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Quote from: downer on Today at 01:54:32 PMWhy do so many undergraduates write the word "utilitarianist" when they have never heard anyone say it?

Quote from: apl68 on Today at 02:35:32 PMDon't know much about the Columbia situation, but evidently things have gotten pretty hot on campus there over the issue.  One has to feel sorry for their leadership caught up in this.  At least their head has so far learned lessons from the spectacular career suicide that occurred over at Harvard.

Quote from: Langue_doc on Today at 11:06:56 AM

Quote2) hs teachers are very eager to be shown deference and respect from their students

Hah! Not here in the city. My neighbor, a high school teacher reports that she's been called every name under the sun except hers, especially the b-word. I've also been called the b-word by at least a couple of male students.

QuoteWhat to Know About the Turmoil at Colleges Over the Israel-Hamas War
On campus, the debate over free speech and antisemitism has only become more charged.

QuoteColumbia Leaders Grilled at Antisemitism Hearing Over Faculty Comments
The university's president, Nemat Shafik, agreed that some professors had crossed the line as she testified before House lawmakers on questions of student safety and free speech. 

QuoteA York University faculty committee has recommended that the school henceforth define any acknowledgement of Israel's existence as evidence of "anti-Palestinian racism."

According to an April 5 "recommendations report" leaked to National Post, an official committee within York's Department of Politics has proposed that any defence of Israel be viewed as "anti-Palestinian, Islamophobic, and anti-Arab."

Quote"The struggle for Palestinian self-determination will support the liberation of all humans and non-humans from colonial oppression," it reads.

Quote from: secundem_artem on Today at 08:50:06 AMFinal decisions are soon to be made for who and what lives and dies here at Artem U.  The atmosphere is a toxic soup of pain, anger, resignation, and finger pointing. Factions are being formed.  Rumblings about the nuclear option - votes of non-confidence - are heard in quiet corners.  Magical thinking abounds for possible solutions to what some refuse to believe is a crisis.

Twelve months ago, I would have said it was inconceivable that we would find ourselves in this situation.  But here we are. 

As the saying goes, at first you go broke slowly, and then all at once.

Right now, we are in a fight to avoid the "all at once" stage of the process.  I think the president and provost have a reasonable approach to do that.  Unfortunately, with remarkably little support from the faculty.

Quote2) hs teachers are very eager to be shown deference and respect from their students