In July, the University of Chicago’s English Department released a faculty statement saying it would only accept “applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies.”
“The English department at the University of Chicago believes that Black Lives Matter, and that the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks matter, as do thousands of others named and unnamed who have been subject to police violence. As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world. We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality,” the <a href="https://english.uchicago.edu/?fbclid=IwAR1vW5HOB42Rf6q5ETmvR9k2iWRFnLtJOKXU7y_BUnBb0GxwIqrdSsMTmck">statement</a> read. “For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies.”
“Our discipline is responsible for developing hierarchies of cultural production that have contributed directly to social and systemic determinations of whose lives matter and why. And while inroads have been made in terms of acknowledging the centrality of both individual literary works and collective histories of racialized and colonized people, there is still much to do as a discipline and as a department to build a more inclusive and equitable field for describing, studying, and teaching the relationship between aesthetics, representation, inequality, and power,” the statement added.
As The Federalist pointed out on Monday, the faculty statement has been edited to remove the sentence about only accepting applicants who would work on Black Studies.
Student publication the Chicago Thinker noticed the change and reached out to the university’s English Department for comment.
“The department’s public affairs office directed the Chicago Thinker to the graduate admissions page, where the original line appears: ‘For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies,’” the Federalist reported.
“Under ‘Frequently Asked Questions about the Ph.D. Application,’ the English Department’s admissions page clarifies that the ‘focus on Black Studies applies only to the 2020-21 Ph.D. admissions cycle.’ The admissions page also says admitted Black Studies Ph.D. students are ‘encouraged to take advantage of the wide variety of courses, not restricted to Black Studies, offered by the Department and the Division,’” The Federalist continued. “It is unclear whether the admissions page comments were added after the department deleted them from its July faculty statement, or if the comments were always available on the admissions page. What is clear is that the department never changed its mind about its decision to only accept ‘Black Studies’ students.”
The outlet suggested the change to the faculty statement came after criticism of the exclusionist policy.
In <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=15679">a statement</a> to Campus Reform when the faculty statement was being reported, University assistant director for public affairs Gerald McSwiggan said the university “can accept a limited number of Ph.D. graduate students in the 2020-21 application season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and limited employment opportunities for English PhDs.”
“Currently, there are 77 Ph.D. students studying a wide variety of disciplines within the English Department, and the department is admitting 5 additional Ph.D. students for 2021. The English department faculty saw a need for additional scholarship in Black Studies, and decided to focus doctoral admissions this year on prospective Ph.D. students with an interest in working in and with Black Studies. As with other departments in the University, the department’s faculty will decide which areas of scholarship they wish to focus on for Ph.D. admissions in future years,” he added.

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University That Said It Would Only Accept Grad Students Focusing On ‘Black Studies’ Is Now Hiding Requirement But Still Enforcing It

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If you want to be accepted as a graduate student in the University of Chicago’s English Department, you will not succeed in your application unless you want to work in and with black studies.
In  July, the department issued <a href="https://english.uchicago.edu/?fbclid=IwAR1vW5HOB42Rf6q5ETmvR9k2iWRFnLtJOKXU7y_BUnBb0GxwIqrdSsMTmck">a faculty statement</a> stating:
<blockquote>The English department at the University of Chicago believes that Black Lives Matter, and that the lives of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and Rayshard Brooks matter, as do thousands of others named and unnamed who have been subject to police violence.
As literary scholars, we attend to the histories, atmospheres, and scenes of anti-Black racism and racial violence in the United States and across the world. We are committed to the struggle of Black and Indigenous people, and all racialized and dispossessed people, against inequality and brutality. For the 2020-2021 graduate admissions cycle, the University of Chicago English Department is accepting only applicants interested in working in and with Black Studies.</blockquote>
The statement continued by claiming, “English as a discipline has a long history of providing aesthetic rationalizations for colonization, exploitation, extraction, and anti-Blackness,” adding:
<blockquote>Our discipline is responsible for developing hierarchies of cultural production that have contributed directly to social and systemic determinations of whose lives matter and why. And while inroads have been made in terms of acknowledging the centrality of both individual literary works and collective histories of racialized and colonized people, there is still much to do as a discipline and as a department to build a more inclusive and equitable field for describing, studying, and teaching the relationship between aesthetics, representation, inequality, and power.</blockquote>
The statement insisted, “We believe that undoing persistent, recalcitrant anti-Blackness in our discipline and in our institutions must be the collective responsibility of all faculty, here and elsewhere.”
University Assistant Director for Public Affairs Gerald McSwiggan told <a href="https://campusreform.org/?ID=15679">Campus Reform</a> that the university &#8220;can accept a limited number of Ph.D. graduate students in the 2020-21 application season due to the COVID-19 pandemic and limited employment opportunities for English PhDs.&#8221;
He added, &#8220;Currently, there are 77 Ph.D. students studying a wide variety of disciplines within the English Department, and the department is admitting 5 additional Ph.D. students for 2021. The English department faculty saw a need for additional scholarship in Black Studies, and decided to focus doctoral admissions this year on prospective Ph.D. students with an interest in working in and with Black Studies. As with other departments in the University, the department’s faculty will decide which areas of scholarship they wish to focus on for Ph.D. admissions in future years.”
The University of Chicago ranked sixth in U.S. News and World Reports&#8217; list of Best National University Rankings. &#8220;U.S News and World Report gave the University of Chicago a score of 95 out of 100, reporting an undergraduate enrollment of 6,734 and $59,298 tuition,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2-chicago-schools-rank-in-top-10-of-new-nationwide-best-universities-list/2338656/">NBC Chicago</a> reported on Monday, noting that the U.S News and World Report <a href="https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges/university-of-chicago-1774">website</a> added, &#8220;The University of Chicago is known for its location as well as its rigorous academic and enrichment programs.&#8221;

Hyde Park campus, University of Chicago map sign.

University Of Chicago: Graduate English Department Only Accepting ‘Applicants Interested In Working In And With Black Studies’

University of Chicago students staged an &#8220;occupation&#8221; demanding that the school&#8217;s provost, Ka Yee Lee, abolish the campus police department and expand the school&#8217;s commitment to diversity &#8212; but not everything is going smoothly for the student group.
A similar group of protesters occupied the University of Chicago police department&#8217;s offices earlier this summer as part of national anti-racism and anti-police brutality demonstrations that happened in response to George Floyd&#8217;s death while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department. That occupation was cut short, however, when UChicago campus police refused to allow &#8220;occupiers&#8221; to get pizza deliveries while inside their building, <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/u-chicago-activists-occupy-campus-police-hq-upset-pizza-they-ordered-not-allowed-in/">according to The College Fix</a>, and did not allow occupiers to use the building&#8217;s bathroom facilities, forcing them to choose between standing for social justice and relieving their bladders.
The new occupation, the <a href="https://freebeacon.com/campus/uchicago-student-activists-refuse-to-end-occupation-of-provosts-house-until-university-police-is-abolished/">Washington Free Beacon</a> reports, is demanding &#8220;the abolition of the university&#8217;s police force, the formation of cultural centers, and the development of a &#8216;Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department.&#8217; The new department, the group writes, would be required to teach &#8216;revolutionary histories, abolish all academic penalties … [and] redistribute resources to students and communities of color.'&#8221;
The University of Chicago&#8217;s provost responded to protesters&#8217; demands in <a href="https://provost.uchicago.edu/announcements/statement-regarding-ucpd-protests">an open letter</a>, flatly refusing to defund the UChicago campus police, and noting that protesters have repeatedly declined invitations to private meetings with school administration.
&#8220;I have offered to meet with the protesters,&#8221; the letter read. &#8220;In fact, since their occupation of the UCPD headquarters on June 11, we have communicated a standing invitation for representatives of the group to meet with me. We reiterated that offer again this week. However, they have refused, insisting that even the initial meeting must be conducted in a public forum and focus on how to implement their demand to defund and disband the UCPD. They have rejected a constructive dialogue about their concerns and the UCPD.&#8221;
Instead, it seems, the students prefer to protest, though the occupation has met with difficulty.
On Friday, protesters formed a &#8220;barricade&#8221; to keep out around a dozen Chicago police officers assigned to monitor the protest, but the barricade consisted of just one row of sandbags backed by a number of decorative chairs and a mattress.
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Protesters link arms behind their barricade here at 49/Greenwood in <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kenwood?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kenwood</a>. They’re all in good spirits despite this being their 7th day occupying. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ChicagoProtests?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ChicagoProtests</a> <a href="https://t.co/EiXRJaULOk">pic.twitter.com/EiXRJaULOk</a>
&mdash; Grace Del Vecchio (@delvecchiograce) <a href="https://twitter.com/delvecchiograce/status/1302055093408280578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 5, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Chicago police quickly dismantled the barrier and ordered protesters to disperse.
Late last week, after their initial demonstrations failed to produce results, student protesters spraypainted messages in front of provost Ka Yee Lee&#8217;s home, including a number of obscene phrases in Chinese.
&#8220;The demonstrators spray-painted messages in the street immediately outside her house,&#8221; the Free Beacon noted. &#8220;Written in Chinese characters was, &#8216;Don&#8217;t you care about your reputation&#8217; and, more offensively, &#8216;F—k your mother.'&#8221;
The graffiti drew &#8220;an intense outcry from students, even those on the left, who accused #CareNotCops of anti-Asian racism and harassment. Provost Ka Yee Lee, born in Hong Kong, studied at Brown University and has been a professor at the University of Chicago since 1998.&#8221;

University Of Chicago Students Set Up ‘Occupation,’ Demand Campus Police Be Disbanded

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The University of Chicago is one of the world&#8217;s preeminent institutions of higher education. It boasts an affiliation with the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nobel_laureates_by_university_affiliation#University_of_Chicago_(4th)">fourth-most Nobel laureates</a> of any university in the world, and its historically free market-oriented economics department — where luminaries such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman once roamed the halls — has the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120908194351/http://www.uchicago.edu/about/accolades/nobel/#economics#economics">most Nobel laureate affiliations</a> of any economics department in the world. The University of Chicago Law School produces <a href="https://www.bcgsearch.com/article/900047770/Law-Schools-That-Send-the-Most-Attorneys-to-United-States-Supreme-Court-Clerkships/">more U.S. Supreme Court law clerks</a> than any law school besides Harvard and Yale. UChicago&#8217;s Booth School of Business perennially ranks in the top five business schools in the U.S.
The university&#8217;s commitment to free speech principles, furthermore, is laudably ironclad: The so-called <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/chicago-school-of-free-speech-1448231860">&#8220;Chicago principles&#8221;</a> represent the academic <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/12/21/chicago-principles-are-gold-standard-freedom-expression-campuses-opinion">&#8220;gold standard&#8221;</a> for freedom of expression in the American academy. Three years ago, the school even went so far as to <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-university-of-chicago-safe-spaces-letter-met-20160825-story.html">mail a letter to all incoming college freshmen</a> to tell them that the school does not condone &#8220;trigger warnings&#8221; or &#8220;safe spaces.&#8221;
The foregoing makes me a very proud UChicago alumnus. But it also makes even more painful the tale that follows.
Steve Jacobs graduated a few weeks ago with a Ph.D. from UChicago&#8217;s interdisciplinary <a href="https://humdev.uchicago.edu">Department of Comparative Human Development</a>. And Jacobs, who went through hell on earth over the course of a stress-inducing decade to procure that illustrious academic capstone, spoke exclusively with The Daily Wire to tell his story.
Jacobs, a white Christian, decided to touch the ultimate third-rail issue for the culturally militant progressives who <a href="https://americanmind.org/feature/whats-wrong-with-education/">dominate the American academy</a>: Abortion. But Jacobs, who has a background as a certified mediator, did not pursue his Ph.D. as a cudgel to wield in this preeminent culture war struggle. On the contrary, he hoped to &#8220;produce research that can become a contribution to a contentious debate that is harming our body politic,&#8221; and to &#8220;help people become informed, so that the competition of ideas can take place on a level playing field.&#8221; A model citizen, Jacobs strove to produce academic research that might better inform the abortion debate in America at-large, and might then be utilized as a means to a broader societal reconciliation on the hot-button issue.
Jacobs&#8217; Ph.D. dissertation, which will soon be public, is entitled, &#8220;Balancing Abortion Rights And Fetal Rights: A Mixed Methods Mediation of the U.S. Abortion Debate.&#8221; The dissertation has many components, including a wide-ranging international survey of academic biologists to inquire, from a biological perspective, &#8220;when life begins.&#8221; Jacobs published an <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211703">intermediary paper last summer</a> that explained why this section of the dissertation is so important: Out of 2,899 American adults surveyed, a whopping 81% majority selected biologists as the group &#8220;most qualified to answer the question of when a human’s life begins.&#8221; Furthermore, Jacobs&#8217; own research suggests that 83% of pro-choicers surveyed believe that support for legal abortion would decrease &#8220;if it became common knowledge that fetuses are biological humans at fertilization.&#8221; And as a historical matter, American society&#8217;s fluctuating ideas about when life begins has often been a primary driver of our abortion legal regime. There is ample reason to believe, therefore, that support for unborn children&#8217;s legal rights might be artificially suppressed, and support for abortion rights artificially inflated, if it were to be revealed that Americans were largely ignorant of the biological reality as to when life begins.
The results of Jacobs&#8217; global survey of academic biologists was <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3211703">astonishing in its consensus</a>: &#8220;Overall, 95% of all biologists affirmed the biological view that a human&#8217;s life begins at fertilization (5212 out of 5502).&#8221; Again, the overwhelming nature of this consensus must be emphasized: The biologically human nature of the fertilized zygote is <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/42465/hammer-what-alyssa-milano-gets-so-very-wrong-about-josh-hammer">one of two necessary preconditions for the pro-life policy argument</a>, and Jacobs&#8217; research — which had a global reach — forecloses any question as to the biological inquiry. Pro-choicers who arrive at a different &#8220;scientific&#8221; conclusion — and Jacobs&#8217; research indicates that only 23% of pro-choicers recognize the fetus as a biological human being throughout the entire gestational continuum — ought to re-evaluate, accordingly. And as Jacobs told me, his scholarly research should galvanize lawmakers to &#8220;stop debating whether a fetus is a human and start debating whether all humans have rights and, if so, how to balance one human&#8217;s right to abort and another human’s right to life.&#8221;
In a sane world, that would conclude our story. Unfortunately, Jacobs&#8217; suffering on the path to attaining his Ph.D. is something that no young researcher ought to experience — let alone at a world-class academic institution such as the University of Chicago.
Jacobs first arrived at UChicago in 2009. For five years, his expressed desire to produce academic scholarship on the abortion debate was constantly rebuffed. Jacobs&#8217; fellow students, peer mentors, and the professoriate often told him that he was too white, too male, and too Christian to wade into the abortion debate. Finally, in 2014, shortly after enrolling in law school at Northwestern as a means to fortify his abortion-related credentials, Jacobs met a UChicago professor who seemed quite promising. The professor initially assured Jacobs that he would supervise Jacobs&#8217; abortion research after he graduated from Northwestern Law and returned to the UChicago Ph.D. program. After five years of wallowing in obscurity, Jacobs thought he finally had secured a faculty adviser.
After returning to UChicago, Jacobs began to construct his global survey of academic biologists. He spent over 500 hours going through the faculty directories of biology departments at universities all over the globe. Within days of beginning his survey, a biologist accused Jacobs of being a pro-life plant, threatened to sabotage his work, and reported Jacobs to UChicago&#8217;s ethics committee. Jacobs&#8217; adviser, who had shown so much promise of integrity, had him halt all research. When Jacobs ultimately restarted his research, the complaints became too voluminous — and too scathing — for Jacobs&#8217; thesis adviser (himself an ardent pro-choice advocate) to let the research continue. Here is a sampling of the vituperative feedback that Jacobs&#8217; anodyne research — which merely asked biologists for their biological opinions on when human life begins — elicited from the global biologist community:
<ul>
<li>&#8220;Is this a studied fund by Trump and ku klux klan?&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;OUR SOCIETY SHOULD EMBRACE SCIENCE AND NOT RELIGION, WE WILL BE A MORE KINDER AND ACCEPTING SOCIETY ALL PEOPLE AND NOT A TRUMPIAN SOCIETY OF AND FASCISM AND EXCLUSION OF IMMIGRANTS. DIVERSITY IS BUILDS A NATION AND ISOLATIONISM DESTROY IT.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Sure hope YOU aren&#8217;t a f^%$#ing christian!!&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;I filled the survey, but I thought that many of the questions were highly manipulative &#8230; I believe it’s a horribly manipulative survey and its end is to support the religious patriarchal abuse of women’s rights that has gone on for way too long.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;This is some stupid right to life thing &#8230; YUCK I believe in RIGHT TO CHOICE!!!!!!!&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;Thats a really crap &#8216;survey&#8217;. You have such major political issues in your country, maybe you should focus on raising standards. I am ashamed for Uni of Chicago to see such rubbish disseminated.&#8221;</li>
<li>&#8220;I do not want to be involved in this blimpish, evangelical roll-back of social achievements. Also, I do not want to receive further emails from you.&#8221;</li>
</ul>
Amidst this onslaught of hatred from the global biologist community, Jacobs&#8217; adviser had him halt all research until he could first successfully defend his research proposal in front of a dissertation committee. Jacobs successfully defended his proposal in front of the committee in September 2017 — but his adviser then reneged yet again and accused Jacobs of conducting unethical research. As Jacobs told me: My adviser &#8220;routinely reminded me that he, himself, was pro-choice and expressed a radical view of abortion rights, but I had believed that he could put aside his personal beliefs for the sake of his academic integrity.&#8221; But, on the contrary, as Jacobs also told me: The adviser &#8220;likened my work to morally objectionable research and acted as if I was working toward a goal that he found morally reprehensible.&#8221; The adviser ultimately drew a hard line and categorically refused to support Jacobs&#8217; research — even going so far as to threaten not to approve Jacobs&#8217; dissertation, were he to remain on Jacobs&#8217; dissertation committee.
Fortunately for Jacobs, he eventually found a noble member of the UChicago Department of Comparative Human Development who agreed to serve as a lead faculty adviser. And ultimately, after his data collection was halted twice more by intensive pushback from the global biologist community, Jacobs finished his research. However, due to the pushback, he was unable to achieve the survey response rate that is generally required for publication in top scholarly journals.
Despite all the setbacks — and one additional accusation of nefarious motivations, from the faculty head of the relevant UChicago ethics committee — Jacobs eventually defended his dissertation successfully.
The whole saga is extremely revealing as to the remarkably biased nature of the American — indeed, global — academy. &#8220;My experience was that [my initial adviser] had difficulty in staying objective in upholding his duties &#8230; when it came to my work,&#8221; Jacobs told me. &#8220;Unfortunately, when it came to my work, he became a political animal, was unable to protect himself from his deeply held beliefs about abortion, and could not stop himself from interfering.&#8221;
When I asked Jacobs why he thought his initial adviser behaved this way, why the faculty head of the UChicago ethics committee questioned the academic sincerity of his motivations, and why the biologists he surveyed reacted so petulantly, Jacobs explained that abortion is the &#8220;crown jewel&#8221; of the modern progressive movement. It&#8217;s a &#8220;quintessential sacred cow,&#8221; he added, and the pro-choice side is deeply concerned about suppressing research that could undermine the presuppositions upon which that &#8220;sacred cow&#8221; is so fragilely constructed. As Jacobs says, it is the <a href="https://www.ssrn.com/abstract=2973067">phenomenon that social scientists call &#8220;identity protective cognition&#8221;</a> that leads to human beings deliberately obfuscating and avoiding the search for truth.
But the truth is that pro-lifers&#8217; biological views on when life begins (59% saying life begins at fertilization) is much closer to the biological consensus (95% saying the same) than are pro-choicers&#8217; biological views (23% saying the same) on the same question.
Jacobs, now a Ph.D., reflects back on his tumultuous time at UChicago with a mix of frustration and thankfulness that someone in his department came to his defense when he needed it most:
<blockquote>&#8220;Academics&#8217; fear of balanced research on the U.S. abortion debate cost me five years of my life. I spent those five years in anguish at the realization that representatives of one of the finest academic institutions were willing to sacrifice their principles of academic freedom to protect their ideology; that they were willing to jeopardize their reputation of open inquiry to kill research that explored the dogma surrounding abortion rights. Despite those bad actors, stewards of the UChicago tradition displayed courage in putting aside their biases, upholding their academic principles, and helping me conduct my research.&#8221;</blockquote>
Alas, leftist domination of the American academy is <a href="https://www.amazon.com/God-Man-Yale-Superstitions-Academic/dp/089526692X">hardly a recent trend</a>. But it is an increasingly brazen, unabashed, and ubiquitous one. What happened to Steve Jacobs is utterly shameful and tragic. It is deeply depressing to think of such heavy-handed suppression at one of the world&#8217;s greatest research universities. But God willing, Jacobs&#8217; research will now hopefully contribute to shifting the abortion debate back toward biological truth — and toward a continued and rejuvenated effort to legally protect the unborn.

HAMMER: A World-Renowned University Suppressed Important Abortion Research. Here’s The Full Story.

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A group a the University of Chicago is demanding that the school pay reparations to students whose families suffered as a result of slavery, because of the school&#8217;s historical ties to politician Stephen Douglas.
The National Coalition of Blacks for Reparations in America, or N&#8217;COBRA, held a &#8220;Rally for Reparations&#8221; on campus last Tuesday, <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/39594/">according to The College Fix</a>, demanding that administrators make amends for Douglas&#8217;s land grant, which he obtained using the profits from his &#8220;plantation.&#8221;
The students then took their cause to Chicago&#8217;s City Hall, where they held a press conference on the steps where they presented their official demands. N&#8217;COBRA was joined by several other progressive campus groups, including the Solidarity Committee for Graduate Students United, which seeks to overthrow the shackles of institutionalized academic labor.
&#8220;The University of Chicago is founded by slaveholders and the labor of enslaved people can actually be traced through the years,&#8221; said Guy Emerson Mount, one of the students involved. &#8220;The labor of enslaved people actually translates into buildings, endowments, and real hard material resources.&#8221;
The students aren&#8217;t necessarily advocating for the University of Chicago to cut them a check, but they do want to &#8220;establish a truth and reconciliation committee that would produce a comprehensive reparations program,&#8221; they told the Chicago student newspaper, the Maroon, and they want a Community Benefits Agreement that would give them a say in what sort of development happens in the University&#8217;s surrounding neighborhood.
They also say they&#8217;d like to review the University&#8217;s contracts for any contact with &#8220;slave policies,&#8221; including the University&#8217;s contract with the Chicago Police Department, which they say is designed to &#8220;keep people out rather than in.&#8221;
Although the students seem sure that the University of Chicago benefited from Douglas&#8217;s slaveholding, it&#8217;s not immediately clear whether Douglas actually owned any slaves (though his wife&#8217;s family did). He did advocate for the freedom to own slaves in newly-founded American territories and supported the &#8220;Dred Scott&#8221; decision, but also thought that the democratic process would eventually do away with the institution of slavery, and was firmly on the side of the Union in the Civil War.

Group At University Of Chicago Demands School Pay Reparations For Slavery

A black student from the University of Illinois at Chicago who was arrested Monday for <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/01/authorities-say-university-chicago-threat-vowed-revenge-for-black-teen-shooting/">threatening to murder 16 white students</a> at the University of Chicago can return to school, a Chicago judge ruled.
21-year-old first-year engineering student Jabari Dean threatened via social media of a mass shooting of &#8220;white male students and or staff&#8221; to avenge the death of a black teenager last year at the hands of a Chicago police officer. He also encouraged others to join him and do their part to &#8220;rid the world of white devils.&#8221; In response, the University of Chicago canceled classes and Dean was arrested, only to be released from jail Tuesday by a federal judge.
After appearing in court Monday afternoon, Dean admitted to FBI agents that he had posted the threat Saturday but took it down shortly after posting it. Someone had allegedly notified the FBI of the threat Sunday but after the FBI was unable to find the threat online, the person provided a screenshot of it.
Here is what Jabari’s threat posted on the website <a href="http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/">worldstarhiphop.com</a> read, as reported by the <a href="http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1143620/student-charged-u-c-threat-released-moms-custody">Chicago Sun Times</a>:
<blockquote>This is my only warning. At 10 a.m. on Monday mourning (sic) I am going to the campus quad of the University of Chicago. I will be armed with a M-4 Carbine and 2 Desert Eagles all fully loaded. I will execute aproximately (sic) 16 white male students and or staff, which is the same number of time (sic) Mcdonald (sic) was killed. I then will die killing any number of white policemen that I can in the process. This is not a joke. I am to do my part to rid the world of the white devils. I expect you to do the same . . .</blockquote>
The threat was posted days after a video was released to the public of white police officer Jason Van Dyke shooting black teenager Laquan McDonald 16 times. Protests erupted in the streets of Chicago and Van Dyke was charged with first-degree murder.
The Sun Times said that Jabari’s comment was posted using the online profile name “JRD,” using the Chicago Bulls logo as its profile picture.
The judge’s response?
U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Cox told Dean’s mother that he will be released to her custody and will be allowed to attend classes on condition that he stays off the internet.
Dean’s mother expressed concern over her son’s future job prospects because of the arrest. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tobara Richardson said that Dean did not have the means to pull off the shooting, which would consist of three guns he did not own, and thus posed no threat to other students. Dean’s uncle Phillip Rutherford told reporters that his nephew was just a “stupid kid” with nothing else to do, adding that it was “just fun and games.”
&#8220;Stupid. Silly ignorant. Goofy. Everybody is upset. The whole family is upset,&#8221; Rutherford told Fox 32 News.
<blockquote>&#8220;This is not a joke. I am to do my part to rid the world of the white devils.&#8221;
Jabari Dean</blockquote>
<a href="http://news.uchicago.edu/article/2015/11/30/classes-and-events-resume-tuesday">Classes were resumed Tuesday</a> after what university president Robert J. Zimmer called a “challenging day.”
“I want to express my great admiration for and appreciation of members of our community — including faculty, students, staff, and friends — for their mutually supportive and thoughtful approach in what has been a challenging day,” Zimmer wrote in a statement.
The university classes shutdown allegedly affected over 30,000 people, though the University of Chicago Medical Center continued to admit patients.
This article has been corrected to specify that Jabari Dean attends the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he is a <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/12/01/authorities-say-university-chicago-threat-vowed-revenge-for-black-teen-shooting/">first-year undergraduate in electrical engineering</a>.
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University That Said It Would Only Accept Grad Students Focusing On ‘Black Studies’ Is Now Hiding Requirement But Still Enforcing It

University Of Chicago: Graduate English Department Only Accepting ‘Applicants Interested In Working In And With Black Studies’

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