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University of Oregon ditches ‘due process’ and ‘openness’ in revamped ethics code

Christian Britschgi - Portland State University — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 05:13:55 +0000

UPDATED New section on ‘social responsibility’ “Due process” and “openness” are out – “social responsibility” and intolerance of “degrading” behaviors are in. In the first revision of the code of ethics since the University of Oregon gained its own board of trustees in 2013, the University Senate voted unanimously to scrap the code entirely and replace it with a new, more progressive code.

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Millennial member of Congress says outdated regulations are crushing her generation

Christian Britschgi - Portland State University — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 06:08:04 +0000

Bureaucrats won’t let them do ‘equity crowdfunding’ yet The dire economic situation of millennials was front and center on Capitol Hill Wednesday, and a committee chairman said the executive and legislative branches were worsening it. The political failure to tackle the national debt and unfunded liabilities of entitlement programs are going to set back the generation born between 1980 and…

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Oregon college gives guns to campus police to keep minorities down, anti-gun activists claim

Christian Britschgi - Portland State University — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 05:42:05 +0000

‘Disarm PSU’ angry about being compared to Republicans The shooting deaths of nine people at a gun-free Oregon college last week have done nothing to slow the march of an anti-gun movement a few hours up the I-5 corridor. Progressive student activists who crashed the freshmen convocation at Portland State University last month, before the Umpqua Community College shooting, have doubled down in…

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Massive diversity requirement planned for University of Missouri, taught by ‘army’ of TAs

Christian Britschgi - Portland State University — Fri, 25 Sep 2015 06:29:05 +0000

Guaranteed jobs program for women and gender studies, black studies and others The University of Missouri is working on a “diversity requirement” that could be imposed on all 6,000 freshmen and require “an army” of teaching assistants (TAs) to implement, by the reckoning of the committee developing it. Its aim? To socially engineer students to think and behave in certain ways related to race…

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U. of Oregon paid rape accuser $800,000 and full tuition so it could move on, president says

Christian Britschgi - Portland State University — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 18:27:04 +0000

Time to stop debating this incident and hire loads of bureaucrats The University of Oregon is paying an alleged victim of sexual assault $800,000 and four years of paid tuition and housing in a settlement to resolve a lawsuit against the school. It’s the first major test of how new President Michael Schill will handle such allegations, particularly when they involve student athletes.

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Campus bureaucrats panic when gun-rights group tries to host ‘murder-free zone’ joke protest

Christian Britschgi - Portland State University — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 04:15:42 +0000

OPINION Second Amendment activism can be a difficult undertaking on college campuses, particularly when that activism requires working under the supervision of a university’s student activities bureaucracy. Not only are administrators generally hostile to the idea of expanded gun rights on campus, but they often have few qualms about using their position to inhibit those that would argue for…

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