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Florida pro-Palestinian university groups say order to deactivate violates First Amendment

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 05:02:21 +0000

Groups claimed independence from National Students for Justice in Palestine Two Florida university chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine sued their schools and state officials, alleging a state order to deactivate the groups violated their First Amendment rights. The University of Florida and the University of South Florida SJP chapters both denied their groups had violated a Florida…

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NYU ‘indifference’ to antisemitism violated students’ civil rights: lawsuit

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 05:10:41 +0000

UPDATED ‘Each plaintiff has been the target of repeated verbal and physical threats [and] made to feel unsafe on campus,’ lawsuit claims Three Jewish New York University students sued the university over its alleged failure to combat campus antisemitism in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7 terrorist attacks. Plaintiffs Bella Inger, Sabrina Maslavi, and Saul Tawil allege NYU is “acutely aware of…

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Dozens of students, professors demand Duquesne U. denounce Israel ‘war crime’

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 05:02:21 +0000

‘Whoever wrote the student letter simply does not understand the rules of law,’ legal expert said Students and faculty at a Pennsylvania Catholic university called on their administration to condemn Israel’s war actions against Hamas as extremist and illegal. The petition, which includes dozens of signatures, asked Duquesne University President Ken Gormley to “denounce the violence being…

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Jewish student’s door set on fire in wake of Hamas attack

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 04:02:02 +0000

‘Decorations on a residence hall door had been intentionally set on fire,’ according to the campus police department A Jewish student at Drexel University was targeted in an apparently antisemitic incident just days after Hamas’s deadly terror attacks. An unknown assailant lit the student’s dorm room door on fire at the Philadelphia university. The College Fix obtained an email the Drexel…

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Universities denied grieving Jewish students accommodations: civil rights organization

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 04:02:21 +0000

‘The world is watching,’ human rights group told universities. ‘Will you rise to the occasion?’ Amid rising campus antisemitism, civil rights groups wrote to more than 500 university presidents reminding them of their obligations to Jewish students and demanding protections that reportedly had been denied. Alyza Lewin, president of The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law…

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At Harvard, there are 2,600 more administrators than undergrads

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 04:32:13 +0000

Harvard University employs about 1,352 full-time administrators for every 1,000 undergraduate students enrolled at the university, an analysis conducted by The College Fix found. This is more than a nine percent increase from the 2013-14 school year, when there were 1,240 administrators per 1,000 students, according to the analysis, which used data provided by Harvard to the federal Integrated…

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Professors champion Palestinian ‘decolonization’ after Hamas terror

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 05:38:47 +0000

Decolonization is ‘ethnic cleansing, but woke,’ conservative professor wrote Academics took to social media in support of Palestine’s “decolonization” in the wake of Hamas’ terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians, including babies. Texas Tech University education Professor Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores wrote on X hours after Oct. 7 attacks that “decolonization is not a metaphor. It’s about a free…

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Group that killed affirmative action sues West Point for ‘racial balancing’

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:02:46 +0000

‘The Academy sets specific racial goals for each incoming class,’ according to the complaint Students for Fair Admissions has sued to block a U.S. military academy’s race-influenced admissions policies following the Supreme Court case banning affirmative action in universities. SFFA “filed a lawsuit challenging the use of race and ethnicity as admissions factors” at the United States Military…

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Liberals have harsher judgements, less empathy for conservatives: study

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 04:02:09 +0000

Civility toward political opponents is like civility toward ‘someone who just stabbed you,’ according to a participating liberal Politically liberal people’s lesser empathy toward conservatives stems from their tendency to engage in harsh moral judgment of political opponents. “In four studies, U.S. and U.K. participants . . . read hypothetical scenarios and extended less empathy to suffering…

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English prof’s book ‘Marx for Cats’ offers leftist history ‘through a feline lens’

Terrance Kible - Duquesne University School of Law — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 04:02:54 +0000

‘For too long, cats…have been excluded from the reach of that loving revolutionary embrace,’ professor wrote A City University of New York English professor’s new book presents a history of cats and capitalism, arguing for Marxism as an “interspecies project.” “The history of Western capitalism can be told through the cat,” CUNY English Professor Leigh La Berge argued in “Marx for Cats: A…

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