Earlier today, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos delivered <a href="https://www.ed.gov/news/speeches/prepared-remarks-secretary-devos-federal-student-aids-training-conference">prepared remarks</a> at a training conference for <a href="https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/">Federal Student Aid</a> (FSA). FSA, bureaucratically housed within the U.S. Department of Education (DOE), is the office responsible for doling out &#8220;more than $120 billion a year in grants, work-study funds, and low-interest loans to approximately 13 million students,&#8221; according to the DOE&#8217;s <a href="https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/fsa/index.html">website</a>. According to the site, more than 21 million students last year applied for federal student aid in some form. FSA dates back to 1965, when its mission was established by the Higher Education Act.
In her speech today, Secretary DeVos began by lauding FSA for &#8220;com[ing] alongside students who lack financial resources to pursue higher education[and &#8230;] expand[ing] access to learning for those who aren&#8217;t wealthy, powerful, or well-connected.&#8221; But DeVos then observed that &#8220;students don&#8217;t pursue higher education in the same way they did back&#8221; in 1965. And so DeVos said that DOE, under her watch, is committed to &#8220;rethinking FSA, &#8230; modernizing FSA&#8217;s infrastructure, and totally revamping the way [FSA] connect[s] with students.&#8221; Hitting a crescendo, DeVos lamented how FSA &#8220;cannot fulfill its mission&#8221; in its current form.
Reaching the key portion of her speech, DeVos then suggested that FSA be bureaucratically restructured as a &#8220;standalone government corporation&#8221;:
<blockquote>One has to wonder: Why isn&#8217;t FSA a standalone government corporation, run by a professional, expert, and apolitical Board of Governors?
A separate FSA would be better positioned to deliver world-class service to students and their families as they finance higher education. It would manage the student loan portfolio and work to secure its financial strength and sustainability. And it would do all the things it&#8217;s been charged to do — only far better. &#8230;
This is an idea that warrants far more discussion. We should be discussing whether FSA would be stronger as a standalone entity — wholly and entirely separate from the U.S. Department of Education. We should be talking about the benefits of professional, experienced leadership who, as in the private sector, would be responsible for setting strategy for FSA, for overseeing the management of the loan portfolio, for ensuring institutions hold up their end of the bargain, and for reporting to Congress.</blockquote>
Structural reform at the FSA — and re-evaluating how the federal government entangles itself in the student loan enterprise, more generally — ought to be music to the ears of conservatives. According to <a href="http://Debt.org">Debt.org</a>, &#8220;Student loan debt has soared from $260 billion in 2004 to $1.4 trillion in 2017; average debt jumped from $18,650 to $38,000 over that same period; and the number of people over 60 with student loan debt has quadrupled in the last decade from 700,000 to 2.8 million.&#8221; Those statistics ought to strike the prudent, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-fiscal-conservatism-dead-republicans-killed-josh-hammer">fiscally conservative</a>, and debt-averse among us as genuinely harrowing.
Conservatives routinely assail the perverse incentive structures that lead many quixotic teens to take out large-scale loans en route to all-too predictable and ubiquitous leftist indoctrination on the university campus. Here is how Inez Feltscher Stepman <a href="https://americanmind.org/features/post-trump-politics/stop-americas-woke-seminaries-now/">articulated the sentiment earlier this year</a> for the Claremont Institute&#8217;s American Mind site:
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William F. Buckley wrote God and Man at Yale seven decades ago. Yet the university system still enjoys full public financial backing as though it had not degenerated from the elevated institution of yesteryear into an archipelago of training camps for Leftist activism. Whether Democrats or Republicans are in charge, Congress continues to increase its student loan investments, the lifeblood that has enabled insane cost increases well above inflation rates, as well as billions in direct grants to universities. &#8230;
Why should Republican legislators extend special lines of credit, financed by the two thirds of Americans who do not pursue a bachelor’s degree, to students to study at temples of wokeness? This is a question that few on the Republican side are asking, but more should.
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Betsy DeVos Suggests Federal Student Aid Should Be A ‘Standalone’ Entity

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In a truly saddening but by no means unpredictable development, the <a href="https://amchainitiative.org">AMCHA Initiative</a>, which is a watchdog organization dedicated to investigating and combating anti-Semitism on university campuses across America, reported this week a <a href="https://mailchi.mp/amchainitiative/eliminationist-anti-zionism-report">70% rise</a> over the past year in anti-Semitic incidents directed against pro-Israel students on college campuses. As <a href="https://freebeacon.com/issues/report-anti-semitic-harassment-at-u-s-college-campuses-hits-historic-levels/">reported</a> by Adam Kredo of The Washington Free Beacon, AMCHA noted a drop in &#8220;classical&#8221; white supremacist-inspired Jew-hatred targeted against Jews on university campuses, but a huge spike in Israel-related acts of harassment against Jews and other non-Jewish Zionists who stand in solidarity with the Jewish state.
The trend is hardly new, and The Daily Wire has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38722/pitzer-college-faculty-goes-full-anti-israel-votes-hank-berrien">extensively</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47153/shocking-there-absolutely-appalling-anti-semitism-josh-hammer">covered</a> the years-long development of escalating anti-Semitic incidents on the American campus. Indeed, the <a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/11/30/bds-in-politics-and-on-the-college-campus/">problem has been so bad</a> that a group wholly distinct from AMCHA but similarly dedicated to combating on-campus anti-Semitism was founded in 2015: <a href="https://www.maccabeetaskforce.org">Maccabee Task Force</a>. The question now facing the American Jewish and pro-Israel communities is simple: How can we begin to shift the on-campus narrative away from anti-Semitism and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/46068/hammer-yes-united-states-was-right-deny-entry-bds-josh-hammer">Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions</a> movement and back toward a pro-Jewish, pro-Israel stance?
I have personally observed this ongoing fight across numerous college campuses and have been a part of more than one pro-Israel university event that was protested and/or forcibly shouted down by the Jew-hating miscreants of the misnamed hate group &#8220;Students for Justice in Palestine.&#8221; I have seen the vicious faces of those who yell &#8220;<a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/nakba-day-catastrophe-palestinians-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-gaza-west-bank-hamas-a8346156.html">Nakba</a>!&#8221; and the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38814/watch-cnns-hill-appears-call-elimination-israel-ryan-saavedra">genocidal eliminationist phrase</a>, &#8220;from the river to the sea, &#8216;Palestine&#8217; shall be free.&#8221; (One must wonder whether these people feel similarly about liberating other legally fictitious locales, such as Mordor or Narnia.) I also have seen many Israeli flag-wielding students push back with hapless pleas for &#8220;peace!,&#8221; &#8220;tolerance!,&#8221; and (<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/50850/hammer-yes-palestinian-state-far-more-dangerous-josh-hammer">unfortunately</a>) &#8220;two states!&#8221;
Do my fellow proud Zionists see the problem here? The Palestinian-Arab side of the argument may be genocidal and jihad-loving, but at least they present a morally framed narrative (no matter how grossly immoral that narrative actually is). The pro-Jewish/pro-Israel side, by contrast, tends toward an overly defensive, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/45203/hammer-what-exactly-current-role-aipac-josh-hammer">AIPAC-inspired</a> defensive posture that relies on a non-substantive, purely procedural narrative.
Interestingly, then, the fight against Israel-inspired Jew-hatred on the university campus can actually learn much from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/51891/hammer-american-mind-our-constitutional-order-josh-hammer">ongoing conservative dialogue</a> between the New York Post’s Sohrab Ahmari and National Review’s David French. Procedure-based arguments, especially when confronted with a substance-based argumentative opposition, are unlikely to be sufficient; the only way to truly make a dialectic dent is to argue on the substantive merits of an issue and argue in overtly moral terms. I <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/47964/hammer-conservatives-must-make-their-arguments-josh-hammer">wrote as much</a> in June: &#8220;Advocates for Israel on the American university campus must transition away from pleas for &#8216;peace&#8217; and &#8216;tolerance&#8217; and toward arguments grounded in the inherent, biblically derived morality of a Jewish state existing between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.&#8221;
This simply must be the path forward for Jewish and pro-Israel students on campus who are invested in helping to turn back the tide of rising on-campus anti-Semitism. Jewish and Zionist students must make the moral, historically informed case that Zionism — which is simply the Jewish right to self-determination in the Jews&#8217; biblical, ancestral homeland — is an inherently beautiful phenomenon. These courageous students must argue that the culmination of Herzl&#8217;s Zionist vision, the establishment in 1948 of a sovereign Jewish state in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Israel">Eretz Yisrael </a>for the very first time in millennia, represents one of the most profoundly beautiful developments in human civilization over the course of the last century. These students must advance direct, overt, morally based arguments that defend the beauty of that Zionism. These students must also advance historically and legally informed arguments that rebut the utter <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYZBjoeeehg">mendacity that is &#8220;Nakba&#8221;</a> and other purported Palestinian-Arab <a href="https://www.prageru.com/video/why-isnt-there-a-palestinian-state/">&#8220;national&#8221; humiliations</a>.
Appeasement and unilateral disarmament — here, in terms of the use of overt moral terminology — never work. The students who take the lead on this initiative will necessarily be bold. They will be valiant. And they will face mighty resistance from the leftist/Islamist alliance all across the nation. But these students will have the benefit of standing for truth, morality, and, fundamentally, justice. It&#8217;s time to get the ball rolling and begin to defeat on-campus Jew-hatred in America.

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HAMMER: How Pro-Israel Students On Campus Can Fight Back Against Jew-Hatred

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Israel

Palestinians

Protest

Students for Justice in Palestine

Zionism

On Thursday&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Michael Knowles Show,&#8221; the host discusses how George Washington University is mulling removing statue of America&#8217;s first president in order to please students who claim to be threatened by the mere image of George Washington.
Students at GW University now want to get rid of George Washington. For those of you who don&#8217;t know G.W. University stands for George Washington University, and they want to get rid of their namesake and their mascot. This is the majority of students here. There was a vote that was conducted that fifty-four percent of students at G.W. want to get rid of George Washington. How about George Washington High School in northern California? They now want to get rid of a mural that depicts George Washington. And the way they did it is so insidious. It&#8217;s just that creeping, tyrannical, leftism that seems like it&#8217;s nice and orderly, so they mask all of their totally destructive instincts with this sort of orderliness of bureaucracy and meetings. They didn&#8217;t just take a sledgehammer to it -no. They formed a working group. Oh, it&#8217;s a working group, there&#8217;s a committee and they&#8217;re going to meet and then they&#8217;re going to decide to take a wrecking ball to a work of art and a piece of history.
The working group decided that a mural of George Washington the founder and father of our country at a high school called George Washington High School quote, &#8220;traumatizes students and community members.&#8221; It doesn&#8217;t just offend them it traumatizes them.
This is what we have been seeing increasingly for years now, and what I see at these universities when I go and give speeches there. They are conflating speech with violence. So, it&#8217;s this work of art and history. History is not simply offensive, not simply unpleasant, not simply unappreciated &#8211; no. It is traumatizing, which is to say it is committing an act of violence that has physical repercussions on students. And so, if the school is going to protect the student&#8217;s safety, their physical well-being, then they have to paint over the artwork. Very clever strategy because what the school should say is, we&#8217;re not going to erase art in history because you don&#8217;t like it &#8211; because some mob is demanding it.
What is happening, in reality, is a mob is demanding that we burn books, burn history, burn artwork and burn paintings. But the way the left organizes it is they say, it&#8217;s not a mob it&#8217;s a working group and we&#8217;re not destroying art because it offends us, we&#8217;re destroying art because it traumatizes us. It committed violence on us, so we now will commit violence on it.
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The spokesman for the administration of the school district said, &#8220;at its conclusion, the group voted, and the majority recommended that the life of Washington mural be archived and removed because the mural does not represent the school district&#8217;s values.&#8221; Then what values does the school district hold?
George Washington, the father of our country, created the greatest country in the history of the world. A country premised on the idea that all men are created equal that we&#8217;re endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights among them life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
That, that man and what that man established and presided over and fought for and won, has led to the most just, most equitable, most prosperous and most charitable country in the history of the world ever, at any time. Certainly now, by orders of magnitude.
If the school district doesn&#8217;t stand for that what do, they stand for? What are their principles? They apparently oppose life liberty in the pursuit of happiness. They oppose charity. They oppose justice. They oppose equality. What do they stand for? If we were to give this school district the benefit of the doubt, it seems that they just don&#8217;t know anything about history. They don&#8217;t know anything about George Washington or about what he stands for. But that indictment is just as bad because they&#8217;re a school district. They are supposed to educate students but they don&#8217;t know anything themselves. They don&#8217;t know anything about history.
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KNOWLES: Students Triggered By George Washington Mural

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George Washington University

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Michael Knowles

Earlier this month, Planned Parenthood-supporting students at the University of Texas-San Antonio giddily mocked a pro-life group&#8217;s display known as the &#8220;Cemetery of the Innocents,&#8221; which is a dedication to the unborn killed by abortion.
The Students for Life chapter that created the display caught the vulgar mockery from members of the school&#8217;s Students United for Planned Parenthood group on video.
&#8220;Stop, hey, hey, what&#8217;s that sound, all the fetuses are in the ground!&#8221; sang one female student, dancing in the mock cemetery. She also led chants with the other pro-abortion protesters in support for Planned Parenthood and bragged about getting an abortion herself. &#8220;Look, there&#8217;s mine right there!&#8221; she said, pointing to one of the crosses representing a killed unborn child. Another female student joked that they should &#8220;kiss in the fetus graveyard&#8221; and said getting an abortion is her biggest &#8220;kink,&#8221; according to <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2019/05/01/i-find-it-kinky-to-abort-fetuses-jokes-planned-parenthood-supporter-on-campus/">StudentsForLife.org</a>.
In a <a href="https://studentsforlife.org/2019/05/01/i-find-it-kinky-to-abort-fetuses-jokes-planned-parenthood-supporter-on-campus/">report</a> posted to the pro-life group&#8217;s website, Sarah Zarr, the Texas Regional Coordinator for Students for Life, said the protesters took to their display immediately after it was set up. &#8220;Some of the members came to talk to us but would not have dialogue they just wanted to shout their points at us. One girl told me I was using my white privilege and &#8216;wasn&#8217;t allowed to be out there talking about this issue when it affects black women,&#8217;&#8221; Zarr recalled.
The group also had a table with pro-life literature set up. A male protester picked up three stacks of literature from the table and ran off, said Zarr. A pro-life student at the table named Mica chased after him and asked for their materials back, but he &#8220;threw it all in the gutter,&#8221; she claimed.
&#8220;We then went and filed a police report and the police said they couldn&#8217;t do anything because we were handing out the info he didn&#8217;t technically steal even though we said not all of it was to take,&#8221; Zarr said. &#8220;He finally let us a file a police report but said charges can&#8217;t be made until they investigate.&#8221;
Last month, a Cemetery for the Innocents set up by the University of Michigan Ann Arbor&#8217;s Students for Life chapter was desecrated by pro-abortion activists. In video captured by the pro-life group, a female abortion activist is seen picking up pink crosses from the display and placing them in a black trash bag.
&#8220;Is there a reason why you&#8217;re doing this?&#8221; Kaylena Wiederhold, Students for Life&#8217;s Michigan regional coordinator, confronted the activist.
&#8220;We disagree with it,&#8221; responded the pro-abort.
Wiederhold contended, &#8220;Okay, but this isn&#8217;t your property,&#8221;
&#8220;We know that having a conversation isn&#8217;t going to work,&#8221; the vandal said in response.
But when an officer approached the activist, she changed her tune, telling authorities she was merely &#8220;cleaning up&#8221; &#8220;garbage&#8221; on campus.
&#8220;We were just cleaning up this garbage on the school campus, but we&#8217;ve realized that apparently this is someone&#8217;s property. And you&#8217;re telling us to leave it, I&#8217;m assuming?&#8221; she said.
&#8220;Correct. And they do have a permit, like she explained to you,&#8221; the officer answered.
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WATCH: Students Dance Around, Mock Cemetery For The Unborn: ‘Look, There’s Mine Right There!’

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The student government at the University of California Berkeley unanimously passed a resolution that allocates $1,500 to the migrant caravan at the U.S.-Mexico border in Tijuana. 
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fW6RUgPy45-CzwBR4SMG1skEh2kMjtWD-f4WPwQlR44/edit?fbclid=IwAR3vXpqOFsBT5OyYhjm5F20n6966mUqiOg3RyJ69OiABCAcY4Ku3_oLgvtI#">According to the resolution</a>, &#8220;In Support of Central American Refugees in their Pursuit of Asylum,&#8221; the allocated $1,500 will come from commercial revenues and will be distributed to a student organization, Central Americans for Empowerment, which will donate the allocation to the non-profit Freedom for Immigrants to help the caravan.
The resolution also tasked the student government&#8217;s Office of the External Affairs vice president with &#8220;phone-banking and lobbying in support of both emergency and comprehensive immigration reform as part of their national advocacy agenda.&#8221;
In the resolution, the sponsor and co-sponsors claim that the migrant crisis is the fault of the U.S. government because foreign policy &#8220;fueled by corporate greed&#8221; has &#8220;strategically intervened in Central American politics and warfare; thus strengthening the U.S. economy and further disregarding the livelihood of citizens in these countries.&#8221;
&#8220;[S]ince 2009 the U.S. government has given Honduras two hundred million dollars in police and military aid intended to help lower the migration rates from Honduras to the United States,&#8221; the resolution says. &#8220;[D]ue to inadequate intervention on the United States&#8217; behalf, the Honduran government has abused and misused money intended to aid the Honduran people consequently making Honduras one of the most dangerous countries with the highest murder rate in the world.&#8221;
A student associated with the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) and familiar with the process told The Daily Wire that there &#8220;are three different sections for new bills to get sent to,&#8221; but typically new bills get classified as &#8220;New Business&#8221; and get sent to a committee until the next meeting.
&#8220;Senator Nick Araujo, rather than putting it into &#8216;New Business,&#8217; put it into &#8216;Immediate Consideration,&#8217; and some senators were upset about that because they thought it needed to go to &#8216;New Business&#8217; before being considered to be passed,&#8221; said the student, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. &#8220;What Araujo was doing was putting it into the agenda to be immediately considered before it would go to the committee or be given to the public. Six senators thought it should go to the committee, and 14 said that it should go to &#8216;Immediate Consideration.&#8217;&#8221;
Before voting on the resolution, several students voiced why they support the resolution, but some used harsh rhetoric to pressure their peers into voting for the resolution in the four-hour meeting. 
&#8220;Y&#8217;all are being really f****** ridiculous having us be up here,&#8221; one student said. &#8220;I now have had to have the same f****** conversation that is being ignored at the federal level. I&#8217;m honestly like&#8212; I would of thought people who claim to be&#8212; like say they&#8217;re our representation&#8212; I would&#8217;ve thought y&#8217;all have the audacity to like pass this f****** bill but of course y&#8217;all prove time and time again that y&#8217;all don&#8217;t give a f**** about students of color.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11579">According to Campus Reform,</a> other students called the debate over allocating money &#8220;damn petty,&#8221; told their fellow senators to &#8220;get your sh**&#8221; together, and that voting no would be &#8220;ignorant and violent.&#8221;
Tijuana is currently spending around $35,000 a day on the caravan according to authorities, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38789/caravan-migrants-we-want-go-home-emily-zanotti">The Daily Wire&#8217;s Emily Zanotti reported</a>. Additionally, MSNBC reports that many migrants feel misled and claim that they were promised crossing the border would be easy and that they would be eligible for work programs in the United States. Now the Mexican government is reportedly helping migrants return back to Honduras and Guatemala.

UC Berkeley Student Government Votes To Aid Migrant Caravan, Told Not Doing So Would Be ‘Ignorant And Violent’

Immigration

University of California Berkeley

The Associated Student Government at Emporia State University in Kansas tried to impeach the student body vice president for using the term &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; on her personal Facebook page. The vote failed a two-thirds approval vote with 11 votes in favor, seven against, and three abstentions.
<a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=11515">Campus Reform</a> reports that Michaela Todd, a senior at the university and Campus Reform correspondent, was called to resign by fellow students and the Diversity and Inclusion Committee. 
Todd used the phrase &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; in a supportive Facebook post about former Kansas gubernatorial candidate Kris Kobach prior to election day on November 6.
&#8220;Put Kansas first, not illegal aliens,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;The millions of dollars spent on public welfare for illegal aliens in Kansas hurts Kansas taxpayers every single day.&#8221;
In July, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/24/politics/justice-department-illegal-aliens-undocumented/index.html">instructed</a> U.S. attorneys to use the term &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; instead of &#8220;undocumented immigrant&#8221; because the &#8220;word &#8216;undocumented&#8217; is not based in US code and should not be used to describe someone&#8217;s illegal presence in the country.&#8221;
Students took screenshots of Todd&#8217;s post and shared it on social media labeling her post &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;ignorant.&#8221;
The Multicultural Greek Council said that Todd &#8220;does not represent us&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/EmporiaMgc/status/1060182367669760000">on Twitter</a> and called on the university to &#8220;take the measures needed to show us that she does not represent ESU either.&#8221;
Todd says she edited her post and deleted the phrase &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; after hearing that it upset some of her constituents, but says she doesn&#8217;t regret it.
&#8220;It was the correct term to use for the context of my post,&#8221; Todd told The Daily Wire. &#8220;While I do not regret my post or the language in it, I do understand that it upset certain people, and that was not my intentions behind it. The purpose of my post and the language in it was to reiterate what Kobach stood for and how his leadership would benefit Kansas.&#8221;
The student government Diversity and Inclusion Committee also called for Todd to resign last week, threatening to move forward with the impeachment process if she did not resign by Monday, according to <a href="http://www.esubulletin.com/news/senate-motion-to-impeach-student-body-vice-president-fails/article_03f4f704-e3c5-11e8-bbfd-fb8ed2c0eab2.html">the student newspaper</a>. On Wednesday, the committee rescinded its call for her to resign because of concerns over their own &#8220;safety and wellbeing.&#8221;
&#8220;Our committee would like to clarify that we did not intend to make Vice President Todd feel isolated in her community,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;We want to make the systemic issues on campus more visible and be voices for marginalized students.&#8221;
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Todd also said that the criticism she received upset her but believes that the solution is calling for better dialogue.
&#8220;It was crushing to see my peers call me an unfit leader, ignorant, and racist solely based on one post I made, expressing my political beliefs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;ESU strives to be a campus of diversity and inclusion, but the diversity of political thought is next to none. I have been taught that I may not be able to control what people say or do to me, but I can control how I react. Which is why I am dedicated to having better dialogue between students and myself, so that together we can learn and grow from listening to different perspectives and beliefs.&#8221;
After the Campus Reform article was posted, Todd says many of her fellow senators have claimed they received online attacks from people who do not attend the university.
&#8220;I have heard through other people on campus that senators are also receiving major backlash for the actions that they have made,&#8221; Todd stated. &#8220;They should not have to endure that, and I will support them through this.&#8221;
Todd does not plan to step down from her position and said that this will serve as a learning experience. 
&#8220;My hope is that through this whole issue, we the students are more open to having civil dialogue about different views and beliefs,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I have faith that our student body will be able to come out of this stronger and establish a new inclusive campus.&#8221;
On Thursday, the student government canceled its weekly meeting because of &#8220;serious concerns for the safety and well-being of the campus community.&#8221;
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Student Senate Tries To Impeach Student Body VP For Saying ‘Illegal Alien’ On Personal Facebook

Illegal Immigration

Kansas

Rutgers University apologized for allegedly rescinding its invitation for Fox News analyst and alum Lisa Daftari to speak on campus on October 16, after students labeled her an Islamophobe in an online petition.
Daftari is an Iranian-American investigative journalist who frequently appears on major news networks to comment on foreign affairs, specifically the Middle East and counter-terrorism. 
The school&#8217;s Muslim Public Relations Council started <a href="https://www.change.org/p/stop-islamophobe-lisa-daftari-from-coming-to-speak-at-rutgers-paid-by-our-university-funds">an online petition</a> labeling Daftari as an &#8220;apologetic Islamophobe,&#8221; garnering more than 1,600 signatures. The group also <a href="http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2018/10/lisa-daftari-is-islamophobe-threatens-safety-of-students">wrote an opinion piece</a> in the school&#8217;s paper claiming Daftari &#8220;threatens the safety of students.&#8221;
<a href="https://www.change.org/p/rutgers-university-let-lisa-daftari-speak-at-rutgers?recruiter=647355218&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial.pacific_abi_gmail_send.variation.pacific_abi_select_all_contacts.select_all.pacific_email_copy_en_gb_4.v1.pacific_email_copy_en_us_3.control.pacific_email_copy_en_us_5.v1.lightning_share_by_medium_message.control.lightning_2primary_share_options_more.variant">A petition supporting Daftari&#8217;s right to speak</a> was also started, gaining more than 1,600 signatures as well.
After the backlash for inviting Daftari, the school initially responded with support of her. &#8220;We invite a variety of speakers to campus with varying backgrounds and professional expertise,&#8221; the university <a href="https://twitter.com/RutgersUAA/status/1049705524181254144">said in a statement</a> released on Twitter. &#8220;Our events are structured to allow all participants to engage in conversation, voice their points of view, and generate public debate about important issues.&#8221;
Vice Chancellor Ben Sifuentes-Jauregui added, &#8220;If these issues are not brought to the forefront and given a chance to be debated, then they may continue to stay buried. Bringing a professional to campus who can help us spark interest on the topic and call attention to a particular issue is important.&#8221;
Daftari&#8217;s lecture was entitled &#8220;Radicalism on College Campuses&#8221; and she said she planned to discuss free speech. In an interview with The Daily Wire, Daftari said she was invited by the Chancellor&#8217;s office and that the school suggested the topic for her talk.
&#8220;The school informed me in a phone conversation that they wanted to cancel but would rather call it a &#8216;postponement,&#8217; with no talk of a future date, and not a cancellation, because it reflected badly upon the school,&#8221; Daftari said prior to the school&#8217;s new statement.
The school also sent out an email to students who registered for the event letting them know that the event was postponed.
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&#8220;This has never happened to me before,&#8221; Daftari said. &#8220;I am a professional whose opinions and expertise are respected across the political spectrum. I am invited to speak on all different types of media platforms of varying political affiliation, just as I am invited to speak before different groups. I have given briefings in Washington under both Democrat and Republican presidents and am often asked to speak at the United Nations on topics such as human rights and the current turmoil in Syria and Yemen.&#8221;
Daftari called the allegations that she is an Islamophobe &#8220;slanderous and preposterous.&#8221;
&#8220;They deliberately misquoted me, lied and launched an all-out smear campaign to silence me,&#8221; Daftari said. &#8220;My work speaks for itself. I have spent almost two decades defending Muslim victims of human rights abuses, FGM, petitioning for political prisoners and getting them released, advocating for the children in Yemen and Syria caught in the crossfires of horrific civil wars. I have always differentiated between Muslim people and the hijacking of Islam in political Islam and extremism. I have followers from all political, religious and cultural backgrounds around the world who can vouch for my work and the outrageousness of this groundless and irresponsible allegation.&#8221;
The source of confusion seems to stem from a speech at the Heritage Foundation in 2015 where a student alleges Daftari said: &#8220;Islamic terror takes its guidance and teachings from the Quran, which is Sharia law.&#8221; Daftari disputes this and claims she actually said &#8220;Islamic terror CLAIMS to take its teachings from the Quran.&#8221;
&#8220;They deliberately left the word &#8220;claims&#8221; out of the petition to make it sound like I&#8217;m saying Islamic terror takes its teachings from the Quran,&#8221; Daftari said.
In a statement, Rutgers University&#8217;s Director of Public and Media Relations claimed Sifuentes-Jáuregui sent another invitation to Daftari to reschedule and apologized for &#8220;the confusion.&#8221;
&#8220;The University has offered several dates for her to come to campus in November,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;The University&#8217;s position on the free exchange of ideas is clear; the ability to respectfully present, discuss and debate matters in the public interest is at the heart of what every great university does. Such free and respectful discussion is fundamental to Rutgers&#8217; core values and is practiced every day at Rutgers.&#8221;
Daftari notified The Daily Wire that she would not accept the new invitation, adding, &#8220;The curious timing of their email today only further supports the truth of what happened.&#8221;
In an email, Daftari told the university that &#8220;to come back after the damage has been done to my reputation and suggest that this was some misunderstanding and to continue with the premise that the event was merely postponed, lacks the integrity and respect that I would have hoped for from my alma mater.&#8221;
&#8220;Just as the university was sensitive to the concerns of a group of students who slandered my good name based on falsified quotes, I would hope that the university would now demonstrate the same level of consideration as we move on,&#8221; she added.
The university&#8217;s student group, Young Americans For Liberty, offered to host Daftari, though Daftari did not respond to a request for comment as to whether she would be willing to speak to a student club.

Rutgers Apologizes After Allegedly Cancelling Conservative Alum’s Speech

Islam

Leftism

Rutgers University

As Edmund Burke famously observed, &#8220;Conservatism is when something triggers the libs, and the more the libs are triggered, the more conservatismer it is.&#8221; That insight comes from <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15679/15679-h/15679-h.htm#REFLECTIONS">Reflections on the Revolution in France</a>, or <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/files/15043/15043-h/15043-h.htm#A_PHILOSOPHICAL_INQUIRY">A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful</a>, or a funny <a href="http://me.me/i/conservatism-is-when-something-triggers-the-libs-and-the-more-21867287">Internet meme</a>&#8212;one of those three, I can&#8217;t quite remember which. In any case, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley urges caution. In a speech to students at Turning Point USA&#8217;s High School Leadership Summit, Haley asked, &#8220;Raise your hand if you&#8217;ve ever posted anything online to quote-unquote &#8216;own the libs.&#8217;&#8221; When presumably every person in the room raised his hand, she warned:
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I know that it&#8217;s fun and that it can feel good, but step back and think about what you&#8217;re accomplishing when you do this &#8212; are you persuading anyone? Who are you persuading? We&#8217;ve all been guilty of it at some point or another, but this kind of speech isn&#8217;t leadership &#8212; it&#8217;s the exact opposite. Real leadership is about persuasion, it&#8217;s about movement, it&#8217;s bringing people around to your point of view. Not by shouting them down, but by showing them how it is in their best interest to see things the way you do.
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Haley is right to observe that &#8220;owning the libs&#8221; is fun and feels good. What person of good will can help but enjoy the triumph of right over wrong, knowledge over ignorance, fact over fiction? Haley errs, however, when she fails to observe the persuasive power of &#8220;owning the libs.&#8221; &#8220;Owning the libs&#8221; can take many forms, from the earnest to the farcical. At its most staid, &#8220;owning the libs&#8221; manifests in a viral video of some conservative dismantling leftist illogic, usually with a title that includes the word &#8220;DESTROYS&#8221; in all capital letters. In its more farcical iterations, &#8220;owning the libs&#8221; involves performing or <a href="https://mic.com/articles/175598/yale-s-college-republicans-hold-bbq-near-a-hunger-strike-to-increase-protesters-anguish">transgressing</a> the logical conclusions of the leftist ideological obsession du jour, such as donning &#8220;politically incorrect&#8221; attire or depicting the childish character of &#8220;safe spaces.&#8221; In all of its forms, &#8220;owning the libs&#8221; reveals the absurdity of leftist dogma through a tool too long neglected by conservatives: comedy.
For decades, the Left has leaned on its dominance of traditional media platforms to silence conservatives and misrepresent their views. Self-appointed cultural stewards wondered why conservatives couldn&#8217;t penetrate the left-wing strongholds of late-night comedy and university campuses. The new media shattered that monopoly, and the Left isn&#8217;t taking it well. Now, when the occasional conservative manages to find a lecture podium on a university campus, millions of viewers around the world can watch his ideas triumph over stale leftist platitudes. When a conservative provocateur transgresses some frivolous element of leftist orthodoxy, all but those fully indoctrinated in left-wing ideology can chuckle along as the maddened utopians frown and scold.
For the first time in the lifetime of most Millennials, conservatives are the ones having fun, and this capacity for levity is attractive when compared with the relentless, tedious self-seriousness of the Left. As Chesterton recognized, &#8220;Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.&#8221; A little bit of joy goes a long way in persuasion and politics. Conservatives are blessed now to have many pedagogical tools at our disposal as we try to bring our countrymen over to our way of thinking. We can instruct the curious, mollify the fearful, and encourage the timid, but to do so we must occasionally humiliate the prideful. Spare the wry rod, spoil the overgrown child. Tough love isn&#8217;t tender, but that&#8217;s leadership.

In Defense Of ‘Owning The Libs’

College Republicans

Social Justice

The Dartmouth, America&#8217;s oldest college newspaper, <a href="http://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2018/05/a-survey-of-dartmouths-political-and-free-speech-climate">conducted a study</a> of roughly 4,400 undergraduates at Dartmouth University to determine how tolerant students were of opposing viewpoints, and found that, surprise, surprise, Republicans were far more tolerant than Democrats.
The study found that students who were Democrats were far less likely to tolerate someone with an opposing viewpoint than Republican students. 82% of Democrats averred they would be less likely to date someone with opposing political beliefs; only 42% of Republicans agreed, and only 47% of Independents agreed. Additionally, 55% of Democratic respondents said they would be less likely to befriend someone with an opposing political viewpoint, while 21% of Independents and only a paltry 12% of Republicans agreed.
The prejudice extended beyond friendships or romances; 38% of Democratic students were less willing to take classes from a Republican professor while only 23% of Republican students felt that way about Democratic professors.
Dartmouth&#8217;s student body is 67% Democrat and only 19% Republican. 69% of Republican students felt free speech was threatened on campus, while only 21% of Democrats agreed.
As The Dartmouth reported:
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Students were also asked what type of environment is more important for Dartmouth to create: &#8220;a positive learning environment for all students by prohibiting certain speech or expression of viewpoints that are offensive or biased against certain groups of people&#8221; or &#8220;an open learning environment where students are exposed to all types of speech and viewpoints, even if it means allowing speech that is offensive or biased against certain groups of people.&#8221; Seventy-one percent of respondents said they prefer the open environment option. Students who are Republicans (94 percent), white (71 percent) and male (84 percent) were most likely to opt for the &#8220;open&#8221; option.
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Study: Democrat College Students Far Less Tolerant Of Opposing Views Than Republicans

Democratic Party

Republican Party

The mainstream media gave a massive spotlight to the anti-gun March For Our Lives, which featured many of the student survivors of the recent shooting in Parkland, Florida. However, there is a group of students planning the Stand for the Second walkout, orchestrated to support the Bill of Rights on May 2nd of this year. 
I spoke with the organizer, a high school senior in New Mexico named Will Riley, about the planned event, its message, and the reaction from his school, the media, and his peers. 
Q: What gave you the idea to do this pro-Second Amendment walkout?
WR: The National Day of Action and March For Our Lives were student-led movements that obviously had a lot of help from gun control organizations and the media&#8217;s response was to call for more gun regulations while claiming that this is &#8220;for the kids.&#8221; But when I look around, I see hundreds of students who are signing up for our march who are not for gun control, especially when former Supreme Court Justice Stephens comes out and says we should just repeal the Second Amendment entirely. What the media is saying is a mischaracterization of my generation. 
The reason we&#8217;re doing it as walkout, the (March For Our Lives) students received that as a platform from their schools. It was totally condoned, across the country, if not, then outright encouraged, and our movement deserves to have the same platform. We need an equal playing field or it&#8217;s viewpoint discrimination. 
Q: Is there significance behind the date, May 2nd?
WR: We chose May the second, since our theme is &#8216;Stand for the Second.&#8217; I started this about a month ago and we originally wanted to do it in April, but we decided to shoot for May to help better organize it. 
Q: How has the school district reacted? Have they been supportive, neutral, or hostile?
WR: The new principal was a little hostile but it was more about the students doing another walkout than the stance we were taking. He&#8217;s thinking, &#8220;They just did a walkout and now they&#8217;re doing another walkout,&#8221; so I don&#8217;t think it was a political issue as it was keeping us from walking out of school everyday. 
But, I explained to him that this is just something that we want to have an equal playing field. We&#8217;re only asking for 16 minutes, one minute less than the National Day of Action had. 
We chose 16 minutes because it is estimated that 1.5 million people use a firearm to defend themselves; if you break it down with our 16 minutes, that&#8217;s 91 people using a gun in a responsible and correct way without hurting innocent people. 
And after I spoke with the principal, we worked out something that did not interfere with state testing or finals, they allowed it, and even said they would provide extra security to make sure all goes well. 
Q: How have your peers reacted? Have they been supportive?
WR: Yeah, they have been. Most of the ones I&#8217;ve talked to are happy about it. I think a lot of people have been thinking the same thing. That is, the March For Our Lives and the National Day of Action don&#8217;t represent us or our views. They wanted a place to express their views and they are happy to see this platform. 
Q: The March For Our Lives got a lot of press coverage, both local and national as well as support from local politicians. Have you received any positive or at least fair reporting from the local and national media? Have any politicians come out in support?
WR: There are a few state newspapers that have given us fair coverage. There are two local television networks that have given us fair coverage and have interviewed me in a fair way. At the national level, the Washington Examiner published my <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/parklands-anti-gun-students-dont-speak-for-me-or-my-generation">op-ed</a> that I wrote for this, some conservative outlets have covered us, but not really anything else. 
As for as national organizations, the Tea Party Patriots are helping us get off the ground and stuff. 
Now to be clear, this is totally student-led, student-driven and the Tea Party Patriots are just helping us do things like help us get conference calls set-up to bounce ideas off each other and help us get an interactive map up. 
Outside of that, we don&#8217;t have quite the advantage that March For Our Lives had.
Q: If a student hears about what&#8217;s going on at your school, and wants to lead one on their campus, how can they can involved?
WR: A ton of people have already signed up. A majority of schools are outside of New Mexico and even outside the Southwest. We&#8217;ve gotten tremendous support and we&#8217;re in 300 schools right now in something like 40 states. If you look at our interactive map, there is a place to sign-up, the Tea Party Patriots provided a page on their website to help do that. You can link to that from our website; it&#8217;s all spelled out. 
Q: What would you say to a student who wants to get involved, but is afraid of pushback from the school district, teachers, parents, or their peers? 
WR: I would say this is an incredibly important issue and because it is the students who are being used in the arguments in this case, it is also incredibly important that we stand up now. Otherwise, there will be some horrible, unconstitutional action based on this myth that all of the students are supporting it. 
Around the country, the student organizers I&#8217;ve talked to, some have said, &#8220;I may be the only one who does this at my school. I live in an incredibly progressive area. I could get suspended.&#8221;
If that is what it is going to take for us to have our voices heard, then I would encourage you to do that. That is something that is heroic. 
Q: What do you want the message to be for this walkout?
WR: The message that we want to get out is that not everyone is on board with this shortsighted crusade against the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment. I think there are still patriots coming up in the next generation and we&#8217;re trying to make sure that whenever it&#8217;s our turn to lead America, it&#8217;s going to be the America the founders intended and not some Orwellian nightmare created by destroying the Bill of Rights.
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You can find out more about the Stand For The Second on their <a href="https://standforthesecond.com/">website</a>. If you&#8217;re interested in finding out if your school is involved, you can find the interactive map at the Tea Party Patriots <a href="https://www.teapartypatriots.org/school-walkout/#map">website</a>.

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Stand For The Second’ School Organizer Will Riley

Everytown for Gun Safety

Guns

High School

Media

Media Bias

New Mexico

Second Amendment

Shooting

I was recently rereading some of my favorite philosophical literature. Anyone who does this will undeniably recognize just how persistently relevant these ideas are. It&#8217;s a bit of a double-edged sword, though. On one hand, we can find solace in knowing that current political disagreements are not unique to the present, but have endured throughout history. On the other hand, one can&#8217;t help but to think that, by this time, we would have learned the lessons of history and relegated poor ideas to the past. Perhaps this is a naive intuition.
When I was rereading book VII of Plato&#8217;s Republic, I was both amazed and distraught at how easily one can find modern day equivalents. Plato&#8217;s analogy of the cave in book VII is an ancient work whose parallel features, while not entirely conforming to the analogies made by Plato, nevertheless imposed themselves on me, only with modern day manifestations.
The Allegory of the Cave
Plato&#8217;s analogy of the cave describes three prisoners who have been chained inside a cave, always and only facing its inner wall. Whenever a person or object moves along the opening of the cave, a shadow is cast on the inner wall of the cave where the prisoners face. Since the prisoners haven&#8217;t received any exposure to the world outside of the cave, their conception of what is real and what is not is confined to their experiences inside the cave. Because the prisoners have only experienced shadows, their belief is that the shadows themselves are true objects of reality. Their ignorance stems from lack of exposure to the real world.
One day, one of the prisoners is somehow freed from his confinement and leaves the cave. The prisoner was initially blinded by the sunlight, making it hard for him to see the objects of the outside world. He was disoriented and uncomfortable. When he was told the objects outside the cave he was seeing are real, and the shadows he experienced in the cave were mere projections, he was in disbelief. One day, he stares into his own reflection in the water and it dawns on him that everything he previously experienced inside the cave was, in fact, mere projection. The prisoner &#8212; eager to tell the other prisoners about his experience &#8212; makes his way back to the cave where the other prisoners remain confined. When he informs the other prisoners that the shadows are only a projection of what is real, they don&#8217;t believe him. They think that leaving the cave caused him to go insane. They scold him, ridicule him, and violently resist any attempts to be freed or informed about the world outside the cave.
In making this analogy, Plato wanted to describe what it was like to be a philosopher &#8212; to be someone who was an enlightened individual among others who have only experienced projections of the real world, as opposed to the real world itself. The allegory is used for several other purposes, including arguing in favor of Plato&#8217;s theory of the forms, and the fallibility of our senses.
After rereading this, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice the similarities between the cave, modern day universities, and social media. The cave, social media, and the university (specifically the liberal arts and social sciences) are (or at least have become) mere projections of the world outside of those entities. Those immersed in these faculties and those on social media are constantly exposed to projections of the outside world. Eventually, after constant reinforcement, the projections become their conception of what is real. Any attempt by those who have experienced the outside world to inform those exposed only to projections are often met with resistance and disbelief.
The allegory is also remarkably analogous to the defiance that conservative speakers are met with on college campuses. It&#8217;s less so that the conservatives are the freed prisoner as it is that the protestors are the prisoners who refuse exposure to the real world.
Why not leave the cave? After all, it&#8217;s not like those in it are confined like the prisoners in Plato&#8217;s allegory. The truth is, people don&#8217;t leave the cave because it&#8217;s comfortable and easy to stay in it. It&#8217;s easy to believe in projections and it&#8217;s easy to assign malicious motives to those being projected. They grow accustomed to it, and they don&#8217;t want to accept that much of what they are taught is more projection than reality. They are deceived, either intentionally or not. The consequence is a hostile and divided social and political climate.
Is this a problem unique to leftists? Surely not. Many conservatives have the same issue. I am not saying that conservatives are the philosophers that Plato described, or that they are the ones who have enlightened views of the actual world we live in. In fact, it&#8217;s my belief that there is a massive groupthink and confirmation bias problem on the right. But ask yourselves this: Which side of the political aisle is meeting opposing viewpoints with violent resistance? Is it campus conservatives or is it campus leftists?
Well, for one, you don&#8217;t see conservatives protesting leftist speakers on campus. That is almost strictly a leftist phenomenon. More fundamentally, though, this is an issue that is both instigated and perpetuated by universities and social media algorithms. It happens to be the case that universities are overwhelmingly leftist, and so are those who control the social media websites. By consequence, those who comfortably conform to the agenda of universities and social media are also the ones who are resisting their disruption.
If you went to a random conservative and a random leftist and asked both to lend full credence to the opposing person&#8217;s viewpoint, which one would be more likely to succeed? Would it be the conservative, who has been to university, is on social media, and is constantly immersed in a progressive agenda, yet rejects it? Or would it be the leftist, who could only access the ideas of conservatism if they sought it out of volition?
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EISEN: Plato’s Allegory Of The Cave, Universities, Social Media, And Groupthink

Most of yesterday&#8217;s anti-gun &#8220;walkouts&#8221; were peaceful, but protesting students at one Nashville-area high school seemed to miss the point of non-violent demonstration.
<a href="http://www.wsmv.com/story/37727075/antioch-students-tear-down-flag-brawl-during-peaceful-protest">The Antioch High School students</a> walked out at 10 a.m. EST, much like their colleagues across the country, but instead of engaging in sign-waving and chants, the students engaged in a massive brawl, both inside and outside the school. And then, because that wasn&#8217;t enough to discredit their demonstration, a handful of students pulled down the American flag.
Several students captured the incident on video.
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One student got comprehensive footage of what happened both inside and outside of the school.
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The school was, thankfully, quick to respond to the students&#8217; antics, pointing out that the school district placed clear restrictions on the initial protest &#8212; requesting students remain calm and stay on school grounds &#8212; and noting that these students took advantage of the trust and respect they&#8217;d been given by administrators.
One parent told local media that things had gone too far: &#8220;What this was supposed to be is a memorial to the 17 kids who lost their lives in Parkland and I just can&#8217;t believe those 17 kids, if they could look at the situation today an Antioch High School, that they would be okay with violent behavior,&#8221; the parent said. &#8220;I love this school and I support Antioch High School, and there are a lot of great things that happen here, but it is unfortunate when bad stuff happens here that it hits the news and they have a bad reputation.&#8221;
The school district released a statement Thursday condemning the students&#8217; actions.
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At MNPS, we respect the right of our students to advocate for causes that are important to them. Unfortunately, some students on our Antioch campus today chose to protest in ways that significantly disrupted school operations and threatened the safety and order for other students and staff within our school. Swift action was taken by school security and MNPD to address the situation. No students or staff members were injured during the walkout.
The safety of our students and staff is our top priority. Inappropriate behaviors that threaten school safety will be handled immediately and firmly in accordance with the Student Code of Conduct and MNPD.
We understand that our students may be feeling lots of emotions, including anxiety, fear and even anger about today&#8217;s events. We encourage parents to talk to your child(ren) about how they may be feeling, and the importance of expressing themselves in appropriate ways while at school. MNPS also has counselors available and ready to talk to students at any time. We look forward to welcoming students back tomorrow for a great day of teaching and learning.
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In a show of support for their school and respect for their country, a group of Antioch High School students gathered at the flag Thursday morning. They raised the flag torn down on Wednesday while the band played the national anthem.
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BREAKING: Antioch H.S. students put flags back up that were taken down when yesterday&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NationalWalkOutDay?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NationalWalkOutDay</a> protest turned violent.
They held a peaceful protest this morning with the band playing the national anthem <a href="https://t.co/AcGECHfyVb">pic.twitter.com/AcGECHfyVb</a>
&#8212; Kim St. Onge (@KimWSMV) <a href="https://twitter.com/KimWSMV/status/974271443138641920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 15, 2018</a></blockquote>

WATCH: Tennessee Students Brawl, Tear Down American Flag During ‘Walkout’ Protests

Gun Control

On Wednesday, appearing on Fox News&#8217; &#8220;The Story&#8221; with host Martha MacCallum, Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro spoke about the nationwide walk-out by high-schoolers demonstrating for gun control. Shapiro acknowledged the students had every right to say whatever they wanted, but slammed the media for using the kids to spur the media&#8217;s own political views on the issue, saying the media wa cynically using the kids as &#8220;political human shields.&#8221;
MacCullum began by playing tapes of students shouting, &#8220;If you can speak, speak. If you can march, march,&#8221; &#8220;I ask our Republican lawmakers: Is their right to have a gun more important than our right to live?&#8221; and &#8220;We will not sit in classrooms with armed teachers!&#8221;
MacCallum noted, &#8220;But not all students are on board with that message,&#8221; noting that one high-schooler had written an email to Shapiro, saying, &#8220;I am in favor of walking to honor the victims, but not in favor of promoting gun reform. I feel like I have to choose between going against my political values or looking like a bad person. I need help. What do I do?&#8221;
MacCallum turned to Shapiro, saying, &#8220;You received <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/28224/read-emails-high-school-students-who-oppose-todays-ben-shapiro">several messages</a> like that. What did you tell them?&#8221;
Shapiro responded:
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I&#8217;ve been getting legitimately dozens, scores of messages, probably a hundred since yesterday from students who are disappointed at the way they feel they&#8217;ve been bullied into joining the school walkouts. What I&#8217;ve suggested is walk out with your friends and hold up signs that say things like, &#8220;Standing with children, standing with the Second Amendment,&#8221; or &#8220;Protect our lives, arm law-abiding people.&#8221;
The media has put forth this message, and they&#8217;ve been doing this for years, but it&#8217;s really accelerated in the last few months, and particularly in the last few weeks, they&#8217;ve put forth this message that if you disagree with them on gun control, that means you don&#8217;t care enough about the kids, and now they are activating these kids and putting them out on the front lines and putting them in photo-ops so they can essentially use them as political human shields.
Now listen, the kids can say whatever they want; that&#8217;s their prerogative, but it is the media that are choosing to elevate these kids as moral authorities even though tragedy and age don&#8217;t confer any sort of expertise on a given issue.
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MacCallum mentioned a former member of the Israeli military and owner of a gun store in Florida who told Fox News he refused to sell guns to anyone under 21. She asked, &#8220;Is there any room for some of these measures that some of these kids would be in favor of?&#8221;
Shapiro answered:
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It depends on the measure. And the question is: what&#8217;s the level of public support? Whenever they take a poll, and they say there are tons and tons of people who are in favor of gun control, that&#8217;s a really big statement; it&#8217;s like polls that that show Americans are in favor of cutting the size of government. That sounds great until you get down to the brass tacks of, &#8220;Well, what do you want to cut?&#8221; When people say they&#8217;re in favor of gun control, usually they think that means, &#8220;Do you think we should take measures that would prevent mass shootings?&#8221; and the answer, of course, is yes, but that doesn&#8217;t necessarily boil down into law that anybody likes. There&#8217;s still some pretty significant controversy, for example, over raising the age limit for buying rifles; if you can serve in the military at 18 and you can vote at 18, then what is the problem, exactly, with buying a gun?
At the same time, there&#8217;s this sort of weird argument that&#8217;s being made that kids who are 17 should be making all of the public policy but kids who are 17 are also not capable of buying a weapon. So what, exactly, is the age of adulthood?
These are arguments that we can have, and I&#8217;m perfectly happy to have them. What I&#8217;m not happy to do, and I think a lot of these students who are writing me are not happy about, is this attitude that if you disagree with people on politics that this means that you can&#8217;t even be part of the conversation, that the only people we will talk to are people we agree with on gun control measures. That&#8217;s actually a form of nastiness, a form of political cudgeling that I think is really counterproductive.
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WATCH: Shapiro On Fox:  Media Using High-Schoolers As ‘Political Human Shields’ On Gun Control

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Martha MacCallum

On Sunday, appearing on Fox News with Leland Vittert , Marjory Stoneman Douglas student Kyle Kashuv took an entirely different tack from his fellow students who have appeared throughout the media to attack the NRA and gun rights advocates, instead targeting Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and people who have used the Florida high school tragedy to attack gun rights supporters. Kashuv bluntly said Israel was &#8220;virtue-signaling&#8221; in his appearance on last Wednesday&#8217;s CNN townhall and should resign.
Vittert started by playing a video of Florida Governor Rick Scott, who stated that he advocated stricter gun laws for those with mental illness and those who threaten others or themselves while Scott also championed strengthening security at schools.
Vittert then turned to Kashuv, pointing out that some of Kashuv&#8217;s fellow students had criticized Scott&#8217;s remarks as being inadequate in addressing the situation. Vittert asked about Scott&#8217;s remarks, &#8220;Are they enough for you?&#8221;
Kashuv answered, &#8220;I think they&#8217;re definitely enough and I think that they&#8217;re going out of their way to make sure that this will never happen again. I think that clearly mental health restrictions to make sure you have to be mentally stable to acquire a weapon, deeper background checks, and raising the age from 18 to 21 as well as hardening schools will definitely make sure that this will never happen again.&#8221;
Vittert asked what Kashuv thought of fellow students who called for harsher restrictions, including banning assault rifles.
Kashuv replied:
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Look, I know these kids on a personal level. I&#8217;ve talked to them personally. It concerns me a bit because right now this is a bipartisan issue for mental health restrictions and reform, and they&#8217;re taking it a step further and I&#8217;ve talked to them personally and many of them would like a complete ban on all weapons, if possible. You can clearly see that slowly, sadly, the agenda is switching from &#8220;never again&#8221; to trying to ban weapons, and that&#8217;s somewhat deeply concerning because I really want to make sure this will never happen again but still I support the Second Amendment.
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Vittert pointed out the questions that had been raised about the Broward County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, that they did not respond properly to the attack and that they ignored numerous red flags about the shooter. Vittert asked, &#8220;Is that where the conversation should be?&#8221;
Kashuv then expressed his indignation over the perspective espoused by gun control activists with regard to the tragedy:
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That is definitely where the conversation should be and it absolutely outrages me that on the CNN town hall, we had the sheriff who was virtue signaling against the NRA and against guns when he didn&#8217;t even act properly. The armed officer at school waited outside and then him, the sheriff and his men for four minutes let my classmates die while he sat outside and waited. He didn&#8217;t even do his job properly and then comes around and turns around saying guns are the issue when he had failed to act properly.
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Vittert pointed out that Israel knew when he attended the CNN town hall that his deputy had waited outside the school but didn&#8217;t disclose that piece of information. Vittert said Israel was refusing to resign and had professed that he had displayed amazing leadership. He asked, &#8220;Do you agree with that?&#8221;
Kashuv reacted, &#8220;No, not at all. I think he absolutely needs to resign after what happened here. He failed to act on so many different levels. And him, himself, he&#8217;s responsible for this massive failure. This could have been easily stopped, both by the FBI and the Sheriff&#8217;s Department had they acted.&#8221;
Vittert played a clip of student David Hogg saying, &#8220;Obviously there were some major mistakes here and ones that we have to look into, and I don&#8217;t want to say anything until after the investigation&#8217;s done.&#8221; Vittert pointed out that Hogg claimed he would wait for the investigation to conclude before making comments, yet had harshly criticized the NRA and other gun rights advocates. Vittert asked, &#8220;Your thoughts?&#8221;
Kashuv: &#8220;I think that&#8217;s outrageous. I mean I call B.S. on this situation right now. It&#8217;s clear to see that on so many different levels, the Parkland government and officers, they failed to act and they let us down. And they should have acted on multiple different times to make sure this would never happen.&#8221;
Vittard asked how the high school would heal after the tragedy.
Kashuv concluded, &#8220;Look, at the end of the day, we&#8217;re all one big family. We&#8217;ve seen the amazing support from all different kinds, every single person. We&#8217;re one big family; at the end of the day we&#8217;re all linked. Taking away our opinions on gun rights, we never want this is happen again. We&#8217;re all helping each other out and I think at school on Wednesday, we&#8217;re going to see that in play.&#8221;
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In November, the American University chapter of fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon held a massive party, billed on social media as: &#8220;Tequila Tuesday Hoy a las 22:00.&#8221;
According to <a href="http://wjla.com/news/local/indoor-air-at-american-university-off-campus-house-party-tests-positive-for-alcohol">WJLA</a>, the noise from the party became a disturbance, and neighbors called the police. When authorities arrived, some party-goers panicked. One person allegedly climbed out of a second-story window in an effort to escape:
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According to court documents, police observed windows covered with insulation and trash bags, beer cans and liquor bottles littered throughout the house and a noticeably sticky basement floor, coated with spilled alcohol.
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There was so much booze at the fraternity party that &#8220;the ambient air inside of the home registered a .01 on at least one police department-issued breathalyzer, court documents state.&#8221;
As each of the approximately 70 underage revelers exited the house, they were tested for their blood alcohol level.
The alleged residents of the frat, Jeffrey Becker, Ashton Acosta, Anthony Santana, Kevin Alkinburg, Matthew Berger, and Tristan Ralph, all of whom are 20 years old, wouldn&#8217;t divulge how they gathered the alcohol for the party.
All six have been charged with &#8220;126 counts each of allowing underage possession of alcohol and furnishing alcohol to a minor,&#8221; and each face possible fines of several hundred thousand dollars, reports WJLA.
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Leftist students at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) shut down a Republican student chapter meeting on Tuesday &#8212; and eventually got themselves arrested.
The leftist agitators repeatedly derided the meeting&#8217;s attendees as &#8220;racist&#8221; and promoting &#8220;white supremacy.&#8221; Via incoherent statement, the leader of the leftwing students derided the campus Republican meeting&#8217;s attendees: 
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These folks are preventing folks from their everyday lives, not just studying, all, everything, safety on campus, whatever it is that they are engaging in, and so I feel like this group should be asked to leave, actually&#8230;
I think if you understand what their ideologies are, and how you feel safety really is, how you feel education, how you feel learning really is, students can&#8217;t be studying when their lives are being f***ing discriminated against, f***ing like, pushed out of the way.
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&#8220;They had a slug with a Trump hat on it,&#8221; added the apparent left-wing leader, presumably describing some slug-like bauble. &#8220;So they agree with Trump and white supremacy,&#8221; she added.
The leftist leader urged what appeared to be a library employee to shut down the meeting:
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Can you step outside of your role, right now, and your job position? You don&#8217;t have to follow the rules, ever. You can do whatever you want, right now. You know that you can do whatever you want, right now. Follow that personal struggle, I know what kind of situation you&#8217;re in. I&#8217;ve had to work for the university before, but follow your heart. Don&#8217;t follow the f***ing rules.
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Another protester derided the meeting&#8217;s participants:
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Your existence is a disturbance. You&#8217;re a disturbance to every marginalized person in this country. Do you understand what a Republican is? Your life is not on the line. It&#8217;s gonna help if these motherf***ers leave, and we don&#8217;t let f***ing racists on this campus. That&#8217;s what&#8217;s gonna help&#8230; You are racists&#8230; Communists aren&#8217;t f***ing racists.
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The activist described &#8220;build a wall&#8221; as a &#8220;racist&#8221; slogan.
The meeting&#8217;s attendees were ultimately asked to leave to end the left-wing disturbance.
Three of the student activists &#8212; two of which are Student Union Assembly officers &#8212; were eventually arrested by police, according to <a href="https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=9986">Campus Reform</a>, which provided some background to the disturbance:
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One of the ringleaders of the protest was student activist Haik Adamian, who posted an announcement in the official UCSC Student Facebook group calling on students to deny the CR group its First Amendment rights.
&#8220;White Supremacist, fascist sympathizing College Republicans are having a meeting at McHenry library, room 0332. Everybody be aware of this violent racist activity happening everyday on this campus!&#8221; he wrote, adding that &#8220;We need a movement of people on this campus that rejects the &#8216;right of assembly,&#8217; or &#8216;right of free speech&#8217; for white supremacists and fascists.&#8221;
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Watch the incident below; <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CityonaPhil/videos/1931545607084098/">original video here</a>.

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Not A Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth, written by Dr. Everett Piper with Bill Blankschaen, is a nonfiction book that provides an analysis of the growing problem of entitlement on college campuses. It is a timely examination of the &#8220;special snowflake&#8221; students that are stepping into classes.
The author breaks down how universities, both public and private, are permitting students to allow their &#8216;&#8221;feelings&#8221; to dictate teaching and disciplinary policy on campus. This creates a problem as places of higher learning are transforming from educational institutions into daycare centers that coddle their students instead of preparing them for the real world.
Not A Day Care does an excellent job of breaking down the issue and offering common sense solutions to address the growing entitlement of college students. The author recommends that university officials eschew pandering to the special snowflakes, instead offering them guidance in both an expansive education and morality. He writes about the issue with concern, but also with hope in a way that is easy to understand.
Dr. Piper knows more about this topic than most people. He has personally dealt with these special snowflakes in his capacity as a college professor and as the president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. He relays a story about a student who was having trouble adjusting to life on college campus. When he spoke to the student, he tried to encourage her to stay at the college, as flying home would be too costly. To his surprise, the student&#8217;s mother had already bought her a ticket. As he described it, it was &#8220;a ticket to fail.&#8221;
This book is engaging and thoughtful. It brings an eye-opening account of a growing problem within our nation&#8217;s universities and colleges, but instead of just reporting the problems, Not A Day Care gives realistic solutions on how young Americans can get a decent education.
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Book Review: ‘Not A Day Care’ By Dr. Everett Piper

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Leftist students at Sarah Lawrence College &#8212; which <a href="https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/financial-aid/undergraduate/tuition.html">costs about $54,000</a> per year without residency or health insurance and about $65,000 with residency and health insurance &#8212; recently called on peers to pay female feminist campus agitators for their &#8220;emotional labor.&#8221;
Targeted student donors were asked to contribute to 17 Sarah Lawrence College students via Venmo, an online money-transfer service; most of the intended benefactors are non-white students.
A Facebook post soliciting donations for student feminists and non-white female students described the endeavor as serving &#8220;Women&#8217;s History Month&#8221;: 
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In honor of Women&#8217;s History Month, and the labor that women and femmes of color do for Sarah Lawrence every month of the year &#8230; Give your $ to Women &amp; Femmes of Color.
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The Facebook post also alleged the widespread commission of &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; against &#8220;black and Muslim students&#8221; across the campus.
Responses to the Facebook post, presumably from leftist female students, lamented &#8220;systemic problems&#8221; while soliciting funds for feminist and non-white female students; see examples below (names redacted).
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1. Also since W&amp;FOC are still using our emotional labor to discuss this as nobody gives a shit about the systemic problems at this school, give your $$$.
2. PAY THEM BOTH! SERIOUSLY EVERYONE PAY BOTH &#8230; NOW!
3. A&#8212; A&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;, you are a FUCKING. HORRIBLE. PERSON. BITCH. I DON&#8217;T CARE ABOUT YOU. AT ALL. GOOD. I HOPE U CRY INTO UR PILLOW AT NIGHT LIKE Y&#8217;ALL MAKE WOMEN DO EVERYDAY. I HOPE U QUESTION UR REALITY AND I HOPE U CHECK BEHIND U WHEN U WALK PLACES
4. Please pay J&#8212;&#8211; and K&#8212;- for their labor, preferably over 30$. The community is watching you and holding you accountable.
5. Pay up. Pay Money. Pay ur money. Ur money isn&#8217;t urs. You&#8217;re both assholes. Pay K&#8212;- and J&#8212; at least $30.
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The College Fix describes Sarah Lawrence College as a &#8220;progressive and tolerant&#8221; institution. It is located in a southern suburb of New York City.
H/T Dylan Croll at <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/35109/">The College Fix</a>.

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Remember the scene in War Games when Matthew Broderick hacked into his school&#8217;s computer system to change not only his grades, but Ally Sheedy&#8217;s?
A second University of Central Florida student has been arrested for hacking an engineering professor&#8217;s office computer to change his grades. Samuel Williams, 25, is <a href="http://www.news965.com/news/local/2nd-ucf-student-arrested-charges-hacking-computer-change-his-grade/pM5jJki8VIg8YxT2Zeq14N/">accused of changing grades</a> on four online quizzes that he never completed.
Williams&#8217; comrade-in-arms, Sami Ammar, 21, who also hacked into the system on May 4, was charged in late May, <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-ucf-grade-change-arrest-20170524-story.html">The Orlando Sentinel</a> reported.
Just before midnight on May 4, Ammar&#8217;s Electronics I professor, Chung Young Chan, received a confirmation email from the program he used to log students&#8217; grades. But he had already approved his grades and received a confirmation email. Chan checked the grading roster and noticed that Ammar, to whom he gave an F, now had a B. When Chan attempted to change the grade back he got an error message. .
An IT employee at the university later traced the IP address for the computer where the grade was altered to the Mathematical Sciences Building. An employee at the university called UCF police and said two men he did not recognize had been walking around the Mathematical Sciences Building. Surveillance camera footage showed them inside. Ammar was identified.
The Sentinel reported in late May:
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Officers also identified the other man in the video but have not been able to speak with him. The other man&#8217;s father told police that he would be leaving for California soon and could not speak with them. The other man is not facing charges.
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Shades of ‘War Games’: Two UCF Students Hack Prof’s Computer to Change Grades

On Monday, in one of the most tragic stories in recent memory, Otto Warmbier, the 22-year-old University of Virginia student who was apprehended by the North Korean government and imprisoned for 17 months for supposedly attempting to steal a propaganda sign praising North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un from a hotel, only to finally be released last week in a coma, died at a Cincinnati hospital surrounded by his family.
The family released this statement:
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Statement issued by the family of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ottowarmbier?src=hash">#ottowarmbier</a> on his passing <a href="https://t.co/0loUSdBmrM">pic.twitter.com/0loUSdBmrM</a>
&#8212; Bret Baier (@BretBaier) <a href="https://twitter.com/BretBaier/status/876903893346770944">June 19, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The North Korean government, which had sentenced Warmbier to 15 years of hard labor, stated that botulism and a sleeping pill had led to the coma, but U.S. doctors said that was <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/otto-warmbier-press-conference?utm_term=.ikRw9XPDl#.xeZ1ZvOr4">simply not true.</a>
A spokesman for the U.S. State Department said that the sentence meted out to Warmbier was a response to U.S. sanctions against North Korea for its nuclear activities. Warmbier&#8217;s father said that his son was forced to confess and he was detained for political purposes.
Warmbier was studying for a double major degree in commerce and economics at UVA; he was active in the Theta Chi fraternity and the <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231159">Hillel Jewish campus organization</a> and was the salutatorian at his high school. He was detained at the Pyongyang airport; the North Koreans <a href="http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/01/22/student-cincinnati-area-arrested-north-korea/79158226/">claimed</a> he entered the country under the guise of a tourist and plotted to destroy North Korean unity with &#8220;the tacit connivance of the U.S. government and under its manipulation.&#8221;
Warmbier confessed to stealing a piece of North Korean propaganda; his confession stated he stole the banner for the mother of a friend who wanted it as a souvenir to be hung on the wall of a church in Wyoming, Ohio. He said he was offered a used car worth $10,000 as payment or if he was detained and didn&#8217;t return, $200,000 would be paid to his mother in the form of a charitable donation. Warmbier claimed he took the chance because his family was &#8220;suffering from very severe financial difficulties.&#8221; He said he was urged to steal the poster in order to join the Z Society, a &#8220;semi-secret ring society&#8221; and philanthropic organization at the University of Virginia.
Warmbier&#8217;s confession added:
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I never, never should have allowed myself to be lured by the United States administration to commit a crime in this country, I wish that the United States administration never manipulate people like myself in the future to commit crimes against foreign countries. I entirely beg you, the people and government of the DPRK, for your forgiveness. Please! I made the worst mistake of my life!
</blockquote>
Warmbier&#8217;s father, Fred, dismissed the confession as a lie and forced. He also <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/01/parents-otto-warmbier-us-citizen-detained-in-north-korea-want-son-to-be-part-negotiations.html">said</a> he and his wife, Cindy, were &#8220;urged to keep quiet&#8221; about Otto&#8217;s plight by the Obama administration. Fred said, &#8220;They feel you don&#8217;t get involved that way. It lets the other side solve problems and make things happen.&#8221; Otto&#8217;s parents stated that the North Korean regime &#8220;terrorized and brutalized&#8221; their son, adding, &#8220;There&#8217;s no excuse for the way the North Koreans treated our son and no excuse for the way they have treated so many others.&#8221;

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