The University of Minnesota offered to pay children as young as five to play with transgender dolls with mix-and-match genitals.
Kids ages five to 10 were offered between $20 and $60 to play with &#8220;MyGender <a href="https://x.com/JohnsonHildy/status/1869378196678029690" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dolls</a>,&#8221; an Instagram post advertising the activity <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C34HtPKMJVZ/?igsh=MTJ1NHlhcWtjenlnMg%3D%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.instagram.com/p/C34HtPKMJVZ/?igsh%3DMTJ1NHlhcWtjenlnMg%253D%253D&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1lCSPKCjN0ZSGaHY3SyDCc">shows</a>.
&#8220;We are looking to hear from transgender and gender diverse children between the ages of 5 and 10 years old and their parents about a new hands-on activity to help talk about gender and bodies!&#8221; reads the February 27 post.
The activity was <a href="https://crowdfund.umn.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.personalCampaign&amp;participantID=1098" target="_blank" rel="noopener">organized</a> by the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health, which is part of the Human Sexuality program at the University of Minnesota&#8217;s medical school. The Center has also <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">produced</a> a handbook to &#8220;support sexual pleasure education&#8221; for trans-identifying men after transgender genital surgery.
It is unclear if any parents volunteered their children for the study. The University of Minnesota did not respond to a request for comment.
The &#8220;MyGender Dolls&#8221; are similar to classic paper dolls, but they <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects/mygender-dolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener">have</a> movable internal sex organs, external genitals, hairstyles, clothing, and other accessories that children can “layer on,” supposedly to build a representation of their true gender. The dolls were created by &#8220;transgender and gender diverse artists&#8221; and are intended for use by &#8220;a gender competent therapist who sees young children and adolescents for gender exploration,&#8221; the Center said.
The &#8220;affirming&#8221; clinical approach for children who declare they are a different gender has received fierce pushback from both parents and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/over-100-health-care-professionals-groups-sign-declaration-calling-for-halt-to-child-transgender-medical-services" target="_blank" rel="noopener">doctors</a> over the last few years, especially when it comes to medicalization. A growing number of detransitioners — men and women who were put on puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones as children — have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/these-five-women-are-suing-over-their-transgender-medical-treatments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoken</a> out about their regret.
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The dolls have already garnered national attention. They were <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects/mygender-dolls" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects/mygender-dolls&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0XnlkdSSmSsEYQMOVa9AHs">presented</a> at the 2019 symposium of the U.S. division of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), whose controversial standards of care for trans-identifying people have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/wpath-explains-why-they-removed-minimum-age-guidelines-for-children-to-access-transgender-medical-treatments-so-doctors-wont-get-sued" target="_blank" rel="noopener">come</a> under fire in recent years.
Elsewhere on its website, the National Center for Gender Spectrum Health <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/ncgsh/projects" target="_blank" rel="noopener">touts</a> that it has faculty serving on the WPATH Standards of Care document revision committee.
One of the Center&#8217;s co-directors is Dr. Dianne Berg, who serves on WPATH&#8217;s child and adolescent committee and is interested in both &#8220;gender creative children&#8221; and &#8220;compulsive sexual behavior,&#8221; according to <a href="https://med.umn.edu/bio/dianne-berg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her</a> biography on the University of Minnesota&#8217;s website.
Her co-director is Dr. Katie Spencer, who <a href="https://med.umn.edu/bio/katherine-spencer" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is</a> &#8220;passionate about social justice and feminist approaches&#8221; to clinical practice, her biography says.
The Center <a href="https://crowdfund.umn.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.personalCampaign&amp;participantID=1098" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://crowdfund.umn.edu/index.cfm?fuseaction%3DdonorDrive.personalCampaign%26participantID%3D1098&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04j8ebCyWoqmLEg5avqcG_">says</a> part of its mission is to &#8220;eliminate gender-based stigma and discrimination.&#8221; It also <a href="https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/national-center-gender-spectrum-health" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://med.umn.edu/sexualhealth/national-center-gender-spectrum-health&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1734544456378000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1BYM3ZdI6-f7E_fvqKg4W_">says</a> it wants to promote scholarship by trans-identifying people, &#8220;challenge cisnormativity in healthcare,&#8221; and &#8220;promote pleasure and positive sexuality for all bodies.&#8221; It also touted recently getting $87,500 more in grant funding.
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Incoming medical students at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-minnesota-student-government-representative-to-classmates-make-cops-lives-hell" target="_blank" rel="noopener">University of Minnesota</a> were led in a bizarre group oath chock full of woke references, including condemnation of “the gender binary,” and colonialism, as well as pledge to “honor all indigenous ways of healing.”
The University of Minnesota Twin Cities Medical School class of 2026 students were led in reciting the oath by Robert Englander, associate dean for undergraduate medical education. The oath was written by over a dozen incoming medical students and the event took place in August and was recently <a href="https://campusreform.org/article?id=20259" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported by Campus Reform</a>.
“With gratitude, we, the students of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Medical School Class of 2026, stand here today among our friends, families, peers, mentors and communities, who have supported us in reaching this milestone,” Englander began, reading from the student-written pledge. “Our institution is located on Dakota Land. Today, many indigenous people throughout the state including Dakota and Ojibwe, call the Twin Cities home.”
The gathering pledged its commitment to &#8220;uprooting the legacy and perpetuation of structural violence deeply embedded within the health care system,&#8221; and said it recognized &#8220;inequities built by past and present traumas rooted in white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, ableism, and all forms of oppression.”
The future doctors vowed to create a &#8220;culture of anti-racism,&#8221; and claimed in their group oath that Native American medicine is a legitimate complement to modern Western medicine.
“We pledge to honor all Indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine, knowing that health is intimately connected to our environment, we commit to healing our planet and communities,” the group said.
The pledge continued with an acknowledgement that no culture can be superior to any other, with the students reciting a vow &#8220;to embrace our role as community members and strive to embody cultural humility.”
Then came the invocation of the latest woke buzzword, &#8220;equity.&#8221;
“We promise to continue restoring trust in the medical system and fulfilling our responsibilities as educators and advocates,&#8221; the oath stated. &#8220;We commit to collaborating with social, political, and additional systems to advance health equity.”
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University of Minnesota medical students swear an oath to &quot;honor all Indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine&quot; and to fight &quot;white supremacy, colonialism, [and] the gender binary.&quot;
They are being inducted in the cult of CRT. <a href="https://t.co/v3YYKBq9OW">pic.twitter.com/v3YYKBq9OW</a>
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The closing at the ceremony was given by the vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion, Ana Núñez, who <a href="https://www.acponline.org/membership/medical-students/acp-impact/archive/october-2020/ana-nunez-md-facp-on-enhancing-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-at-the-organizational-level">once said</a> her motto was “logic doesn’t live here.”
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Here&#39;s the program from University of Minnesota&#39;s white coat ceremony for the incoming class. You&#39;ll notice that the closing is from the &quot;Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion&quot; Ana Núñez who—wait for it—specializes in &quot;gender medicine.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/jwibk6KTiD">pic.twitter.com/jwibk6KTiD</a>
&mdash; Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) <a href="https://twitter.com/realchrisrufo/status/1579123885404205056?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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UMN physician and neuroscientist Karen Ashe responded to a bombshell Science report published last week, which alleges that key images from one of the most cited research papers on Alzheimer’s disease this century might have been intentionally fabricated, throwing off years and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded research.
Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist and physician at Vanderbilt University, stumbled upon the controversial study while investigating an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s. The 2006 study published in Nature by neuroscientist Sylvain Lesné of the University of Minnesota (UMN) “underpins a key element of the dominant yet controversial amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s, which holds that [protein amyloid beta] Aβ clumps, known as plaques, in brain tissue are a primary cause of the devastating illness,” Science <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease">reported</a>.
Ashe portrayed herself as a victim in the scandal, claiming that it was &#8220;devastating to discover that a co-worker may have misled me and the scientific community through the doctoring of images,&#8221; even though she should have been scrutinizing Lesné&#8217;s work.
&#8220;It is, however, additionally distressing to find that a major scientific journal has flagrantly misrepresented the implications of my work,&#8221; she said, adding that the article, which had input from numerous top Alzheimer&#8217;s experts, &#8220;erroneously conflated the two forms of Abeta.&#8221;
The Science report noted that the implication of the suspected fraudulent work means that hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) might have been wasted and that the entire scientific field could have been searching in the wrong direction for the last 16 years for a cure for Alzheimer’s since thousands of studies were based on the study in question.
The authors “appeared to have composed figures by piecing together parts of photos from different experiments,” Elisabeth Bik, a molecular biologist and well-known forensic image consultant, told the publication. “The obtained experimental results might not have been the desired results, and that data might have been changed to … better fit a hypothesis.”
Schrag said that his investigation into Lesné’s and Ashe’s research contained images that appeared to be improperly duplicated or doctored.
Harvard University’s Dennis Selkoe, who was an advocate of the research that Lesné conducted, concluded in reviewing the images that there were “certainly at least 12 or 15 images where I would agree that there is no other explanation” other than the images were intentionally doctored, which he called “very worrisome.”
Selkoe added that there were other red flags with Lesné as some of his scientific comments “made no biochemical sense” to experts because “if it did, we’d all be using” similar methods.
After being confronted about the alleged fraudulent research, which Selkoe deemed was “highly egregious,” he acknowledged that there is now “precious little clearcut evidence that” the specific amyloid beta molecule at the center of the research, amyloid beta star 56 (Aβ*56) “exists, or if it exists, correlates in a reproducible fashion with features of Alzheimer’s—even in animal models.”
Numerous papers by Lesné have been flagged by the scientists leading the investigation for possible instances of fraud, which have led to corrections that have also been problematic.
Another scientist, cell biologist Denis Vivien, a senior scientist at Caen, alleged that in a separate study with Lesné, Lesné provided “dubious” looking research images that students could not replicate. Vivien cut off all contact with Lesné after the incident, saying, “We are never safe from a student who would like to deceive us and we must remain vigilant.”

JERRY HOLT √Øjgholt@startribune.com 7/3/2006—–Portrait of Dr. Karen Hsiao Ashe.

University Of Minnesota Scientist Responds To Explosive Allegations Of Fraud In Alzheimer’s Research

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Key images from one of the most cited research papers on Alzheimer&#8217;s disease this century might have been intentionally fabricated, throwing off years and hundreds of millions of dollars worth of taxpayer-funded research into the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.
Matthew Schrag, a neuroscientist and physician at Vanderbilt University, stumbled upon the controversial study while investigating an experimental drug for Alzheimer’s.
The 2006 study published in Nature by neuroscientist Sylvain Lesné of the University of Minnesota (UMN) &#8220;underpins a key element of the dominant yet controversial amyloid hypothesis of Alzheimer’s, which holds that [protein amyloid beta] Aβ clumps, known as plaques, in brain tissue are a primary cause of the devastating illness,&#8221; Science <a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/potential-fabrication-research-images-threatens-key-theory-alzheimers-disease">reported</a>.
Science investigated the study and says it corroborated Schrag’s suspicions about Lesné’s research with the help of leading Alzheimer’s researchers and image analysts. The independent experts alleged that some images they reviewed were “shockingly blatant” examples of image tampering.
The authors “appeared to have composed figures by piecing together parts of photos from different experiments,” Elisabeth Bik, a molecular biologist and well-known forensic image consultant, told the publication. “The obtained experimental results might not have been the desired results, and that data might have been changed to … better fit a hypothesis.”
The report noted that the implication of the suspected fraudulent work means that hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer funds from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) might have been wasted, and that the entire scientific field could have been searching in the wrong direction for the last 16 years for a cure for Alzheimer&#8217;s since thousands of studies were based on the study in question.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/university-of-minnesota-scientist-responds-to-explosive-allegations-of-fraud-in-alzheimers-research">RELATED: University Of Minnesota Scientist Responds To Explosive Allegations Of Fraud In Alzheimer’s Research</a>
The study in question came from the lab of UMN physician and neuroscientist Karen Ashe, who won the prestigious Potamkin Prize for neuroscience based partly for her work on the now-scrutinized study, which has been cited in approximately 2,300 research papers. Scientists involved in the research say that Lesné prepared all the images used in the study for publication.
Schrag said that his investigation into Lesné&#8217;s and Ashe&#8217;s research contained images that appeared to be improperly duplicated or doctored.
Harvard University’s Dennis Selkoe, who was an advocate of the research that Lesné conducted, concluded in reviewing the images that there were &#8220;certainly at least 12 or 15 images where I would agree that there is no other explanation&#8221; other than the images were intentionally doctored, which he called “very worrisome.”
Selkoe added that there were other red flags with Lesné as some of his scientific comments &#8220;made no biochemical sense&#8221; to experts because &#8220;if it did, we’d all be using&#8221; similar methods.
After being confronted about the alleged fraudulent research, which Selkoe deemed was &#8220;highly egregious,&#8221; he acknowledged that there is now &#8220;precious little clearcut evidence that&#8221; the specific amyloid beta molecule at the center of the research, amyloid beta star 56 (Aβ*56) &#8220;exists, or if it exists, correlates in a reproducible fashion with features of Alzheimer’s—even in animal models.&#8221;
Numerous papers by Lesné have been flagged by the scientists leading the investigation for possible instances of fraud, which have led to corrections that have also been problematic.
Another scientist, cell biologist Denis Vivien, a senior scientist at Caen, alleged that in a separate study with Lesné, Lesné provided &#8220;dubious&#8221; looking research images that students could not replicate. Vivien cut off all contact with Lesné after the incident, saying, “We are never safe from a student who would like to deceive us and we must remain vigilant.”

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Bombshell: Possible Fraudulent Images Used In Key Alzheimer’s Study Has Misled Research For Years, Report Says

Possible Fraudulent Images Used In Key Alzheimer’s Study Has Misled Research For Years, Report Says

Through two quarters, it looked as though we were going to get one heck of an upset to kick off week one of the college football season. 
The Minnesota Golden Gophers took a 14-10 lead into the locker room at halftime, the crowd we so missed last season was back in full force, and the rumblings that first-year QB C.J. Stroud might not be able to match the hype were growing louder.  
And then Ohio State’s overwhelming talent took over. 
Minnesota simply couldn’t stop the Buckeyes from chunk plays, and fourth-ranked Ohio State moved to 1-0 on the season with a 45-31 victory Thursday night. 
Stroud — a redshirt freshman — has been talked about all offseason as the next in line of great Ohio State quarterbacks. But following Justin Fields is no easy task, and the freshman struggled early on, completing just six of his 14 passes for 53 yards in the first half. Stroud also threw a costly interception in the first half. 
&#8220;In the first half, my mind wasn&#8217;t right, I was kind of all over the place,&#8221; Stroud <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32137872/cj-stroud-heeds-ryan-day-advice-keep-swinging-fuels-ohio-state-buckeyes-comeback-victory">said</a>. &#8220;I talked to my teammates, praying a lot, trying to lock back in. I don&#8217;t feel like I did terrible, but I definitely do as best as I could.&#8221;
Ohio State had no answers for Minnesota running back Mohamed Ibrahim, rushing for a one-yard touchdown late in the second quarter to put the Gophers up at the half. Ibrahim — an AP second-team preseason All-American — finished the night with 163 yards on 30 carries, but was forced to exit the game late in the third quarter with a leg injury. He didn’t return. 
&#8220;Whatever it is, we&#8217;ll figure it out and we&#8217;ll row and we&#8217;ll get better,&#8221; Minnesota head coach P.J. Fleck <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32137764/minnesota-rb-mohamed-ibrahim-big-night-ends-lower-leg-injury">said</a>. &#8220;We&#8217;ll make sure he&#8217;s healthy at the point we bring him back. Hopefully, it&#8217;s nothing major, but we don&#8217;t know that just yet.&#8221;
&#8220;Thirty carries, [163] yards, that&#8217;s what you expect of Mo,&#8221; Fleck said. &#8220;Just unfortunate he got kind of tangled up on a tackle.&#8221;
In college football, talent usually overwhelms, and Ohio State’s talent took over in the second half. The Buckeyes outscored Minnesota 21-7 in the third quarter, including passing touchdowns of 38 and 56 yards from Stroud. 
&#8220;He and I had a conversation early on that we&#8217;re going to keep swinging, no matter what happens, and we&#8217;re not going to play close to the vest,&#8221; Ohio State head coach Ryan Day <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32137872/cj-stroud-heeds-ryan-day-advice-keep-swinging-fuels-ohio-state-buckeyes-comeback-victory">said</a>. &#8220;That&#8217;s not the way we do it here. And he responded, but I really think it was the guys around him.&#8221;
A 32-yard fumble return from defensive tackle Haskell Garrett late in the third put Ohio State up 31-21, sealing the Gophers&#8217; fate. 
&#8220;It just goes to show you big guys can run,&#8221; Garrett <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/2021/09/02/ohio-state-rallies-45-31-win-over-minnesota/5683885001/">said</a>. 
&#8220;I thought that was probably the difference in the game,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dispatch.com/story/sports/2021/09/02/ohio-state-rallies-45-31-win-over-minnesota/5683885001/">said</a> Day. &#8220;Anytime you get a defensive score &#8230; that flips the scoreboard, and it&#8217;s a huge game changer.&#8221; 
It wasn’t the perfect opener for the Buckeyes, but Stroud’s second half performance should give the Ohio State faithful hope that they’ve found themselves a new quarterback. Stroud finished the night 13-22 for 294 passing yards and four touchdowns. 
&#8220;I have great teammates, but I think I&#8217;m a great player, too,&#8221; Stroud <a href="https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/32137872/cj-stroud-heeds-ryan-day-advice-keep-swinging-fuels-ohio-state-buckeyes-comeback-victory">said</a>. &#8220;Maybe the first half didn&#8217;t show that, but I did my best in the second [half]. In the second, I did really well. In the game of football, you have ups and downs, and they believe in me. They put me in situations to get them the ball, and that&#8217;s a big opportunity for me.&#8221;
&#8220;Coach Day, he told me no matter how I&#8217;m playing, good or bad, he has trust in me. He believes in me.&#8221;
Ohio State gets a major test next weekend, taking on No. 11 Oregon at home. Minnesota plays Miami of Ohio. 
Joe Morgan is the Sports Reporter for The Daily Wire. Most recently, Morgan covered the Clippers, Lakers, and the NBA for Sporting News. Send your sports questions to sports@dailywire.com.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL: SEP 02 Ohio State at Minnesota

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A high-ranking member of the Minnesota Student Association, Lauren Meyers, called on her peers in student government to harass campus law enforcement officers.
&#8220;When you say disrupt [the University of Minnesota Police Department], what exactly do you mean by that?&#8221; Ranking At-Large Representative Andy Knuppel asked.
&#8220;Make their lives hell,&#8221; Meyers replied nonchalantly. &#8220;Annoy the s**t out of them.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay&#8230;&#8221; Knuppel replied, clearly taken back by the answer.
The goal, according to Meyers, is to &#8220;use up their resources.&#8221; She encouraged students to place fake calls for help to &#8220;make officers show up to something.&#8221;
The comments were made on a video conference call where members of the student government were discussing a<a href="https://www.mppoa.com/images/2568_001.pdf"> letter</a> calling on UMPD Chief Matt Clark to resign for &#8220;repeatedly and unequivocally disregard[ing] students demands, fail[ing] to increase campus wellness and safety for students of color, and &#8230; allow[ing] the utilization of UMPD as a physical arm of the oppressive state to subjugate and silence community members both on and off campus.&#8221;
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Here it is. We received a copy of the video that was deleted from Reddit.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UMN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UMN</a> Student Association Rep Lauren Meyers advocates disrupting <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/UMPD?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#UMPD</a> police to &quot;make their lives hell, annoy the sh*t out of them, use up their resources, make their officers show up to something.&quot; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/MN?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#MN</a> <a href="https://t.co/DxQD4b0aDE">pic.twitter.com/DxQD4b0aDE</a>
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Two police unions, the Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association (MPPOA) and Law Enforcement Labor Services (LELS), <a href="https://www.mppoa.com/images/U_OF_M.pdf">issued a statement</a>, asking Meyers to apologize to UMPD.
“Actively planning to thwart UMPD by generating false calls for help is insulting to the overwhelming majority of the campus community that rely on public safety services. MSA leaders should be ashamed — and apologize to the campus community and victims of crime on campus,” MPPOA Executive Director Brian Peters said in the statement. &#8220;Last month the campus community had 13 incidents of aggravated assault, 52 burglaries, 22 car thefts, 4 sexual assaults, numerous thefts, and a murder on or near campus. We’re frustrated that elected student leaders would purposefully choose to stir further division to make the campus less safe.”
The unions also called on university officials to launch an investigation &#8220;for Student Code of Conduct violations.&#8221; The unions cited multiple areas of the student <a href="https://regents.umn.edu/sites/regents.umn.edu/files/2020-01/policy_student_conduct_code.pdf">code of conduct</a>, including falsification, attempt to injure or defraud, and disorderly conduct.
<blockquote>Subd. 3. Falsification. Falsification means willfully providing University offices or officials with false, misleading, or incomplete information; forging or altering without proper authorization official University records or documents or conspiring with or inducing others to forge or alter without proper authorization University records or documents; misusing, altering, forging, falsifying, or transferring to another person University-issued identification; or intentionally making a false report of a bomb, fire, natural disaster, or other emergency to a University official or an emergency service agency.
Subd. 5. Attempt to Injure or Defraud. Attempt to injure or defraud means making, forging, printing, reproducing, copying, or altering any record, document, writing, or identification used or maintained by the University when done with intent to injure, defraud, or misinform.
Subd. 9. Disorderly Conduct. Disorderly conduct means engaging in conduct that incites or threatens to incite an assault or breach of the peace; breaching the peace; obstructing or disrupting teaching, research, administrative, or public service functions; or obstructing or disrupting disciplinary procedures or authorized University activities.</blockquote>
The unions also stated Meyers&#8217; calls for thwarting police could result in a number of misdemeanor and felony offenses, including &#8220;reporting fictitious emergency resulting in serious injury,&#8221; which carries a 10-year sentence and/or a $20,000 fine.
Two members of the student government, Andrew Knuppel and Morgan McElroy, slammed Meyers&#8217; comments.
“We are two members of the Minnesota Student Association (MSA) Executive Board and we wholeheartedly denounce the comments that were made during the April 14, 2021 Executive Board meeting regarding police interference on campus,&#8221; the pair said in a <a href="http://“We call upon our fellow student leaders who have stayed silent over the last 72 hours to denounce the comments made in the clip that’s been widely circulating in the media,”">statement.</a> “We call upon our fellow student leaders who have stayed silent over the last 72 hours to denounce the comments made in the clip that’s been widely circulating in the media.&#8221;
“To achieve any progress on critical campus issues such as police reform and campus safety, elected student leaders should strive to engage with administrators and campus law enforcement collaboratively,” the joint statement said. “The public comments made by our colleague, unintended or otherwise, have cast a dark shadow on what should be a constructive dialogue among elected student government leaders, the student body, administration, and other stakeholders.”
Knuppel and McElory told <a href="https://alphanewsmn.com/u-of-m-student-leaders-condemn-calls-to-obstruct-campus-police/">Alpha News</a> the full video recording “has since been deleted from our internal communications network and is the only Executive Board meeting recording we do not have access to at this time.”
According to <a href="https://alphanewsmn.com/police-call-for-apology-after-u-of-m-student-fabricates-account-of-police-misconduct/">Alpha News</a>, this isn&#8217;t the first time a member of student government has been involved in anti-law enforcement rhetoric. Earlier this year, Nikil Badey, who the school newspaper <a href="https://mndaily.com/265237/news/umpd-releases-squad-car-footage-in-response-to-incident-involving-a-student-leader/">identified</a> as a &#8220;student government leader&#8221; lied about UMPD racially profiling him. Badey was stopped because they believed he &#8220;may have fit the description of a suspect in an armed robbery that occurred earlier that night,&#8221; <a href="https://mndaily.com/265237/news/umpd-releases-squad-car-footage-in-response-to-incident-involving-a-student-leader/">The Minnesota Daily</a> reported.

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The University of Minnesota’s School of Social Work and Continuing Education Series recently hosted what they called a Special Webinar Series that was titled, “<a href="https://practicetransformation.umn.edu/webinars/part-i-recovery-from-white-conditioning-building-anti-racist-practice-and-community/">Deconstructing &amp; Decentralizing White-ness in Practice: A Three-Part Series</a>,” in which a lecture titled &#8220;Recovery from White Conditioning” taught white people how to use a “12-step” program similar to Alcoholics Anonymous to “recover and reclaim our full humanity.”
Therapist Cristina Combs, who created the program, spent “years of struggling to navigate the role and presence of whiteness in her personal, academic, and professional journeys,” the website for the series claims.
“Combs began the <a style="font-style: inherit;" href="https://practicetransformation.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Recovery-from-White-Conditioning-PPT.pdf">lecture</a> by acknowledging that ‘I am on traditional Dakota land,’ the territory of a Native American tribe which settled in Minnesota,” The College Fix reported, in a <a href="https://www.thecollegefix.com/university-of-minnesota-lecture-features-12-step-recovery-program-for-whiteness/">lengthy article</a> detailing the presentation.  “She also acknowledged ‘George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and all of the other lives stolen from families and communities and our world due to police brutality and state-sanctioned violence.’”
After asking, “What comes to mind when you hear the term ‘white supremacy?”, Combs showed a slide with images of Ku Klux Klan members and white nationalists in Charlottesville, then replaced their images with one of herself, commenting, “When BIPOC (black, indigenous, people of color) activists would use the term ‘white supremacy’ to talk about the systems that needed to change and the work that white people needed to do, my instinct was to recoil. It felt like too hard or too raw of a word, and I didn’t like it. And I ultimately realized that that is my ego … Stepping into that tension and accepting my connection to white supremacy has been a freedom of sorts to show up in better alignment with my values and do the work for the rest of my life.”
In her preamble to the explanation of her 12-step program toward racial sobriety, Combs quoted feminist author Bell Hooks saying that “‘imperialist white supremacist capitalist patriarchy’ [is] the power structure underlying the social order.”
The 12 steps in the program:
<blockquote>Step 1: “We admitted that we had been socially conditioned by the ideology of white supremacy.”
Step 2: “We came to believe that we could embrace our ignorance as an invitation to learn.”
Step 3: “We develop support systems to keep us engaged in this work.”
Step 4: “We journeyed boldly inward, exploring and acknowledging ways in which white supremacist teachings have been integrated into our minds and spirits.”
Step 5: “We confessed our mistakes and failings to ourselves and others.”
Step 6: “We were entirely ready to deconstruct previous ways of knowing, as they have been developed through the lens of white supremacy.”
Step 7: “We humbly explored new ways of understanding…proactively seeking out new learning and reconstructing a more inclusive sense of reality.”
Step 8: “We committed ourselves to ongoing study of our racial biases, conscious or unconscious, and our maladaptive patterns of white supremacist thinking.”
Step 9: “We develop strategies to counteract our racial biases.”
Step 10: “We embraced the responsibility of focusing on our impact, more than our intentions, in interactions with people of color.”
Step 11: “We engage in daily practices of self-reflection.”
Step 12: “We committed ourselves to sharing this message with our white brothers, sisters, and siblings…in order to build a supportive recovery community and to encourage personal accountability within our culture.”</blockquote>

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University Of Minnesota Offers Lecture Teaching 12-Step AA-Type Program To Recover From Being White

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