LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock An Evergreen State professor called school president George Bridges an “absolute coward” in an email to the school’s faculty that was published Wednesday. Mike Paros, a biology and agriculture professor at Evergreen State, urged other faculty members to “walk toward the fire,” saying that the only thing they…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Kent Strobl Deering High School in Portland, Maine, announced that it would begin providing Muslim girls who play sports hijabs so they can play while still representing their faith, CBS News reported Thursday. High school officials chose to give all Muslim athletes lightweight sports hijabs in an effort to make them…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr Massachusetts lawmakers presented a bill in a public hearing Tuesday that would ban American Indian mascots in public schools. The bill, filed by Democratic state Sen. Barbara A. L’Italien, was proposed after the town of Tewksbury refused to change the name of its “Redmen” high school mascot. If the bill gets…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Henry Rodgers San Diego State University’s (SDSU) associate dean, Patrick McCarthy, compared the Republican Party to the Islamic State (ISIS) Monday in a Facebook comment. “The Republican party has become an extremist terrorist organization,” McCarthy wrote in the comment section of another user’s now-deleted Facebook post comparing “right-wing extremists” to ISIS,…
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LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Washington lawmakers plan to discuss legislation Thursday to privatize Evergreen State College, which dominated headlines recently for hosting an event segregating white and black students, as well as caving to protester demands. Republican State Rep. Matt Manweller is leading the effort to strip Evergreen State of $24…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Grace Carr A Princeton professor and author of “From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation,” said in a statement Wednesday that she has canceled her upcoming public appearances after receiving threats in reaction to inflammatory comments about President Donald Trump. The assistant professor of African American Studies, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, canceled her talks at Seattle’s Town Hall…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Graduating students at a U.K. university panicked after receiving an email at midnight Thursday saying that their graduation ceremony was cancelled. The email, which contained the subject line “Graduation Ceremony Cancelled – No Award,” said that University of Edinburgh student recipients were “not expected to complete [their] studies…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock A PhD student explained his “transpecies” hippopotamus identity and why he prefers being “transpecies” to transgender in a peer-reviewed paper published May. Florentin Félix Morin, a French PhD student who studied at the University of Arizona in the spring 2017 semester, published a paper discovered Saturday entitled “EGO HIPPO: The…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: By Rob Shimshock Protesters at Evergreen State College demanded that the school president exempt them from homework in a video of the protests posted Monday. RELATED: Professor Told He Isn’t Safe on Campus Following Student Protests “All of us are students and have homework and projects and things due,” said the protester during…