There has been some salutary progress in recent months shutting down the divisive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” rackets on college campuses in many red states, but after the job of ridding us of the scourge of DEI attention needs to be turned to admissions offices. Thesis: Most admissions offices should be purged wholesale. Not only are most of them likely still violating civil rights law in the aftermath of the Harvard/UNC Supreme Court ruling, but they bear a large share of the responsibility for the campus climate of hate against Jews we are currently witnessing on a mass scale. Admissions officers actually seek out these horrible students.
I made this argument once before a few months back, but a fresh new episode sharpens the problem. There’s an active boycott being waged by anti-Semitic students at Sarah Lawrence College against political science professor Sam Abrams, because Abrams is Jewish. Here’s part of Sam’s account from Minding the Campus:
During interview week, professors hold Zoom sessions to discuss their course plans and engage with prospective students—a course-shopping practice that started during the pandemic. This year, several leftist students, intent on canceling me and boycotting my courses—I’m teaching classes on Polarization and Presidential Leadership—resorted to privately messaging many of the prospective students in my Zoom room. These factually inaccurate and deliberately provocative messages went unnoticed by me during the session, as I was focused on sharing syllabi and other course-related information. It wasn’t until after the session that one of the students who received a message showed it to me, and I became aware of the situation. The next day, my classes, which are typically oversubscribed with waitlists, were not full—a stark contrast, especially during an election year. . .
After the tragic events of October 7th and the brutal killing and kidnapping by Hamas of many Israelis—some of whom remain in captivity—Sarah Lawrence College president Cristle Collins Judd did state that “there is not, nor can there be, any place for antisemitism or hate speech of any kind on our campus.” Despite this pronouncement by the head of the College, almost nothing has been done institutionally to address the hatred toward Jews, and the school is consequently facing a federal Title VI case involving its “persistent and pervasive” anti-Semitism. The ‘pervasive’ anti-Semitism at Sarah Lawrence is once again on full display, with students attempting to boycott me for my personal views about Israel—views that are deeply rooted in my faith and heritage.
Worth reading the whole thing; the complete story is much worse than just this brief excerpt. The Sarah Lawrence admissions office must be very proud of the students it has recruited and admitted. What a fine bunch.
You can find a list of Sarah Lawrence trustees here. Wouldn’t be a bad thing if they heard from alumni, parents, and potential students asking what they are going to do about this. Nothing, of course.
Chaser:
At Michigan, Activists Take Over and Shut Down Student Government
At the University of Michigan, many student activities are usually funded or subsidized by the Central Student Government, known as C.S.G., an elected undergraduate and graduate council that decides how to dole out roughly $1.3 million annually to about 400 groups.
But last spring, pro-Palestinian activists, running under the Shut It Down party, won control over the student government. They immediately moved to withhold funding for all activities, until the university committed to divest from companies that profit from Israel’s war in Gaza.
University regents, though, have consistently said that divestment is off the table. And as students returned to school, the campus seemed to be at a virtual standstill.
Expel them all. Problem solved.
