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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A &#8220;racial advocacy group” in Dallas issued a <a href="https://www.dallasjustice.org/college-pledge">press releas</a>e in which they told whites to pledge that their children would “not apply to or attend any Ivy League School or US News &amp; World Report Top 50 School,” urged the white parents to “encourage friends, neighbors, and family members to do the same” and then threatened, “Please note Dallas Justice Now will be publicly announcing the names of those who have and have not signed the pledge.”
Dallas Justice Now (DJN) wrote to their “White Allies”:
<blockquote>Talk is not enough. Commit yourself towards taking action and making sacrifices to correct centuries of injustice. Open up spaces for Black and LatinX communities by refusing to send your kids to Ivy League and US News &amp; World Report Top 50 schools and encourage friends, neighbors, and family members to do the same. Imagine if those hundreds of thousands of spots at these institutions were occupied only by marginalized communities. Imagine the opportunities. We can achieve true equity within our lifetimes but only if white folks are willing to sacrifice their privileges.</blockquote>
The release continued with the “Dallas Justice Now Pledge”:
<blockquote>As a white person with privilege both from my whiteness and my neighborhood I recognize the need to make sacrifices for the purpose of correcting hundreds of years of murder, slavery, discrimination, and lack of educational and economic opportunities perpetrated upon people of color. I understand that access to top schools is a key component in economic and social advancement. Therefore, I commit that my children will not apply to or attend any Ivy League School or US News &amp; World Report Top 50 School so that position at that school is available for people of color to help correct historical wrongs.  If I do not have children under 18 then I will commit to encouraging my white privileged friends, neighbors, and family members with children to sign the pledge and holding them accountable until they do so. </blockquote>
“Have you been asked to take the pledge?” the release asked. “Don’t be a racist hypocrite. Sign the pledge today!” At the bottom of the release it stated, “Please note Dallas Justice Now will be publicly announcing the names of those who have and have not signed the pledge.”
Michele Washington, founder of Dallas Justice Now, told <a href="https://dallascitywire.com/stories/605885227-dallas-justice-now-advises-rich-whites-to-make-space-for-minorities-at-ivy-league-schools-by-redirecting-their-applications">Dallas City Wire</a>, “Our pledge was brought about by the need to give kids in our community educational opportunities that we have been denied for centuries. … Many wealthy white folks including those who live in the 95% white Park Cities think they are allies because they put up a Black Lives Matter sign or parade black people like animals at their charity galas that somehow they aren’t part of the problem. They are the problem. If whites want to be our allies, they MUST make sacrifices.”
Dallas City Wire added, “Pledge letters are currently being sent out in the 95% white Highland Park and University Park neighborhoods of Dallas, according to a<a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dallas-justice-now-asks-white-allies-to-sign-historic-college-pledge-make-sacrifices-to-bridge-wealth-and-education-disparities-301335773.html"> DJN press release.</a>”
Washington stated, “Since their creation, top educational institutions have been vehicles for the perpetuation of white supremacy. Most top universities only opened their doors to our community in the 1960s but even then have done everything possible to make us feel like second-class citizens. Ivy League and other Top 50 Schools provide the best vehicles for upward mobility, particularly for marginalized communities. Yet, a vast majority of the spots at these institutions are taken by wealthy white folks.”

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