Campus Happenings

[CID1990]

lol

Duke University is famous for its science and engineering programs, as well as its dominance in college basketball.

Now, it may also become known as a great place for men to gather and contemplate why they’re such horrible people.

The Duke Men’s Project, launched this month and hosted by the campus Women’s Center, offers a nine-week program for “male-identified” students that discusses male privilege, patriarchy, “the language of dominance,” rape culture, pornography, machismo and other topics.

The student newspaper’s editorial board endorsed the new program yesterday, insisting it was “not a reeducation camp being administered by an oppressed group in the service of the feminization of American society.”

But it’s easy to see why they felt the need to defend against such concerns.

Junior Dipro Bhowmik, who sits on the leadership team, recently said the goal of the Duke Men’s Project is for male students to “critique and analyze their own masculinity and toxic masculinities to create healthier ones.”

Alex Bressler, another junior on the leadership team, said the program would help men “proactively deconstruct our masculinity.”

Duke’s new program is patterned off of a similar one at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where participants are asked to contemplate how masculinity plays a harmful influence in lives.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/duke-of ... sm_fb_post

We are the easiest Maoists in the world

We don't even need the Red Guards to parade us down the street with placards around our necks to force us into self-criticism sessions

Maybe we'll start executing ourselves too?

(One can only hope)


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[Ivytalk]

lol

Duke University is famous for its science and engineering programs, as well as its dominance in college basketball.

Now, it may also become known as a great place for men to gather and contemplate why they’re such horrible people.

The Duke Men’s Project, launched this month and hosted by the campus Women’s Center, offers a nine-week program for “male-identified” students that discusses male privilege, patriarchy, “the language of dominance,” rape culture, pornography, machismo and other topics.

The student newspaper’s editorial board endorsed the new program yesterday, insisting it was “not a reeducation camp being administered by an oppressed group in the service of the feminization of American society.”

But it’s easy to see why they felt the need to defend against such concerns.

Junior Dipro Bhowmik, who sits on the leadership team, recently said the goal of the Duke Men’s Project is for male students to “critique and analyze their own masculinity and toxic masculinities to create healthier ones.”

Alex Bressler, another junior on the leadership team, said the program would help men “proactively deconstruct our masculinity.”

Duke’s new program is patterned off of a similar one at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where participants are asked to contemplate how masculinity plays a harmful influence in lives.

https://heatst.com/culture-wars/duke-of ... sm_fb_post

What a crock of shit. So Duke is imitating UNC now? I thought Duke hated UNC.

[houndawg]

ROCK HILL
The protest began with a number: 715 victims of police violence in 2016.

The movement intensified with a building: Winthrop University’s Tillman Hall.

Around 70 students and faculty participated in a lively, exuberant and peaceful march on campus Wednesday to raise support for renaming the school’s administration building, which protesters say represents a man who espoused racist ideals.

Read more here: http://www.heraldonline.com/news/local/ ... rylink=cpy

Tillman, who was South Carolina’s governor in the early 1890s and a U.S. senator until his death in 1918, was instrumental in both founding Clemson University and establishing Winthrop College as a teaching school for women. But he was also famous for his violent rhetoric against the state’s black population as a supporter of lynch mobs.

“It’s a symbol of hatred, prejudice and white supremacy,” said Samantha Valdez, a graduate student with the Student Socialists Union. “For us to keep up our diversity on campus, we need to change these elements on campus.”

Rename it General William Tecumseh Sherman Hall.

[andy7171]

I didn't write it.

Just who do you think you are? The class of '89 or something?

KALMY FOR THE WIN!!!!!!

[CAA Flagship]

Blue Lives Don't Matter

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8232

The University of California, Irvine Black Student Union held a protest Friday calling for a total and complete ban on the UC Irvine Police Department.
Protesters held signs reading "Blue Lives Don't Matter," "Police Kill the Mentally Ill," and "F**k the Police."

[GannonFan]

Blue Lives Don't Matter

https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8232

The University of California, Irvine Black Student Union held a protest Friday calling for a total and complete ban on the UC Irvine Police Department.
Protesters held signs reading "Blue Lives Don't Matter," "Police Kill the Mentally Ill," and "F**k the Police."

Stupid Anteaters.

On the other side, though, well worth watching "Straight Outta Compton" - great flick and sadly still very relevant today with regards to BLM.

[Skjellyfetti]

Liberty students in open revolt

Liberty United Against Trump
In the months since Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed him, Donald Trump has been inexorably associated with Liberty University. We are Liberty students who are disappointed with President Falwell’s endorsement and are tired of being associated with one of the worst presidential candidates in American history. Donald Trump does not represent our values and we want nothing to do with him.
A majority of Liberty students, faculty, and staff feel as we do. Donald Trump received a pitiful 90 votes from Liberty students in Virginia’s primary election, a colossal rejection of his campaign. Nevertheless, President Falwell eagerly uses his national platform to advocate for Donald Trump. While he occasionally clarifies that supporting Trump is not the official position of Liberty University, he knows it is his title of president of the largest Christian university in the world that gives him political credentials.

Associating any politician with Christianity is damaging to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But Donald Trump is not just any politician. He has made his name by maligning others and bragging about his sins. Not only is Donald Trump a bad candidate for president, he is actively promoting the very things that we as Christians ought to oppose.

A recently uncovered tape revealed his comments bragging about sexually assaulting women. Any faculty or staff member at Liberty would be terminated for such comments, and yet when Donald Trump makes them, President Falwell rushes eagerly to his defense – taking the name “Liberty University” with him. “We’re all sinners,” Falwell told the media, as if sexual assault is a shoulder-shrugging issue rather than an atrocity which plagues college campuses across America, including our own.

It is not enough to criticize these kinds of comments. We must make clear to the world that while everyone is a sinner and everyone can be forgiven, a man who constantly and proudly speaks evil does not deserve our support for the nation’s highest office.

Jesus tells a story in the Bible about a man who tries to remove a speck of dust from his brother’s eye, while he has a log stuck in his own. “You hypocrite,” Jesus says, “first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”

We Liberty students are often told to support Donald Trump because the other leading candidate is a bad option. Perhaps this is true. But the only candidate who is directly associated with Liberty University is Donald Trump.

Because our president has led the world to believe that Liberty University supports Donald Trump, we students must take it upon ourselves to make clear that Donald Trump is absolutely opposed to what we believe, and does not have our support.

We are not proclaiming our opposition to Donald Trump out of bitterness, but out of a desire to regain the integrity of our school. While our president Jerry Falwell Jr. tours the country championing the log in his eye, we want the world to know how many students oppose him. We don’t want to champion Donald Trump; we want only to be champions for Christ.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... g/viewform

[andy7171]

Liberty students in open revolt

Liberty United Against Trump
In the months since Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed him, Donald Trump has been inexorably associated with Liberty University. We are Liberty students who are disappointed with President Falwell’s endorsement and are tired of being associated with one of the worst presidential candidates in American history. Donald Trump does not represent our values and we want nothing to do with him.
A majority of Liberty students, faculty, and staff feel as we do. Donald Trump received a pitiful 90 votes from Liberty students in Virginia’s primary election, a colossal rejection of his campaign. Nevertheless, President Falwell eagerly uses his national platform to advocate for Donald Trump. While he occasionally clarifies that supporting Trump is not the official position of Liberty University, he knows it is his title of president of the largest Christian university in the world that gives him political credentials.

Associating any politician with Christianity is damaging to the Gospel of Jesus Christ. But Donald Trump is not just any politician. He has made his name by maligning others and bragging about his sins. Not only is Donald Trump a bad candidate for president, he is actively promoting the very things that we as Christians ought to oppose.

A recently uncovered tape revealed his comments bragging about sexually assaulting women. Any faculty or staff member at Liberty would be terminated for such comments, and yet when Donald Trump makes them, President Falwell rushes eagerly to his defense – taking the name “Liberty University” with him. “We’re all sinners,” Falwell told the media, as if sexual assault is a shoulder-shrugging issue rather than an atrocity which plagues college campuses across America, including our own.

It is not enough to criticize these kinds of comments. We must make clear to the world that while everyone is a sinner and everyone can be forgiven, a man who constantly and proudly speaks evil does not deserve our support for the nation’s highest office.

Jesus tells a story in the Bible about a man who tries to remove a speck of dust from his brother’s eye, while he has a log stuck in his own. “You hypocrite,” Jesus says, “first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.”

We Liberty students are often told to support Donald Trump because the other leading candidate is a bad option. Perhaps this is true. But the only candidate who is directly associated with Liberty University is Donald Trump.

Because our president has led the world to believe that Liberty University supports Donald Trump, we students must take it upon ourselves to make clear that Donald Trump is absolutely opposed to what we believe, and does not have our support.

We are not proclaiming our opposition to Donald Trump out of bitterness, but out of a desire to regain the integrity of our school. While our president Jerry Falwell Jr. tours the country championing the log in his eye, we want the world to know how many students oppose him. We don’t want to champion Donald Trump; we want only to be champions for Christ.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIp ... g/viewform

Nice JSO impression.

To paraphrase Jerry Lee Lewis. "'Liberty u. Can kiss my ass!"


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[CAA Flagship]

Colleges Cancelled Exams for Students Traumatized by Trump's Election

So it begins: American college campuses are currently experiencing a collective freak-out over the impending Trump presidency. Professors and administrators have cancelled exams and sent messages of support to students feeling traumatized by the election results.

A University of Michigan psychology professor delayed an exam until next week and wished students good fortune during this "tumultuous time." Some Columbia University professors postponed midterms as well. A University of Connecticut professor excused students from attending class. And at Yale University, one professor decided to make an upcoming exam optional.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/10/colle ... tudents-tr

[kalm]

Colleges Cancelled Exams for Students Traumatized by Trump's Election

So it begins: American college campuses are currently experiencing a collective freak-out over the impending Trump presidency. Professors and administrators have cancelled exams and sent messages of support to students feeling traumatized by the election results.

A University of Michigan psychology professor delayed an exam until next week and wished students good fortune during this "tumultuous time." Some Columbia University professors postponed midterms as well. A University of Connecticut professor excused students from attending class. And at Yale University, one professor decided to make an upcoming exam optional.

http://reason.com/blog/2016/11/10/colle ... tudents-tr

Jesus Pussy Grabbing Christ!!!

[kalm]

I've been thinking about safe spaces quite a bit lately.

My youngest, who's a big kid but a bit of a gentle giant and very sweet and sensitive (which has it's pros and cons) has been bullied quite a bit during the middle school years. He once picked up a kid and threw him a few feet but typically holds it in and takes it. He worries about his ability to hurt people if he lets his temper get the best of him.

A couple of weeks ago, a younger kid on his bus spit on him and little kalm got caught spitting back. He's called to the front of the bus where decides to go into a profanity infused tirade at the bus driver (not good and he was punished for it at home). What's since come out, corroborated by other kids, is that the instigator was telling those around him including little kalm to fuck off and little kalm was making fun of him for it when he spit on little kalm.

The bus driver gives both boys an option for punishment. Be suspended from the bus for 3 days or sit next to each other and get along at the front of the bus.

This has gone on for two weeks with the bus driver now requiring little kalm to talk to and be nice to the kid or he will sit up front with the booger eating kindergartners indefinitely.

I hate hover parents and try to let the boys figure this shit out on their own but I broke down and called the vice principal to discuss it. She had the bus driver call me and after allowing her to preach to me the importance of forgiveness and getting along with others and how she'd once taken an 8 hour class on how to deal with children let's just say the rest of the conversation didn't go well for her.

I tried to explain that while I appreciated what she was trying to do, I worked with the public on a daily basis and that there are people in life who you just aren't going to get along with (like the kind who tell you to fuck off and spit on you) and you should not be obligated to go out of your way to be friends with them. That's the real world. She shot back with "that may be your world, but it's not the real world". At which point I told her that attempting to socially engineer a relationship was not the answer. Well she did not like that one bit and the rest of the conversation devolved to the point where she hung up on me.

The vice principal, one of his teachers, and the school counselor are all backing me up on this so I feel like I'm on fairly solid ground. Back in the day, if I had spit on an older kid there would be hell waiting for me as soon as I stepped outside. There was something to be said for school yard justice.

But in the back of my mind I keep wondering if I'm attempting to create a safe space on the bus?

[GannonFan]

I've been thinking about safe spaces quite a bit lately.

My youngest, who's a big kid but a bit of a gentle giant and very sweet and sensitive (which has it's pros and cons) has been bullied quite a bit during the middle school years. He once picked up a kid and threw him a few feet but typically holds it in and takes it. He worries about his ability to hurt people if he lets his temper get the best of him.

A couple of weeks ago, a younger kid on his bus spit on him and little kalm got caught spitting back. He's called to the front of the bus where decides to go into a profanity infused tirade at the bus driver (not good and he was punished for it at home). What's since come out, corroborated by other kids, is that the instigator was telling those around him including little kalm to **** off and little kalm was making fun of him for it when he spit on little kalm.

The bus driver gives both boys an option for punishment. Be suspended from the bus for 3 days or sit next to each other and get along at the front of the bus.

This has gone on for two weeks with the bus driver now requiring little kalm to talk to and be nice to the kid or he will sit up front with the booger eating kindergartners indefinitely.

I hate hover parents and try to let the boys figure this **** out on their own but I broke down and called the vice principal to discuss it. She had the bus driver call me and after allowing her to preach to me the importance of forgiveness and getting along with others and how she'd once taken an 8 hour class on how to deal with children let's just say the rest of the conversation didn't go well for her.

I tried to explain that while I appreciated what she was trying to do, I worked with the public on a daily basis and that there are people in life who you just aren't going to get along with (like the kind who tell you to **** off and spit on you) and you should not be obligated to go out of your way to be friends with them. That's the real world. She shot back with "that may be your world, but it's not the real world". At which point I told her that attempting to socially engineer a relationship was not the answer. Well she did not like that one bit and the rest of the conversation devolved to the point where she hung up on me.

The vice principal, one of his teachers, and the school counselor are all backing me up on this so I feel like I'm on fairly solid ground. Back in the day, if I had spit on an older kid there would be hell waiting for me as soon as I stepped outside. There was something to be said for school yard justice.

But in the back of my mind I keep wondering if I'm attempting to create a safe space on the bus?

Sweet Jesus, bus drivers in your neck of the woods sure do hold a lot of sway. You had a teleconference with the bus driver.

I don't think you're wrong, I'm just shocked the school is so hands off on this. I kinda expect schools to handle their crap and I only get annoyed when they don't.

[CAA Flagship]

When I was a kid, I got into a fight with another kid in my neighborhood on the other kid's front lawn. Upon seeing it, his father came out and stopped the punching and suggested we wrestle instead. The kid had 20 pounds on me but I was quicker. Eventually strength won.
Within a few months, we were best friends.
The interesting thing here was that the father let things play out in a manner that would reduce the chance of injury. Once I got pinned, we were both too exhausted to remember what we were fighting about.

[kalm]

When I was a kid, I got into a fight with another kid in my neighborhood on the other kid's front lawn. Upon seeing it, his father came out and stopped the punching and suggested we wrestle instead. The kid had 20 pounds on me but I was quicker. Eventually strength won.
Within a few months, we were best friends.
The interesting thing here was that the father let things play out in a manner that would reduce the chance of injury. Once I got pinned, we were both too exhausted to remember what we were fighting about.

We used to have a boxing smoker at my HS which resolved a ton of disputes. I fought a fat cowboy who had 80 lbs on me. I'd never boxed before but my buddies assured me with the heavy gloves it wouldn't hurt.

The bell wrings and the fat cowboy marches across the ring and absolutely tags me.

I spent the rest of the round being chased around the ring.

I managed to give him a standing 8 count by the 3rd round but the judges called it a draw. I was robbed!

Little kalm wrestles and would crush this kid.

[Pwns]

I've been thinking about safe spaces quite a bit lately.

My youngest, who's a big kid but a bit of a gentle giant and very sweet and sensitive (which has it's pros and cons) has been bullied quite a bit during the middle school years. He once picked up a kid and threw him a few feet but typically holds it in and takes it. He worries about his ability to hurt people if he lets his temper get the best of him.

A couple of weeks ago, a younger kid on his bus spit on him and little kalm got caught spitting back. He's called to the front of the bus where decides to go into a profanity infused tirade at the bus driver (not good and he was punished for it at home). What's since come out, corroborated by other kids, is that the instigator was telling those around him including little kalm to fuck off and little kalm was making fun of him for it when he spit on little kalm.

The bus driver gives both boys an option for punishment. Be suspended from the bus for 3 days or sit next to each other and get along at the front of the bus.

This has gone on for two weeks with the bus driver now requiring little kalm to talk to and be nice to the kid or he will sit up front with the booger eating kindergartners indefinitely.

I hate hover parents and try to let the boys figure this shit out on their own but I broke down and called the vice principal to discuss it. She had the bus driver call me and after allowing her to preach to me the importance of forgiveness and getting along with others and how she'd once taken an 8 hour class on how to deal with children let's just say the rest of the conversation didn't go well for her.

I tried to explain that while I appreciated what she was trying to do, I worked with the public on a daily basis and that there are people in life who you just aren't going to get along with (like the kind who tell you to fuck off and spit on you) and you should not be obligated to go out of your way to be friends with them. That's the real world. She shot back with "that may be your world, but it's not the real world". At which point I told her that attempting to socially engineer a relationship was not the answer. Well she did not like that one bit and the rest of the conversation devolved to the point where she hung up on me.

The vice principal, one of his teachers, and the school counselor are all backing me up on this so I feel like I'm on fairly solid ground. Back in the day, if I had spit on an older kid there would be hell waiting for me as soon as I stepped outside. There was something to be said for school yard justice.

But in the back of my mind I keep wondering if I'm attempting to create a safe space on the bus?

Middle school is awkward hell for just about everyone other than the good-looking/popular kids. I had a similar problem with guys that I could easily stomp a mudhole in giving me s*** and I could do nothing because if you stand up for yourself you get a suspension which academically is a death sentence.

[GannonFan]

I've been thinking about safe spaces quite a bit lately.

My youngest, who's a big kid but a bit of a gentle giant and very sweet and sensitive (which has it's pros and cons) has been bullied quite a bit during the middle school years. He once picked up a kid and threw him a few feet but typically holds it in and takes it. He worries about his ability to hurt people if he lets his temper get the best of him.

A couple of weeks ago, a younger kid on his bus spit on him and little kalm got caught spitting back. He's called to the front of the bus where decides to go into a profanity infused tirade at the bus driver (not good and he was punished for it at home). What's since come out, corroborated by other kids, is that the instigator was telling those around him including little kalm to **** off and little kalm was making fun of him for it when he spit on little kalm.

The bus driver gives both boys an option for punishment. Be suspended from the bus for 3 days or sit next to each other and get along at the front of the bus.

This has gone on for two weeks with the bus driver now requiring little kalm to talk to and be nice to the kid or he will sit up front with the booger eating kindergartners indefinitely.

I hate hover parents and try to let the boys figure this **** out on their own but I broke down and called the vice principal to discuss it. She had the bus driver call me and after allowing her to preach to me the importance of forgiveness and getting along with others and how she'd once taken an 8 hour class on how to deal with children let's just say the rest of the conversation didn't go well for her.

I tried to explain that while I appreciated what she was trying to do, I worked with the public on a daily basis and that there are people in life who you just aren't going to get along with (like the kind who tell you to **** off and spit on you) and you should not be obligated to go out of your way to be friends with them. That's the real world. She shot back with "that may be your world, but it's not the real world". At which point I told her that attempting to socially engineer a relationship was not the answer. Well she did not like that one bit and the rest of the conversation devolved to the point where she hung up on me.

The vice principal, one of his teachers, and the school counselor are all backing me up on this so I feel like I'm on fairly solid ground. Back in the day, if I had spit on an older kid there would be hell waiting for me as soon as I stepped outside. There was something to be said for school yard justice.

But in the back of my mind I keep wondering if I'm attempting to create a safe space on the bus?

Middle school is awkward hell for just about everyone other than the good-looking/popular kids. I had a similar problem with guys that I could easily stomp a mudhole in giving me s*** and I could do nothing because if you stand up for yourself you get a suspension which academically is a death sentence.

I went to a full school assembly for my oldest last year when he was in his first year of middle school in 6th grade, and I'm not sure there was a good-looking kid anywhere in the bunch. Middle school years are just awkward for everyone - they all look horribly gawky.

[Pwns]

I went to a full school assembly for my oldest last year when he was in his first year of middle school in 6th grade, and I'm not sure there was a good-looking kid anywhere in the bunch. Middle school years are just awkward for everyone - they all look horribly gawky.

Oh, he must go to a gifted and talented school.

[YoUDeeMan]

Too bad today's world is so pussy driven.

Someone bothers you...kick them in the nuts, elbow them in the face, or take out their knees.

It is amazing what happens when you stand up for yourself.

[CitadelGrad]

Middle school is awkward hell for just about everyone other than the good-looking/popular kids. I had a similar problem with guys that I could easily stomp a mudhole in giving me s*** and I could do nothing because if you stand up for yourself you get a suspension which academically is a death sentence.

I went to a full school assembly for my oldest last year when he was in his first year of middle school in 6th grade, and I'm not sure there was a good-looking kid anywhere in the bunch. Middle school years are just awkward for everyone - they all look horribly gawky.

Nonsense. There are so many hot middle school girls, but so little time.

::channeling JSO::

[Baldy]

Professors ask Sullivan to stop quoting Jefferson

Several groups on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against the inclusion of a Thomas Jefferson quote in her post-election email Nov. 9.

In the email, Sullivan encouraged students to unite in the wake of contentious results, arguing that University students have the responsibility of creating the future they want for themselves.

“Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend that University of Virginia students ‘are not of ordinary significance only: they are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country, and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes,’” Sullivan said in the email. “I encourage today’s U.Va. students to embrace that responsibility.”

Some professors from the Psychology Department — and other academic departments — did not agree with the use of this quote. Their letter to Sullivan argued that in light of Jefferson’s owning of slaves and other racist beliefs, she should refrain from quoting Jefferson in email communications.

“We would like for our administration to understand that although some members of this community may have come to this university because of Thomas Jefferson's legacy, others of us came here in spite of it,” the letter read. “For many of us, the inclusion of Jefferson quotations in these e-mails undermines the message of unity, equality and civility that you are attempting to convey.”

The letter garnered 469 signatures — from both students and professors — before being sent out via email Nov. 11. Signees included Politics Prof. Nicholas Winter, Psychology Prof. Chad Dodson, Women, Gender and Sexuality Prof. Corinne Field, College Assistant Dean Shilpa Davé, Politics Prof. Lynn Sanders and many more. Asst. Psychology Prof. Noelle Hurd drafted the letter.

Progtards

[89Hen]

http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2016/ ... n/slide/1/

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Montgomery County high school students walked out of class Monday morning and streamed through the streets of Silver Spring in apparent protest of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency last week.

About 800 students from Montgomery Blair High School, in Silver Spring, left class in a planned protest at about 10 a.m. Montgomery County school officials said Montgomery Blair High approved a plan allowing students to protest on the school’s football field.

But then about 200 to 300 students left school grounds, marching two to three miles down University Boulevard and meeting up with several hundred other students from other schools, including Northwood High School, at the Westfield Wheaton Mall, at Georgia Avenue and Viers Mill Road.

Montgomery County school officials also confirmed students from Wheaton High School took place in the protest.

[GannonFan]

Professors ask Sullivan to stop quoting Jefferson

Several groups on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against the inclusion of a Thomas Jefferson quote in her post-election email Nov. 9.

In the email, Sullivan encouraged students to unite in the wake of contentious results, arguing that University students have the responsibility of creating the future they want for themselves.

“Thomas Jefferson wrote to a friend that University of Virginia students ‘are not of ordinary significance only: they are exactly the persons who are to succeed to the government of our country, and to rule its future enmities, its friendships and fortunes,’” Sullivan said in the email. “I encourage today’s U.Va. students to embrace that responsibility.”

Some professors from the Psychology Department — and other academic departments — did not agree with the use of this quote. Their letter to Sullivan argued that in light of Jefferson’s owning of slaves and other racist beliefs, she should refrain from quoting Jefferson in email communications.

“We would like for our administration to understand that although some members of this community may have come to this university because of Thomas Jefferson's legacy, others of us came here in spite of it,” the letter read. “For many of us, the inclusion of Jefferson quotations in these e-mails undermines the message of unity, equality and civility that you are attempting to convey.”

The letter garnered 469 signatures — from both students and professors — before being sent out via email Nov. 11. Signees included Politics Prof. Nicholas Winter, Psychology Prof. Chad Dodson, Women, Gender and Sexuality Prof. Corinne Field, College Assistant Dean Shilpa Davé, Politics Prof. Lynn Sanders and many more. Asst. Psychology Prof. Noelle Hurd drafted the letter.

Progtards

I'm not even a fan of TJ, generally speaking, but I shake my head in derision at being so closed mind.

[GannonFan]

http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2016/ ... n/slide/1/

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Montgomery County high school students walked out of class Monday morning and streamed through the streets of Silver Spring in apparent protest of Donald Trump’s election to the presidency last week.

About 800 students from Montgomery Blair High School, in Silver Spring, left class in a planned protest at about 10 a.m. Montgomery County school officials said Montgomery Blair High approved a plan allowing students to protest on the school’s football field.

But then about 200 to 300 students left school grounds, marching two to three miles down University Boulevard and meeting up with several hundred other students from other schools, including Northwood High School, at the Westfield Wheaton Mall, at Georgia Avenue and Viers Mill Road.

Montgomery County school officials also confirmed students from Wheaton High School took place in the protest.

I like these kids, they're multi-taskers; they do a protest, get some shopping done, meet some friends. Getting a lot done in just one morning.

[YoUDeeMan]

http://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2016/ ... n/slide/1/

I like these kids, they're multi-taskers; they do a protest, get some shopping done, meet some friends. Getting a lot done in just one morning.

Did they shop...or loot?

If they didn't loot, then what the heck are they learning in high school?

2nd rate protesters.

[89Hen]

Saw a great quote today...

"Colleges have become a place where they want everyone to look different, but think the same."