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A University of Kansas sorority member has been put on probation for "unbecoming" behavior after she shared a Candace Owens post criticizing Black Lives Matter.

Sophomore Katherine Lauer was rebuked by the Kappa Alpha Theta sorority after reposting a tweet from the black conservative commentator in which she said BLM was "the most flagrantly racist organization in America".
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Owens wrote on September 23: "Black Lives Matter is an organization of white men, using the faces of dead black people, to raise millions of dollars toward electing white Democrats into positions of power."
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The violent riots, looting, arson, and even public execution of Trump supporters over the past six months has been primarily the work of the self-described communist revolutionaries associated with “Antifa” and Black Lives Matter (BLM). Mug shots of some of the Antifa/BLM criminals that have appeared in the news and online show that some of them are seriously mentally deranged; some are hardened criminals with long criminal records; there seems to be a preponderance of convicted sex offenders and pedophiles among them; and what seems to be hundreds of pyromaniacs. They are always accompanied by mobs of rather ordinary, run-of-the-mill, urban underclass looters, the products of the state’s life-destroying and crime-infested inner-city government schools, its family- and work-incentive-destroying welfare state, and its war on drugs...
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Ludwig von Mises wrote in his 1922 classic, Socialism, that “the socialist idea is nothing but a grandiose rationalization of petty resentments” and “destruction is the essence of it,” the “spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created.” Private property, free enterprise, the rule of law, the civil society, constitutionalism, religion, the family, tradition, history, are all today routinely denounced and destroyed by the useful idiots rioting in American streets. What else would one call the riots, looting, arson and mayhem in certain American cities but Marxist destructionism?

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Some teachers have a lot of learning to do.


Take, for example, a woman who was teaching a seventh-grade class for O'Maley Innovation Middle School in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

The subject was the debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — and 12-year-old Jackson Cody said he became a fast target not only of other students, but also the teacher.
... What happened?

You see, Jackson supports Trump.

"I just feel like our country wasn't in a great place," he told WBZ-TV. "I just wanted to learn more about Donald Trump because it seemed like he was making our country rise again and become America again."

But supporting Trump isn't always the safest path to take. Then the seventh grader said the fateful moment happened.

"The teacher asked, 'Who supports Donald Trump?'" Jackson recalled to WHDH-TV. "And I was the only one to raise my hand."

He noted to WBZ that "a few kids were going to raise their hands, but then they heard the teacher say to me, 'Oh Mr. Jackson, I thought I liked you.'"

t got worse.

"Then she asked why I support a racist and a pedophile," he noted to WHDH.

Jackson added to the station that "she also said, 'I am ashamed of any woman who voted for Donald Trump,' and I told her my mom and one of my grandmothers voted for Donald Trump."

Other kids in the class smelled blood — and apparently his teacher did, too.

"I was just upset because other kids in the class were ganging up on me, laughing at me, and she was laughing and wouldn't say anything to them," Jackson noted to WHDH.
Lawyering up

Once Jackson's family found out what went down in his class, they fought back.

They contacted a First Amendment attorney and asked the school for an apology, WBZ said — and got one.

Jackson told WHDH that the teacher later apologized to him in front of the entire class, and he said that helped.

"We tell them to stand up for yourself and don't be afraid to speak your opinion," Jackson's father, Jay Cody told WBZ. "Their opinions are theirs; they're not our opinions. They're very well read children. They like to educate themselves on their own topics. Unfortunately they do disagree with us very often."
What did the school district have to say?

Gloucester Public Schools Superintendent Ben Lummis told WHDH he was disappointed after first hearing about the incident.

"We always want our students and staff to feel safe — and that their point of view is understood and respected," he told the station in a statement. "Every day in our schools — we strive for tolerance, understanding, different perspectives and being civil."

More significant perhaps is the news Lummis broke that his staff will undergo training next week on how to address controversial topics with their students, WHDH reported.

And that's obviously good news for Jackson and his family.

"Certain topics — politics, religion, even sports nowadays — can sometimes be discussed and can very much make kids feel uncomfortable," Jay Cody told WHDH. "You would hope teachers could recognize that and take advantage of it the opposite way."

He also told the station that if teachers do discuss controversial topics, they should "stand in the middle and hear from both sides."

In the end, Jackson told WHDH "everyone has the right to their own opinion, and everyone should respect that."
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The moves are among new restrictions being imposed by the executive.

It comes as NI's Department of Health recorded a further 1,217 cases and four more deaths with Covid-19 on Wednesday.

Hospitality businesses will be limited to takeaway and delivery services for four weeks from Friday.

Health officials had warned infections would rise further if both schools and hospitality premises remained open.

Ned Thomas finally got to paint his assigned parking space at Pine Junior-Senior High School in Franklinton, Louisiana, this year — a privilege granted to seniors for a $25 fee, NOLA.com reported.

Thomas' visual theme? A commissioned portrait of President Donald Trump wearing a stars-and-stripes headband and sunglasses.
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But while the principal gave the painting his stamp of approval, Washington Parish School System officials deemed the image too political — and promptly blotted it out with gray paint, NOLA said.

However, that isn't the end of the story.

A federal judge on Friday ordered school district Superintendent Frances Varnado and the school board to let the Trump portrait be repainted in the parking space, saying that blotting it out was a violation of Thomas' free-speech rights, the outlet noted.

What are the details?

U.S. District Judge Eldon Fallon — an appointee of former President Bill Clinton — ruled the Trump portrait is "pure political speech" and cannot be censored by the district, NOLA reported.

"The painting of President Trump cannot reasonably be described as obscene or plainly offensive on its face, nor can it be construed as school-sponsored speech," Fallon wrote, according to the outlet.

The judge also ruled that the district — in order to remove the image — would have to demonstrate that the Trump portrait is "materially disruptive," NOLA noted.

But Fallon said Trump's face doesn't qualify.

"This is not a case involving a symbol such as a Confederate flag, which has an established meaning as a 'symbol of racism and intolerance, regardless of whatever other meanings may be associated with it,'" Fallon said, according to the outlet, adding that "ultimately, it is clear that school officials in this case acted based upon 'an urgent wish to avoid controversy which might result from the expression.'"
What was the school district's position?

Varnado cited the campaign season's divisive politics as the reason for painting over the Trump portrait, NOLA said, adding that the superintendent was "concerned that the painting would cause further division and disruption among students — similar to that experienced within the school, parish, community and on social media."

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A risk of vandalism, property damage and fights came up. "Defendants also referenced a number of conflicts on social media over the summer, in which students who were typically friends were fighting against one another about race and politics," Fallon wrote. And they cited the murder of "a Black student perpetrated by a White individual during the previous school year that caused significant controversy in the community."

Varnado said her decision was meant to avoid controversy, not stir it up. But a barrage of livid e-mails followed, along with a federal lawsuit last month from Thomas's parents seeking an injunction. Their attorney, Yigal Bander of Baton Rouge, asserted the policy-required school approval came in late July, and that the senior paid a friend $200 to lay Trump's face down in paint.

The portrait was ready for public viewing on Aug. 6. Eight days later, the principal told him the School Board had ordered it painted over.

But Fallon ruled that "the burden on plaintiffs' First Amendment right to free speech and expression outweighs the school's burden of dealing with controversy related to the painting," NOLA reported.
Now what?

Thomas told the outlet the college student friend he hired to paint the Trump portrait will be back to repaint it.

It isn't clear from the NOLA report whether the district is paying for the repainting job.
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The richest counties in America are clustered around Washington, D.C. This privilege gives them confidence to propose flatly unconstitutional policies, such as banning public school teachers from criticizing critical race theory.

Perhaps less confidence this week, however.

Loudoun County Public Schools is pulling back on an illegal proposal to revise “professional conduct” standards by banning teachers from criticizing its “commitment to action-oriented equity practices” anywhere – on campus, off campus, over the phone, email and social media. ... It would have also required teachers to report their colleagues for such criticism.
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KTTH afternoon host Jason Rantz reported that Brendan Stanton, a teacher at P.G. Keithley Middle school, posed a “question of the day” to his sixth grade students. On Friday, he asked them, “Who is one person you admire and why?” A ten-year-old student was kicked out of class for answering “Donald J. Trump.”
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Students could write their responses in the online chatroom. A screenshot in Rantz’s story shows Elsy Kusander’s son wrote:

I admire Donald J. Trump because he is making America great again. And because he is the best president the United States of America could ever, ever have. And he built the wall so terrorists couldn’t come into in the U.S. Trump is the best person in the world. And that’s why I admire him.
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The three Year Old Kids are having nightmares - no sh*t! what a surprise.

Darwinian Evolution in Action ... what all college courses should feature as extra credit.

Former DOJ attorney says it’s as simple as enforcing a 1996 law

President Donald Trump can support American students by enforcing a 24-year-old law signed by President Bill Clinton.

The “Illegal Immigration Reform and Responsibility Act of 1996” includes a provision that requires any state that allows illegal immigrants to attend public universities at in-state rates to offer the same tuition to out-of-state U.S. citizens.
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But a former Department of Justice attorney told The College Fix that the federal government has never enforced this part of the law.

Hans von Spakovsky, a Heritage Foundation senior legal fellow and former Federal Election Commission member, explained how President Trump could pressure states on this issue.

Currently 19 states offer in-state tuition to illegal immigration, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

In general, out-of-state tuition is about $10,000 to $30,000 more expensive than in-state tuition on an annual basis.

“If the DOJ actually enforced the law those states would lose, they’d be forced to either stop providing in-state tuition to illegal immigrants or get rid of increased tuition for U.S. citizens,” von Spakovsky told The College Fix via a phone interview.

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He said he is “disappointed” that the Department of Justice has never enforced the statute. That statute states:

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an alien who is not lawfully present in the United States shall not be eligible on the basis of residence within a State (or a political subdivision) for any postsecondary education benefit unless a citizen or national of the United States is eligible for such a benefit (in no less an amount, duration, and scope) without regard to whether the citizen or national is such a resident.

“It’s unfair that citizens have to pay out of state tuition when illegal immigrants do not,” von Spakovsky said.

A federal judge has previously ruled in 2007 that the statute does not allow for a private right of action, where students could sue states or universities for not providing the tuition rates.

But President Trump and Attorney General Barr could simply direct the DOJ to enforce the law.

“The problem is that while the statute has been on the books for many years, and a number of states have violated it, the DOJ has never acted to enforce the law,” von Spakovsky said.

The Department of Justice did not respond to an emailed request for comment from The College Fix on Tuesday.

He previously criticized the Obama administration in 2011 for not suing states that were, in his words, “incontrovertibly and brazenly violating an unambiguous federal immigration law” while it sued states like Arizona for attempting to enforce immigration law.

“The Attorney General of the US needs to tell the head of the Civil Division to enforce the statute,” vons Spakovsky told The College Fix. “This would mean filing suit against states like Texas and California that provide in-state tuition to illegal immigrants.”
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‘A big win not just for Students for Life but really for all students’

The Students for Life chapter at Georgia Institute of Technology has dismissed its lawsuit against the university after the institution agreed to pay $50,000 in attorneys fees and damages and change its policies to better protect free speech on campus, according to the settlement.
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The lawsuit was filed after the student government refused to fund a pro-life event featuring Dr. Alveda King, niece of civil-rights activist Martin Luther King Jr.

Brian Cochran, former president for SFLA at Georgia Tech, told The College Fix he is gratified by the settlement, calling it a “big win not just for Students for Life but really for all students.”

“After we filed a lawsuit, Georgia Tech contacted us to work on a settlement so we worked with Georgia Tech to ensure that their new policies will be viewpoint neutral and protect all students’ freedom of speech and to ensure all student groups are going to be treated equally,” he said via a telephone interview.

The lawsuit had been filed earlier this year after the student government had denied the pro-life students funding to pay for King’s guest lecture because they disagreed with their views.

“My concern is that if we support this bill, we’re supporting a speaker that’s said such hateful, dangerous rhetoric,” one student government member had said regarding the funding request, according to meeting minutes provided to the court.

With that, the student government engaged in content- and viewpoint-based discrimination by favoring the expressive activities of other speakers and organizations but denying Students for Life’s funding request based on its beliefs, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom had argued.

ADF attorney Caleb Dalton, Cochran’s legal counsel, said in a telephone interview with The College Fix that the courts are favoring free speech on campus, and the settlement with Georgia Tech is part of a larger trend.
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A pair of professors warn that coronavirus could be the final nail in the coffin for many colleges — and that’s a good thing.

With so many colleges predicted to close, coupled with employers and campus administrators putting more of an emphasis on a college education, the “sunny side of all of this is that a stronger system of higher education will emerge, one re-focused on educating students rather than on selling a ‘college experience,’” the professors argue.
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Duquesne University Professor Antony Davies and University of Arizona Professor James Harrigan draw on research by NYU marketing Professor Scott Galloway, who concluded that up to 20 percent of colleges could close due to coronavirus.

Galloway made the estimate by calculating the vulnerability of colleges based on several factors.

The school closures and the related drop in revenue for colleges should spur university officials to reorganize and reevaluate their degree offerings, Davies and Harrigan argue in a recent essay for the Foundation for Economic Education.

Davies and Harrigan wrote:

Just like any other venture, colleges will go out of business when they become insolvent. There is nothing special about a college in this respect. Since 2016, some 52 colleges and universities have closed their doors or merged with other institutions. With the new reality of COVID-19, this trend will accelerate. Big state schools and those in the Ivy League will come out the other side to be sure. But small liberal arts colleges will not be nearly as fortunate.

But that’s only the beginning of the very bad news for at-risk institutions. The COVID-19 related downturn has caused any number of young people to ask themselves whether they want to go to college at all given the exorbitant costs. For the first time in decades they are asking the right sorts of questions about college. The most important question, of course, is whether college is a good investment.

They pointed out the wide gap in degrees and earnings. While STEM students can expect career earnings of $3 million, degrees in piano performance or early childhood education have a negative return on investment.

“Most majors ending in the word, ‘studies’ (Film Studies, Organizational Studies, Urban Studies, Liberal Studies) deliver a financial return anywhere from one-third to one-tenth that of the STEM majors,” the professors said.
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Recommendation by diversity task force with no listed legal experts

Back in June, the president of Miami University convened a task force of faculty, students and staff to spend their summer devising recommendations on “diversity, equity and inclusion.”

Now concluded, the DEI task force says that looking past the First Amendment is a good place to start – and that students and professors should trade their civil liberties for a more secure safe space.
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The public university, the second-oldest in Ohio, won’t rule out even those recommendations that would put it in legal jeopardy, a spokesperson told The College Fix.

Interim Director of University Communications Carole Johnson said in a Friday email that “all” recommendations are “currently undergoing review,” even those that may compromise academic freedom and faculty rights.

She didn’t answer followup questions about why a task force with no identified attorneys is offering legal suggestions, and what the administration thinks of those suggestions.

The ninth recommendation in the task force’s section on “Advocacy and Partnerships” is particularly bold. It explicitly tells the taxpayer-funded university to ignore legal considerations when disciplining students and employees for “discriminatory” speech.

The task force wants Miami to adopt a “zero-tolerance anti-discrimination policy and strictly enforce its existing University policy on discrimination.”

The university’s Office of General Counsel has not responded to a Monday request from The Fix to analyze the legality of that recommendation. Neither has the University Senate, the legislative body, which is composed of students, faculty, staff and administrators.

Both the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education and a First Amendment law expert have frowned on the recommendation, noting that it ignores legal distinctions between student and employee speech.

Any policy that dismisses students for their speech would “violate the First Amendment,” UCLA Law Prof. Eugene Volokh told The Fix in a Monday email.

“The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force may not ‘fear … First Amendment violations,’” he wrote, quoting the recommendation, “but the university, which will have to pay for those violations (and which presumably wants to comply with the law) should.”
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A professor who called for every “last cop” to be strangled says he is now dealing with death threats, vandalism and doxxing attempts.

Earlier this month, Midwestern State University philosophy professor Nathan Jun wrote on a Facebook thread “I want the entire world to burn until the last cop is strangled with the intestines of the last capitalist, who is strangled in turn with the intestines of the last politician.”
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The comment also included a link to a YouTube video which now appears to have been taken down.

According to KFDX/KJTL, the university stands behind Jun’s right to make such statements on his own time: “Occasionally individuals will express opinions that may be offensive and even shocking, but are nonetheless entitled to First Amendment protection. When our faculty members speak or write as citizens within the confines of the law, they are free from institutional censorship or discipline.”
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