece titled &ldquo;Dear White People.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17083" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University researcher: &#39;Intelligence is a White man&#39;s mythology&#39;]</a>Describing how she felt after learning about the shooting, she wrote &ldquo;I couldn&rsquo;t walk past a white person without shaking on my way to work.&rdquo;Marsan alleged that all white people are responsible for a reported surge in violence against Asian-Americans and that using the term &ldquo;China virus&rdquo; is spreading xenophobia and white supremacy.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17138" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Theological school dean says &#39;White grievance and rage&#39; are &#39;baked into the DNA&#39; of America]</a>Marsan denounced any choosing not to speak out about these events for committing &ldquo;microaggressions, [using] racially-coded language and deny that silence is violent.&rdquo;Marsan also accused the faculty and administration of crowding out racial minorities with their &quot;whiteness.&quot;&ldquo;You are administrators who attend a support space and&mdash;being the only ones who feel comfortable and safe enough to turn your videos on&mdash;flood the Zoom call with your whiteness,&quot; she wrote. &quot;It will remind us of your privilege and power as we grieve&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17308" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Virginia Tech soccer player who refused to kneel during anthem sues coach for alleged &#39;abuse and retaliation&#39;]</a>Marson asserted that all trauma being experienced is historically rooted in white supremacy, adding that &ldquo;Black and Brown communities are not provided the same protections by law enforcement.&rdquo;She concluded by calling for &ldquo;radical change&rdquo; and for whites to &quot;sacrifice [their] power and privileges.&rdquo;Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Marsan and the university but has not yet received a response.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:<a href="https://twitter.com/Jess__Custodio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Jess__Custodio</a>&nbsp;

A Denver student and Editor in Chief is suggesting white supremacy is to blame for the recent shooting toward Asian-Americans.

Campus paper Editor in Chief 'couldn't walk past a white person without shaking'

An adjunct professor berated a student in her class after he expressed support for law enforcement. Cypress College student Braden Ellis delivered a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex2gl3VvXfQ&feature=emb_imp_woyt" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">presentation</a> about cancel culture during a Zoom communications class. In a phone interview with Campus Reform, Ellis affirmed The Daily Wire&rsquo;s report <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-professor-berates-student-for-calling-police-heroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">that</a> he had been discussing the attempted cancellation of &ldquo;Paw Patrol&rdquo; during the presentation. WATCH the video above, as reported by former Campus Reform correspondent, Chrissy Clark: <iframe width="100%" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ex2gl3VvXfQ" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> &ldquo;So you brought up the police in your speech a few times. So, what is your main concern?&rdquo; asked 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;">adjunct professor. &ldquo;Since, I mean, honestly&hellip; the issue is systemic. Because the whole reason we have police departments in the first place, where does it stem from? What&rsquo;s our history? Going back to what [another classmate] was talking about, what does it stem from? It stems from people in the south wanting to capture runaway slaves.&rdquo; &ldquo;Maybe they shouldn&rsquo;t be heroes. Maybe they don&rsquo;t belong on a kid&rsquo;s show,&rdquo; offered a classmate. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-professor-berates-student-for-calling-police-heroes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-professor-berates-student-for-calling-police-heroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-professor-berates-student-for-calling-police-heroes" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Minnesota student leader: make life &lsquo;hell&rsquo; for campus cops]</a> &ldquo;I disagree with what [my classmate] said,&rdquo; replied Ellis. &ldquo;I think cops are heroes and they have to have a difficult job. But we have to&mdash;&rdquo; &ldquo;All of them?&rdquo; asked 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;">adjunct professor, cutting off Ellis&rsquo; remarks. Ellis suggested that a &ldquo;good majority&rdquo; of officers are heroes, prompting 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;">adjunct&nbsp;professor to assert that &ldquo;a lot of police officers have committed atrocious crimes and have gotten away with it and have never been convicted of any of it.&rdquo; &ldquo;Yes, I understand,&rdquo; said Ellis. &ldquo;This is what I believe &hellip; This is not popular to say, but I do support our police. And we have bad people, and the people that do bad things should be brought to justice, I agree with that.&rdquo; &ldquo;They haven&rsquo;t,&rdquo; said 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;">adjunct professor. Ellis then repeated that he believed in bringing corrupt officers to justice. &ldquo;So, what is your bottom line point? You&rsquo;re saying police officers should be revered? Viewed as heroes? They belong on TV shows [for] children?&rdquo; 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;">adjunct professor shot back. &ldquo;I think they are heroes in a sense because they come to your need and they come and help you,&rdquo; responded Ellis. They have problems just like every other business, but we should fix that&mdash;&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not a business,&rdquo; said 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;">adjunct professor, again cutting off Ellis. &ldquo;I think that&rsquo;s the problem, is looking at it as a business. Because they&rsquo;re actually supposed to protect and serve the people.&rdquo; Later in the exchange, 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;">adjunct&nbsp;professor asserted that she does not trust the police because her life is &ldquo;in more danger&rdquo; in their presence. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17257" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17257" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17257" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University admin sounds alarm over anonymously reported hate crimes. There&#39;s just one problem.]</a> Ellis told Campus Reform that although 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;">adjunct professor has also cut off left-leaning students, she &ldquo;does not like Republican views.&rdquo; Ellis believes that this disagreement is acceptable as long as the class can have a civil discussion. However, he &ldquo;does not really see&rdquo; such discussions often in his communications class. &ldquo;Republicans like me&hellip; need to get smarter, tougher, and stronger, and fight back against this liberal agenda,&rdquo; said Ellis. &ldquo;And do it with gentleness and respect. Don&rsquo;t do it with the way they do it, because nothing makes a Democrat or a liberal more mad than when you give them facts with gentleness and respect, and you don&rsquo;t raise your voice.&rdquo; He encouraged other conservative-leaning students to &ldquo;speak out&rdquo; in a respectful manner about the veracity of Republican policies. In a statement, Cypress College Director of Communications, Marc Posner, said that the adjunct professor &quot;will be taking a leave of absence for the duration of her assignment at Cypress College.&quot; &quot;Cypress College takes great pride in fostering a learning environment for students where ideas and opinions are exchanged as a vital piece of the educational journey. Our community fully embraces this culture; students often defend one another&rsquo;s rights to express themselves freely, even when opinions differ. Any efforts to suppress free and respectful expression on our campus will not be tolerated,&quot; Posner said. Campus Reform reached out to Cypress College for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. WATCH the video above, as reported by former Campus Reform correspondent, Chrissy Clark. &nbsp;Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The student encouraged other campus conservatives to “speak out” in a respectful manner about the strength of Republican policies.

He was berated by his professor for supporting police. Now he has a message for other young conservatives.

One Iowa State University professor who was invited to speak on a student government &quot;Diversity and Inclusion panel&quot; on March 10, allegedly tweeted that she limits her interactions <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;with yt people as much as possible.&rdquo; Professor <a href="https://soc.iastate.edu/directory/rita-mookerjee/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rita Mookerjee</a> works, who made the comments, is a professor of sociology at Iowa State University. &quot;Lately, I try to limit my interactions with yt people as much as possible. I can&#39;t with the self-importance and performance esp during Black History Month,&quot; Mookerjee <a href="https://twitter.com/IowaState_YAF/status/1368651135230345226" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted</a>. The term &quot;yt&quot; is often used <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/yt-folx/">online</a> in place of the word &quot;white&quot; in conversations involving race.&nbsp; <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://t.co/gRHwRj4ojN">pic.twitter.com/gRHwRj4ojN</a>&mdash; Young Americans for Freedom at ISU (@IowaState_YAF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IowaState_YAF/status/1368651135230345226?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2021</a></blockquote> In one October 2020 tweet, acccording to the Young Americans for Freedom group at Iowa State University, the professor <a href="https://twitter.com/IowaState_YAF/status/1368651173293678593" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted&nbsp;</a>that &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;">whyte men with dirty hair and wrinkled clothes will always be liked and higher ranked.&rdquo;&nbsp; <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://t.co/78Ekr40sSm">pic.twitter.com/78Ekr40sSm</a>&mdash; Young Americans for Freedom at ISU (@IowaState_YAF) <a href="https://twitter.com/IowaState_YAF/status/1368651173293678593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <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;">Another tweet by Mookerjee stated that &quot;Someone called me white the other day so #NewProfilePic because I think the f*ck not.&quot; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17359" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Pepperdine student gov hands out free copies of Critical Race Theory handbook &#39;White Fragility&#39;]</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;">The Young Americans for Freedom chapter,&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/IowaState_YAF/status/1368651023380799496" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><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;">commenting</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;">&nbsp;on M<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;">ookerjee being invited to speak on the panel, asked if the student government plans &quot;on hosting this professor for Women&#39;s Week after she has made repeated racist claims against women of a different race?&rdquo; The student government responded, <a href="https://twitter.com/ISUStuGov/status/1369679412921270272" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">stating</a> that the tweets from Mookerjee &quot;do not reflect the views of the student government,&quot; but decided to proceed with inviting her to speak on the panel. The President of Young Americans for Freedom at Iowa State, Charles Klapatauskas, told Campus Reform that &ldquo;YAF was not supportive of the decision to not remove Dr. Mookerjee from the women&#39;s panel.&quot;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17217" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17217" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17217" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Academics claim that &lsquo;whiteness&rsquo; is a hindrance to education reform]</a> Despite the content of the tweets, Klapatauskas made it clear that YAF supports her right to speak. &ldquo;YAF might disagree with the content of the tweets, we firmly stand behind her ability to tweet out such things.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ajmunguia23" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ajmunguia23</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ajmunguia23" style="text-decoration:none;"></a>

She also  allegedly said that "whyte men with dirty hair and wrinkled clothes will always be liked and higher ranked.”

Iowa State professor says she limits interactions with white people 'as much as possible'

Harvard University Professor <a href="https://hds.harvard.edu/people/cornel-r-west#:~:text=Cornel%20West%20is%20a%20prominent%20and%20provocative%20democratic,Paris%2C%20Princeton%2C%20and%2C%20most%20recently%2C%20Union%20Theological%20Seminary." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cornel West</a> has threatened to leave the school after it &quot;disrespected&quot; him by denying him consideration for tenure.On Friday, West <a href="https://twitter.com/CornelWest/status/1362666065914863616?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted</a>:&nbsp;<blockquote>&quot;Is Harvard a place for a free Black man like myself whose Christian faith &amp; witness put equal value on Palestinian &amp; Jewish babies- like all babies- &amp; reject all occupations as immoral? After being tenured at Yale, Harvard, Princeton &amp; Union Theological Seminary, the recent Harvard denial of a tenure process strikes me as a political decision I reject. Nothing stands in the way of my profound love for &amp; solidarity with oppressed peoples wherever they are!!&quot;</blockquote>Speaking to the<a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/18/metro/cornel-west-threatens-leave-harvard-again/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Boston Globe</a>&nbsp;about his threat to leave, West said, &ldquo;I wasn&rsquo;t raised to put up with being disrespected...I don&rsquo;t try to negotiate respect.&rdquo;&nbsp;According to the <a href="https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/02/18/metro/cornel-west-threatens-leave-harvard-again/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Globe</a>, Harvard instead offered West an endowed chair position, a 10-year contract, and a pay raise, which he turned down.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=11716" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &nbsp;Harvard Prof Cornel West discusses America&#39;s &#39;imperial meltdown&#39; (VIDEO)]</a>Harvard University&rsquo;s <a href="https://faculty.harvard.edu/files/faculty-diversity/files/2020-2021_annual_report_brochure.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2020-2021 Annual Report on Faculty Development and Diversity</a> shows that 37 percent of tenure-track faculty are people of color (Harvard separates this group into Asians and underrepresented minorities).&nbsp;West, who has repeatedly advocated for democratic socialism, has made no secret of his political views. In 2019, he urged the school to &ldquo;disinvest in terms of its complicity with the Israeli occupation of Palestine&rdquo; at an on-campus &ldquo;Justice for Palestine&rdquo; event, per the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/3/19/harvard-israel-palestine-investments/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harvard Crimson</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16838" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard researchers claim COVID-19 wouldn&#39;t have been so bad if US paid reparations]</a>Should West resign, it would not be the first time he has left Harvard in protest.&nbsp;He walked away in 2002 over public disagreements with the school&rsquo;s then-president, Lawrence Summers. Writing in <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25073176?seq=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education</a> three years later, West claimed Summers tried to recruit him to help &ldquo;f*** up&rdquo; a conservative professor.&nbsp;West says he refused, citing his respect for that professor and positive working relationship with her. West also notes Summers&rsquo; opposition to his living wage campaign and his statement that the benefits of affirmative action were still unproven.&nbsp;Neither Harvard nor West responded to a request for comment in time for publication.&nbsp;Follow the writer on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

West claimed that in doing so, Harvard "disrespected" him. 

Cornel West claims Harvard University 'disrespected' him by denying him tenure

The Harvard University Undergraduate Student Council reached a unanimous agreement, passing a resolution stating that the university should not be allowed to possess images of slaves. According to <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/9/7/uc-condemns-slavery-photo-licensing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Crimson</a>,&nbsp;the images are told to be some of the oldest images portraying American slaves. The images are said to depict the great-great-great grandfather of Tamara Lanier, Renty, and his daughter, Delia. The images are currently in Harvard&rsquo;s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The&nbsp;Crimson noted that in 2019, Lanier sued Harvard to obtain the photos. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15312" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard faces calls to rename &#39;Board of Overseers&#39; over slavery ties]</a> The council came to the conclusion that the images should not be in Harvard&rsquo;s possession, but should belong to the family member.&nbsp;The council said in its legislation that &ldquo;it is not your place, nor is it the place of the University or affiliated institutions, to claim ownership under the law for Renty and Delia.&rdquo; Undergraduate council treasurer Noah Harris accused the university of &quot;profiting&quot; off of the photos.&ldquo;We felt that it was our obligation to speak up about the photos that Harvard is profiting off of, of Renty and his daughter Delia,&quot; Harris told The Crimson.However, in an April 2019 interview with <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/4/17/bacow-responds-lawsuit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Crimson</a>, Harvard President Lawrence Bacow said that the university does not profit from the images of Renty and his daughter, and stated that the university charges a &ldquo;nominal fee&rdquo; for those who want reproductions of the image. The council discussed the images during its first meeting due to the <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/3/21/harvard-slavery-photo-lawsuit/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ongoing</a> lawsuit and controversy facing the university surrounding them. The initial lawsuit is between Harvard University and the plaintiff, Lainer, who alleges the university is in illegal possession of the photos because those depicted are who Lainer believes to be her family members. Lainer argues that because Renty and Delia were slaves they could not agree to have their photo taken and that Harvard should give her the images, surrender any money made from the photos, and pay her damages.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15408" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard study: Leftist profs less likely to see ideological imbalance on campus]</a> Part of Lainer&rsquo;s complaint argues that &ldquo;responsibility for that crime lies squarely with Harvard, which elevated [former Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz] to the highest echelons of academia and steadfastly supported him as he promoted and legitimized the poisonous myth of white superiority.&rdquo; Agassiz reported commissioned the photos in the 1800s. The Harvard Coalition to Free Renty started a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/harvard-university-public-student-plea-to-surrender-renty-delia-to-their-family-today?redirect=false" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> addressed to the Office of the President, which demands that Harvard &ldquo;Let them go home, and begin to set a new standard for Harvard that all students, faculty and the community can respect.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to Harvard University, but has not received a response. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/Jess__Custodio" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Jess__Custodio</a>

This is part of an ongoing lawsuit from 2019 in which a woman claims the images are her family members and belong to her, not the university.

Harvard Undergrad Council condemns university's possession of slave images

UPDATE June 17, 2020: Lieber has pleaded not guilty to the charge of lying to federal authorities about his ties to China,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.boston.com/news/crime/2020/06/16/harvard-professor-pleads-not-guilty-to-hiding-ties-to-china" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the Associated Press reported</a>.---The head of chemistry at Harvard has been charged for lying about ties to Chinese-funded science initiatives. &nbsp;Chairman of Harvard&rsquo;s chemistry department <a href="https://chemistry.harvard.edu/people/charles-lieber" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Charles Lieber</a> allegedly <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">lied</a> to both the National Institutes of Health and the Defense Department, denying his involvement in a Chinese funded program called the &ldquo;Thousand Talents Program.&rdquo;&nbsp;According to the Washington Examiner, FBI counterintelligence official John Brown <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/harvards-chemistry-chair-charged-with-lying-about-alleged-ties-to-china" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a> last year that the same program &ldquo;has resulted in violations of U.S. laws, including economic espionage, theft of trade secrets, and grant fraud.&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14279" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: &nbsp;GW has accepted MILLIONS of dollars from China &#39;for many years&#39;]</a>Lieber&rsquo;s alleged involvement in the program involves a laboratory located in Wuhan, China.Lieber was allegedly paid $1.5 million to create a research laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Technology, located in the city believed to be the source of the coronavirus outbreak. Lieber was also reportedly being paid up to $50,000 per month plus more than $150,000 per year by the Wuhan University of Technology, according to officials.&nbsp;Lieber allegedly failed to report these gains to Harvard and lied to government officials, claiming that he had never been contacted about participating in the program.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14250" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Chinese national arrested for smuggling Harvard cancer research in a sock]</a>Harvard told the Washington Examiner that &ldquo;the charges brought by the U.S. government against Professor Lieber are extremely serious,&rdquo; and that the university &ldquo;is cooperating with federal authorities, including the National Institutes of Health, and is initiating its own review of the alleged misconduct.&rdquo;Campus Reform recently <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14250" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">reported</a> that a student in America via a visa sponsored by Harvard was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport for attempting to smuggle 21 vials of cancer research back to China in order to publish the research under his own name.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/celinedryan" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;@celinedryan</a>

His alleged involvement centers around the founding of a $1.5 million research lab in Wuhan, China.

Head of Harvard chemistry pleads not guilty to lying about ties to university in Chinese coronavirus hub (UPDATED)

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is considering a job offer from Harvard University, according to her spokesperson.
The school&rsquo;s student publication, reported late last week that administrators had approached Clinton with several opportunities for "engaging the university."
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Clinton is considering a job offer from Harvard University.
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"We have extended an invitation to Secretary Clinton to consider engaging with the university and would of course welcome her interest in a range of roles," Kennedy School spokesperson Doug Gavel wrote <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/8/16/hillary-clinton-to-kennedy-school/">in an email to The Crimson.</a>
Clinton is considering that offer, along with other offers from other schools around the nation including Baruch College and New York University, both based in New York City, according to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/hillary-clinton-yale-harvard-95546.html">Politico.</a>
&ldquo;A number of academic institutions have reached out with ideas," said Clinton spokesman, Nick Merrill. "We&rsquo;re following up with each to discuss them.&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;
In the same article, a spokesperson for Baruch College confirmed the school had spoken with Clinton about a &ldquo;range of options.&rdquo;
Reactions among Harvard faculty, meanwhile have been mostly positive although some have worried about the ramifications of bringing in a well-known, but sometimes polarizing political figure.
"It would be fabulous for our students, as long as they weren&rsquo;t anti-Democratic or Republican,&rdquo; Kennedy School professor Barbara Kellerman&nbsp;<a href="http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2013/08/is_harvard_role_on_horizon_for_hillary_clinton">told the Boston Herald.</a>
Harvard University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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REPORT: Hillary Clinton considering Harvard University job offer

In a survey of the 2013 class, Harvard University seniors estimated 53 percent of their classmates cheated on school assignments.
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		A a recent survey, Harvard seniors estimated 53 percent of their peers cheated while enrolled at the school.
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	However, according to the <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/flash-graphic/2013/5/28/senior-survey-2013-graphic/" target="_blank">same survey</a> conducted by Harvard&rsquo;s student newspaper, The Crimson, only 30 percent of graduating seniors admitted to cheating during their undergraduate years.

	On the same day The Crimson released the annual survey, Undergraduate Dean Evelynn M. Hammonds resigned her position after she was widely criticized for ordering a search of Harvard professors&rsquo; email accounts in relation to the <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/8/30/academic-dishonesty-ad-board/" target="_blank">Government 1310 cheating scandal</a>.

	Dean Hammonds denies her resignation was related to the cheating scandal and plans to lead a new Harvard research program on race and gender in science this summer.&nbsp;

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Harvard University seniors estimate 53 percent of their classmates cheat

Harvard University spent a &ldquo;generous&rdquo; sum of student funds and other school money on a fake same-sex Hindu wedding attended by 200 people on Sunday, event organizers told Campus Reform.
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		A photo from the ceremony.
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	The purpose of the fake wedding, which received funding from five school-sponsored campus groups, including the Harvard Office of BGLTQ Student Life, was to educate students about same-sex relationships in other cultures, according to Harvard Dharma board member Nishin Nathwani, who helped put the event together.

	Officially called &ldquo;Suhaag: A Hindu Same-Sex Mock Wedding,&rdquo; the event included dancers, a procession, pretend family members dressed in saris and tunics, and a ceremonial fire, according to <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/22/mock-same-sex-wedding/">The Crimson</a>, which is Harvard&rsquo;s official student paper.

	The &ldquo;married&rdquo; women were Sasanka N. Jinadasa &rsquo;15, a member of the board of the South Asian Association, and Kirin Gupta &rsquo;16, whom the Crimson said identifies herself as &ldquo;part of the queer community at Harvard.&rdquo;

	&ldquo;Kirin is bringing her South Asian into her queer,&rdquo; Jinadasa said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m bringing my South Asian into my queer.&rdquo;

	Nathwani said he thought the event was important for the Harvard community because it was a &ldquo;way to address same-sex sexuality within a distinctly Indian context, sort of separate from the western gay rights discourse.&rdquo;

	Although Nathwani, who served as a priest at the mock ceremony, declined to say how much the overall budget for the event was, he said it was &ldquo;sizeable.&rdquo;

	&ldquo;We got a grant from the new Harvard Office of BGLTQ Student Life, which sort of falls under the Office of Student Life, which is a Harvard administrative office, so they gave us a pretty big grant and were really generous,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Every student organization contributed financially, so we had a pretty sizeable budget.&rdquo;

	Harvard Dharma, the Harvard South Asian Association, Harvard Queer Students and Allies, Harvard Gay Lesbian or Whatever, and the Office of BGLTQ Student Life all collaborated to fund the Sunday event.

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