These campus crybabies will be the first one whining "Where are the cops" after a severe crime occurs on campus. 'Cops Off Campus Coalition' kicks off 'Abolition May' as professors across the country vow to cancel classes in support of movement https://www.theblaze.com/news/cops-...-vow-to-cancel-classes-in-support-of-movement Professors across the country have vowed to cancel class and enable students, teachers, and other school personnel to strike in protest against campus police presence, according to Campus Reform. What are the details? The outlet on Friday reported that a grassroots organization dubbed the Cops Off Campus Coalition organized the "National Day of Refusal" and has asked "students, professors, and faculty members to pledge to be absent; from work, class, teaching, and more' on that day." The organization, which states that it is "committed to abolishing police on campus" planned the strike for Monday. Several hundred students, professors, and supporters have pledged to participate and signed a petition calling for area campuses across the country to remove any and all police presence. At the time of this reporting, the petition in question has received more than 31 full pages of signatures. A portion of the petition pledges: I pledge to absent myself from work, class, teaching, and more on Monday, May 3, 2021, as part of the national Day of Refusal to demand cops off campus. As a member of a campus community, I am horrified that — amidst a global pandemic, relentless state and vigilante violence against black, brown, and Indigenous people, and national calls for abolition — schools across North America have committed to increasing police budgets. College police forces are increasingly militarized, and I support the nationwide call to demand cops off our campus to make our university truly safe and free for all, and I will not cross the picket line. The petition demands: 1. We want ALL cops off of ALL campuses. 2. We demand the Land back 3. We demand investments in community safety and education The protest is just one aspect of the group's "Abolition May," which the group describes as a "month-long series of actions on campuses across Turtle Island to demand the removal of ALL campus police." The month, according to the organization, will kick off its month of activism with Monday's nationwide day of refusal. "The month's actions will culminate on May 25, in commemoration of the anniversary of George Floyd's murder by members of the Minneapolis police department," the group added on its website. The group also adds: Inspired by tens of thousands of workers who have walked off the job to protest anti-black police violence in recent years, we take up the call for police abolition on our campuses, joining more than forty campuses across Turtle Island in demanding an end to campus policing. Historically and in the present, campus police departments have brutalized students and surveilled and assaulted activists while enforcing racialized campus borders; colleges and universities, both public and private, have also played a violent and continuous role in global U.S. policing projects. The group also encouraged supporters to participate in other actions throughout the month, including, but not limited to: Banner painting culminating in banner drop from highly visible buildings Repurpose Your School's Cafeteria & Serve the Food to People in Need Squat Your School's Residences & House Folks in Need of Housing March to Your Chancellor's House & Let Them Know How You Feel Redecorate your campus police station Letter writing to send your demands to admin/alumni/donors Teach-in with abolitionist speaker Paint/print posters and wheat paste them across campus Publish op-ed in campus/local newspaper amplifying the national group → should pair with a more visible action that operates outside of the “university's language" Public “Town Hall" without admin Can even symbolically invite your target, and have an effigy of them “present" Bring in organizers & people from the community who have experiences with campus cops, etc. Can be theatrically held outside admin buildings Create memorial for victims of police violence, local and/or national Zine distribution → should pair with a more visible action for political education Mutual aid drive for people who need resources in the community surrounding your institution Street puppet theater performance (e.g. targeting trustees, police, key villains) Walking tour of past police/university violence in the community
Wow! These guys are complete morons. Just total shit for brains. https://thehill.com/homenews/campai...iral-for-vastly-underestimating-housing-costs New York mayoral candidates go viral for vastly underestimating housing costs In interviews with The New York Times’s editorial board for the paper's potential endorsement, Shaun Donovan, who served as Housing and Urban Development secretary and budget director under former President Obama and as housing commissioner under former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, guessed that the median sale price for a home or apartment in Brooklyn is “around $100,000.” Ray McGuire, an investment banker and former Citigroup executive, estimated that the median sales price is “somewhere in the $80,000 to $90,000 range, if not higher.” The median sales price in the borough is $900,000.
Thankfully the administration that is in charge (professors and students need a gentle reminder they are not in charge) will never give in because the college is responsible for the safety for those that live on campus and campus police is a way for them to ensure the safety and well being of those they are in charge of housing and employing. Can cmapus police be better trained? Of course, that is why we called them rent a cops back in the day...
Some more words to purge from your vocabulary if you don't want to be removed from campus. Remember "freshman", "upperclassman" and many other terms are now considered offensive and politically incorrect. You can thank progressive stupidity for this. Penn State will no longer use terms like ‘freshman,’ ‘junior,’ ‘senior,’ because terms aren’t ‘inclusive’ enough https://www.theblaze.com/news/penn-...r-senior-because-terms-arent-inclusive-enough Pennsylvania State University will no longer use labels like "freshman," "junior," or "senior," because such terms are not inclusive enough and perpetuate a Western male-dominated viewpoint. On April 27, Penn State's faculty senate announced the passage of an "inclusive language" resolution that has effectively banned the use of "paternalistic" terms such as "freshmen," "junior," "senior," "upperclassmen," "underclassmen," and more, according to Penn State News. The Senate Committee on Curricular Affairs passed the resolution — titled "Removal of Gendered & Binary Terms from Course and Program Descriptions" — with a majority vote. A portion of the resolution reads, "The University, as with most all academic institutions world-wide, has grown out of a typically male-centered world. As such, many terms in our lexicon carry a strong, male-centric, binary character to them. Terms such as 'freshmen' are decidedly male-specific, while terms such as 'upperclassmen' can be interpreted as both sexist and classist." Not even "junior" and "senior" are exempt from the senate's inclusive microscope, as such terms are "parallel to western male father-son naming conventions, and much of our written documentation uses he/she pronouns." Terms like freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior will now be replaced with labels "first-year," "second-year," "third-year," and "fourth-year," and upperclassmen and lowerclassmen will now be referred to as "upper division" students and "lower division" students. The resolution recommends that the university make "editorial updates to our course and program descriptions" to reflect the changes, in order to "remove gendered terms" and avoid any alienation of faculty, students, and staff. "We suggest that the University consider changes to all written materials, including recruiting materials, admissions materials, scholarship information, housing materials, other outward-facing documents, internal documents, and websites," the resolution adds. The resolution, however, admits that certain instances will exist in which gendered terms "may need to remain intact" — specifically gender studies courses and other courses that may pertain to feminism and the like. “The committee recognizes that there may be places where these terms, especially gender terms, may need to remain intact, for example in the case of courses or degrees that delve into gender studies," the resolution points out. “In such cases, efforts shall be made to clearly delineate between the 'academic' study of these gendered terms, and the newly established nomenclature as it would apply to faculty, staff, students, and guests." According to Campus Reform, more than 88 percent of university students approved the change.
Maryland’s Largest School District Spent $454K in Taxpayer Money on ‘Anti-Racist System Audit’ https://www.nationalreview.com/news...n-taxpayer-money-on-anti-racist-system-audit/ Maryland’s largest school district spent over $454,000 for an “anti-racist system audit,” according to documents obtained by Judicial Watch, while the district’s middle school students were taught that the phrase “Make America Great Again” was an example of “covert white supremacy” that ranks just below “lynching,” hate crimes,” “the N-word” and “racial slurs.” Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, says it obtained 685 pages of records on Montgomery County Public Schools’ (MCPS) “anti-racist system audit” and critical race theory classes. The district hired The Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium to conduct the audit, a company that claims its “expertise in using intersectionality as part of its theory of change makes us uniquely positioned to conduct the Anti-Racist Audit and mitigate the root causes of systemic barriers.” The documents include Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium’s “anti-racist system audit” proposal, which describes intersectional theory as “people are often disadvantaged by multiple sources of oppression: their race, class, gender identity, native language, sexual orientation, religion, and other identity markers. Intersectionality recognizes that identity markers (e.g. “female” and “Black”) do not exist independently of each other, and that each informs the others, often creating a complex merging of oppression.” Meanwhile, students in Thomas Pyle Middle School’s social justice class who were taught that MAGA is an example of white supremacy were also taught that “white privilege” means being favored by school authorities, having a positive relationship with police, “soaking in media blatantly biased toward my race” and “living ignorant of the dire state of racism today.” Other examples of covert “white supremacy,” according to the class, include the belief that “we’re just one human family,” “colorblindness,” “cultural appropriation,” “celebration of Columbus Day,” “police murdering POC [people of color],” and “bootstrap theory.” Another slide on “implicit bias” and “structural racism” claims that “race is created to justify enslaving people from Africa (economic engine of country).” “Dominant narratives about race (family, media, society) coupled with racialized structural arrangements and differential outcomes by race all prime us to believe that people of color are inferior to white people,” it adds. Students were asked to view a Ted Talk interview with Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, which the class materials define as “a political movement to address systemic and state violence against African Americans.” “Black Lives Matter is an ideological and political intervention in a world where Black lives are systematically and intentionally targeted for demise,” the materials say. Cullors has come under fire in recent months over reports that she’s purchased four homes totaling $3.2 million since 2016. Ethics watchdogs have also criticized Cullors for funneling business to her boyfriend’s company while acting as executive director of Black Lives Matter Global Network. In addition to exposing students to Cullors’ lectures, students were told explicitly that power is “wealth, whiteness, citizenship, patriarchy, heterosexism and education” and that “there is no such thing as a nonracist or race-neutral policy.” The class material encouraged students to fill out a form letter with contact information addressed to federal, state and county education officials requesting more critical race theory classes in schools. Judicial Watch also obtainedrecords related to a class presentation at Montgomery County Public School’s Greenwood Elementary School on the “dual pandemic” of COVID-19 and “systemic racism.” “The racist, revolutionary claptrap in these documents should be nowhere near a school classroom,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said in a statement. “These documents show that extremists have access to our schools and are willing to abuse this access to children in order to advance a dangerous, divisive, and likely illegal agenda.”
‘Woke madness’: California to consider mathematics as inherently racist https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6255604541001 The California state education panel is considering whether mathematics is inherently racist and rooted in white supremacy which is just another symptom of “woke madness,” according to Sky News host Rita Panahi. The education panel is set to review framework which argues current mathematic standards which focus on the existence of one correct answer perpetuates white supremacy and further disadvantages minorities. “This equity drive in mathematics is another symptom of woke madness,” Ms Panahi said.