The University of California-Berkeley list of student holidays includes a day off for Cesar Chavez Day. Columbus Day did not make the cut. The university&rsquo;s academic <a href="https://registrar.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/pdf/UCB_AcademicCalendar_2020-21_V3.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">calendar </a>reflects that students received a break on March 26 to commemorate the Mexican-American community organizer and activist, but does not list a break to commemorate the Italian explorer&rsquo;s landfall in the Americas. In recent years, Columbus has been the subject of increasing ire from left-leaning Americans, with many universities commemorating &ldquo;Indigenous Peoples Day&rdquo; on October 12, 2020. In contrast, Chavez is seen by many leftists as a social justice champion; indeed, after his inauguration, President Biden added a bust of <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/21/us/cesar-chavez-bust-oval-office-trnd/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chavez</a> to the Oval Office. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15907" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Colleges nix Columbus Day, instead host events for Indigenous Peoples Day]</a> Administrators at Berkeley were no exception. As a 2020 <a href="https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/03/27/a-wellness-message-for-cesar-chavez-day/#:~:text=A%20wellness%20message%20for%20Cesar%20Chavez%20Day.%20UC,equity%20in%20the%20workplace%20and%20all%20of%20society" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press release</a> explained, the school takes Cesar Chavez Day off to honor &ldquo;the principles of fairness, social justice, and the struggle for equity in the workplace and all of society.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16801" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16801" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16801" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Berkeley backtracks on closing social justice center amid leftist backlash]</a> &ldquo;As we continue to adjust to our new reality created by COVID-19, both with respect to work and our personal lives, it is more important than ever to pause and think about the broader values and personal meaning that this day represents,&rdquo; continued the press release. &ldquo;Managers should encourage all employees (unless required to perform emergency services) to take the time to rest, reflect and renew.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to the University of California-Berkeley for comment; this article will be updated accordingly. <span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora,serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/BenZeisloft?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Lora,serif;color:#cc0000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">@BenZeisloft</a>

The university did not provide a day off for Columbus Day.

Berkeley takes a day off for Cesar Chavez Day, but not Columbus Day

A group of Stanford University administrators and faculty blamed former President Donald Trump for recent violence toward Asian-Americans.An email sent from Associate Dean of Students and Asian American Activities Center Director <a href="https://a3c.stanford.edu/about/staff" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cindy Ng</a> to students, a copy of which was obtained by Campus Reform, expressed desire for justice following the murder of eight people in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian-American women.Several additional deans involved with the Asian American Activities Center also signed the email, as well as 14 professors from various departments.The email claimed that &ldquo;the recent exponential increase in violent attacks has been fueled by a former president who blamed the COVID pandemic on the Chinese.&rdquo;It added that &ldquo;anti-Asian racism and violence must be addressed in the context of dismantling structural and institutionalized systems created to maintain white supremacy.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16970" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford Law launches &#39;Youth Justice Lab&#39; to address racism in public schools, combat &lsquo;insidious&rsquo; meritocracy]</a>&quot;We have a right to be angry, we have a right to demand justice,&quot; the email continued. &quot;We know that anti-Asian racism and violence must be addressed in the context of dismantling structural and institutionalized systems created to maintain white supremacy. We are committed to this work.&quot;We also know that recent events and what happened in Atlanta weighs heavy and may have you worrying about your own safety and that of your family and loved ones. We are here for you and encourage you to reach out to one or all of us should you need support.Conservative students at Stanford were not pleased.Stanford College Republicans directed Campus Reform toward a statement pointing out that &ldquo;Stanford administrators are actively promoting the vicious lie that the horrific onslaught of anti-Asian violence and the shootings in Atlanta...were incited by President Trump and &lsquo;white supremacy.&rsquo;&rdquo;The group said that the message used &ldquo;the lives of those who died...to mount a cheap shot against President Trump,&rdquo; which represented a &ldquo;baseless lie and distortion.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16374" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Stanford bestows free speech policy spot on &#39;Campus Antifascist Network&#39; co-founder]</a>The students demanded that Ng apologize &ldquo;for using the lives of those who died&quot; in Atlanta &quot;as political tools.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to Ng and Stanford University 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 message cited Trump's rhetoric toward China in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic as the reason for the violence against Asian Americans. 

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Chinese state media released a hit piece on Fairfax University of America&rsquo;s foreign policy think tank after it discussed China&rsquo;s human rights infringements. In a policy <a href="https://newlinesinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/Chinas-Breaches-of-the-GC3.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">report</a>, Fairfax University of America&rsquo;s Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy released &ldquo;the first independent expert application of the 1948 Genocide Convention to the ongoing treatment of the Uyghurs in China.&rdquo; The think tank invited &ldquo;dozens of experts in international law, genocide studies, Chinese ethnic policies, and the region&rdquo; to examine &ldquo;all available evidence that could be collected and verified from public Chinese State communications, leaked Chinese State communications, eye-witness testimony, and open-source research methods.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16875" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16875" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16875" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Biden chalks up China&#39;s Uyghur genocide to different cultural &#39;norms.&#39; Can he be trusted to keep CCP off college campuses?]</a> The report concluded that the People&rsquo;s Republic of China bears responsibility &ldquo;for committing genocide against the Uyghurs in breach of the 1948 Convention.&rdquo; Pointing to the Chinese Communist Party&rsquo;s deliberate actions in killing members of the group, inflicting serious bodily harm, and preventing births, the report concluded that China has the &ldquo;intent to destroy, in whole or in part&rdquo; the Uyghur ethnic group under the framework of the Geneva Convention.<a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218020.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218020.shtml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202103/1218020.shtml" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Global Times</a> &mdash; a Chinese media outlet under the thumb of the nation&rsquo;s central government &mdash; questioned the Newlines Institute&rsquo;s independence. &ldquo;A so-called US &lsquo;think tank&rsquo; recently released report to stigmatize China on Xinjiang affairs and hype the rumor of &lsquo;genocide&rsquo; with cooked-up evidence, and Chinese analysts said on Wednesday that this &lsquo;think tank&rsquo; is actually lying to the international community and it&#39;s actually an institute that serves specific political forces rather than an independent and neutral institute,&rdquo; alleged the article.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16774" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16774" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16774" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Did a Huawei employee ghostwrite this MIT professor&#39;s pro-China op-ed?]</a> Continuing in its liberal use of scare-quotes, Global Times said that &ldquo;this &lsquo;think tank&rsquo; is talking lies to create a sensation in the international community, which indicates that it is not a pure academic think tank but one with very strong political bias and is aligned with certain forces in the US and Western society to demonize and attack China, Chinese observers noted.&rdquo; The outlet added that Chinese experts believe &ldquo;the intent of hyping Xinjiang &lsquo;genocide&rsquo; reports is very insidious as they are also trying to instigating the relationship between Muslims and Chinese society, so as to make Muslim countries stand by those who hold tough to China.&rdquo; Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to Fairfax University of America 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>

Fairfax University of America’s foreign policy think tank detailed the Chinese Communist Party’s breaches of the Geneva Convention.

Chinese state media is not happy after university think tank reveals CCP's human rights violations

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<a href="https://www.internationalwomensday.com/" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>The editor-in-chief of the student newspaper at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania accused Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) of not being a &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;">true intersectional feminist,&quot; because she voted against a $15 per hour federal minimum wage.On March 10, just two short days after International Women&rsquo;s Day concluded, Jordyn Hronec published a piece titled &lsquo;<a href="https://ppuglobe.com/2021/03/the-problem-with-girl-bosses/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Problem with &lsquo;Girl Bosses</a>,&rsquo;&rsquo; in which she discussed the issues that exist in &ldquo;girl boss&rdquo; culture. &ldquo;I, as the Editor-in-Chief of this newspaper, am a certified girl boss. And on the day that I am writing this, it is International Women&rsquo;s Day. So it&rsquo;s the perfect time to discuss the problems that exist within &lsquo;girl boss&rsquo; cultures,&rdquo; starts Hronec. The opinion piece focuses on <a href="https://www.sinema.senate.gov/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sinema&rsquo;s</a> recent vote against a rise in the federal minimum wage and her opinion about what feminism should truly embrace. &ldquo;Sinema&rsquo;s &lsquo;no&rsquo; vote was significant because she was one of eight Democratic senators who voted &lsquo;no,&rsquo; along with the Republicans, and the amendment failed as it missed the threshold filibuster mark of 60 &lsquo;yes&rsquo;s by two. It was also significant for the manner in which it was done. In the video, Sinema happily gave a wordless thumbs down before walking out of the chamber,&rdquo; states Hronec.<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;">After Sinema received backlash regarding the way she voted<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;">, Hannah Hurley, the press secretary for Sen. Sinema, said that the commentary surrounding the vote &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;">does not belong in a serious media outlet.&rdquo;&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;"><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;Commentary about a female senator&rsquo;s body language, clothing, or physical demeanor does not belong in a serious media outlet,&quot; Hurley&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/HannahLHurley/status/1368037118262542336" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://twitter.com/HannahLHurley/status/1368037118262542336" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>.<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Hronec took issue with that statement, stating that it&#39;s &quot;tone deaf.&quot;&ldquo;This statement, which blames the criticism towards Sinema on sexism, is tone deaf. The criticism directed towards Sinema is not due to the femininity in her body language, the clothes she was wearing or the fact that she identifies as a woman. Sinema is being criticized because she voted to deny hard working Americans better wages,&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;">Hronec wrote. To conclude her piece, Hronec wrote, &ldquo;It is not enough to advocate for the rights of women. To be a true intersectional feminist&mdash;the only kind of feminist that matters&mdash;you must advocate for the rights of trans women, women of color, disabled women and women in the LGBTQ+ community. And you must advocate for progressive policy-making that rejects systemic racism and sexism.&rdquo;<br 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;"><br 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;"><em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; 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;">Campus Reform<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;">&nbsp;reached out to Hronec, who declined to comment. Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/logandubil" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@logandubil</a>

The Editor-in-Chief claimed that Sen. Krysten Sinema is not a "true intersectional feminist," because she voted against a federal minimum wage of $15 per hour.

Campus newspaper editor-in-chief: An ‘intersectional’ feminist is the ‘only kind of feminist that matters’

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse paid $5,000 to a transgender activist for two hours of speaking time. According to a contract obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, Campus Reform learned that the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse paid <a href="https://www.alokvmenon.com/about" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alok Vaid-Menon</a> &mdash; an &ldquo;internationally acclaimed gender non-conforming writer, performer, and public speaker&rdquo; &mdash; for a <a href="https://www.uwlax.edu/pride-center/clubsevents/events/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">talk</a> on February 16 about the activist&#39;s new book Beyond the Binary. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17030" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17030" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: &lsquo;Graygender, Maverick, Feminine of Center&rsquo;: NYU lists TWO DOZEN gender options]</a> The book encourages readers to &ldquo;see gender not in black and white, but in full color.&rdquo; Vaid-Menon draws upon experience &ldquo;as a gender-nonconforming artist&rdquo; to show that &ldquo;gender is a malleable and creative form of expression.&rdquo; &ldquo;The only limit is your imagination,&rdquo; says the book&rsquo;s <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Gender-Binary-Pocket-Collective/dp/0593094654/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=beyond+the+binary&qid=1616084512&sr=8-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">description</a>. The contract obtained by Campus Reform states that Vaid-Menon was paid $5,000 to speak for a total of two hours on the evening of February 16. The event included a forty-minute period of questions and answers, as well as a meeting with &ldquo;Queer and Trans, Black, Indigenous, and other students and staff of color.&rdquo;<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;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/502069095/UW-La-Crosse-shells-out-2-500-per-hour-for-speech-from-trans-activist#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View UW-La Crosse shells out $2,500 per hour for speech from trans activist on Scribd">UW-La Crosse shells out $2,500 per hour for speech from trans activist</a> by <a href="https://www.scribd.com/user/289329148/Campus-Reform#from_embed" style="text-decoration: underline;" title="View Campus Reform's profile on Scribd">Campus Reform</a> on Scribd<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" title="UW-La Crosse shells out $2,500 per hour for speech from trans activist" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/502069095/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-Jleq25xDPrPjCSxp0Us2" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.75" scrolling="no" id="doc_35937" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe> <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> According to the university&rsquo;s Pride Center, Vaid-Menon<a href="https://mtouch.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3557427614384292&id=234522890008131" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;told</a> students that &ldquo;true freedom isn&rsquo;t choosing from pre-selected, societally-accepted options, but writing in your own option for who you are.&rdquo; &ldquo;Transness is strength and the trans community is powerful,&rdquo; he also said. Months earlier, the University of Wisconsin-Madison paid Robin DiAngelo &mdash; the author of bestselling critical race theory book White Fragility &mdash; $12,750 for a two-day speaking event. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16393" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <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> Campus Reform reached out to the University of Wisconsin La-Crosse 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 activist told students that “true freedom isn’t choosing from pre-selected, societally-accepted options, but writing in your own option for who you are.”

EXCLUSIVE: UW-La Crosse shells out $5,000 for speech from transgender activist

Georgetown University donated $1 million to a Jesuit racial healing initiative.According to an <a href="https://www.georgetown.edu/news/georgetown-continues-support-as-jesuits-descendants-of-enslaved-form-foundation/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announcement</a> from Georgetown President John DeGioia, Georgetown committed $1 million to &ldquo;support the planning and technical work necessary&rdquo; to create the Descendants Truth &amp; Reconciliation Foundation, a newly-formed Jesuit nonprofit.Georgetown also &ldquo;committed to contributing $400,000 a year&rdquo; to a &ldquo;reconciliation fund to support work to benefit the Descendant community.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17037" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Race-based COVID vaccine distribution is needed, profs say, because US is racist]</a>According to its website, the Descendants Truth &amp; Reconciliation Foundation is <a href="https://www.descendants.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">seeking</a> to &ldquo;mitigate the dehumanizing impact of racism on our human family while dismantling the continuing legacy of slavery in America through truth, racial healing and transformation.&rdquo;&nbsp;It seeks to aid the descendants of slaves allegedly exploited by Jesuits.As The New York Times originally reported, the organization pledges to <a href="https://www.descendants.org/news" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">give</a>&nbsp;$100 million toward educational initiatives and <a href="https://www.descendants.org/what-we-do" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">support</a> for elderly descendants.Georgetown students and faculty have long called for and implemented initiatives to atone for the school&rsquo;s involvement in slavery.In 2019, Georgetown students approved a fee of $27.20 per semester to support GU272 &mdash; a coalition representing the slaves sold by Georgetown in 1838. The move &mdash; upon which Georgetown&rsquo;s $400,000 annual contribution is based &mdash; was one of the first reparations initiatives from an American university.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=12094" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: IT&#39;S OFFICIAL: Georgetown students approve mandatory reparations fee (UPDATED)]</a>More recently &mdash; especially since the death of George Floyd in May of 2020 &mdash; universities accelerated their pushes toward reparations funds.As Campus Reform reported, Macalester College&rsquo;s student government approved &ldquo;care packages&rdquo; to students, with a &quot;priority given to students identifying as Black.&quot;<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>Campus Reform also reported that President Joe Biden has surrounded himself with former academics who have written in favor of racial reparations.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16894" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Press Sec says Biden may consider reparations policies. What will former academics in his circle advise?]</a>In March, students at Brown University voted in favor of reparations for descendants of slaves, as Campus Reform reported.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

Though Georgetown has a long history of approving racial healing policies, more recently — especially after George Floyd’s death — campus leftists ramped up their pushes toward reparations funds.

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Editor&#39;s note: The views in this opinion editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Campus Reform or of its parent organization, the Leadership Institute.Despite the many contributions of the academic community to developing the intellectual capital of the most prosperous nation in the world, fostering a culture of national unity, public security, and the rule of law--and educating students committed to these ideals--is not one of them. As the tumultuous decade of the 1960s came to a roaring end in the 1969-1970 school year, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called attention to this problem of radical professors propagandizing, &nbsp;organizing, and operationalizing college students&mdash;a problem remaining to the present with the rise of Antifa on college campuses and its activities across the country. &nbsp;In 1970, the famed Director testified college campuses across the United States had witnessed &ldquo;an unprecedented number of disturbances and incidents of student-centered violence,&rdquo; including 1,785 demonstrations, 313 building seizures by violent students, 246 arson or attempted arson attacks, and 14 bombings (Hoover, Statement Before President&rsquo;s Commission on Campus Unrest, July 1970, p.1). &nbsp;Issue-based grievances centering on civil rights and Vietnam War protests had putrefied in the toxic political climate of the 1960s and became revolutionary anti-Americanism as radicalized, organized, and professionalized agitators exploited opportunities and circumstances for their own benefit and for misguided visions of a better world. &nbsp;Communist and radical Left ideology provided the specious framework needed to channel the rage and rebellion on the strategic targets of America&rsquo;s future leaders.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16520" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Just a &#39;myth&#39;? Here are 5 times Antifa reared its head on campus in 2020]</a>Throughout the era, Hoover and other security experts identified not only off-campus agitators, and foreign operatives as key actors creating the unrest, but also university professors, who directly and indirectly condoned and excused campus violence, disregarding their responsibility to ethically educate the student community. These university &ldquo;Docs&rdquo; and college administrators had worked aggressively to demoralize, degrade, and darken and entire generation, many of whom are now nested comfortably in the academic community where they hatch another generation of radicals, this time largely shorn of long hair and headbands, psychedelic clothing, and peace signs and often clad in simple black and calling themselves Antifa.&nbsp;Piled in the same historical closets with these relics of &ldquo;the love generation,&rdquo; are the simple force configurations of radicals--loosely associated academics, professional organizers, disillusioned students, and &ldquo;hippies&rdquo; openly displayed in a public orgy of political violence on campuses&mdash;a visible, largely external force. &nbsp;Now, Antifa operates deeply inside colleges where radical socialism has metastasized into the vital organs of departments, institutions, administrations, and wider systems. &nbsp;Emerging in this toxicity of ideas are the malign opportunities, cultures, and networks such as the Campus Antifascist Network (CAN), whose very name belies its own propaganda message asserting Antifa is a movement and not an organization.While Antifa emerged from the putrefied political ideology of the 1960s, its tactics (organizational, operational, and support) are more a product of decades of fermentation through the suffocation of failure and legal prosecution, which created a potent cocktail of tactical strength mixed with inebriated feelings of invincibility among its members, who imbibe Anarchist propaganda through websites like CrimethIinc--and many others. &nbsp;CrimethInc not only advocates the most proven subversive and violent tactics of anarchists, but also the psychological, sociological, managerial, legal, and procedural components necessary for lethality and operational success&mdash;no doubt the contrivances of expert subversives and not amateurs.Highly organized as decentralized autonomous cells, clusters, branches, and networks (national and international), Antifa is remarkably fluid, changing size, associations, partnerships, posture, and even locations while remaining capable of rapid mobilization and demobilization given opportunities and challenges. Priding itself on &ldquo;horizontality,&rdquo; the capability to operate in loose affinities and partnerships with other cells and groupings, Antifa strives to be fast, flat, and fluid while seizing platforms for key events such as Presidential inaugurals or major economic events such as the ministerial meeting of the World Trade Organization (1999), which Antifa and other radicals turned into the &ldquo;Battle in Seattle.&rdquo; (1999).<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=15405" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: GWU law prof: Antifa is winning, colleges are helping]</a>Antifa organizers urge its associates to create either open, semi-open, closed (covert), or front groups depending on organizational mission. These self-professed radical anarchists execute simple yet largely unnoticed social, diplomatic-political, information, and economic-financial operations in addition to the far more visible militant, Black Bloc activities where highly specialized roles and tactics occur methodically, simultaneously, and routinely. &nbsp;Therefore, the black clad Antifa appearing on campuses may only be an atypical sample of the types of its followers in a given area, and sometimes its least dangerous elements given its associates operate in politics, churches, education, technical industries&mdash;and of course, on campuses, where suits, ties, handshakes, and computers replace black masks, spray cans, clenched fists, and lasers used to blind law enforcement officers in the air and on the ground.&nbsp;Amid these advanced tactics honed from decades of experience, intense leadership discussions, historical analysis, and current street fights in American cities and suburbs are the Docs like Mark Bray who demonstrate that professors remain a central figure in campus unrest. &nbsp;His Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook promotes these subversive organizational techniques (with a paper-thin justification of countering racism) in an Appendix where eager radicals can find the advice:<blockquote>Sometimes you need a solid group that will be working for years. Sometimes you look for a small group of activists for one action. Sometimes you have to work underground, anonymously, especially in small cities overwhelmed by a hatred towards minorities&mdash;in school, on the street, from the local authorities. Sometimes you can work openly, and advocate for oppressed groups uncovered&mdash;K, Poland (quoted in Bray, Antifa, p. 216).</blockquote>While strategic, operational, and tactical adaptability and refinement have occurred among radical Left groups such as Antifa, their predatory nature remains constant and threatening throughout the decades, particularly to college students. &nbsp;Antifa directly targets for recruitment the politically angry, frustrated, action-oriented, and mobilized--as well as friendship groups. Similarly, these radical anarchists vet their own groups by removing personality types including idealogues, overbearing personalities, braggers and loose lips, those who are personally and not politically violent, provocateurs, and &ldquo;slow learners,&rdquo; and others who impede operational unity and effectiveness (Anti-Fascist Network, How to Set Up an Anti-fascist Group, online). Therefore, it is not &ldquo;big brother&rdquo; who may be watching you on campus as the Left asserts, but little black clad brother who appears as your friend.Among the more predatory practices of Antifa is doxing, a malicious act of revealing someone&rsquo;s personal information without their permission, including name, date of birth, address, and &ldquo;pictures typically retrieved from social networking site profiles&rdquo; (FBI, Internet Social Networking Risks, p.2). The case of Daniel D&rsquo;Ambly an alleged white supremacist illustrates the point as it made headlines in September 2020 when he filed a civil complaint against Christian Exoo, a well-know Antifa whose doxing was openly acknowledged as was his heavy social media presence on Twitter. The court document reveals the unsurprising allegations of his university employment; the institution&rsquo;s knowledge and protection of Exoo&rsquo;s doxing &ldquo;enterprise&rdquo;; the targeting of D&rsquo;Ambly&rsquo;s address, workplace, associates; networked mobilization of students against him; social media &ldquo;ban evasion&rdquo;; and violent acts including vandalism of his car and direct threats via Twitter stating: &ldquo; Regardless, I&rsquo;m gonna spend the next week wrecking your f^%cking life, Dan D&rsquo;Ambly.&rdquo;&nbsp;The D&rsquo;Ambly civil action court case reveals not only the problems of Docs and doxing, but what can be called &ldquo;the Docked.&rdquo; The Webster Online dictionary defines the word docked as &ldquo;to penalize by depriving of a benefit ordinarily due,&rdquo; or &ldquo;to take away a part of.&rdquo; &nbsp;The circumstances of the allegations of this case clearly demonstrated D&rsquo;Ambly, regardless of his political beliefs, was &ldquo;deprived of [benefits] ordinarily due&rdquo; Americans: prosecution of criminal activity on campus or on social media like Twitter; the right to privacy; freedom of speech; protection of employment; protection of property; community and personal security; and allegedly legal representation. &nbsp;Here is Antifa&rsquo;s primary mission: not the fight against Fascism but the destruction of the freedoms, rights, and benefits of Constitutional America. The anti-Fascism and anti-racism declarations of Antifa are merely cover for a very sinister agenda.The problem of &ldquo;the Docked&rdquo; is therefore not isolated to specific cases like D&rsquo;Ambly&rsquo;s. It is happening to many Americans. &nbsp;The views expressed in this article are completely my own and do not represent any government or private organization or entity. &nbsp;<iframe width="100%" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rqk7QEdc_Ao" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

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Lake Washington Institute of Technology allegedly barred a tenured professor from the classroom and investigated her for nine months because she spoke out against anti-racism training, according to a recent report from <a href="https://reason.com/2021/04/05/a-professor-pushed-back-against-white-fragility-training-the-college-investigated-her-for-9-months/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Reason</a>.&nbsp;Ironically, the training was called &quot;courageous conversations.&quot;&nbsp;On June 19, 2020, Lake Washington Institute of Technology in Kirkland, Washington held a mandatory anti-racist training event for roughly 200 White faculty members. During the event, Elisa Parrett spoke up and read a prepared statement in opposition to the training&#39;s segregated environment, over the objection (three minutes in) of the event leader.&nbsp;She reportedly said:&nbsp;<blockquote>&quot;They are telling us that all people may be classified into two sides: us or them, Democrat or Republican, liberal or conservative, people of color or white, righteous or bigoted, oppressed or privileged. I don&#39;t accept such false dichotomies, and I don&#39;t accept the ad hominem implications that come with it. Too often, words like &#39;privileged,&#39; &#39;defensive,&#39; and &#39;fragile&#39; are just ways to dismiss what another person has to say.&quot;</blockquote><a href="https://www.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>President Amy Morrison placed Parrett on paid leave and kicked her out of her college email account. Then, she sent a school-wide email containing a 1,600-word message against Parrett. The school contracted with an outside law firm to investigate the incident, and the law firm presented the school with more than 100 pages of a private investigator&#39;s draft report. The school also compiled more than 100 pages of interview notes and written communications from other faculty members.Professor Phil Snider, one of Parrett&#39;s colleagues and her lone outspoken ally, estimates that the total cost of the investigation, plus finding new faculty to take over Parrett&#39;s classes, plus the time spent by school employees on the investigation, may approach $250,000. According to the school&#39;s most recent <a href="https://www.lwtech.edu/admissions/tuition/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">tuition and fees schedule</a>, $250,000 would be enough to send 88 in-state, full-time students to the school for a year.<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>Since speaking out during the anti-racist event, Parrett has become even more of a target for her political views. Parrett and her husband attended the January 6th event in Washington, D.C. that devolved into chaos and destruction at the U.S. Capitol. In <a href="https://www.lotuseaters.com/a-chance-to-be-heard-a-citizen-journalists-account-of-the-capitol-protest-20-01-21" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">her retelling of the event</a>, she describes her motivation to attend as a desire &quot;to march for due process and electoral transparency, because we believe in lawful governance and that everyone, regardless of who they are, deserves their day in court.&quot; Parrett claims that they walked up the steps of the Capitol but left when men with bullhorns started yelling to the crowd in order to incite violence.&nbsp;After nine months and untold spending by the school, Parrett learned her fate. She received a written reprimand and a requirement to &quot;not interrupt or undermine&quot; future anti-racism efforts at the school.&nbsp;A spokesperson for Lake Washington Institute of Technology told Campus Reform&nbsp;that,&nbsp;<blockquote>&quot;The college has spent a significant amount of time and resources to build a college community that is based on, and anchored in, our values of respect, collaboration, and inclusion...While the college supports open debate and academic freedom, it does not support or condone disruption of college-wide professional development opportunities that undermine the strategic mission of the college.&quot;</blockquote><strong style="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;">Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" rel="noopener noreferrer" 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);" target="_blank">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

After nine months of investigation, interviews, and research - including by a private investigator - Parrett was given a written reprimand.

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Disclosure: The writer of this piece served as the U.S. Department of Education&#39;s Press Secretary from summer 2019 through the end of the Trump administration and was involved in the announcement of the creation of the Education Stabilization Fund transparency portal.&nbsp;Congressional Democrats and President Joe Biden enacted <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=17009" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">$40 billion in additional higher education relief funding</a> without any public information on if, or how, the $21.2 billion allocated in December 2020 had been spent.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=17009" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Universities make out like bandits with Biden&#39;s $1.9 trillion COVID package]</a>Even though colleges and universities <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ope/heerfreporting.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">were required to report</a> their spending on January 28 and then again on February 8, the Department of Education&#39;s Education Stabilization Fund transparency portal is still showing spending data as of Nov. 30 of last year.&nbsp;On Mar. 10, Congress passed another $40 billion in relief funding to colleges without any information on how the $21.2 billion allocated in December 2020 had been spent, or if it had spent. Colleges have <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-quickly-makes-available-more-21-billion-taxpayer-funds-support-continued-education-colleges-universities" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">had access to this money</a> since January 14, 2021.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16448" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Campus Reform Correspondent participates in Department of Education&#39;s unveiling of new &#39;Free Speech Hotline&#39;]</a>Now, under the guise of &quot;infrastructure,&quot; the Biden administration is now<a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/wesleywhistle/2021/03/31/biden-infrastructure-plan-includes-12-billion-for-community-colleges/?sh=22f2781146e4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;proposing another $12 billion</a> for community colleges, a cause championed by First Lady Jill Biden, who <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16375" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">remains a professor</a> at a Washington, D.C. community college.&nbsp;The Department has thus far refused to say when the data would be updated or why the updated data has not been made available to the public. <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;">On February 19th, a Department spokesperson told Campus Reform that the portal would be updated &ldquo;in the coming weeks.&rdquo; But a month later, no update has been made. The Department did not respond to a second request for comment made on March 15th.&nbsp;<em style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 500; 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;">Follow the writer on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration: none; color: var(--red); font-weight: 600;" target="_blank">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

Colleges were required to report their coronavirus relief spending to the Department of Education by January 28th and then again on February 8th.

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A Black student was reportedly responsible for racist graffiti discovered at Albion College in Michigan. According to <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/04/racist-graffiti-found-in-stairwell-at-albion-college.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MLive</a>, on April 2, slogans such as &ldquo;KKK,&rdquo; &ldquo;White Power,&rdquo; and &ldquo;Die N****rs Please!&rdquo; were discovered in Mitchell Towers, a residence hall. As a result of the messages, hundreds of students boycotted class and marched on campus for three consecutive days. Many chanted &ldquo;silence is violence!&rdquo;<a href="https://twitter.com/TrishaWWMT/status/1380198097813446660" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">HAPPENING TODAY: Albion College students are boycotting again. Students tell me today they are focusing on mental health &amp; fighting for change. <a href="https://twitter.com/wwmtnews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wwmtnews</a> <a href="https://t.co/jegNs0wcHF" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/jegNs0wcHF</a>&mdash; Trisha McCauley (@TrishaWWMT) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrishaWWMT/status/1380198097813446660?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">For the third day this week, Albion College students and staff marched across campus, demanding change over recent injustices they said have been happening on campus. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WestMichigan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WestMichigan</a> FULL STORY &gt;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/2lrSwBtkbZ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://t.co/2lrSwBtkbZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/5cPZ08BW0Z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/5cPZ08BW0Z</a>&mdash; Trisha McCauley (@TrishaWWMT) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrishaWWMT/status/1380288136379531266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">For the third day this week, Albion College students and staff marched across campus, demanding change over recent injustices they said have been happening on campus. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WestMichigan?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WestMichigan</a> FULL STORY &gt;&gt; <a href="https://t.co/2lrSwBtkbZ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://t.co/2lrSwBtkbZ</a> <a href="https://t.co/5cPZ08BW0Z" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/5cPZ08BW0Z</a>&mdash; Trisha McCauley (@TrishaWWMT) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrishaWWMT/status/1380288136379531266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 8, 2021</a></blockquote>The school quickly launched an investigation and discovered that a &ldquo;student of color&rdquo; was responsible for the graffiti. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15094" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15094" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15094" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Hate crime hoax: Black man responsible for &#39;racist&#39; graffiti at Salisbury University]</a> According to student newspaper <a href="https://www.albionpleiad.com/2021/04/student-identified-for-racist-mitchell-towers-graffiti/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Albion Pleiad</a>, college President Matthew Johnson informed students that a &ldquo;current student of color&rdquo; was responsible for the incident. As <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/04/student-responsible-for-racist-graffiti-found-in-albion-college-dorm-officials-say.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mlive_sf&utm_source=twitter" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">M Live</a> reports, Albion Department of Public Safety Police Chief Scott Kipp stated that the suspect was a twenty-one-year-old Black male.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Earlier today, we identified the individual responsible for the racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in Mitchell Towers. The student, who was acting alone, acknowledged their responsibility for these incidents. (1/5)&mdash; Albion College (@albioncollege) <a href="https://twitter.com/albioncollege/status/1379909908565422082?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 7, 2021</a></blockquote>The school stated that the student acknowledged his responsibility and was &ldquo;immediately removed from campus&rdquo; while administrators &ldquo;conduct a full investigation as part of our student judicial process.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16884" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16884" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Why don&#39;t Black people ski? One prof blames systemic racism]</a> However, the college insisted that &ldquo;there is a significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus and we are taking action to repair our community.&rdquo; According to <a href="https://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/2021/04/albion-college-offering-1000-reward-for-information-about-racist-graffiti.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">MLive</a>,&nbsp;there was a $1,000 reward for anyone who had information about the vandalism incident that could lead to identifying the individual. Albion College spokeswoman Erin Robinson provided&nbsp;Campus Reform with a statement from Albion College President Matthew Johnson, who said that &ldquo;the individual responsible for the racist graffiti in Mitchell Towers is a student of color.&rdquo; &ldquo;The student was immediately removed from campus and placed on temporary suspension while we conduct a full investigation as part of our student judicial process,&rdquo; he stated. &ldquo;All evidence has been turned over to law enforcement in cooperation with the ongoing criminal investigation. We do not have any additional information to provide at this time as the student judicial process and criminal investigation proceed.&rdquo; However, the college insisted that &ldquo;there is a significant history of racial pain and trauma on campus and we are taking action to repair our community.&rdquo; Albion Department of Public Safety Chief Scott Kipp told Campus Reform that the incident is still being investigated and once completed, will be submitted to the local prosecutor&#39;s office for possible charges. Kipp said that Albion public safety officers caught an individual &ldquo;writing hate speech on a wall&rdquo; at Albion College on April 6. Upon arrival, police officers &rdquo;took custody of a 21 year old African American male, who is an Albion College student and brought him to ADPS for questioning.&rdquo; The student &ldquo;admitted to most of the racial graffiti drawn on campus over the last several days.&rdquo; &ldquo;Albion College Campus Safety also provided video evidence, which confirms the statements made by the student,&rdquo; continued Kipp. &ldquo;The student was released after questioning. Once the investigation is complete the information will be submitted to the Calhoun County Prosecutor&rsquo;s Office for any charges related to the incidents.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

The graffiti sent hundreds of students into boycotts and protests.

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Virginia Tech is facing a new lawsuit from Speech First, a First Amendment watchdog organization, over allegedly violating students&#39; rights with vague and broad rules surrounding student speech.&nbsp;In <a href="https://speechfirst.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/VT%20Complaint%20%28April%207%29%20--%20%28clean%29.pdf?_t=1617894728" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">the lawsuit</a> filed in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia, Speech First alleges that Virginia Tech&#39;s policies &quot;restrain, deter, depress, and punish speech about the political and social issue of the day.&quot; The organization takes issue with policies that encourage students to police each other, even anonymously, and for incidents that take place outside of campus.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17004" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UT expels student over Cardi B, Beyonc&eacute; tweets, backtracks after free speech org challenges decision]</a><a href="https://speechfirst.org/featured-stories/speech-first-sues-virginia-tech-challenging-four-policies-that-enable-broad-censorship/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Speech First describes</a> a college environment where speaking freely comes with serious risks of discipline. &quot;Under these policies, students can be disciplined for &#39;unwelcome jokes&#39; &ndash; or even being present when such jokes are made and failing to report when such comments are made by another person; sending &ldquo;partisan, political&rdquo; emails using the university&rsquo;s internet; or failing to register to hand out flyers on campus,&quot; the organization says.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17060" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UConn student government denounces its president after his support of free speech bill]</a>The organization&#39;s <a href="https://speechfirst.org/featured-stories/speech-first-sues-virginia-tech-challenging-four-policies-that-enable-broad-censorship/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">press release</a> also notes that individuals who report bias incidents online don&#39;t have to state their name or provide their contact information. Virginia Tech&#39;s <a href="https://www.hokiehandbook.vt.edu/content/dam/hokiehandbook_vt_edu/assets/doc/StudentCodeOfConduct2020.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">student handbook</a> states that bias incidents can be reported at any time, no matter how long ago the incident took place.&nbsp;Virginia Tech spokesman Mark Owczarski told Campus Reform that the university has not yet been served with the lawsuit.&nbsp;<strong style="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;">Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/AngelaLMorabito" rel="noopener noreferrer" 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);" target="_blank">@AngelaLMorabito</a>

Under the existing university policy, students can be disciplined for bias-related incidents that occurred off campus. 

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A professor explained the motivation behind those who peacefully attended the January 6 rally in Washington, D.C. Students are now demanding that the university discipline him. In an essay for <a href="https://americanmind.org/salvo/once-upon-a-presidency/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The American Mind</a>, philosophy professor <a href="https://directory.msmary.edu/people/joshua-hochschild.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joshua Hochschild</a> at Mt. St. Mary&#39;s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland detailed the sentiments of Trump voters, from the announcement of his candidacy to the events of January 6. &ldquo;They know that, even if the rally does not actually help Trump politically, it promises to draw attention to problems with our electoral system, and to testify to the importance of peaceful democratic protests,&rdquo; Hochschild said of the peaceful members of the crowd. &ldquo;Maybe there will be a resolved will to reform the system, and to ensure that people can trust elections next time.&rdquo; Hochschild then noted the reactions of average Trump voters to the media &ldquo;exploiting the awful travesty of some people&rsquo;s inexcusable violence to delegitimize and shame every responsible citizen who took reasonable and lawful means to raise legitimate questions about election integrity.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16729" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16729" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16729" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student leaders use Capitol riot to cancel &#39;Crusader&#39; mascot]</a> &ldquo;Perhaps you hope you can offer some perspective, tell your side of things. But it&rsquo;s too late. The media spin is overwhelmingly effective,&rdquo; he wrote. &ldquo;Nobody will listen, they have made up their minds. They sincerely believe the lies, the disinformation, the emotional manipulation. They sincerely believe you are a dangerous traitor simply for going to DC and voicing reasonable skepticism.&rdquo; Though Hochschild explicitly said that those who rioted at the Capitol Building on January 6 were &ldquo;stupid,&rdquo; &ldquo;shameful,&rdquo; and &ldquo;lawless,&rdquo; students believe that he presented excessive grace to those who participated in the rallies. Nearly 1,800 individuals signed a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/mount-st-mary-s-university-calling-for-the-resignation-of-joshua-hochschild?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">petition</a> calling for Hochschild&rsquo;s resignation. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16059" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>According to <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/national/capitol-riots/students-at-mt-st-marys-university-want-joshua-hochschild-resign-over-capitol-uprising-rally/65-51388010-2e5b-4456-a037-9660f3de6b2b" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">WUSA</a>, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Hochschild attended the protest on January 6. <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;">Mount St. Mary&#39;s University issued a statement on Twitter following student backlash, stating that they support academic freedom. <blockquote class="twitter-tweet">A statement from Provost Boyd Creasman, Ph.D., regarding reaction to a recent article published by Professor Joshua Hochschild, Ph.D. <a href="https://t.co/XTfEIiw03J" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/XTfEIiw03J</a>&mdash; Mount St. Mary&#39;s U (@MSMU) <a href="https://twitter.com/MSMU/status/1364748438760529921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2021</a></blockquote><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16059" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: College Dems, leftist students raise bail money for Philadelphia rioters, looters]</a> &ldquo;While I will allow individuals to make their own judgment upon the article, I find this to be yet another example of a Mount professor proving that &lsquo;the benefit of the doubt&rsquo; is reserved for White Americans only,&rdquo; wrote petition author and class of 2021 member Brea Purdie. &ldquo;I find it repulsive that Hochschild calls for respectability and humanity when the actions of Trump supporters on January 6 proved to be less than that. I find it telling that he asks for decency when there are prominent white supremacists rubbing elbows at the same event as he, and proudly boasting racial symbolism along with the American flag.&rdquo; Invoking &ldquo;the 500,000 Americans who have died from COVID, the Central Park 5, the women sexually assaulted by Trump, and the countless African-Americans apprehended under police brutality,&rdquo; Purdie implored the university to rethink its &ldquo;decision of inactivity.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to Hochschild and Mount. St. Mary&rsquo;s University 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>

Students are now demanding that the professor resign for granting the “benefit of the doubt” to “White Americans only.”

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Republican lawmakers in Iowa are fighting to revive former President Donald Trump&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://nypost.com/2020/09/05/trump-bans-fed-divisive-anti-american-diversity-training/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ban</a> on critical race theory, according to a local <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/17/critical-race-theory-iowa-house-votes-end-divisive-diversity-training-legislature-2021/4717023001/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">report</a>.In a vote on March 16, Republican members of the Iowa House of Representatives passed <a href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/BillBook?ga=89&ba=hf802" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">House File 802</a>, banning government agencies and public universities from teaching &quot;race or sex stereotyping&quot; and &quot;racial scapegoating&quot; in diversity and inclusion training courses.&nbsp;&quot;I reject absolutely and with great enthusiasm the idea that we must adopt racist ideology --and scapegoat races of people, marking each individual as either &#39;oppressor&#39; or &#39;oppressed&#39; --in order to stop racism and foster inclusiveness,&quot; said Representative Steven Holt, R-Denison, the bill&rsquo;s sponsor,<a href="https://www.kcci.com/article/house-passes-bill-prohibiting-divisive-concepts-in-school-government-diversity-training/35857638#" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;according to KCCI-TV</a>.<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17034" target="_blank">[RELATED: At &#39;anti-racist&#39; workshop, guest declares he doesn&#39;t &#39;teach White authors&#39;]</a>House Democrats accused Republicans who supported the bill of attacking free speech.&quot;We can&#39;t say on one hand we want freedom of speech-then stifle those sides,&quot; said Representative Ako Abdul-Samad, a Democrat of Des Moines.&nbsp;Representative Phyllis Thede, also a Democrat, called for an open discussion about race based on what critical race theorists call diversity and inclusion.&nbsp;&quot;We must talk about these terms in order for us to learn and grow,&quot; she said, &quot;I understand all of these terms because I have experienced them.&quot;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17041" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Under the surface&#39; of Critical Race Theory is &#39;old Marxist language,&#39; expert warns]</a>But Holts says that critical-race theory-based diversity training courses have gone too far, promoting racist ideas that cause <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=12168" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">neo-segregation</a> and national disunity.&nbsp;&ldquo;You can&rsquo;t teach that everybody is X, Y, Z automatically &ndash;that the entire White race is this or that,&rdquo; he said, &ldquo;but you can certainly have discussions about all, I believe, of these issues.&rdquo;&nbsp;Representative Henry Stone, R-Forest City, Iowa&rsquo;s first Asian American lawmaker supports banning critical race theory because he refuses to believe Iowans are inherently racist.&nbsp;<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=17128" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Humboldt State hosts &#39;Whiteness Accountability Space&#39; so &#39;White folks&#39; can address their &#39;anti-Blackness&#39;]</a>&ldquo;To say that we teach diversity by talking about that the United States and Iowa are fundamentally &ndash;which means at its root &ndash;and systemically racist or sexist, I don&rsquo;t believe that&rdquo; he said, according to the <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/17/critical-race-theory-iowa-house-votes-end-divisive-diversity-training-legislature-2021/4717023001/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Des Moines Register</a>. &ldquo;I do not believe that fundamentally, that everyone in here that&rsquo;s sitting here is a racist. I can&rsquo;t believe that.&rdquo;Follow the author of this article:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=6097024" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Dion J. Pierre</a>

The legislation would seek to impose a ban on what former President Donald Trump previously sought to eliminate.

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During a Zoom discussion discussing &ldquo;the experience of being threatened, intimidated and harassed,&rdquo; professors Lora Burnett, who teaches at Collin College, and Sami Schalk, who teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, took aim at Campus Reform as part of the &ldquo;right-wing media ecosphere.&rdquo; Burnett, who was recently fired from her job at Collin College after the school <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=15990" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">condemned</a> a series of &quot;vile&quot; tweets referring to Vice President Mike Pence as a &quot;demon&quot; and accusing former President Donald Trump of being &ldquo;the head of a death cult,&rdquo; said the school &ldquo;threw me under the bus.&rdquo; The event took place on November 13, 2020, over <a href="https://pen.org/event/the-common-room-confronting-threats-harassment-against-faculty/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zoom</a>. The panel was hosted by PEN America, which is a &quot;nationwide community of more than 7,500 novelists, journalists, nonfiction writers, editors, poets, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, and other writing professionals, as well as devoted readers and supporters&quot; whose mission is to &quot;is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.&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;">Burnett told her colleagues on the Zoom chat that she is frequently &quot;targeted&quot; by Campus Reform, who she said she has been &ldquo;studying.&rdquo; After Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15900" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">reported</a> on both hers and Schalk&rsquo;s tweets calling Pence a &ldquo;racist f**king piece of s**t&rdquo; and a &ldquo;scumbag lying sonofab***h,&rdquo; Burnett accused Campus Reform of exposing these tweets due to them being &ldquo;women, and we both work for public institutions.&rdquo;&nbsp; &ldquo;This will blow over for our institution because there will be a fresh, coordinated campaign of outrage targeting somebody else,&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;">Burnett said. <a href="https://campusreform.org/?id=15990" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: College president publicly condemns prof&#39;s &#39;hateful,&#39; &#39;vile&#39; tweets exposed by Campus Reform]</a> UW-Madison Professor Sami Schalk expressed frustration that &quot;progressive professors&quot; are blamed for &quot;destroying the country.&quot;&nbsp; Immediately after, she said their goal as professors is to &quot;change&quot; students. &ldquo;I mean, I think it&rsquo;s ironic, right? that you send your kid to college and they come home with these new ideas as if education is a thing that changes people. Like yes, of course, that&rsquo;s what we want to do,&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;">Schalk said. Later in the discussion, Schalk admitted that UW-Madison&rsquo;s spokeswoman, Meredith Mcglone, messages her when Campus Reform&nbsp;sends media inquiries and added that the IT department scrubs information from their websites when the school is contacted. &ldquo;Meredith Mcglone, who&#39;s one of the communications folks like she just has my cell phone number, and she&#39;ll text me and be like, Oop! Campus Reform emailed me about you again today -- like just a heads up,&rsquo; and then we have a plan... The IT folks know how to handle it when we need to remove all my information from the websites for a little while,&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;">Schalk said. Jonathan Friedman, the director of free expression and education for PEN America, sided with the professors over the controversy, stating that universities should &quot;do the right thing to stand up for faculty unequivocally.&quot; After defending the current state of academia, Burnett said that Campus Reform &ldquo;brought us together&rdquo; for the meeting. &ldquo;In terms of the particular outlet that has brought us together today, Campus Reform. This is an outlet that grows out of a conservative effort to discredit and defund higher education,&rdquo; <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;">Burnett said. She then made light of &quot;right-wing&quot; students who feel &quot;disrespected&quot; for their views. &ldquo;Campus Reform didn&rsquo;t come up because some poor, you know, right-wing students felt disrespected. You know, it is a top-down heavily funded, disinformation organization and for a bunch of people who cry about cancel-culture and political correctness, they spend an awful lot of time trying to get people canceled for their free speech,&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;">Burnett said. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=15301" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Campus Reform reporters, professor targeted with death threats, online harassment]</a> Friedman followed these comments by insisting that there is a &quot;parallel&quot; to the &quot;organized nature&quot; on the right. &ldquo;The organized nature of it also, which doesn&#39;t exactly really doesn&#39;t have a parallel on the other side of the political spectrum currently, not that there aren&#39;t actors there. But the in terms of its organization in terms of its funding, it doesn&#39;t,&quot;&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;">Friedman said. Burnett then took aim at Campus Reform correspondent Haley Worth, saying, &ldquo;Believe me, I know way more about [Haley] than she knows about me.&rdquo; At the end of the Zoom call, <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;">Schalk&nbsp;chimed in on Burnett&rsquo;s comments regarding Worth, saying they need to &ldquo;give them a taste of their own medicine.&rdquo; &ldquo;Haley Worth, I don&rsquo;t like her. I don&rsquo;t like that little girl. So I&rsquo;m gonna go ahead and say that publicly, because she is creating harassment for me and she knows it. So yes, the journalists that are journalists in scare quotes that are participating in this, absolutely, and if I do have someone who is dumb enough to send me an email from their actual account with their actual name, dumb, brave, whatever, um yeah, I will go ahead and make that real public too because I would love for people to have their, like, family and friends know the kind of things they are saying to me&hellip; Give them a taste of their own medicine,&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;">Schalk said. Campus Reform reached out to both Burnett and Friedman. They did not respond in time for publication. Schalk was unable to be reached for comment. Collin College, which recently chose not to renew Burnett&rsquo;s contract, told Campus Reform, &ldquo;Out of respect for our employees&rsquo; privacy, the college will not provide further comment on this matter.&rdquo; This isn&#39;t the first time Campus Reform has drawn the ire of professors merely for reporting on their statements. In March 2020, as universities shifted to online courses amid the coronavirus pandemic, professors across the country took to Twitter and other social media to<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=14563" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;express their concern over their lectures being shared</a> with &quot;right wing sites.&quot; Trinity College in Connecticut, in January 2020, created a &quot;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14225" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Campus Reform Early Responder</a>&quot; position to &quot;monitor&quot; what it deemed to be &quot;attacks&quot; on professors.&nbsp; <iframe width="100%" height="500" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wCTYW96Hg_o" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

PEN America hosted a Zoom discussion with professors who felt they were "targeted" by Campus Reform.

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Two Republican lawmakers proposed legislation seeking to promote transparency with respect to the Chinese government&rsquo;s Confucius Institutes. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC) <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/577?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22rubio%22%5D%7D&s=3&r=1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">introduced</a> the <a href="https://www.rubio.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=09E0D718-0205-4E66-9CDA-C9E0A73EA0A2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Foreign Influence Transparency Act</a>, which &ldquo;would require organizations, such as the Chinese government-run Confucius Institutes&rdquo; to register under the <a href="https://www.justice.gov/nsd-fara" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Foreign Agents Registration Act</a>, which requires American organizations to reveal ties with certain overseas entities. The bill would amend the Higher Education Act to &ldquo;require universities to disclose donations, contracts, or the fair market value of in-kind gifts from any foreign source if the amount is $50,000 or greater.&rdquo; Currently, universities and other educational institutions must <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/policy/highered/leg/institutional-compliance-section-117.pdf#:~:text=Codified%20at%20Section%20117%20of%20the%20Higher%20Education,ownership%20or%20control%20to%20the%20Secretary%20of%20Education." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">report</a> foreign gifts only if the amount exceeds $250,000. The act would also require &ldquo;institutions that have entered into an agreement with a Confucius Institute to disclose the full agreement on its website and to the Department of Education or risk losing their Student and Exchange Visitor Program.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16878" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16878" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16878" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Want more info on UMich China ties? That will cost you $1,200.]</a> According to a recent Campus Reform analysis, there are currently 56 Confucius Institutes in the U.S., one of which is in Rubio&#39;s home state of Florida.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16962" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Click here for an interactive map of Confucius Institutes in the U.S.</a>&nbsp; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m proud to once again reintroduce the Foreign Influence Transparency Act, which seeks to bring greater transparency to the activities of foreign governments operating in the United States,&rdquo; remarked Sen. Rubio in a press release. &ldquo;This legislation will strengthen foreign disclosure requirements for American colleges and universities and close existing loopholes in our law so that entities like China&rsquo;s Confucius Institutes are required to register with the Department of Justice as foreign agents.&rdquo; Campus Reform has reported extensively on the influence of the Confucius Institute &mdash; which masquerades as a Chinese cultural center despite its propagandistic mission &mdash; upon America&rsquo;s education system. Most recently, Campus Reform reported that House Republicans asked President Joe Biden to reinstate a rule that would force universities to reveal ties to the Confucius Institute. Biden quietly struck the Trump-era measure from the federal record in the first days of his administration.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16882" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16882" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16882" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: House Republicans urge Biden to reconsider rule on CCP&#39;s Confucius Institutes]</a> Campus Reform&nbsp;contacted Rubio and Wilson 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 bill would also force universities to reveal more of their foreign donations.

Marco Rubio targets Confucius Institutes with new bill

Republican legislators in Iowa proposed a <a href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/docs/publications/LGI/89/HF222.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">bill</a> to defund any school that teaches the New York Times&rsquo; 1619 Project. The bill &mdash; sponsored by state Rep. Skyler Wheeler (R-IA) &mdash; provides for the &ldquo;reduction of certain funding and budgets for public schools, community colleges, and regents institutions&rdquo; that utilize the curriculum. If passed, the legislation would declare that the state&rsquo;s assembly &ldquo;has a strong interest in promoting an accurate account of this nation&rsquo;s history through public schools and forming young people into knowledgeable and patriotic citizens.&rdquo; Accordingly, it would bar schools from using the 1619 Project and &ldquo;similarly developed curriculum.&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> For each day that a given school continues to use the curriculum, the state legislature will withhold 1/180 of its budget, effectively granting the school half a year to stop using the curriculum before it is fully defunded. If a community college has utilized history curriculum during the previous fiscal year derived from the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">1619 Project</a> &ldquo;in whole or in part,&rdquo; the state will reduce the school&rsquo;s final total budget &ldquo;by an amount proportionate to the number of days during that fiscal year that the curriculum was used.&rdquo; The 1619 Project &mdash; named for the year in which African slaves first arrived in the modern United States &mdash; aims to &ldquo;reframe the country&#39;s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States&#39; national narrative.&rdquo; Wheeler told Campus Reform that &ldquo;The 1619 Project is riddled with errors and has been shredded by historians all over the country.&rdquo; &ldquo;This Project seeks to tear down America, not build her up,&rdquo; he explained. &ldquo;It seeks to divide, not unify. It distorts truth, and does so while pushing a Leftist political agenda.&rdquo; The legislature therefore &ldquo;has an interest in keeping this racist, divisive and factually and historically inaccurate Leftist political propaganda masquerading as history out of taxpayer-funded history classes.&rdquo; Campus Reform has reported on American universities&rsquo; adoption of the controversial curriculum, developed by New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16123" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16123" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16123" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: 1619 Project writer Nikole Hannah-Jones says American flag outside childhood home &#39;embarrassed&#39; her]</a> Though Hannah-Jones told Campus Reform in November that &quot;the 1619 Project has, of course, always recognized 1776 as our official and literal founding,&rdquo; a prior version of the New York Times&rsquo; website likewise declared that 1619 was the year of the nation&rsquo;s &ldquo;true founding.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to Hannah-Jones; 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 bill would cause public schools and community colleges that use the curriculum to lose funding within 180 days.

Iowa bill targets colleges that teach New York Times' 'racist' and 'historically inaccurate' 1619 Project

Students for Fair Admissions is arguing that Harvard used race to illegally discriminate against white and Asian applicants.

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Students at Christian universities identifying as homosexual and transgender are suing the Department of Education to end the religious exemption in Title IX, which would make some Christian universities ineligible to receive federal funding. Thirty-three students are listed as plaintiffs in a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/dozens-of-christian-students-sue-the-u-s-education-dept-hoping-to-pressure-equality-act-negotiations/0d8ff1eb-ee01-4d09-a6ca-30b1c617bebb/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lawsuit</a> against the United States Department of Education filed in the District of Oregon&rsquo;s Eugene Division. The suit &mdash; written by Paul Southwick of the <a href="https://www.thereap.org/about-us" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Religious Exemption Accountability Project</a> &mdash; states that it is seeking to &ldquo;put an end to the U.S. Department of Education&rsquo;s complicity in the abuses and unsafe conditions thousands of LGBTQ+ students endure at hundreds of taxpayer-funded, religious colleges and universities.&rdquo; &quot;The Plaintiffs seek safety and justice for themselves and for the countless sexual and gender minority students whose oppression, fueled by government funding, and unrestrained by government intervention, persists with injurious consequences to mind, body and soul,&rdquo; said the suit&rsquo;s introduction. &ldquo;When taxpayer-funded religious institutions require sexual and gender minority students to hide their identity out of fear, or to behave contrary to their fundamental sexual or gender identity, the unsurprising consequences are intense pain, loneliness and self-harm.&rdquo; Current and former students of Liberty University in Virginia, Baylor University in Texas, Cedarville University in Ohio, Oklahoma Baptist University, Messiah University in Pennsylvania, and other institutions recounted their experiences as LGBTQ+ students.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16402" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16402" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <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> For instance, Mackenzie McCann &mdash; a former Liberty University student who identifies as &ldquo;queer&rdquo; and &ldquo;non-binary&rdquo; &mdash; said in the lawsuit that the school has a reputation for conservative beliefs. As the suit mentions, Liberty&rsquo;s student conduct guide<a href="https://www.liberty.edu/media/1216/2019%2008%2019-20%20LUO%20Honor%20Code%20(002).pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;states</a> that &ldquo;sexual relations outside of a biblically-ordained marriage between a natural-born man and a natural-born woman are not permissible at Liberty University.&rdquo; &ldquo;Students at Liberty behave in homophobic and anti-queer ways because they know they can do so with relative impunity,&rdquo; said McCann. &ldquo;Liberty&rsquo;s culture enables such conduct and makes students feel like Liberty is backing them.&rdquo; McCann left the school after one semester for her &ldquo;emotional safety.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16999" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16999" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16999" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Top scientific journal pushes diversity litmus test for would-be authors]</a> Jake Picker &mdash; a pre-med student at Baylor University who identifies as a &ldquo;bisexual man&rdquo; &mdash; said in the lawsuit that &ldquo;Baylor has made its LGBTQ+ students feel like they are less than and undesirable.&rdquo; The suit acknowledges that Baylor students are expected to not participate in groups that &ldquo;promote understandings of human sexuality that are contrary to biblical teaching.&rdquo; Southwick told Campus Reform that &ldquo;some of the plaintiffs were not aware of the schools&#39; policies at the time they applied,&rdquo; while &ldquo;others were aware but were initially told that their attendance would not be an issue.&rdquo; Southwick insisted that his group is &ldquo;not trying to defund these universities,&rdquo; but wants them to keep existing. Bob Jones University Chief of Staff Randy Page told Campus Reform that the university &ldquo;believes all persons have inherent dignity and should thus be treated with kindness and respect.&rdquo; &quot;BJU exercises its legally guaranteed religious freedom in a manner that upholds and reflects this bedrock principle,&rdquo; said Page. &ldquo;Faith-based colleges and universities are an indispensable part of America&rsquo;s diverse higher education picture. This lawsuit is an effort to erase religious schools from the scene by denying financially disadvantaged students the ability to attend the college of their choice.&rdquo; &ldquo;It&rsquo;s a misguided attempt to discard a congressional enactment consistently respected and enforced by every presidential administration &mdash; both Democratic and Republican &mdash; for over four decades,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;BJU intends to vigorously protect its interests and encourages the Biden administration to fulfill its duty to defend a law that reflects the best traditions of American liberty.&rdquo; The lawsuit comes weeks after the House of Representatives passed the Equality Act &mdash; a piece of legislation which seeks to &ldquo;prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation&rdquo; by providing the &ldquo;full range of remedies available under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.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> As Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Greg Baylor and other conservative legal scholars told Campus Reform in February, the law &ldquo;threatens to strip religious institutions of their religious identity by forcing them to violate their beliefs.&rdquo; Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

 Pointing to their universities’ Christian statements of faith, students identifying as homosexual and transgender are suing the Department of Education to end the religious exemption to Title IX.

LGBTQ+ students sue Dept of Ed to defund their own Christian universities

The University of Miami announced it will be open a living learning community for LGBTQ and allied students. The housing community, known as the Gender and Sexuality Studies Living Learning Community (GSS LLC), was created in a partnership among the LGBTQ Student Center, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and Housing and Residential Life. It will be located in <a href="https://hrl.studentaffairs.miami.edu/living-on-campus/our-residential-communities/mahoney-res-college/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mahoney Residential College</a>, which was an all-male residence hall from 1958 until the early 1970&rsquo;s when it was then converted into a co-ed facility. According to the Miami Hurricane,&nbsp;the <a href="https://www.themiamihurricane.com/2021/03/01/an-lgbtq-living-learning-community-will-house-its-first-residents-next-fall/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">goal</a> for the center is to house 20 to 25 students in its pilot year, all of whom will be taking required courses within the gender and sexualities department. The courses will be taught in the residential college. The University of Miami LGBTQ Student Center made the announcement on Twitter on February 17. Applications for the living-learning community were due on February 25.&nbsp; <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16700" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Black Student Union demands segregated safe spaces &#39;on and off campus&#39;]</a><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">Hey Canes! If you are interested in joining our pilot LLC program, please register by February 25th at <a href="https://t.co/2mdlqMR6bW" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://t.co/2mdlqMR6bW</a>! <a href="https://t.co/waIIZo6NRp" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">pic.twitter.com/waIIZo6NRp</a>&mdash; UM LGBTQ Center (@umlgbtq) <a href="https://twitter.com/umlgbtq/status/1362133332243353602?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2021</a></blockquote>According to the tweet, students who are interested in participating are required to commit to one year of living in the residential college. Students are also required to &ldquo;get involved in great community service projects&rdquo; and &ldquo;participate in amazing events and programs planned just for your community.&rdquo; The LGBTQ Student Center also points out that the LLC is &ldquo;open to all residential students.&rdquo; Randy Fitzgerald, a senior at the University of Miami and member of the LGBTQ community, told Campus Reform that this isn&rsquo;t his &ldquo;cup of tea.&rdquo; &ldquo;I&rsquo;m not an enthusiast of segregated housing &mdash; I didn&rsquo;t like the concept of segregating housing by gender (ie, &lsquo;male dorm&rsquo; or &lsquo;female floor&rsquo;) and I thought it was weird when I got to college and lived on a floor with only other guys,&rdquo; Fitzgerald said. The University of Miami already offers students the option to live in gender-inclusive housing, according to the <a href="https://hrl.studentaffairs.miami.edu/living-on-campus/faq/gender-inclusive-housing/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Housing and Residential Life portal</a>. <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=16787" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Alabama-Birmingham invites &#39;White colleagues&#39; to discuss race &#39;amongst themselves&#39;]</a> However, Fitzgerald said he doesn&rsquo;t see the need to segregate housing based on gender, sexuality, or race. &ldquo;Obviously this is an option for students to opt-into, and I think it&rsquo;s an interesting idea to allow this option for people interested in this,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But just as I wouldn&rsquo;t have opted into a &lsquo;white&rsquo; dorm, I wouldn&rsquo;t opt into housing based on sexual identity &mdash; both are identities that I was born with, but I don&rsquo;t need to be exclusionary about them.&rdquo; Other colleges and universities have offered similar living options for their students, including <a href="https://www.kent.edu/housing/lgbtq-living-learning-community" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kent State University</a>, the <a href="https://www.umw.edu/residencelife/on-campus/life/tlcs/lgbt-learning-community/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Mary Washington</a>, and <a href="https://lgbtq.wwu.edu/gender-inclusive-housing/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Western Washington University</a>, to name a few. Last semester, the <a href="https://www.alligator.org/article/2020/10/lgbt-focused-living-learning-community-coming-to-uf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">University of Florida</a> announced its first gender-neutral housing options for the upcoming fall semester. Campus Reform reached out to the University of Miami and the University of Miami LGBTQ Student Center for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication. Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/opheliejacobson" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@opheliejacobson</a>

The University of Miami is planning to open a housing community for LGBTQ and allied students.

University of Miami opens new campus housing 'for LGBTQIA+ students'

The Human Rights Campaign released policy proposals that included denying accreditation to religious colleges that do not have &ldquo;nondiscrimination policies and science-based curricula.&rdquo; The Human Rights Campaign&rsquo;s 2020 Blueprint for Positive Change 2020 and the Blueprint for LGBTQ Equality Under Biden <a href="https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-charts-bold-path-for-equality-under-biden-administration" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">recommends&nbsp;</a>federal policies that, according to the organization, are &ldquo;aimed at bettering the daily lives of LGBTQ people at home and abroad.&rdquo; &ldquo;The momentous election of pro-equality champions Joe Biden and Kamala Harris puts us on a path to move equality forward by advancing policies to improve the lives of millions of LGBTQ people,&ldquo; remarked HRC President Alphonso David. &ldquo;Over the last four years, the Trump-Pence administration has systemically attacked LGBTQ people and our nation&rsquo;s most sacred institutions &mdash; our courts, our Constitution, and our fundamental civil rights.&rdquo; &ldquo;The Biden-Harris administration has the opportunity to not only put our democracy back on track but deliver real positive change for LGBTQ people&rsquo;s daily lives,&rdquo; David added. &ldquo;The Blueprint for Positive Change 2020 charts the next administration&rsquo;s path forward to improve the lives of LGBTQ people and move the needle closer toward full equality.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16187" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: University of Arizona linguist declares &#39;words matter,&#39; then attacks &#39;white evangelicals&#39;]</a> With respect to religious institutions of higher education, the group recommends that the federal Department of Education &ldquo;ensure nondiscrimination policies and science based curricula are not undermined by religious exemptions to accreditation standards.&rdquo; The <a href="https://hrc-prod-requests.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/Blueprint-2020.pdf?mtime=20201110185320&focal=none" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blueprint&nbsp;</a>states that the Department of Education could interpret &ldquo;language regarding accreditation of religious institutions of higher education in the Higher Education Opportunity Act&rdquo; to &ldquo;require accrediting bodies to accredit religious institutions that discriminate or that do not meet science-based curricula standards.&rdquo; According to the document, the Department of Education &ldquo;should issue a regulation clarifying that this provision, which requires accreditation agencies to &lsquo;respect the stated mission&rsquo; of religious institutions, does not require the accreditation of religious institutions that do not meet neutral accreditation standards including nondiscrimination policies and scientific curriculum requirements.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=15496" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Lawmakers to University of California: Cut partnership with religious health providers]</a> Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President <a href="https://albertmohler.com/2020/11/18/a-direct-threat-to-christian-education-the-human-rights-campaign-demands-that-the-biden-administration-deny-accreditation-to-christian-colleges-and-schools" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Albert Mohler</a> called the policies &ldquo;sinister&rdquo; on his personal blog, saying they would force Christian colleges and universities to contradict their consciences of matters of sexual ethics at the threat of losing accreditation. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ve not seen any document like this before&mdash;the Human Rights Campaign is effectively calling for religious colleges and schools to be coerced into the sexual revolution or stripped of accreditation,&rdquo; he remarked. &ldquo;In terms of accreditation, that is an atomic bomb.&rdquo; Dr. <a href="https://www.mbts.edu/about/faculty/owen-strachan/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Owen Strachan</a>, director of the Center of Public Theology at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, told Campus Reform that he agrees with Mohler&rsquo;s analysis.&nbsp; &ldquo;With respect to this policy, Christian professors and universities that stand on biblical truth seem to be walking into a buzzsaw,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;We pray that this policy will not come to fruition, for it is grossly unfair and makes a hash of the American principle of freedom of conscience, a freedom grounded in religious liberty. Religious liberty is the freedom that grounds all the others. Sadly, this proposal will compromise and even attack it.&rdquo;<blockquote><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&ldquo;Come what may, Christians must stand on the truth, teach the truth, and never apologize for the truth.&quot;</blockquote>&ldquo;Come what may, Christians must stand on the truth, teach the truth, and never apologize for the truth,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;Jesus is the way, truth, and life, and our faith does not conform to the dictates of tyrannical policies.&rdquo; <a href="https://www.thefire.org/resources/fire-staff-speakers/joe-cohn/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Joe Cohn</a>, Legislative and Policy Director of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, told Campus Reform that &ldquo;if their policy is adopted, it would easily lead to setting up the government as the entity determining for all colleges what curricula count as being science-based.&rdquo;&nbsp; He explained that such a policy &ldquo;has profound implications for academic freedom and undermines academic freedom rights significantly.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to the Human Rights Campaign for comment and will update this article accordingly. Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/BenZeisloft" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@BenZeisloft</a>

An LGBTQ rights organization released a set of policy proposals that encourage the Department of Education to deny accreditation to religious schools based on “nondiscrimination policies and science based curricula.”

LGBT advocates want potential Biden admin to threaten Christian college accreditation

There is little question that the coronavirus pandemic has caused immense stress and hardship for millions of people around the world. However, Harvard University Medical School is pushing the narrative that the &ldquo;LBGTQ+ community&rdquo; is somehow more impacted by the global crisis.&nbsp;The Harvard Health Blog <a href="https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/covid-19-and-the-lgbtq-community-rising-to-unique-challenges-2020043019721" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">published</a> an entry by professor<a href="https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/sogie/sogie-team/sabra-l-katz-wise-phd/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">&nbsp;Sabra Katz-Wise</a> outlining the &quot;new forms of stress for the LGBTQ+ community&rdquo; during this time. The entry, titled &ldquo;COVID-19 and the LGBTQ+ community: Rising to unique challenges,&rdquo; outlines the reasons that gay and transgender individuals supposedly face unique challenges.Katz-Wise works as an assistant professor in adolescent/young adult medicine at Boston Children&rsquo;s Hospital, practices pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and works in social and behavioral sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. According to Harvard Health Blog, Katz-Wise is an advocate for workplace climate, medical education, and patient care reform for LGBTQ+ individuals.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14826" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Universities developing app to &#39;monitor&#39; users&#39; COVID-19 &#39;risk&#39;]</a>According to Katz-Wise, among the new forms of added stress for LGBTQ+ individuals include &ldquo;loss of work and income,&rdquo; &ldquo;school closures,&rdquo; and &ldquo;worries about seeking care for COVID-19 symptoms.&rdquo; Katz-Wise draws the connection that these forms of added stress come as a result of &ldquo;minority stress based on anti-LGBTQ+ stigma&rdquo; that occurred even before the pandemic.&ldquo;As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, new challenges arise each day for people across the world. Some of these challenges particularly affect the LGBTQ+ community. This unique time calls for LGBTQ+-specific resources and new ways to connect and cope,&rdquo; writes Katz-Wise.&nbsp;When talking about the loss of work or income, Katz-Wise says, &nbsp;&ldquo;Compared with non-LGBTQ+ people, LGBTQ+ people are more likely to have lower income and to have jobs that do not allow for working from home, such as retail stores and the service industry. Therefore, LGBTQ+ people may be more likely to experience food or housing insecurity during this time.&rdquo;Katz-Wise, however, is not alone in her beliefs that the LGBTQ+ Community experiences magnified hardship when it comes to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ithaca College has devoted an entire <a href="https://www.ithaca.edu/center-lgbt-education-outreach-services/resources-and-services/lgbtq-people-and-covid-19" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">webpage</a> designed to educate the community about these specific challenges the LGBT community faces during this time. The college insists that &nbsp;that LGBTQ+ people may be &ldquo;particularly vulnerable.&rdquo;&nbsp;Katz-Wise suggests that LGBT individuals are more impacted by the healthcare implications of the current situation, citing their need for fertility treatments and the unavailability of gender reassignment surgeries.&quot;Transgender and nonbinary people may have trouble accessing gender-affirming care because hormones and surgeries may be considered nonessential,&quot; writes Katz-Wise.&quot;For LGBTQ+ people who are building families, access to fertility clinics is essential. However, many clinics are now delaying fertility treatments, which also delays family building for LGBTQ+ families,&quot; she adds.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14433" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: OPINION: It&#39;s time to defund LGBT activism on campus]</a>According to Ithaca College, &ldquo;LGBTQ+ people experience health disparities. Barriers to care cause us to be less likely to get medical care; and mean we&#39;re more likely to have compromised health in general. Health disparities magnify the impact COVID-19 could have on us.&rdquo;A recent Pew Research survey <a href="https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2020/04/21/about-half-of-lower-income-americans-report-household-job-or-wage-loss-due-to-covid-19/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">reveals</a> that the COVID-19 pandemic is most-heavily affecting all Americans with low incomes, not just those who identify as LGBTQ: &ldquo;As the economic toll from the coronavirus outbreak <a href="https://apnews.com/1c0c92ce66ddba8dd88a4c66d83506be" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">continues to mount</a>, a new Pew Research Center survey finds the impact is falling more heavily on lower-income adults &ndash; a group that was feeling <a href="https://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2019/12/11/most-americans-say-the-current-economy-is-helping-the-rich-hurting-the-poor-and-middle-class/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">significant financial pressure</a> well before the current crisis.&quot;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/cam_deckr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Cam_Deckr</a>

A Harvard Professor says that LGBTQ+ individuals are put under greater stress because of COVID-19 due to job loss, school closures, and medical discrimination

Harvard pushes narrative LGBT community is at greater risk of 'stress' during pandemic 

St. Olaf College in Minnesota plans to host three virtual graduation ceremonies for different groups of minority students, while others must wait until next year to celebrate their completion of college.&ldquo;Self-identified domestic students of color, international students and LGBTQIA+ students&rdquo; at the Minnesota school will receive their own virtual graduation ceremonies at the conclusion of this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic, per an administrative email. Meanwhile, graduation for the rest of the class of 2020 has been &ldquo;rescheduled for a date in late May/early June of 2021,&rdquo; according to the school&#39;s&nbsp;<a href="https://wp.stolaf.edu/commencement/schedule-of-events/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">website</a>.&nbsp;The three virtual graduation ceremonies for students in minority groups were announced by and will be hosted through the Taylor Center for Equity and Inclusion. This project of the school exists to help &ldquo;students of color,&quot; &ldquo;LBGTQIA+&rdquo; and international students &ldquo;celebrate&rdquo; their &ldquo;awesomeness factor,&rdquo; per the center&rsquo;s <a href="https://wp.stolaf.edu/taylorcenter/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">website</a>.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14573" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard 2020 class will graduate &#39;online&#39;]</a>The center announced its intent to host the online graduation ceremonies via email, Friday.&nbsp;&ldquo;This event acknowledges the value and uniqueness of students&rsquo; experience and serves to commemorate and highlight the accomplishments of individuals within their familial and cultural context,&rdquo; reads the email.The three graduations are called the multicultural, international, and lavender graduations and are intended for American students of color, international students, and &ldquo;LGBTQIA+&rdquo; students, respectively.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14729" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Class of 2020 to return to campus for graduation...in 2021]</a>Campus Reform spoke to multiple graduating seniors at St. Olaf, none of whom said they&rsquo;ve been informed of any online ceremony for the general student body.&nbsp;Associate Director of Communications <a href="https://wp.stolaf.edu/communications/contact-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kari VanDerVeen</a> told Campus Reform that the school is &ldquo;exploring a number of ways to celebrate the Class of 2020,&rdquo; but that plans were not yet &ldquo;finalized.&rdquo; The school website also makes no mention of such an event.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/KyleHooten2" style="text-decoration:none;">@KyleHooten2</a>

Graduation canceled...except for 'students of color' and 'LGBTQIA+' students

The law school at Gonzaga University, a Jesuit Catholic institution, <a href="https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/stories/2020/2/14/gonzaga-law-school-launches-lincoln-lgbtq-rights-clinic" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">announced</a> on Valentine&#39;s Day the opening of a new LGBTQ+ Rights Clinic.Joe Lincoln, who graduated from Gonzaga in 1988 and is a current regent at the university, made a &ldquo;significant donation&rdquo; to the school that allowed for this center to be opened. Lincoln also made a donation in 2004 that helped to fund the &ldquo;Lincoln LGBT Center.&rdquo;This &nbsp;center was the first of its kind at any Jesuit university in the nation and in 2006 created the <a href="https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/stories/2019/7/11/the-lincoln-lgbtq-resource-center" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Safe Space Program</a> which, &ldquo;is a program focused on creating and sustaining environments that take into consideration the emotional, physical, and spiritual needs of LGBTQ+ individuals, especially in the classroom.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13456" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">RELATED: STUDY: LGBT Asian Americans seen as &#39;more American&#39; than those who are straight</a>Gonzaga said in the <a href="https://www.gonzaga.edu/news-events/stories/2020/2/14/gonzaga-law-school-launches-lincoln-lgbtq-rights-clinic" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">announcement</a> that &ldquo;the clinic aims to advance the equal rights and dignity of individuals who identify as LGBTQ+ through education, programming, advocacy, research, and legal representation.&rdquo;The decision to open the center came with <a href="https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/feb/21/spokanes-catholic-bishop-criticizes-new-lgbt-legal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">scrutiny</a> from the leader of Spokane&rsquo;s Catholic Diocese, who said that the center was &ldquo;contrary to the Catholic faith and natural law,&quot; according to the&nbsp;Spokesman-Review.&nbsp;Jason Gillmer, professor and director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, said in the school&rsquo;s announcement, &ldquo;The Lincoln LGBTQ+ Rights Clinic provides a special opportunity for Gonzaga law students to help protect and advance the rights of the LGBTQ+ community, both regionally and nationally.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14433" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: OPINION: It&#39;s time to defund LGBT activism on campus]</a>Robert Bruskotter, a board member of the Gonzaga College Republicans, told&nbsp;Campus Reform, &ldquo;I think the outreach creates a grey area with traditional Catholic teaching and we see that with local Catholic Church leaders in Spokane raising their concerns. Ultimately Gonzaga&rsquo;s Jesuit mission involves engaging with many different types of people so it&rsquo;s not surprising and I think valid that they cite that.&quot;&quot;There&rsquo;s definitely a way to fulfill that mission and still display conservative values but I&rsquo;m not sure the law school&rsquo;s focus is in that direction.&rdquo;Campus Reform&nbsp;reached out to the Gonzaga University School of Law but they did not respond in time for publication.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:<a href="http://twitter.com/bmac0507" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;@Bmac0507</a>

Catholic university Gonzaga opens LGBT center for 'advocacy'

Editor&#39;s note: The views in this opinion editorial are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of Campus Reform or of its parent organization, the Leadership Institute.As a graduate student at Stanford University in the 1980s, I worked as a volunteer for the Gay People&rsquo;s Union, the Gay Counseling Group, and the Gay and Lesbian Speaker&rsquo;s Bureau, so I have a great appreciation for the value that such efforts bring to the LGBTQ community.&nbsp;Transitioning to college life can often be challenging for young people and can become especially challenging when individuals are exploring their sexuality for the first time in their lives.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14177" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: OPINION: It&#39;s time for colleges to drop &#39;people of color&#39; label]</a>At Stanford, these efforts were entirely run by unpaid student volunteers. I recently became aware of the level of support provided to what we call the Q Center at the University of Washington <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14248" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">where I work</a>, and I was surprised to find how much the university is spending. The center is in the process of hiring a new director and the<a href="https://main.hercjobs.org/jobs/13297354/director-q-center" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">&nbsp;job description</a> makes it clear that the director manages two other full-time staff as well as eight to ten student staff members.This seems like a huge expense for the university to shoulder at a time when attitudes about the LGBTQ community are undergoing a dramatic shift. It proves the adage from Milton Friedman that &ldquo;nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.&rdquo;I have witnessed this incredible shift in attitude within my lifetime. Flashback to 1986 and you find the Supreme Court upholding a gay man&rsquo;s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowers_v._Hardwick" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">conviction</a> under a Georgia sodomy law where police arrested him literally in the privacy of his own bedroom for engaging in a consensual sex act. A <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/1651/gay-lesbian-rights.aspx" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gallup poll</a> showed that less than a third of the country thought that gay and lesbian relationships should be legal. President Ronald Reagan had just begun discussing the AIDS epidemic as it had been devastating the gay community for the better part of a decade.Fast forward to today and you find sodomy laws declared unconstitutional and gay marriage enshrined as the law of the land. The same Gallup question now finds that 73 percent of Americans think that gay and lesbian relationships should be legal with even higher percentages among young people. And it seems that people can&rsquo;t stop talking about LGBTQ issues.&nbsp;In recognition of National Coming Out Day, CNN hosted a four and a half-hour town hall on LGBTQ issues in which the Democratic presidential hopefuls fell all over themselves to see who could pander the most to the community.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14066" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: OPINION: &#39;Gender jackpot&#39; highlights absurdity of PC propaganda]</a>The atmosphere is particularly supportive of LGBTQ people at the University of Washington, where our president is open about being a lesbian and where we were recently <a href="https://www.bestcolleges.com/features/best-colleges-for-lgbt-students/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ranked number one</a> for best college for LGBTQ students by BestColleges.com and Campus Pride. You can barely find an American flag anywhere on campus, but the pride flag was prominently displayed in the building where I work during Gay Pride Month.What I find most objectionable, however, is not that the university provides support to the Q Center but that it provides support to queer activism. The outgoing director <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uwqcenter/posts/2779929935400119" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">posted a note</a> describing the history of the center and plans for the future.&nbsp;This note exhibits an astonishing and unapologetic political bias. For example, one of the founding principles was that the center would be grounded in &ldquo;an intersectional racial and gender justice praxis rooted in the endeavors of feminists of color.&rdquo; How is that relevant to a young person who is struggling with their sexual identity and who has little interest in politics or political ideology?The note from the outgoing director also states that we need new leadership because, &ldquo;while culturally and globally we are in the thick of distress, disease, decay, devastation, and destruction; I see, feel, and know we are simultaneously in a moment of transformation, a massive realigning of human ethics, connection, values, engagement, and collusion to heal and radically change.&rdquo;&nbsp;The official job description lists as one of the qualifications, &ldquo;knowledge and understanding of intersecting, multiple identities and interlocking systems of privilege and oppression.&rdquo; Why should managing a resource center for all LGBTQ community members require an ideological litmus test that only the most woke progressives can pass? Clearly the center has been&mdash;and plans to continue to be&mdash;under the control of progressive activists who are more interested in reshaping society than in building an environment welcoming to all members of the LGBTQ community.I have no objection to progressive activists working to achieve their goals. I happen to favor other goals, but our system is designed to allow us to fight that out in the arena of politics. I object to turning what should be a support center into a base of operations to advance a narrow set of political objectives. It is particularly galling to know that university funds are used for this purpose.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13813" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: What academic Antifa wants (OPINION)]</a>As I have written about elsewhere, the new closet on campus is occupied by conservatives, libertarians, and deeply religious individuals. They are pressured into silence for fear of being accused of hate speech if they dare to disagree with the progressive narrative that is prevalent on campus. Students are required to take a diversity course that is expected to lead them to a contrite acknowledgment of past and present oppression of all traditionally marginalized groups, and if you don&rsquo;t want to be accused of homophobia you must pledge allegiance to gay marriage, the Equality Act, equal adoption rights for LGBTQ parents, and transgender orthodoxy (&ldquo;trans women are women&rdquo;).Those of us who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender have to accept that we aren&rsquo;t queer anymore. We&rsquo;ve become the mainstream.&nbsp;We&rsquo;re likely to need a Q Center indefinitely to support our community, but we can&rsquo;t expect to have paid staff forever. And we certainly should actively resist allowing the organization to be co-opted by radical activists for their own partisan political ends.&nbsp;They should not be paid a salary to perform a fundamentally political task.<a href="https://www.cs.washington.edu/people/faculty/reges" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stuart Reges</a>&nbsp;is a principal lecturer of computer science at the University of Washington.&nbsp;

OPINION: It's time to defund LGBT activism on campus

The University of Alabama recently promoted a specifically targeted professional development opportunity in the name of &ldquo;diversity and inclusion.&rdquo;A Morgan Stanley Bank student professional enhancement <a href="https://www.morganstanley.com/people-opportunities/students-graduates/programs/institutional-securities/freshman-enhancement-program" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">opportunity</a>, promoted by the University of Alabama, is only available to &ldquo;Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or LGBT+&rdquo; students.&nbsp;UA&rsquo;s Culverhouse College of Business career center distributed multiple emails to business students advertising Morgan Stanley&rsquo;s &ldquo;2020 Freshman Enhancement Program.&rdquo; The opportunity entails a one-week paid program at Morgan Stanley&rsquo;s New York City headquarters.Campus Reform obtained copies of one of the emails sent to students.&nbsp;<iframe class="scribd_iframe_embed" title="Morgan Stanley" src="https://www.scribd.com/embeds/443889442/content?start_page=1&view_mode=scroll&access_key=key-lGVpfKx2ASQczuztxWLO&show_recommendations=true" data-auto-height="false" data-aspect-ratio="0.7729220222793488" scrolling="no" id="doc_28648" width="100%" height="600" frameborder="0"></iframe><a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=14126" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: CU-Boulder hosts minority-only STEM career development retreat]</a>According to Morgan Stanley&rsquo;s description, &ldquo;The week will include valuable training, as well as opportunities to network with each other and learn from Morgan Stanley professionals across our divisions.&rdquo;Among listed requirements for the program was one specifying that applicants be &ldquo;Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or LGBT+&rdquo; freshmen undergraduate students. The program is meant to provide &ldquo;the opportunity to experience Morgan Stanley culture first-hand&rdquo; specifically to &ldquo;Black, Hispanic, Native American and LGBT+ students.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13287" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Christian uni pays non-whites to attend minority-only STEM workshop program]</a>The bank explains that the program is designed to &ldquo;help diverse college freshmen gain a better understanding of the various businesses and career paths Morgan Stanley provides.&rdquo;&nbsp;The promotion touted Morgan Stanley&rsquo;s &ldquo;strong commitment to a culture of inclusion,&rdquo; stating that they &ldquo;strive to attract and retain top candidates from all backgrounds through a focus on recruitment, career development and individual advancement.&rdquo;The program will take place from Monday, May 18 through Friday, May 22.&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to the university for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.

The program touts a commitment to “diversity,” but excludes many ethnic and demographic groups.

EXCLUSIVE: UA promotes program ONLY for 'Black, Hispanic, Native American, and/or LGBT+' students

Research from the University of Washington found that students believe Asian Americans who identify as LGBTQ are &quot;more American&quot; than those who do not.&nbsp;The recent <a href="http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/06/27/lgbtq-asian-americans-seen-as-more-american/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">findings</a>, published June 27 in <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/home/spp" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Social Psychological and Personality Science</a>, were collected from multiple studies that involved four randomly assigned groups of participants from the school&rsquo;s student body. Each participant was asked to answer questions regarding different profiles of imaginary people.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11219" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Scholars claim Asian Americans used to perpetuate racism in STEM]</a>In the first study, students were assigned a brief description of a person named John, either labeled as an &ldquo;Asian American man&rdquo; or a &ldquo;gay Asian American man.&rdquo; With a one through seven scale for various questions, they were to rate how American he was. The questions included &ldquo;How fluently do you think this person speaks English?&rdquo; and &ldquo;How integrated is this person in American culture?&rdquo;The results overwhelmingly found that the &ldquo;gay Asian American man&rdquo; scored higher on the &ldquo;Americanness&rdquo; scale that the normal &ldquo;Asian American man.&rdquo;The second study used questions similar in nature, but included more groups of people, with profiles of men, women, whites, and Asian Americans. The hypothetical profiles listed each person as either &ldquo;gay&rdquo; or not specified. Common &ldquo;American&rdquo; names were also given to each imaginary subject. Once again, the study found that Asian Americans who identified as gay were seen as &quot;more American.&quot;&ldquo;One possible extension of this work is that gay Asian Americans may be less likely to have their American identities questioned than straight Asian Americans,&rdquo; said Sapna Cheryan, a UW psychology professor.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10353" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Asian students guilty of &#39;colorblind racism,&#39; prof claims]</a>Separate studies by the <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/09/08/key-facts-about-asian-americans/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Pew Research Center</a> have shown that Asians are the fastest-growing racial group in the U.S. UW, however, notes that they are also consistently perceived as &ldquo;foreign.&rdquo;&nbsp;&ldquo;I am offended that my patriotism is being questioned in this study,&rdquo; Caleb Chung, an Asian American student at Northeastern University, told Campus Reform. &ldquo;Regardless of my race, I was born and raised in the U.S., and I want to be seen as an American.&rdquo;&quot;The bottom line is that if you are an American citizen, you love this country, and you are willing to defend the Constitution and the principles that this country was founded on, you are an American by all means,&rdquo; Joel Valdez, who studied at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, told Campus Reform.&nbsp;Valdez, an intern for Campus Reform&#39;s parent organization the Leadership Institute, noted that he is a Mexican-American and proud to be a citizen of this country: &ldquo;The danger in designating a ranking of Americanism based on a minority status completely undermines the longing for equality that the LGBT community has been fighting for. We are all equal under the red, white, and blue.&quot;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/ethanycai" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ethanycai</a>

STUDY: LGBT Asian Americans seen as 'more American' than those who are straight

Public universities are offering huge sums of money as salaries for new positions specifically catering to LGBT individuals.Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania is currently seeking a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=176955321&Title=Pride%20Center%20Coordinator" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">coordinator</a> for its &ldquo;Pride Center.&rdquo; The incumbent will be paid up to $41,000 annually and will be charged with duties such as creating and delivering programs to provide &ldquo;outreach&rdquo; and &ldquo;community building&rdquo; for LGBT students and faculty, as well as their &ldquo;allies.&rdquo;The selected candidate will also be responsible for developing workshops on &ldquo;LGBTQ+ specific topics&rdquo; such as &nbsp;&ldquo;SAFE ZONE trainings,&rdquo; and for planning celebrations of National Coming Out Day, Trans Remembrance Day, and LGBTQ+ history month. He or she will also help organize the university&rsquo;s &ldquo;lavender graduation,&rdquo; a separate graduation ceremony held for students who identify as LGBT.Additional duties for the coordinator will include ensuring the &ldquo;inclusion and visibility&rdquo; of all LGBT students, staff, and faculty, as well as working with administration to ensure that university policies and curricula are &ldquo;LGBTQ+&rdquo; inclusive.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11395" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student charged for allegedly making false anti-LGBT threats against herself]</a>A similar&nbsp;<a href="https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=176952629&Title=Visiting%20Scholar%2C%20Intersections%20in%20the%20Lives%20of%20LGBTQIA%2B%20Communities" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">opening</a> at Virginia Commonwealth University promises up to $86,000 each for a maximum of three scholars who will be chosen to &ldquo;promote&rdquo; LGBTQIA+ &ldquo;empowerment, inclusion, and equity.&rdquo; &nbsp;The LGBTQIA+ visiting scholars will be charged with conducting &ldquo;translational research&rdquo; and will &ldquo;promote empowerment, inclusion, and equity for LGBTQIA+ people with multiple marginalized identities.&rdquo;The chosen researchers will be required to advise the university on the creation of its own center &ldquo;focused on LGBTQIA research and advocacy,&rdquo; as well as to teach a course during the academic year. The job listing notes that successful applicants should have &ldquo;research interests relating to LGBTQIA+ people with multiple marginalized identities,&rdquo; as well as &ldquo;lived experience and/or service that informs worldviews and/or perspectives about minority group status, to include race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, class, and disability.&rdquo;&ldquo;I certainly don&#39;t think this is a valid use of university resources,&rdquo; VCU alum Thomas Wagner told Campus Reform. &ldquo;Students shouldn&#39;t wonder why tuition rates continuously increase when every year the school hires more professors to teach a specific political ideology.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9887" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: LGBT-only dorms could &lsquo;backfire,&rsquo; prof warns]</a>&ldquo;It is sad to see postmodern philosophy and identity politics framing the academic curriculum,&rdquo; Wagner said. &ldquo;Hopefully the school returns to teaching people how to think, and not what to think.&rdquo;&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to both VCU and Shippensburg University but did not receive a response in time for publication.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/celinedryan" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@celinedryan</a>

Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania is seeking out a coordinator for its Pride Center.

Schools shelling out tens, maybe HUNDREDS of thousands for LGBT staff

The Pride Center at Oregon State University called for Veteran Student Association (VSA) members to be barred from moving into an on-campus student lounge, stating that it is concerned about the veteran students&rsquo; &ldquo;patriotism&rdquo; and the &ldquo;wellbeing&rdquo; of students.In a since-deleted open letter to the OSU community posted on <a href="https://archive.is/vG54o" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Facebook</a> on March 15, the pride center and the LGBTQ+ Multicultural Support Network said that they oppose moving the VSA into the Student Experience Center Involvement Lounge on campus.The involvement lounge is a space for students to find out how to get involved on campus, according to its <a href="https://experience.oregonstate.edu/resources/involvement-lounge" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">webpage</a>.The Pride Center, which is an entity of the Department of Diversity and Cultural Engagement, stated that their members would be &ldquo;vulnerable&rdquo; to the consequences of deciding to let the vet group occupy that space.&ldquo;The communities that our organizations serve are vulnerable to the ideological and practical consequences that this decision would bring about,&rdquo; the Pride Center and LGBTQ group stated.Specifically, the groups cite President Donald Trump&rsquo;s ban on transgender individuals from serving in the military as part of their reasoning for this move.<img src="//s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/12006/15532693031851.jpg" style="width: 400px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&ldquo;This push to curb the rights of transgender people to participate as fully as they desire in US society has caused much distress throughout the LGBTQ+ community,&rdquo; the groups said. &ldquo;We are disheartened to think that our community, which has historically fought to be recognized fully as human beings, [is] being forced to continue this fight.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9646" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Social justice warriors want universities to &lsquo;ban veterans&rsquo;]</a>However, Trump&rsquo;s policies weren&rsquo;t the only reason for the organizations&rsquo; statement.The Pride Center and LGBTQ+ group also explain that they are concerned with the &ldquo;particular type of American patriotism that would be promoted by centralizing the Veteran Students Association in the [Student Experience Center].&rdquo;&ldquo;We aim to resist the pain that US militarism has caused our siblings in struggle, and we denounce the glorification of the system that is responsible for this violence,&rdquo; the center stated.The groups say that the letter is not supposed to be an attack on veterans but note that the &ldquo;campus LGBTQ+ community is built on legacies of justice that oppose military intervention and war.&rdquo;They conclude their open letter by stating that the student veterans are deserving of a space, but putting them in a spot on the center of campus &ldquo;jeopardizes the wellbeing of many vulnerable students, including those [who are] a part of the LGBTQ+ community.&rdquo;The College Republicans President at OSU, Peter Halajian, told Campus Reform that he cannot see how this is not an attack on veterans, and argued that nobody cares where the VSA office is located. He called the letter &ldquo;disgusting,&rdquo; &ldquo;shameful,&rdquo; and &ldquo;hypocritical.&rdquo;&ldquo;It&#39;s simply the reasoning given that is a disgusting attack. Furthermore, no one is forcing the Pride Center to be in favor of any war; past, present, or future! The fact that the mere sight of veterans services on campus is disturbing to them is just plain sad,&rdquo; Halajian said. &ldquo;The Pride Center can&#39;t on the one hand claim to support veterans well-being (or support LGBT+ veterans at all for that matter) and then be against a conveniently located center for them to get the services and support that they need.&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11395" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Student charged for allegedly making false anti-LGBT threats against herself]</a>The Pride Center deleted the above post on Thursday and made a follow-up statement.&quot;We have [deleted the post] because the open letter was written by and represents the views of individual students,&quot; the group <a href="https://www.facebook.com/OSUPrideCenter/posts/10156546831549862" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">said</a>. &quot;While Pride Center and SOL student staff have the right to make statements as individuals on issues that are important to them, the posting of this open letter violated our communication policy.&quot;<img src="//s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/12006/Screenshot_(741)_(1).jpg" style="width: 500px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&quot;We recognize the statement has been a source of pain for many individuals,&quot; the Pride Center continued. &quot;We welcome and support our veterans. And we share with you that the Pride Center assistant director is working with the Military and Veteran Resources advis[e]r to create healing spaces for those who are hurting.&quot;Campus Reform reached out to Oregon State University for comment but did not receive a response in time for publication.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/asabes10" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">@asabes10</a>

A letter co-penned by both groups stated that “the communities that our organizations serve are vulnerable to the ideological and practical consequences" of letting the student veteran group in the center.

LGBTQ groups: Student vets 'jeopardize' well-being of students

The University of California-Santa Barbara is seeking a new LGBTQ program coordinator to organize &ldquo;identity-based programs.&rdquo; UCSB&#39;s job <a href="https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=176898611&Title=LGBTQ%20Program%20Coordinator" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">listing</a> offers up to $57,000 annually, on an hourly basis, for an individual who will be expected to &ldquo;create an inclusive environment&rdquo; for &ldquo;underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized students,&rdquo; including LGBT students, students of color, and students who &ldquo;identify with intersections of multiple identities,&quot; as well as to serve as an &nbsp;&ldquo;advocate for students who identify as LGBTQIA&rdquo; &nbsp;to the university staff. The chosen applicant will be <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/lgbtq-program-coordinator-uc-santa-barbara-JV_IC1147473_KO0,25_KE26,42.htm?jl=3085112423&utm_campaign=google_jobs_apply&utm_source=google_jobs_apply&utm_medium=organic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">responsible for</a> developing, implementing, and overseeing programming aimed at addressing political, social, emotional, and physical &ldquo;trends and needs in the LGBTQIA community,&rdquo; as well as creating marketing strategies to spread awareness for the university&rsquo;s LGBT Center.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10616" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UCSB students demand more resources for illegal immigrants]</a> In addition to managing such strategies, the coordinator will serve as a mentor to student groups that &ldquo;focus on LGBTQIA identities, serving as an &ldquo;advocate for students who identify as LGBTQIA&rdquo; &nbsp;to university staff. He or she will also be responsible for providing &ldquo;transactional advising&rdquo; to students participating in larger campus organizations and student government. UCSB&#39;s LGBTQ program coordinator will also be required to recruit and train a team of student volunteers to represent the LGBTQIA university population in order to &ldquo;ensure timely response to campus activism and outreach.&rdquo; Campus Reform reached out to the university for comment, but did not receive a response in time for press.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8449" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UCSB student called &#39;fascist&#39; for questioning aid to illegals]</a>UC-Santa Barbara has a history of catering to the LGBT community. As Campus Reform reported, in January 2016, the school <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7154" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">used student fees&nbsp;</a>to host a book discussion on &nbsp;&quot;the anti-fat stigma that persists in American culture,&quot; specifically for &quot;fat, gay men.&quot; And, in September 2015, the school <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6811" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">released</a> a &quot;Homosexuality and Religion&quot; guide that said the Bible objects to members of the LGBT &nbsp;community having equal rights, but that religion shouldn&#39;t get in the way of people&#39;s sex lives.&nbsp;It&#39;s also not the first time that colleges have devoted resources specifically to programs or jobs for LGBT individuals. In August 2017, the University of Wisconsin-Madison <a href="https://wwwt.campusreform.org/?ID=9532" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">announced</a> that it was hiring for someone with &quot;relevant experience working in student organizing and activism around LGBT issues, multiculturalism and social justice in a higher education setting.&quot; Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/celinedryan" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@celinedryan</a>

The University of California-Santa Barbara is seeking an LGBTQ program coordinator.

Here's how much UC-Santa Barbara is willing to pay an LGBTQ 'advocate'

Harvard University will hire a paid fellow to assist with outreach to the LGBT community in the spring 2019 semester.The decision comes after years of requests by student groups to allocate more resources to making LGBT students feel more welcome on campus, <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/12/14/gsas-bgltq-fellow/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">according to The Harvard Crimson</a>. Harvard has not yet disclosed the &ldquo;BGLTQ&rdquo; fellowship&rsquo;s salary.Harvard&rsquo;s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences made the choice to hire such a fellow following the decisions of other prestigious American institutions, including, <a href="https://ocs.yale.edu/career-resource/yale-lgbt-studies-research" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Yale</a>, <a href="https://www.brown.edu/academics/gradschool/diversity-0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Brown</a>, <a href="https://shass.mit.edu/academics/graduate/diversity-predoc" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">MIT</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://gradschool.princeton.edu/diversity/student-resources/diversity-fellows-program" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Princeton</a>, to hire fellows with similar objectives.&nbsp;An LGBTQ <a href="https://gsas.harvard.edu/student-life/harvard-resources/lgbtqgsas" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">student group</a> at the graduate school advocated for the recruitment of the fellow.&ldquo;Year after year, we have been telling administrators <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/8j8vh0pjl6t301f/OpenLetterToGSAS.pdf?dl=0" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">that LGBTQ people need better supports</a>,&rdquo; LGBTQ@GSAS asserted in a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vuT62JnpKwWnxp3CpJ0YVJPTCBBMJ7nuhpUaSlbMvCY/edit?fbclid=IwAR3iiKtiFsYuu_e2eOHEgXihIa7zDx82x2ZDJ1V0GyabVKR_DBxWJreXpNI" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">statement</a> posted to its <a href="https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=LGBTQ%40GSAS&epa=SEARCH_BOX" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> in April. &ldquo;Among other things, we have been requesting that Harvard fund a staff person to address the needs of the LGBTQ+ community, as other universities do as a matter of course. Every year they refuse, claiming a flat budget.&rdquo;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11259" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: DOJ not buying Harvard&rsquo;s defense in affirmative action case]</a>&ldquo;The Office for Diversity and Minority Affairs offers some monetary support to LGBTQ@GSAS, a model which relies on unpaid, volunteer student labor and initiative, and costs a fraction of what a full-time position for a staff person would,&rdquo; the group continued.In April, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences&rsquo; Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs hired its first two paid &ldquo;diversity fellows,&quot; <a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2018/4/13/gsas-2018-diversity-fellows/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">The Crimson</a> reported. Ph.D. students Alyssa M. Hernandez and Alfredo M. Valencia, who currently serve in these capacities, applied for the positions as a way &ldquo;to make underrepresented minorities feel more welcome on Harvard&rsquo;s campus.&rdquo;Hernandez and Valencia also indicated, after speaking with prospective students at several visiting events, that they would focus on the sense of &ldquo;imposter syndrome&rdquo; associated with admission to Harvard as a minority.&nbsp;&ldquo;There&rsquo;s such a reputation, and it&rsquo;s intimidating,&rdquo; Hernandez told The Crimson. &ldquo;Graduate students talk a lot about impostor syndrome and feeling like they didn&rsquo;t deserve to get in. We want to make Harvard more welcoming to students of color.&rdquo;&nbsp;He also indicated that the addition of a third diversity fellow will help GSAS &ldquo;better serve&rdquo; LGBTQ students.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11600" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration:none;" target="_blank">[RELATED: Harvard gets hammered with lawsuits over &lsquo;sexist&rsquo; same-sex club policy]</a>Harvard did not respond to a request for comment regarding the salary of the LGBT fellow position or the two diversity fellow positions currently filled by Hernandez and Valencia. But Harvard fellows are typically paid &ldquo;between $55,000 and $70,000 per year depending on experience and the nature of each Fellowship assignment,&rdquo; according to the school&rsquo;s human resources <a href="https://hr.harvard.edu/faq/what-salary-range-fellowships" style="text-decoration:none;">site</a>.The page also states that &ldquo;fellowships are eligible for the Harvard University benefits package and this includes vacation time and available health, vision, and dental insurance.&rdquo;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/YoungGaGOP" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@YoungGaGOP</a>

Harvard hires to 'address needs of the LGBTQ+ community'

The University of Pittsburgh Arts Department is now offering students LGBT-themed coloring books in the Frick Fine Arts Library.The books include &ldquo;Drag Queens of the South&rdquo;, and &ldquo;The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book.&quot; A series of coloring books on butch lesbians are also available, including &ldquo;Butch Lesbians of the &rsquo;20s, &#39;30s, and &#39;40s&rdquo; and &ldquo;Butch Lesbians of the &#39;50s, &#39;60s, and &#39;70s.&quot;Housed within the University Arts Library at Frick Hall, the coloring books are located along the back wall in the meeting rooms next to the &ldquo;RESIST!&rdquo; and &ldquo;Lesbian Witchcraft&rdquo; zines for interested students. Pitt provides colored pencils alongside the books for use.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11559" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UW Madison hosts event for &#39;white identifying LGBTQ+ folks&#39;]</a>Pitt&rsquo;s library system, PITTCat+, houses over half a billion different types of content for student learning and <a href="https://pitt.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.q=coloring+books#!/search?ho=t&fvf=SubjectTerms,coloring%20books,f&l=en&q=SubjectTerms:%22Coloring%20books.%22" style="text-decoration: none;">435 books aimed at teaching coloring for Pitt&rsquo;s college students.</a>&nbsp;The collection is &ldquo;for the research, teaching, and learning needs of faculty, staff, and students, which includes collecting materials that represent diverse groups and interests,&rdquo; Kate Joranson, head of the library, told The Pitt Maverick.Joranson added, &ldquo;we [The Frick Library Staff] support Pitt&rsquo;s commitment to diversity and inclusion as a core value.&rdquo;After Joranson ignored&nbsp;The Pitt Maverick&rsquo;s query on the cost of these books, The Pitt Maverick returned to the Frick Fine Arts Library for investigation. However, the books in question were removed the day after reaching out for comment.&nbsp;BEFORE:&nbsp;<img src="//s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/11605/pitt_2_watermarked.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">AFTER:<img src="//s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/11605/pitt_watermarked.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> The market value of all the books shown in the photographs is $120.40.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10989" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: UW-Madison renames &lsquo;LGBT Center&rsquo; to avoid &lsquo;binaries&rsquo;]</a>Various other coloring books sit in the same place, none of which include the LGBT-centric coloring books as the day before. The Pitt Maverick requested a comment from Joranson, receiving no response.This article was originally published in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thepittmaverick.com/2018/12/05/queer-themed-coloring-books-now-available-to-pitt-students/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Pitt Maverick</a>, a conservative student newspaper affiliated with the Leadership Institute&#39;s Campus Leadership Program. Its articles are republished here with permission. Follow The Pitt Maverick on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://twitter.com/@ThePittMaverick" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@ThePittMaverick</a>

UPitt art center pencils in LGBT-themed coloring books

The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting an event aimed at &ldquo;white identifying LGBTQ+ folks.&rdquo;The University of Wisconsin-Madison is hosting an <a href="http://today.wisc.edu/events/view/129858" style="text-decoration:none;">event</a> on Nov. 28, titled, &quot;Whiteness in Queer Spaces,&rdquo; inviting students to a &ldquo;discussion on whiteness in LGBTQ+ spaces and community.&rdquo; The Gender and Campus Sexuality Center is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/uwgscc/photos/gm.350655132348688/10156383597148283/?type=3&theater" style="text-decoration:none;">sponsoring</a> the event.&ldquo;This is an intended&nbsp;[sic] for space, meaning intended for white identifying LGBTQ+ folks to address and discuss their role in oppressive whiteness in queer spaces, community, and beyond,&rdquo; the event description reads.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11157" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Prof calls on art teachers to reject &lsquo;geometry of whiteness&rsquo;]</a>&ldquo;We make programming about race and ethnicity available to all students because research shows that students of color here report a less favorable experience (for example, being more likely to experience harassing or hostile behavior) than white students,&rdquo; UW Madison spokeswoman Meredith McGlone told Campus Reform. &ldquo;Our goal is for all students to feel welcome and able to thrive.&rdquo; &nbsp; &ldquo;We do not discriminate based on race, gender or other characteristics &ndash; events are always open to anyone who wishes to attend,&rdquo; McGlone added.UW Madison renamed its LGBT Center the &ldquo;Gender and Sexuality Campus Center&rdquo; to include students who identify with labels outside of the four included in LGBT.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10989" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: UW-Madison renames &lsquo;LGBT Center&rsquo; to avoid &lsquo;binaries&rsquo;]</a>A March 2018 study <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10614" style="text-decoration:none;">conducted</a> by Campus Reform found that 95 percent of student fees going toward partisan student organizations at UW Madison went to groups of a left-leaning perspective.Follow the author of this article on Twitter&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/knelson1776" style="text-decoration:none;">@knelson1776</a>

UW Madison hosts event for 'white identifying LGBTQ+ folks'

A member of student government at Ohio University has been charged with a misdemeanor after she allegedly made false statements to police about receiving threatening messages.&nbsp;Anna Ayers, who is a member of the OU student senate, was arrested Monday and charged by the Ohio University Police Department with three separate counts of &ldquo;making false alarms.&rdquo; It is alleged that Ayers falsely reported multiple threatening messages, including a &ldquo;death threat,&rdquo; which she claims was because of her being a member of the LGBTQ community.&nbsp;But an OU police department investigation revealed that Ayers&rsquo; claims were false. The probe further uncovered that Ayers had &ldquo;placed the messages herself, prior to reporting them,&rdquo; according to an OU police statement.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8169" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[RELATED: Pro-life students accosted, again, at Ohio University]</a><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/11395/Screenshot_(104)4.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&ldquo;Ayers previously reported receiving a series of threatening messages, two of them in the Student Senate office, and one of them at her residence,&rdquo; the OU Police Department&#39;s statement reads, adding that, &ldquo;subsequent investigation by OUPD found that Ayers had placed the messages herself, prior to reporting them.&rdquo;Ayers, the former student senate appropriations commissioner, reported to the student senate last week that she received a note in the student senate office on September 27, which she said &ldquo;expressed extreme hatred&hellip; because of who I am,&rdquo; according to an <a href="https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2018/10/ohio-university-student-senate-lgbt-death-threat" style="text-decoration:none;">article</a> in The Post, a student-run newspaper on campus.The following week, October 6, Ayers thanked supporters on Twitter for being with her &ldquo;during a pretty awful time.&rdquo;<img src="//s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/11395/Screen_Shot_2018-10-09_at_2.03.22_AM.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> The E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at OU, which Ayers attends, tweeted its support for the former student senator.&nbsp; <img src="//s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/11395/Screen_Shot_2018-10-09_at_2.01.08_AM.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"> Ayers alleged that she received additional death threats contained within messages on notes. The messages took aim at her identity as an LGBTQ community member, according to her account.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9765" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: University bans classroom protests after controversial sit-in]</a>&ldquo;Making &lsquo;false alarms&rsquo; is a first-degree misdemeanor that can carry a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.&rdquo; According to an OU Police Department tweet, &ldquo;Ayers is scheduled to appear in Athens County Municipal Court Thursday morning.&quot;&ldquo;We are still processing and encouraging our members to take time to heal and utilize campus support resources right now,&rdquo; Student Senate President Maddie Sloat said in a statement to Campus Reform. &ldquo;We&rsquo;re complying with the investigation and OUPD. We hope Anna receives the help that she needs.&rdquo; With regard to her position in [the student senate, spokesperson for the student government organization told Campus Reform,&nbsp;&ldquo;Anna Ayers resigned from her position this morning.&quot;&ldquo;All complaints of harassment and threats of violence are taken seriously at Ohio University and investigated as fully as possible with a desire to uncover facts,&quot; Carly Leatherwood, senior director of communications at Ohio University told Campus Reform in a statement on Tuesday.&quot;As a matter of process, in addition to adjudication in the criminal court, any student who is charged with a crime is referred to the Office of Community Standards and Student Responsibility in order to determine if a violation of the Student Code of Conduct has occurred,&quot; Leatherwood added.The Ohio University police department referred Campus Reform back to its press release and did not offer any further information. Campus Reform reached out to Ayers for comment but did not hear back in time for publication. &nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/Zach_Petrizzo" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Zach_Petrizzo</a> &nbsp;

Student charged for allegedly making false anti-LGBT threats against herself

The University of Madison-Wisconsin is changing the name of its LGBT Center amid concerns that the former name reinforces &ldquo;binaries&rdquo; and &ldquo;labels.&rdquo;&nbsp;Starting in the fall, the school&rsquo;s LGBT Center will become the &ldquo;Gender and Sexuality Campus Center&rdquo; after careful consideration and input from the student body over the past year,&nbsp;<a href="https://students.wisc.edu/blog/gender-and-sexuality-campus-center-supporting-lgbtq-students-and-their-communities/" style="text-decoration:none;">according to a recent press release</a>.&nbsp;&ldquo;The purpose of the name change is to better align with the center&rsquo;s mission,&rdquo; the press release says, adding that the new name will better serve students who don&rsquo;t necessarily identify as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10212" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Admin slams &lsquo;homonormative whiteness&rsquo; of LGBTQ centers]</a>Students &ldquo;use an array of other language for their own identities and experiences,&rdquo; the press release explains, adding that the name change was made after dozens of students weighed in.&nbsp;<a href="https://lgbt.wisc.edu/staff/williams-simone/" style="text-decoration:none;">Simone Williams</a>&mdash;a student staffer who uses they/them pronouns&mdash;praised the name change in a statement to the school.&nbsp; &ldquo;Changing the name to Gender &amp; Sexuality Campus Center tells students across all identities they can be heard,&rdquo; Williams asserted. &ldquo;There is a space here that doesn&rsquo;t require labels or binaries. As culture shifts we must shift, I&rsquo;m glad the staff in the Center know that.&rdquo;The name change reflects UW-Madison&rsquo;s responsibility &ldquo;to uplift and support the voices of the students on its campus [who are] often silenced, in the most inclusive and effective way possible,&rdquo; Williams added.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9007" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Columbia sets aside meeting space for POC, LGBTQ students only]</a>UW-Madison spokesperson Meredith Mcglone told&nbsp;Campus Reform that the name change is also in keeping with trends at other schools across the United States, such as&nbsp;<a href="https://today.duke.edu/2013/07/lgbt" style="text-decoration:none;">Duke University</a> and the&nbsp;<a href="http://gsc.uic.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;">University of Illinois-Chicago</a>.The name change will not impact the programming the center offers, Mcglone added.&nbsp;According to its website, the center facilitates&nbsp;<a href="https://lgbt.wisc.edu/education/trainings-resources/" style="text-decoration:none;">trainings</a> for students on issues such as &ldquo;Beyond The Binary: Gender 101,&rdquo; &quot;LGBTQ-affirming healthcare,&quot; and &ldquo;Life at the Intersections.&rdquo; It also hosts various events and community meetings for students throughout the year.&nbsp;&ldquo;The Gender and Sexuality Campus Center provides education, outreach, advocacy, and resources for UW-Madison student communities and their allies to improve campus climate and their daily experiences,&rdquo; Mcglone told&nbsp;Campus Reform.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Toni_Airaksinen" style="text-decoration:none;">@Toni_Airaksinen</a>

UW-Madison renames ‘LGBT Center’ to avoid ‘binaries’

The University of Kentucky (UK) Office of LGBTQ* Resources is handing out thousands of dollars in scholarships and grants to promote &ldquo;LGBTQ*-focused research.&rdquo;According to a <a href="https://uknow.uky.edu/student-and-academic-life/students-benefit-lgbtq-resources-scholarships-grants/" style="text-decoration:none;">press release</a> issued last week, the department awarded $16,000 in scholarships to 10 undergraduate students, and disbursed another $3,000 in research grants to three graduate and professional students.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10435" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: University to spend $28k on renovations for new LGBTQ Center]</a>Lance Poston, director of LGBTQ* Resources at UK, touted the &ldquo;important roles&rdquo; the awards play in helping to &ldquo;support students who are working hard to achieve their academic goals despite unique identity-related obstacles.&rdquo; &nbsp;Poston also asserted that the grants have the potential to benefit the university by &ldquo;highlighting young LGBTQ*-focused research that has the potential to positively impact our campus and communities far beyond.&rdquo;According to the press release, the scholarships are funded by&nbsp;a private endowment, supplemented by money from&nbsp;a December 2017 &ldquo;UK Feast on Equality&rdquo; fundraiser. This year, six undergraduate students received $2,000 scholarships, and four others received $1,000.While this marks the third year that the scholarships have been available, it is only the second time that UK has offered research grants, which the school says &ldquo;were made possible by a partnership between the Office of LGBTQ* Resources and UK&rsquo;s Graduate School and Center for Graduate and Professional Diversity Initiatives.&rdquo;Three graduate students were awarded $1,000 each to conduct &ldquo;LGBTQ*-focused&rdquo; research, which the school briefly describes in its press release.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9487" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: College offers $25K scholarships for &#39;LGBTQ advocates&#39;]</a>One student, for instance, is working on a dissertation&nbsp;titled&nbsp;&ldquo;No Longer Transparent: Working with Transgender Parents in Kentucky to Foster Social Change,&rdquo; which is intended to focus on &ldquo;the experiences of parents who identify as transgender to broaden limited cultural understandings of parenthood.&rdquo;Another grant recipient is working with a UK professor to examine &ldquo;identity-based socialization (e.g., how to talk to your child about sexual identity); conceptual grief and ambiguous loss; intended parenthood and family formation; and adoption and foster care outcomes.&rdquo;Based on that research, the student plans to devise a &ldquo;Future Parent Grief Scale for LGBTQ+ Individuals.&rdquo;The last recipient is conducting research into&nbsp;the &ldquo;Influence of Positive Identity Narratives on the Well-being of Transgender Kentuckians,&rdquo; which will use &ldquo;real strengths-based narratives from transgender individuals to cultivate positive identity development in transgender people.&rdquo;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/celinedryan" style="text-decoration:none;">@celinedryan</a>

The school's Office of LGBTQ* Resources awarded $16,000 in scholarships to 10 undergraduate students and another $3,000 in research grants for three graduate students.

University awards grants for ‘LGBTQ*-focused’ research

Santa Monica College has indefinitely shelved plans to turn a computer lab into a &ldquo;safe space&rdquo; for minority students, Campus Reform has learned.As Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10204" style="text-decoration:none;">reported</a> in November, SMC at the time was moving forward with a $60,000 plan to renovate one of the school&rsquo;s few computer labs into a &ldquo;safe space for Undocumented Students, DACA students, LGBTQ+ community students,&rdquo; and others.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10204" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: College spending $60k to turn computer lab into &lsquo;safe space&rsquo;]</a>While the plan was initially approved by student government in November, student <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/Author/?AuthorID=4343581" style="text-decoration:none;">Ben Kolodny</a>, who is also a Campus Reform correspondent, led the resistance effort on campus, penning a petition against the safe space that racked up more than 350 signatures.&ldquo;The Santa Monica College Associated Students [is attempting] to replace the Cayton Center Computer lab with a Social Justice Center and Safe Space on Monday the 24th,&rdquo; Kolodny <a href="https://www.change.org/p/ben-kolodny-save-the-cayton-center?recruiter=837310921&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_for_starters_page&utm_content=ex35%3Acontrol" style="text-decoration:none;">warned</a> last November. &ldquo;This will be a huge waste of student resources.&rdquo;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/10907/SMCLab1.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib"><img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/10907/SMCLab2.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">&ldquo;If a safe space is necessary, then other accommodation should be found. It is morally wrong to take a program as valuable as the Computer Lab from all of us while at the same time using the student fees that we all paid to do so,&rdquo; the petition added.&nbsp;Kolodny also <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/Author/?AuthorID=4343581" style="text-decoration:none;">appeared on Fox News</a>, pointing out that it is &ldquo;absolutely ridiculous that we&#39;re spending $500,000 of people&#39;s money...on something they [LGBTQ students] themselves don&#39;t want.&quot;&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10679" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: University turns frat into &lsquo;safe space for black students&rsquo;]</a>Though a school spokeswoman told Campus Reform last November that SMC was moving forward with the plan, the renovations were put on hold some time shortly thereafter.Campus Reform followed up with SMC in February, and school spokeswoman Grace Smith said the plan had been tabled to a committee of administrations, but that no work had been done. Smith confirmed last Thursday to Campus Reform that plans are still on hold.&nbsp;&ldquo;The college has no updates at the moment,&rdquo; Smith added.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10781" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: Scripps College pool party desegregated, then postponed]</a>Kolodny told Campus Reform that he is relieved the school is not moving forward with the $60,000 plan to create a &ldquo;safe space,&rdquo; which was part of a <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10204" style="text-decoration:none;">larger $500,000 plan</a> to create a Gender Equity Center for students on campus, both of which are now on hold.&ldquo;I think that Santa Monica College saving the [computer lab] as well as $500,000 of students&rsquo; money is a tacit admission of what I and other members of the opposition to the plan have been saying all along,&rdquo; Kolodny said. &ldquo;This plan was poorly thought out, pushed for the wrong reasons by the wrong people, was largely unpopular with the student body and should never have been passed in the first place.&rdquo;&nbsp;Campus Reform reached out to the SMC student government, which initially proposed the renovation plan to administrators, but did not receive a response in time for publication. This article will be updated if and when a response is received.&nbsp;Follow the author of this article on Twitter:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.twitter.com/Toni_Airaksinen" style="text-decoration:none;">@Toni_Airaksinen</a>

SMC shelves plan to turn computer lab into LGBT 'safe space'

DePaul University recently hosted an informational event on polyamory at its LGBTQA Resource Center.A flyer for the &ldquo;Polyamory Pause&rdquo; event described the event as &ldquo;a dialogue on open relationships and polyamory.&rdquo;&nbsp;The event sought to &ldquo;dig past the surface conversation surrounding polyamory and open relationships&rdquo; and examine &ldquo;the ways soisl [sic] identity impact the conversations and the embodiment of open and polyamous [sic] relationships.&rdquo;<img src="https://s3.amazonaws.com/campusreform/10894/PolyamoryFlyer.jpg" style="width: 600px;" class="fr-fic fr-dib">Polyamory is a type of dating that allows one member to openly date others while seeing a primary person. Among the topics explored included the differences between polygamy and polyamory; the differences between entering a real, polyamorous dating scene and cheating on others; and having a partner who has &ldquo;primary&rdquo; and &ldquo;secondary&rdquo; partners.&ldquo;I never liked relationships or wanted to be in one really because I felt like they had to be monogamous, that&#39;s just what I knew, that&#39;s what everyone around me experienced, that&#39;s what I, like, felt, and I just knew that I didn&rsquo;t wanna deal with. All the expectations that come with that, all the baggage. I feel like this is a more natural way,&rdquo; one participant explained.&ldquo;I was never super into marriage, either,&rdquo; the student added. &ldquo;Like, I can&#39;t make up my mind what I want to eat at Chipotle, like, how am I supposed to commit to one person, right?&rdquo;<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=8722" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: UNF Sex Week promotes polyamory as &lsquo;alternative to cheating&rsquo;]</a>Some students attended the event to learn more about this type of dating, whereas others were more familiar with it, having dated others that are polyamorous or practicing polyamory themselves.&ldquo;When I was younger, I never had a vision of being with one person forever,&rdquo; another student remarked. &ldquo;Right now I am in a relationship that is monogamous for like, compulsory monogamy reasons, but I think that we both know and talk about it that I think I see that changing.&rdquo;&ldquo;We love each other; we say we love each other,&rdquo; one participant said, but added that they still receive &ldquo;judgement from people that I don&#39;t love my partner&rdquo; because the relationship is not monogamous.<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9651" style="text-decoration:none;">[RELATED: College tells students to &lsquo;rub one out&rsquo; to prevent rape]</a><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2016/05/02/across-country-universities-look-to-mainstream-polyamory/" style="text-decoration:none;">According to The Daily Caller</a>,&nbsp;universities across the nation have attempted to mainstream polyamory by hosting similar events event to the one at DePaul.At Vanderbilt University, for example an LGBT event titled &ldquo;Deconstructing Couplehood&rdquo; was billed as a &ldquo;crash course in polyamory&rdquo; that would &ldquo;&lsquo;deconstruct the &lsquo;ideal&rsquo; and privileged relationship (that is straight, monogamous, married or heading that way, presumably white and middle to upper class), and look towards the other myriad ways to love and form community.&rdquo;The University of Michigan, similarly, held an event called &ldquo;Navigating Relationships: Routing Our Own Courses&rdquo; as part of its LGBTQ+ Health and Wellness Week, advertising the event as &ldquo;a facilitated discussion-style workshop on navigating healthy relationships, with an emphasis on polyamory and relationships involving asexual and/or aromantic partners.&rdquo;Campus Reform reached out to the Student Affairs office to find out how the event was funded, but did not receive a response in time for publication.Follow the author of this article on Twitter:<a href="http://www.twitter.com/emfrappelatte" style="text-decoration:none;">&nbsp;@emfrappelatte</a>