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KC Johnson

5 years

The campus environment created by the 2011 Dear Colleague letter has generated hundreds of lawsuits from accused students. In @NYUJLPP , @samk_harris & I analyze the resulting developmentsin federal courts:

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KC Johnson

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10 months

Remarkable exchange: @RepKiley : If you were talking to a prospective Jewish student's family right now, could you look them in the eye and tell them that their son or daughter would be safe & feel safe & welcome on your campus? Harvard pres. Gay won't give a yes-or-no answer.

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6 months

Quite an opening anecdote in this richly reported @TheAtlantic piece on Stanford after Oct. 7.

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10 months

Surely this type of brutality against Palestinian citizens will generate widespread campus protests.

Jonathan Elkhoury- جوناثان الخوري

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Hamas just executed two Palestinians in the city of Tulkarem in the West Bank in accusation of collaborating with Israel. They hung their bodies on an electricity pole for everyone to see and all gathered to picture it. Hamas is responsible for killing thousands of Palestinians.

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10 months

From Harvard Hillel: Wednesday classes disrupted by students with bullhorns chanting "globalize intifada" and "river to the sea." Statement: "protests of this nature have become increasingly normalized on our campus." Urges univ to enforce--as it hasn't done--its own rules.

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4 years

. @neeratanden appears to have deleted her tweets about Susan Collins, whose vote she'll likely need for confirmation. h/t @varadmehta

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3 months

The Columbia report promises to be explosive.

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7 years

Chilling line from DeVos speech: One university leader asked by OCR official: “Why do you care about the rights of the accused?”

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10 months

This comment is from the Harvard Law professor who co-directs the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security.

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11 months

Another example of the odd phenomena of Ivy League protesters who seem to believe they have a right to protest in public, but without anyone seeing who the protesters are.

Alexandra Orbuch

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Today, in my capacity as a reporter for @PrincetonTory , I covered a Pro-Palestinian Walkout on Princeton's campus. I stood at a distance, gathering footage and audio of the protestors, but protesters continued to stalk and harass me.

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1 year

He's an associate professor in an Ivy League History Department.

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1 year

Cornell University Professor Russell Rickford speaking about Hamas terrorist attacks. Shameful @Cornell .

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6 years

Striking deposition from @Mizzou TIX official--male student asking female student for a date (which she didn't want) violated TIX policy b/c male student in position of "power and authority" since he was physically larger.

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3 years

@SethBarronNYC @nytimes Imagine the editorial process associated with the decision to run this piece.

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1 year

And now a second message to the Harvard alumni list--this one from the incoming president--deeming today a "hard day": not because the Supreme Court found that the university had engaged in discrimination, but because the university no longer will be able to do so.

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6 years

Just in: blistering, from Cal. appellate court, overturns lower court in @ucsantabarbara due process case: "It is ironic that an institution of higher learning, where American history and government are taught, should stray so far from the principles that underlie our democracy."

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10 months

. @DanaBashCNN to Jayapal: "With respect, I was just asking about the women [who were raped], & you turned it back to Israel." Jayapal's demand for "balance" is extraordinary--as Bash points out, no evidence exists of IDF soldiers raping Palestinian women.

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3 years

Obviously a class element here, since it applies only to parents who were able to work from home. But Zoom allowed parents to get a sense of...fashionable...curricular trends that wouldn't have been possible pre-2020.

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2 years

Not a good look for CUNY, to put it mildly. (The memory-holed article celebrated the legal acumen of a 2015 Hunter grad, the daughter of two immigrants from the Dominican Republic, who had worked on the Depp case.)

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Extraordinary statement, signed at moment by 75 full-time @CUNY faculty, describing the Hamas massacre of civilians as a "military operation": "[T]here is also no equivalence between the October 7 military operation by Hamas [and] subsequent military attack by the Israeli state."

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3 years

Obviously voting records aren't everything, but voting with Biden 100% of the time (per 538 tracker), including on all Biden nominees, is an unusual record for a straight-news story to describe as having taken a "hard turn to the right."

ABC News

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Once a staunch progressive, Arizona’s senior senator has taken a hard turn to the right. On the surface, that appears to have been an effort to make her more electable by courting moderate and conservative voters. If so, she may have overcompensated.

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4 years

. @bariweiss resignation letter from the Times: "Twitter is not on the masthead of The New York Times. But Twitter has become its ultimate editor."

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4 years

And now the @washingtonpost , in almost 3000 words on the allegation against Biden, doesn't mention the standards Biden helped impose on college students, or criteria for addressing sexual assault allegations he articulated then, or in Kavanaugh hearings.

Sexual assault allegation by former Biden Senate aide emerges in campaign, draws denial

In interviews with The Washington Post last year, Tara Reade said that Biden had touched her neck and shoulders but did not mention the alleged assault.

www.washingtonpost.com

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8 months

Rather hard to give the Harvard protesters the benefit of the doubt on antisemitism here.

Shabbos Kestenbaum

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Harvard students, most concealing their faces, chant “Palestine will be Arab.” To all Jews: Do not give this institution one more dollar

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@jpodhoretz Have listened to hundreds of hours of LBJ tapes. He could be coarse, sometimes extremely so (though he generally wasn't). But casual, off-hand racism? No. (Nixon, yes.)

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7 years

Betsy DeVos said, "No student should be forced to sue their way to due process." Here's what happens when they do:

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4 years

The NYT's decision to contextualize its article through the Trump allegations--rather than Biden's own record & statements regarding the criteria for evaluating sexual assault claims--is hard to explain.

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New York Times story about Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegation against Biden is harsher toward Trump

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11 months

The book, whose title doesn't appear in the tweet, was To Kill a Mockingbird.

The Washington Post

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Four progressive teachers in Washington’s Mukilteo School District wanted to protect students from a book they saw as outdated and harmful. The blowback was fierce.

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2 years

Stanford Law dean: "[W]e cannot function as a law school from the premise that appears to have animated the disruption of Judge Duncan’s remarks -- that speakers, texts, or ideas believed by some to be harmful inflict a new impermissible harm justifying a heckler’s veto."

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1 year

Wow: @RollingStone co-founder on the retracted Sabrina Rubin Erdely @UVA article: other than its narrative spine, "the rest of the story was bulletproof."

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6 years

A mindboggling statement on proposed TIX regs from @aclu . Cross-examination by a lawyer is "inappropriately favoring the accused"? Ensuring both parties have access to training materials and evidence? Does the ACLU now adopt those positions more broadly?

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It promotes an unfair process, inappropriately favoring the accused and letting schools ignore their responsibility under Title IX to respond promptly and fairly to complaints of sexual violence.

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2 years

Simply extraordinary: when evaluating a claim of campus sexual assault--even if there are no witnesses other than the parties--19 Senate Democrats maintain a "live hearing and cross-examination . . . is wholly unnecessary to determine what happened in a particular incident."

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6 years

Fascinating development in MO, where St. Louis County NAACP backs GOP-sponsored bill to make campus TIX procedures fairer. Org's head: "The denial of due process at Missouri's colleges disproportionately impacts African American men."

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4 years

Remarkable exchange, in an excellent summary of the #1619Project 's shifting thesis. A reminder of how the Wayback Machine & YouTube complicate Pravda-like memory-holing of earlier arguments that no longer fit an amended official narrative.

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7 years

Extraordinary message from Gov. Jerry Brown, as he vetoes bill that sought to codify Obama-era TIX guidance. Stresses due process concerns.

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10 months

Good profile of @aaronsibarium , who has broken more key stories on higher-ed--Stanford Law, Yale Law, Princeton, DEI matters--in the last18mos or so than virtually any other reporter, at any publication.

This Gen Z Investigative Reporter Is Rocking Conservative Media

Aaron Sibarium says he's providing Old School, shoe-leather reporting from a conservative point of view. Except he's not conservative.

www.politico.com

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3 years

Long overdue: NC Gov. Roy Cooper pardons Darryl Howard, wrongly convicted of murder due, in part, to Mike Nifong (then an ass't DA in Durham) withholding exculpatory DNA evidence. The move allows Howard to receive compensation for being wrongly imprisoned.

Darryl Howard, wrongfully convicted of Durham double murder, pardoned by Gov. Cooper

The prosecutor who was disbarred for withholding evidence in the Duke Lacrosse case did the same to Darryl Howard, a judge previously ruled.

www.newsobserver.com

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10 months

Coverage of the CAIR head's celebration of October 7 in Fox, NY Post, National Review, Jewish & Israeli media--but so far nothing in NYT, Washington Post, Politico, CNN.

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5 years

Ill-informed comments about policy from AOC are par for the course, but she might have found the time to read even one of the 150 university court setbacks on this issue before tweeting.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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5 years

Hey Mr. President, remember when you bragged about sexually assaulting women, talking about feeling their breasts and genitals, because “when you’re a star they let you do it?” And then you imposed DOE policies to make it harder for sexual assault survivors to report assault?

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7 years

@jamestaranto Here are internal Rolling Stone emails--first denying the need for any statement responding to critics, then trying to find a sympathetic MNSBC host to spin their failure.

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6 years

Puzzling response to @DavidAFrench here. In 2006, a gang rape allegation at Duke was taken so seirously by "our culture" that the Duke adm/faculty & much of the national media rushed to judgment & accepted wildly implausible allegations as true.

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5 months

A both-sides missive from the @Columbia dean to alumni and parents. (An unaware reader might believe that campus has been awash in Islamophobic rhetoric.)

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4 years

Did the rock simply fall from the sky, or tumble off a hill?

The New York Times

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4 years

A 21-year-old Israeli soldier was killed when he was struck in the head by a heavy rock as his unit was completing a nighttime arrest mission in a Palestinian village near Jenin, in the northern West Bank, the army said

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3 years

Just remarkable. @UMichiganNews ' Schlissel--who spent years fighting tooth & nail to uphold a TIX adjudication system multiple federal courts deemed unfair to acc'd students--is fired b/c of an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.

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3 months

Stanford antisemitism committee unanimously concludes: "antisemitism exists today on the Stanford campus in ways that are widespread and pernicious." Also: "Whether one equates anti-Zionism with antisemitism by definition, these two biases are in fact closely intertwined."

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2 years

@jessesingal @mattyglesias It's also very hard to imagine how abortion bans "disproportionately" harm the LGBTQ community. If anything, they should be less affected?

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11 months

Perceptive from @bariweiss , on how the aftermath of Oct. 7. shows that abolishing DEI is the answer, "not for the Jewish community to plead its cause before the intersectional coalition, or beg for a higher ranking in the new ladder of victimhood."

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3 years

@HotlineJosh "One recent producer of the Oscars, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential metrics, said minute-by-minute post-show ratings analysis indicated that 'vast swaths' of people turned off their televisions when celebrities started to opine on politics."

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30 days

The Columbia antisemitism support suggests a deeply flawed campus culture: “One student captured more than 750 antisemitic online posts written by Columbia students and organizations.” "Students reported being told 'Kill your fucking self. And I’ll fucking kill you.'”

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5 years

Superb, from @EmilyYoffe on @JoeBiden : "If Joe Biden were a college student, [his actions]—ambiguous as those actions might be—could easily result in his being investigated by the Title IX office, and subjected to education-disrupting punishment."

Joe Biden Created the Culture He Is a Target Of

As vice president, Biden sought to remake the rules of sexual culture on college campuses and beyond. He succeeded—and now is suffering for it.

www.politico.com

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10 months

Another remarkable exchange w/Harvard pres. Gay. @RepStefanik : did univ decline request to fly an Israeli flag after 10/7? Gay: "standard protocol at the university for years" to only fly the US flag--only to concede after followup Q that Harvard flew the Ukraine flag last year.

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7 years

In contrast to the NYT's recent description of Jackie's claims as "unproven," the 2nd Circuit today is more...precise:

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10 months

Scoop from @thecrimson : recent disruptive anti-Israel protests--students with bullhorns interreputing classes, etc)--were organized by unrecognized student groups. They're "technically not permitted to stage on-campus demonstrations." Why hasn't Harvard enforced its rules?

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From @TheAtlantic : "The videos show pure, predatory sadism; no effort to spare those who pose no threat; and an eagerness to kill nearly matched by eagerness to disfigure the bodies of the victims."

A Record of Pure, Predatory Sadism

Officials in Israel screened footage of the Hamas attack for the press: “What we shared with you, you should know it,” one official said.

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1 year

@MichaelSocolow It's such an extraordinary change. And it creates a feedback loop of diminishing interest in foreign affairs; or approaching the topic only through a domestic partisan lens.

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Eighteen full-time @Princeton faculty (all in humanities or related fields) pen open letter endorsing BDS, right of return. No condemnation of Hamas, or concern for hostages. Seems to leave Dartmouth as only Ivy League school not to have an embarrassing faculty response to 10/7.

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3 years

Fifteen years ago today, the Group of 88 released its statement about the Duke lacrosse case. The Duke profs affirmed that something "happened" to the accuser & told protesters-who had, among other things, urged the castration of the lacrosse captains-"thank you for not waiting."

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11 months

Just in: In lawsuit against Cal. com. college DEI personnel requirements, magistrate judge R&R recommends granting preliminary injunction: DEI "undoubtedly is important" but Cal "regulatory scheme....is contrary to the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of speech" in academy.

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4 years

"Lincoln is not someone that I typically tend to admire." One after another, mindboggling responses by the head of the SF school board. The indifference to factual accuracy--by someone setting education policy--is depressing.

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Unanimous decision from 3-judge panel notes that absence of due process harmed both the acc'd and the accuser: "Notably absent was even a semblance of due process."

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A depressing yet, as always from @MattiFriedman , perceptive exploration of a "core myster[y]" of October 7: "why an historic massacre of Jews, even before the Israeli response got underway, triggered a powerful wave of hostility not toward the attackers—but toward Jews."

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Another @Mizzou TIX official suggests students unsure whether asking fellow student for a date could be a TIX violation could call the TIX office for "clarification"--before admitting that the office might not provide the necessary clarification.

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The Alabama Law School story doubless would have played differently if Culverhouse, in his initial public statement, had admitted he demanded (in writing!) return of $10m b/c he wanted to dictate a hiring decision at the school.

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10 months

Rematkable to see this news analysis passage in NYT, which for years has downplayed the issue: "All three institutions have in recent years punished or censored speech or conduct that drew anger from the left." Piece also notes FIRE's rankings & quotes @1AMorey on univ hypocrisy.

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7 years

DeVos:"No student should be forced to sue their way to due process." 1st DOE acknowledgement of due process lawsuits

Post Dear-Colleague Letter Rulings/Settlements

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Of all the things we've seen on campus since Oct. 7, this is the one reaction that didn't even seem conceivable. Similar videos, obviously, at NYU, Baruch, Penn, VCU. It's hard to process the cruelty.

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Can someone help identifying this redhead a$$hole ? Happened in the diag of university of Michigan BTW @UMich is another ultra antisemitic university

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. @nplusonemag author implies that someone having defended the falsely accused is a bad thing. Interesting approach.

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Extraordinarily unprofessional conduct: faculty members who moved office hours or *classes* to the anti-Israel encampment.

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Greatest anger from @sarahjeong on Rolling Stone/UVA () reserved for the *journalists* from @washingtonpost & @Slate whose work exposed the hoax. Her response to their journalism: "Fuck 'Slate is vindicated.'"

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Full @sarahjeong tweet-thread on the @RollingStone /UVA story, archived here (). also features several examples of her more typical oeuvre on race:

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Extraordinary argument from @RollingStone : the *fraternity* was to blame for publication of the defamatory Erdely article on UVA:

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4 years

This admission--in a piece that's sympathetic both to Hannah-Jones and the #1619Project --is utterly damning. Again: the Times has pushed the Project for use in HS curricula. & what can the Pulitzer board members who ignored Hahn's cautions now be feeling?

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DeVos: "The notion that a school must diminish due process rights to better serve the “victim” only creates more victims." Great line.

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An Orwellian conception of "civil rights," to describe a figure who spent four years in office aggressively weakening accused students' procedural protections.

The Leadership Conference

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BREAKING: @SenSchumer just moved forward on the nomination of Catherine Lhamon to serve as assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education. We strongly urge all senators to support students’ civil rights by voting to #ConfirmLhamon to lead @EDcivilrights .

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Remarkable quote on campus free speech from head of ACLU's free speech project, in detailed @powellnyt piece on the ACLU. "'FIRE does not have the same tensions,' Mr. Wizner said. 'At the A.C.L.U., free speech is one of 12 or 15 different values.'"

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More from the memory-holed article--which is filled with tips for other CUNY students who might want a future in law, but was removed, it seems, because of protests about the CUNY grad's client.

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The limit of the "believe all survivors" ideology has apparently been reached: when video & medical evidence corroborates the allegations, but the victims are Israeli.

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In the "mattress girl" case, Paul Nungesser "vehemently denied" Emma Sulkowicz's allegation. A one-sided TIX adjudication couldn't find enough evidence to sustain the claim. The NYPD didn't pursue charges. Gillibrand's response? "I believe Emma."

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How times have changed. (cc @alfranken )

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The dean's "partial facts" claim would be more tenable if (a) there wasn't audio of the YLS student's exchanges w/the diversity bureaucrats; and (b) there wasn't subsequent reporting by @TheFIREorg & @DavidLat raising additional concerns w/how YLS acted.

Aaron Sibarium

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Heather Gerken, the Dean of Yale Law School, has emailed the entire law school about my story last week. She suggests our reporting was based "on partial facts" and announces that she has asked Deputy Dean Ian Ayers to "assess the situation."

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Powerful, in @TheAtlantic , from @conor64 on ACLU & new TIX regs: "The ACLU issued a public statement that constituted a stark, shortsighted betrayal of the organization’s historic mission: It vehemently opposed stronger due-process rights for the accused."

The ACLU Declines to Defend Civil Rights

The civil-liberties organization has taken a stand against stronger due-process protections in campus tribunals that undermines its own principles.

www.theatlantic.com

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3 years

Striking aside in this (v. well-reported) CNN piece on Harris: "And implicit racism and sexism have been constant." The only evidence in article seems to be two quotes from Harris aides. Plausible theory, but shouldn't reporters include evidence for such a provocative claim?

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Diversity statements in faculty hiring positions are troubling enough. Brown is proposing adding a diversity statement to Ph.D. applications as well. cc: @JohnDSailer

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Stanford official: university procedure allowing students to file anonymous complaints against fellow students is intended to help everyone get along. Remarkable.

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4 years

Not the usual message from a major university president in today's environment: "The goal of a public research university...is to open the minds of our students, expose them to different perspectives and beliefs...That doesn’t happen in an echo chamber."

There Is No Higher Education Without Free Speech

As the new president of The University of Texas at Austin, I know that our great institution can live up to its highest ideals only by creating a space

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104 House Democrats sign letter to DeVos denouncing new TIX regs for allowing hearings w/x-exam by a lawyer, who could be a "criminal defense lawyer." Representatives claim that such a policy "flies in the face of common decency." A remarkable assertion.

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Stanford Law Students trying to parse the merits of "the vast majority of students' shouting" is quite a line of defense. (The praise of the DEI dean's "care and compassion" would work better if there was no video of her intervention.)

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As w/Biden in the aftermath of the Reade allegation, I suspect that Cuomo will quickly set aside the one-sided approach to such claims he imposed on NYS college students now that he faces an allegation himself.

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DeVos: "One person denied due process is one too many." That's a dramatic shift from the Obama-era approach to Title IX.

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Dozens of @EvergreenStCol profs signed this document, demanding punishment of fellow prof for speaking out. Shameful

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That @ACLU teamed with a prominent accusers' rights group in its lawsuit to block the new TIX regulations speaks volumes as to the organization's concern (or, in this case, lack thereof) w/due process on campus.

ACLU sues Betsy DeVos over new campus sexual assault rules

The suit says Title IX changes will make it "more difficult for victims of sexual harassment or sexual assault to continue their educations."

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That even Bernie Sanders is significantly more pro-Israel than the dominant student & faculty opinions we've seen on most elite campuses since 10/7 gives a sense of just how ideologically isolated on Israel elite campuses remain.

Yashar Ali 🐘

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10 months

Bernie Sanders on Face The Nation: “I don’t know how you can have a permanent ceasefire with Hamas who has said before October 7 and after October 7 that they want to destroy Israel and they want a permanent war. I don’t know how you have a permanent ceasefire with an attitude

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KC Johnson

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The obvious Q: as this statement anticipates add'l allegations, through what procedures does Biden think they should be evaluated? Should, for instance, the same guilt-tilting approach he's championed for accused college students should apply to him?

Henry J. Gomez

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6 years

Just in: A statement from @JoeBiden .

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KC Johnson

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11 months

Unanswered Q in @NewYorker piece: why, right after so many Israeli civilians were murdered, did the Harvard statement ringleader "rush[] to her friend’s apartment, still in pajamas, to compose 'an emergency statement' on behalf of Palestinian allies on campus"?

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KC Johnson

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4 years

Excellent piece from @sullydish : "The problem with defending due process in a case like Biden’s [is]...Biden himself...You can listen to Biden’s strident speeches and rhetoric on this question and find not a single smidgen of concern with the rights of the accused."

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10 months

Harvard president Gay issues her second clarifying statement on her House testimony: “Substantively, I failed to convey what is my truth.” (The "my truth" was a nice touch.)

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KC Johnson

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7 years

This letter, regarding @CHSommers speaking at Lewis & Clark, appears to have been written by propsective lawyers. I pity their future clients.

Christina Hoff Sommers

@CHSommers

7 years

Oh dear. I’m speaking at Lewis & Clark Law School tomorrow at noon. Several student groups are planning to protest the presence of a “known fascist” on campus. Demanding my invitation be rescinded. Wish me luck.

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KC Johnson

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4 years

Daily Beast piece reveals the unsurprising next target of the NYT successor ideology caucus.

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2 years

"Factual, accurate journalism that is written, edited, and published in accordance with Times standards does not create a hostile workplace." Very strong letter--and lots of top-flight Times journalists signed onto it.

Dozens of ‘New York Times’ Journalists Hit Staff Union for Its Defense of Trans Coverage Criticism

Some of the paper’s top reporters signed a letter objecting to the Guild’s response to newsroom leaders. “We ask that our union work to advance, not erode, our journalistic independence,” they wrote.

www.vanityfair.com

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KC Johnson

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10 months

Beyond 20% of 18-29yos who agree that the Holocaust is a myth, *another* 30% neither agree nor disagree. So half of 18-29yos (at minimum) aren't certain the Holocaust occurred. Hard to imagine that lots worry that admitting the Holocaust occurred is somehow sympathizing w/Israel.

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KC Johnson

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10 months

This John Kirby clip on genocide is excellent. Would be nice if it got some viewing on campus.

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KC Johnson

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7 years

Quite extraordinary, from J. Ginsburg. Have to imagine this rhetoric will find its way into some of the campus due process complaints & perhaps even a decision or two:

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KC Johnson

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10 months

. @RepJimBanks : why did Penn invite Roger Waters to speak? Pres. Magill: Antisemitism has no place at Penn. Banks: Why did you invite Roger Waters? Magill: Antisemitism has no place at Penn. Banks: Why did you invite Roger Waters? Magill: Antisemitism does not have a place at Penn

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KC Johnson

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3 years

Quite an exchange yesterday b/w Judge Lewis Kaplan and Columbia's lawyer, on the Dear Colleague letter: "somebody, with a different sort of backbone than I understand Columbia had at the time" could have simply said no to the Obama-era OCR's demands.

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