The Buffalo Bills have released rookie punter Matt Araiza after he was accused of being part of a gang rape of a 17-year-old girl while in college in 2021.
Bills General Manager Brandon Beane made the announcement during a <a href="https://twitter.com/BuffaloBills/status/1563675228957450240" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press conference</a> on Saturday.
&#8220;We just think it&#8217;s the best move for everyone to move on from Matt (Araiza) and let him take care of this situation and focus that,&#8221; Beane <a href="https://www.buffalobills.com/news/brandon-beane-sean-mcdermott-announced-the-release-of-matt-araiza" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
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GM Brandon Beane: This afternoon, we decided that releasing Matt Araiza was the best thing to do. Our culture in Buffalo is more important than winning football games. <a href="https://t.co/soHPcePFxz">pic.twitter.com/soHPcePFxz</a>
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&#8220;Her representative spoke to Kathryn (D&#8217;Angelo) and laid out some of the things that they were accusing Matt (Araiza) and others of,&#8221; Beane added. &#8220;At that time, our process, we tried to be thorough and thoughtful and not rush to judgment. I would say it&#8217;s not easy, you&#8217;re trying to put facts around a legal situation, sometimes with limited information, and so ultimately that&#8217;s where we&#8217;re at today with a decision.&#8221;
Beane explained that the Bills and other NFL teams considering Araiza ahead of the 2022 NFL draft were unaware of the allegations at the time. The team was first made aware of the concerns just last month.
Bills Head Coach Sean McDermott also answered questions from reporters during the press conference. When asked about his message to women regarding the allegation, he was straightforward about the seriousness of the accusations against Araiza.
“This is a game, but there are other things that are more important than this,&#8221; McDermott answered.
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“This is a game, but there are other things that are more important than this.” <a href="https://t.co/Me6ybkRfzD">pic.twitter.com/Me6ybkRfzD</a>
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The punter did not play in the team&#8217;s preseason game on Friday ahead of the announcement.
Araiza&#8217;s attorney Kerry Armstrong told ESPN in a <a href="https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/34472012/buffalo-bills-release-punter-matt-araiza-wake-gang-rape-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>, &#8220;I am sure he is very upset and disappointed that his career with the Bills ended not because he played poorly, but because of false allegations leveled against him by a young lady and her attorney. I hope he is back in the NFL soon.&#8221;
Araiza is one of three men accused in the lawsuit that allegedly occurred when the punter played at San Diego State University. He was known as the &#8220;punt god&#8221; for his booming long-distance kicks.
The legal action claims the then 17-year-old high school senior was in and out of consciousness but remembers being assaulted outside of a home at a party and then brought inside where she was raped by other men.
Zavier Leonard and Nowlin “Pa’a” Ewaliko were the other two men named in the lawsuit. Leonard is listed on the San Diego State football roster as a freshman, while Ewalisko was on the team last year but is not on this season&#8217;s roster, <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-25/nfl-matt-araiza-sdsu-football-players-accused-rape-lawsuit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to</a> The Los Angeles Times.
The report also noted the anonymous student reported the rape shortly after the alleged incident. She spoke out concerning the issue last month, with the lawsuit formally filed in San Diego County Superior Court on Thursday.

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In March 2020, San Diego State University (SDSU) unveiled its new “racial healing garden” that was meant to honor Native Americans and the Aztec culture after students complained the school’s mascot, and Aztec warrior, was racist.
The healing garden cost $250,000 plus upkeep and yet, nearly two years after it was first built, it remains virtually unused, the College Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/sdsu-spent-250k-to-build-a-racial-healing-garden-nobody-uses-it/">reports</a>. The outlet reported that the garden was “built amid tensions regarding the Aztec warrior mascot, accused of racism, cultural appropriation and toxic masculinity.” A 2018 Aztec Identity Task Force convened by the school reported that the garden would honor Native Americans “at a time when we need to ‘heal’ over the issue of indigenous identities.”
A grand opening was scheduled for the garden’s completion, but it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and several campus sources told the Fix it hasn’t been used much since then. One professor told the outlet, “I pass it nearly every day I go to my office. It cost a quarter million dollars, and every day, it’s empty.”
“There’s not a single person sitting on the one bench they installed. So it’s a quarter million dollars for … what precisely? A garden that nobody visits,” the professor added.
The Fix asked this professor whether medicinal marijuana was being grown in the garden, to which the professor replied: “At least if they grew pot, it would have a use.”
The SDSU College Republicans told the Fix that they haven’t seen anyone using the garden either.
“We can say will (sic) full confidence that most, if not all, of us at SDSU CR have not noticed the garden being used or enjoyed by anyone,” the group said in a statement. “It is sad to see such an incredible amount of money spent on something that seems to be forgotten by most of the students of SDSU. This is especially sad because such a project like a garden should foster a positive community environment on campus. We hope to see the university take more steps to encourage engagement with the garden and it’s surrounding area.”
SDSU’s website explained that the “majority of the plants are annuals and will have a seasonal growth period and then go to seed, die down, and return as new plants while the trees and shrubs will grow larger over time and create a space reflective of the natural environment,” meaning it actually cost more than $250,000 when maintenance is taken into account.
The Fix <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/bowing-to-pressure-sdsu-to-neuter-aztec-warrior-mascot-into-passive-spirit-leader/">reported</a> in 2018 that SDSU bowed to activist pressure and softened its mascot from an Aztec Warrior to a “Spirit Leader.”
“The Aztec Warrior, similarly a source of pride for the collective majority, will be retained, but as Spirit Leader, not mascot,” then-interim SDSU President Sally Roush said at the time. “There will be immediate and visible changes in demeanor to achieve a respectful portrayal of a powerful figure from Aztec culture.”

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A California university is offering a course that revolves around removing President Trump from office.
As Celine Ryan and Brandon Jones report at <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10569">Campus Reform</a>, San Diego State University will offer the one-unit course in March. Professor John Joseph Cleary will teach the class; the text for the course is &#8221;The Case for Impeachment,&#8221; authored by Allan Lichtman, which was released after Trump&#8217;s election and advocates removing him from office.
The course advertises itself thus:
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Focus will be on the two constitutional grounds: impeachment and removal (25th Amendment), and the possible charges of the independent counsel, the powers of the president, a history of the creation of that office and the comparison of divine right and rule of law leadership, presidential impeachments, including Nixon&#8217;s de facto impeachment, practically limitless grounds for impeachment, presidential immunity from indictment and grounds for impeachment, removal, or indictment covering: conflict of interests, foreign emoluments, climate change, racism, religious bias, improper influence, nepotism, and a host of crimes, including conspiracy, false statements, and obstruction of justice.
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Ryan and Jones note, &#8220;The course will be offered through SDSU&#8217;s Criminal Justice program, which is a part of the school&#8217;s College of Professional Studies and Fine Arts.&#8221;
San Diego State seems to be a true bastion for leftists; as The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/21268/san-diego-state-university-students-get-extra-emily-zanotti">reported</a> last September, students at San Diego State University were allowed to earn extra credit in Professor Dae Elliott&#8217;s classes if they took a quiz to determine if they have &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;

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Students at San Diego State University can earn extra credit in Professor Dae Elliott&#8217;s classes if they take a quiz to determine if they have &#8220;white privilege.&#8221;
The quiz is a 20-question checklist that is supposed to help SDSU students dig deep into their past and discover that the color of their skin has afforded them untold benefits in life. The College Fix was able to obtain a copy of this roadmap into cultural structure.
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Written with all the subtlety, intelligence, and research metholody of a Buzzfeed quiz where you click on foods you hate to determine your most problematic personality trait (I took it, it was &#8220;honesty&#8221;), the quiz seeks to determine a person&#8217;s rank of privilege by way of answering questions like whether they can find Band-aids in their flesh tone, whether &#8220;I can turn on the television and see people of my race widely represented,&#8221; and whether &#8220;I am never asked to speak for all the people of my racial group.&#8221;
That last one is particularly ironic, since it&#8217;s part of a quiz to determine whether an entire ethnic group, as a whole, can claim to be privileged above any other entire ethnic group by virtue of their skin color.
The higher your score, the higher your overall privilege. But , of course, the quiz isn&#8217;t necessarily comprehensive. According to the paragraph at the bottom, even if you score low on the test, you can still be privileged if you&#8217;re not of a minority &#8220;gender, sexual orientation, class, [or] religion.&#8221; To earn the full measure of extra credit, students were also required to reflect on their score in an essay.
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Were you surprised by your score, or did it confirm what you already knew? Why is privilege normally invisible and what does it feel like to make it visible? Do you think this exercise is different for white students than for students of color? For black students than for Asian, Indian, Latino/a students, or other students of color?&#8221;
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Professor Elliot told the College Fix that the exercise is meant to encourage a form of self-acutalization among students who haven&#8217;t been exposed to other cultures (or, for that matter, to many social justice warriors).
&#8220;Only through processes that allow us to share intersubjectively, weigh all of our perspectives according to amount of shareable empirical evidence can we approximate an objective understanding of our society,&#8221; she said. &#8220;It may never be perfect, in fact, I am sure we will always be improving but it is a better response if we are truly seekers of what is truth, what is reality. In a society that values fairness, our injustices that are institutionalized are often made invisible.&#8221;
San Diego State University College Republicans disagree, calling the exercise &#8220;divisive,&#8221; and noting that while people may experience various privilges and benefits, the excercise was meant to drive home the idea that minorities are victims of a deliberately unjust society that can only be equalized with extensive government involvement.

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Jumping on the bandwagon of Orwellian doublethink propounded by members of the left eager to obliterate gender distinctions, San Diego State University will no longer honor a homecoming &#8220;king&#8221; and &#8220;queen,&#8221; <a href="http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/homecoming/images/homeapp.pdf">choosing to honor</a> two &#8220;Royals,&#8221; be they LGBTQAAII (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Pansexual, Transgender, Transsexual, Queer, Questioning, Intersex, Intergender, Asexual, Ally) &#8211; or whatever floats your boat.
Yup, no more of that simple boy-meets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl romance; this Saturday, SDSU will select from a panoply of choices reflecting the vast cultural wasteland that America has become.
The Daily Aztec campus newspaper <a href="http://www.thedailyaztec.com/71504/news/homecoming-court-goes-gender-neutral/">trumpeted</a>, &#8220;During the application process, candidates were allowed to select gender-neutral pronouns to identify themselves. These gender-inclusive pronouns aim to dispel the common gender binary of categorizing people as solely masculine or feminine.&#8221;
On Wednesday, Jordan Dennison, chairman of the SDSU College Republicans, emailed <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25044/">The College Fix</a> his outrage, stating, &#8220;It&#8217;s just a case of the PC police feeling the need to screw with an all-American tradition under the façade of &#8216;progression.&#8217; Imagine all of the alumni at the game who are going to see that and wonder &#8216;what the hell was SDSU thinking?&#8217;&#8221;
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&#8220;It&#8217;s just a case of the PC police feeling the need to screw with an all-American tradition under the façade of &#8216;progression.&#8217; Imagine all of the alumni at the game who are going to see that and wonder &#8216;what the hell was SDSU thinking?&#8217;&#8221;
Jordan Dennison, chairman of the SDSU College Republicans
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But SDSU Women&#8217;s Resource Center Coordinator Jessica Nare enthused, &#8220;We are lucky to be on a campus that is really diverse, and so I think having systems in place that reflect the students on campus is a really positive thing. The reality is we don&#8217;t live in a gender-binary system and so really recognizing that in a public way is really important and exciting.&#8221;
Just how many genders does she think exist?

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