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MIZZOU DEATH SPIRAL CONTINUES: Mizzou fires white police officer for once dressing up like Flavor Flav. I think he’s got a race-discrimination claim, if they wouldn’t fire a black officer for doing that.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, MIZZOU JUST GETS STUPIDER EDITION: Mizzou official: Asking a smaller woman on a date violates Title IX.
The University of Missouri believes that asking someone on a date can violate Title IX in certain situations. Its officials can’t agree on which situations, however.
In a motion for summary judgment filed on Christmas Eve, Jeremy Rowles shared excerpts of depositions with Mizzou officials from his federal lawsuit against the public university.
They suggest that male students should avoid asking out female students at all, particularly when the male is physically larger than the female.
This is clearly a hostile educational environment on account of sex, based on the presumption that all men are rapists, made more problematic since the accused is a black male and the offended party is a white female. Shades of Emmet Till! The Department of Education should investigate.
ASHE SCHOW: Mizzou Official Claims Tall Men Asking Out Short Women Could Constitute Sexual Misconduct.
When a Mizzou official was questioned regarding a case where a black male Ph.D. candidate at the school asked out a white female fitness trainer, she bizarrely suggested that the fact that the male student was larger than the female student gave him “power over her” and violated school policy.
The Daily Wire previously reported on the case in July. The male student, who the Daily Wire will refer to as John Doe, asked out the female fitness instructor, who will be identified as Jane Roe. She said she was busy but discussed with him possibly going out later that month. Two days later, she told him to “stop making romantic advances toward her,” according to John’s lawsuit against Mizzou. Despite not wanting to date him, Jane asked John to keep taking her dance classes.
John did this, and later asked Jane to recommend some YouTube videos to help him improve his dancing. She suggested private lessons but told him she didn’t teach privately. She then, according to John’s lawsuit, avoided him for the next week.
On Oct. 14, 2016, John wrote Jane a three-page letter “apologizing for being awkward around her, expressing sincere feelings for her, and asking [her] what if anything she wanted from Plaintiff,” his lawsuit said.
More groveling, apparently.
THIS IS NO SURPRISE IF YOU’VE BEEN FOLLOWING EVENTS AT MIZZOU: Diversity Problem: 98.4 percent of Mizzou admin, 97.6 percent of faculty donate to Dems.
ANOTHER “FREE SPEECH: WHO NEEDS IT?” HOT TAKE: A professor at Mizzou argues in the Washington Post that there is no good reason private colleges should have to let the KKK or [insert your preferred cultural bogey] come to their campuses. How about “because they said they would?” He also admits that “some cases will be more difficult to resolve than the not-so-hypothetical Nazi marches, Klan rallies, and cross burnings that many readers will find impossible to defend.” Given the actual number of such events on campuses (Have I missed a recent spate of campus cross burnings?) his “some cases” would more usefully be phrased as “practically every case.”
MIZZOU AND THE MASTER OF OUR UNIVERSE: Why Tom Wolfe is the most important writer of the twenty-first century.
MIZZOU REMAINS A DUMPSTER FIRE: Former dean says Mizzou fired her for questioning racial quotas. Plus: “The lawsuit goes on to allege that Lockette derisively referred to students who reside in Missouri as ‘bumpkins, hicks, and illiterates who lived in Hootersville,’ adding that he had made similar comments about medical school students in the past.”
MIZZOU JUST NEVER LEARNS: No matter how low their enrollment dips, Mizzou keeps doubling down on the social justice nonsense.
My old school doesn’t seem to be teaching much anymore, either.
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Mizzou professor sues university over ‘gun ban’ on campus: Instructor claims university’s gun policy is unconstitutional after state passed ‘strict scrutiny’ on gun restrictions. “Royce de R. Barondes, an associate professor of law at the university, is questioning the campus’s gun policy, which states that ‘the possession of firearms on university property is prohibited except in regularly approved programs or by university agents or employees in the line of duty.’ Barondes is a concealed carry permit holder in the state of Missouri and also teaches a course on firearms law, according to The Washington Times.”
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: How Not To Recover From A Crisis, Mizzou Edition.
The University of Missouri, where I teach and which I dearly love, is in crisis. Freshman enrollment at the university’s Columbia campus (Mizzou) is down by a whopping 35% from two years ago. Missouri’s governor and legislature slashed Mizzou’s state appropriation by $22 million this year.
Administrators have responded by cutting Mizzou’s operating budget by 12% and laying off 307 employees (474 across the entire University of Missouri system). They’ve also closed seven dormitories to students, instead renting out the rooms for football games and special events like the recent solar eclipse.
Suffice it to say, morale on campus is low.
The primary culprit, of course, is Mizzou’s reaction to the student protests of 2015. In November of that year, a group of students, justifiably angered by three racist incidents on the 35,000-student Columbia campus, presented administrators with a number of unreasonable demands. Among other things, they insisted that the president of the 77,000-student University of Missouri system publicly acknowledge his “white male privilege” and resign his post and that the university adopt patently unconstitutional racial quotas for faculty and staff.
Instead of leading like compassionate, wise adults—joining the protestors’ rightful condemnation of racist conduct but working to convince them that their demands were unreasonable—many Mizzou officials either succumbed to or actively perpetuated the frenzy.
Mizzou’s football coach publicly supported a player boycott by the members of his team. The chancellor encouraged the protestors by allowing them to erect a tent city on a university quad and providing them with electricity generators. One administrator bullied a student reporter and attempted to prevent him from documenting the protests. A professor actually battered a reporter and famously called for “some muscle” to remove him from the protestors’ camp.
Watching Mizzou’s leadership abdicate to the loudest voices from the radical left, most Missourians were aghast. Many decided that their children, donations, and tax dollars should go elsewhere. Hence, Mizzou’s current situation.
One might think, then, that the university’s administration would be doing all it can to get back in the good graces of the people of Missouri.
Not so much. As I keep saying, if some evil genius of the right wanted to destroy the reputation of the academy, xe couldn’t do better than the academy is doing to itself.
MIZZOU, EVERGREEN STATE, OBERLIN, AND NOW PENN LAW SCHOOL: Penn Law Students Try To Ban Amy Wax From Teaching Civil Procedure Due To Her Breakdown Of The Bourgeois Culture Op-Ed. Administrators, you listen to these junior Robespierres at your peril. Far better to give them a stern lecture on the value of free speech, and the importance of lawyers — of all people — being able to deal with ideas they disagree with.
Or, you know, flush your reputation and enrollment in exchange for trying to make people happy who, by their nature, don’t want to be made happy for long.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Mizzou suffering brutal long-term impacts of 2015 protests. “As classes begin this week, freshmen enrollment is down 35% since the protests, according to the latest numbers the university has publicly released. Mizzou is beginning the year with the smallest incoming class since 1999. Overall enrollment is down by more than 2,000 students, to 33,200. The campus has taken seven dormitories out of service.”
17 MONTHS TOO LATE: Mizzou cuts ties with admin who accosted student journalists.
Basler, notably, was filmed screaming at student photographer Tim Tai during the protests, even blocking him from photographing the uprising.
Although the reason for Basler’s departure is not certain, some have speculated that she was fired due to her involvement in the protests, while others have suggested that it was a result of several recent budget cuts that appear to be related to fallout from the protests.
The Daily Caller, for instance, reported that school officials had “finally rid themselves” of Basler, pointing out that her “firing” came roughly 17 months after the school dismissed Melissa Click for physically accosting a different student journalist while calling for “muscle” to evict them from the premises.
ABC 17, meanwhile, implied that her departure was a result of massive budget cuts imposed by Mizzou in an effort to make up for a significant drop in enrollment, noting that it had previously reported on plans to shave more than $1 million from the Division of Student Affairs’ budget.
Mizzou isn’t even close to turning around its self-imposed downward spiral.
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, IT’S ALL DOUBLE STANDARDS ALL THE TIME, APPARENTLY: Mizzou will ban students from using ID credit cards to buy nonacademic items from campus store, saying it will promote better spending habits. But students can still buy campus massages with their IDs and use their credit cards for other things.
MORE MIZZOU FALLOUT: Low Enrollment Hits Apartment Market.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE, SELF-DESTRUCTION EDITION: Mizzou Enrollment Plunge Continues: Three More Dorms Shutting Down Next Year. Wreck your university to please a few dozen angry students and faculty who will never actually be happy? Smart move.
TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE? Mizzou holds free speech forum.
The University of Missouri — now famous for petulant protests over “microaggressions” and an assistant professor who threatened a student journalist — appears to be changing its ways.
At least that’s the impression from a mandatory forum for incoming freshmen, where free speech was actually allowed.
“I think it’s really important to keep in mind that a respectful campus climate is not achieved by policing what people think or say,” Elisa Glick, an associate professor of women’s studies and English, said at the event, a recording of which was provided to the College Fix.
Good point, and I’m glad the greatly-diminished number of incoming freshmen at Mizzou are hearing this.
UNEXPECTEDLY! Enrollment drop from Mizzou protests worse than feared.
Inconceivable, as legendary SJW Mr. Vizzini would say.
THE FOLKS AT MIZZOU ARE LEARNING THIS THE HARD WAY, EXCEPT THAT THEY DON’T SEEM TO BE LEARNING YET: Harvard study: campus scandals devastate enrollment.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Interim Mizzou President: Those Who Didn’t Support Race Protests Were ‘Just Bitter, Angry People.’
Alumni and parents of college-aged kids should plan their spending accordingly.
ESPN CONVERGED WITH MSNBC SO SLOWLY, I HARDLY EVEN NOTICED: ESPN To Give Mizzou Football Team Humanitarian Award For Black Lives Matter Strike.
(Classical allusion in headline.)
