re: Dalton new chancellor of LSU main campus. Rousse new President of LSU system

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I don’t give a damn about evil racist

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mediocre white men

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Serious question
Was Dalton defending her post about Charlie Kirk or did he fire her for it?

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How is firing a self proclaimed “agitator” DEI?

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Nearly one week later, on Sept. 17, Auburn University President Christopher Roberts announced in a post to X that the school was terminating some employees for making social media posts that were “hurtful, insensitive and completely at odds with Auburn’s values.”

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Candice Hale, who worked in the Department of Gender and Race Studies, sued Mohler, Barefield College of Arts and Sciences Dean Joseph Paul Messina, Executive Vice President and Provost James Dalton, and Department Chair of Gender and Race Studies, Utz McKnight.

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Roberts also did not say the specific subject matter of the social media posts that led to the terminations but said “actions that endorse, glorify or trivialize violence undermine” the responsibility of employees at the university to “foster a civil, respectful, and supportive campus environment.”

That same day, Chris Hardman, a behavioral threat assessment coordinator at the university, sent Hale an email to coordinate a Teams meeting with himself and Scott Forehand, the director of compliance, investigations, and security, according to Hale’s complaint.

During the meeting the two questioned Hale about the internet posting, asking her how students who were in the University’s Turning Point USA chapter would feel about her comments and how she would interact with white male students if they identified themselves with Kirk’s views, according to Hale.

She says they also asked her if she had access to firearms or had any intent to harm anyone in the Turning Point USA chapter at Auburn.

Hale told the pair she did not have any weapons and did not know there was a Turning Point USA chapter on the campus.

According to the complaint, Forehand and Hardman indicated to Hale that the meeting was not related to any Human Resources purpose and that their purpose was to determine if she was a threat to the safety of the school, or if she herself was in danger.

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Dalton leaves Alabama as a defendant in a First Amendment lawsuit from a former instructor who was fired over comments she made following far-right activist Charlie Kirk’s shooting death. Candice Hale, the instructor, earned her Ph.D. from LSU.

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