Note demand #12: Issue a public apology to Khadijah Lynch from Senior Vice President Andrew Flagel.
For those of you who are unaware, Khadiah Lynch is the Brandeis student who last year, while serving as an Undergraduate Department Representative (UDR) for the African and Afro-American Studies (AAAS) Department, tweeted that she has “no sympathy” for the two New York police officers slain in an ambush. I’m unaware why VP Flagel owes her a public apology. At least they’re not demanding that he genuflect while doing so.
It will be very interesting to see how the current interim president and the Board of Trustees deals with all this.
Check out the answer to question #5. Simply asking for examples of the the violent acts that are being protested is in and of itself a violent act. Again, you couldn’t make this stuff up.
Funny, why aren’t they apologizing to David Mael? Students were calling for his expulsion for reporting about her tweets in the media. Mael had faced an earlier threat to his free speech by the school:
If you’re interested in this stuff, make sure to click on the link to Appendix A, which includes the following piece regarding the plan to hire more POC faculty:
“This program will target the hiring of candidates outside the regular search process based upon their ability to meet our need to diversify the faculty or the curriculum in significant ways.”
I’m just a dumb alumnus (now ex-donor), but my reading of this is that even if you don’t qualify to be on the faculty based on scholarship and merit, if you are of the right race or ethnicity we’ll hire you just so we can meet our diversity quota.
Brandeis goes further down the drain of political correctness. My son was admitted last year with a significant merit scholarship, but his and our preference was that he go to a quality school where he could learn instead of being indoctrinated.
Another Brandeis grad here who attended in the years just after the 1969 Ford Hall occupation and for whom this is all very tiresome deja vu. I had to laugh at the President’s statement that the administration had “deep, productive, and thoughtful discussions” with the occupying students, when all of the students’ written materials are rife with meaningless jargon and psychobabble. I suspect I could have deeper, more meaningful discussions with my cat. I can guarantee from my own experiences at Brandeis that this whole kerfluffle is being directed by a handful of students with gigantic egos (but not with academic records of equivalent magnitude) and that most of the student body is completely indifferent to all of it But the administration is affording this bunch ridiculous concessions notwithstanding the fact that it refuses to offer explanation/examples of its grievances, because you know, it’s violence against people of color to ask questions–or something–who can possibly make sense of this stuff?