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Language Police: USC Removes ‘Field’ from ‘Field Work’ Because It May Be ‘Anti-Black or Anti-Immigrant’

USC’s School of Social Work is removing the word “field” from its curriculum and practice, arguing that it “could be considered anti-black or anti-immigrant” to say someone is “going into the field” or conducting “field work.” The university explains, “our goal is not just to change language but to honor and acknowledge inclusion and reject white supremacy, anti-immigrant and anti-blackness ideologies.”

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‘Recapturing Higher Education:’ DeSantis Appoints Christopher Rufo to Board for New College of Florida

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) appointed senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and prominent anti-Critical Race Theory activist Christopher Rufo to the Board of Trustees of the New College of Florida. Rufo announced that his goal is to abolish “diversity, equity, and inclusion” and replace it with “equity, merit, and colorblindness,” and hire new faculty with expertise in “constitutionalism, free enterprise, civic virtue, family life, religious freedom, and American principles,” among other goals.

TAMPA, FL - NOVEMBER 08: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives a victory speech after defeating

Free Speech Org FIRE: Hamline U. Must Reinstate Instructor Dismissed for Showing Image of Muhammad in Class

The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) is calling on Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to immediately reinstate an art history instructor who was reportedly dismissed for showing a medieval depiction of Islam’s prophet Muhammad in class. The university reacted to complaints from Muslim students by saying in a statement: “respect for the observant Muslim students in that classroom should have superseded academic freedom.”

Afghan Muslims offer prayers on the first night of Islam's holy month of Ramadan at the Wa

‘We Clearly Missed the Mark:’ Stanford U-Turns on ‘Harmful Language’ Guide Asking Students Not to Say ‘American’

Stanford University appears to be distancing itself from its own IT Department after the school was mocked on the internet over the department’s recently published “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative,” which deems certain words and phrases “violent,” “ableist,” and “culturally appropriative,” among other pejoratives. The university also announced that the IT Department’s guide “does not represent university policy” and is currently under review. “We clearly missed the mark,” the school added.

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Project Veritas: Video Shows CT Middle School Teacher Lusting After ‘Naughty’ Students’ Panties

An English teacher at Greens Farms Academy (GFA) in Westport, Connecticut, is the subject of a new video by investigative journalism team Project Veritas, which claims they captured the teacher saying that his underage students tempt him sexually “every day,” because “they spread their legs wide open” during class. “They’re naughty,” the teacher says of his middle school students, adding that he believes they give him attention because kids these days “get it now,” and “they lost their head with the TikToks.”

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Despicable: ‘Anti-Racist’ U of Illinois Prof Labels Herschel Walker ‘Subliterate,’ ‘Coonish’

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign professor and “anti-racist” consultant Sundiata Cha-Jua called Georgia Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Herschel Walker “subliterate,” and used the racial slur “coonish” to describe him in an op-ed complaining about black republicans, who he smears as “MAGA Black White supremacists,” arguing that black conservatives are only capable of repeating “‘massa’ Trump’s talking points.”

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Trinity College Removes Gadsden, Thin Blue Line Flag from Students’ Dorm Window

An employee of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, can be seen tearing down a Gadsden flag and a “thin blue, red, green line” flag from a student’s dormitory window in a recent video posted to social media. While the school claims it is against the rules to hang flags outside of dorm windows, the students involved contend that the university had no problem with pride flags hanging outside — until conservative students followed suit.

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NYU Prof: I Was Fired After Students Complained My Class Was Too Hard

Former New York University (NYU) professor Maitland Jones Jr. says he was fired after students complained that his organic chemistry class was too difficult. An op-ed written by the professor warns of the negative impact his firing has on less-experienced professors, writing, “Their entire careers are at the peril of complaining students and deans who seem willing to turn students into nothing more than tuition-paying clients.”

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Woke Utah Elementary School Teacher Keeps Job After Bragging She Built Classroom for ‘Non-White Students’

A woke fourth-grade teacher at William Penn Elementary in Utah, placed on paid leave after bragging that she built her classroom for “non-white students,” will get to keep her job. The teacher issued an apology for her video, in which she proudly stated, “If you look around and interact with some of the materials I have, you’ll notice that there’s, like, no white kids represented.”

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U. of Iowa Police Arrest Man for Disrupting Turning Point USA Presentation, Destroying a Projector

The University of Iowa police department arrested a man for disorderly conduct and disturbing a lawful assembly after he allegedly disrupted a Turning Point USA presentation featuring Newsmax’s The Benny Report host Benny Johnson, destroying a projector in the process. Johnson described the attack on social media as “a low-T leftist strung-out on pure soy snapped into a violent rage.”

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Professors Come Out in Support of Carnegie Mellon Prof Who Wished Queen Elizabeth II an ‘Excruciating’ Death

Thousands of university professors have signed an open letter in support of Carnegie Mellon University professor Uju Anya, who called Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II a “wretched woman” and a “genocidal colonizer,” adding, “may her pain be excruciating” in reaction to the news of the Queen’s poor health shortly before her death last week.

Carnegie Mellon prof Uju Anya