An Ivy League professor has taken a sudden leave of absence from his position after cheerleading the brutal assault on Israel by Hamas terrorists on October 7, referring to the terror group&#8217;s actions as &#8220;exhilarating.&#8221;
&#8220;Professor Russell Rickford has requested and received approval to take a leave of absence from the university,&#8221; a <a href="https://www.thecornellreview.org/rickford-called-hamas-attacks-exhilarating-takes-leave/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from Cornell University&#8217;s media relations department read.
An email sent by another professor to students enrolled in his class read, &#8220;Professor Rickford will be taking a leave of absence and I will assume teaching responsibilities for this course for the remainder of the semester.&#8221;
One week after the terror attacks — during which over 1,300 Israeli men, women, and children were murdered, many of them civilians — Rickford, an associate history professor at the prestigious upstate New York institution, appeared at a pro-Palestinian protest and spoke about his reaction.
&#8220;It was exhilarating. It was exhilarating, it was energizing,&#8221; Rickford said of the attacks, telling onlookers that &#8220;you would not be human&#8221; if you did not share that sentiment. &#8220;I was exhilarated!&#8221;
Rickford <a href="https://cornellsun.com/2023/10/18/rickford-a-statement-regarding-my-actions-from-oct-15/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">later apologized</a> for the &#8220;horrible choice of words&#8221;: &#8220;I recognize that some of the language I used was reprehensible and did not reflect my values. As I said in the speech, I abhor violence and the violent targeting of civilians. I am sorry for the pain that my reckless remarks have caused my family, my students, my colleagues and many others in this time of suffering.&#8221;
Following his remarks at the rally, however, a <a href="https://www.change.org/p/demand-cornell-university-to-terminate-associate-professor-russell-for-hate-speech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Change.org petition</a> calling for Rickford&#8217;s resignation gathered more than 11,000 signatures. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) also called for the embattled professor to resign or be fired.
&#8220;As a person of authority at an educational institution, to celebrate murder, rape and abducting children and slaughtering children, I think he should be fired,&#8221; <a href="https://cnycentral.com/news/local/new-york-senator-calls-for-firing-of-cornell-university-professor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Gillibrand said.</a> &#8220;There’s certainly no space for pro-Hamas protestors. That is someone who is supporting death, destruction, rape, murder, and slaughtering of innocent children, and families and seniors and holding hostages, so that cannot be supported.&#8221;
&#8220;By perpetuating these abhorrent views, Professor Rickford has not only violated his ethical responsibility as an educator but has also jeopardized the safety of the Jewish community and tarnished Cornell University&#8217;s reputation,&#8221; Tenney said in a letter to Cornell University&#8217;s president.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/yale" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yale University</a> students were welcomed to campus with crime &#8220;survival guide&#8221; flyers featuring the Grim Reaper that were handed out by the Ivy League school&#8217;s police union.
The &#8220;Survival Guide for First-Year Students of Yale University&#8221; warns students about “shockingly high” crime in New Haven, Connecticut, where Yale is located, wishing them “good luck” alongside a picture of a skull in a Grim Reaper hood.
“The incidence of crime and violence in New Haven is shockingly high, and it is getting worse,” reads the flyer from the Yale Police Benevolent Association.
The flyers closely resemble the infamous “Welcome to Fear City” flyers handed out by the NYPD to tourists in the crime-ridden New York City of the 1970s.
Murders have doubled, burglaries are up 33%, and car thefts are up 56% in the seven months ending July 23, the police union warned.
City spokesman Len Speiller <a href="https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/yale-new-haven-police-crime-flyers-fact-check-18325538.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">confirmed</a> to the New Haven Register that &#8220;those specific data points are all accurate.&#8221;
“Nevertheless, some Yalies do manage to survive New Haven and even retain their person property,” the flyer said.
The police union warned students to stay off the streets after 8 p.m., to avoid walking alone, to avoid public transportation, and to stay on campus, among other safety advice.
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City and Yale officials both blasted the police union for handing out the ominous flyers to incoming students.
Yale University officials called the flyers &#8220;misinformation,&#8221; as well as &#8220;disturbing and inflammatory.&#8221;
&#8220;This weekend, the Yale Police Union, which is currently in contract negotiations with the university, handed out misleading pamphlets to Yale students as they moved into their residential colleges,&#8221; Yale <a href="https://news.yale.edu/2023/08/21/yale-university-response-misinformation-police-union-pamphlet" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Monday in a statement.
Yale officials said they &#8220;unequivocally condemn the irresponsible and reckless actions of those who chose to spread this inaccurate information.&#8221;
The school claimed that robberies and burglaries are down both on campus and in New Haven. Yale said the most reported crime on campus is the theft of laptops, cell phones, and motorized scooters that have been left unattended and unsecured.
&#8220;The university supports the right of union members to rally peacefully, but today’s leafleting both ran counter to the spirit of the day and detracted from the exemplary work performed by Yale Police officers, Public Safety team members, and their partners at the New Haven Police Department,&#8221; Yale said.
New Haven Mayor Justin Elicker slammed the flyer as &#8220;totally offensive&#8221; and &#8220;false and scary,&#8221; saying crime is down in New Haven since 2020, when many cities across the country saw a spike in violent crime.
&#8220;As the Mayor stated at the press conference, when you look most of the trends over time, crime is down,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nhregister.com/news/article/yale-new-haven-police-crime-flyers-fact-check-18325538.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Speiller, the city spokesman, adding that you can &#8220;cherry pick certain data points to construct a false narrative.&#8221;
The 1970s New York City pamphlets <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/25/yale-students-get-ominous-grim-reaper-crime-survival-flyers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> tourists, “The best advice we can give you is this: Until things change, stay away from New York City if you possibly can.”
The New York pamphlets were widely condemned at the time despite the high levels of crime in the city.

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America’s most elite universities have factored race into admissions for years now. Cornell University, for example, lists diversity and inclusion as one of its <a href="https://president.cornell.edu/initiatives/university-core-values/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">core values</a>. In fact, the concept of admitting students from different backgrounds is rooted in Cornell’s motto. As Cornell&#8217;s founder Ezra Cornell said, “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” From the beginning, Cornell has been open to students of all races. In recent decades, Cornell and the other Ivy Leagues and elite universities have used affirmative action policies to boost their numbers of black and Hispanic students. Racial diversity is not just a concept they give nominal respect to; it is a core facet of these institutions’ identities.
Now that the Supreme Court has <a href="http://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-affirmative-action-college-race-f83d6318017ec9b9029b12ee2256e744" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled against</a> affirmative action in higher education, deeming race-based admissions policies unconstitutional, Cornell and the other elite universities across the nation will have to abandon their current race-based admissions policies. But it’s unlikely that any of them will abandon their goal of pursuing woke diversity. So how do they move forward?
The end of affirmative action in admissions is a good thing for our country. It puts an end to discrimination against Asian students and the practice of lowering certain standards based on the race of the applicant, a practice which is not only discriminatory, but also sets up black and Hispanic students to fail if they come from an education background that did not prepare them for the rigor of elite colleges. But it is true that Americans of every race should have equal opportunities to succeed and excel in life. It is also true that cultivating a highly talented student body of people from diverse backgrounds, beliefs, and experience is a worthy goal for universities. The way to get there is to support school choice.
In a recent opinion piece for The New York Times, Harvard professor Roland Fryer <a href="http://nytimes.com/interactive/2023/07/05/opinion/affirmative-action-college-admissions.html#affirmative-action-high-schools">pointed out</a> that, outside of summer enrichment programs, elite universities don’t intervene for minority students in their critical K-12 years. “They don’t teach the higher order skills that students need to get into college,” he wrote. “They don’t cultivate the grit and resilience kids need to navigate a challenging curriculum after they are admitted. They rely on existing schools to do that.” Fryer argues that staying out of K-12 education is a mistake for these colleges. If elite universities truly value diversity, he argues, they should fund middle and high schools that qualify and prepare disadvantaged students to attend these colleges.
Fryer makes a salient point. Elite universities could change the futures of thousands of minority kids by pouring into K-12 education. But they do not necessarily even need to set up their own schools. They would simply need to support the growing number of unique schools already in existence by funding low income students and their families and encouraging state and local governments to expand school choice.
32 states and Washington, D.C. have<a href="http://usnews.com/education/k12/articles/what-school-choice-is-and-how-it-works#:~:text=Currently%2032%20states%20plus%20Washington,that%20advocates%20for%20school%20choice." target="_blank" rel="noopener"> some type of school choice program</a>, which empowers families to pay for education options they otherwise could not afford using public funds. The availability and robustness of school choice programs varies widely from state to state, however, meaning that low income students still face many barriers to good education depending on where they live. The growing number of states with school choice programs has the power to transform the lives of minority students. 
And many unique schools already exist that could prepare disadvantaged students for elite colleges and would benefit greatly from expanded school choice. In New York City, for example, there are already over 200 low-cost private schools set up with the explicit purpose of providing low income students with a great education. Author Kerry McDonald <a href="http://forbes.com/sites/kerrymcdonald/2023/03/02/the-not-so-secret-world-of-low-cost-new-york-city-private-schools/?sh=2b4959323d2c" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that these schools charge an average yearly tuition of only $6,065. The nonprofit Children’s Scholarship Fund provides scholarships to low income families so their students can attend these schools. The three NYC schools that McDonald focuses on in her article are all founded by people of color and serve low income minority students. And schools built to support low income and minority students are popping up across the country, not just in New York City. 
Black Minds Matter, an organization that advocates for better education options for black K-12 students, has a <a href="https://www.blackmindsmatter.net/black-owned-schools-directory/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">directory</a> of schools founded by African Americans on its website. Earlier this year, Black Minds Matter and Step Up for Students conducted a <a href="http://reimaginedonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Black-Founders-Survey-Report.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">survey</a> of black school founders. The survey results demonstrate that school choice empowers education entrepreneurs to create a wide variety of schools that cater to individual families’ needs. 64% of founders surveyed are former public school teachers. 53% identified as Democrat, indicating that school choice is not merely a conservative talking point. The majority of schools surveyed serve predominantly black and low income students, and most of their students were formerly enrolled in public school, where they often performed below grade level.
 This dispels the myth that private schools, charter schools, and other schooling options outside of public school will leave disadvantaged students behind and only cater to high achieving, well-resourced students if empowered by school choice. On the contrary, school choice empowers low income parents by giving them the funds they need to provide their children with high quality education, and it empowers the hundreds of schools that want to help disadvantaged students achieve excellence and keep their doors open. The three founders in Kerry McDonald’s article, as well as 54% of founders in the Black Minds Matter survey, said that support from school choice organizations would greatly help them in their mission to provide high quality education to the students whom public schools have failed for decades.
If Cornell and other elite universities really want to admit more black and Hispanic students, they should support school choice. They don’t even necessarily need to create their own new schools, as Fryer suggested. They could partner with the hundreds of unique schools around the country that are already helping minority students succeed. They could use parts of their endowment to provide scholarships so that more students can attend these schools. Cornell University could be on the front lines of nationwide change.
Emmie Lo is a Latin teacher and staff writer for <a href="http://colorusunited.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://colorusunited.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1689870524844000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1swFnvQLYWXgsaX1kKg1Tc">Color Us United</a>.
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I recently graduated from Dartmouth College where I was honored as a valedictorian. During the graduation ceremony, the college’s president, Phil Hanlon, gave a <a href="https://youtu.be/fQhGI1ZvUzE?t=203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">speech</a> in which he lauded Dartmouth for being a place where people approach questions “with a truly open mind” and “respectfully debate [their] conclusions with others, especially seeking out those who hold different points of view.” As an openly conservative student, I can say that none of this was true.
This is probably not surprising, given the fact that college campuses are overwhelmingly Left-leaning, but when I was accepted at Dartmouth, although I didn’t expect the vast majority of my classmates to agree with my political views, I hoped that there would at least be a willingness to engage with conservative ideas. Not only was that not the case, but it quickly became apparent that the student body viewed conservatives as both unintelligent and morally reprehensible. I feel that this gave them license to attack conservatives with a maliciousness that’s hard to believe.
As the President of the Dartmouth Republicans, I was a lightning rod for a lot of this hatred. I was the subject of numerous misleading articles and opinion pieces, sometimes written by protestors, in Dartmouth’s campus publications which are confusingly called The Dartmouth and The Dartmouth Review. The purpose of these articles was to harm my reputation and leave a permanent internet history that would dissuade future employers from hiring me.
Moreover, I was a pariah on campus. My events were <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UpAG8Z5JAw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heavily protested</a>, and I was frequently flipped off, shouted down, and sworn at. I was called a racist to my face simply for being pro-life. The Dartmouth Review even <a href="https://www.flipsnack.com/CCB9CF99E8C/dartmouth-review-cease-and-desist.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened to sue me</a> over receiving an event flier. Despite being a valedictorian, I was called “anti-intellectual” more times than I can count. These are just a few examples, but there are many more.
I’ve spent a long time wondering what permitted this extreme hostility at Dartmouth, and I realized that it was due in large part to a combination of the Dartmouth administration who enabled it and the campus publications that set the narrative, which perpetuates a culture of intolerance towards conservatives. The purpose of these articles is to shame students for expressing right-wing views and encourage them to self-censor.
Case in point, we tried to host world renowned journalist Andy Ngo to give a lecture on Antifa’s violent history in America. Students on campus responded by <a href="https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/dartmouth-college-republicans-official-statement-andy-ngo-event" target="_blank" rel="noopener">making violent online threats</a> against the event. Unfortunately, the Dartmouth administration <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/01/24/antifa-win-again-as-dartmouth-cancels-my-event-on-far-left-violence/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">capitulated</a>, and despite the 100 police officers in and around the building, they canceled our event at the last minute, forcing us to host it on Zoom. Instead of condemning the violent threats or punishing the students who made them, the administration blamed the Dartmouth Republicans for their decision to cancel.
Reinforcing this false narrative, The Dartmouth <a href="https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/01/virtual-anti-antifa-event-hosted-by-college-republicans-moved-online-due-to-safety-logistical-issues" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> that the event was canceled due to incompetence and disorganization from the club. Despite the presence of <a href="https://www.thefire.org/cases/dartmouth-college-administrators-force-andy-ngo-event-online-citing-safety-concerns/documents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FIRE’s investigation</a> into the administration’s claims, there were never any corrections to this article. Kyle Mullins, the editor-in-chief of the paper, brushed aside my concerns.
A few months later, The Dartmouth allowed a student named Gregory Mesa, whom I had never met, to write an <a href="https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/05/mesa-college-republicans-disunited">op-ed</a> calling me out by name and blasting me for views on immigration that I don’t even have. Mesa concluded by challenging me to debate him, knowing it was the last week of class and that he was about to graduate.
Needless to say, this wouldn’t have been allowed if it was about any other student. In light of Mesa’s article, I decided to join The Dartmouth as an opinion writer to correct the narrative. Beyond that, I was hoping that the other writers would finally see me as a person and not the alt-right caricature they imagined.
I reached out to Mullins to clear the air, since he had personally <a href="https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2022/04/mullins-the-embodiment-of-fake-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denounced</a> our club, and many of the biased and misleading articles had been written during his tenure. I emphasized that people of diverse beliefs all share a common thread of humanity. He had previously given me his phone number, but when I reached out, he refused to meet, and then he shopped around a complaint to various disciplinary bodies on campus in order to try to get me punished.
I later found out that I had been barred from the paper due to vague and <a href="https://justthenews.com/accountability/cancel-culture/campus-newspapers-reject-conservative-writers-protect-personal-safety" target="_blank" rel="noopener">unsubstantiated allegations</a> that I somehow caused the paper’s staffers “safety concerns,” but I was never given any further explanation. I wasn’t even able to respond to any of the articles that had been written about me because invariably, the student editors would find various excuses not to allow me to publish anything that resembled my initial draft. With no faculty oversight or clear guidelines, they would ask me to remove key points of my argument or literally spend weeks “fact-checking” the same facts multiple times. I was never able to tell my side of the story.
Despite all of this, I have no regrets about standing up for my beliefs. If anything, this experience taught me the importance of having the courage of one’s convictions. However, I feel the need to issue a warning. Extreme leftist intolerance on college campuses has become the norm. The prevailing attitude is that these students will grow out of it as they experience the real world, which will force them to conform to reality, but in fact, it’s just the opposite.
These students, especially those at prestigious colleges like Dartmouth, will go on to shape every facet of society to align with their worldview, and unless serious action is taken, the leftist insanity in this country is about to get much worse before it gets better.
Chloe Ezzo is a graduate of Dartmouth College where she studied French and Russian and served as the President of the Dartmouth Republicans.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivy-league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brown</a> University President Christina Paxson likened the passage of bills meant to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, also known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/diversity-equity-and-inclusion-dei" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DEI</a>, to the suppression of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, despite the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/racial-discrimination" target="_blank" rel="noopener">discrimination</a> which such programs routinely induce.
Paxson wrote in a recent <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/21/opinion/free-speech-campus-states-not-students.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">opinion piece</a> for The New York Times that the nation is facing a “fundamental threat” as state lawmakers move to limit public funding for DEI initiatives. The administrator noted that Galilei was forced to renounce his “false opinion” that the Earth circles the sun in 1633 due to “the prevailing beliefs” of the Roman Catholic Church; she also cited the prohibition of Charles Darwin’s work from Trinity College Cambridge in 1859 and the “loyalty hearings” in the 1950s under former Sen. Joseph McCarthy.
“‌The mistakes of the past are being repeated in this country, right now,” Paxson wrote. “The State Senate in Texas last week advanced one of three bills aimed at public colleges that would ban diversity, equity and inclusion activities, end tenure, and fire professors accused of indoctrinating their students. Several states, including Georgia, Idaho and most notably Florida, have passed varying laws making it easier to ban books and limit what American educators can teach.”
The statutes referenced by the administrator indeed <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/florida-college-bureaucrats-significantly-misreported-diversity-initiatives-when-pressed-by-desantis-his-office-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restricted</a> funds for DEI initiatives, which have often been accused of fomenting division and limiting viewpoint diversity while entrenching a Left-of-center orthodoxy on college campuses. The condemnation of efforts to “ban books” appears to reference recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/library-group-frames-removal-of-graphic-sexual-content-from-school-libraries-as-record-number-of-book-bans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">orders</a> to remove sexually explicit and pornographic materials, some of which include graphic depictions of how children can masturbate and cartoons of children engaged in homosexual activity, in elementary school libraries.
“Like their forebears, the proponents of these laws are on the wrong side of history. They are acting out of political expediency, ‌exploiting convenient political wedge issues,” Paxson added. “They are mounting a direct and dangerous attack on America’s longstanding commitment to free expression, democracy and education. Legislating toward a future where the state decrees what ideas may be taught and debated upends a bedrock principle of this country.”
DEI initiatives at Brown, a private institution based in Providence, Rhode Island, which maintains a reputation as the most Left-leaning of the eight Ivy League schools, have discriminated against students according to their race. Beyond a recent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-university-infused-diversity-and-inclusion-into-hundreds-of-courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commitment</a> to “increase the representation” of black students, Brown administrators <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brown-university-barred-white-asian-students-from-new-class" target="_blank" rel="noopener">restricted</a> a class on mindfulness-based stress reduction to students who identify as black, indigenous, or Latino.
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Christopher Rufo, a conservative activist who sparked the nationwide efforts to limit DEI initiatives, <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1650767880223354880?s=51" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> that Paxson’s views are easily falsified. “DEI does not cultivate genius; it stamps out genius,” he wrote on social media. “Galileo himself would be punished as a straight, white male.”
Despite the claims from Paxson about the “state-sponsored censorship” academics face in some parts of the country, administrators who subscribe to the DEI movement have frequently sought to sanction or dismiss professors for their views. Charles Negy, an associate psychology professor at the University of Central Florida, was fired and later <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ucf-professor-fired-after-tweets-questioning-black-lives-matter-narrative-must-be-reinstated-receive-back-pay-arbitrator-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> after he disagreed with the assumptions of the Black Lives Matter movement, while Coastal Carolina University theater professor Steven Earnest faced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/theater-professor-reinstated-after-school-suspended-him-for-criticizing-students-who-cried-racism-after-seeing-names-on-a-white-board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">termination</a> after he criticized students who mistakenly accused him of racism after seeing the names of minority students written on his whiteboard.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/university-of-pennsylvania" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Pennsylvania</a> named “non-binary transfeminine person” Alok Vaid-Menon as an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lgbtq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LGBTQ</a> Scholar in Residence.
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivy-league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivy League</a> school announced on Monday that the new residency, which is the first in the nation dedicated solely to “championing LGBTQ+ communities and scholarship,” was made possible through an “anonymous” $2 million donation.
“It’s a profound honor to be the Inaugural LGBTQ+ Scholar in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania. In the face of escalating malalignment we see a widening chasm between the reality of LGBTQ+ lives and the misrepresentation of our communities in media and society,” Vaid-Menon said in a <a href="https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/alok-named-first-scholar-residence-penns-lesbian-gay-bisexual-transgender-center" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “As LGBTQ+ scholars and artists we must continue to debunk anti-LGBTQ+ misinformation while also harnessing the power of LGBTQ+ storytelling to create a more inclusive and magnificent world. I’m looking forward to connecting with Penn students, faculty, and staff to celebrate the living poetry of our existence in these turbulent times.”
Vaid-Menon was identified as a “non-binary transfeminine person” who uses “they/them” pronouns in an <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/interview-alok-vaid-menon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Caravan. A <a href="https://www.alokvmenon.com/about" target="_blank" rel="noopener">website</a> belonging to the incoming Ivy League scholar identifies Vaid-Menon as an “internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker” who explores “themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition.” Vaid-Menon has received awards from prominent LGBTQ organizations such as GLAAD and the Stonewall Foundation.
The new opportunity at the University of Pennsylvania will not be the first time that the artist has been paid handsomely by academia. Campus Reform <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/article?id=17201" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Vaid-Menon received $5,000 for a two-hour talk at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse to discuss the book “Beyond the Binary,” which encourages readers to “see gender not in black and white, but in full color.”
Vaid-Menon drew upon experience “as a gender-nonconforming artist” to demonstrate that “gender is a malleable and creative form of expression.” According to the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s Pride Center, Vaid-Menon <a href="https://mtouch.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3557427614384292&amp;id=234522890008131" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> students that “true freedom isn’t choosing from pre-selected, societally-accepted options, but writing in your own option for who you are.”
The University of Pennsylvania’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Center is the second oldest initiative in the nation dedicated to students who claim LGBTQ identity and administers the first fund on any American campus “supporting students making a gender transition.”
The elite postsecondary institution garnered national attention over the past two years as Lia Thomas, a man who claims transgender identity and competed on the school’s swimming team, sparked debate over males in female sports. Thomas won the NCAA Division I national championship in the 500-yard freestyle event and set a meet record in the 200-yard freestyle at the Ivy League Swimming and Diving Championships.
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A female member of the University of Pennsylvania’s swim team formerly detailed the atmosphere of censorship that surrounded Thomas in an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-female-penn-swimmer-reacts-to-lia-thomas-victory-at-ivy-league-championships" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> with The Daily Wire. “I think that there’s not really room for anyone to react to this situation in any way, other than saying they think it’s really progressive and the right thing,” she said. “If you want to tune into the livestreams and watch these podiums, not just the races, the podiums, and you look at the faces of the girls who are second, third, you see a smile, but they can only hold it up for so long. You can kind of see a little bit of sadness knowing that maybe they would be first.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/columbia-university" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Columbia University</a> became the first <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivy-league" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Ivy League</a> school to permanently drop its standardized testing requirements for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/colleges" target="_blank" rel="noopener">undergraduates</a>.
The postsecondary institution announced Wednesday that the policy changes for Columbia College and the School of Engineering and Applied Science are “rooted in the belief that students are dynamic, multi-faceted individuals who cannot be defined by any single factor.” Students are still optionally permitted to submit their standardized test scores.
“Our review is purposeful and nuanced, respecting varied backgrounds, voices and experiences, in order to best determine an applicant&#8217;s suitability for admission and ability to thrive in our curriculum and our community, and to advance access to our educational opportunities,” the university’s admissions department said in a <a href="https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/columbia-test-optional" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “We have designed our application to afford the greatest possible opportunity and flexibility for students to represent themselves fully and showcase their academic talents, interests and goals.”
Ivy League universities first implemented test-optional admissions policies for certain incoming classes in the wake of government lockdown mandates, which presented difficulties for some students attempting to take college entrance exams such as the SAT and ACT.
Several schools have nevertheless continued to accept applications that did not include standardized exam scores: the University of Pennsylvania has extended test-optional admissions through the 2023-2024 application cycle and Cornell University extended the policy through the 2024-2025 cycle, while Harvard University and Princeton University extended the policy through the 2025-2026 cycle, according to a <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2023/03/01/columbia-first-ivy-to-go-permanently-test-optional/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Columbia Spectator.
Students who apply to Columbia and decline to submit applications with standardized test results will not be disadvantaged against students who do submit their scores. “We will continue to evaluate all submitted information within an individualized application review process that considers the unique combination of circumstances shaping each applicant&#8217;s journey,” the university added.
The phenomenon extends beyond undergraduate admissions: the American Bar Association <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-bar-association-endorses-dropping-lsat-for-admission-to-law-school" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed</a> dropping the LSAT last year as an admission requirement for law schools.
Even as admissions departments at prominent universities drop testing requirements, the College Board, which administers the SAT, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-sat-is-about-to-be-shorter-easier-and-completely-online" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> that students who take the exam will now have more time for each question as the test is revised to be easier and shorter. Scores for the ACT have reached their <a href="https://leadershipblog.act.org/2022/10/GradClassRelease2022.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lowest average</a> in three decades, a phenomenon that corresponded with dismal learning outcomes during school lockdowns. Reports of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aspiring-medical-students-at-top-school-get-their-chemistry-professor-fired-because-his-class-had-high-standards" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cheating and declining standards</a> have meanwhile emerged from the nation’s universities as the institutions end remote learning arrangements and return to conventional instruction.
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Universities often eliminate standardized testing requirements in order to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/uc-system-discarded-sat-test-as-hard-on-minorities-they-ignored-study-saying-it-actually-helped-minority-admissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">advance</a> purported racial equity. The permanent end of required standardized exam submissions at Columbia occurs as the Supreme Court may <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-supreme-court-may-kill-affirmative-action-heres-what-you-need-to-know" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rule</a> against affirmative action, a policy by which universities promote individuals of various minority groups in admissions processes.
Numerous studies have highlighted the disadvantages faced by Asian and white applicants as universities seek to reserve places for black and Hispanic students. One study from 2009 concluded that Asians required an SAT score approximately 140 points higher than white applicants, 270 points higher than Hispanic applicants, and 450 points higher than black applicants, according to a <a href="https://asianamericanforeducation.org/en/issue/discrimination-on-admissions/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from the Asian American Coalition for Education.

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Brown University offered a new class to minority students only, a decision that prompted a backlash.
In May, the Ivy League school in Providence, Rhode Island, began offering a teacher training class on mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), but students were only permitted to enroll if they identified as black, indigenous, or Latino.
An anonymous Brown student attempted to enroll in the class but was denied because they do not identify as BIPOC. The student pushed back and raised the alarm, filing a complaint with the Foundation Against Intolerance &amp; Racism (FAIR).
&#8220;Brown is offering a RACE-BASED teacher training program that is ONLY open to certain demographics (black, latino, indigenous),&#8221; the student wrote in their May 13 <a href="https://www.fairtransparency.org/incident-report?iid=627e738e1098100009500ec8">complaint</a>.
&#8220;This is a return to educational segregation based on skin color,&#8221; the student wrote.
The student said that the teachers of this particular class would also be BIPOC.
The certificate program also offers financial aid to the BIPOC students but does not offer such assistance to white and Asian students who may not be able to afford the program either, the student claimed.
&#8220;This results in certain demographics being favored over others and is discriminatory,&#8221; the student wrote.
&#8220;As a student of the program, I find myself being unable to continue my training with this institution as I refuse to support educational segregation based solely on skin color as it violates my core principles, values, and the Buddhist teachings that which this program is based on,&#8221; the student wrote.
Earlier this month, FAIR sent a <a href="https://www.fairforall.org/content/pdfs/general/Letter-to-Brown-University-BIPOC-only-Mindfulness-Based-Stress-Reduction-Class.pdf?_t=1656000139">letter</a> to Brown urging the university to open the class to all students.
&#8220;We urge the university to open the program to any deserving student without regard to their immutable traits,&#8221; FAIR attorney Leigh Ann O’Neill wrote. &#8220;We also believe that such a gesture would demonstrate Brown’s commitment to non-discrimination and equal access.&#8221;
Brown <a href="https://www.fairforall.org/content/pdfs/general/Brown-University-Response-to-FAIR.png?_t=1656000522">responded</a> on June 21, acknowledging FAIR&#8217;s letter and saying the university intends to respond as soon as possible.
Since the complaint, Brown has scrapped the decision only to allow students of color to take the class. The school will permit any student to enroll in the course, which picks up again in August.
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“Upon further review of our early promotional materials for the program, we realigned them to reflect the program’s inclusive nature, while still meeting the goal of addressing the needs, life experiences, and priorities of marginalized communities,” Dr. Eric Loucks, director of Brown University’s Mindfulness Center where the class is held, told the New York Post.
Loucks initially defended the decision to allow only BIPOC people to enroll in the class.
“The intent is to reach future teachers who have a special interest in or history of personal engagement with the experiences of Black, Indigenous, and/or Latino/Latina/Latinx peoples and others who have been underrepresented in the mindfulness field,” Loucks <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/brown-university-mindfulness-course-offered-only-to-minority-students/">said</a>.
Brown is not the only Ivy League school to offer a minorities-only class in recent years.
Last year, Cornell University <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/05/05/cornell-defends-bipoc-only-rock-climbing-class-after-online-uproar/">offered</a> a rock-climbing class for “people who identify as Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian, or other people of color.” The course prompted backlash online, with critics accusing the school of racism.
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/harvard">Harvard</a> University President Lawrence Bacow announced on Wednesday that he would step down from the helm of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivy-league">prestigious school</a> next year.
“There is never a good time to leave a job like this one, but now seems right to me,” Bacow said in a message to the school community, per <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvard-president-lawrence-s-bacow-stepping-down-next-june-after-five-years-11654715428">The Wall Street Journal</a>. “Through our collective efforts, we have found our way through the pandemic. We have worked together to sustain Harvard through change and through storm.”
The 70-year-old academic expressed a desire to spend more time with his children and grandchildren. Before serving as the 29th president of Harvard for the past five years, Bacow <a href="https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/lawrence-bacow">held roles</a> in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and Graduate School of Education. He also served as chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and president of Tufts University.
Harvard’s endowment grew from $39 billion in 2018 to $53 billion in 2021, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Under Bacow’s leadership, Harvard battled in court over a lawsuit contending that the Ivy League school <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/just-in-supreme-court-will-hear-cases-challenging-race-based-affirmative-action">discriminated against Asian-American students</a> in their admissions process. The Supreme Court took up the case earlier this year.
Bacow also led Harvard through COVID-19 and the political controversies that followed the death of George Floyd. In most instances, Bacow reacted by nodding to the progressive Left.
“Our nation has once again been shocked by the senseless killing of yet another black person — George Floyd — at the hands of those charged with protecting us,” Bacow <a href="https://www.harvard.edu/president/news/2020/what-i-believe/">said</a> in May 2020. “Cities are erupting. Our nation is deeply divided. Leaders who should be bringing us together seem incapable of doing so.”
Bacow also launched an initiative to examine the school’s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-releases-slavery-report-findings-pledges-100-million-to-right-past-wrongs">history with slavery</a> in 2019. A report revealed last month that between the school’s founding in 1636 and the abolition of Massachusetts slavery in 1783, Harvard affiliates held at least 70 slaves. As a result, Harvard pledged $100 million to right past wrongs.
“The truth is that slavery played a significant part in our institutional history,” Bacow announced. “The truth is that the legacy of slavery continues to influence the world in the form of disparities in education, health, wealth, income, social mobility, and almost any other metric we might use to measure equality.”
Over the past two years, Harvard joined other postsecondary institutions in rolling back its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/harvard-wont-require-standardized-tests-through-2026">standardized testing requirements</a>. High schoolers vying for a spot in the undergraduate class of 2027, 2028, 2029, or 2030 will no longer need to submit scores for the SAT or ACT.
In the wake of President Joe Biden’s victory, Harvard <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gop-rep-elise-stefanik-responds-after-harvard-cuts-her-from-politics-advisory-board">removed</a> Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) — a Harvard alumna — from her role on the advisory board of the school’s Institute of Politics over her claims about election integrity.
“My request was not about political parties, political ideology, or her choice of candidate for president,” Dean of the Faculty of the Kennedy School Doug Elmendorf explained in a statement. “Rather, in my assessment, Elise has made public assertions about voter fraud in November’s presidential election that have no basis in evidence, and she has made public statements about court actions related to the election that are incorrect.”
“In my conversation with Elise, she declined to step aside, and I told her that I would therefore remove her from the IOP’s Senior Advisory Committee at this time,” he added.

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A new shock <a href="https://features.thecrimson.com/2022/senior-survey/">poll</a> from Harvard’s student newspaper, the Crimson, shows that of graduating seniors, only 6.4% are conservative-leaning in their politics. This is of course wildly out of step with a country almost evenly divided ideologically. While the poll raises familiar questions about progressive hegemony in arts, entertainment, corporate boardrooms, and a plethora of other American institutions, in this case, it is particularly dangerous.
Harvard, and indeed the entire Ivy League play a unique role in how America governs itself. In fact, they always have. Part of the raison d&#8217;etre of America’s oldest college was to produce men who learned enough to serve in the government of the fledgling Massachusetts Bay Colony of the mid-17th Century. Nearly 400 years later Harvard is still a pipeline to power, it is still where those who make decisions for others are trained in such pursuits.
There is a key difference today, however. 
Back in 1640, policy in Boston was decided almost exclusively by elected officials who answered to voters. Today, however, most of America’s government is composed of unelected bureaucrats. Because of this, the far left bias of the highly educated produces bizarre results that nobody ever voted for. Things like men competing in women’s sports, grants for Critical Race Theory (CRT), and even “disinformation boards,” are codified not by ballot, but by the progressive whims of our Ivy-educated elites.
This is not entirely new, of course. In fact, in the 1950s the seminal text of movement conservatism was a book titled, “God and Man at Yale.” The author, William F Buckley, decried the excesses of liberalism at his alma mater, but while he saw extreme bias in the institution, he did not see the utter and total lack of tolerance for “wrongthink” that has become the center of our current discussions about higher education.
Today, these campuses are home to a toxic combination of beliefs, where conservative ideas are not only rare to find, but any attempt to bring in outside voices that reflect the views of millions upon millions of Americans are shut down as bigoted, or unsafe. 
This progressive silo is how so many graduates of elite schools—who run much of our nation—come not only to believe that their political beliefs are the right and true ones, but that in fact, they are the only ones.
Many esteemed thinkers argue that the woke progressivism in vogue at these top schools is, in fact, a new religion. And while some of the rituals have a religious flavor, one key ingredient is missing. Religion requires a duty to a God or object outside of oneself and one’s whims. In contemporary progressivism, the source of all morality and even reality itself is the self. Hence, phrases like “this is my truth.”
What we have here is not a religion, but a grand unifying principle. Religions produce consistent maxims or rules that generally apply to all people in all circumstances. The grand unifying theory of modern progressivism produces no such precepts, rather it creates a network of tenuous connections that buttress each other. Another way to say this is that the principles of progressivism intersect. This intersectionality—in which only certain people are allowed to say certain things based on their self-described identity—is how a Supreme Court nominee can say, with a straight face, that she has no idea how to define the word woman.
Today we find ourselves with a batch of young, high-end civil servants who learned more about the principles of equity than the principle of government, who are more rooted in the sins of our founding than in its elegant promise. The upshot of this is that these unelected officials lead a nation and a culture that they don&#8217;t really like very much. 
There are two basic ways to address this problem. One is for the institutions like Harvard to, dare I say, liberalize and allow for a broader ideological range of thought. Don’t hold your breath for that. The other option is for all of us—but especially those who do government hiring—to end this primacy of the Ivy League. Are we truly convinced anymore that a Harvard man can better lead us than a good student from a state university? Perhaps one that actually has conservatives on campus?
So long as we continue to pretend that Harvard and other elite schools produce uniquely qualified public servants, the farther our government will stray from the ideas and the will of the people. Let’s cut off the ‘Ivy-to-government’ pipeline and give some other folks a chance. If nothing else, it might wake up the woke ivory tower and show them how single ideology education is a path to its own irrelevance.
David Marcus is a writer and theater artist based in Brooklyn, NY.
The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author&#8217;s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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An <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ivy-league">Ivy League</a> professor is under fire for suggesting Texas police didn&#8217;t respond sooner to last week&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrats-pounce-on-texas-school-shooting-demand-taking-away-constitutional-rights">school shooting in Uvalde</a> because they &#8220;didn&#8217;t give a damn&#8221; about children who were largely Latino.
Anthea Butler, an associate professor of Religious Studies and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and an MSNBC contributor, made the shocking claim in a tweet that she later deleted. The charge came amid damning new information about the delayed response of local police, who reportedly waited more than an hour to storm a Robb Elementary School classroom where the shooter was slaughtering children.
&#8220;So since no one else will ask, I will. Did those children die because most of them were Mexican American and the police didn&#8217;t give a damn about a school w predominately brown kids? I mean, because it&#8217;s Texas..and if you think everyone who isn&#8217;t white is illegal,&#8221; Butler tweeted on Friday.
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Critics note that Uvalde School District Police Chief Pedro &#8220;Pete&#8221; Arredondo, who reportedly held officers back as 19 children and two teachers were killed by a gunman, is Latino, as is city Police Chief Daniel Rodriguez. Several of the local and federal officers who responded to the scene are also Latino, and many have children in the school.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s policy is to not name the shooter, who was finally killed by an elite Border Patrol agent, because mass shooters are often motivated by a desire for infamy.
George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley wrote about Butler&#8217;s claim <a href="https://jonathanturley.org/2022/05/29/i-mean-because-its-texas-penn-professor-alleges-police-may-have-delayed-rescue-in-uvalde-due-to-racism/">on his blog</a>, saying it should be protected as free speech, but noted that conservative professors who make far less divisive statements backed by evidence are often punished or fired.
&#8220;Professor Butler has a long history of offensive racial statements,&#8221; Turley wrote. &#8220;While some have previously called for her termination, these comments (including this disgraceful tweet) should be protected under principles of free speech and academic freedom. However, this is another example of the double standard often applied at universities, which are quick to investigate, discipline, or fire conservative, libertarian, or dissenting faculty members in such controversies.&#8221;
Others on Twitter blasted Butler&#8217;s hot take.
&#8220;Anthea Butler is the new kind of College intellectual racist, dumb and absolutely wrong,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/johncxgx/status/1530868709593686016?s=20&amp;t=GKJeJAlYbJz_PMurqEaCww">tweeted @Johncxgw</a>.
&#8220;That is crazy,&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/RCalantjis/status/1530878217845936129?s=20&amp;t=GKJeJAlYbJz_PMurqEaCww">tweeted @RCalantjis</a>. &#8220;There were white kids who died too. This has nothing to do with it.&#8221;
Butler has <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=15673">described</a> conservatives as “craven and evil” and called black neurosurgeon and former Trump administration Housing and Urban Development Secretary Dr. Ben Carson a “coon.” She is the author of a book entitled <a href="https://uncpress.org/book/9781469661179/white-evangelical-racism/">White Evangelical Racism</a>, in which she claims that Christianity in the United States is interwoven with the institution of slavery and support of the Ku Klux Klan, according to <a href="https://professorwatchlist.org/professor/antheabutler">Professor Watch List</a>.
Butler has also claimed that evangelical Christians believe that police are “ordained” by God to kill black people.

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A mother of a female swimmer in the Ivy League spoke out in an explosive video condemning those in charge for allowing a transgender swimmer, who is biologically male, to compete against females.
The mother, who says her daughter has personally competed against Lia Thomas, complained that a &#8220;full-grown male&#8221; is now being allowed to &#8220;take&#8221; from female competitors and break their hard-earned records. She also claimed her daughter and other biologically female swimmers were warned by higher-ups not to speak about the transgender issue.
&#8220;Holy cow, we&#8217;re going to talk about a male swimmer — a full-grown male — attempting to take down female icon records, and taking a spot on an Ivy team from one of the Penn swimmers, who have rightfully deserved it,&#8221; she told Independent Women&#8217;s Forum, <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/ncaa-swimmer-mother-female-athletes-frightened-lia-thomas">according</a> to the Post Millennial. &#8220;And we&#8217;re talking about, this person&#8217;s gonna swim on every relay going forward at championship meets, is going to take the position of a woman on a travel team, is going to take a space in every finals.&#8221;
Girls are &#8220;frightened&#8221; to speak out about the inequality after they were warned to keep their mouths shut, the mother explained.
&#8220;And they&#8217;re frightened,&#8221; the woman said, her voice shaking with emotion. &#8220;They&#8217;re frightened of losing friends. They&#8217;re frightened of being kicked off their teams. They&#8217;re frightened of being told by their universities that they&#8217;re transphobic and hateful.&#8221;
Independent Women&#8217;s Forum identified the woman as &#8220;Margaret,&#8221; captioning the video: &#8220;Margaret’s* daughter is a swimmer in the Ivy League who’s been forced to compete all season against XY athlete Will &#8216;Lia&#8217; Thomas. Thomas — who competed for three years on the University of Pennsylvania Men’s Swim Team — has dominated women’s collegiate swimming competitions this season and broken numerous female legacy records.&#8221;
&#8220;The NCAA, USA Swimming, the Ivy League, and University of Pennsylvania have all turned their backs on female athletes,&#8221; the group said. &#8220;When biological males are allowed to swim on women’s teams, female athletes lose. They lose opportunities to win and to compete. And… they lose self-confidence. Dividing athletes by biological sex gives women the chance to compete and win.&#8221;
The mother said she fears for her daughter but felt she needed to speak out about the injustice.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want my daughter to have any repercussions based upon my desire to speak out for sex-based rights and representation for women,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She deserves to have a college experience unmarred by this issue, and she deserves to have the time and ability to process what&#8217;s going on with her in her own way.&#8221;
&#8220;At the end of the day, I hope that the IOC, the NCAA, and governing bodies of sport all recognize that women are women,&#8221; the woman closed. &#8220;We can&#8217;t shrug off our sex. Men are men, they can&#8217;t shrug off their sex, and women&#8217;s sports is protected for females.&#8221;
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