A top official from the Chinese government issued the United States a list of &quot;wrongdoings,&quot; which included &quot;attacks&quot; on Confucius Institutes operating in America.The list of &quot;wrongdoings&quot; was <a href="https://thediplomat.com/2021/07/during-latest-exchange-china-presents-us-with-2-lists-of-grievances/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">given</a> to U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman by China&rsquo;s Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Vice Foreign Minister Xie Feng on July 26, and detailed that the United States must &quot;stop attacking the Confucius Institute.&quot;Confucius Institutes are joint educational initiatives between Chinese and American universities, with some oversight from Hanban, a wing of the Chinese government. Although they are marketed as language and cultural exchanges, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo designated the program as a &ldquo;foreign mission&rdquo; of the People&rsquo;s Republic of China that is &ldquo;part of the Chinese Communist Party&rsquo;s global influence and propaganda apparatus.&quot;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16784">[RELATED: Biden quietly nixes Trump-era rule combating Chinese Communist-funded &#39;propaganda&#39; centers]</a>During the July meeting, Chinese government officials also listed several other &quot;wrongdoings,&quot; being committed by the USA, such as registering Chinese media as &quot;foreign agents.&quot;&quot;In the list of wrongdoings, China urges the US side to unconditionally revoke visa restrictions on members of the Communist Party of China and their family members, revoke sanctions on Chinese leaders, officials and government agencies, cancel visa restrictions on Chinese students, stop suppressing Chinese companies, stop harassing Chinese students overseas, stop attacking the Confucius Institute, remove the registration of Chinese media as foreign agents or foreign missions,&quot; a <a href="http://tt.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/fyrth/t1895104.htm">press release</a> from the Chinese government states.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16962">[RELATED: INTERACTIVE MAP: Dozens of Chinese Communist Party funded Confucius Institutes still operate in US]</a>According to a March <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16962">Campus Reform</a> report, at least 56 Confucius Institutes remain in operation, though some of those are scheduled to close in 2021. At least 14 colleges and universities have closed their Confucius Institute between 2020 and 2021, according to the report.The Joe Biden administration quietly revoked a rule that would have compelled all primary, secondary, and postsecondary institutions to disclose all contracts and transactions with the Confucius Institute. Schools who did not report this information could have lost certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, as <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16784">Campus Reform&nbsp;</a>reported.At the meeting, Feng called the United States a &quot;bully&quot; as well, and said that the U.S. operates off of a &quot;rules-based international order.&quot;&quot;The U.S. side&#39;s so-called &ldquo;rules-based international order&rdquo; is an effort by the United States and a few other Western countries to frame their own rules as international rules and impose them on other countries. The United States has abandoned the universally-recognized international law and order and damaged the international system it has helped to build. And it is trying to replace it with a so-called &ldquo;rules-based international order&rdquo;. The purpose is to resort to the tactic of changing the rules to make life easy for itself and hard for others, and to introduce &ldquo;the law of the jungle&quot; where might is right and the big bully the small,&quot; Feng said.

At least 14 Confucius Institutes have closed in the United States over the past year.

China demands USA  stop  'attacking' Confucius Institutes

After more than four years of litigation, the University of Oregon and a psychology professor settled the latter&#39;s lawsuit, which claimed the school had paid her less than her male colleagues of equal rank and seniority.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://uonews.uoregon.edu/jennifer-freyd-department-psychology">Jennifer Freyd</a>, a professor emerita, is also the founder of the <a href="https://www.institutionalcourage.org/about-us">Center for Institutional Courage</a>, a non-profit working to &ldquo;create more accountable, effective, and equitable institutions.&rdquo;&nbsp;In 2014, Freyd <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/19-35428/19-35428-2021-03-15.html">discovered&nbsp;</a>that she was earning between $14,000 and $42,000 less per year than the four male colleagues most similar in rank and tenure after the UO Psychology Department shared salary information with her.In response, Freyd attempted to resolve the situation internally. After several failed tries, she <a href="https://thecollegepost.com/oregon-university-pay-disparity-lawsuit/">filed&nbsp;</a>a lawsuit in 2017 alleging that the university was in violation of the Equal Pay Act, which states that &ldquo;every worker must get equal pay for equal work regardless of gender, race, age, or other protected characteristics.&rdquo;&ldquo;Knowing that I have been paid significantly less than my male peers over the course of my career is demoralizing and humiliating. The loss of pay also has had a material impact on my freedom and opportunities now. As someone who has reached a certain level of professional achievement, I feel a sense of responsibility to speak the truth of my experience,&rdquo; Freyd wrote in a 2018 <a href="https://www.jjfreyd.com/equalpay">declaration</a>.&ldquo;The pay inequity I have experienced is very painful and I do not want the women I have mentored, my current and many former graduate students, my own daughter in graduate school, or the junior faculty we have hired in the Department of Psychology to go through what I&rsquo;ve gone through,&rdquo; she continued.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16371">[RELATED: Calif. taxpayers foot $3 million bill for CSU&#39;s &#39;Center to Close the Opportunity Gap&#39;]</a>In the <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/ca9/19-35428/19-35428-2021-03-15.html">lawsuit</a>, Freyd claimed that the UO&rsquo;s own research found that the Psychology Department &quot;faced a significant equity problem&quot; in regards to professor salaries.&nbsp;In an <a href="https://csws.uoregon.edu/2021/01/11/freyd-posts-open-letter-on-pay-equity/">open letter</a> to the UO Board of Trustees, Freyd pointed out that the psychology department conducted a self-study in 2016 which concluded that male professors, on average, earned approximately $25,000 more a year than their female colleagues.The suit stated that UO psychology department head Ulrich Mayr suggested that the college&rsquo;s deans review Freyd&rsquo;s pay because he believed it was the university&rsquo;s &ldquo;most glaring inequity case.&quot;However, in 2019, a federal judge <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/05/28/professor-loses-sex-discrimination-case-over-her-pay-vows-fight">dismissed&nbsp;</a>Freyd&rsquo;s case, siding with the university. The ruling declared that Freyd and her male counterparts are sufficiently compensated for the responsibilities they perform.&nbsp;Freyd appealed the decision to the 9th US Circuit of Appeals, which found that Freyd&rsquo;s male colleagues earned higher pay despite performing identical job responsibilities.&nbsp;&ldquo;We think that a reasonable jury could find that Freyd&rsquo;s statistical analysis shows a prima facie case of disparate impact,&rdquo; 9th Circuit Judge Jay S. Bybee in the majority opinion.&ldquo;I am pleased that the court recognized that the Equal Pay Act applies in professional settings and that courts cannot break down jobs into tiny pieces. They recognized our claim that practices like retention raises can result in discrimination against the law,&rdquo; Freyd said in a March 15 statement.&nbsp;&ldquo;This is not just a victory for me. It sends a strong message of support to so many women who continue to struggle against pay discrimination,&rdquo; she continued.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=10779">[RELATED: Faculty accuse Syracuse of failing to address &#39;gender pay gap&#39;]</a>After over four years of litigation, a joint settlement was reached between the two entities on July 16. The University of Oregon agreed to pay Freyd $350,000 to cover her &ldquo;claims for damages&rdquo; and legal fees. Additionally, UO will make a $100,000 donation to Freyd&rsquo;s organization, Center for Institutional Courage.&nbsp;&ldquo;We are pleased to put this litigation behind us and together affirm our continued commitment to uncover, acknowledge, and address gender inequity and other forms of discrimination,&rdquo; Freyd said in a <a href="https://www.jjfreyd.com/equalpay">statement&nbsp;</a>following the decision.&nbsp;UO and Freyd did not respond to Campus Reform&rsquo;s request for comment in time for publication.&nbsp;

A  professor filed a lawsuit against the University of Orgeon over an alleged gender pay gap within the psychology department.

Prof reaches $450,000 settlement  over alleged gender pay gap


A New York University School of Law professor helped gather signatures for a letter that aimed to discredit one of New York Governor Andrew Cuomo&rsquo;s sexual assault accusers.According to a Tuesday <a href="https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.08.03_nyag_-_investigative_report.pdf">report</a> released by the New York Attorney General&rsquo;s office, <a href="https://dfs.ny.gov/about_the_superintendent">Linda Lacewell</a>, an adjunct professor at NYU Law and Superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, helped gather signatures from former state Executive Chamber staff members for a letter that would have discredited Lindsey Boylan&rsquo;s <a href="https://twitter.com/lindseyboylan/status/1338125549756182529?lang=en">account</a> that the governor sexually harassed her.<blockquote>Yes, <a href="https://twitter.com/NYGovCuomo?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYGovCuomo</a> sexually harassed me for years. Many saw it, and watched. I could never anticipate what to expect: would I be grilled on my work (which was very good) or harassed about my looks. Or would it be both in the same conversation? This was the way for years.&mdash; Lindsey Boylan (@LindseyBoylan) <a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyBoylan/status/1338125549756182529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2020</a></blockquote>The report stated that the letter, which was ultimately never released, &ldquo;denied the legitimacy of Ms. Boylan&rsquo;s allegations, impugned her credibility, and attacked her claims as politically motivated.&rdquo;&nbsp;Ultimately, the Attorney General&#39;s report revealed that the governor had sexually harassed 11 women.Drafts of the letter reviewed in the NY Attorney General&rsquo;s investigation also contained information claiming that Boylan had &ldquo;connections with supporters of President Trump&rdquo; and also alleged that she had an &ldquo;interest in running for governor.&rdquo;According to Lacewell&rsquo;s profile, she is an adjunct professor at the New York University School of Law, where she teaches &ldquo;ethics in government.&rdquo; Lacewell taught &ldquo;Ethics in Government: Investigation and Enforcement&rdquo; at the NYU School of Law <a href="https://www.law.nyu.edu/academicservices/academiccalendar/2020-2021-academic-calendar">during</a> the fall 2020 semester, which ended on December 18. The process of writing the letter discrediting Boylan began on December 15.The course aimed to cover &ldquo;the legal and ethical responsibilities of lawyers in public service.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16975">[RELATED: REPORT: NYU government ETHICS prof involved in alleged Cuomo cover-up scheme]</a>Per the report, &ldquo;various drafts&rdquo; of the letter included &ldquo;complaints against Ms. Boylan that were part of the Confidential Files,&rdquo; as well as her interactions with &ldquo;male colleagues other than the Governor.&rdquo;Lacewell, along with other state employees such as Gov. Andrew Cuomo&rsquo;s Secretary Melissa DeRosa, &ldquo;sent or read&rdquo; drafts of the letter in support of Cuomo to various former Executive Chamber staff members and asked them to sign it.However, the letter was not released because Dani Lever, Cuomo&rsquo;s communications director, said that the letter was &ldquo;victim shaming,&rdquo; according to the report.Additionally, according to the report, DeRosa was &ldquo;unable to find factual support for parts of the letter.&rdquo;The group then shifted their efforts away from discrediting Boylan, and crafted of a statement from women sharing their &ldquo;positive experiences of working with the Governor,&quot; the report states.&nbsp;According to testimony from Rich Azzopardi, a senior advisor to Governor Cuomo, Lacewell helped draft the statement.Lacewell was also involved in a &ldquo;team of advisors&rdquo; which had regular discussions beginning spring 2021 regarding how the governor should respond to the sexual assault allegations publicly.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16036">[RELATED: NYU and Department of Education reach settlement over anti-Semitism complaint]</a>Bobby Miller, a former student at NYU and former president of the university&rsquo;s College Republicans chapter, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that this is an &ldquo;atrocious stain&rdquo; on the university.&ldquo;It&rsquo;s an atrocious stain on NYU that a professor would intervene in this matter to shield the governor from the law,&rdquo; Miller said.Michael Orey, the public affairs director for the NYU School of Law, told Campus Reform that the university is monitoring the situation.&ldquo;Linda Lacewell taught here in the past as an adjunct professor. She is not scheduled to teach in the coming academic year. We are aware of concerns that have been raised and are monitoring the situation,&rdquo; Orey said.Lacewell was also previously involved in <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16975">rewriting</a> a report detailing how many people died in nursing homes because of the coronavirus pandemic.Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to the New York State Department of Financial Services for comment but did not receive a response.&nbsp;

One NYU School of Law professor helped drum-up support for New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in the wake of multiple women accusing him of sexual harassment, per the state's Attorney General's report. 

REPORT: NYU Law professor attempted to discredit Cuomo accuser

According to one Vanderbilt professor, &ldquo;Critical Race Theory is the kryptonite of White evangelicals.&quot;&nbsp;Those comments come from <a href="https://divinity.vanderbilt.edu/people/bio/stacey-floyd-thomas" style=" text-align: left;">Stacey Floyd-Thomas</a>, a professor of ethics and society at the prestigious university, one of multiple guest academics during a two-part virtual sermon titled &quot;What is Critical Race Theory?&quot; hosted by Friendship-West Baptist Church.<a href="https://www.friendshipwest.org/team/our-pastor" style=" text-align: left;">Frederick Haynes</a>, the church&#39;s senior pastor, opened the June 23 by <a href="https://youtu.be/0znj8vXDLCA?t=476">claiming</a> that some religious opponents of CRT were not genuinely evangelical due to their skin color.&ldquo;What is even worse, is the fact that baptized bigotry from the Christian right, from right-wing evangelicals who are too White to be evangelical,&rdquo; Haynes said.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17193">[RELATED:&nbsp;UPenn professor condemns &lsquo;White evangelicals&rsquo; as a &lsquo;public health issue&rsquo;]</a>During the discussion with Haynes, Floyd-Thomas enumerated the tenets of Critical Race Theory, including one she related to the Black Lives Matter agenda. &quot;When people see white they see virtue and when they see blackness, right, they see a villain,&quot; Floyd-Thomas stated.&ldquo;Most racists are also Christian,&rdquo; the Vanderbilt professor also said, near the end of her segment.&nbsp;In addition, minister and former Georgetown University sociology professor <a href="https://sociology.georgetown.edu/dyson-2014/">Michael Dyson</a> shared, &ldquo;It&rsquo;s not just that Critical Race Theory is a problem for White people, Black people are a problem for White folk.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15253">[RELATED: Prof is &lsquo;nauseated&rsquo; by &lsquo;paralysis of white evangelicals&rsquo;]</a>Earlier in the discussion, Vassar College professor <a href="https://www.vassar.edu/faculty/luharris">Luke Harris</a> had said, &ldquo;CRT teaches that we must come to understand the pervasive and cyclical implications of institutional and systemic forms of racism.&rdquo;&ldquo;CRT teaches we must work not only to remove barriers to open society but to foster conditions for full membership for people of color,&rdquo; he continued.&nbsp;Harris teaches American politics and constitutional law and is chairman of the African American Policy Forum.The June 30 sermon, &quot;What Is The Critical Race Theory? PT.2,&quot; can be viewed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eigoovbASbc&t=5s">here</a>.&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to Floyd-Thomas, Haynes Dyson, and Harris for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SergeiKelley?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor">@SergeiKelley</a>

They blamed some Christians' skin color for opposition to CRT during a two-part virtual church sermon. 

Are religious CRT opponents 'too White to be evangelical'? Profs and pastors criticize Christians during panel. 

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.Pennsylvania State University is a public university within the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Around 41,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.&nbsp;Official Political Student Organizations: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17880j5u6n.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp; College RepublicansSilver WingsStudents for LifeTurning Point USA at Penn State UniversityUncensored America Liberal Organizations:&nbsp; Blacks in PoliticsCollege DemocratsNextGen at Penn StateOpulence: Drag Ambassadors at Penn StatePenn State Student Lion Pride Roundtable for Inclusion, Diversity, and EquityPlanned Parenthood Generation Action at PSUStudent&#39;s Restorative Justice InitiativeUnited Socialists at Penn State University&nbsp;OpenSecrets Data on Pennsylvania State University Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 94.50% of Pennsylvania State University employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 5.50% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/penn-state-university/recipients?id=D000036586">OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17880hi64ig.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:Pennsylvania State University has been given a <a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/pennsylvania-state-university-university-park/">yellow light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a yellow light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17880cd08m.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:Pennsylvania State University is <a href="https://virusinfo.psu.edu/faq/story/is-penn-state-making-the-covid-19-vaccine-mandatory-for-employees-or-students/">NOT</a> requiring a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about Pennsylvania State University: <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17817">Venezuelan &eacute;migr&eacute; student calls on Penn State to remove prominently displayed Fidel Castro quote</a>As anti-communist protests in Cuba persist, Erik Suarez is working with members of the student government to get Pennsylvania State University to remove the quote. The quote is featured on a wall in the university&rsquo;s Paul Robeson Cultural Center. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15438">Penn State student gov plans to &#39;interrogate&#39; members to check for &#39;internal biases&#39;</a>As part of the student government election process, all candidates at Penn State must participate in a workshop about &ldquo;bias.&rdquo; Current student government members will undergo &ldquo;anti-racism training&rdquo; and a mandatory reading. They will also be &quot;interrogated&quot; to check for &quot;internal biases.&quot; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17483">Penn State faculty cancels &#39;male-centric&#39; &#39;Junior&#39; and &#39;Senior&#39; labels</a>The Penn State faculty senate passed &quot;inclusive language&quot; reform since the school grew from a &quot;typically male-centered world.&quot; The resolution urges the university to change all written materials with the &quot;junior/senior&quot; label because it is &quot;parallel to western male father-son naming conventions.&quot;

Pennsylvania State University is a public university within the Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Around 41,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university. 

CAMPUS PROFILE: Pennsylvania State University

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.University of Texas Dallas is a public university within the University of Texas System. Around 21,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.Official Political Student Organizations: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17879suy4tx.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;College RepublicansComets for the PrebornThe Classical Liberal SocietyJohn Quincy Adams SocietyTurning Point USA at UTDYoung Americans for Liberty Liberal Organizations:&nbsp;Citizens&rsquo; Climate Lobby at University of Texas at DallasDeeds Not WordsRoosevelt at UTDStudents for Justice in PalestineSunrise MovementTexas Rising at UTDYoung Democratic Socialists of America at the University of Texas DallasThe Period ProjectQueer and Trans People of Color at UTD&nbsp;&nbsp;OpenSecrets Data on University of Texas Dallas Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 90.99% of University of Texas Dallas employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 9.01% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/university-of-texas/recipients?id=D000022296">&nbsp;OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17879kxs55h.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:University of Texas Dallas has been given a <a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/university-of-texas-at-dallas/">red light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university policy clearly and substantially restricting freedom of speech.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a red light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17879yrmiv8.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:University of Texas Dallas is <a href="https://www.utdallas.edu/covid/">NOT</a> requiring a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by&nbsp;Campus Reform about University of Texas Dallas: <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=6498">UT-Dallas changes speech policy in wake of video</a>Two female students were blocked from speaking to their peers on campus by a University of Texas at Dallas police officer. The university has now updated its free speech policies on the advice of its legal counsel. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=6432">UT Dallas faculty, students fighting Texas Senate concealed carry bill</a>On March 20, 2013, the Faculty Senate at the University of Texas at Dallas signed a resolution opposing concealed carry on campus. Two years later, the Student Government passed a similar piece of legislation with a nearly unanimous vote. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=6886">UT-Dallas prof. supports students&#39; Second Amendment rights</a>Many UT profs. have come out against campus carry. Prof. Rick Addante of the University of Texas-Dallas, however, has publicly vowed that he will not discriminate against concealed carriers.

University of Texas Dallas is a public university within the University of Texas System. Around 21,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: University of Texas Dallas

Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.George Washington University is a private university within the District of Columbia University System. Around 12,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.Official Political Student Organizations:<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//1787811573.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;Alexander Hamilton Society of George Washington UniversityGeorge Washington University Network of Enlightened WomenGW College RepublicansGW for IsraelGW Young America&#39;s FoundationTurning Point USAYoung Americans for Liberty&nbsp; Liberal Organizations:&nbsp; Allied in PrideAmnesty International at GWUBlack DefianceBusiness Pride NetworkDelta Lambda PhiEnvironmental Justice Action NetworkGW College DemocratsGW Feminist Student UnionGW RAGE - Reproductive Autonomy and Gender EquityIGNITE at GWKehila GWMarch for Our Lives GWoSTEM @ GWUOut for BusinessPersist GWProgressive Student UnionQueer and Trans People Of Color AssociationRoosevelt NetworkStudents Against ImperialismStudents for DC StatehoodStudents for Justice in PalestineSunrise GWSwing Left GWUTransgender and Non-Binary Students of GWUUndocu GWYoung Democratic Socialists of America OpenSecrets Data on George Washington University Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 95.45% of George Washington University employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 4.55% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/george-washington-university/recipients?id=D000034011">OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17878l6w6at.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:George Washington University has been given a <a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/george-washington-university/">yellow light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a yellow light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17878b830ar.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:George Washington University is <a href="https://coronavirus.gwu.edu/vaccine#:~:text=All%20GW%20community%20members%20who,will%20cause%20delays%20in%20vaccination.">requiring</a> a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about George Washington University: <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=10813">Liberal groups refuse to join bipartisan event with conservatives</a>The George Washington University College Democrats declined to participate in a Bipartisan Discussion Summit last week, citing &ldquo;hesitations&rdquo; about working with conservative students. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15083">&#39;Stunning image&#39; shows &#39;toppled&#39; George Washington statue at GWU</a>A number of crimes have taken place in Washington, D.C. in recent weeks as rioters ravaged the nation&#39;s capital. George Washington University, located in the city, has also had its fair share of violent protests, including the vandalism of a bust of the country&#39;s first president, George Washington. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=11542">EXCLUSIVE: GWU Student Bar Association labels Christian org a &#39;hate group&#39;</a>Following a discussion on the Masterpiece Cakeshop ruling hosted by the George Washington University Federalist Society, the Student Bar Association and law school dean sent emails condemning the invited speaker from the Alliance Defending Freedom.

George Washington University is a private university within the District of Columbia University System. Around 12,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: George Washington University

Progressives have not done enough to stem the rise of anti-Semitism in the United States.&nbsp;That is according to <a href="https://scholars.org/scholar/noam-schimmel" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Noam Schimmel</a>, a human rights expert and <a href="https://classes.berkeley.edu/search/class/noam%2520schimmel?retain-filters=1">instructor</a> at the University of California, Berkeley, who recently published an <a href="https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/story/2021-07-19/jewish-community-assault-abuse-allies">opinion piece&nbsp;</a>in The San Diego Tribune, where he argued that &quot;Jews have been overwhelmingly abandoned by progressive activists.&quot;Schimmel references a recent attack on the San Diego State University Chabad House, as well as violent assaults targeting Jews &ldquo;eating at restaurants, going to synagogue for prayer, gathering to celebrate life events and holidays, at home, walking around their neighborhoods or simply existing and being a part of society.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17766">[RELATED: Vandals desecrate menorah at SDSU Chabad house]</a>&nbsp;Social media, he argued, is one of the biggest factors assisting the rise in anti-Semitism, as well as why hate directed against the Jewish community is &quot;becoming normalized.&quot;A recent <a href="https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/preliminary-adl-data-reveals-uptick-in-antisemitic-incidents-linked-to-recent">twitter analysis&nbsp;</a>by the Anti-Defamation League&nbsp;found more than 17,000 tweets with variations of the phrase, &ldquo;Hitler was right&rdquo; in the weeks after the initial outbreak of violence between Israel and Hamas. &nbsp;He stated, &ldquo;The same community of conscience I marched with and supported to advance social justice and human rights is not coming together to defend my rights.&rdquo;&ldquo;Is it because many progressives do not take racism against Jews as seriously as other forms of racism,&rdquo; Schimmel asked.&nbsp;Schimmel and UC Berkeley did not respond to a request for comment from Campus Reform by publication.

A human rights scholar recently wrote that progressives' indifference to hate against Jews has 'normalized' anti-Semitism in the US. 

Berkeley instructor says 'Jews have been overwhelmingly abandoned by progressive activists'

Brown University President<a href="https://www.brown.edu/about/administration/president/about/president-christina-h-paxson">&nbsp;Christina H. Paxson</a>&nbsp;wrote an open letter recently in support of&nbsp;Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) students at the Ivy League institution.&ldquo;As always, we want our community to be assured that Brown does not share information with law enforcement regarding the immigration status of undocumented or DACA status students, and would not without a subpoena or other lawfully issued court order,&rdquo; Paxson stated in the July 21 <a href="https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-07-21/daca">letter</a>.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=13993">[RELATED: Campus Reform | Berkeley backs illegal students as SCOTUS hears DACA arguments]</a>The university president was responding to a July 16 by a Federal District Court <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-judge-blocks-new-applications-daca-program-dreamer-immigrants-2021-07-16/">ruling</a> that the program is &quot;illegal,&quot; a decision that as of this writing blocks new applicants. President Biden has <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/16/politics/daca-ruling-hanen/index.html">indicated&nbsp;</a>that the Department of Justice will appeal the decision.&nbsp;Paxson called undocumented students and employees on campus &ldquo;valued members of our community.&rdquo; To that end, Brown offers programs for undocumented students such as the <a href="https://www.brown.edu/ufli/programs-and-services">FLI Scholars Program and the Undocumented Students Program</a>, which was started in 2016.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15097">[RELATED: Campus Reform | UC stood ready to support DACA students, &#39;no matter the outcome&#39; of SCOTUS decision]</a>She had previously co-signed a <a href="https://www.presidentsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/2021-07-19-Letter-to-Leaders-Schumer-and-McConnell-Re-Dream-Legislation-Presidents-Alliance-ABIC-Final.pdf">letter</a> sent to Senate Leaders Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), urging the Senate to pass the <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/264">Dream Act of 2021</a>, which would create a pathway to citizenship for DACA recipients.Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Brown University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.

She also co-signed a letter in support of the Dream Act of 2021. 

Brown U president issues pro-DACA letter after court ruling on the program's legality

If students at Birmingham Southern College want to stay unvaccinated, they&#39;ll have to pay the school $500.&nbsp;The Alabama institution is <a href="https://www.bsc.edu/covid19/fall2021.html?utm_source=Master+List&utm_campaign=c4151bc319-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_03_26_05_17_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_06ec6328a8-c4151bc319-570095673">charging</a>&nbsp;every student a $500 fee in order to &ldquo;Offset continual weekly antigen testing and quarantining.&quot;&nbsp;Though fully vaccinated students will &quot;receive an immediate $500 rebate,&quot; unvaccinated students will only get the money back after they become vaccinated.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17926z1op3ScreenShotat.21" class="fr-fic fr-dii">In addition to this policy, the university is also mandating weekly COVID-19 testing and a a separate move-in date for unvaccinated students.&nbsp;Birmingham Southern College states that they are instituting the additional fee because of a &quot;lack of federal funds for pandemic precautions this term.&quot; &nbsp;As of <a href="https://covid-relief-data.ed.gov/profile/entity/067136580">June 30</a>, the college still has $140,076 remaining in the Institutional Portion of its allocated CARES Act Higher Education Emergency Relief (HEER) Fund total.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17926hcdzrScreenshot.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">The new guidelines also include punishment for those who fail to comply. BSC&rsquo;s new protocol allows for the revocation of online access to school material that are &ldquo;essential to academic success&rdquo; for students who do not follow the new guidelines regarding masks.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17910">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Vaccine policy switch may put doctoral student&#39;s future in jeopardy]</a>The policies have received harsh criticism across the state. On Thursday, <a href="https://algop.org/state-senator-phil-williams/">State Senator Phil Williams</a>, on his radio program <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jTMAXHHEqZG8KBWbEUIBx_yuScLnEktF/view">Rightside Radio</a>, said BSC was creating a &quot;caste system&quot; between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.&nbsp;The College Republican Federation of Alabama released a<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pZ3Ovpj-XNttMNvDKOMPApkovKlT8OS_/view?usp=sharing">&nbsp;statement&nbsp;</a>condemning the new policies. In their statement, the CRFA claimed, &ldquo;This is a blatant attack meant to shame students who are not vaccinated.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17855">[RELATED: Judge approves IU vaccine mandate, Purdue implements &#39;choice model&#39;]</a>The new school policy &nbsp;comes just a few days after Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall <a href="https://www.wrbl.com/news/alabama-news/attorney-general-steve-marshall-clarifies-legal-questions-surrounding-covid-19-vaccines-in-alabama/">clarified</a> the application of <a href="https://legiscan.com/AL/text/SB267/id/2309837">SB 267</a>, which was signed into law on May 24, stating private and public colleges in the state cannot add new vaccination requirements.While other Alabama higher education institutions are implementing incentives for students to vaccinate, no other school has adopted an extra fee.

BSC will charge $500 to all students, but immediately refund those that are vaccinated. 

Birmingham Southern College imposes $500 fee on unvaccinated students

This fall, several major public universities are offering courses on LGBTQ sexuality, sex education, and activism, which go far beyond the histories of LGBTQ individuals and movements.&nbsp;Instead, many of these courses focus on leftist politics and activist causes.&nbsp;Humboldt State University&#39;s Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Sexuality Studies is <a href="https://catalog.humboldt.edu/preview_entity.php?catoid=5&ent_oid=303">using</a> a &quot;Community Activism&quot; course to teach students &quot;organizational and activist skills&quot; in a course that will involve &quot;hands-on projects.&quot;Students at the University of Wisconsin can <a href="https://guide.wisc.edu/courses/gen_ws/">sign</a> up this fall for classes including &quot;Queer Bodies&quot; and &quot;Queering EcoFeminism.&quot; The course description of the latter <a href="https://public.enroll.wisc.edu/search?term=1222&keywords=ecofeminism">claims</a> that the class will entail &quot;a feminist study of LGBTQ sexualities considering race, nationality, and time.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17248">[RELATED: Profs argue that LGBTQ-inclusive sex education should begin early, before &lsquo;cisnormative values&#39; become &#39;more deeply ingrained&rsquo;]</a>The University of Washington is <a href="https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/GWSS464?states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAJwCsAHADTJjrZgAKWUKZKWalAEw0A7ADoAzFIkAWCTQAM9GlRkBfEGqA">offering</a> a course titled &quot;Queer Desires,&quot; which will &quot;[explore] desire and the politics of sexuality.&quot;&nbsp;Portland State University is <a href="https://app.banner.pdx.edu/StudentRegistrationSsb/ssb/classSearch/classSearch">offering</a> a class titled &quot;Queer Feelings,&quot; though the course description offers no details about the topic at the time of publication.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=11783">[RELATED: Here&#39;s how much UC-Santa Barbara is willing to pay an LGBTQ &#39;advocate&#39;]</a>Finally, students at James Madison University this year will have the opportunity to <a href="https://catalog.jmu.edu/content.php?filter%5B27%5D=WGSS&filter%5B29%5D=&filter%5Bcourse_type%5D=-1&filter%5Bkeyword%5D=&filter%5B32%5D=1&filter%5Bcpage%5D=1&cur_cat_oid=44&expand=&navoid=2127&search_database=Filter#acalog_template_course_filter">earn</a> three credits through a &quot;Feminist Blogging&quot; course, in which they will learn to &quot;work in a feminist collective,&quot; writing and publicizing a blog, according to the course description, &quot;as a means of consciousness raising.&quot;&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" style=" text-align: start;">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

A gender and sexuality course at Humboldt State University is teaching students 'organizational and activist skills.'

University students will learn about ‘Queer Feelings’ & ‘activist skills’ this fall

Campus Reform reporter Ophelie Jacobson spoke with Representative Andy Biggs (AZ-5) about some of the most pressing issues higher education is facing in this country today. 

WATCH: Rep Biggs warns against 'ideological indoctrination' on campuses 


Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.Michigan State University is a public land-grant university. Around 39,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.&nbsp;Official Political Student Organizations: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17874u4xfv4.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;College Republicans at Michigan StateJames Madison College ConservativesSpartans for IsraelSpartyPACStudents for Trump at Michigan State UniversityTurning Point USA at Michigan State UniversityYoung Americans for Freedom at Michigan State UniversityProtect Life at MSU&nbsp; Liberal Organizations:&nbsp;American Civil Liberties Union Students ChapterAmnesty International MSUArcCollege Democrats at Michigan State UniversitydreaMSUJMC Kennedy DemocratsPlanned Parenthood Generation ActionPRIDE People of Color Coalition (Formerly LGBTQ People of Color)Roosevelt Institute @ Michigan State UniversitySpartan PrideSpartans for SandersSpartans with Warren for PresidentStudents Against Gun Violence @ MSUStudents for Pete ButtigiegStudents for SlotkinStudents United for Palestinian Rights (Formerly Students for Justice in Palestine)TransActionWomxn of Color: James Madison College&nbsp;OpenSecrets Data on Michigan State University Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 94.96% of Michigan State University employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 5.04% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/michigan-state-university/recipients?id=D000035857">&nbsp;OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17874xf6wpj.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:Michigan State University has been given a<a href="https://www.thefire.org/michigan-state-university/">&nbsp;red light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university policy clearly and substantially restricting freedom of speech.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a red light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17874xcqag.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:Michigan State University is <a href="https://msu.edu/together-we-will/faqs/#:~:text=Is%20MSU%20mandating%20faculty%2C%20staff,of%20some%20very%20limited%20settings.">NOT</a> requiring a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about Michigan State University: <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16026">MSU &#39;eliminates&#39; the terms &#39;foreign&#39; and &#39;alien&#39;</a>Instead, it will replace the terms with &quot;non-domestic&quot; and &quot;international.&quot; The Michigan State University Provost said the school would no longer use the terms &quot;foreign&quot; or &quot;alien.&quot; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16703">MSU had nearly 1,200 racial incident reports in 5 years. Here&#39;s how many were valid.</a>Michigan State University students and faculty reported nearly 1,200 racial incidents over a period of five years. Less than one percent of those reported incidents, however, were determined to be racial bias. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=15008">MSU student gov helps promote LOOTING as &#39;righteous&#39; act</a>The Michigan State University student government shared a website promoting the practice of looting. The shared resource also claimed that Capitalism, not looting, is the &quot;real capitalism.&quot;

Michigan State University is a public university within the Michigan State University System. Around 39,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university. 

CAMPUS PROFILE: Michigan State University

The CDC recently <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/27/cdc-masks-guidance-indoors/">announced</a> new recommendations for mask-wearing for individuals who are vaccinated.&nbsp;CDC Director Rochelle Walensky told reporters Tuesday that &ldquo;in areas with substantial and high transmission, CDC recommends fully vaccinated people wear masks in public, indoor settings to help prevent the spread of the delta variant, and protect others.&rdquo; Walensky added that &ldquo;this includes schools, including teachers, staff, students and visitors, regardless of vaccination status,&quot; according to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/07/27/cdc-to-reverse-indoor-mask-policy-to-recommend-them-for-fully-vaccinated-people-in-covid-hot-spots.html">CNBC</a>.This update comes just two months after the CDC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/13/cdc-says-fully-vaccinated-people-dont-need-to-wear-face-masks-indoors-or-outdoors-in-most-settings.html">announced</a> that individuals who are vaccinated don&rsquo;t have to wear a mask.&nbsp;Universities are now putting those updated recommendations into practice.&nbsp;Campus Reform has researched some of the most notable mask policies implemented by U.S. colleges and universities for the upcoming school year.&nbsp;On July 19, 2021, Georgetown University sent out a message to the community with its &ldquo;Fall 2021 Public Health Guidelines for Students, Faculty and Staff.&rdquo; The <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/news/fall-2021-public-health-guidelines-for-students-faculty-and-staff/">guidelines&nbsp;</a>state that &ldquo;individuals, regardless of vaccination status, will wear a mask indoors in University-owned or operated buildings, except when eating or drinking, when alone in a private office or when in your personal residence.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17682">[RELATED: Monmouth University requires vaccinated students to wear masks for fall semester]</a>The university goes on to state that they &ldquo;will continue to monitor public health conditions in our community&rdquo; and that they &ldquo;expect to ease the indoor mask requirement if they remain favorable.&rdquo;Georgetown University has also <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/coronavirus/covid-19-vaccines/#covid-19-vaccination-requirement">required&nbsp;</a>that all students, faculty and staff show proof of a COVID vaccination to be on campus or &ldquo;in a University-owned or operated building in Washington, DC.&rdquo;The<a href="https://georgetown.app.box.com/s/ohbuft9qrjo6etuqtesx1nzuf1ynjgjd">&nbsp;mask guidelines</a> also made it clear what type of mask the school recommends, stating that individuals should &ldquo;wear a surgical-style mask, or other medical-style mask&rdquo; or even &ldquo;consider double-masking (cloth mask on top of a surgical-style mask).&rdquo; The school said it recommends &ldquo;against wearing a cloth mask alone.&rdquo;For those who don&rsquo;t comply with the mask guidelines, they can be &ldquo;asked or directed to leave the campus space.&rdquo; Additionally, &ldquo;employees and students who are directed to leave a campus space for failure to comply with these Guidelines may be taken off duty and/or subject to disciplinary action in accordance with University policies and the Georgetown University Community Compact.&rdquo;Similarly, Central Connecticut State University has <a href="https://www.ccsu.edu/blueprint/">required&nbsp;</a>that all students, faculty and staff wear masks in all campus buildings, even though the entire community population will be vaccinated, according to the school&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.ccsu.edu/blueprint/vaccinations.html">requirements</a>.&nbsp;The university has allowed for a few exceptions to the mask mandate, giving students the permission to remove their masks:<ul><li style="list-style-type: disc;">Students are not required to wear face masks when in their residence hall room.</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;">Faculty teaching behind plexiglass at a teacher&rsquo;s station may intermittently remove their mask.</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;">Individuals eating in university designated dining areas may remove their mask.</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;">Faculty and staff who work in a private office or a cubicle with 60-inch-high walls or plexiglass can remove their mask.</li><li style="list-style-type: disc;">During a presentation, individuals who are at a podium at least 12 feet from the audience can remove their mask when speaking.</li></ul>The school will also require &ldquo;individuals to maintain 3 feet of distance indoors and outdoors.&rdquo;If a student doesn&rsquo;t abide by the mask policies, a member of faculty or staff can direct the &ldquo;student to leave classroom/office/area.&rdquo; They also have the option to &ldquo;call Student Affairs Office (860) 832-1601 for immediate assistance (and a member of the Student Response Team will be dispatched to the site. The responder will determine if and when CCSU Police assistance is required.&rdquo;Montclair State University is requiring all students and employees to wear masks on campus in the fall. This comes even though the school is <a href="https://www.montclair.edu/redhawk-restart/fall-vaccine-faqs/">requiring</a> all of its students to get vaccinated before returning to campus; however, the school &ldquo;does not require continuing employees to be vaccinated.&rdquo;The mask mandate even applies to bathrooms.&nbsp;According to the school&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.montclair.edu/redhawk-restart/red-hawk-restart-faqs/facecovering-faqs/">website</a>, masks must be worn at all times in classrooms, health care facilities, all university buses, elevators and even restrooms.Montclair State University states that &ldquo;whether you are vaccinated or not, students and employees must wear face coverings indoors whenever it is not possible to keep 6 feet of distance from other people. Masks may be removed when you&rsquo;re alone in a private room or when you are seated at your workstation with at least 6 feet of distance from others.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17476">[RELATED: REPORT: Three UMass students suspended after taking photo outdoors without masks]</a>Duke University is also following this same <a href="https://today.duke.edu/2021/07/duke-require-masks-indoors-again-because-delta-surge">trend</a> of requiring all students, faculty and staff to wear masks on campus regardless of vaccination status. The school will also be requiring its community members to <a href="https://covidvaccine.duke.edu/#:~:text=All%20Duke%20University%20students%2C%20faculty,surveillance%20testing%20until%20further%20notice.">submit&nbsp;</a>proof of vaccination status before returning to campus in the fall.&nbsp;In a letter sent to all university faculty, staff and students on June 28, the school stated that &ldquo;given the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths in North Carolina related to a combination of the Delta variant and the number of people who remain unvaccinated, all individuals will be required to wear face masks in all Duke-owned and leased buildings effective Friday, July 30, until further notice.&rdquo;&ldquo;This requirement applies to all students, faculty, staff and visitors regardless of vaccination status. Masks will not be required in on-campus residence halls where there is a significantly lower risk of exposure for high-risk individuals,&rdquo; the statement said.&nbsp;University administrations aren&rsquo;t the only ones cracking down on vaccination status and mask policies. One professor from Rutgers University took to Twitter to express his opinion on unvaccinated students.Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Richard H. Ebright <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1418671179527774208">tweeted</a>, &ldquo;the unvaccinated need to be excluded from public spaces, businesses, and schools.&rdquo;<blockquote>The unvaccinated need to be excluded from public spaces, businesses, and schools.&mdash; Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) <a href="https://twitter.com/R_H_Ebright/status/1418671179527774208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 23, 2021</a></blockquote>This tweet was in response to a CBS video that was <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1418648074013007876?s=20">tweeted&nbsp;</a>about the NFL saying that&nbsp;&ldquo;any team that causes a game to be canceled due to COVID outbreaks among unvaccinated players will be responsible for financial losses, could lead to forfeited games &mdash; and neither team&#39;s players will be paid.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Montclair State University about the policy. Andrew Mees, Media Relations Director, said that the &ldquo;mask policy is based on CDC recommendations and guidance from the NJ Department of Health. Masks are only required indoors whenever it is not possible to keep 6 feet of distance from people who may not be vaccinated. They may be removed in group settings where there is less than 6 feet of distance as long as everyone in the group is fully vaccinated.&rdquo;&nbsp;The university went on to say that &ldquo;students and employees who are not vaccinated will be required to wear a mask indoors and outdoors and may only remove it when alone in a private room, eating or drinking, or when seated at a workstation with at least 6 feet of distance from other people.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Each day, we are getting a clearer picture of the vaccination status of our community members. We have not yet achieved a 100% vaccination rate - we are at 83% of students registered for fall classes and 81% of full-time employees - and there will be members of our community, including students, faculty and staff, who have or will receive an exemption as permitted by NJ law. Because of this, we have decided to continue mandating masks in order to keep unvaccinated community members safe when they are on campus.&rdquo; The school told Campus Reform that it &ldquo;does not plan to change its mask policy at this time.&rdquo; The university said it will &ldquo;continue to monitor the guidance provided to us by federal and state public health authorities, and we will adjust as necessary.&rdquo;&nbsp;When asked why the school still mandates masks if they believe the vaccines are safe and effective, the school said that they &ldquo;are following the best available scientific guidance, which suggests that wearing masks helps slow the spread of the virus.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to Ebright as well as Georgetown University, Central Connecticut State University, Montclair State University, and Duke University about their policies but did not receive a response in time for publication. Campus Reform will continue to monitor university policies and guidelines for masks and vaccines as the school year continues.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/opheliejacobson">@opheliejacobson</a>

The updated mask requirements align with the CDC’s recent announcement recommending vaccinated people still wear masks in certain settings.  


Universities mandate masks for vaccinated students, employees


Campus Reform Campus Profiles evaluate individual American college campuses based on liberal bias, speech codes, and other relevant policies and factors.University of South Carolina is a public university within the University of South Carolina System. Around 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.Official Political Student Organizations: <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//1787081vvm.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> Conservative Organizations:&nbsp;Advocates for LifeCollege LibertariansCollege RepublicansGamecocks for IsraelGamecocks for BabiesJohn Quincy Adams SocietyNetwork of Enlightened WomenTurning Point USAYoung Americans for FreedomYoung Americans for Liberty Liberal Organizations:&nbsp; American Civil Liberties Union (Columbia College Chapter)Carolina Equity AllianceCarolina SocialistsCollege DemocratsDiversity SpeaksIndividuals Respecting Identities and SexualitiesPlanned Parenthood Generation ActionPride in ProfessionalismRoosevelt InstituteStudents for Justice in PalestineThe Feminist CollectiveTrans Student AllianceWomen LEAD OpenSecrets Data on University of South Carolina Employee Political Donations:In the 2020 election cycle, 96.48% of University of South Carolina employee donations went to Democratic candidates in federal elections, while 3.52% of donations went to Republican candidates in federal elections, according to data from<a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/university-of-south-carolina/recipients?id=D000030691">&nbsp;OpenSecrets.&nbsp;</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//178705suqx.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii">Foundation for Individual Rights in Education Rating:University of South Carolina has been given a<a href="https://www.thefire.org/schools/university-of-south-carolina-columbia/">&nbsp;yellow light</a> speech code. According to FIRE, this is due to &ldquo;at least one university ambiguous policy that too easily encourages administrative abuse and arbitrary application.&rdquo; FIRE also notes that a yellow light policy at a public institution is unconstitutional.&nbsp;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17870k121b.png" class="fr-fic fr-dii"> COVID-19:The University of South Carolina is <a href="https://sc.edu/safety/coronavirus/index.php">NOT</a> requiring a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for students.&nbsp;Stories by Campus Reform about University of South Carolina: <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=6993">U. of South Carolina students to stage walkout Monday morning</a>Google Doc screenshots leaked on Twitter reveal that protests regarding slavery and transgender rights among other topics will begin at University of South Carolina on Monday.&nbsp; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=6781">Univ. of South Carolina Student Senate mandates Safe Zone Ally Training</a>University of South Carolina&rsquo;s Student Senate passed a bill requiring all Student Government members to participate in Safe Zone Ally Training to support the LGBTQ+ community. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=6783">South Carolina student group stymied by free speech zones</a>Students affiliated with Young Americans for Liberty were barred from meeting on University of South Carolina&rsquo;s campus.

University of South Carolina is a public university within the South Carolina State University System. Around 28,000 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university.

CAMPUS PROFILE: University of South Carolina

Some public university presidents have earned salaries equivalent to hundreds of students&#39; annual tuition rates as the cost of college increased significantly since the Great Recession.&nbsp;In March, the <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/article/executive-compensation-at-public-and-private-colleges/#id=table_private_2018">Chronicle of Higher Education</a> released data on nearly 300 university presidents&rsquo; compensation packages between 2010 and 2019. A Campus Reform analysis of the data reveals that it takes hundreds of students&rsquo; tuition bills to pay the administrators.According to <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/13/cost-of-college-increased-by-more-than-25percent-in-the-last-10-years.html">CNBC</a>, the cost to attend public universities increased by 29.8% from 2008-2018.For instance, Georgia State University President Mark Becker earns $2,806,517 per year in base salary and other bonuses. Since each in-state student pays $11,076 in tuition per year, Becker is compensated with 253 students&rsquo; tuition bills.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17595">[RELATED: Oregon Dept of Education raided student absentee program funding to pay Nikole Hannah-Jones $50,000]</a>The trend continues for University of Florida President Kent Fuchs ($1,147,064), Auburn University President Steven Leath ($1,836,226), University of Nebraska-Omaha Provost Jeffrey Gold ($1,174,521), and former University of South Florida President Judy Genshaft ($876,446). The four administrators make the equivalent of 180, 156, 147, and 137 students&rsquo; annual tuition payments.The other 15 of the top 20 highest-paid presidents are as follows, alphabetically by institution:&nbsp;1. Arizona State University President Michael M. Crow ($1,150,361) &mdash; 101 tuition payments2. Augusta University President Brooks Keel ($906,732) &mdash; 103 tuition payments3. Florida State University President John Thrasher ($767,014) &mdash; 118 tuition payments4. Former East Carolina University Chancellor Cecil Staton ($884,277) &mdash; 122 tuition payments5. Former Ohio State University President Michael Drake ($1,422,154) &mdash; 123 tuition payments6. Former Portland State University President Rahmat Shoureshi ($1,095,393) &mdash; 108 tuition payments7. Former Texas A&amp;M University President Michael Young ($1,610,977) &mdash; 129 tuition payments8. Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum ($822,523) &mdash; 91 tuition payments9. North Carolina State University Chancellor Randolph Woodson ($874,712) &mdash; 96 tuition payments10. Purdue University President Mitchell Daniels ($962,412) &mdash; 96 tuition payments11. University at Buffalo President Satish Tripathi ($900,192) &mdash; 84 tuition payments12. University of Alabama-Birmingham President Raymond Watts ($949,840) &mdash; 89 tuition payments13. University of Houston Chancellor Renu Khator ($1,164,064) &mdash; 101 tuition payments14. University of Texas-Austin President Gregory Fenves ($1,090,223) &mdash; 98 tuition payments15. West Virginia University President Gordon Lee ($903,257) &mdash; 101 tuition paymentsCampus Reform&nbsp;has frequently reported on public colleges&rsquo; tendency to offer high pay rates for administrators.&nbsp;In 2017, Campus Reform revealed that American universities <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9428">paid</a> diversity czars an average salary of $175,000.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16473">[RELATED: Rutgers pays new &#39;Equity&#39; VP $300,000, despite projected $200 million COVID losses]</a>The administrator who runs Rutgers University&rsquo;s &ldquo;Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and Community Engagement&rdquo; earns $300,000 per year &mdash; despite the school&rsquo;s COVID-incuded budget shortfalls.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

The highest-compensated presidents have salaries that equal hundreds of students' annual tuition dollars. 

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&quot;Gender and the Body: Representation and Pornography,&quot; a fall 2021 class at Rutgers University, will teach students to analyze pornography using film and gender studies methods.&nbsp;Per the course <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/component/tags/tag/fall-2021">description</a>, &quot;students will learn how viewing art, film, and pornography through the lens of gender and embodiment enriches your understanding of art in general.&quot;Art historian <a href="https://www.centerforthehumanities.org/programming/participants/tara-burk">Tara Burk</a> will instruct the class.&nbsp;By the end of the semester, students &quot;will be able to....view programming on television or the Internet with the ability to do critical analysis.&quot; Students will also &quot;know how to discuss [their] observations and communicate them to others.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=11574">[RELATED: UW admins under fire for porn star appearance, misuse of funds]</a>A course description <a href="https://womens-studies.rutgers.edu/academics/undergraduate/undergraduate-courses/current-course-descriptions">explains</a> that &quot;many artists have considered and engaged pornography...and used pornography as a liberating force.&quot; It goes on to state that the class will &quot;consider the range of ways the nude body and pornography exist in contemporary art.&quot; The class will &quot;focus primarily on contemporary feminist art and pornography (since 1970).&quot;New Jersey&#39;s flagship public college is not the first to share porn-related content with its students. In 2013, Washington University St. Louis <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=4619">hosted</a> an event about pursuing careers in pornography. Two years later, a class on Internet Resistance at Carnegie Mellon&#39;s School of Art <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=6238">assigned</a> students to invent a new genre of porn.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14505" target="_blank">[RELATED: Brown prof promotes &#39;feminist porn&#39; to students]</a>The Rutgers course will be delivered entirely online. Based on the university&#39;s current schedule of fees, the 3-credit course in the Women&#39;s and Gender Studies Department will <a href="https://studentabc.rutgers.edu/sites/default/files/2021-2022%20NB%20Undergraduate%20Schools.pdf">cost</a>&nbsp;$1.212 for in-state students and $2,898 for out-of-state students.Rutgers University has been contacted for comment; this piece will be updated with any response.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" style=" text-align: start;">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

Other well-known universities including Carnegie Mellon have taught courses on pornography. 

Pornography course at Rutgers examines 'Gender and the Body'

The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) will spend $2.5 million of COVID-19 relief money on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs.&nbsp;In late June, Gov. Tom Wolf (D-PA) announced <a href="https://www.media.pa.gov/pages/education-details.aspx?newsid=1146">support</a> for a budget that included $50 million in American Rescue Plan money for PASSHE &ldquo;to support the redesign and growth of the system to make a college education more affordable and accessible for students.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;This budget makes a historic investment in education so our students get the knowledge and skills they deserve,&rdquo; remarked Wolf in a June 25 announcement.The allocation &mdash; which will extend for the following three years and give PASSHE a total of $200 million &mdash; <a href="https://www.berksmontnews.com/news/pa--owned-universities-will-invest-2-5-million-on-diversity-equity-inclusion-initiatives/article_af5dad23-51f5-5aef-ab3f-2dbefe64f2fd.html">contains</a> the $2.5 million for DEI in the current school year. A <a href="https://pasenate.com/senator-haywood-and-passhe-announce-dei-funding/">press release</a> from the Pennsylvania Senate Democrats attributes the allocation to the efforts of State Senator Judy Schwank.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17379">[RELATED: Pennsylvania higher ed governing body makes massive &lsquo;diversity, equity, and inclusion&rsquo; move]</a>The release notes that East Stroudsburg University students Brandon Teel and Zuri Redmond are currently organizing &ldquo;the racist campus environment at their institution.&rdquo; They created the &ldquo;Coalition to End Campus Racism&rdquo; in order to demand that PASSHE leverage its diversity funds to &ldquo;end racial harassment and speech,&rdquo; &ldquo;unveil mandatory diversity training,&rdquo; and &ldquo;hire more faculty and staff of color,&rdquo; among other goals.As Campus Reform previously reported, the American Rescue Plan &mdash; President Biden&rsquo;s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill &mdash; included $35 billion for the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, which ensures that colleges &ldquo;have critical resources to implement public health protocols, execute distance learning plans, and provide emergency grants to students in need.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16662">[RELATED: Biden&#39;s stimulus plan makes billions already thrown at colleges look like chump change]</a>Campus Reform reported in April that Congress allocated $14.2 billion to universities through the CARES Act &mdash; meaning that the American Rescue Plan offered colleges nearly three times the amount of emergency funding as the earlier package.Campus Reform reached out to PASSHE for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft">@BenZeisloft</a>

The money comes from America Rescue Plan funds earmarked for the state's university system this coming academic year. 

PA allocates $2.5 million of COVID relief money on diversity, equity programs

Rep. Rosendale is leading a group of GOP lawmakers in asking the U.S. Olympic Committee to preserve decorum among Team USA athletes.

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As nationwide calls to defund the police increase, crime in the city of Chicago continues to rise. Students going to school in the city told Campus Reform that the crime is noticeable.According to <a href="https://home.chicagopolice.org/wp-content/uploads/1_PDFsam_Daily_Public_CompStat_Report-3.pdf">statistics&nbsp;</a>published by the Chicago Police Department, murders are up 49% since 2019 and criminal sexual assault is up 23% since 2020. According to the <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/data/ct-shooting-victims-map-charts-htmlstory.html">Chicago Tribune</a> crime team, there have been over 2,020 victims of gun violence so far this year, an increase of more than 160 from last year.According to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2021/6/22/22544894/chicago-shootings-monday-june-21-crime-homicide-gun-violence">Chicago Sun Times</a>, 2020 ended with 775 murders, an increase of more than 50% from the 506 homicides in the prior year.Over the July 4th weekend, Chicago <a href="https://apnews.com/article/il-state-wire-chicago-shootings-homicide-ad5625aa7f0b93073a9b80142e5712fe">saw&nbsp;</a>one of its most violent weekends as over 100 people were shot. At least a dozen children were caught in the crosshairs of the gun violence.Campus Reform&nbsp;spoke to students who attend college in Chicago to get their firsthand experience with living in the city.When asked if he has noticed an increase in crime in the city since he started at University of Illinois Chicago, sophomore Ethan Melman told Campus Reform that he has noticed a rise in criminal activity.&ldquo;I work for my school&#39;s Student Patrol and since we are issued police radios we hear about all the reports that come through for the UIC police and those reports have only gone up. Car jacking, fondling of women in streets, and robbery are staples of the area of Chicago,&rdquo; Melman said.&nbsp;He added that there has been a noticeable increase in the number of 911 calls in the past week.Despite the data, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot <a href="https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/chicago-mayor-lorilightfoot-crime/2021/06/27/id/1026604/">claimed&nbsp;</a>that &ldquo;crime is on the decline&rdquo; in a June press conference.&ldquo;All of our major indices show a decline in our crime, and our homicides and our shootings year over year are down,&rdquo; Lightfoot said.&ldquo;We got a call for the police about a guy who brought a gun out to a bar literally a three minute walk from one of the campus&rsquo;s biggest dorms, the JST,&rdquo; Melman admitted.Lightfoot believes that the issue is the prevalence of illegal firearms in the city, and she is committed to &ldquo;fight and make sure this plague of gun violence is one that we win once and for all.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s wrong that the politicians of Chicago are flat out lying to the people of the city by claiming crime is going down when it very much is on the rise and nothing is being done to stop it,&rdquo; University of Illinois Chicago sophomore Ethan Melman told Campus Reform.&nbsp;&ldquo;The city is not getting any better and the crimes are not stopping. Something must be done because I [don&rsquo;t] think it&#39;s normal that people have to walk around with knives and pepper spray everywhere to keep some semblance of safety while the mayor keeps talking about guns on the street and how they must be stopped,&rdquo; Melman continued.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17572">[RELATED: At request of Black student orgs, UMD admin launch plan to defund police, crack down on &lsquo;hate speech&rsquo;]</a>Lightfoot&rsquo;s goal will be difficult as gang members in Chicago outnumber the city&rsquo;s police officers 10:1, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-gangsters-outnumber-cops-10-to-1-as-spike-in-crime-reaches-fever-pitch">Fox News&rsquo;</a> Geraldo Rivera.Citing Superintendent David Brown and Mayor Lori Lightfoot&rsquo;, Rivera <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1414653004469391360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1414653004469391360%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fus%2Fchicago-gangsters-outnumber-cops-10-to-1-as-spike-in-crime-reaches-fever-pitch">tweeted&nbsp;</a>that Chicago&rsquo;s roughly <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicagos-top-cop-breaks-down-number-of-gangs-in-city-how-theyre-structured/2309434/">117,000 gang members</a> outnumber the city&rsquo;s <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2021/6/18/22538601/chicago-police-department-retirements-soar-ray-lopez-john-catanzara">13,000 police officers</a> by roughly 10 to 1.&nbsp;<blockquote>11 more murdered in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chicago?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Chicago</a>. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MayorLoriLightfoot?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MayorLoriLightfoot</a> says there are 117,000 gang members vs 12-13,000 cops, Gangsters outnumber cops 10 to 1. A joint federal, state and local effort urgently needed. Constitutional implementation of stop &amp; frisk, massive use of Rico. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GhettoCivilWar?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GhettoCivilWar</a>&mdash; Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeraldoRivera/status/1414653004469391360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 12, 2021</a></blockquote>This disproportion is worsening as the Chicago Police Department has seen a record number of retirements this year.According to the <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/city-hall/2021/6/18/22538601/chicago-police-department-retirements-soar-ray-lopez-john-catanzara">Chicago Sun-Times</a>, more police officers have retired so far this year than in all of 2018. From January through June, 363 officers left the Chicago Police Department, and an additional 56 are expected to retire in July.Out of the approximately 13,000 Chicago police officers, 2020 saw 560 retirements, 475 in 2019 and 339 in 2018.President of the Chicago police union John Catanzara said that even young cops are moving to other police departments because they are &ldquo;absolutely miserable&rdquo; due to 12-hour shifts, canceled days off and perpetual pressure of punishment, according to the Sun-Times.&ldquo;You are literally treated like a rented mule and ridden until you can&rsquo;t go any more,&rdquo; Catanzara said. &ldquo;Today&rsquo;s hero, tomorrow&rsquo;s zero.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16562">[RELATED: 5 times campus leftists gunned for the Second Amendment in 2020]</a>A Concordia University Chicago sophomore who wished to remain anonymous told Campus Reform that she notices the &ldquo;danger&rdquo; of Chicago when she uses &ldquo;public transportation.&rdquo;&ldquo;In my time using public transportation I have been cussed out, cat called, and had someone next to me smoking marijuana. All within the first five minutes,&rdquo; she said.Comparing Chicago to her hometown, the Concordia student said that she has noticed a &ldquo;drastic increase&rdquo; in crime from living in inner-city Dallas to Chicago.&rdquo;Jake Taeleaar, a sophomore at the University of Illinois Chicago, told Campus Reform, &quot;One of the things you have to get used to when living in Chicago is the constant noise of police sirens, and other emergency vehicle sirens.&quot;&nbsp;Tazelaar also noted that despite Chicago&rsquo;s &ldquo;strict gun laws,&rdquo; the city&rsquo;s &ldquo;crime rates are worse than many open carry states.&rdquo;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s very tragic,&rdquo; he continued.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17100">[RELATED: Northwestern Univ public safety report suggests &#39;defund the police&#39; measures as crime in nearby Chicago soars]</a>Tazelaar told Campus Reform that he locks his car doors when he drives on &ldquo;side streets&rdquo; because &ldquo;you never know if someone is going to come up and carjack you. It happens more than you&rsquo;d think, and the numbers are increasing.&rdquo;Likewise, Melman concluded that, &ldquo;Guns don&#39;t need to be stopped, people must be stopped from killing other people. London banned all guns. People still get robbed and die at the blades of knives. It&#39;s no different here.&quot;&nbsp;CUC and UIC did not respond to Campus Reform&rsquo;s&nbsp;request for comment in time for publication.

Multiple students told 'Campus Reform' that they sense crime is getting worse in their neighborhoods. 

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After the Indiana University Student Government (IUSG) <a href="https://www.idsnews.com/article/2020/11/joshua-wong-hong-kong-activist-iusg-event" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">invited&nbsp;</a>Joshua Wong, a Hong Kong activist and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, to speak about his struggles for freedom and democracy in Hong Kong, many Chinese and non Chinese students alike began to disparage Wong, the event, and the student government. Some students went so far as to allegedly threaten members of the IU Student Government. During the event, Wong, who faces up to five years in prison due to his involvement with the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, spoke about the importance of free speech, his struggles for freedom, and the oppressive Chinese regime that has committed countless <a href="https://time.com/5764561/china-human-rights-report/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">atrocities and human rights abuses.</a> However, many IU Students, largely those studying abroad from China, lambasted the event, stating that it &ldquo;violated Chinese 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-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">s [sic]&rdquo; and &ldquo;<a href="https://twitter.com/cyperaph/status/1323117338280026113" 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-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">advocate[d] terrorism</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-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">.&rdquo; In an email to the Indiana University Office of International Services, the IU chapter of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association (CSSA), an organization with <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/us/chinese-students-western-campuses-china-influence.html">strong ties</a> to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party, denigrated and attacked both the event and the student government. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15995" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Alabama state lawmakers pushes to ban Chinese-funded Confucius Institutes from state&rsquo;s public universities]</a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15995" style="text-decoration:none;"></a> The CSSA referred to the event as a &ldquo;national disruption activity that violated Chinese Students [sic].&rdquo; They stated that the &ldquo;IU Student Government is making Chinese students feel uncomfortable and have been offenses [sic].&rdquo; The group continued, stating that the decision &ldquo;is harmful to Chinese students&rsquo; rights&rdquo; and that the IU Student Government should be &ldquo;responsible for their decision.&rdquo; The CSSA further claimed that the student government&rsquo;s actions were &ldquo;disrespectful for [sic] all students in IU&rdquo; and violated &ldquo;the relationship between Chinese people.&rdquo; The group also claimed that Wong encouraged &ldquo;Hong Kong people to use violations against the police, the government authorities, and supporting to split Hong Kong apart from China [sic].&rdquo; A number of student congressmen also voiced their disapproval of the event.&nbsp; Tianshuo Bai, a student congressman from China, condemned the event for its &ldquo;negative impact on thousands of Chinese students included [sic] me.&rdquo; He demanded that &ldquo;IUSG gives [sic] a statement to more [sic] than 2000 Chinese students at IU.&rdquo; Bai additionally claimed that &ldquo;Hong Kong is, and will always be a part of People&#39;s Republic of China [sic]&rdquo; and asserted that the student government is &ldquo;destroying the relationships [sic] between Chinese students and Indiana University.&quot; However, some IUSG congress members defended Wong and the event.&nbsp; Mathew Ahmann, an IU student congressman, stated that &ldquo;China is not adhering to the one country two systems agreement. China deals in bad faith and doesn&#39;t respect human rights. I stand with Hong Kong against the communist party of China. I hope we can all stand up for democracy.&rdquo;&nbsp; Ahmann continued, saying, &ldquo;I would like to also condemn the communist party&#39;s violations of human rights in Hong Kong and with Uighur Muslims being held in internment camps. We have a responsibility as IUSG to stand in solidarity with human rights.&quot; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15967" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &#39;Largest,&#39; &#39;wealthiest&#39; US colleges fail to report billions from foreign entities: report]</a> During a recent IUSG congressional meeting, Bai and others continued to condemn the event on the grounds that it threatened and offended the Chinese student population at IU, however, no evidence was offered as to how.&nbsp; Others took to Twitter to disparage the event, IUSG, and Wong.&nbsp; In response to the event, one user <a href="https://twitter.com/cyperaph/status/1323117338280026113" style="text-decoration:none;"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/cyperaph/status/1323117338280026113" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted&nbsp;</a>&ldquo;Why do you advocate terrorism? And to you who invited him: you&#39;d better know what your decision will cause.&rdquo; Another user <a href="https://twitter.com/Kyyyll1/status/1323119598900711424" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/Kyyyll1/status/1323119598900711424" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted</a> that Wong &ldquo;is not the [sic] activist, instead he is a terrorist.&rdquo;&nbsp; A self-identified alumnus of Indiana University <a href="https://twitter.com/Karakaraleee/status/1323133500761939968" style="text-decoration:none;"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/Karakaraleee/status/1323133500761939968" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted</a><a href="https://twitter.com/Karakaraleee/status/1323133500761939968" style="text-decoration:none;"></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">,&nbsp;&ldquo;First time feel so shame [sic] of being an IU alumni. Joshua Wang [sic] is a terrorist, not an activist.&rdquo; Several students simply <a href="https://twitter.com/iustudentgov/status/1323096716917264384" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/iustudentgov/status/1323096716917264384" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tweeted&nbsp;</a>&ldquo;Shame on IUSG&rdquo; in response to the student government&rsquo;s hosting of the event. Despite the harsh criticism of the IU Student government and of the event, IUSG President Rachel Aranyi stands behind the organization&#39;s decision to host Joshua Wong.&nbsp; Aranyi told Campus Reform, &ldquo;IUSG firmly supports free speech and academic freedom. Students are entitled to express their opinions about the event and Wong, but we stand behind our decision to have him speak. We encourage students to seek out more information, examine these topics, and form their own conclusions.&quot; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15812" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Former employee of university-connected lab sentenced over ties to China]</a> Indiana University, which receives over <a href="https://inpolicy.org/2020/07/white-paper-students-from-china-bring-big-money-and-clout-to-indiana-university/#:~:text=In%20the%202019%2D2020%20academic,in%20tuition%20and%20fees%20alone.&text=He%20says%20that%20China%20strictly,Americans%20probably%20don't%20know." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">$80 million per year</a> from tuition and fees paid by Chinese students, has yet to issue any response to the criticism surrounding the event and IUSG. Indiana University and the CSSA did not respond to a request for comment.&nbsp; Follow the author of this article: <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=5457361" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kyle Reynolds</a>

After Joshua Wong, a prominent Hong Kong protester, was invited to speak by the IU Student Government, many students disparaged Wong, the event, and the student government.

Indiana University students enraged after Hong Kong protestor is invited to speak

A New York professor recently compared President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association to Nazis when speaking about the president&rsquo;s decision to withdraw from a United Nations agreement.&ldquo;Adolf Hitler took Germany out of the League of Nations in 1933...to the cheers of his Nazis,&rdquo; New School professor <a href="https://www.newschool.edu/public-engagement/ba-bs-liberal-arts-faculty/?id=4e44-597a-4d44-4178" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Richard Wolff</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1123280100798033920" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">said</a> on Twitter. &ldquo;Trump just withdrew from the UN arms agreement to the cheers of the NRA. Think about it.&rdquo;Another Wolff <a href="https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1124354681986326528" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">tweet</a> from last month calls &ldquo;Trump &amp; his ilk&rdquo; &ldquo;stupid capitalists,&rdquo; who &ldquo;deepen&rdquo; inequality.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11470" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Dartmouth prof: &lsquo;If we don&rsquo;t abolish capitalism, capitalism will abolish us&rsquo;]</a>In 2018, Wolff <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11685" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">blamed</a> capitalism for America&rsquo;s surge in homelessness. The economics professor sits on the advisory board for an academic journal called Rethinking Marxism. In a May <a href="https://www.laprogressive.com/better-than-capitalism/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">op-ed</a>, Wolff asserted that capitalism is &ldquo;modern society&rsquo;s systemic problem&rdquo; and creates &ldquo;ever greater-inequality, instability, and injustice.&rdquo;&ldquo;Capitalism&rsquo;s basic problems are intrinsic,&rdquo; the professor wrote. &ldquo;They comprise the employer-employee relationship at its core and that relationship&rsquo;s results for the broader economy, politics, and culture. Modern society&rsquo;s systemic problem is capitalism, not this or that kind of capitalism.&rdquo;In an April <a href="https://twitter.com/profwolff/status/1121460108972609536" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">tweet</a>, Wolff praised socialism, claiming it &ldquo;democratizes workplaces as the basis for liberty, equality, fraternity &amp; democracy across society.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10817" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Prof says individual rights fuel &lsquo;capitalist violence&rsquo;]</a>&ldquo;Only if enterprises are run cooperatively (equal voice for all employees) will we have finally overcome master/slave, lord/serf, &amp; employer/employee systems of injustice,&rdquo; he added.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/celinedryan" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;@celinedryan</a>&nbsp;

A New York professor compared President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler in a recent tweet.

Prof likens Trump and NRA to Nazis over UN arms agreement

Yale University has bestowed its highest faculty honor on a professor who just a few years ago was nearly driven to leave the school by students upset that he defended his wife&rsquo;s free speech.<a href="https://news.yale.edu/2018/07/23/dr-nicholas-christakis-named-sterling-professor" style="text-decoration:none;">The July 23 announcement</a> recounts Christakis&rsquo;s scholarly work and accomplishments and mentions that the honor is bestowed by Yale&rsquo;s president and Board of Trustees. According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/14/nyregion/yale-professor-protests-christakis-honored-sterling.html" style="text-decoration:none;">The New York Times</a>,&nbsp;Yale spokesperson Thomas Conroy stated that &ldquo;the decision was made purely on academic grounds.&rdquo;This honor comes nearly three years after students aggressively protested Christakis and his wife, Erika, regarding an email sent by Erika just before Halloween in 2015, when the pair served as the co-heads of Silliman College, an undergraduate residential college at Yale.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6970" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Yale student protesters allegedly spit on free speech advocates]</a><a href="https://www.thefire.org/email-from-erika-christakis-dressing-yourselves-email-to-silliman-college-yale-students-on-halloween-costumes/" style="text-decoration:none;">Mrs. Christakis&rsquo; email</a> criticized guidelines sent out by the university warning students to avoid potentially offensive Halloween costumes, arguing that college students are adults who should be capable of handling such matters on their own.&ldquo;I wonder, and I am not trying to be provocative: Is there no room anymore for a child or young person to be a little bit obnoxious&hellip;a little bit inappropriate or provocative or, yes, offensive?&rdquo; she wrote. &ldquo;American universities were once a safe space not only for maturation but also for a certain regressive, or even transgressive, experience; increasingly, it seems, they have become places of censure and prohibition.&rdquo;&ldquo;As some of you may be aware, I teach a class on &lsquo;The Concept of the Problem Child,&rsquo; and I was speaking with some of my students yesterday about the ways in which Halloween&mdash;traditionally a day of subversion for children and young people&mdash;is also an occasion for adults to exert their control,&rdquo; Christakis elaborated, adding that in contrast to past concerns about things like candy, &ldquo;this year, we seem afraid that college students are unable to decide how to dress themselves on Halloween.&rdquo;She mentioned her husband&rsquo;s opinion on the topic, as well, writing, &ldquo;Nicholas says, if you don&rsquo;t like a costume someone is wearing, look away, or tell them you are offended. Talk to each other. Free speech and the ability to tolerate offence are the hallmarks of a free and open society.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7258" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Yale admin may leave to teach preschoolers who &lsquo;don&rsquo;t try to get you fired&rsquo;]</a>Students responded angrily to the missive, holding protests and calling for the removal of the Christakises from their positions as heads of Silliman College.&nbsp;At one point, they even surrounded Nicholas Christakis in an outdoor area of campus and demanded that he apologize for his wife&rsquo;s email, which he refused to do, patiently explaining to the students that supporting free expression means defending speech &ldquo;even when I don&rsquo;t agree with the content of the speech.&rdquo;<iframe width="1280" height="720" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u-q3Y8pRoj8" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> Following continued protests, both Christakises <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7069" style="text-decoration:none;">cancelled their courses</a> for the Spring 2016 semester and later <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7627" style="text-decoration:none;">stepped down from their positions</a> at Silliman in May of 2016, and Erika Christakis stopped lecturing at Yale completely.&nbsp;Nicholas Christakis took a sabbatical to focus on his lab research, but continued his tenured professorship at the university, for which he has now been honored.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7037" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Yale faculty sign letter defending controversial email]</a>Brea Baker, one of the students involved in the anti-Christakis protests, <a href="https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/08/01/christakis-and-three-others-appointed-sterling-professors/" style="text-decoration:none;">told&nbsp;The Yale Daily News</a> that she was &ldquo;shocked at the explicit cowardice&rdquo; of announcing the honor during the summer, when most students are away from campus, calling it an example of the administration&rsquo;s habit of &ldquo;sneak decision making and going against the will of the student body.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;Yale sells a vision of intimate residential college system led by administrators tasked with our emotional and social health above anything,&rdquo; Baker argued. &ldquo;Based on the original email, administrative responses, and now this appointment, it seems that only students of color understand this. If Yale insists on selling this narrative, then those who don&rsquo;t understand their obligations to the student body should be replaced.&rdquo;Notably, though, Yale was far from hostile to the students who protested Christakis, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9238" style="text-decoration:none;">awarding two of them</a> the &ldquo;Nakashini Prize&rdquo; in 2015 to recognize their &ldquo;exemplary leadership in enhancing race and/or ethnic relations at Yale College.&rdquo;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/emh731" style="text-decoration:none;">@emh731</a>

Yale honors prof who enraged students by defending free speech

University of Nebraska, Lincoln professor Patricia Hill has been convicted of spraying fake blood on the home of NRA lobbyist Chris Cox and ordered to pay a $500 fine.Hill, a<a href="https://soc.unl.edu/patricia-wonch-hill" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;research assistant professor</a> in UNL&rsquo;s Department of Sociology, and<a href="https://www.unl.edu/english/amanda-gailey" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;Amanda Gailey</a>, an associate professor in the English Department, staged separate protests outside Cox&rsquo;s Alexandria, Virginia home last month. Cox,<a href="https://www.nraila.org/about/chris-cox-nra/" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;a long-time NRA lobbyist</a>, currently serves as the NRA&rsquo;s chief political strategist and the Executive Director of the NRA&rsquo;s Institute for Legislative Action.This is not the first time that Gailey made headlines over her political activism. In August of last year, the academic was involved in <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9649" style="text-decoration:none;">protesting a UNL student</a> who was attempting to recruit new members for a conservative organization Turning Point USA.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9649" style="text-decoration:none;">[VIDEO: Profs bully TPUSA prez while she recruits on campus]</a><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/protesters-target-nra-lobbyists-home-and-wifes-business/2018/04/20/106c77f4-433a-11e8-bba2-0976a82b05a2_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8ead89c4d852" style="text-decoration:none;">According to The Washington Post</a>, Gailey, along with former College of William and Mary visiting professor Catherine Koebel, carried provocative signs and distributed flyers outside of Cox&rsquo;s home and his wife&rsquo;s business in April, shortly after an anonymous group created a fake website for the business featuring photographs of dead bodies.Gailey and Koebel insist that they were very careful to ensure that their protest actions stayed within the law, but Hill took the opposite approach, allegedly spraying Cox&rsquo;s home with fake blood in October and then repeating the act of vandalism in January. The Cox family&rsquo;s lawyer also reportedly claims that she attached stickers to their home.While Gailey was careful to avoid breaking the law, she told the Post&nbsp;that she does not think &ldquo;the Cox family is getting enough social pressure,&rdquo; and argued that &ldquo;people need to stop treating these predatory, sick people like they&rsquo;re just a neighbor.&rdquo;&nbsp;Gailey further justified her protest by calling Cox an &ldquo;indefensible human being.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10891" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Report blasts UNL for dismissing lecturer who bullied student]</a>Alexandria police arrested Hill on January 11 following her second act of vandalism, <a href="http://www.omaha.com/news/education/higher-education/two-unl-profs-protest-against-nra-lobbyist-one-faces-property/article_2f53addd-ebdd-5c32-84b3-df70c8401410.html">The Omaha World-Herald reported</a>.&nbsp;&ldquo;The university has nothing to do with these events,&rdquo; UNL said in a statement, as reported by the publication. &ldquo;Amanda Gailey was acting on her own time and expressing her personal views. Patricia Hill&rsquo;s actions are a local law enforcement matter in Virginia. It is premature for us to comment.&rdquo;On Monday, Judge Donald M. Haddock Jr. found Hill guilty of misdemeanor destruction of property and ordered her to pay a $500 fine, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/professor-convicted-of-vandalizing-nra-lobbyists-home-with-fake-blood/2018/05/21/de964c0e-5d11-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?utm_term=.7633eea001fb" style="text-decoration:none;">the Post&nbsp;reported</a>. He also ordered her to refrain from contacting the Cox family and stay at least 500 feet away from their home, or face an additional $500 penalty.&nbsp;Hill was also served with a warrant related to another alleged vandalism in October.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10478" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: UNL lecturers booted from Nebraska &#39;navy&#39; for bullying student]</a>&ldquo;The motive here is that Mr. Cox works for the NRA; she doesn&rsquo;t like that. That&rsquo;s fine. She can exercise her First Amendment right,&rdquo; the prosecuting attorney reportedly told the court, but argued that Hill was not merely exercising her right to free speech.According to the report, the trial revealed that Cox&rsquo;s children were home when Hill sprayed their steps with a &ldquo;red, gel-like substance.&rdquo; Citing a credible risk to the Cox family, their attorney petitioned for a protection order, which the judge granted in the form of a temporary order banning Hill from Cox&rsquo;s wife&rsquo;s workplace and Washington and Virginia NRA offices until the case is resolved in August.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/index.cfm?ID=9729" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: State Sen. demands UNL fire prof who &#39;berated&#39; conservatives]</a>Hill&rsquo;s lawyer disputed testimony identifying Hill, arguing that it was possible that another individual carried out the attack. According to the <a href="http://journalstar.com/news/local/911/unl-researcher-fined-for-vandalizing-nra-lobbyist-s-home-will/article_1a13a635-5345-5ec7-b2e4-30d7d7c76e62.html" style="text-decoration:none;">Lincoln Journal Star</a>, Hill is appealing the case and will appear before a circuit court jury in June, but regardless of the outcome she will not face additional sanctions from UNL, in accordance with university policy.<a href="http://www.omaha.com/news/education/higher-education/unl-faculty-member-guilty-of-vandalizing-nra-lobbyist-s-home/article_e2aee90b-a80c-57f0-a4e2-0db34f999d43.html" style="text-decoration:none;">According to the Herald</a>, Gailey reacted to the verdict by stating that &ldquo;Cox has the nerve to cry to the courts because someone allegedly put a harmless red substance [on his home].&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;In Santa Fe, Texas, parents are putting children in a morgue because yet another disgruntled boy easily got weapons, thanks to gun laws pushed by Mr. Cox,&rdquo; she added.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/SFarkas48" style="text-decoration:none;">@SFarkas48</a>

Prof convicted of vandalizing home of NRA lobbyist

Almost immediately after the Santa Fe High School shooting, a professor at Virginia Tech tweeted that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is a &ldquo;terrorist organization.&rdquo;Matthew Gabriele, a professor of Medieval Studies, <a href="https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/997498912746430464" style="text-decoration:none;">tweeted</a> that &ldquo;The NRA is a terrorist organization&rdquo; just hours after the Santa Fe shooting, which <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/18/us/texas-school-shooting-victims/index.html" style="text-decoration:none;">killed 10 people</a>.&nbsp;This is not the first time that Gabriele has sparked controversy with his tweets, however.In December, as <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10231" style="text-decoration:none;">Campus Reform</a> reported, the professor tweeted that &ldquo;The modern GOP is nothing but white supremacy,&rdquo; and in a previous tweet he declared that the 2017 Republican candidate for Governor of Virginia, Ed Gillespie, ran a &ldquo;racist campaign.&rdquo;&ldquo;@EdWGillespie is running a racist campaign. Kneeling. Confederate statues. BS immigration fears. Pedophiles. Gillespie has no honor #vagov,&rdquo; tweeted the professor.The professor also previously tweeted a link to an <a href="https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/10/30/latino_victory_fund_ad_depicts_ed_gillespie_supporter_terrorizing_minority_children.html" style="text-decoration:none;">article</a> about a controversial Latino Victory Fund ad against Gillespie, and asks &ldquo;Why don&rsquo;t you admit your entire party runs racist, fearful campaigns?&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Gabriele for comment on his latest tweet, but has not received a response.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/asabes10" style="text-decoration:none;">@asabes10</a>

Matthew Gabriele, a professor of Medieval Studies at Virginia Tech, tweeted that “The NRA is a terrorist organization” just hours after the Santa Fe shooting.

Prof calls NRA ‘terrorist organization’ following Texas massacre

A group of demonstrators at the University of Tennessee blasted cops during a protest on Saturday, urging law enforcement and fascists to &ldquo;get the f&mdash;- off of our campus.&rdquo;
<a href="https://twitter.com/mattfinnfnc/status/964912784902426630">According to a video posted online</a> by Fox News correspondent Matt Finn, the student-let protesters took to the street over the weekend, expressing their outrage at a white nationalist event hosted on campus while also condemning the police.
<a href="../?ID=10283">[RELATED: UT-San Antonio students demand campus police disarm, disband]</a>
&ldquo;Hey cops, hey fascists, get the f&mdash;- off of our campus,&rdquo; dozens of protesters shouted, as they marched their way through the university.
The protests were originally sparked in response to an event featuring white nationalist Matthew Heimbach, who delivered a talk on race, globalism, and multiculturalism.
"We're not going to make America great again, we're going to make the white race great again," Heimbach said during the event, as reported by <a href="https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2018/02/17/white-nationalist-talk-university-tennessee-matthew-heimbach/343307002/">Knox News</a>.
According to the publication, the event was organized by the Traditionalist Worker Party, a political organization that frequently supports white nationalist and neo-Nazi rhetoric in the United States.
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The planned event <a href="https://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/education/2018/02/15/white-nationalists-university-tennessee-matthew-heimbach-traditionalist-worker-party/329304002/">drew immediate criticism</a> from political opponents, with activist organizations calling for widespread counter-protests on campus ahead of the talk.
According to Knox News, the police issued six tickets on Saturday, but made no official arrests despite detaining several protesters for blocking traffic.
Alex Swisher, the president of the College Republicans chapter on campus, told Campus Reform that while everyone has a right to free expression, the law enforcement was simply there to &ldquo;ensure the safety of all present.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Everyone has the right to free speech. It&rsquo;s unfortunate when any group uses that speech to espouse hate and today the protestors did so, by shouting profanities at law enforcement agents,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;The police set up perimeters and bag checks to ensure the safety of all present. Law enforcement gets a bad rap for simply doing their job to keep all involved safe.&rdquo;
The University of Tennessee did not immediately respond to Campus Reform&rsquo;s request for comment.
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Enraged protesters scream at cops, fascists

A professor at a prestigious private university is expressing remorse for a provocative tweet about the Texas church shooting, saying &ldquo;frustration&rdquo; led him to lash out at the GOP and NRA.
The tweet&mdash;posted Sunday night in response to the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/live-news/texas-church-shooting-sutherland-springs-devin-patrick-kelley-live-updates/">mass-shooting at a Texas church</a> which left at least 26 dead&mdash;suggests that the National Rifle Association and the Republican Party secretly desire such massacres.
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&ldquo;There is no rational alternative. The GOP and NRA must, in fact, want mass shootings,&rdquo; the professor postulated, reasoning that&nbsp;&ldquo;It serves their interests.&rdquo;
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Campus Reform reached out to the professor, whose name has been redacted, in an attempt to get additional context for his comment, and received a thorough and contrite response, which is published in its entirety below:
<blockquote>
&ldquo;The tweet was sent in a moment of supreme frustration and sorrow after hearing the news of the shooting in Texas. I kept asking myself why the GOP and NRA would not support some more aggressive efforts at gun control to stop these increasingly frequent mass shootings.
&ldquo;There is so much death, so much violence, so much heartache that results from these massacres. And it seemed all we could get from the GOP, which controls most of the levers of power in the country, was &lsquo;thoughts and prayers.&rsquo; That did not seem like an adequate response. So I asked myself, if the GOP and NRA were acting rationally and in their own interest, why would they not do more? I concluded not doing more must somehow be in their rational interest.
&ldquo;Upon reflection, now that my emotions have cooled somewhat, I do not actually believe the GOP or NRA wants mass shootings. I do believe, however, that gun control is a losing issue for Democrats, and opposition to gun control tends to be a winning issue for Republicans. So although the GOP and NRA most certainly do not want mass shootings, they welcome the gun control debate because it energizes their base and helps with fundraising. So that&rsquo;s what I meant when I said it was in their interest.&rdquo;
</blockquote>
The professor also added that &ldquo;I do not bring my political views into the classroom&rdquo; and that &ldquo;my tweets are my own and do not represent my employer.&rdquo; The employer is, however, listed in the professor&rsquo;s Twitter bio.
<a href="../?ID=9088">[RELATED: Students, donors fleeing Drexel over prof&rsquo;s inflammatory tweets]</a>
When asked whether this incident might be informative in more general terms, the professor said that he thinks &ldquo;we should all do what we can to live up to our highest values at all times,&rdquo; but also acknowledged that, &ldquo;we are all human, and sometimes, in the heat of the moment, we fall short of our own highest aspirations.&rdquo;
&ldquo;It is very difficult to know what the right thing is to do on social media,&rdquo; the professor continued. &ldquo;The default mode for Twitter discourse is vitriolic anger, and I fall into that mode myself sometimes. Twitter especially, because of the 140 character limit, encourages brief, snarky jibes over thoughtful analysis.&rdquo;
The professor went on to contend that the problem is not confined merely to social media, pointing out that political rhetoric in all forms has grown increasingly harsh in the current political climate.
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&ldquo;One way of thinking about angry rhetoric is to say it's divisive, failing to unite us. Another way, often espoused on the Right, is to say this is a free marketplace of ideas, and that an adversarial system allows the best ideas to rise to the surface,&rdquo; the professor explained. &ldquo;I think any realistic appraisal of the current situation would have to conclude that the country is, in fact, quite badly divided along ideological lines. Under such circumstances, it is hard to imagine what language could unify us.&rdquo;
The professor concluded by noting that there is perhaps no perfect response to tragedies with relevance to political debates, remarking that &ldquo;To say nothing seems to endorse the status quo (mass shootings, thoughts and prayers). To attack the GOP and NRA strikes you as divisive. To offer only sympathy for the victims and families seems too weak a response, especially if one believes, as I do, that policy solutions could minimize future harms.&rdquo;
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The professor has since expressed regret for engaging in such "vitriolic anger," saying he does not actually believe in the sentiment, though he does think that conservatives "welcome the gun control debate" as a winning political issue.

Prof regrets tweeting that GOP, NRA 'want mass shootings'

A Harvard University professor called the National Rifle Association a &ldquo;domestic terrorist organization&rdquo; Tuesday morning, adding that &ldquo;Congress must act&rdquo; on gun control.
&ldquo;We have to have the courage to call the NRA exactly what it has become&mdash;a domestic terrorist organization that places profit above the lives of the American people,&rdquo; Dr. Jonathan Walton declared during Morning Prayers, according to <a href="https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/blog/prof-jonathan-l-walton-calls-stricter-gun-laws-wake-mass-shooting-las-vegas">a blog post</a> by The Memorial Church at Harvard.
Anticipating that &ldquo;gun rights defenders will accuse me of politicizing this tragedy,&rdquo; he proceeds to substantiate the accusation, speculating that mass murder &ldquo;is what the NRA, weapons makers, and all who financially profit from this country's pain desire&rdquo; because &ldquo;weapons sales increase and gun stocks rise following each mass shooting.&rdquo;
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&ldquo;This nation is sick. Our cultural anxiety, toxic masculinity, and racial, religious, and ethnic bigotries are eating away at the soul of this nation,&rdquo; Walton said later in the sermon. &ldquo;It even caused us to elect a madman to the presidency that embodies the worst aspects of our country&rsquo;s cultural disease.&rdquo;
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He then decried the fact that Congress has not enacted further gun control measures, proclaiming that &ldquo;if Congress is unwilling to act, then this nation should just own [its] sick and twisted reality,&rdquo; rather than continuing to publicly mourn the victims.
&ldquo;Mass shootings will just become a part of the quotidian fabric of American life&mdash;a sad, but an unsurprising event,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;Thus, don&rsquo;t ask me to pray. Don&rsquo;t ask me to hold a vigil for victims. Nor will I light any more candles.&rdquo;
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Walton is <a href="https://hds.harvard.edu/people/jonathan-l-walton">the Plummer Professor of Christian Morals</a> and Pusey Minister of the Memorial Church, as well as a tenured Harvard Divinity School Professor of Religion and Society.
He was <a href="http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/9/8/profs-arrested-daca-protest/">arrested in September</a>, along with a group of other professors, for <a href="../?ID=9748">protesting President Trump&rsquo;s decision to repeal DACA</a> by blocking the flow of traffic through Harvard Square.
The &ldquo;Morning Prayers&rdquo; page on the Memorial Church&rsquo;s <a href="https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/morningprayers">website</a> notes that &ldquo;a daily service of Morning Prayers has been kept at Harvard since its founding in 1636. Held Monday through Friday during term, the service consists of music, prayer, and a brief address given by a member or friend of the University.&rdquo;
Campus Reform reached out to Walton for elaboration on his remarks, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Harvard prof calls NRA a 'domestic terrorist organization'

A group of females wearing &ldquo;Make America Great Again&rdquo; hats were repeatedly harassed and threatened with violence while visiting Howard University.
The Union City High School students were on a class trip to Washington D.C., and decided to stop at Howard University for lunch along the way, with two of them wearing Trump&rsquo;s popular MAGA hat.
Howard students quickly took to social media to shame the Trump-supporting high schoolers, <a href="https://twitter.com/EssenceDalton/status/898940229511520256">saying</a>, &ldquo;who told these lil yt girls they could come to the HU like it was about to be some joke.&rdquo;
In response, another student suggested asking the visitors to &ldquo;meet you behind south&rdquo; so she could &ldquo;beat the f*ck out of them.&rdquo;
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Multiple organizations affiliated with the university eventually responded to the incident, though only to assure students that the female high schoolers had left campus.
&ldquo;We will take any action necessary to ensure that HU students feel safe and comfortable in our dining spaces. This group is no longer on campus,&rdquo; the school&rsquo;s dining services office <a href="https://twitter.com/HUdining/status/898955278405599232">tweeted</a>.
The university itself <a href="https://twitter.com/HowardU/status/899099144207446017">released a similar statement</a> warning students that &ldquo;there were visitors on our campus who were wearing paraphernalia that showcased their political support,&rdquo; adding that while it is &ldquo;an institution where of thought, choice, and expression are ever present,&rdquo; it would &ldquo;never compromise [its] values or allow other to convince [it] to do so.&rdquo;
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Meanwhile, the university&rsquo;s NAACP chapter <a href="https://twitter.com/HU_NAACP/status/898979416520376320">harshly rebuked</a> the two high schoolers, writing that &ldquo;Howard University students have no time for white supremacists and neo-nazi sympathizers&rdquo; on campus.
&ldquo;Truth, service, and justice for all and bigotry cannot occupy the same space, so we&rsquo;re glad you decided to leave. We aren&rsquo;t going anywhere,&rdquo; the organization added.
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The two Trump supporters, however, stood by their decision to sport MAGA hats on campus, <a href="https://twitter.com/allie_vandee/status/898954800603295745">noting</a>&nbsp;that while they were unaware that Howard &ldquo;is a predominantly black school,&rdquo; that fact should not have mattered.
&ldquo;What happened to my friend and I today was absolutely pathetic,&rdquo; wrote one of the students, Allie Vandee, saying she and her friend had been able to &ldquo;visit many different historical places in DC without being harassed by anyone for supporting Donald Trump.&rdquo;
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Vandie goes on to note that one Howard student exclaimed &ldquo;f*ck y&rsquo;all&rdquo; as he passed by, while another even stole one of their hats.
&ldquo;This is America. These are the people who are racist and disrespectful,&rdquo; she concluded. &ldquo;I will never be embarrassed for supporting Donald Trump.&rdquo;
Campus Reform reached out to the university for additional comment on the incident, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Meanwhile, the university put out a statement warning students that “there were visitors on our campus who were wearing paraphernalia that showcased their political support."

Howard students enraged by white girls wearing MAGA hats

Concordia College rejected a student&rsquo;s NRA-affiliated gun club because advocating for the Second Amendment allegedly conflicts with the school&rsquo;s institutional support for gun control.
Liam Nuhring, a senior at Concordia, spent the last six months preparing with the school and the NRA to start his club before the Office of Student Engagement shot down the idea, <a href="http://www.westfargopioneer.com/news/4256748-citing-its-support-gun-control-concordia-shoots-down-student-nra-club">according to The West Fargo Pioneer</a>.
Natalie Rinehardt, the Director of Student Engagement, wrote in a letter to Nuhring on April 25 that &ldquo;it has been determined that the mission of the NRA and the mission of the NRA Collegiate Coalition is in conflict with the mission and values of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and thus Concordia College.&rdquo;
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The letter specifically cited the ELCA&rsquo;s support for gun control, noting that the church has a social policy resolution calling for &ldquo;passage and strict enforcement of local, state, and national legislation that rigidly controls...handguns, assault weapons, and assault-like weapons and their parts, excluding rifles and shotguns used for hunting and sporting purposes, for use other than law enforcement and military purposes.&rdquo;
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&ldquo;This is something we all saw coming. It wasn't a surprise by any means," Nuhring told the Pioneer. "It's a controversial thing, that's for sure."
Nuhring argued that the club wouldn&rsquo;t present the conflicts that the school fears, however, because its purpose would be to encourage firearm education, not bringing guns on campus.
&ldquo;The purpose of the proposed NRA club was intended to focus primarily on education and safety training,&rdquo; Nuhring told Campus Reform. &ldquo;There is no interest on behalf of myself or our student supporters in developing a shooting team or having access to guns on campus.&rdquo;
In order to placate the school, Nuhring plans to remove the NRA acronym from the club name and resubmit his proposal, although he says this will make it more difficult for him to fund the club.
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&ldquo;We as a group support a majority of the values of the NRA, and with an affiliation with the organization, we are better poised for access to resources and funding,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;In a best case scenario situation, this proposed gun club is an affiliate of the NRA.&rdquo;
Nuhring also pointed out that, in light of a recent school poll revealing that 35 percent of Concordia students identify as conservative, the club would help give a voice to viewpoints that have traditionally been overlooked on campus.
"My ultimate goal here is to represent the voices that have been underrepresented on Concordia&rsquo;s campus, as well as campuses throughout the nation," he concluded.
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Several alumni and firearm activists have already contacted Nuhring and Concordia to express their disapproval with the university&rsquo;s decision, including one alum who said he would reconsider donating to the school.
Campus Reform reached out to Concordia and the NRA for comment, but neither had responded by press time.
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Concordia College rejected a student’s NRA-affiliated gun club because advocating for the Second Amendment allegedly conflicts with the school’s institutional support for gun control.

College rejects gun club because NRA opposes gun control

California State University, Fullerton students took to Twitter this past week to attack one of the school&rsquo;s alumni donors for his conservative views.
Steve Mihaylo, one of CSUF&rsquo;s top financial contributors and the CEO of cloud service provider <a href="http://www.crexendo.com/" >Crexendo</a>, was blasted by university students on Twitter after he posted his thoughts on student debt and personal responsibility, <a href="http://www.dailytitan.com/2016/12/steven-mihaylo-and-csuf-students-take-to-twitter-in-heated-debate/?utm_content=buffer25cec&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer" >The Daily Titan reports</a>.
The correspondence began when a student posted a tweet estimating that his student loan debt would not be paid off until 2057, to which Mihaylo responded, &ldquo;Have you ever considered getting a job? That&rsquo;s what I did! It worked.&rdquo;
The student, Luke Higgott, countered, with apparent uncertainty, that &ldquo;I work two jobs at the institution that you paid millions of dollars to slap your name onto to satisfy your tiny ego????&rdquo;
The situation quickly escalated as other students joined the rhetorical fray, including Marie Watschke, who tweeted a picture of herself giving the middle finger to the Mihaylo statue outside of Mihaylo Hall with the caption, &ldquo;lol F*** this guy,&rdquo; following up shortly thereafter by declaring, &ldquo;welp, guess it&rsquo;s time to go S*** on a statue.&rdquo;
&ldquo;And this is what the university I&rsquo;ve given millions of my hard earned money to teaches?&rdquo; Mihaylo responded incredulously. &ldquo;Disgusting!&rdquo;
The students told The Daily Titan that they feel Mihaylo is simply out of touch with today&rsquo;s college students, asserting that the world has changed drastically since he graduated from CSUF in 1969.
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&ldquo;He thinks that we&rsquo;re entitled and that we don&rsquo;t work hard enough, and that&rsquo;s just totally not true,&rdquo; Watschke said. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t feel bad for flipping off his statue, and I don&rsquo;t feel bad for that vulgar display against him, because he made me feel that way. He made me feel angry,&rdquo; Watschke said.
Mihaylo, for his part, did not dispute the notion that today&rsquo;s college students are different than those he matriculated with, but declared that the &ldquo;age of entitlement&rdquo; is something millennials should be looking to move beyond.
&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s a systemic problem that people expect somebody else to take care of their actions. We all do things that create situations and circumstances, and we have to live with those things,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;If you make the choice to borrow money, you should be aware that you&rsquo;re going to have to pay it back.&rdquo;
Indeed, Mihaylo freely conceded that there are some major differences between the campus climate now and what he experienced as an undergraduate, pointing out that when he attended CSUF, free speech was a prominent issue embraced across the political spectrum.
&ldquo;Today, I don&rsquo;t think that&rsquo;s the case. There&rsquo;s too much vulgarity and screaming whenever someone has an opinion that&rsquo;s different from theirs. They don&rsquo;t really back anything up with facts. It&rsquo;s more emotional today,&rdquo; he asserted. &ldquo;They&rsquo;re not taught to respect other peoples&rsquo; opinions for one thing, and they use vulgarity to drown people out. That&rsquo;s just not right. I would be happy to debate anyone, but I want it to be civil.&rdquo;
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Mihaylo even offered to make things easier on the students, providing them with an opportunity to earn 10 percent of the value of any product leads they send Crexendo, and 1 percent for service leads that yield new clients for the company.
&ldquo;Our average lead pays $1,500 for a 30 phone sale,&rdquo; he noted, saying, &ldquo;That should help with student debt.&rdquo;
CSUF Communication Manager Jeffrey Cook issued a statement seeking to distance the university from the online altercation, saying the matter is purely between Mihaylo and the students, but also interjected that he personally found Mihaylo&rsquo;s comments &ldquo;regrettable.&rdquo;
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&ldquo;The university is not party to the Twitter exchange, and we cannot represent Mr. Mihaylo&rsquo;s perspectives,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We continue to be grateful for Mr. Mihaylo&rsquo;s investment and belief in his alma mater but beyond that, again, the university isn&rsquo;t really party to the exchange that&rsquo;s on Twitter. I think the initial posts that prompted the exchange are regrettable, but we can&rsquo;t represent his perspectives or interpret his perspectives.&rdquo;
Mihaylo has in fact faced many struggles in his life, living in foster care from the time he was 9 years old until he was 17, and later enlisted in the Army, where he served in the famed 101st Airborne Division.
&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s wrong for students to assume that I was born with a golden spoon in my mouth,&rdquo; he told the Titan. &ldquo;I&rsquo;m proud of the hardships I had to withstand as a young person. It&rsquo;s kind of like steel. Heat causes it to be stronger, and adversity causes people to be stronger.&rdquo;
The whole experience seems to have soured Mihaylo on his alma mater to an extent, prompting him to speculate that he might need to be more circumspect about his future donations to the university.
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&ldquo;You know, I think I&rsquo;m owed an apology for the vulgarity and some of the things these kids have said to me without even getting to know me, and I&rsquo;m going to reserve judgement on anything I do for Cal State Fullerton in the future,&rdquo; he warned. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve been giving it [money] to them [CSUF] with no strings attached, and in the future, I&rsquo;m probably going to designate where it goes.&rdquo;
Mihaylo also said he might consider redirecting his donations to schools that are more respectful of his beliefs, saying he gets &ldquo;two to three calls a week from people that need assistance, and maybe I&rsquo;ll start giving it to schools that use it more prudently.&rdquo;
Christopher Boyle, President of the CSUF College Republicans, told Campus Reform that he was disappointed in the actions of his fellow students.
"It is unfortunate that students react so harshly and unforgiving to Steve Mihaylo,&rdquo; he remarked, noting that Mihaylo &ldquo;has repeatedly sought to help our school and the very students who attack him."
Mihaylo, for his part, told Campus Reform that his perspective throughout the exchange can be summed up with a well-worn maxim: "Give them a fish and feed them for a day; teach them to fish and feed them for life!"
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CSUF donor enrages students by suggesting they get jobs

A University of Texas, Austin professor contributed a mock version of the Lord&rsquo;s Prayer during Wednesday&rsquo;s campus carry protest, calling the NRA &ldquo;heartless&rdquo; and saying &ldquo;Jesus is not conservative enough for Texas.&rdquo;
During a faculty-sponsored rally immediately following Wednesday&rsquo;s &ldquo;Cocks not Glocks&rdquo; protest, which attracted thousands of dildo-wielding Texans opposed to the state&rsquo;s new campus carry law, Professor Steven Friesen spoke briefly to present what he called &ldquo;the revised Texas version of the Bible.&rdquo;
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&ldquo;In the old Bible, Jesus says, blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God,&rdquo; he proclaimed, asserting that a revised version ought to state: &ldquo;blessed are the purely heartless, for they will seek NRA funding.&rdquo;
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He went on to mock several more of Jesus&rsquo; beatitudes, as well as what has come to be known as the golden rule, through which Jesus advises his followers to do unto others as they would have done unto themselves.
But in Friesen&rsquo;s &ldquo;revised Texas version,&rdquo; he said the teaching would go something more like: &ldquo;In everything, do unto others before they do to you, for this is state law and it profits the gun industry.&rdquo;
He then moved on to one of Jesus&rsquo; teachings on the hotly contested &ldquo;eye for an eye&rdquo; passage found in the Old Testament, saying Jesus&rsquo; message on the scripture is &ldquo;not conservative enough for Texas&rdquo; and suggesting that the revised Texas version should read, &ldquo;An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a glock-G43 for you backpack.&rdquo;
Friesen decided to conclude his remarks with his take on the Lord&rsquo;s Prayer, noting that &ldquo;revising the Bible won&rsquo;t be enough. We&rsquo;ll also need to change worship services, so in closing, please bow your head with me as I recite the Lord&rsquo;s Prayer in the revised Texas version.&rdquo;
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&ldquo;Our father, who art in heaven, hollow point be thy bullets,&rdquo; he prayed. &ldquo;Thy kingdom come, with many guns, on earth that send bad guys to heaven. Give us this day our daily threat, and forgive us our trespasses as we shoot those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from dildos.&rdquo;
Notably, Friesen teaches in UT&rsquo;s religious studies department and told Campus Reform that he was inspired to partake in the protest because he thinks &ldquo;there are a lot of religious issues involved in the Texas attitude towards guns, and authority, and politics.&rdquo;
While Friesen is active in a student group known as &ldquo;Gun Free UT,&rdquo; he said he has no official affiliation with &ldquo;Cocks not Glocks,&rdquo; though he thinks &ldquo;they&rsquo;re doing a wonderful job.&rdquo;
Campus Correspondent <a href="../Author/?AuthorID=2681438">Myah Bowermaster</a>&nbsp;also contributed to this article.
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EXCLUSIVE: UT prof mocks NRA, Christianity with satirical prayers

According to a University of Miami law professor, the U.S. Constitution is used to &ldquo;justify irrational and destructive agendas.&rdquo;
<a href="http://www.law.miami.edu/faculty/mary-anne-franks">Mary Anne Franks</a>, a law professor at the University of Miami, will be giving a lecture at Drake University Law School on September 15 to discuss the alleged similarities between &ldquo;constitutional extremists&rdquo; and religious extremists.
The lecture, titled &ldquo;Guns, Speech, and Sex: The Rise of Constitutional Extremism,&rdquo; claims there is an &ldquo;obsessive focus&rdquo; on the First and Second Amendments of the Constitution that leads to dangerous outcomes, according to a <a href="http://news.drake.edu/2016/08/15/law-professor-to-discuss-guns-speech-and-sex-on-sept-15/" >Drake University news release</a> for the event.
&ldquo;In recent years, the Constitution has become an article of faith in the worst possible sense,&rdquo; Franks told the university. &ldquo;It is increasingly invoked to justify irrational and destructive agendas in a way that strongly resembles the way religious extremists use the Bible to advance fundamentalist views.&rdquo;
However, she blames both political wings for the &ldquo;oversimplified interpretation&rdquo; of the Constitution, claiming that conservatives are obsessed with the Second Amendment, while liberals are obsessed with the First Amendment.
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&ldquo;This constitutional extremism occurs on both ends of the political spectrum: in the Right's obsessive focus on the Second Amendment and the Left's equally obsessive focus on the First,&rdquo; she asserted. &ldquo;Though their targets are different, constitutional extremism on both the Right and Left is united in the privileging of the powerful&rdquo;
Franks charges the Right with failing to protect the right to bear arms for the minority population, invoking the recent police shootings of armed black citizens.
&ldquo;The Right's passionate defenders of the right to bear arms are notably silent when black men bearing arms are stopped, harassed, and killed by police and when women use firearms to defend themselves against domestic violence,&rdquo; Franks said. "Such selective and self-interested appropriation does not honor either the text or the spirit of the Constitution.&rdquo;
She added that this selective interpretation of the Second Amendment is used to stifle debate on gun control legislation, something for which she has criticized gun advocates in the past.
In one&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/ma_franks/status/649670281733259264" >October tweet</a>,&nbsp;which is pinned to the top of her page, she attempts to draw an analogy between Planned Parenthood and the NRA, suggesting that Congress should investigate the gun rights organization, rather than Planned Parenthood, for "profiting from dead children."
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Yet Franks also believes that the &ldquo;free speech fundamentalists&rdquo; on the Left are equally harmful, pointing out that undiscerning support for free speech sometimes entails defending objectionable speech.
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&ldquo;While the Left is extremely concerned about the potential chilling effects on First Amendment rights&hellip;[they] have very little to say about the range of ways women and racial minorities are silenced by sexist and racist harassment, from &lsquo;revenge porn&rsquo; to hate speech,&rdquo; she argued.
Ultimately, Franks said, focus on the First and Second Amendments &ldquo;quash[es] reasonable policy discussion.&rdquo;
Mark Kende, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Drake, applauded the decision to invite Franks.
&ldquo;Mary Anne Franks is one of the nation&rsquo;s leading experts on the issue of &lsquo;revenge porn,&rsquo; among many other significant and timely issues that challenge our interpretation of the First Amendment,&rdquo; she boasted, adding, &ldquo;She is a Harvard Law graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, a significant player in the nonprofit Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, and a very engaging speaker. It will be an honor to welcome her to Drake Law School."
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According to a University of Miami law professor, the U.S. Constitution is used to “justify irrational and destructive agendas.”

Law prof: Investigate NRA for 'profiting from dead children,' not PP

A director at the University of Cincinnati wrote on her Facebook account that anyone seeking to &ldquo;help&rdquo; the United States should start by killing the NRA.
Melinda Rhodes-DiSalvo, the <a href="https://www.uc.edu/propractice/service-learning/steering-committee/disalvo.html" >interim director</a> of the Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning at the University of Cincinnati, posted on her personal Facebook account Wednesday saying, &ldquo;Want to help this country? Kill the NRA.&rdquo;
Screenshots from <a href="http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/07/29/univ-cincinnati-director-help-country-kill-nra-exclusive/#mgy0XPxqSKve0h7m.99" >Red Alert Politics</a> show that DiSalvo sought to distance herself from the initial statement in the comments section, elaborating that she only wanted to &ldquo;kill&rdquo; the NRA with &ldquo;membership cancellation and voting out cowards.&rdquo;
A Facebook friend continued to push DiSalvo to double down on her original statement, asking &ldquo;Is the only thing that stops a bad guy with a membership cancellation power and voting rights a good guy with membership cancellation and voting rights?&rdquo;
DiSalvo responded, &ldquo;No, just LOVE!&rdquo;
While a different Facebook friend supported DiSalvos by commenting that &ldquo;I aspire to be you,&rdquo; another was clearly perturbed by her statements and responded, succinctly, &ldquo;yikes.&rdquo;
DiSalvo, an ardent supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, <a href="https://vet.osu.edu/education/office-teaching-and-learning" >was previously a journalism professor at Ohio Wesleyan University</a> and the Assistant Dean of the Faculty for Cottey College.
DiSalvo told Campus Reform that she has no comment regarding the post.
Another university faculty member in Ohio recently threatened the NRA even more directly on his own Facebook page, suggesting that &ldquo;anti-gun types&rdquo; should &ldquo;storm the NRA.&rdquo;
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James Pearce, an assistant adjunct professor at Southern State Community College, wrote on his page, &ldquo;Look, there&rsquo;s only one solution. A bunch of us anti-gun types are going to have to arm ourselves, storm the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, VA, and make sure there are no survivors.&rdquo;
Pearce&rsquo;s post resulted in a federal investigation, although he later insisted that he was merely making a joke.
Campus Reform reached out to the NRA for comment on DiSalvo&rsquo;s post, but did not receive a response in time for publication. A spokesperson for UC was unavailable for comment at press time, but this article will be updated if and when a response is received.
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UC administrator: 'Kill the NRA'

Colleges around the country are forming shooting sports clubs with grants from gun rights lobbying groups, drawing fire from left-wing critics.
Shotgun, rifle, and pistol shooting teams have received over $1 million in funding from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) over the last five years, prompting Second Amendment opponents to question the acceptability of universities accepting donations from the organization, <a href="http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2016/07/03/gunclubs/VR8GuDiFcyxQ5UmHWscoaL/story.html?event=event25" >The Boston Globe reports</a>.
<a href="http://www.nssf.org/about/" >The NSSF</a> calls itself a trade association representing firearms manufacturers and sportsmen dedicated to promoting, protecting, and preserving hunting and shooting sports. This includes spending money to lobby the government and mobilize voters to defend the Second Amendment.
The NSSF maintains a <a href="http://www.nssf.org/CSSI/grants/#item12" >webpage</a> outlining its process for awarding grants for collegiate shooting teams, saying the clubs can use the funds for ammunition or any other activities related to shooting sports. This year, NSSF has $100,000 available to disburse in increments of up to $10,000 to shooting clubs established during the spring 2016 semester or later.
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&ldquo;College is all about expanding your horizons and having new experiences,&rdquo; the description reads. &ldquo;As an established shooter, you are well equipped to help your friends, classmates and faculty learn about target shooting and firearm safety.&rdquo;
In addition to the NSSF, the National Rifle Association (NRA) also helps sponsor collegiate shooting. According to the NRA <a href="http://collegiate.nra.org/" >website</a>, over 300 colleges offer shooting programs, and the NRA supports them by awarding $5,000 scholarships to worthy students and hosting interscholastic shooting tournaments.
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Harvard University&rsquo;s century-old old shooting sports team, for instance was recently revived after having been defunct for a few years thanks to a $10,000 grant from the NSSF.
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The club&rsquo;s <a href="http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~shooting/" >stated goal </a>is to &ldquo;Beat&mdash;nay&mdash;destroy Yale. And then compete at Nationals.&rdquo;
Harvard&rsquo;s Ivy League rival has placed itself at something of a disadvantage, though, as Yale University banned donations from pro-gun lobbying groups in 2013. Prior to the ban, Yale&rsquo;s shooting sports club had received $20,000 from the NSSF.
&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t have to vet any organizations you don&rsquo;t have funding from,&rdquo; university spokesman Thomas Conroy explained, alluding to the pressure within academia to disassociate from organizations that resist liberal policy priorities.
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Michael Hoffman, the director of Bentley University&rsquo;s Center for Business Ethics, said he thinks schools should steer away from accepting donations from the gun lobby.
&ldquo;In this case of a gun lobbying group who wants to start gun clubs on campus and would fund universities to help in that effort, it just sounds to me like a preposterous idea, given the situation we&rsquo;re in today, with so much gun violence taking place in educational institutions from elementary schools and secondary schools to universities,&rdquo; Hoffman argued.
Harvard shooting team co-captain Jess Clay, on the other hand, says he is fine with accepting donations from the gun lobby.
&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t see a problem with it,&rdquo; Clay said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re always on the lookout for funding. Shooting is an expensive sport.&rdquo;
Barmak Nassirian of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities says colleges and their clubs accept donations from a variety of groups.
&ldquo;Gun lobbying strikes a lot of people as problematic,&rdquo; Nassirian observed, but pointed out that &ldquo;higher ed has raised money from governments that have horrific human rights records.&rdquo;
Nassirian also noted that most universities oppose the trend of legalizing concealed carry of firearms on college campuses, betraying a fundamental hostility to gun rights on the part of faculty and administrators.
&ldquo;If you poll college presidents and administrators, there&rsquo;s almost unanimity against concealed carry,&rdquo; Nassirian said. &ldquo;There&rsquo;s really no disagreement that that&rsquo;s dangerous and does not foster a workable environment on college campuses.&rdquo;
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The NSSF headquarters is located in Newtown, Connecticut, 6 miles from the former site of Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 26 students and staff were killed by a gunman in 2012.
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Liberal academics resist NRA, NSSF grants for shooting clubs

An adjunct professor at Southern State Community College (SSCC) in Ohio is under investigation for threatening to shoot up the NRA.
&ldquo;Look, there&rsquo;s only one solution. A bunch of us anti-gun types are going to have to arm ourselves, storm the NRA headquarters in Fairfax, VA, and make sure there are no survivors,&rdquo; James Pearce wrote in <a href="https://www.facebook.com/james.pearce.904/posts/1135872149768343">a Facebook post on June 13</a>. &ldquo;This action might also require coordinated hits at remote sites, like Washington lobbyists. Then and only then will we see some legislative action on assault weapons. Have a nice day.&rdquo;
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The <a href="http://www.highlandcountypress.com/Content/Mobile-Application/Mobile-Application/Article/Southern-State-Community-College-faculty-member-investigated-over-social-media-comments/-10/-10/33560" >Highland County Press reported </a>that Pearce&rsquo;s comments were sent to authorities and SSCC on June 15.
<a href="../?ID=7256" >[RELATED: Purdue staff member calls pro-life students &lsquo;vile, racist idiots&rsquo;]</a>
Kris Cross, Director of Public Relations for SSCC, told Campus Reform that &ldquo;it is the college's policy not to comment on individual personnel matters,&rdquo; but did offer some general observations of potential relevance to the case.
&ldquo;In general, the college would alert local authorities about any threats that were made known to the college, especially any threats made to students, faculty or staff,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;We have a good working relationship with the police jurisdictions covering each of our four campuses, and trust they would follow their protocols for reporting to other agencies. As I understand it, a report does not necessarily mean an investigation.&rdquo;
When asked if Pearce would continue to teach during the investigation, Cross stated, &ldquo;Certainly any criminal prosecution and findings could be a consideration for employment decisions in any matter of criminal conduct.&rdquo;
<a href="../?ID=7290" >[RELATED: Purdue staff member who harassed pro-life students resigns]</a>
On June 17, SSCC Security and Emergency Response coordinator Gary Heaton noted that the information had been reported to the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security.
&ldquo;The Attorney General advised [SSCC Vice President] Dr. Roades to take no action until the Feds had completed an investigation,&rdquo; Heaton told the Highland County Press.
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SSCC is allowing law enforcement to investigate the case, and suggested a negative finding could be grounds for termination.

Anti-gun prof calls for shooting up NRA, ensuring 'no survivors'

Students of Duke University and residents of Durham, North Carolina, gathered Friday evening to protest Kappa Kops, Delta Sigma Phi&rsquo;s annual prison themed party, where they called for the abolishment of Greek life and prisons, &ldquo;because they both serve to uphold a social order founded on white supremacy.&rdquo;
The Kappa Kops party, held last Wednesday, included a jail cell and mugshot photo booth as well as students dressed up as prisoners and police officers.
The protesters, who call themselves #DukeEnrage, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRH_G0TKUBg" >marched</a> to the Delta Sigma Phi fraternity house chanting, &ldquo;5, 6, 7, 8, America is a prison state,&rdquo; and, &ldquo;We comin&rsquo;, we ready.&rdquo;
After arriving at the fraternity, the protesters yelled, &ldquo;We gonna give them hell, until they open every cell,&rdquo; and held a giant sign that read, &ldquo;No to police, no to prison.&rdquo;
#DukeEnrage then held what a &ldquo;teach-in,&rdquo; where they read from a <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/299820924/Statement-from-protestors-of-incarceration-themed-Greek-life-party" >statement</a> that specifically named &ldquo;imprisonment, police brutality, [and] prison abuse&rdquo; as the party&rsquo;s trigger warnings.
&ldquo;Our fellow classmates find it appropriate to so callously &lsquo;party&rsquo; around a theme that has brought pain, suffering and violence into the lives of so many,&rdquo; reads the statement, which was also distributed to students passing by.
The protesters argued in the statement that the party came at an insensitive time because it took place a few weeks after the death of Matthew McCain, an inmate at the Durham County Jail.
&ldquo;This is just one example of the larger systemic way in which prisons operate in surveilling, brutalizing, disenfranchising marginalized communities,&rdquo; the statement said. &ldquo;We know that these Greek students are protected by the same police state they are able to seamlessly dress up as for their entertainment. They can do this because their bodies are not vulnerable to these systems of power that devastate the lives of so many in Durham, across the state, and the country at large.&rdquo;
The Duke Chronicle says that the protesters also spent time <a href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/02/students-protest-incarceration-themed-greek-life-party-friday" >criticizing</a> Kappa Kappa Gamma with one protester holding a &ldquo;Rush KKKG&rdquo; sign.
According to The Chronicle, over fifty onlookers gathered during the protest and started a back and forth dialogue with the protesters.
The Chronicle reported that onlookers argued that abolishing prisons isn&rsquo;t feasible and that the frat party was like a game of Cops and Robbers.
&ldquo;You&rsquo;re making a joke about something that&rsquo;s not normal...Some kids don't play cops and robbers because some kids get shot,&rdquo; a protester responded.
After one protester compared the mass incarceration of &ldquo;black and brown people&rdquo; to the Holocaust, a Jewish student challenged the protesters but, according to a <a href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2016/02/letter-to-the-editor-davis-lovvorn" >letter</a> to the editor from Davis Lovvorn, he was &ldquo;met with, in a horribly mocking tone, &lsquo;Oh, are you offended?&rsquo;&rdquo;
&ldquo;To me, this comment was hypocritical. These protestors claim to fight against racism yet mock a Jewish student expressing his concern over the Holocaust comparison...As Duke students, we&rsquo;re better than this.&rdquo; Lovvorn wrote.
The Chronicle reports that by the end of the event, the onlookers and protesters were shouting at each other and several university police were on the scene.
&ldquo;It&rsquo;s part of a whole chain of things happening at Duke but sometimes they are getting angry at things that have little relevance,&rdquo; Luis Rodriguez told The Chronicle. 
The protesters said that they hoped to educate people and to bring about change to the issues they were raising.
&ldquo;We call to abolish prisons and abolish Greek life because they both serve to uphold a social order founded on white supremacy...and the violence enacted on the bodies of black, brown, queer, trans and low-income folks necessary to uphold the social order,&rdquo; the protesters read to the onlookers.
Both the president of Delta Sigma Phi and the Office for Student Affairs declined to comment to Campus Reform for this article.
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Duke protesters enraged over 'Kappa Kops' party

A biology professor at the University of California, Irvine subjected his class to an off-topic discourse on gun control Thursday in response to the San Bernardino shootings.
In a video provided to&nbsp;Campus Reform&nbsp;by Peter Van Voorhis, a student in the class,&nbsp;<a >Prof. Richard Symanski</a>&nbsp;advises his introductory-level Biological Sciences 1A course&mdash;specifically singling out the many freshmen that he knew would be in attendance&mdash;that if they are looking for a cause with which to become involved, they should "probably jump on this gun issue," noting that it "just boggles my mind every time I think about it."
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He succinctly summarized his "pitch" at the end of the discourse, saying, "If you want a cause&mdash;want to get on a bandwagon&mdash;then get these guns outlawed, and do something about the Second Amendment."
"I am totally for people expressing their opinions, but when professors do it, they have a captive audience," Van Voorhis told&nbsp;Campus Reform. "If I could debate him, I would win."
Symanski's remarks were inspired by the shooting in San Bernardino, California Wednesday afternoon, but he tied that into the subject of mass shootings in general, asserting that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is to blame for those tragedies because it opposes gun control, and contending that "automatic weapons" should be a common-sense exception to the Second Amendment.
"We are in a situation where Australia had a situation like ours a number of years ago, and Australia said, &lsquo;look we&rsquo;re just losing too many people&rsquo; ... [and they] went out and bought guns from everybody; now it is extremely difficult to buy a gun in Australia and very few people get killed."
Symanski then informed the class of "an article in the paper that said literally, and I&rsquo;m not exaggerating," that a mass shooting happens in this country "every single day," on average.
"Who&rsquo;s the big culprit of this?" he asked in a tone that discouraged hand-raising. "It&rsquo;s the NRA&mdash;the National Rifle Association&mdash;which is enormously powerful in this country, in a way that you and I can&rsquo;t imagine."
Symanski lamented that the NRA's central argument&mdash;that people, not guns, are responsible for violence&mdash;have never made sense to him, because he considers people to be incapable of resisting the universal urge to pull the trigger when firearms are at hand.
"Look,we&rsquo;re all sort of off the edge at some point, right? We don&rsquo;t know when we&rsquo;re going to fly off edge. And what does the issue become? The issue becomes do we have access to a gun or an AK47 or an automatic weapon? If we don&rsquo;t have access to the damn thing we can&rsquo;t kill anybody."
Later, as if sharing a secret with the class, Symanski observed that "the Second Amendment to the Constitution came into play at the end of the 18th century," when muzzleloaders were the technological state-of-the-art.
"We had a muzzleloader that took five minutes to load the goddamn thing, and then unless I was this close somebody I couldn&rsquo;t hit them, it was impossible," he exclaimed. "We&rsquo;re not dealing with a muzzleloader that takes five minutes to load; we&rsquo;re dealing with automatic weapons, that are just bang-bang-bang, and like that you can kill 12, 14 people."
Van Voorhis told&nbsp;Campus Reform&nbsp;that he was almost surprised that his sole attempt at recording Prof. Symanski was so productive, because while Symanski typically wears his liberalism on his sleeve, the gun control lecture was a rare deviation from topics relevant to the course material, as Symanski tends to focus his ire on opponents to the theory of evolution, which he allegedly denies is a theory.
"The general tone of the course is generally pretty scientific, but it is somewhat in your face," he said. "You can tell he has, in my opinion, something of a disdain for people who are religious. He mentioned that he grew up Catholic, but doesn't believe it anymore."
Van Voorhis told&nbsp;Campus Reform&nbsp;that he has generally gone with the liberal flow in the past, but that he could not resist bringing this particular incident to light because it was so flagrant.
"I'm a very vocal person, but I've never spoken out as a conservative in class," he explained. "I've actually just pretended to be liberal, because there's no point in me sacrificing my GPA and my future just to prove them wrong."
Prof. Symanski (whose faculty profile bears the Cuban flag as a backdrop even though Van Voorhis attests that he is of self-proclaimed Polish descent) could not be reached for comment at press time, but this article will be updated if and when he responds.
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VIDEO: UC biology prof. tells class NRA to blame for San Bernardino shooting

A new social media policy which would allow for the firing of employees for problematic social media use may cost the University of Kansas (KU) its accreditation.
The new policy, <a href="../?ID=5309">unanimously passed</a> by the Kansas Board of Regents in December, allows the termination of a faculty or staff member for &ldquo;making communication through social media that. . .interferes with the regular operation of the university, or otherwise adversely affects the university&rsquo;s ability to provide services.&rdquo;
The change came in the wake of a KU journalism professor&rsquo;s tweet <a href="../?ID=5086">wishing death on the children</a> of National Rifle Association (NRA) members.
KU is scheduled for an accreditation review with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in February of 2015, <a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2014/jan/07/new-social-media-policy-could-imperil-ku-accredita/">according to an article</a> in Lawrence Journal-World, a local news source.
The HLC <a href="http://www.ncahlc.org/Information-for-Institutions/criteria-and-core-components.html">accreditation guide</a> requires that "The institution is committed to freedom of expression and the pursuit of truth in teaching and learning.,&rdquo; and have &ldquo;fair and ethical policies for its governing board, administration, faculty and staff."
Susan Twombly, a KU professor of higher education and chairwoman of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, who will be involved in the review, said she is &ldquo;deeply concerned&rdquo; that the HLC will rule that the new policy violates these guidelines.
Accreditation is crucial in receiving federal student aid and money for research at the school.
Board spokesperson Breeze Richardson told Campus Reform that the change in policy was "indirectly" related to the tweet posted by journalism professor David Guth in September.
&ldquo;#NavyYardShooting The blood is on the hands of the #NRA,&rdquo; read David Guth&rsquo;s tweet.
&ldquo;Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters, he continued. &ldquo;Shame on you. May God damn you.&rdquo;
Guth <a href="../?ID=5088">was suspended</a> over the tweet, but Guth&nbsp;<a href="../?ID=5194">returned to</a> KU on Oct. 24 &mdash; but only to work on administrative tasks, not as a professor.
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Policy allows termination of faculty, staff who interfere “with the regular operation of the university” through social media.

Social media policy inspired by prof's anti-NRA tweet may cost Univ. of Kansas its accreditation

The Kansas Board of Regents changed the social media policy for Kansas University (KU) to allow for the firing of employees who make comments on social media that negatively impact the reputation of the school.
The school comes in the wake of KU professor's tweet wishing for the death of National Rifle Association (NRA) members' children.
"The chief executive officer of a state university has the authority to suspend, dismiss or terminate from employment any faculty or staff member who makes improper use of social media," <a href="http://www.kansasregents.org/policy_chapter_ii_c_suspensions">reads the policy</a>, which was approved Wednesday, according to an article in Lawrence Journal-World, a <a href="http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2013/dec/18/new-social-media-proposed-wake-guth-tweet/">local news source</a>.
"'Improper use of social media' means making communication through social media that ... interferes with the regular operation of the university, or otherwise adversely affects the university's ability to provide services," it continues.
In <a href="http://www.kansasregents.org/resources/PDF/2734-FORIMMEDIATERELEASE_KBOR_SocialMedia_December2013_FINAL.pdf">a release dated</a> Dec. 18, the Board ensured that the new policy would not violate free speech rights of employees.
"The Board utilized language from United States Supreme Court cases to acknowledge the right of employees generally to speak as private citizens on matters of public concern while also recognizing the right of employers to take action in situations involving unprotected speech," it states.
Journalism professor David Guth was <a href="../?ID=5086">suspended</a> on Sept. 20 over a Tweet he posted on Sept. 16.
"The blood is on the hands of the #NRA," he tweeted, following the Navy Yard shooting in Washington, DC. "Next time, let it be YOUR sons and daughters."
Board spokesperson Breeze Richardson said the change in policy was "indirectly" related to the controversy.
"When the incident with David Guth occurred, it did make the Board aware that there was no current social media policy in place," she said in an interview with Campus Reform Thursday. "It's indirectly a result of that."
Guth <a href="../?ID=5194">returned to work</a> on Oct. 24 &mdash; but not as a professor.
Richardson said the change would not impact Guth's employment since the policy does not apply retroactively.
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