Gone is the America that does not negotiate with terrorists. Its universities are capitulating to pro-Hamas demonstrators’ antisemitic demands. And, make no mistake, their target today is Jews, but their terrorist tactics won’t stop there. Higher education’s craven concessions have only emboldened these groups.
In exchange for taking down tent encampments and standing down on terrorizing students, campus administrators have agreed to meet with student protest organizers — often from activist groups such as Students for Justice in Palestine — to discuss divesting from Israel and other steps to validate the October 7th massacre of Israelis.
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/northwestern-surrenders-university-pay-off-protesters-disband-encampment/25363" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Northwestern University</a> and <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/rutgers-university-minnesota-cave-anti-israel-campus-occupiers/25397" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rutgers University’s</a> concessions advance the anti-Israel agenda: new scholarships, teaching and staff positions, and programming for Palestinians regardless of the individual’s merit. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/harvard-negotiates-hamas-endorsed-students-end-occupation-rescinds-suspensions/25459" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Harvard University</a> revoked suspensions and promised listening sessions on a potential Palestine studies center. <a href="https://twitter.com/sfmcguire79/status/1790208486225182918?s=12&amp;t=NHlCvfS_fDgT-w-ynK6xxA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Princeton University</a> has reportedly promised to consider divestment and to waive disciplinary measures for student protesters. <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/brown-university-caves-pro-hamas-mob-promises-consider-cutting-ties-jewish-state-/25370" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brown University</a>, <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1yHKq0mkRIhP6ER3f7I8_wlbDdpOk4_hwcShISNZdJtM/edit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Occidental College</a>, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/evergreen-state-college-caves-anti-israel-activists-agrees-divestment-task-force/25432" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Evergreen State College,</a> and the University of Minnesota have agreed to consider divestment from Israel.
Appeasement assaults the dignity and hard work of most students who tried to study for finals or attend graduation as pro-Hamas militants used physical force and intimidation to shut down campuses. It’s the coward’s choice. But it is also a direct insult to Jewish students who now see those who tormented them for months be rewarded.
Terrorism is “(threats of) violent action for political purposes,” the <a href="https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/terrorism" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cambridge Dictionary</a> defines. That is exactly what has been going on on our nation’s campuses over the past few months and why I have filed 33 Title VI complaints with the Department of Education. Earlier this month, protesters at the <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/on-air/jewish-student-recounts-injury-during-ucla-protest/3402539/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of California, Los Angeles</a> knocked a Jewish female student unconscious. Students at <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/pro-hamas-humboldt-students-take-campus-building-barricades-violently-shove-police-watch/25288" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Cal Poly Humboldt</a> shoved police as they illegally occupied a building. The janitor who was held hostage in <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/columbia-janitor-reveals-secret-plans-left-behind-by-anti-israel-protesters-who-took-over-hamilton-hall-armed-with-zip-ties-chains/ar-BB1mbr7d?ocid=BingNewsSerp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University’s Hamilton Hall </a>told the press that protesters stormed the building with zip ties and rope to use against anyone who opposed them.
These protesters know what they’re doing. They embrace terrorist tactics. A <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/students-express-support-terror-group-hamas-favor-violence-accomplish-goals-poll/25449" target="_blank" rel="noopener">new poll</a> shows 36% of college students “support protestors engaging in violent acts” and 40% “sympathize” with the terrorist organization. Protesters across the country embody the <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/glamping-gaza-terrorist-loving-gwu-students-honor-hamas-martyrs-call-globalize-intifada-watch/25328" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revolutionary zeal</a> for a globalized “Intifada Revolution”. They are terrorists.
These useful idiots get resources and funding from National Students for Justice in Palestine, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and other outside organizations, many of which benefit from <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/soros-funded-hamas-approved-billionaire-paying-students-organize-anti-israel-campus-protests-nationwide/25324" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Soros’</a> Open Society Foundations. Student protesters know what they’re doing but they don’t see that they&#8217;re stooges for the adults who want a global revolution.
Their terror tactics directly push an anti-Jewish and anti-Israel agenda, but that’s only step one in a larger anti-America vendetta. Schools that negotiate with students will no doubt pay the price of additional demands, protests, riots, and violence in the years to come. That’s how it goes with terrorists. They don’t honor civility, fairness, or “agreements.”
The good news is that some schools have modeled an appropriate and effective way to maintain a proper learning – and living – environment on campus. The University of Florida’s President Ben Sasse <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2024/05/university-of-florida-president-ben-sasse-campus-protests-antisemitism/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">refused</a> to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/pro-palestinian-protests-university-florida-response-not-daycare-1895434" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tolerate</a> protesters when they not only broke school policy but also the law by <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2024/04/29/uf-police-arrest-9-pro-palestinian-protesters-after-days-demonstrations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assaulting and spitting</a> on police officers. He had them arrested and their encampments removed, restoring the collegial learning environment that the vast majority of students want and deserve.
The University of North Carolina (UNC) has also been <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article/unc-chapel-hill-diverts-millions-dei-improve-campus-safety-/25458" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resolute</a> in quelling protests and has beefed up policing on campus. This zero-tolerance approach to unlawful and childish behavior will yield benefits for these universities unlike schools that cowardly appeased. In the words of a Rutgers protester: <a href="https://www.nj.com/news/2024/05/facing-deadline-pro-palestinian-protesters-at-rutgers-agree-to-disperse-take-down-tents.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“We will be back if the demands are not met!”</a>. That’s not a negotiation; it&#8217;s a hostage scenario.
But to truly fix this crisis, universities need to eliminate the source of this weaponized student radicalism: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming. UNC has now joined universities in Virginia, Alabama, Florida, Texas, and Wyoming in banning DEI. This is the kind of leadership we need to see from college and university presidents.
The DEI programming complex has enabled hateful student activism (and terrorism) to spread on campuses. DEI’s guiding principles sow division between groups to propagate anti-American resentment via antisemitic stereotypes that legitimate the complex’s at-all-costs agenda for socially engineered outcomes. Anti-Jewish terrorism has made university and political leaders see that DEI facilitates the radicalization of undereducated youth. To stop the Intifada from spreading off college campuses, universities must go after the fount of incitement and division: DEI programming and values.
Universities that have taken firm action and have rightly suppressed DEI gaslighting provide the blueprint for the way forward. The others will learn the hard way that negotiating with terrorists is cowardly and weak. They will most certainly be back for more.
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Zachary Marschall is editor in chief of the Leadership Institute’s <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=6097122__;!!F0Stn7g!ERMnN5MP7i8HyJ3EVeXhE-qI6mrO3mhyYS94RxCPXS_J4z86AR6cml4j1hQtnyPYAd61_PednvMZ2bIFhHgYIjKnnkUk$" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> and an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Kentucky.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Universities Must Stop Negotiating With Terrorists 

American Universities

Anti-Semitism

Campus Reform

College

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Hamas

Israel

Opinion

Palestinians

Do not be shocked by the outpouring of Jew-hatred on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dont-feel-safe-jewish-columbia-student-says-he-was-attacked-by-pro-palestinian-activist" target="_blank" rel="noopener">college campuses</a>. Student and faculty reactions to Hamas’ terrorist attacks are barbaric and horrific, but they are completely consistent with the direction of higher education over the last 40 years.
For the past two generations, college presidents and deans have capitulated moral authority to radical activist professors who turn college classrooms into indoctrination camps where anti-Semitic sentiments inform anti-Israel assignments, readings, presentations, and projects.
The results are on full display this week. Students across the country parade their hatred of Jews as they celebrate the murder, decapitation, burning, rape, and capture of Jewish bodies.
California State University-Long Beach students have celebrated <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24127" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Hamas glider attacks</a>. Hunter College students have demanded that universities <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24124" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support Hamas</a>.
The New York University Law Student Bar Association has refused to condemn the atrocities — which is a similar sentiment to the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-profs-unload-on-campus-groups-over-anti-israel-statement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">30+ Harvard University</a> student groups that blame Israel for the massacre and the <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24123">Stanford University</a> students who have draped pro-Hamas signs on campus.
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I graduated from NYU in 2011 and I’m not surprised by the heinous statement that Ryna Workman drafted on behalf of the school’s Law Bar Association. I was in political science classes where students and teaching assistants perpetuated lies about Israel. One professor told me it wasn’t worth bringing up the Israel perspective in class.
The situation has only gotten worse in the last 12 years.
Universities are overflowing with pro-terrorist students because the radical faculty that inept administrators hired and promoted have normalized anti-Semitism on campuses as a polite expression of highbrow intellectualism. Leftists’ anti-Israel research papers, lectures, and conferences are a mask for them to indulge in Jew-hatred in polite society.
Radical instructors and student governments have normalized rabid anti-Semitism to such an extent, it is now entrenched in the very fabric of American higher education. A network of anti-Israel student groups organized a “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/campus-anti-semites-plot-day-of-resistance-in-support-of-hamas">Day of Resistance</a>” last week to “rally support for the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.”
University presidents and deans are not just negligent in their responsibility to Jewish students, they are hypocritical. The same university offices that enabled student activists to claim that silence and words are violence are now doing nothing against student groups who are cheering Hamas terrorist acts. Take Swarthmore College President <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=24138" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Val Smith</a> for example. In her statement on Swarthmore students celebrating the Hamas terrorists as “martyrs,” Smith wrote that those sentiments exemplify “free exchange of diverse ideas and perspectives” at a diverse educational institution.
Universities have spent millions of dollars in the last decades championing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programming that systematically <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18611">ignores anti-Semitism</a> and promotes the same resistance ideologies that student groups now invoke to celebrate Hamas.
Students and professors have been canceled, ostracized, and fired for misgendering or causing microaggressions, but the academic Left expects Jews to live among the “diverse ideas” of Hamas supporters. That right there is the tyranny of double standards that campus liberals and leftists impose on Jewish students.
University administrations downplayed allegations of anti-Semitic <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=16027" target="_blank" rel="noopener">work environments</a> and dismissed Jewish students who expressed fear for their safety. It doesn&#8217;t matter for far-Left faculty and campus administrators that <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=20105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nearly 50%</a> of Jewish students have direct experience with anti-Semitism. Never has Jewish safety been taken seriously by diversity officers or professors who have a vendetta against Israel.
Higher education needs to eliminate the ideological and moral rot that has led to this situation. University leadership needs to hold the students championing Jewish genocide accountable or admit that they are unwilling to do so.
Time’s up for the liberals running American colleges and universities. These administrators must admit that they have hired, promoted, and welcomed a critical mass of anti-Semites and allowed Jew-hatred to spread on campuses through activist <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=18120" target="_blank" rel="noopener">syllabi</a>, student organization programming, and events.
Higher education needs to fix this problem now because these pro-terrorist students will be America’s next generation of lawmakers, teachers, and employers. Our institutions would impose systemic discrimination against an entire ethnic minority. Our country’s leaders would be the same ones celebrating our enemies’ victories.
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/profile?pid=6097122" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Zachary Marschall</a> is editor in chief of the Leadership Institute&#8217;s Campus Reform and an adjunct, assistant professor at the <a href="https://finearts.uky.edu/arts-administration/faculty-staff/zachary-marschall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Kentucky</a>. 
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Daily Wire.

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College Campus Anti-Semitism Finally Rears Its Ugly Head 

Leftists

Palestine

Readers Pass

Universities

My family escaped socialism in Venezuela when I was two years-old. Now, as Venezuelan-Americans, we deeply appreciate America, which affords us freedom, opportunity, and equality. 
Many members of my family have migrated to Peru, Argentina, and Poland over the past 18 years in hopes of a better life, but none of these countries compare to the United States, where I have received extraordinary opportunities.
American students who idealize socialism (or even communism) would do well to listen to those who have experienced, and fled from, this corrupt and oppressive system. Unfortunately, just the opposite is happening on U.S. college campuses where fictitious notions of life under socialism flourish. Not only this, but any information pointing to the realities of living under such regimes is often denied, shut down, or completely blocked.
I am currently a student at Florida International University and see first-hand the hypocrisy from my peers when it comes to understanding the difference between capitalism and socialism. 
They advocate for socialism while enjoying Starbucks lattes, new iPhones, and Spring Break trips. Capitalism makes these luxuries a reality for middle class Americans, but too many students fail to understand, or simply refuse to admit, that these are benefits unavailable to those living under socialism.
I am astonished and dismayed by the number of my peers who support socialism, the very system that forced so much of my family to flee Venezuela and that keeps the ones who still live there in poverty. I know this because much of my family remains in Venezuela, making me keenly aware of how much I benefit from living in a free, democratic, and capitalist system.
Venezuelans have a <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense.com_v3_-5F-5Fhttps-3A__www.rescue.org_article_what-2Dhappening-2Dvenezuela-5F-5F-3B-21-21PxibshUo2Yr-5FTa5B-211NQbVVu33eOcM8b0e2bOH4CpSWdl-2D1ffiEfZ-2DYlrjPjpLgtvTvfNxFEpmxKQanJDU29jZmEiipmfjIFvRzE95hr6WIA-24&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4ZqltSlZiDsMCU7IpmmkNNOw7u0yhtIthLsXpJuMtvU&amp;m=zTC2mntWum-SA5yFwyLHE8TIHJ9jmhSAQPcYgwYwpi8&amp;s=Ch_AejtSz3gYj07seqjw_-wBhNeT5xait9Maj96B0a8&amp;e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hard time affording</a> the basic necessities of life, let alone $6 Frappuccinos and $1,000 laptops. 
One Christmas, I called my family in Venezuela and, to my surprise, my little cousin was screaming for joy that he had been gifted a warm cup of milk. The reality is, far from providing them with economic opportunity and meaningful equality, socialism has instead kept my family in Venezuela in terrible poverty.
Despite this stark difference, my classmates are uninterested in learning from me and those that have actually experienced socialist dictatorships, and are too entitled to realize just how much they benefit from living under the economic and governmental system of the United States.
In fact, one of my peers confronted me during class over an Instagram post wherein I criticized dictatorships in Cuba and Venezuela. She felt offended that I had expressed disapproval for communist regimes and said that America was no better. Most of the class agreed with her, citing supposed systemic oppression in the United States.
One of the reasons young Americans view socialism and communism more favorably than capitalism is because the education system glosses over – or completely falsifies – their horrors. In particular, college faculty tend to romanticize socialist regimes. For example, a Northeastern Illinois University philosophy professor <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense.com_v3_-5F-5Fhttps-3A__www.campusreform.org_article-3Fid-3D10887-5F-5F-3B-21-21PxibshUo2Yr-5FTa5B-211NQbVVu33eOcM8b0e2bOH4CpSWdl-2D1ffiEfZ-2DYlrjPjpLgtvTvfNxFEpmxKQanJDU29jZmEiipmfjIFvRzE9MBU9W6o-24&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4ZqltSlZiDsMCU7IpmmkNNOw7u0yhtIthLsXpJuMtvU&amp;m=zTC2mntWum-SA5yFwyLHE8TIHJ9jmhSAQPcYgwYwpi8&amp;s=X7_39uOfs3j3_Og1Za5IVyI8phXcikEy1rw6PvRNEcg&amp;e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">argued</a> in 2018 that the redistribution of wealth was the key to “sexual fulfillment.” Nikole Hannah-Jones, infamous creator of the 1619 Project and <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense.com_v3_-5F-5Fhttps-3A__thedig.howard.edu_all-2Dstories_two-2Diconic-2Damerican-2Dwriters-2Djoin-2Dhoward-2Dcreate-2Dcenter-2Dhelp-2Deducate-2Dnext-2Dgeneration-2Dblack-2Djournalists-5F-5F-3B-21-21PxibshUo2Yr-5FTa5B-211NQbVVu33eOcM8b0e2bOH4CpSWdl-2D1ffiEfZ-2DYlrjPjpLgtvTvfNxFEpmxKQanJDU29jZmEiipmfjIFvRzE9swEIaVM-24&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4ZqltSlZiDsMCU7IpmmkNNOw7u0yhtIthLsXpJuMtvU&amp;m=zTC2mntWum-SA5yFwyLHE8TIHJ9jmhSAQPcYgwYwpi8&amp;s=zBEPsAllfBT1GwdVUPqZCfGCOAhnfmGsqZzmYSpiYYI&amp;e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">faculty</a> at Howard University, <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense.com_v3_-5F-5Fhttps-3A__www.campusreform.org_article-3Fid-3D17831-5F-5F-3B-21-21PxibshUo2Yr-5FTa5B-211NQbVVu33eOcM8b0e2bOH4CpSWdl-2D1ffiEfZ-2DYlrjPjpLgtvTvfNxFEpmxKQanJDU29jZmEiipmfjIFvRzE9ULU1oEU-24&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4ZqltSlZiDsMCU7IpmmkNNOw7u0yhtIthLsXpJuMtvU&amp;m=zTC2mntWum-SA5yFwyLHE8TIHJ9jmhSAQPcYgwYwpi8&amp;s=u9opi2SmKMBOTG8KRlPX28SDWaWGltzxpj0E_LvwzJQ&amp;e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Cuba one of the “most equal” countries. “Cuba actually has the least inequality, and that’s largely due to socialism, which I’m sure no one wants to hear,” Hannah-Jones <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense.com_v3_-5F-5Fhttps-3A__nypost.com_2021_07_19_nikole-2Dhannah-2Djones-2Dsaid-2Dcuba-2Dmost-2Dequal-2Dwestern-2Dcountry_-5F-5F-3B-21-21PxibshUo2Yr-5FTa5B-211NQbVVu33eOcM8b0e2bOH4CpSWdl-2D1ffiEfZ-2DYlrjPjpLgtvTvfNxFEpmxKQanJDU29jZmEiipmfjIFvRzE9jtPX6DM-24&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4ZqltSlZiDsMCU7IpmmkNNOw7u0yhtIthLsXpJuMtvU&amp;m=zTC2mntWum-SA5yFwyLHE8TIHJ9jmhSAQPcYgwYwpi8&amp;s=YB9F3Hz6o0qCFZ5AnFeS3rCaQjJUi7beVCxaiyVbf_w&amp;e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a podcast interview. And just last year a professor at Riverside City College in California <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense.com_v3_-5F-5Fhttps-3A__www.campusreform.org_article-3Fid-3D18035-5F-5F-3B-21-21PxibshUo2Yr-5FTa5B-211NQbVVu33eOcM8b0e2bOH4CpSWdl-2D1ffiEfZ-2DYlrjPjpLgtvTvfNxFEpmxKQanJDU29jZmEiipmfjIFvRzE9dtjDHeU-24&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4ZqltSlZiDsMCU7IpmmkNNOw7u0yhtIthLsXpJuMtvU&amp;m=zTC2mntWum-SA5yFwyLHE8TIHJ9jmhSAQPcYgwYwpi8&amp;s=M99Wvc3Oo_WtVWEd0-KCzaCGJpEZb4c3YCKzZvhPcBM&amp;e=">said</a> that “Soviet socialism saved and improved tens of millions of lives.”
Equality does exist in Venezuela: all individuals have equally poor outcomes. This is not the type of equality Americans should be praising. We must fight to expose the truth about living under socialism.
My parents witnessed Venezuela’s socialist dictatorship destroy all possibility and hope for progress in our native country. This shaped their admiration for American culture. We remain unequivocally grateful to God and the United States for the chance to pursue life, liberty, and happiness. These values are in stark contrast to Venezuela&#8217;s corrupt and oppressive regime.
I will keep doing everything I can to educate my peers and, sadly, professors about the present and historical reality of socialism, and open their eyes to the tragedy it has caused in Venezuela and <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urldefense.com_v3_-5F-5Fhttps-3A__communistcrimes.org_en-5F-5F-3B-21-21PxibshUo2Yr-5FTa5B-211NQbVVu33eOcM8b0e2bOH4CpSWdl-2D1ffiEfZ-2DYlrjPjpLgtvTvfNxFEpmxKQanJDU29jZmEiipmfjIFvRzE9Qi56-5FKQ-24&amp;d=DwMGaQ&amp;c=euGZstcaTDllvimEN8b7jXrwqOf-v5A_CdpgnVfiiMM&amp;r=4ZqltSlZiDsMCU7IpmmkNNOw7u0yhtIthLsXpJuMtvU&amp;m=zTC2mntWum-SA5yFwyLHE8TIHJ9jmhSAQPcYgwYwpi8&amp;s=xT2hbluJvhiYYJi1bjy_-RdITazLdjLs2qDdzhVsaGk&amp;e=" target="_blank" rel="noopener">worldwide</a>. Unfortunately, the truth seems to fall on deaf ears on U.S. college campuses today.
Melissa Da Gama is a correspondent with the Leadership Institute’s Campus Reform and a student at Florida International University.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

VENEZUELA-TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO-MIGRATION-SHIPWRECK-PROTEST

Socialism Destroyed My Country. It Can Destroy America Too.

Socialism

Venezuela

World

A new report by Campus Reform on Monday revealed a growing list of American college campuses that will require a COVID-19 booster shot for the spring 2022 semester.
The University of Notre Dame is among the campuses that will require a booster for attendance, both for residential students and those studying remotely.
Notre Dame&#8217;s December 6 <a href="https://covid.nd.edu/news/student-booster-requirement-and-on-campus-clinic/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">communication</a> to students stated:
<blockquote>As an extension of the University’s existing COVID-19 vaccination requirement, the COVID-19 booster is required of all students &#8211; undergraduate, graduate, and professional, including students studying or performing research remotely and/or virtually &#8211; to minimize our community’s experience with coronavirus.</blockquote>
Salisbury University also rolled out new booster shot requirements during a <a href="https://www.salisbury.edu/coronavirus/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">virtual briefing</a>:
<blockquote>SU community members who received the one-dose Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine will be required to test twice-weekly to maintain campus access unless they receive a booster shot within 90 days of their original shot. Twice-weekly testing also will be required for those who receive the two-dose Pfizer or Moderna vaccine unless they receive a booster shot within eight months of their second vaccination shot.</blockquote>
<a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=18559" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Campus Reform</a> noted two additional universities with booster shot requirements in the spring semester as well:
<blockquote><a href="https://today.emerson.edu/2021/12/08/covid-update-boosters-and-winter-planning/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Emerson College</a>, located in Massachusetts, announced that it will be requiring the booster shot for returning students, including those located on the Los Angeles and Netherland campuses. Students and employees must upload proof to an online platform.
<a href="https://www.smith.edu/president-kathleen-mccartney/letters-community/2021-22/smith-community-booster-requirement" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Syracuse University</a>, as well, issued a statement on December 6 announcing its plan on requiring boosters for returning students, staff and faculty within 30 days of eligibility, as recommended by the CDC . The policy goes into effect on Friday, January 21, 2022.</blockquote>
In October, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/college-students-push-back-against-draconian-covid-rules" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on the growing number of college campuses with COVID-19 vaccine mandates along with efforts opposing them that included more than 1,000 reported universities with mandates:
<blockquote>College students across the country are pushing back against some of the draconian COVID-19 measures their schools have imposed on them.
At at least 40 schools, students have organized protests or petitions objecting to vaccine mandates or face mask requirements, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-precautions-prompt-backlash-on-college-campuses-11634376600">reported</a>.
While a majority of college students support vaccine and mask mandates, those who do not want to get the shot are often left out in the cold. Nearly three-quarters of students support vaccine mandates, and about 80 percent support mask mandates, <a href="https://www.kaptest.com/blog/press/2021/09/20/survey-finds-72-percent-of-college-students-support-vaccine-mandate-on-campus-mask-mandate-support-at-near-80-percent/">according</a> to a September Kaplan survey.
In some cases, students have filed federal lawsuits against their schools over the vaccine mandates. Those lawsuits may run aground, however.
In August, a federal appeals court <a href="https://apnews.com/article/health-courts-education-indiana-coronavirus-pandemic-eb1408814f3d3c7921fa371675f8c617">ruled</a> in favor of Indiana University’s vaccine requirement, and that decision has already been <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/universities-face-student-lawsuits-over-covid-19-vaccine-mandate-11628242202">cited</a> in some of the other cases. Eight students sued Indiana University over the mandate, saying it violates their constitutional rights by forcing them to get medical treatment they do not want.
More than 1,000 schools have implemented a vaccine mandate, <a href="https://www.chronicle.com/blogs/live-coronavirus-updates/heres-a-list-of-colleges-that-will-require-students-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19">according</a> to the Chronicle of Higher Education.</blockquote>
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On Thursday, Campus Reform posted a video in which Ophelie Jacobson spoke with students at the University of Florida about “diversity quotas” in hiring and school admissions.
“Do you think diversity should be a factor in hiring decisions and in college admissions processes?” Jacobson asked.
The responses were not unexpected.
“Yeah, absolutely.”
“Probably. They should probably have diversity quotas for, like, college admissions, and a bunch of other things … those are definitely a good thing.”
“I mean, I think it’s like an absolute necessity.”
After setting up a scenario regarding diversity quotas in which a school or workplace should reflect the local minority population percentage, Jacobson asked if the students would support that.
The students were receptive to such an idea.
“That sounds pretty reasonable.”
“Absolutely. There should be more diversity in basically every single field.”
Jacobson then broadened the premise, asking, “What about diversity quotas on sports teams, college sports teams?”
Suddenly, the students’ perspectives changed.
“No, I think that should be skill-based.”
“Same thing. We want to win no matter what you are.”
“Probably not. I feel like it should be based off talent.”
“Sports is different than college. Sports is not the same. I mean, talent is talent is talent is talent.”
“Just let the skill shine, and whoever’s the best player deserves to be on the team.”
Jacobson then showed the students the current offensive lineup for the University of Florida Gators, which consists of mostly African American males and one white male. She also showed that a lineup reflecting the local demographics would feature six white males, two Latino males, two Asian males, and only one black male.
After seeing the side-by-side, one student who had previously shown support for diversity quotas walked his opinion back. “I feel like they’re probably just more skilled players … I guess you could say, like, more skilled people should get into schools, too. … I guess what I said could kind of be applied [to] both.”
“We’d probably be losing … because we recruit, like, based on skill, and if we recruited based on diversity, then we’d probably be worse,” another student said.
Finally, Jacobson asked the students if their opinions had changed regarding quotas once the comparison between sports and academia was made clear.
“If we’re talking about being the best in sports, shouldn’t we also be talking about being the best in the workplace, being the best company, being the best college, the best university regardless of anyone’s race?” she asked.
“Yeah, I think it was a good way to open your eyes and think, like, if you’re recruiting athletes based on their skill level, maybe you should admit students based on their scores and their, like, academic merit more so than diversity,” one student replied.
“Skill always comes first. I don’t necessarily think quotas are the way to go. I know they’re unconstitutional; I know they’re wrong…” another stated despite having earlier seemingly argued for quotas.
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Diversity quotas, referred to a different way as affirmative action, have been a controversial subject in academia for many years.
Currently, eight states have banned affirmative action — California, Washington, Florida, Michigan, Nebraska, Arizona, New Hampshire, and Oklahoma.
In other states, however, affirmative action is still being used.
In 2014, Students for Fair Admissions filed a <a href="https://www.clearinghouse.net/chDocs/public/ED-MA-0002-0001.pdf">lawsuit</a> against Harvard University, claiming that the school was discriminating against Asian students and capping their numbers in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
The lawsuit alleged in part that the “Harvard plan,” which “promised to treat each applicant as an individual[,] has always been an elaborate mechanism for hiding Harvard’s systematic campaign of racial and ethnic discrimination against certain disfavored classes of applicants.” The lawsuit suggested that the plan was initially used to discriminate against Jewish applicants, and is now used against Asian applicants.
The lawsuit further alleged:
<blockquote>Statistical evidence reveals that Harvard uses “holistic” admissions to disguise the fact that it holds Asian Americans to a far higher standard than other students and essentially forces them to compete against each other for admission. There is nothing high-minded about this campaign of invidious discrimination.</blockquote>
In October 2019, Judge Allison Burroughs of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts ruled in favor of Harvard.
In a 130-page <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.165519/gov.uscourts.mad.165519.672.0_2.pdf">decision</a>, Judge Burroughs stated that Asian applicants “would likely be admitted at a higher rate than white applicants if admissions decisions were made based solely on academic and extracurricular ratings.”
However, Burroughs noted:
<blockquote>The Court finds that Harvard’s admissions program “bears the hallmarks of a narrowly tailored plan” in that “race [is] used in a flexible, nonmechanical way” and considered “as a ‘plus’ factor in the context of individualized consideration of each and every applicant.”</blockquote>
Burroughs continued:
<blockquote>Race conscious admissions will always penalize to some extent the groups that are not being advantaged by the process, but this is justified by the compelling interest in diversity and all the benefits that flow from a diverse college population. Here, any relative burden on Asian Americans (and it is not clear that there is a disproportionate burden) is not enough to warrant a finding that Harvard’s admissions process fails to survive strict scrutiny or to require it to move to an admissions model that foregoes diversity in favor of parity based solely on quantifiable metrics.</blockquote>
In her conclusion, the judge wrote in part: “For purposes of this case, at least for now, ensuring diversity at Harvard relies, in part, on race conscious admissions. Harvard’s admission program passes constitutional muster in that it satisfies the dictates of strict scrutiny. The students who are admitted to Harvard and choose to attend will live and learn surrounded by all sorts of people, with all sorts of experiences, beliefs and talents. They will have the opportunity to know and understand one another beyond race, as whole individuals with unique histories and experiences.”
Burroughs went on:
<blockquote> It is this, at Harvard and elsewhere that will move us, one day, to the point where we see that race is a fact, but not the defining fact and not the fact that tells us what is important, but we are not there yet. Until we are, race conscious admissions programs that survive strict scrutiny will have an important place in society and help ensure that colleges and universities can offer a diverse atmosphere that fosters learning, improves scholarship, and encourages mutual respect and understanding.</blockquote>
Students for Fair Admissions appealed the decision to the First Circuit, which <a href="http://blogs2.law.columbia.edu/jlsp/2021/02/22/1330/">ruled</a> in favor of Harvard in November 2020. In June, the Supreme Court “effectively postponed action” on the case, according to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/14/politics/supreme-court-harvard-admissions-lawsuit/index.html">CNN</a>, instead <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/061421zor_6j36.pdf">asking</a> the “Acting Solicitor General” to “file a brief in this case expressing the views of the United States.”

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On Friday, <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/">Campus Reform</a> released a new video on YouTube in which Eduardo Neret asks students at American University about impeachment.
Neret first asks the students if they are following the ongoing impeachment trial. Almost universally, the students say that they are not.
<blockquote>“Um, not really, no.”
“Not as much as I would like to.”
“Not really. I mean, I see it a little bit just because it’s on the news everywhere, but I don’t actively follow it.”
“Only what I see, like, pop up on news alerts, or what I hear from professors or friends.”</blockquote>
One student is at least somewhat interested, telling Neret: “A little bit. I read The Washington Post’s five minute fix every morning.”
When asked why he’s not following impeachment, a male student wearing a Nintendo hoodie tells Neret:
<blockquote>To be honest, it doesn’t interest me at all &#8230; honestly, once I see anything regarding impeachment, I just turn my eye, I change the channel, I change the page. I don’t really care.</blockquote>
A male student wearing a red beanie says the impeachment just seems like “partisan stuff.” Another male student says that he’s busy, and that the “entire thing surrounding it” seems “toxic.”
The student who reads The Washington Post tells Neret that the impeachment is “honestly just, like, a show. It’s not actually – because everyone has read everything already.”
A male student wearing a University of Maryland hoodie says: “How many times can I read an article that has the heading, like, ‘He’s leaving office’? There’s like a thousand of them.”
Perhaps the most interesting portion of the video came when Neret asked the students if they believe President Trump should indeed be removed from office “based on what [they have] heard.”
“No comment,” said one student.
The following exchange took place between Neret and the student wearing the UofM hoodie:
<blockquote>HOODIE: I think constitutionally if there’s reason for him to be removed, he should be removed, and there was found to be reason, so I think so.
NERET: What reason to you comes to mind?
HOODIE: I mean&#8230;like, what was the reason, like, obstruction of justice or whatever, like, he, whatever reason that he, like&#8230;didn’t he&#8230;I don’t know.</blockquote>
The Washington Post reader spoke honestly, saying, “I don’t like him. I’m gonna be pretty honest. I don’t like him at all. I never did. But I don’t think he should be impeached for partisan reasons. I think unless the facts are there, then that’s the only fair way to do it.”
Red beanie noted the partisan nature of the impeachment process as well, saying, “It feels like it should be something that both parties agree on when you impeach someone.”
One exchange between Neret and a female student in a black sweater focused on Ukraine:
<blockquote>NERET: Do you feel from what you’ve seen so far that President Trump should be removed from office?
SWEATER: Oh, 100%. He definitely needs to get out of there.
NERET: Why?
SWEATER: Because he’s a bad president. He’s breaking the law. He, like, withheld aid from Ukraine. You can’t do that.
NERET: But Ukraine ended up getting the aid, so based on the allegations that they brought forward from the House, what crime do you think he committed that he should be removed for?
SWEATER: Um, like, lying to the American people.</blockquote>
Others were not so discriminating when it came to the “why” of President Trump’s  removal from office.
“I really don’t agree with the way he treats people, and I think that most of the decisions that he makes are rash decisions,” said one student.
“Voter fraud would be one,” said another.
A third student said that Trump is a “corruptible president,” and that “besides Russia, the fact that he is detaining immigrants &#8230; in concentration camps.”
One student in a gray zip-up, however, said that the only way for Trump to be removed properly is through the 2020 election, and that removal via impeachment “would just cause a lot more problems.”
There’s more great content in the video, including an exchange with a student wearing a Che Guevara pin, which you can check out below. Also, check out Campus Reform’s <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/">website</a> for conservative college news.
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WATCH: Students Say Trump Should Be Removed From Office, But Seem To Struggle When Asked Why

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On Tuesday, Campus Reform’s Cabot Phillips spoke with students at the University of Georgia to see if any of them could name a single time conservatives &#8220;shut down a liberal speaker on campus&#8221; like progressives often shut down conservative speakers.
Phillips even sweetened the pot, offering a cool $100 to anyone who could provide a sufficient answer.
After numerous pauses and searching expressions, none could provide an answer. However, two exchanges were illuminating.
<blockquote>No. 1
STUDENT: I don’t know. I think everybody kind of thinks because they lean conservative, they’re kind of closed-minded, so that they, you know, they’re just single issue.
PHILLIPS: Isn&#8217;t it closed-minded to shut them down then?
STUDENT: Oh yeah, yeah, completely.
No. 2
STUDENT: I just think people are a bit more open on the liberal side.
PHILLIPS: If it’s about being open-minded, and one side being more open-minded, wouldn’t you say it’s the conservative side that’s more open-minded if they’re not rioting and trying to shut down events from liberal speakers?
STUDENT: Um, yeah. I mean, I think it’s both sides.</blockquote>
Later in the video, two students attempt to push back, arguing that progressive views are &#8220;more palatable&#8221; and &#8220;less hate-fueled.&#8221; Another student claimed that Phillips’ argument was a &#8220;red herring,&#8221; then backtracked, then couldn’t articulate why he disagreed with Phillips.
Watch the entire video here:
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On Thursday, Campus Reform uploaded a video to YouTube in which Cabot Phillips speaks with Brown University students about the so-called &#8220;Pocahontas policy,&#8221; an initiative that would allegedly allow students to &#8220;self-identify&#8221; as people of color.
As one might expect, the students offer a variety of sigh-worthy answers. To give you a taste of the ridiculousness, here’s just one of the numerous cringe-inducing exchanges from the video:
<blockquote>PHILLIPS: Is racial identity something that is fluid over someone&#8217;s life?
STUDENT #2: Um&#8230;[long pause followed by confused sigh].</blockquote>
Watch the entire video if you want to laugh . . . or cry . . . or become angry:
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WATCH: University Students Stumped When Asked About Policy Of ‘Self-Identifying’ As People Of Color

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