Harvard University&rsquo;s student newspaper discovered that over 40 percent of faculty members believe that the school&rsquo;s standing is worsening.<a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/13/faculty-say-harvard-standing-falling/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/13/faculty-say-harvard-standing-falling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/13/faculty-say-harvard-standing-falling/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Crimson</a> asked professors &ldquo;how they believe the University&rsquo;s standing within higher education has changed over the past decade.&rdquo; Professors were largely pessimistic about the school&rsquo;s status: 41 percent say it has fallen, 53 percent say it is unchanged, and a mere 6 percent say it has risen. Over 70 percent of professors &mdash; 34 percent of whom &ldquo;strongly&rdquo; agreed &mdash; believe that grade inflation is a &ldquo;prevalent&rdquo; issue. Harvard University &mdash; which, established in 1636, is the oldest university in the United States &mdash; has consistently topped rankings of national universities. Presently, it is listed only behind Princeton University in <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/harvard-university-2155" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US News and World Report&rsquo;</a>s rankings. Campus Reform reported in 2013 that the most common grade at Harvard was an &ldquo;A-.&rdquo; At the time, <a href="http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~hmansf/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harvey Mansfield</a> &mdash; who has taught at Harvard since 1962 &mdash; said that the grade inflation &ldquo;represents a failure on the part of this faculty and its leadership to maintain our academic standards.&rdquo; Mansfield told Campus Reform that he agrees with the recent poll&rsquo;s results. &ldquo;Harvard&rsquo;s standing has fallen, and I would blame the three evils of affirmative action, grade inflation, and political correctness,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Affirmative action makes everyone doubt that decisions of hiring and admissions are based on merit. Grade inflation makes everyone doubt that standards of excellence are being upheld. Political correctness breeds an atmosphere of suspicion and aggressive intolerance.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5282" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5282" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=5282" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: The most common grade at Harvard is an A-, says elite school&#39;s dean]</a> Indeed, even as concern has grown over declining standards at the school, Harvard has been accused of rejecting thousands of high-achieving Asian-American students through its use of affirmative action.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16925" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16925" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16925" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students for Fair Admissions appeals Harvard case to Supreme Court, expands challenge to Yale]</a> Campus Reform has also closely reported on Harvard&rsquo;s embrace of American leftism. A Harvard Medical School social media account recently referred to women using the term &ldquo;birthing people.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16477" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16477" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16477" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard calls women &#39;birthing people&#39; because &#39;not all who give birth&#39; are women]</a> After thousands of Twitter users mocked the assertion, Harvard doubled down: &ldquo;The webinar panelists used the term &lsquo;birthing person&rsquo; to include those who identify as non-binary or transgender because not all who give birth identify as &lsquo;women&rsquo; or &lsquo;girls.&rsquo; We understand the reactions to this terminology and in no way meant for it to erase or dehumanize women.&rdquo; Harvard is the birthplace of the &ldquo;Implicit Bias&rdquo; test &mdash; an exam that attempts to unveil unconscious racism within an individual&rsquo;s thinking. Though experts routinely criticize the test as inherently flawed, many universities rely upon its data to claim that various aspects of American life are systemically racist.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16732" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16732" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16732" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UChicago endorses Harvard&#39;s &#39;flawed&#39; &#39;Implicit Bias&#39; test]</a> Earlier this year, students at the prestigious Harvard Kennedy School sent an open letter to administrators demanding a mandatory anti-racism course and a full &quot;audit&quot; of the curriculum using an &quot;anti-racist, anti-colonial lens.&quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16745" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16745" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16745" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard students push for curriculum &#39;audit,&#39; mandatory &lsquo;anti-racism&rsquo; courses]</a> Campus Reform reached out to Harvard University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.

The school has reportedly utilized grade inflation over the past several years, and Campus Reform has frequently reported on its embrace of American leftism.

POLL: Over 40% of Harvard profs say that school's standing is worsening

The University of Massachusetts Amherst reportedly suspended three students for taking a photo without masks while outdoors. As CBS Boston <a href="https://boston.cbslocal.com/2021/05/07/umass-amherst-students-suspended-masks-outside-off-campus/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reports</a>, three freshmen girls were sent home to learn virtually for the rest of the spring semester after the administration received a photo of the maskless students at an off-campus, outdoor event. The students were reportedly later cut off from virtual learning and were not able to take their finals, rendering their spring semester a financial and academic loss. UMass-Amherst <a href="https://www.umass.edu/bursar/sites/default/files/Ugrad%20Full%20Time_Fall%202020.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">charges</a>&nbsp;$18,213.50 and $8,219.50 per semester for out-of-state and in-state tuition, respectively.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17304" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17304" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17304" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford officially suspends COVID restrictions for... basketball parade?]</a> &ldquo;There was a photo sent to the administration of these girls outside off campus on a Saturday. This is why they lost a whole semester of their schooling,&rdquo; remarked one of the students&rsquo; mothers to CBS Boston. &ldquo;She was valedictorian and class president of her high school,&rdquo; commented the father of another student. &ldquo;She did everything right.&rdquo; CBS Boston&nbsp;also cited a video showing the UMass-Amherst hockey team celebrating their national championship victory. In the footage, students and hockey team members are shown without masks and in close proximity, with some students exchanging high-fives. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17310" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Montana student government unanimously passes bill to require &lsquo;anti-bias&rsquo; training among leadership]</a> &ldquo;I just want the university administration to be equitable and fair,&rdquo; continued the father. According to a statement from UMass-Amherst provided to CBS Boston, &ldquo;students received a number of public health messages this semester that emphasized the importance of following public health protocols and the consequences for not complying, and those messages were also shared on UMass social media channels.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to UMass Amherst for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: var(--red); text-decoration: none !important; user-select: auto; font-weight: 600; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Local news reports that the school hockey team’s members did not receive sanctions after they were filmed without masks while celebrating their national championship win.

REPORT:  Three UMass students suspended after taking photo outdoors without masks

<div style="max-width: 800px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Lora; line-height: 1.6; font-weight: 500; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; margin: 0px auto;">Echoing previous comments by top Biden administration officials, an urban studies professor at the University of Buffalo alleged that institutional racism exists in domains such as housing.Waverly Duck &mdash; an urban sociologist and Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the University at Buffalo&rsquo;s Center for Diversity Innovation, as well as an associate professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh &mdash; delivered an address for the University at Buffalo called &ldquo;A Nation Divided &mdash; The High Cost of Tacit Racism in Everyday Life.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15690" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard taps Chasten Buttigieg for politics fellowship, despite lack of political experience]</a>The contents of his remarks suggest that Duck sees racism at work in nearly every aspect of American life.&nbsp;&ldquo;The idea of whiteness is fluid and has changed over time, but it points to who was allowed to be a citizen, who was allowed to vote, who was allowed to own property,&rdquo; Duck said.As reported by <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2021/04/oix-summit.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UBNow</a>, &ldquo;Duck also noted that employment, housing, literacy, hunger, social integration and access to health care are all subject to the systemic racism permeating our society&rdquo; during his speech.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17204" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Georgetown shells out $1M for racial equity]</a>Duck believes that &ldquo;whether or not we have implicit biases, we participate in racist outcomes&rdquo; &mdash; an idea that upholds his recent book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Tacit-Racism-Anne-Warfield-Rawls/dp/022670369X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=tacit+racism&qid=1618245186&sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Tacit Racism</a>. And he confirmed to Campus Reform that this principle applies to housing, education, healthcare, and the other institutions he mentioned during the event. He added that his team is &ldquo;exposing systemic racism in social interaction through detailed studies of language and interaction.&rdquo;&ldquo;Every time we interact with another human being, we unconsciously draw on a set of expectations to guide us through the encounter,&rdquo; explains the book&rsquo;s description. &ldquo;What many of us in the United States &mdash; especially white people &mdash; do not recognize is that centuries of institutional racism have inescapably molded those expectations.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17043" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Biden admin won&#39;t say how much &#39;emergency&#39; funding for colleges remains unspent, proposes another $12 billion anyway]</a>&ldquo;This leads us to act with implicit biases that can shape everything from how we greet our neighbors to whether we take a second look at a resume,&rdquo; it adds. &ldquo;This is tacit racism, and it is one of the most pernicious threats to our nation.&rdquo;Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg made national headlines after levying similar accusations &mdash; namely, that the national infrastructure system is racist.&ldquo;There is racism physically built into some of our highways, and that&rsquo;s why the jobs plan has specifically committed to reconnect some of the communities that were divided by these dollars,&rdquo; he said in an interview with <a href="https://thegrio.com/2021/04/06/pete-buttigieg-racism-us-infrastructure/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">theGrio</a> about Biden&rsquo;s omnibus infrastructure bill.Campus Reform reached out to Duck for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow <strong style="font-weight: 700; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600;" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a><a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; 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);"></a> </div>

Such accusations are similar to those made by top Biden officials.

Urban studies prof mimics Buttigieg's allegation that infrastructure is racist

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

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

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

Stanford University suspended several COVID-19 restrictions to host a parade celebrating the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">recent championship victory of the women&rsquo;s basketball team.Over 100 people, including University President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Provost Persis Drell, attended the event on April 5, according to a report by <a href="https://www.stanforddaily.com/2021/04/06/university-hosts-parade-to-celebrate-womens-basketball-victory/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Stanford Daily</a>.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16105" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard epidemiologist in Chinese dictator hat wants &#39;accountability&#39; for anti-lockdown academics]</a>Prior to the event, students were sent an email permitting them to &ldquo;attend the parade, per special approval from the Office of Student Affairs.&rdquo;School officials did ask students to &ldquo;observe existing campus COVID-19 protocols, including wearing a mask at all times and maintaining appropriate social distance,&rdquo; but photos taken by The Stanford Daily&nbsp;show Tessier-Lavigne and Drell within close proximity to others.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17168" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: A Stanford researcher was recently indicted for China ties. As new China center opens, has Stanford learned its lesson?]</a>Under the university&rsquo;s policies outlining &ldquo;<a href="https://reapproaching.stanford.edu/news/undergraduate-faq-spring-2021#restricted" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">restricted activity</a>&rdquo; &mdash; to which all undergraduates on campus were bound at the time&mdash; students were barred from leaving their residences except for &ldquo;twice weekly testing with Verily, for medical care, to pick-up meals if you have a Stanford Dining meal plan or if you have groceries or prepared food delivered and solo outdoor exercise.&rdquo;&nbsp;Although Stanford University&rsquo;s current reopening policies say the school &ldquo;will not proceed ahead of the county or state relaxation of social distancing requirements,&rdquo; throwing a parade ignored Santa Clara County &lsquo;s <a href="https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/press-release-03-23-2021-Santa-Clara-County-moves-to-orange-tier.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">directive</a> to &ldquo;avoid crowds.&rdquo; There is, however, no specific <a href="https://www.sccgov.org/sites/covid19/Pages/order-health-officer-10-05-20.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">limit</a> on outdoor event capacity.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17171" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford profs, including Antifa apologist, want investigation into Hoover Institution]</a>Campus Reform reached out to Stanford University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Santa Clara County recommends that residents “avoid crowds.”

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

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

The website for the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s conservative student newspaper was hacked.

UNC conservative student newspaper HACKED, has hundreds of articles erased

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

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

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

A university administrator reportedly said that the terms <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;All Lives Matter,&rdquo; &ldquo;Back The Blue,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Blue Lives Matter&quot; are all &quot;white supremacist slogans&quot; when condemning a vandalism incident. In the middle of the night on March 10, the inside of WMU&rsquo;s Gilmore Theatre Complex was vandalized with spray-painted slogans. The three slogans which were spray-painted on the walls and on the floor read out, &ldquo;All Lives Matter,&rdquo; &ldquo;Back The Blue,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Blue Lives Matter.&rdquo; According to <a href="https://wwmt.com/news/local/vandals-paint-white-supremacy-slogans-inside-western-michigan-university-building" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WWMT</a>, <a href="https://wmich.edu/theatre/directory/herrington" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joan Herrington</a>, the university&rsquo;s theatre department chair, was the one of the first people discovered the vandalism. She declared that the slogans were &ldquo;inflammatory&rdquo; and &ldquo;white supremacist&rdquo; in a letter that she sent out to students. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15941" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &#39;Black Lives Matter&#39; altered to read &#39;All Lives Matter&#39;; UConn calls it an &#39;act of anti-Blackness&#39;]</a> Herrington&#39;s <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/498509749/WMU-Department-of-Theater-Chair-Joan-Herrington-Letter#from_embed" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">message</a> to students also asserts that the vandalism was &ldquo;a crime against our community - a willful and shameful effort to cause injury and divide us,&quot; adding, &quot;We will take this as a crucial reminder of the work that must be done to dismantle the racism embedded in our world.&rdquo; WWMT reports that Western spokesperson Paula Davis confirmed the phrases in question, and said &quot;We don&rsquo;t know the intention of this person, but we know the background of how that term is frequently used.&quot; Following the incident, the university even went as far as bringing in counsellors to help students mentally process what happened. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15809" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students call for &#39;immediate firing&#39; of prof who casually observed Back the Blue rally]</a> Meghan Corbett, a senior at WMU described the vandalism as &ldquo;absolutely unacceptable&quot; when speaking to Campus Reform. &ldquo;Not only was this an act of vandalism, but it was also one rooted in hate against the BIPOC (black, indigenous, and people of color) community. It&rsquo;s one thing to hold up a sign on the corner of a street supporting &#39;All Lives&#39; and &#39;Blue Lives,&#39; but it&rsquo;s another to make it permanent,&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Corbett said.&nbsp;&ldquo;It was an act of vandalism and it was an act of white supremacy whether you think it or not.&quot; Michael Loftin, also a senior at WMU, told Campus Reform that vandalism is &quot;not the way to go about&quot; disagreement. &ldquo;I feel like people should be able to express their opinions even if people disagree, but vandalizing is not the way to go about it,&rdquo; explained Loftin. Campus Reform reached out to Western Michigan University for comment, but did not receive a response.

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

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

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

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

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

The University of Montana&rsquo;s student government - the Associated Students of the University of Montana - unanimously approved a measure to require &ldquo;anti-bias&rdquo; training for all student senators and executives. The bill&rsquo;s passage follows the resignation of a non-white student senator who, according to student newspaper <a href="http://www.montanakaimin.com/news/asum-releases-anti-racism-plan-following-resignation-slur-allegation/article_f7173d94-871e-11eb-8551-db6df3c86472.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Montana Kaimin</a>, alleged that she had been called a racial slur by another member of the Associated Students of the University of Montana.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16159" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16159" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16159" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: RIT student gov loses its mind over request to discuss BLM somewhere else]</a> The senator&rsquo;s resignation letter reportedly included nine recommendations for the student to &ldquo;cultivate a safe community for BIPOCs.&rdquo; The student senate passed one recommendation &mdash; the &ldquo;Resolution Amending ASUM Bylaws to Require Anti-Bias Training for ASUM Executives and Senators&rdquo; &mdash; unanimously. The legislation <a href="https://www.umt.edu/asum/student-government/agendas-and-minutes.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">claims</a> that &ldquo;ASUM has not made meaningful or measurable progress with respect to anti-bias in the governance of the student body&rdquo; while other universities &ldquo;have either implemented or plan to implement anti-bias modules in curriculum and personnel policy.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>According to the student government website, the measure passed unanimously during the March 10 ASUM Senate meeting. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Macalester College student gov approves &lsquo;care packages&#39; with &#39;priority&#39; for Black students]</a> Accordingly, the legislation will &ldquo;implement Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion training mandatory for freshman students to complete at orientation&rdquo; across the university, as well as &ldquo;require anti-bias trainings for all senators and executives&rdquo; in an effort to &ldquo;build authentic and lasting solidarity among BIPOC, dismantle white supremacy, and advance racial justice.&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to ASUM and the University of Montana; this article will be updated with any comment. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The measure serves to “build authentic and lasting solidarity among BIPOC, dismantle white supremacy, and advance racial justice.”

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

An adjunct faculty member at San <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Diego Community College District is running an anti-racist day care facility.&nbsp; Michelle DeJohnette &mdash; an adjunct <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdejohnette" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">faculty member&nbsp;</a>at San Diego Community College District <a href="https://www.michelledejohnette.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">completing</a> a joint doctoral program in education at San Diego State University and Claremont Graduate University &mdash; studies &ldquo;critical theory, culturally responsible pedagogy, anti-bias/anti-racist education, and issues of equity in early childhood education, focusing on preschool.&rdquo; DeJohnette applies her learnings as <a href="http://www.villagekids.biz/the-village-kids-family.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">director</a> of Village Kids Family Child Care, a day care service in San Diego. Village Kids&rsquo; Twitter and Facebook pages provide resources discussing anti-racism in preschool education. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16400" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16400" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16400" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Yale prof decries &#39;colorblindness&#39; in K-12 education]</a> Following the death of George Floyd in the spring of 2020, Village Kids shared a <a href="https://www.prettygooddesign.org/blog/Blog%20Post%20Title%20One-5new4?fbclid=IwAR3I6NHvcFk0lgHlJNwZw8wc23hDXUF1I12nkV7OnaAHJ4wyvcmneuZdzuE" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">resource</a> encouraging parents to teach their children about racism from infancy. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17388y9f37bPre.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">The resource states that children as young as three months old gravitate toward faces most similar to the race of their caregivers, with &ldquo;expressions of racial prejudice&rdquo; peaking around four or five years of age. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16649" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Ibram Kendi launches ANOTHER anti-racism center at BU]</a> Days later, Village Kids shared another <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/blog/common-sense-media-resources-about-race-and-racism?fbclid=IwAR0S6Opb9L9AkBzQqqUvLymuZU9Rvv0rLPixHbESVUdGPnbGgR7a828iT_M" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">list</a> of resources for parents and educators seeking to teach about racism. Among the recommended resources was Boston University Professor Ibram X. Kendi&rsquo;s list of anti-racist books for kids. <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//1738808wmcdfPre.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Village Kids likewise said that they were excited to watch the Netflix series &ldquo;Bookmarks,&rdquo; in which &ldquo;celebrity readers share children&#39;s books by Black authors to spark kid-friendly conversations about empathy, equality, self-love and antiracism.&rdquo; <img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17388eggqf8Pre.jpg" style="width: 607px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Village Kids retweeted an <a href="https://www.learningforjustice.org/magazine/what-antiracism-really-means-for-educators" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">article</a> titled &ldquo;What Anti-racism Really Means for Educators,&rdquo; which argues that &ldquo;anti-racist work in all schools is essential.&rdquo;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campus.reform//17388z385kPre.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> &ldquo;We must create educational spaces that tend to the harm and violence that has been enacted against BIPOC bodies and minds &mdash; specifically those of our children,&rdquo; reads the article. &ldquo;Anti-racist educators recognize that this is the work of undoing, of dismantling, of liberating, of healing and of truth-telling. This is our collective work.&rdquo; During a phone interview with Campus Reform, DeJohnette explained the differences between &ldquo;colorblind&rdquo; and &ldquo;anti-racist&rdquo; education. &ldquo;Colorblindness is not what we want,&rdquo; she said. Though she believes that proponents of colorblind education &ldquo;have good intentions,&rdquo; she notes that it is impossible to not see color. &ldquo;When you look at me, the first thing you see is that I&rsquo;m a Black woman,&rdquo; she explained. &ldquo;You can&rsquo;t not see that. So by being &lsquo;colorblind&rsquo;... that means you don&rsquo;t see me. In essence, you&rsquo;re making me and who I am &mdash; my culture, my race, my experiences, and inequities that I&rsquo;ve lived through &mdash; you&rsquo;re making those invisible.&rdquo; DeJohnette described how she actively seeks to craft an anti-racist and unbiased environment in every detail of the classroom. &ldquo;We talk a lot about bias and gender, and we are very intentional about our language,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;For example, I would never say &lsquo;fireman&rsquo; or &lsquo;mailman.&rsquo; We&rsquo;re intentional about using language like &lsquo;firefighter&rsquo; and &lsquo;mail carrier.&rsquo;&rdquo; The classroom also has &ldquo;images and books that are inclusive, that show nontraditional people in these roles.&rdquo; For instance, DeJohnette makes sure that children see &ldquo;Black female doctors&rdquo; and &ldquo;Mexican-American female construction workers.&rdquo;

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

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

One graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago has recently started the &quot;Black Matriarch Archive.&quot; According to the university<a href="https://artandarthistory.uic.edu/newsdetails/828/815" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;website</a>, the &quot;Black Matriarch Diaspora,&quot; created by graduate student <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Alkebuluan Merriweather, was on Instagram and is meant to &quot;encourage members of the African diaspora to submit images and video documentation of black elders, whether they may be grandmothers, great-aunts, godmothers, or caregivers.&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Merriweather notes that the archive is &quot;not just limited to cisgender black people.&quot; &quot;We encourage everyone to submit imagery of the black women in their lives, whether they are your drag mother, godmother, great-aunt, caregiver, or nonblood related relatives. BMA is intended to be a space for ALL black people, including the LGBTQIA community and nongender conforming folks,&quot; the webpage states. Merriweather told Campus Reform that he doesn&#39;t want the people to view the project in terms of gender, since &quot;Matriarchy&quot; is a gendered term. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16922" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: US House passes &#39;Equality Act.&#39; Religious conservatives warn it&#39;s &#39;conscience-crushing.&#39;]</a> &ldquo;The Black Matriarch Archive seeks to encourage people of African descent to submit imagery of their matriarchs. BMA seeks to create an ongoing record commemorating Black Matriarchs across the African Diaspora,&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Merriweather said. &quot;Matriarchy is a gendered term and it is NOT our intention to exclude individuals of the LGBTQIA community. We seek to create an archive that is welcomed and celebrated by all however we must acknowledge that Matriarchy is a gendered term and there may be individuals who might feel excluded.&rdquo; By including all of these individuals it takes away the<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/matriarch" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;meaning</a> of matriarch. Matriarch is a gendered term, so why would a &#39;non-gender conforming folk&#39; want to use this term?&quot; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=13884" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Drag queens dance, read to children in Michigan dorm]</a> &nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Merriweather also emphacized that&nbsp;<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;Drag Mothers aren&#39;t always male.&quot; &ldquo;Drag Mothers aren&#39;t always male. Drag does not have a gender, it is an art form that is celebrated and practiced by many,&quot; <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Merriweather said. &quot;BMA has featured Drag Mothers, Queer icons, and Trans people. In today&#39;s world, it my duty to be ally for the trans and gay community therefore I am more than open to doing the research on drag matriarchy, gender neutral language, and seeking ways to be inclusive to those who don&#39;t identify as cisgender (straight people).&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">The University of Illinois at Chicago, but did not recieve a response.

One graduate student at the University of Illinois at Chicago recently started the "Black Matriarch Archive."

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

Campus Reform&nbsp;has collected data on which major political figures have been announced as college commencement speakers and found that Democrats and liberals outnumber conservatives and Republicans by a margin of 4 to 1. Out of 69 events at which a notable national-level political speaker will participate (or has participated), 48 of them involve Democrats or liberals. Eleven are affiliated with the GOP, and the remaining 10 are officially nonpartisan.&nbsp;For this project, Campus Reform&nbsp;is defining a notable figure in politics and government as anyone who is a current or former national-level political figure, federal official (or nominee for a federal post), governor, or mayor of a major city.&nbsp;Stacey Abrams and Dr. Anthony Fauci are two of this year&#39;s most popular speakers. Abrams will speak to graduates at <a href="https://www.colorado.edu/law/2021/01/27/stacey-abrams-speak-university-colorado-law-school-commencement-recognition-ceremony" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Colorado Law</a>, <a href="https://www.cau.edu/news/2021/05/Clark-Atlanta-University-to-Host-Stacey-Abrams-Bakari-Sellers-as-Commencement-Speakers.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clark Atlanta</a>, and <a href="https://bowiestate.edu/about/news/2021/voting-rights-champion-stacey-abrams-to-address-bsu-commencement.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bowie State</a>; she has already delivered the keynote address for <a href="https://news.columbia.edu/news/heres-every-columbia-class-day-speaker-we-know-so-far" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Columbia University&#39;s Teachers College</a>. Dr. Fauci will appear virtually at<a href="https://www.med.unc.edu/biochem/news/covid-19-researchers-fauci-and-corbett-to-address-new-unc-grads/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;UNC</a>, <a href="https://news.emory.edu/stories/2021/02/upress_commencement_speaker/campus.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emory</a>, <a href="https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2021/03/03/dr-anthony-fauci-to-deliver-2021-vanderbilt-graduates-day-address/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Vanderbilt</a>, the <a href="https://publichealth.yale.edu/news-article/anthony-fauci-to-speak-at-ysph-commencement/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yale School of Public Health</a>, and <a href="https://news.rpi.edu/content/2021/04/19/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute-announces-2021-commencement-honorands" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute</a>.&nbsp;Several schools have invited highly controversial speakers to address their graduates. <a href="https://www.pressherald.com/2021/04/19/anti-racism-leader-usms-keynote-speaker/">Ibram X. Kendi</a>, one of the biggest names in critical race theory, will deliver the keynote address at the University of Southern Maine. Bard College graduates heard from <a href="https://www.bard.edu/news/releases/pr/fstory.php?id=17710">Patrick Gaspard</a>, the former head of George Soros&#39; Open Society Foundation (and a former Obama appointee). <a href="https://www.theatlantavoice.com/articles/spelman-college-2020-2021-commencements-include-angela-davis-danai-gurira/">Angela Davis</a>, an avowed Marxist, is speaking at Spelman College. &nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17396" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Hunter Biden slated as guest speaker for Tulane political science class]</a>Several major figures in the Biden administration will be speaking to graduates in the coming weeks. President Biden is slated to speak to the Coast Guard Academy. First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will speak to <a href="https://www2.gmu.edu/news/2021-04/first-lady-jill-biden-featured-speaker-virtual-spring-commencement-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">George Mason University</a> graduates, and Vice President Kamala Harris will speak to cadets at the <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/apr/30/kamala-harris-to-give-naval-academy-commissioning-/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. Naval Academy</a>, per the Washington Times. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is slated to speak to the <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/about/leadership-administration/deans-office/deans-remarks/harvard-kennedy-schools-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harvard Kennedy School</a>, and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will address graduates at the <a href="https://commencement.uconn.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Connecticut</a>. President Biden himself has not yet been announced as a commencement speaker.&nbsp;Campus Reform only found one member of the Trump administration that has been announced as a speaker thus far; former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will be the commencement speaker at <a href="https://www.regent.edu/news/regent-university-announces-former-secretary-of-state-mike-pompeo-as-2021-commencement-speaker/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Regent University</a>, a small school in Virginia.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17210" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: U of Tampa students plan separate in-person graduation after university announces virtual plans]</a>Campus Reform&nbsp;used the <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">U.S. News list of top national universities</a> to identify the top 40 of them who have announced their main undergraduate commencement speakers. Of that group of schools, 21 will hear from speakers who donated to Democrats and five will have speakers who donated to Republicans since the start of 2016. (Some of the schools have more than one keynote speaker, and two of the speakers - Delta CEO Ed Bastian and SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell - donated to PACs that funded candidates on both sides of the aisle.) Eighteen of the schools&#39; speakers have made no political donations in that time frame. Since Jan. 1, 2016, this group of speakers has donated more than 40 times more money to Democrats than to Republicans. The group has sent a combined total of $7.6 million to Democrats and $182,528 to Republicans.<p style=" margin: 12px auto 6px auto; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,Sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none; display: block;">View the full breakdown below:<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" title="Graduation Speech Breakdown 2021 -- Campus Reform" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/506750082/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-Oye1CK66lThAX21NnuDh" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" scrolling="no" id="doc_48868" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Dr. Fauci is slated to participate in 5 graduation events - more than any other federal official.  

EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Graduation 2021: A look at the political makeup of upcoming commencement speakers

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Colleges around the country have begun celebrating a pring &quot;Pride Week,&quot; despite LGBT Pride Month traditionally taking place in June. University celebrations for the new week tradition include a variety of virtual events and guest speakers including<a href="https://formidablefemme.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Sarah Brynn Holliday</a>, trauma and sexuality speaker, <a href="https://theblacktransprayerbook.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">J. Mase III and Lady Dane</a>, co-editors of &ldquo;The Black Trans Prayer Book.&rdquo; University of Iowa: Students at University of Iowa&rsquo;s <a href="https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/culturalcenters/pridehouse/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pride Alliance Center</a> (PAC) hosted their Pride Week from March 29 - April 2, and have a series of virtual events lined up for each day. On March 29 the PAC collaborated with the Afro-American Cultural Center to host a panel about &ldquo;the intersection of Black and Queer identities&rdquo; and &ldquo;reclaiming terms that used to be slurs.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17073" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17073" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17073" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Miami opens new campus housing &#39;for LGBTQIA+ students&#39;] </a> The Pride Week keynote speaker, Sarah Brynn Holliday, hosted a discussion on &ldquo;<a href="https://multicultural.uiowa.edu/celebrations/pride-week/2021-keynote/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Healing, Pleasure, and Sex After Trauma</a>&rdquo; on March 30. The seminar was focussed on talking &ldquo;about positive motivations and affirmations for sexual healing, using sex toys as a tool to heal from trauma, self-care tips for survivors, and finding sex-positive community support.&rdquo; The remainder of the week will feature events called &ldquo;Queer Resiliency,&rdquo; &ldquo;Social media engagement - My Testament to You: On Queer Love&rdquo; and &ldquo;Queer-tivity Corner.&rdquo; University of Utah: Pride Week at the University of Utah went from March 29 - April 3 and<a href="https://lgbt.utah.edu/events/pride.php" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;feature</a> more than 10 different guest speakers from the LGBTQ community. The school also <a href="https://www.abc4.com/news/wasatch-front/university-of-utahs-iconic-block-u-wrapped-in-colors-ahead-of-pride-week/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">decorated</a> their &ldquo;Block U&rdquo; by wrapping it with trans and gay pride flag colors. &ldquo;Gaymer&rsquo;s Night&rdquo; was the first event of the week and featured a keynote speakers <a href="https://www.hostos.cuny.edu/Administrative-Offices/Office-of-Academic-Affairs/Departments/Humanities/Faculty/Juno-Morrow" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juno Morrow</a>, Assistant Professor of Game Design at Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College and <a href="https://faculty.utah.edu/u0384504-ROGER_ALAN_ALTIZER,_Jr./hm/index.hml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Roger Alterizer, Jr</a>., associate professor in Population Health Sciences. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16402" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: LGBT advocates want potential Biden admin to threaten Christian college accreditation]</a> Day two features a panel on &ldquo;navigating being LGBTQIA+ in the workplace,&rdquo; followed by day three, which involves a &ldquo;What I Wish I Knew Conference&rdquo; to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility on March 31. &ldquo;Exploring your gender can feel like you are at a crossroads. So many things overlap as you try to find your path. The &lsquo;What I Wish I Knew&rsquo; conference is an event centered on information that will make navigating your path a little easier,&rdquo; states the event&rsquo;s <a href="https://diversity.utah.edu/event/trans-day-of-visibility-what-i-wish-i-had-known-conference/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">description</a>. On Friday, April 2 the university will host a &ldquo;Queer and Trans Students of Color Mixer/Networking Event&rdquo; and a drag performance called &ldquo;Black Benatar&rsquo;s Magic Cabaret.&rdquo; The cabaret will feature <a href="https://www.utahpresents.org/events/black-benatars-black-magic-cabaret/#:~:text=Black%20Benatar's%20Black%20Magic%20Cabaret%20is%20an%20eclectic%20theater%20spectacle,cultural%20allyship%20in%20the%20U.S." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Black Benatar&nbsp;</a>portraying a straight man &ldquo;while showcasing the talents of local performers telling their stories of being queer, black, or other, in the U.S. right now.&rsquo; Syracuse University: Syracuse started their &ldquo;<a href="https://news.syr.edu/blog/2021/03/24/celebrating-trans-week-of-liberation-2021/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trans Week of Liberation</a>&rdquo; by stating that &ldquo;starting on Monday, March 29, the Trans Pride flag will be raised in front of Hendricks Chapel. Additionally, the grassy knoll will be filled with small flags and educational resources on the trans community.&rdquo; On Tuesday, March 30, the university&rsquo;s LGBTQ Resource Center hosted a &ldquo;Virtual Trans Social,&rdquo; which they stated will be a &ldquo;closed group social for trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, gender fluid and/or gender questioning folks to meet and find community.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14845" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14845" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14845" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard pushes narrative LGBT community is at greater risk of &#39;stress&#39; during pandemic]</a> March 31 will entail a lecture by J. Mase III and Lady Dane Figueroa Edidi, co-editors of &ldquo;The Black Trans Prayer Book.&rdquo; The speakers will discuss &ldquo;how racial justice and religious institutions that perpetuate anti-trans violence are connected to trans liberation.&rdquo; The two co-editors will be giving a presentation for the final day of Pride Week on April 3 in regards to their book, &ldquo;The Black Trans Prayer Book.&rdquo; This publication is described by the university&rsquo;s website as an &ldquo;interfaith, multi-dimensional, artistic and theological collection of stories, poems, prayers, meditation, spells and incantations of Black trans and non-binary people, creates an uplifting foundation of healing and affirmation.&rdquo; George Mason University: From March 28-April 3, GMU will be celebrating Pride Week by hosting a &ldquo;<a href="https://lgbtq.gmu.edu/programs-services/pride-week/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pride Game</a>&rdquo; soccer match and various zoom seminars focussed on the &ldquo;LGBTQIA+&rdquo; community. &ldquo;Thriving with Pride&rdquo; will take place on March 31 and will feature a discussion about &ldquo;sexual health and healthy relationships of all kinds.&rdquo; There will be a &ldquo;LGBTQ+ Faculty, Staff, &amp; Student Mixer&rdquo; on April 1 and registration is open to the public. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16937" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16937" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16937" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Utah lawmakers seek to close remaining Confucius Institutes]</a> The final day of celebration is titled &ldquo;Virtual Drag Bingo ft Monique Heart &amp; After Hours Drag Show.&rdquo; Students and community members are invited to join <a href="https://www.moniqueheart.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Monique Heart</a>, a Drag Queen seen on RuPaul&rsquo;s Drag Race, for a game of bingo. This game will be followed by a Drag Show hosted by <a href="https://gmufourthestate.com/2015/04/09/the-drag-royalty-diaries/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mason Drag Royalty</a>. Colorado State University: CSU will also be hosting virtual events to celebrate Trans Day of Visibility, which will include a lecture by <a href="http://www.kaybarrett.net/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kay Ulanday Barrett</a>, author of &ldquo;More Than Organs.&rdquo; The university&rsquo;s <a href="https://prideresourcecenter.colostate.edu/tdov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a> states that &ldquo;Kay intimately strips down pretense, and engages love and an examination of the world.&rdquo; &nbsp;The seminar on March 31 &ldquo;aims to question notions of desirability, single-issue identity, ableism, and what exactly is mainstream normal. Themes explored during this performance keynote include intersecting identities in struggle with racism, misogyny, cissexism, migration, death/loss, disability, and of course, queer love.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16716" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16716" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16716" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Colorado prof favors tougher censorship against &lsquo;misinformation&rsquo;]</a> On April 1, there will be a workshop to discuss how &ldquo;liberation shows up,&rdquo; and students will learn how to &ldquo;embrace a sexy, complicated, sacred, powerful, and amazing lineage.&rdquo; &nbsp;

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

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

The opinion editor of the Northwestern University&rsquo;s student newspaper recently published an article asserting that White people walk awkwardly on sidewalks because of their internalized racism.&nbsp;&ldquo;When I first got to Northwestern, I wondered why walking around on campus could be so frustrating. Even when sidewalks were relatively empty, I would often have to walk way around people to pass without bumping into them,&rdquo; &nbsp;wrote Kenny Allen of <a href="https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/04/05/opinion/allen-are-the-sidewalks-at-northwestern-too-white-too/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Daily Northwestern</a>, &ldquo;At first, I chalked it up to the geographic diversity of the school; maybe the people that came to this school were used to different ways of moving through a public place.&rdquo;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17235" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Community college gives &#39;preference&#39; to students of color for weed scholarship]</a>However, after &ldquo;talking to [his] Black friends about my experience,&rdquo; Allen concluded that &ldquo;people at this predominantly White school would not move out of our way on the sidewalk.&rdquo;Laying out the claims by University of Richmond sociologist Bedelia Richards for determining &ldquo;whether one&rsquo;s university is racist&rdquo; -- such as which groups feel most &ldquo;at home,&rdquo; whose &ldquo;norms, values and perspectives&rdquo; are legitimated, and &ldquo;who inhabits positions of power&rdquo; -- Allen concluded that &ldquo;white people&rdquo; meet most of the criteria.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16502" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Northwestern scrubs prof over &#39;Dr.&#39; Jill Biden op-ed, keeps Holocaust denier]</a>Allen then asserted that &ldquo;the formal rules of Jim Crow were accompanied by a set of informal ones that governed the way Black people approached White people in public space and vice versa.&rdquo; This social order &ldquo;required Black people to yield to White people whenever possible&rdquo; -- such as &ldquo;stepping off the sidewalk when a White person was walking past.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;White people came to expect the right of way in public spaces,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;White people who were accustomed to moving through the world like that &mdash; intentionally or not &mdash; taught their kids to move through the world in the same way. And the racism that undergirded Jim Crow wasn&rsquo;t eliminated just because the laws were no longer overtly racist.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16867" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Northwestern celebrates Black history month with&hellip; BDSM?]</a>Allen concluded that &ldquo;many White people walk around campus having unknowingly absorbed this particular facet of White supremacy, and the leaders of the institution do little to make us believe that White supremacy is something worth challenging in the first place.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to The Daily Northwestern and Northwestern University for comment; this article will be updated accordingly.Follow this author on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: var(--red); text-decoration: none !important; user-select: auto; font-weight: 600; font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

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

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

Student government members at California State University, Northridge earmarked tens of thousands of dollars for a social justice scholarship fund. The Daily Sundial&nbsp;&mdash; CSUN&rsquo;s student newspaper &mdash;<a href="https://sundial.csun.edu/163523/news/as-votes-to-give-35000-to-a-new-social-justice-scholarship/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;reported</a> that the Associated Students of CSUN Vice President Deion Turner led a charge to approve funding for social justice scholarship funds, which will be granted to students who continue to show leadership within their communities, despite being in financial need themselves.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Brown University students overwhelmingly vote in favor of reparations]</a> Turner told&nbsp;Campus Reform that the Associated Students partnered with the University Student Union at CSUN, and the CSUN Foundation with &ldquo;hopes to provide support and recognition to those who have done exemplary work in the social justice field in their communities and on campus.&rdquo; Turner explained that the Associated Students Senate &ldquo;approved $35,000 to open the endowment,&rdquo; while the University Student Union approved &ldquo;$40,000 for the endowment.&rdquo; The fund will sponsor three $1,000 scholarships per school year. &ldquo;Pending confirmation and approval by the CSUN Foundation, we are hoping to be able to have the opportunity to award more scholarships based off of their total donation amount,&rdquo; added Turner. &ldquo;As of now, our plan is to award an incoming freshman, one lower division student and one upper division student (including graduate). We are consistently having conversations about this initiative and I am willing to provide as many updates as I can as needed.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16934" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Macalester College student gov approves &lsquo;care packages&#39; with &#39;priority&#39; for Black students]</a> Turner also provided Campus Reform with a copy of the finance request approved by the student government. The request states that the funds will aid students who &ldquo;have been active in social justice work throughout their high school careers and their college careers.&rdquo; Students must &ldquo;demonstrate an area of need in order to qualify for this particular scholarship and must submit an essay to a committee that will include members from the Associated Students and the University Student Union.&rdquo; CSUN Director of Media Relations Carmen Ramos Chandler told Campus Reform that the university is &ldquo;committed to creating an inclusive environment for all students and a more just world.&rdquo; &ldquo;Growing from those values, the university&rsquo;s Associated Students, University Student Union and Foundation are collaborating on the formation of a scholarship program designed to further enhance equity and inclusion on our campus,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;Planning discussions include funding from each organization as well as external fundraising efforts.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

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

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

At Michigan State University (MSU), a student government bill aims to pressure university administration to hire an &ldquo;undocumented student affairs&rdquo; position. <a href="https://asmsu.msu.edu/home/general-assembly/resources/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Passed</a> on March 4, Bill <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Sb03dBBJI0pTHRXjY6OZpg6vBgkgXx7oh83ttiEdik/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">57-78</a> calls on the Associated Students of Michigan State University (ASMSU) to &ldquo;Advocate for the Hiring of a Full-Time Employee for Undocumented Student Affairs.&rdquo; &ldquo;This employee shall have a designated area in order to create a safe space for undocumented students to seek support,&rdquo; states the bill. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17013" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Democrat-backed For the People Act draws campus voter fraud concerns]</a> ASMSU demands the new employee be selected by a committee comprised of &ldquo;students and faculty most affected by the current lack of resources and representation for undocumented students.&rdquo; Included in the bill is a statement from DreaMSU, a pro-illegal immigrant student group, which cites MSU&rsquo;s <a href="https://uleadnet.org/mi-undocu-map" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">one-star</a> ranking from uLEAD (University Leaders for Educational Access and Diversity) in relation to &ldquo;financial and general support for undocumented students.&rdquo; The University of Michigan, Oakland University, and Grand Valley State University all received a four star rating. In a November 2019 rally at MSU&rsquo;s administration building, DreaMSU and students <a href="https://www.themorningwatchmsu.com/post/rally-for-undocumented-students-warns-msu-demands-sanctuary-campus-videos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">demanded</a> the university to create a position dedicated to illegal students and to provide resources to non-citizens. Months later in January 2020, MSU published an &quot;undocumented&quot; student resources website, with a<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14292" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;goal&nbsp;</a>to &ldquo;reduce apprehension.&rdquo; <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=14754" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=14754" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=14754" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: New report reveals astonishing number of illegal immigrants enrolled in American universities]</a> To help create a more inclusive environment, MSU Provost Terese Woodruff <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=16026" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> in October 2020, the university&rsquo;s elimination of the terms &lsquo;foreign&rsquo; and &lsquo;alien.&rsquo; Instead, MSU will use &ldquo;non-pejorative terms that describe geography&rdquo; such as &lsquo;non-domestic&rsquo; or &lsquo;international.&rsquo; Campus Reform reached out to the bill authors, DreaMSU, and the student government for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/SergeiKelley?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@SergeiKelley</a>

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

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

As the number of vaccinated Americans ascends, universities across the nation are announcing plans to return to in-person classes in the fall.&nbsp;Campus Reform spoke to students about the decisions.&nbsp; Arizona State University In the Spring, Arizona State University students were able to attend classes &ldquo;synchronously through a hybrid of in-person and remote attendance,&rdquo; fully in person, or completely online. In an effort to return to normalcy, ASU will be <a href="https://eoss.asu.edu/health/announcements/coronavirus/feb-15-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">returning</a> to &ldquo;Learning Mode 1&rdquo; in Fall 2021 which means classes will largely be offered only on campus and in-person. Some courses, however, will still be offered both online and in person.&nbsp; ASU sophomore Christian Merante told Campus Reform that all colleges should reopen in the fall.&nbsp; &ldquo;With or without the vaccine, our age group has above 95% COVID survival rate, and currently, 1.5 million people nationwide are getting vaccinated daily. Here at ASU, thousands of students are partying, playing intramural sports, going out every[day], just living their everyday life and chilling. We should reopen for fall &lsquo;21,&rdquo; Merante said.&nbsp; ASU junior Ashley Love told Campus Reform that &ldquo;it&rsquo;s about time we give students the option to attend class in person.&rdquo; &ldquo;Students have been paying full price for in person classes and have only been able to receive mostly online lectures, which I believe is unfair. If I&rsquo;m paying for in person classes, I want to be physically in those classes with students and professors. We&rsquo;ve been cooped up for too long and it&rsquo;s time we have some human interaction again!,&rdquo; Love said.&nbsp; University of Oregon The University of Oregon <a href="https://president.uoregon.edu/good-news-about-vaccines-and-fall-term" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that it will implement &ldquo;predominantly in-person education&rdquo; in the fall.&nbsp; &ldquo;I hope you&rsquo;ll join me in my excitement about the governor&rsquo;s announcement and the increased certainty it provides. I look forward to a physical campus environment that is once again humming with energy,&rdquo; university president Michael H. Schill said in the announcement. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16908" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Iowa bill aims to rein in colleges&#39; COVID control]</a> Oklahoma State University As cases decline, Oklahoma State University <a href="https://news.okstate.edu/articles/communications/2021/osu_plans_to_hold_in_person_classes_for_fall_2021_semester.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> its plans to return to on-campus instruction in the fall. The university hopes to achieve &ldquo;herd immunity&rdquo; on campus through &ldquo;widespread vaccination,&rdquo; &ldquo;handwashing, distancing and mask use.&rdquo;&nbsp; Vice Provost Dr. Jeanette Mendez said that OSU&rsquo;s goal has always been to return to in-person learning.&nbsp; &ldquo;While pleased we have online as an option, our top priority is to safely return to in-person classes and labs this coming fall,&rdquo; Mendez said.&nbsp; University of California System The University of California System is <a href="https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/uc-plans-fall-2021-person-instruction-across-its-10-campuses" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">planning</a> to implement in-person instruction for all of its ten campuses in the fall. In the past six months, the university system has been nearly fully online. In the fall, the almost half a million students enrolled in the UC System will be able to attend class face-to-face. Specific plans will be made on a campus-by-campus basis.&nbsp; &ldquo;Current forecasts give us hope that in the fall our students can enjoy a more normal on-campus experience,&rdquo; system President Michael V. Drake, M.D. said. University of California, Berkeley sophomore Megan Wang told Campus Reform that she thinks the return to campus is a &ldquo;good idea.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;The students have been staying home for almost an entire year now, and it&rsquo;s not news that online school has been negatively impacting both their academic performance, interpersonal skills, and most importantly, mental health. They really should&rsquo;ve been allowed to go back a long time ago. The cure cannot be worse than the problem itself,&rdquo; Wang said.&nbsp; However, Wang is not entirely hopeful the plan will come to fruition.&nbsp; &ldquo;But with the current Biden Administration clearly having no better idea how to handle the virus than the previous administration, I&rsquo;m not entirely confident that they will follow through with the opening plan,&rdquo; she added. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16810" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley&#39;s draconian COVID-19 restrictions look more like prison than college]</a> Bruin Republicans at the <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">University of California, Los Angeles&nbsp;echoed this sentiment to Campus Reform by noting the &ldquo;lack of details&rdquo; UCLA has provided for the fall semester. This &ldquo;lack of transparency&rdquo; has left students &ldquo;completely in the dark&rdquo; according to the organization.&ldquo;In terms of communication, UCLA&#39;s reopening plans have not been transparent and the efforts are lackluster at best. The absence of a concrete plan for a return to in-person instruction is demonstrative of the school&#39;s continued obedience to unrealistic and unscientific county health ordinances,&rdquo; the group told Campus Reform.&nbsp;&ldquo;Even though the administration knows full well that a majority of the student-aged population would have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine come September. Students, especially first-years, feel cheated out of a year of university by forcibly confining college to a computer screen and a desk,&rdquo; the Bruin Republicans said.Clemson University As reported by the <a href="https://theclemsoninsider.com/2021/02/17/clemson-university-plans-for-typical-fall-semester/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Clemson Insider</a>, in an email to students, Clemson announced that it is gearing up for a &ldquo;near-typical&rdquo; fall semester. All furniture and desks in storage will be returned to classrooms so that all students may take classes on campus if they choose. The change is due to low national and campus infection rates and the anticipated increase in vaccinated students and faculty that will be on campus. Clemson will still act with caution as COVID-19 protocols such as mask enforcement, testing, cleaning, and quarantining will be in effect. Campus Reform spoke to Clemson senior Kristen Harvey who said online instruction had a &ldquo;negative impact&rdquo; on her overall college education.&nbsp; &ldquo;The delayed interaction between teachers and students coupled with the lack of dialogue with classmates has prevented me from learning at full capacity. For this reason, I am thrilled that Clemson will be offering more in-person instruction next semester. I believe that a traditional classroom experience will only enhance the learning capabilities on students,&rdquo; Harvey said.&nbsp; Rutgers University&nbsp; Rutgers University <a href="https://www.rutgers.edu/president/january-2021-returning-campus-fall-vaccines-critical-role" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> its intentions to welcome all students back to its three campuses &nbsp;for in-person learning in the fall.&nbsp; President Jonathan Holloway said that he envisions a &ldquo;fall in which all students will have the opportunity for face-to-face instruction in some format, departments will return to campus on staggered and rotational schedules that could include some telecommuting, residence halls will increase their occupancy, and on-campus activities will resume.&rdquo; &ldquo;We intend to be back 100 percent&mdash;just not all at the same time,&rdquo; Holloway said in the announcement. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16952" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students sue UT-Austin over COVID-era tuition]</a> Ohio University System Ohio University System president M. Duane Nellis <a href="https://www.ohio.edu/news/2021/03/ohio-welcome-all-students-increase-person-activities-summer-and-fall-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that students and faculty will experience a &ldquo;more normal summer and fall&rdquo; this year as students will be welcomed back to all campuses for in-person instruction and activities. There will be an increased number of in-person courses available, completely open residence halls on certain campuses and more on-campus student activities. Campus visits for prospective students will be more prevalent, and the annual student orientation will be held in-person during the summer on campus. Purdue University Purdue University <a href="https://protect.purdue.edu/updates/fall-2021-semester-update-from-president-daniels-and-provost-akridge/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> a &ldquo;full restoration&rdquo; of residential learning for fall 2021.&nbsp;Because the university&rsquo;s Medical Advisory Team predicts that every American who wishes to be vaccinated will be, a return to campus is possible. Although face coverings will still be required, restrictions on student activities are expected to be &ldquo;relaxed.&rdquo; Temple University Temple University recently<a href="https://news.temple.edu/announcements/2021-03-01/some-optimistic-news-about-fall" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;announced&nbsp;</a>its plans for a &ldquo;primarily in person&rdquo; fall semester. &ldquo;We hope to return to a vibrant campus experience, with our residence halls, dining halls, student center and academic buildings, as well as our athletic and recreational facilities, open this fall,&rdquo; president Richard M. Englert said. Temple senior Grace Bloem told&nbsp;Campus Reform that although she is graduating this year, she thinks it is &ldquo;great&rdquo; for students to &ldquo;actually get to experience real college and not be stuck on the screen.&rdquo; &ldquo;Having everything on zoom has been hard and I think has taken a tole [sic] on us all mentally,&rdquo; she continued. University of Alabama System The University of Alabama System<a href="https://uasystem.edu/news/ua-system-campuses-plan-return-to-full-in-person-classes-for-fall-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;disclosed</a> that its campuses will return to &ldquo;traditional in-person instruction without restrictions on classroom capacity&rdquo; in the fall.&nbsp;The decision was made after the UA System Health and Safety Task Force and UAB Medicine made a &nbsp;&ldquo;unified recommendation&rdquo; to Chancellor Finis St. John IV and the Board of Trustees that the fall semester can return to a higher degree of normalcy. University of Alabama freshman Leelee Shaw told Campus Reform that she thinks the return to normalcy is a &ldquo;great idea.&rdquo; &ldquo;UA has done a great job of keeping their students and faculty safe during this pandemic through a lot of online learning, but it&rsquo;s time to start bringing things back to normal and having in-person classes and full-capacity events! There&rsquo;s so much less productivity and learning happening through online school and it takes away from so much that college has to offer,&rdquo; Shaw said. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/redwave1776" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@redwave1776</a>

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

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

Boise State University suspended, then reinstated, a diversity class after students were reportedly &ldquo;humiliated and degraded.&rdquo; The school announced that it would cancel all sections of UF 200, &ldquo;Foundations of Ethics and Diversity,&rdquo; on March 16. &ldquo;We have been made aware of a series of concerns, culminating in allegations that a student or students have been humiliated and degraded in class on our campus for their beliefs and values,&rdquo; wrote President Marlene Tromp in an email to the student body obtained by&nbsp;Campus Reform. &ldquo;This is never acceptable; it is not what Boise State stands for; and we will not tolerate this behavior.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16471" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16471" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16471" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: U Iowa threatens probation for student who criticized Critical Race Theory, backtracks amid lawmaker&#39;s involvement]</a> Tromp added that &ldquo;Boise State University is committed to ensuring that each and every one of our students is treated with respect and that all have the right to hold and to voice their own personal and political beliefs.&rdquo; She added that the campus is &ldquo;richer and learning is made more effective because people of all backgrounds and beliefs are invited to meet, exchange ideas, and learn together.&rdquo; Accordingly, Tromp <a href="https://www.boisestate.edu/news/2021/03/24/university-foundations-200-classes-resume/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that the university &ldquo;must suspend UF 200.&rdquo; Students will be able to submit complaints and reports of bias through a midterm evaluation. However, the university announced on March 24 that the course would immediately resume. &ldquo;This decision enables students to continue their education while the investigation into serious allegations continues,&rdquo; said Boise State University Interim Provost Tony Roark. &ldquo;The goal of suspending these courses was to enable the investigation to begin and ensure that this course lives up to our standard of mutual respect for faculty and students.&rdquo; Boise State University&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.boisestate.edu/academics-uf/uf-200-themes/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">website</a> says that UF 200 is meant to &ldquo;help students investigate how we practice our ethics together as engaged citizens creating an inclusive community.&rdquo; Students are able to choose from a menu of 34 different emphases &mdash; from EthDiv &amp; Food in the US, which investigates &ldquo;how the concepts of ethics, diversity and human rights apply to the specific issue of food access, quality, safety and production,&rdquo; to &ldquo;EthDiv &amp; Intersectionality,&rdquo; which explores how &ldquo;power and privilege impact the way we live our lives.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16980" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16980" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16980" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: While universities nationwide seek to erase history, Rutgers is taking a different approach]</a> UF 200 is a &ldquo;foundations requirement,&rdquo; <a href="https://www.boisestate.edu/academics-uf/uf-placement/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">required</a> for students without core certification from another college or university. In the past weeks, state legislators worked to defund colleges pursuing social justice agendas, including Boise State University. In a recent Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/idahofreedom/videos/3748679465199898" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">video</a>, state Rep. Priscilla Giddings (R-ID) noted that many universities are promoting &ldquo;blatant racism in their curriculum.&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s got to be rooted out, and the only way we can do it is through their budget,&rdquo; she said. Indeed, new legislation <a href="https://www.idahoednews.org/legislature/we-are-left-with-no-other-option-lawmakers-cut-into-boise-states-budget/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">removed</a>&nbsp;$409,000 from Boise State University&rsquo;s budget in response to their <a href="https://legislature.idaho.gov/wp-content/uploads/sessioninfo/2021/legislation/S1179.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pursuit</a> of &ldquo;social justice ideology.&rdquo; The budget has not yet been passed. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

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

Long-time liberal late-night host Bill Maher went against neo-segregation that has been increasingly common on college campuses such as through separate dorms, and separate graduation ceremonies.&nbsp;During a<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9g60j8iJz0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;conversation</a> with data analyst David Shor, Maher discussed how slogans like &ldquo;defund the police&rdquo; were damaging Democratic outcomes in elections. While discussing &ldquo;geographic sorting,&rdquo; Maher stated that America was &ldquo;entering an era of re-segregation that&rsquo;s coming from the left.&rdquo;Maher would go on to state that &ldquo;on many college campuses, there are separate dorms, separate Black dorms, graduation ceremonies, stuff like that.&rdquo; Maher then questioned how that would &ldquo;affect elections in the future.&quot;&nbsp;Campus Reform just <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17040" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">recently reported</a> on Columbia University&#39;s plans for six separate graduation ceremonies in addition to the main commencement ceremony. The University of California-Berkeley, likewise, is planning a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17045" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">separate graduation ceremony</a> for Black students, in addition to its main commencement.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17022" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Prof claims he was threatened with Title IX investigation, pushed out over transgender comments]</a>Shor further elaborated state that &ldquo;most nonwhite voters are not liberal,&rdquo; going on to state that most voters don&rsquo;t share liberal values, and that means they &ldquo;should try to meet people with the values that they actually hold and we should talk to them about issues that they care about.&rdquo;Maher has been a long-time<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgrZAPUvKyA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;opponent</a> of &quot;woke&quot; culture.&nbsp;In a different segment, Maher <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hgjHXMKHVs&t=10s" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">touched</a> on the issue of &ldquo;equality of outcome.&rdquo; Maher stated, &ldquo;equality of outcomes, as opposed to equality of opportunities, we used to call that by another name, trophy syndrome.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17080" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Appalachian State pairs &#39;Black Male&#39; housing initiative with &#39;Black Panther&#39; course]</a>Years ago, Maher even hosted a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wvfxh0PbTQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">segment</a> entitled &ldquo;Liberals vs Free Speech.&rdquo; The conversation revolved around Charles Murray&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14278" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">visit</a> to Middlebury College. Maher, although disagreeing with Murray, stated that the best way to fight that &ldquo;is to debate him, and bring up points that you can actually look up in books.&rdquo;&nbsp;He would go on to state &ldquo;that&rsquo;s not what we saw at Middlebury.&nbsp;<iframe width="100%" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l9g60j8iJz0" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/ajmunguia23" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ajmunguia23</a>

Maher specifically called attention to "many college campuses" where "there are separate dorms, separate Black dorms, graduation ceremonies, stuff like that."

WATCH: Bill Maher slams 'era of re-segregation that’s coming from the left'

The University of California-Berkeley&rsquo;s African American Studies Department announced it would be hosting its annual &quot;Black Graduation&quot; ceremony for students on May 19 in a virtual format.&ldquo;The Department of African American Studies plans on hosting our annual Black Graduation ceremony, which is open to all majors and degree programs across the campus,&rdquo; read the <a href="https://africam.berkeley.edu/black-graduation-2/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcement</a>.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17001" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UC-Berkeley unveils plan for racial quota]</a>The separate ceremony for African American students appears to have started as an annual event at the public university in <a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=Awr9BNaqoFFgTqkATAFXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZANDMTYxNl8xBHNlYwNwaXZz?p=uc+bekeley+black+graduation&fr2=piv-web&fr=mcafee#id=2&vid=6f1260504da21b3a3f1605a788deca60&action=view" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2013</a>. The graduation ceremony is separate from the main graduation ceremony, which will be held virtually on May 15.&nbsp;Megan Wang, a sophomore at UC-Berkeley told Campus Reform this decision to hold separate ceremonies is the &ldquo;21st century equivalent of separate but equal.&rdquo;&nbsp;She told Campus Reform that it sends the message to students that &ldquo;their race fundamentally differentiates them from other students.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16482" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley summer classes go online, even with widespread vaccinations predicted by spring]</a>California College Republicans Communications Director Dylan Martin told Campus Reform that this decision &ldquo;furthers the division in this country.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;We&rsquo;re disheartened to see universities like Columbia and now Berkeley veer so far to the left that they&rsquo;re resurrecting Democrats&rsquo; segregationist history. Encouraging our separation into groups &ndash; saying there should be something separate and special for different races &ndash; furthers the division in this country. The solution to racism is not segregation. CCR is happy to represent all College Republicans in the state in condemning these segregationist actions,&quot; Martin said.&nbsp;Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to the Department of African American Studies as well as UC-Berkeley for further comment, but a response was not received in time for publication.On Tuesday,&nbsp;Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17040" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a> that Columbia University would hold six identity-based commencement ceremonies, including, a &ldquo;Native Graduation Celebration,&rdquo; &ldquo;Lavender Graduation Celebration&quot; for LGBTQ students, &ldquo;Asian Graduation Celebration,&rdquo; &ldquo;First-generation and Low-Income student Graduation Celebration,&rdquo; &ldquo;Latinx Graduation Celebration,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Black Graduation Celebration.&rdquo;&nbsp;<iframe width="100%" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rtFkEL0Ss6M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/ashleyecarnahan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ashleyecarnhan</a>

One student equated the separate ceremony to the “21st century equivalent of separate but equal."

Berkeley 'Black Graduation' under fire for bringing back 'Democrats' segregationist history'

The University of Pennsylvania&rsquo;s athletics department approved a series of diversity-related recommendations from its &ldquo;Racial Justice Task Force,&rdquo; including a &ldquo;permanent shared space for Black student-athletes&rdquo; which is also open to &ldquo;allies and non-athletes.&rdquo;Director of Penn Athletics and Recreation M. Grace Calhoun and the Division of Recreation and Intercollegiate Athletics unanimously affirmed the task force&rsquo;s recommendations.Penn Athletics <a href="https://pennathletics.com/news/2020/12/14/general-penn-athletics-adopts-recommendations-developed-by-racial-justice-task-force.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">states&nbsp;</a>that &ldquo;these recommendations have been created as a beginning, not a conclusion&rdquo; in the process of making the athletics department into a &ldquo;more diverse, inclusive, anti-racist organization.&rdquo;The athletics department will <a href="https://spark.adobe.com/page/a5ckAehTWdww0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">create&nbsp;</a>a &ldquo;permanent shared space for Black student-athletes,&rdquo; which will also be open to &ldquo;allies and non-athletes.&rdquo; This center will also be &ldquo;open late night and early morning with swipe access,&rdquo; and include work-study opportunities &ldquo;funded by the Black Student-Athlete Fund.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16404" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Top business school profs say student loan forgiveness, is a &lsquo;highly regressive policy&rsquo;]</a>Among the task force&rsquo;s short-term goals is the hiring of an &ldquo;Athletic Diversity &amp; Inclusion&rdquo; designee, who will be &ldquo;solely dedicated to job responsibilities focusing on diversity and inclusion.&rdquo; In the long-term, the university is recommended to &ldquo;secure funding for and hire a Chief Diversity &amp; Inclusion Officer.&rdquo;The task force notes that financial restrictions may apply in the short-term and therefore recommended that an existing staff member serve alongside a &ldquo;group of diverse staff,&rdquo; which will assist with implementing the task force&rsquo;s other recommendations.Campus Reform repoed in July that the University of Pennsylvania hired a &ldquo;Vice President for Social Equity and Community&rdquo; &mdash; a position that serves alongside the school&rsquo;s &ldquo;Chief Diversity Officer.&rdquo; The hiring of another diversity czar for Penn Athletics marks the third high-profile diversity position at the university.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15353" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Despite financial woes, Ivy League school hires SECOND diversity czar]</a>The task force also recommended a series of actions related to diversity training.According to the recommendation, student-athletes will view a one-hour video entitled &ldquo;Broadening Your Perspectives.&rdquo; Then, students will be divided into 30-person groups to discuss the video and view additional content.In the long-term, staff members will undergo training during in-services, as well as implicit bias training for hiring managers &ldquo;on an ongoing basis.&rdquo;&nbsp;Chance Layton, Communications and Membership Coordinator for the National Association of Scholars, told Campus Reform that &ldquo;the intention of creating a space marketed for &#39;Black student-athletes and club sport athletes&rsquo; is straightforward neo-segregation. Racially segregated spaces are not &lsquo;separate but equal,&rsquo; and they shouldn&#39;t be &mdash; they shouldn&#39;t exist, period.&rdquo;&ldquo;Had this draft plan stuck with community engagement and enrichment, especially for the community around Penn, it might have served its purpose,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Instead, the drafters have opted to worsen race relations on campus.&quot;Campus Reform reached out to the University of Pennsylvania for comment and will update this article accordingly.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The University of Pennsylvania commissioned a “Racial Justice Task Force” for its athletics department.

UPenn  diversity initiative is 'straightforward neo-segregation,' critic says

<a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=15157" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dean fired after saying &lsquo;EVERYONE&rsquo;S LIFE MATTERS&rsquo; in email</a>In an exclusive email shared with Campus Reform, University of Massachusetts-Lowell Nursing School Dean Leslie Neal-Boylan was fired for saying, &ldquo;everyone&rsquo;s life matters.&rdquo; The email from Neal-Boylan was sent to students at the Solomont School of Nursing (SSON) discussing the anti-racism protests around the country.The email stated, &ldquo;Dear SSON Community, I am writing to express my concern and condemnation of the recent (and past) acts of violence against people of color. Recent events recall a tragic history of racism and bias that continue to thrive in this country.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16438" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: LIST: Top 50 conservative colleges]</a>&ldquo;I despair for our future as a nation if we do not stand up against violence against anyone. BLACK LIVES MATTER, but also, EVERYONE&rsquo;S LIFE MATTERS,&quot; she continued.&nbsp;The university told Campus Reform that her termination was in the best interest of the students. Faculty members were shocked at Neal-Boylan&rsquo;s abrupt termination.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15171" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">California faculty demands &lsquo;free tuition for all black, native, and indigenous students&rsquo;</a>In a list of demands from the California Faculty Association at California State University, the group called for &quot;free tuition for all Black, Native, and Indigenous students.&rdquo; The demand for free tuition was made in an effort to increase the number of &ldquo;marginalized students&rdquo; at CSU.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16465" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Tennessee State taps Al Sharpton to teach &lsquo;political science grounded in social justice&rsquo;]</a>The list itself was created to provide &ldquo;redress for systemic anti-Black racism in the CSU,&rdquo; and demanded that the university &ldquo;not rely on police for safety,&rdquo; due to its &ldquo;racist roots.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16344" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cornell offers &lsquo;person of color&rsquo; exemption for flu vaccine requirement</a>Cornell University won&rsquo;t require people of color to get the mandated flu vaccine due to &ldquo;historical injustices and current events.&rdquo; The FAQ page states, &ldquo;We recognize that, due to longstanding systemic racism and health inequities in this country, individuals from some marginalized communities may have concerns about needing to agree to such requirements.&rdquo;&ldquo;For example, historically, the bodies of Black Indigenous, and other People of Color (BIPOC) have been mistreated, and used by people in power, sometimes for profit or medical gain.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16390" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: As colleges continue online learning, proctoring becomes a privacy issue]</a><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16208" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Harvard students want Trump admin officials barred from campus as part of public &lsquo;system of accountability&rsquo;</a>In a letter written to the Harvard administration, students demanded that officials from President Donald Trump&rsquo;s administration be barred from campus. Their claim was that officials from the administration are opposed to &quot;free and honest inquiry in the unfettered pursuit of truth, the right to vote, a free and independent press, checks and balances, the peaceful transfer of power, and the rule of law,&rdquo; which the letter claimed automatically disqualifies them from becoming faculty members or fellows.The students also requested that the university &ldquo;fully vet speakers&rdquo; coming from the administration. The group later said that it is committed to freedom of speech and debate.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14954" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Minnesota to cut ties with Minneapolis Police Department, but students say it&rsquo;s not enough</a>University of Minnesota President Joan Gabel announced that the school will no longer utilize help from the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) after the death of George Floyd. Services no longer being used include help with patrolling sporting events and ceremonies, as well as K-9 explosive detection.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16387" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: STUDY: Over 90 percent of U Minnesota top faculty donations went to Dems]</a>Students clarified that they didn&#39;t want the university to replace MPD with its own officers, but instead have fewer police officers on campus.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16136" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Senators ask DOJ to investigate segregation at colleges</a>A letter sent to U.S. Attorney General William Barr by two senators requested an investigation into a trend of racial segregation on college campuses. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) stated that segregation of race violates Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The Act &ldquo;prohibits discrimination on the basis of race in federally funded programs or activities.&rdquo;Campus Reform had previously reported on several instances of schools segregating groups by race including the <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=16034" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Kentucky</a>, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15648" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Michigan</a>, and <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16245" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lewis &amp; Clark College</a> in Oregon.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16082" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">GWU advises students to take extreme precautions, stock up on supplies ahead of Election Day</a>In preparation for the potential of rioting after the presidential election, George Washington University in Washington, D.C. recommended that students stockpile supplies. The Office of Student Rights and Responsibilities advised students in an email to get food, medicine, and other necessary items as if there was a hurricane or snowstorm coming.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16393" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University pays $12,750 for author of &lsquo;White Fragility&rsquo; to speak on campus, pays Black speaker thousands less]</a>The university encouraged buying food with a long shelf life and canned goods that would last them at least a week. It also told students to always keep their IDs with them, and to not let unauthorized people into their dorms.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15278" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Student says university imposed &lsquo;Soviet-style&rsquo; punishment over his Instagram posts</a>A letter from the dean of students to a student at Fordham University stated that he was on probation for social media posts that allegedly violated the school&rsquo;s code of conduct. The letters provided to&nbsp;Campus Reform stated that the student was being investigated by the university to determine whether the posts did, in fact, violate the school&rsquo;s policy.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15989" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UW med school risks &lsquo;misclassifying&rsquo; kidney disease to &lsquo;address systemic racism&rsquo;</a>In an attempt &ldquo;to address systemic racism,&rdquo; the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health announced it would change the process for testing kidney function, even though the change would risk misclassifying kidney disease in 10 percent of patients.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16337" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University PD responds to backlash over picture with Blue Lives Matter flag in background]</a>A press release from the university indicated that race is one of the factors used to determine kidney function and that there were concerns about systemic racism. The university admitted that &ldquo;removing race from the creatinine-based formula could have an unintended consequence to misclassify the stage of kidney disease for about 10% of patients.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15967" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&lsquo;Largest,&rsquo; &lsquo;wealthiest&rsquo; US colleges fail to report billions from foreign entities: report</a>A report from the Department of Education showed foreign funding given to colleges that went unreported, some of which had connections to China. Texas A&amp;M, Cornell, and Georgetown are being investigated to determine if they complied with the requirement of reporting gifts from foreign entities exceeding $250,000.The report stated that schools receiving most of the money from foreign entities are usually, &ldquo;the largest, wealthiest and most sophisticated of America&rsquo;s institutions of higher education.&quot;Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=5457489" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Haley Worth</a>

Campus Reform compiled a list of the craziest campus stories of 2020.

Defunding police, segregation, and  speech crackdowns: 2020's craziest campus stories

The editorial board for New York University&rsquo;s student newspaper&nbsp;Washington Square News penned an <a href="https://nyunews.com/opinion/2020/08/31/nyu-black-student-housing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">editorial</a> defending a student-led push to provide Black student-only housing. This came in response to criticism of the push from several outlets, including <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/nyu-to-implement-segregated-dorms-in-the-name-of-equality" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Post Millennial</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/08/24/nyu-student-group-advocates-for-racially-segregated-housing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Federalist</a>.&nbsp; &ldquo;NYU has not agreed to provide housing only designed for students of one race, contrary to the claims made in several articles,&rdquo; the editorial pointed out. &ldquo;Instead, NYU has moved to implement a themed engagement community celebrating Black culture in residence halls. <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/students/student-information-and-resources/housing-and-dining/on-campus-living/the-on-campus-experience/special-interest-housing.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Themed engagement communities</a> are a longstanding tradition in NYU dorms where students can apply to live on a floor centered around a common interest or theme.&rdquo; &ldquo;Calling themed engagement communities &lsquo;segregation&rsquo; &mdash; a term heavily associated with the creation of white-only spaces under Jim Crow laws &mdash; overlooks the oppression Black individuals suffered under legitimate segregation and the institutional racism that persists today,&rdquo; the editorial continued.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15446" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students demand universities provide Black student-only housing]</a>The editorial board also slammed one of the outlets that covered the push, noting that it was no surprise that they criticized the push since they also criticized The 1619 Project &ldquo;for promoting a &lsquo;<a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/04/1619-s04.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">race-based view</a>&rsquo; in line of that with the Nazis.&rdquo; &ldquo;This comparison of a project intended to explore the consequences of slavery and Black oppression to Nazism suggests that a marginalized group reclaiming their long-erased history and a totalitarian system of beliefs looking to assert racial purity are the same,&rdquo; the editorial stated. It further argued that Black students need separate housing since &ldquo;White people have never experienced anything close to systemic racism.&rdquo; The writers acknowledged that the Irish have faced discrimination in the past, but unlike Black people, they were able to get ahead socioeconomically &ldquo;by oppressing Black people.&rdquo; According to the writers, anyone who is accusing NYU of segregation is ignoring ongoing &ldquo;institutional racism&rdquo; that causes &ldquo;Black students to need a supportive space in the first place.&rdquo; &ldquo;There is a difference between a privileged group oppressing another group of people by excluding them from spaces due to race and a marginalized community asking for a space where they can find support,&rdquo; it concluded.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15102" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students demand segregated &#39;Black House&#39; so they can &#39;feel included&#39;]</a> As previously reported by<a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=15446" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;Campus Reform</a>, a group of self-identified Black students called the &ldquo;Black Violets&rdquo; created a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/black-student-housing-at-nyu?recruiter=547793693&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&recruited_by_id=47da5cd0-2369-11e6-9735-7b37f23fe2df" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> demanding that NYU reserve residential floors for Black students only.&nbsp;In a <a href="https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2020/august/JB_Statement_Dorms.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">statement</a>, NYU spokesman John Beckman denied that NYU was implementing neo-segregation. &ldquo;NYU does not and will not create housing that excludes any student based on race,&rdquo; Beckman stated.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14003" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Students demand ability to select roommate based on race during days-long sit-in]</a> In an interview with Campus Reform, Gianna Guzzo, a junior and member of the NYU College Republicans Executive Board, was surprised to hear the news. She talked about how bringing back segregation showed the ignorance of the students, and that it was ultimately racist. However, she did note that the majority of students she talked to do not support Black student-only housing. Campus Reform reached out to the Washington Square News editorial board but did not hear back in time for publication.Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/Author/?AuthorID=5457424" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lela Gallery</a>

The NYU Student Newspaper defends a student-led push for a themed engagement community for Black students only.

NYU student newspaper defends Black student-only housing, denies it's 'segregation'

A Princeton University history professor recently claimed that President Donald Trump is worse than an infamous 1960s segregationist.&nbsp;<a href="https://history.princeton.edu/people/kevin-m-kruse" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Kevin M. Kruse</a>, a Princeton history professor, recently wrote an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/28/opinion/trump-george-wallace-rallies-the-squad.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">op-ed</a> for&nbsp;The New York Times,&nbsp;titled, &ldquo;The Real Problem With Trump&rsquo;s Rallies.&rdquo; Kruse compared Trump to former Alabama Democrat Gov. George C. Wallace, who <a href="https://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/169080969/segregation-forever-a-fiery-pledge-forgiven-but-not-forgotten" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">coined</a> the phrase &quot;segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever&rdquo; and whom Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/wallace-george-corley-jr" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">branded</a> &ldquo;perhaps the most dangerous racist in America.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;As governor, he embodied the cause of segregationist resistance,&rdquo; Kruse writes about Wallace, describing the politician as &ldquo;literally standing in the schoolhouse door to block the first black students at the University of Alabama and figuratively standing against what he called the &lsquo;civil wrongs bill.&rsquo;&rdquo;The professor outlines what he deems the similarities between Wallace and Trump.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11560" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Ivy League prof: &lsquo;Open the border. Let them all in&rsquo;]</a>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s claimed some of Mr. Wallace&rsquo;s specific phrases as his own &mdash; most notably the call for &lsquo;law and order&rsquo; &mdash; and more generally has stoked the same fires of resentment and racism,&rdquo; he writes.&ldquo;By articulating their audiences&rsquo; hatred, both men effectively encouraged them to act on it,&rdquo; Kruse says, comparing violence at the two men&rsquo;s rallies.After Kruse compares Trump to Wallace, he points out a difference between them, stating that &ldquo;it shows how Mr. Trump remains a greater danger and poses a graver threat to peaceful political discourse, especially as we enter a presidential election campaign.&rdquo; &nbsp;Kruse says that Trump &ldquo;has used his rallies to single out specific enemies,&rdquo; citing the president&rsquo;s remarks about figures like Megyn Kelly during the 2016 election cycle, as well as his recent statements regarding Democrat Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11581" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Princeton students complain about white peers &lsquo;invading&rsquo; &lsquo;POC places&rsquo;]</a>Kruse, however, is not the first professor to take aim at the president.&nbsp;Campus Reform recently <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13513" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">reported</a> on University of Michigan professor David Morse, who posted an opinion piece on his experience teaching a course called &ldquo;Values &amp; Ethics: Lying and Public Policy,&rdquo; whose syllabus dedicates a whole lecture to the president. In an op-ed, Morse mentions how each student is required to propose a lie that propagates a specific political agenda.Simmons University professor Rachel Gans-Boriskin also made comments targeting Trump supporters, implying the Mueller report&rsquo;s ineffectiveness stemmed from a lack of &ldquo;rational analysis&rdquo; ability by those who voted for Trump.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13506" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Prof: The concept of American exceptionalism is &lsquo;absurd&rsquo;]</a>Yale professor Bandy X. Lee joined in taking aim at the president, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13481" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">claiming</a> that when Trump says he is not racist, he shows himself to be &ldquo;the most racist person I have ever met.&rdquo; Lee made other remarks in June, saying Trump must be &ldquo;immediately contained&rdquo; and have certain powers taken away, including the power to wage war and control nuclear weapons.Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/Author/?AuthorID=5440929" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Libby Krieger</a>

Princeton history prof: Trump is a ‘greater danger’ than notorious segregationist

The National Association of Scholars published a report Tuesday on racial segregation at the prestigious Yale University.The new NAS report, titled, &ldquo;<a href="https://www.nas.org/images/documents/NeoSegregation_at_Yale.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Neo-Segregation at Yale</a>,&rdquo; states that nearly every aspect of Yale&rsquo;s programming and administrative processes, including admissions, recruitment, graduation, counseling, alumni programming, and the curriculum are drastically impacted by racial segregation.&nbsp;According to the findings in the report, the only area not impacted by segregation at Yale is residential housing, which at this time is not racially divided. The report was co-written by primary author, Dion J. Pierre a research associate and Peter W. Wood, the president of NAS.&ldquo;[From 1964-2019], many American colleges and universities that initially sought to achieve racial integration found themselves inadvertently on a path to a new form of racial segregation,&rdquo; Wood wrote in the report&rsquo;s introduction, explaining that: &ldquo;in the new form of segregation (neo-segregation), colleges eagerly recruit black and other minority students, but actively foster campus arrangements that encourage these students to form separate social groups on campus.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12166" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Mass. student group demands reparations, segregated housing, and even more money]</a>The report takes the reader through Yale&rsquo;s history from racially conscious admissions efforts in the 1960s to the &ldquo;Black Panther Crisis,&rdquo; segregated orientation and mentorship programs as well as the university&rsquo;s safe spaces.&ldquo;Yale&rsquo;s efforts at racial integration turned into a program that inspired and reinforced racial separatism and ultimately racial neo-segregation,&rdquo; the report concludes. &ldquo;This did not happen all at once, but through a series of steps that involved a constantly changing cast of characters, institutional arrangements, and initiatives.&nbsp;&quot;In this report, we have tried to reconstruct how one development led to the next: how temporary expedients became settled ways of doing things, how concessions at one turn fed escalations at another, and how what was once unthinkable eventually became unquestionable,&quot; the report states.This stand-alone report is part of an NAS series, &ldquo;Separate but Equal, Again: Neo-Segregation in American Higher Education&rdquo; that explores the role segregation efforts play in higher education.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11819" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Indiana Univ. segregates blacks from whites at &#39;Racial Literacy&#39; event]</a>&ldquo;This kind of racial separatism on campus isn&rsquo;t new,&rdquo; Wood wrote in an <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/segregation-by-design-on-campus-11556564318?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1" style="text-decoration:none;">op-ed</a> for the Wall Street Journal. &ldquo;Today&rsquo;s campus segregation puts people in a racial box. And like other forms of segregation, it has been a major source of tumult in higher education across the decades. Institutions of higher education should stop deliberately balkanizing their student bodies, and work instead to unify them around the common purpose of seeking truth and knowledge.&rdquo;The NAS is a membership association designed to support academics &ldquo;working to sustain the tradition of reasoned scholarship and civil debate in America&rsquo;s colleges and universities&rdquo; through intellectual freedom and &ldquo;virtuous citizenship.&rdquo;Yale University did not return a request for comment in time for publication.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/Grace_Gotcha" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Grace_Gotcha</a>

New report SLAMS Ivy League over 'neo-segregation'

A professor who compared President Trump to a &ldquo;crappy bottle of Yellowtail Chardonnay&rdquo; and a professor who called civility &ldquo;subjective&rdquo; have been chosen to co-chair a University of Virginia commission on segregation.<a href="https://news.virginia.edu/content/new-commissioners-will-focus-untold-stories-uva-age-segregation" style="text-decoration:none;">A press release</a> announcing the members said that the &ldquo;Commission on the University in the Age of Segregation&rdquo; will &ldquo;explore and report on UVA&rsquo;s role in the period of racial segregation that occurred in the 19th and 20th centuries.&rdquo;&nbsp;The commission will complement the existing <a href="http://slavery.virginia.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;">President&rsquo;s Commission on Slavery and the University</a>, which has been tasked with exploring the historical role of slavery at UVA.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9296" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Group demands University of Chicago pay slavery reparations]</a>The co-chairs selected to lead the commission both have a history of liberal bias.&nbsp;Kirt von Daacke, for instance, has not been shy in sharing his opposition to President Trump, recently comparing him to a &ldquo;crappy bottle of yellowtail&rdquo; in a <a href="https://twitter.com/UVADeanKvD/status/984106219785916422" style="text-decoration:none;">tweet</a> saying that Trump &ldquo;only gets worse with age and always loudly announcing presence and intentions whether anyone&rsquo;s listening or not.&rdquo;Von Daacke, who is also a co-chair of the President&rsquo;s Commission on Slavery and the University, has advocated for Civil War-era monument removal, saying in an interview with <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/are-removing-confederate-monuments-erasing-history-n750526" style="text-decoration:none;">NBC News</a> last year that many of the memorials are inscribed to glorify or deny the brutality of the period, and that moving or removing such monuments &ldquo;is a necessary step in creating a more inclusive history and more inclusive public spaces.&rdquo;Andrea Douglas, the new commission&rsquo;s other co-chair, is an outspoken advocate for Black Lives Matter. Following the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, she organized safe spaces on campus for students and reached out to various left leaning organizations, including Black Lives Matter, to host on campus events.&nbsp;On a separate occassion, Douglas <a href="http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/black-lives-matter-co-founder-grisham-talk-equality-efforts/article_0a272b42-8a9e-11e6-9362-8b0225ad0925.html" style="text-decoration:none;">compared</a> Black Lives Matter to the civil rights movement advocating for black equality after the civil war, saying, &ldquo;Black Lives Matter is taking up the mantle of their forebears.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10395" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Prof blames capitalism for world wars, slavery]</a>Robert Andrews, chairman of the UVA College Republicans, told Campus Reform&nbsp;that &ldquo;I see the new Commission on Segregation as a great opportunity for the university to pursue unbiased truth in uncovering history.&rdquo;Acknowledging that he does not know a lot about either of the commission&rsquo;s co-chairs, he expressed hope that &ldquo;they are committed to uncovering truth and do not use this commission as a political ploy.&rdquo;&ldquo;There is neither right nor left with history; it is simply history. We can either accept all of it, or none of it,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;It would be a shame if this opportunity to unveil the past was distorted to coincide with a particular narrative. Political agendas squander objectivity.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10658" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Profs claims scientific objectivity reinforces &lsquo;whiteness&rsquo;]</a>Douglas, who currently serves as the executive director at the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center at UVA, is also an active member of the Charlottesville community, and earlier this year <a href="http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/29570-incivility-at-council-meetings-defended/" style="text-decoration:none;">spoke out</a> against calls for a restoration of &ldquo;civility&rdquo; at city council meetings.&nbsp;Past meetings have been plagued with screaming matches, confrontations, and arrests, prompting council members to request that members of the public abstain from cursing, stay within predesignated time limits, and avoid interrupting others.&nbsp;Douglas, however, argued that &ldquo;the response of the people to their council is appropriate,&rdquo; saying it is in line with past social justice movements across the country, such as &ldquo;ACT UP&rdquo; and Occupy.&ldquo;What really is necessary are some moments of analysis and some moments of strategic thinking, and not this constant emotional cry for civility as if that is going to solve everything,&rdquo; she continued, adding, &ldquo;you&rsquo;ve got to ask yourself the question: Are you asking me to be civil so that you can control this discourse?&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10270" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Profs say classroom &lsquo;civility&rsquo; promotes &lsquo;white racial power&rsquo;]</a>No members of the President&rsquo;s commission appear to have conservative leanings, but some have been involved with social justice ministries, multicultural student service centers, and diversity and equality initiatives.&nbsp;One member, Ervin L. Jordan, penned an <a href="https://search-proquest-com.proxygw.wrlc.org/docview/274836382?pq-origsite=summon&accountid=11243" style="text-decoration:none;">article</a> calling George Washington a &ldquo;false apostle of liberty&rdquo; despite his contributions to America, and referring to the Washington Monument as &ldquo;surprisingly phallic&rdquo; due to its whiteness and straightness.&nbsp;The Office of the President at UVA has not responded to requests for comment from Campus Reform.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/abigailmarone" style="text-decoration:none;">@abigailmarone</a>

One professor has advocated for the removal of Civil War-era monuments, and recently compared President Trump to "a crappy bottle of Yellowtail Chardonnay."

Leftist profs co-chair UVA commission on segregation

A Massachusetts college allows students to reside in &ldquo;identity-based&rdquo; housing communities, provided they have a &ldquo;unique social identity&rdquo; that has &ldquo;historically experienced oppression.&rdquo;
&ldquo;These residential spaces give support to members of our community with social identities that have been historically marginalized in this country, and strive to counter systemic oppression,&rdquo; <a href="https://www.hampshire.edu/housing/identity-based-housing" >Hampshire College explains on its website</a>, adding that its promotion of such living arrangements &ldquo;arises from our commitment to fostering diverse, socially just, and inclusive communities.&rdquo;
<a href="http://campusreform.org/?ID=7228" >[RELATED: Segregated dorms for males &lsquo;who identify as black&rsquo; coming to UConn]</a>
An accompanying <a href="https://www.hampshire.edu/sites/default/files/housing/files/ID%20and%20IHC%20Booklet%202016.pdf" >informational booklet</a> further elaborates that &ldquo;identity-based housing is an institutional structure designed to assist members of historically oppressed groups in supporting each other,&rdquo; and &ldquo;helps to create an added level of psychological comfort and safety for those who choose to live in those spaces, often providing the foundation for those students to be able to engage fully in the greater community.&rdquo;
One section of the identity-based housing program consists of &ldquo;permanent&rdquo; mods, covering categories such as LGBTQQIAAP, Queer, Students of Color, and Women of Color. The &ldquo;not-yet-permanent&rdquo; mods include Marginalized Gender Identities, Asian Heritage, and Pan-Afrikan Diasporia [sic].
Students can also apply to establish new identity-based mods, though all such groups &ldquo;must be unified by a social identity (such as race, culture, gender, or sexual orientation)&rdquo; and &ldquo;must currently experience or [have] historically experienced oppression within or outside the Hampshire community.&rdquo;
Identity-based housing arrangements are part of Hampshire&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="https://www.hampshire.edu/housing/intentional-housing-communities">intentional housing communities</a>,&rdquo; many of which are based on shared interests rather than demographic qualities, and all of which&nbsp;must hold two educational programs per semester related to their particular focus.
<a href="../?ID=7243" >[RELATED: Civil rights group challenges UConn over blacks-only dorm plans]</a>
The Musician&rsquo;s Mod, for instance, contains &ldquo;a group of students who intend to create an inclusive, respectful, and encouraging environment for music lovers, creators, and listeners of all shapes and sizes.&rdquo;
The Mindfulness Mod, meanwhile, fosters &ldquo;a space where students support one another to be mindful and cultivate moment-by-moment, non-judgmental, focused attention and awareness.&rdquo;
&ldquo;Self-identified Womyn&rdquo; can congregate at the Spiritual Womyn&rsquo;s Mod, &ldquo;a collective space to support and guide spiritual paths and encourage the mindful growth of the Hampshire community,&rdquo; which advertises that &ldquo;female and/or female self-identified continuing students [are] welcome to apply.&rdquo;
Spokespersons for Hampshire College had not responded by press time to requests for comment from Campus Reform.
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MA college offers voluntary segregation for 'historically marginalized' students

A professor at the University of Mississippi has compared the bathroom wars to the racial integration struggles of the 1960s as the school grapples with how to make its campus more accessible to transgender students.
In an effort to enact the guidelines spelled out in the Obama administration&rsquo;s &ldquo;<a href="http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ocr/letters/colleague-201605-title-ix-transgender.pdf" >Dear Colleague Letter</a>,&rdquo; the school is rolling out a variety of resources to help faculty and staff navigate the transgender debate. Accordingly, faculty will receive campus maps that identify single occupancy bathrooms and changing rooms as a resource for their transgender students, <a href="http://thedmonline.com/section-transgender-story-ri/" >The Daily Mississippian reports</a>.
Additionally, the school is currently in the process of establishing &ldquo;workplace transition guidelines,&rdquo; presumably to help faculty and staff walk their peers through a gender change.
Campus Reform reached out to the University regarding the workplace transition guidelines, but the university declined to comment on the subject because the program is still in the development process.
Meanwhile, an LGBTQ Committee is working on identifying potential transgender accessible bathrooms throughout campus to add to the list, though Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Brandi Lebanc explained that there are already several on UM&rsquo;s campus.
Lebanc added that the age of UM&rsquo;s buildings could present some difficulties, saying there may be few gender neutral restrooms in older facilities.
&ldquo;Due to the age of some of our buildings, there may be limited non-gender restroom access in those facilities,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;Nonetheless, we are happy to work with (and have already done such work) to meet individuals&rsquo; needs.&rdquo;
Professor Gail Stratton, member of the LGBTQ Committee, however, argued that all campus buildings should have restrooms that cater to the transgender community, even comparing the bathroom wars to the plight of African Americans in the 60&rsquo;s.
&ldquo;It is very interesting how access to bathrooms speaks volumes about values,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;In our own past in the South, restrooms for African-Americans were often simply not available or separate and certainly not equal.&rdquo;
She went on to say that the issue is not simply about making accommodations for transgender students, saying the struggle is a great &ldquo;civil rights issues&rdquo; in Mississippi.
The school has also hinted at the possibility of establishing segregated housing for transgender students, though there currently is no concrete plan,
&ldquo;We don&rsquo;t currently have a transgender floor,&rdquo; Assistant Vice Chancellor for Student Affair Lionel Maten said. &ldquo;Students are worked with individually to make sure they&rsquo;re accommodated and comfortable in an environment.&rdquo;
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Professor compares transgender bathrooms to 1960’s segregation

A student at the University of Buffalo ignited controversy Wednesday for hanging &ldquo;White Only&rdquo; and &ldquo;Black Only&rdquo; signs on bathrooms and drinking fountains in Clemens Hall that houses offices and classrooms for the College of Arts and Sciences. The signs, which campus police removed after receiving complaints, were posted as an assignment for an art class.
Campus officials initially <a href="http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2015/09/white-only-signs-ub-clemens" >treated</a> the incident as an &ldquo;insensitive prank.&rdquo;
Ashley Powell, a graduate student in fine arts, came forward as the individual behind the project at a meeting of the Black Student Union on September 16. Powell, who is black, hung the signs as a project for her &ldquo;Installation: Urban Spaces&rdquo; class, which requires the creation of an art installation in a public space.
Powell <a href="http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2015/09/ub-student-admits-to-hanging-white-only-and-black-only-signs-for-art-project?_h=41bdbffc-44b4-4178-884a-d0864fe407b2" >explained</a> that her purpose was to &ldquo;get a reaction out of people.&rdquo;
UB students reacted immediately and took to social media to express confusion and outrage. One student <a href="https://twitter.com/JVMES_BVTTLE/status/644210083296071680" >tweeted</a>, &ldquo;Not only is this a hate crime, but it is also an act of terrorism.&rdquo; The tweet received almost 500 favorites and more than 700 retweets.
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This was posted on a public bathroom at UB. Not only is this a hate crime, but it is also an act of terrorism. <a href="http://t.co/nhE5qMquvV">pic.twitter.com/nhE5qMquvV</a>
&mdash; 6(31) God (@JVMES_BVTTLE) <a href="https://twitter.com/JVMES_BVTTLE/status/644210083296071680">September 16, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Over 100 students appeared at the Black Student Union's weekly meeting later in the day, where Powell admitted to posting the signs. The UB Spectrum <a href="http://www.ubspectrum.com/article/2015/09/ub-student-admits-to-hanging-white-only-and-black-only-signs-for-art-project?_h=41bdbffc-44b4-4178-884a-d0864fe407b2" >reports</a> that some of the participants left the meeting crying.
Micah Oliver, president of the Black Student Union, <a href="http://abc27.com/2015/09/17/white-only-signs-stir-up-controversy-at-university-of-buffalo/" >said</a> the signs evoked, &ldquo;a past our generation has never seen which I think is why it was so shocking for us to see.&rdquo; One student <a href="https://twitter.com/N00dl3z4lyf3/status/644329923679752193" >called</a> the signs &ldquo;sickening&rdquo; and that the project &ldquo;entices a fear no one should ever experience.&rdquo;
Powell apologized for hurting people but defended the project as a work of art.
Powell did not clear the project with the university before posting the signs. Posting on campus is limited to designated bulletin boards, and university policy <a href="http://www.student-affairs.buffalo.edu/judicial/15rulesp.pdf" >states</a> that "exceptional situations and/or unique material" require special permission from the Office of Student Affairs.
The university <a href="http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2015/09/035.html" >said</a> in a press release that it is &ldquo;continuing to review this matter through appropriate university policies and procedures."
The Intercultural and Diversity Center will call a meeting Sept. 17 to &ldquo;allow students to continue the discussion.&rdquo;
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