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WSJ: Alumni Withhold Donations, Demand Colleges Enforce Free Speech
Posted on 11/30/21 at 8:17 pm
Posted on 11/30/21 at 8:17 pm
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Alumni Withhold Donations, Demand Colleges Enforce Free Speech
Wall Street Journal
Two years ago Cornell University asked a California real-estate developer and longtime donor for a seven-figure contribution.
Carl Neuss didn’t write the check immediately, saying he was worried about what he saw as liberal indoctrination on campus and declining tolerance toward competing viewpoints.
To allay Mr. Neuss’s concerns, the development office introduced him to some politically moderate professors, he said. The attempt backfired. The professors, he said, told him they felt humiliated by the diversity training they were required to attend and perpetually afraid they would say something factual—but impolitic.
“If you say the wrong words, you could lose your position or be shunned,” said Mr. Neuss.
Joel Malina, Cornell’s vice president for university relations, said “robust debate and a discussion of all views remain hallmarks of the Cornell experience both in and out of the classroom.”
Mr. Neuss, who graduated from Cornell in 1976, withheld his donation and then helped start the Cornell Free Speech Alliance. It is one of about 20 such dissident alumni organizations that have taken root on college campuses over the last couple of years—including several this fall.
Many of the groups are driven by politically moderate or conservative men who graduated from college in the late 1960s and 1970s, according to interviews with several of the group leaders. They believe progressive groupthink has taken over college campuses, and are urging schools to protect free speech and encourage a diverse set of views. In some cases, alumni are withholding donations to pressure schools to take them seriously.
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Claudia Leon, a junior at Cornell University from San Juan, Puerto Rico, said there are lots of voices on campus but it is good if the most extreme and bigoted think twice before speaking.
“Just because you can’t go around calling someone an [ethnic slur] anymore, doesn’t mean your free-speech rights are being stifled,” she said.
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Some students are caught in the middle. More than 80% said they self-censor at least some of the time on campus, according to a survey this year by RealClearEducation, College Pulse and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, which covered more than 37,000 students enrolled at 159 colleges
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The poll found that 66% of students said it is acceptable to shout down a speaker to prevent him or her from speaking on campus and 23% say it is acceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech. More than 50% of students identify racial inequality as a difficult topic to discuss on their campus.
Matthew Samilow, a Cornell senior who leads the school’s student Republican organization, said there is tremendous pressure on conservatives to keep their views to themselves and many do because it isn’t worth risking being ostracized.
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This fall, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology disinvited University of Chicago geophysicist Dorian Abbot from delivering a scientific lecture at the school because he alleged that a new cadre of diversity, equity and inclusion officers was creating a climate in which faculty were self-censoring.
The disinvitation prompted Tom Hafer, a 1970 MIT graduate, to withhold donations and then to help launch the MIT Free Speech Alliance to support free speech, open inquiry and viewpoint diversity. It currently has about 250 members. He is calling for the school to host a debate between Dr. Abbot and one of the six new associate deans for diversity, equity and inclusion.
It’s a long article, but you can read it all at the link provided.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 8:24 pm to goofball
This needs to happen at all levels of education.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 8:26 pm to goofball
Universities should be the entity financially backing student loans and not taxpayers
Posted on 11/30/21 at 8:28 pm to goofball
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More than 50% of students identify racial inequality as a difficult topic to discuss on their campus.
Because a civil and intelligent discussion on this cannot be had...anywhere.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 8:34 pm to Bourre
Defund the colleges, burn the system down. Makes it hard for me to even watch college sports at all.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 8:37 pm to goofball
I went to college 33-37 years ago: no one was calling anyone racial slurs. They would have been ostracized and prob. suspended from school. This is a farce.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:07 pm to goofball
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Claudia Leon, a junior at Cornell University from San Juan, Puerto Rico, said there are lots of voices on campus but it is good if the most extreme and bigoted think twice before speaking.
“Just because you can’t go around calling someone an [ethnic slur] anymore, doesn’t mean your free-speech rights are being stifled,” she said.
I would like to know how much tuition Claudia Leon is paying. Because Cornell has a policy that students from families making less than $60k/year get a full ride. IF that is the case for Ms. Leon, and I don’t know if it is, I wonder if she realizes that full ride is funded by the person who was asked to make a seven figure donation? And if she did receive a full ride to an Ivy League university, did she “think twice” before accepting that money, considering it came from “the most extreme and bigoted”?
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:10 pm to goofball
A&M has had a “not another dime” movement for a long time.
Still going fairly strong.
Still going fairly strong.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:27 pm to 3nOut
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A&M has had a “not another dime” movement for a long time.
Yep!! My wife and I, both Aggies stoped completely any financial donations or participation’s with the academic side and the sport side of our university!
We no longer donate nor do we have ANY season tickets for ANY sport! Mind you we had season tickets for over 15 years for ALL sports (men’s and woman’s sports, 3 tickets for each sport)
After what transpired over the summer a year ago, we put a stop on everything and did not renew any season ticket!! Trust me it was a hard thing to do since we had finally achieved good seats for the 3 main sports……but that’s a small price to pay!
When they came calling, we told them exactly why we were no longer supporting ANY part of the university…..and we were not polite about it, frick them!!
No another dime from us to A&M!!
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:31 pm to goofball
Wow, a real life American hero!
Nice to see
Nice to see
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:32 pm to goofball
Soros, China, Hollywood will make up the difference.
Just watch.
Just watch.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:32 pm to goofball
quote:Is that what they are banning? People who spew ethnic slurs? Who does that?
Claudia Leon, a junior at Cornell University from San Juan, Puerto Rico, said there are lots of voices on campus but it is good if the most extreme and bigoted think twice before speaking.
“Just because you can’t go around calling someone an [ethnic slur] anymore, doesn’t mean your free-speech rights are being stifled,” she said
This is a functionally low IQ individual who attends an Ivy League school. No thought, just strawmen to bludgeon.
This post was edited on 11/30/21 at 10:44 pm
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:37 pm to goofball
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The poll found that 66% of students said it is acceptable to shout down a speaker to prevent him or her from speaking on campus and 23% say it is acceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech
This is absolutely terrifying.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:38 pm to Lightning
There are many extremely wealthy Latin students from the Caribbean Islands who attend schools in the US. Daddy owns half an island.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:39 pm to Big Jim Slade
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This is absolutely terrifying.
Never mind
This post was edited on 11/30/21 at 10:41 pm
Posted on 11/30/21 at 10:41 pm to andyv95
quote:A lower percentage, thankfully.
Yep, and this is at a nerdy school, imagine at your regular college what that % is
Posted on 11/30/21 at 11:14 pm to Jake88
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There are many extremely wealthy Latin students from the Caribbean Islands who attend schools in the US. Daddy owns half an island.
Yes, there absolutely are so my question may not be relevant at all and she may be paying the full tuition. I’d just be interested to know.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 11:52 pm to andyv95
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After what transpired over the summer a year ago
What happened, and what did they say when you told them why in such a way?
Posted on 12/1/21 at 12:02 am to goofball
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Claudia Leon, a junior at Cornell University from San Juan, Puerto Rico, said there are lots of voices on campus but it is good if the most extreme and bigoted think twice before speaking.
“Just because you can’t go around calling someone an [ethnic slur] anymore, doesn’t mean your free-speech rights are being stifled,” she said.
Story leaves out she's a mega DEI advocate. I wonder what her opinion is of Latinos who hate the use of "latinx" and how insulting that is as a slur to the majority of Latinos.
She is the 4th profile if you scroll down.
Cornell Assembly Profiles page
Posted on 12/1/21 at 12:26 am to TOSOV
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23% say it is acceptable to use violence to stop a campus speech.
Only 23% at a liberal progressive school. How many of them are female and LBQTXXXXX? The radical left is still a small minority of even the young. Just because the cultural elite are doing their best to portray this movement is overwhelming, it is a small movement. Never forget they are a small minority and can and will be defeated.
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