Last week over a dozen conservative federal judges declared they won’t hire law clerks from Columbia Law School’s graduating classes because of the protests on that campus (see story here; read their letter here). They may think they’re striking a blow for the rule of law, but all [...]
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May 7th, 2024 - 8:00 pm § in Law and Courts, Schools & Colleges
Do UW professors have free speech?
Academic freedom. Freedom of inquiry. Free speech. That’s what Stuart Reges (photo, left), a University of Washington computer science professor, and the public interest law firm representing him, thought they were defending when he sued UW in federal court after administrators sought to punis[...]
May 5th, 2024 - 1:39 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Should colleges turn students into cows and lemmings?
This could be the end result of Republican politicians trying to convert America’s public universities and colleges into conservative madrassas (see story here), but that’s an article for another day. Colleges are supposed to teach students how to think independently (see my article here[...]
As usual, officials are lying about the protests
This time Mother Jones is calling out NYC Mayor Eric Adams (see story here). Days after city cops stormed the Columbia University campus, Hizzoner held a press conference. He used it to condemn “outside agitators,” naming a retired teacher Mother Jones says “was not on Columbia’s[...]
May 2nd, 2024 - 12:54 pm § in Israel/Palestine, Schools & Colleges
PHOTOGRAPHY: Peaceful protest
Although the UCLA protest on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, turned violent when pro-Israel counter-demonstrators attacked the protesters (see story here), while police waited more than two hours to intervene (see story here), this photo has nothing to do with that. It’s what the police did to the st[...]
June 14th, 2023 - 1:00 am § in Schools & Colleges
Even straight kids can be victims of anti-trans hate
No kid is safe from anti-LGBQT hate, not even straight kids. This incident happened in Canada, but it’s going to happen here too, wait and see. A 9-year-old fourth grade girl was competing in an elementary school track meet at Kelowna, British Columbia, when a grandfather began yelling at her.[...]
Oklahoma board votes to use public funds for Catholic education
An Oklahoma state school board has approved “the first publicly funded religious school in the nation, despite a warning from the state’s attorney general that the decision was unconstitutional,” ABC News reported on Monday, June 5, 2023 (read story here). “The Statewide Virt[...]
If you pass a law against climate change, it’ll happen anyway
State Sen. Jerry Cirino (photo, left; profile here), an Ohio Republican, is sponsoring a bill that “designates climate policy as a ‘controversial belief or policy.’” On a purely abstract plane, a climate “belief or policy” could be controversial if, say, it posits tha[...]
Threaten gays, go to jail
A grand jury has indicted a New York woman for making phone threats to several Denver-area LGBQT businesses shortly after the Club Q shooting (read story here). Sharon Robinson, 40, was arrested for calling four businesses and saying she was going to “shoot them up” and they were “[...]
May 21st, 2023 - 1:32 am § in Schools & Colleges
Why not just respect people for who they are?
In Mississippi, a school district barred a trans girl from her high school graduation unless she dressed like a boy. A federal judge appointed by Trump upheld the district’s decision. (See story here). In New York, a private Christian college fired two dormitory supervisors for adding gender i[...]