{"id":2236871,"date":"2024-05-03T19:33:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/universities-made-oppression-scholars-their-presidents-now-students-feel-oppressed\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T23:36:38","slug":"universities-made-oppression-scholars-their-presidents-now-students-feel-oppressed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/universities-made-oppression-scholars-their-presidents-now-students-feel-oppressed\/","title":{"rendered":"Universities Elevate Former Oppressors as Leaders, Fueling Student Discontent"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funiversities-made-oppression-scholars-their-presidents-now-students-feel-oppressed%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2236871&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The \u200breview of academic papers reveals that universities facing student \u2062unrest have a history of\u200c appointing leaders focused on\u2062 oppression issues. Examples include UCLA&#8217;s Provost Darnell Hunt and Sacramento State&#8217;s President Luke\u2063 Wood. The\u200d unrest\u200c reflects a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-agitators-at-ut-austin-learn-the-hard-way-that-texas-does-things-differently-than-blue-states\/\" title=\"UT-Austin Anti-Israel Activists Face Texas' Unique Approach Compared to Blue States\">broader ideological conflict<\/a> \u2062within academic \u2063institutions, raising questions about the relevance of such work in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-scientists-claim-they-can-now-reverse-engineer-deepfakes\/\" title=\"Facebook Scientists Claim They Can Now Reverse-Engineer Deepfakes\">real-world settings<\/a>. \u2063Similar confrontations have occurred at Rutgers and\u200b Portland State University.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p>The universities that selected presidents with academic track records that consist largely of political screeds about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chinese-american-group-on-essential-race-concept-racist-repressive-discriminatory\/\" title=\"Chinese-American Group On Essential Race Concept: \u2018Racist, Repressive, Discriminatory\u2019\">racial oppression<\/a> and other identity groups are now melting down because of students who say they\u2019re oppressed, a review of academic papers shows.<\/p>\n<p>At UCLA, Provost Darnell Hunt donned a mask and sat on the ground with protesters, who told him that police are on the side of \u201cZionists,\u201d and that police are going to commit \u201cbrutality\u201d against them. After he said he had \u201cto go,\u201d they screamed \u201cshame\u201d at him.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MUST WATCH FOOTAGE: This is UCLA&#8217;s Provost, Darnell Hunt, trying to negotiate with the UCLA Encampment Activists. <\/p>\n<p>They effectively lecture him and when he tries to briefly clarify something, they get mad at him, so he decides to leave. The Encampment Occupiers laugh at this\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fKJRcXHykQ\">pic.twitter.com\/fKJRcXHykQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stu (@thestustustudio) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thestustustudio\/status\/1785926212029739449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hunt made his career opining on purported police brutality and racism in the aftermath of riots triggered by purported police brutality against Rodney King, writing a book called \u201cScreening the Los Angeles \u2018Riots\u2019: Race, Seeing, and Resistance.\u201d The titles of his academic papers, below, give an idea of his area of expertise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reclaiming UCLA (lamenting that \u201ca county that is 9.8% African American \u2014 now has a lower percentage of black freshman than either crosstown rival USC or UC Berkeley\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Channeling Blackness: Studies on Television and Race in America<\/li>\n<li>Birth of a Nation\u2019hood: Gaze, Script, and Spectacle in the O.J. Simpson Case<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And at Sacramento State, President Luke Wood went back on a threat to remove an anti-Israel encampment, instead allowing them to remain <a href=\"https:\/\/statehornet.com\/2024\/04\/president-luke-wood-extends-encampment-approval-on-second-day-of-pro-palestine-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cindefinitely<\/a>.\u201d Wood has made his career writing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illinois-might-mandate-teachers-to-embrace-progressive-viewpoints\/\" title=\"Illinois Might Mandate Teachers To \u2018Embrace\u2019 Progressive Viewpoints\">student activism<\/a> and the oppression of blacks, authoring the book \u201cThe Sources of American Student Activism\u201d and papers such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Political Consciousness and Student Activism<\/li>\n<li>Racelighting Black, Indigenous, and People of Color in Education<\/li>\n<li>Treat Them Like Human Beings: Black Children\u2019s Experiences With Racial Microaggressions in Early Childhood Education During COVID-19<\/li>\n<li>I Love My Hair: The Weaponizing of Black Girls Hair by Educations in Early Childhood Educations<\/li>\n<li>Black Men in Higher Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The review suggests that the unrest on college campuses is not the result of a subversive faction, but rather one in line with the ideology of those installed at the highest ranks of the institutions. The papers, focused heavily on social sciences, also raise questions about the real-world value of work conducted at even the highest levels of academia.<\/p>\n<p>At Rutgers University, an anti-Semitic protester told a Jewish student that \u201cHitler would have loved you.\u201d Rutgers leadership went on to give in to many of the protesters\u2019 demands, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sfmcguire79\/status\/1786417078058004840\/photo\/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agreeing<\/a> \u201cto develop a plan for the creation of an Arab Cultural Center with designated physical space and a hiring plan for administrators and staff,\u201d and to \u201cdevelop training sessions on anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim racism for all RU administrators and staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway \u2014 a former professor of African American Studies at Yale \u2014 has contributed to the academic world through papers such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Race, slavery, and Ideology in Colonial North America<\/li>\n<li>Resistance and African American identity before the Civil War<\/li>\n<li>The Black Body As Archive of Memory (which \u201cconsiders the film Shaft and how it was, from beginning to end, one extended middle finger to white America\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>How to Read The Souls of Black Folk in a Post-Racial Age<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rutgers \u2013 Watch as a campus protestor tells a Jewish student \u201cFree Palestine, Hitler would have loved you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just another example of what this is all about \u2013 Jew hatred. <\/p>\n<p>Plain and simple Jewish hatred. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/syUOz7tY4z\">pic.twitter.com\/syUOz7tY4z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StopAntisemites\/status\/1786165109624074729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At Portland State University, occupiers seized the campus\u2019 main library, fighting with janitors and police, destroying rare books, painting it with communist symbols, and smashing a historic sculpture based on the Torah.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today: Portland news station KGW captured the moment the Antifa &#8220;guards&#8221; for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Portland_State?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Portland_State<\/a> library occupation pushed someone down the stairs. Far-left extremists have seized the entire Millar Library &#8220;for Gaza&#8221; and are destroying it inside. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PoeeNyhYJJ\">pic.twitter.com\/PoeeNyhYJJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1785828338294194363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The university\u2019s president, Ann Cudd, made her career off of lamenting oppression, publishing papers such as one simply titled \u201cOppression,\u201d which cites Karl Marx, and another titled \u201cSporting Metaphors: Competition and the Ethos of Capitalism,\u201d which explains that \u201cwhole subcultures live among us that avoid sports or capitalism, such as academics.\u201d Her other papers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Analyzing Oppression<\/li>\n<li>How to Explain Oppression<\/li>\n<li>Oppression: The Fundamental Injustice of Social Institutions<\/li>\n<li>Psychological Harms of Oppression<\/li>\n<li>Psychological Mechanisms of Oppression<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMerit\u201d In University Admissions<\/li>\n<li>Feminist Philosophy\u2019s Dependence on the Facts<\/li>\n<li>Strikes, Housework, and the Moral Obligation to ResistanceAgainst Capitalism As Theory And As Reality<\/li>\n<li>Feminist Morality: Transforming Culture, Society, and Politics<\/li>\n<li>Missionary Positions<\/li>\n<li>Harassment, Bias, and the Evolving Politics of Free Speech on Campus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Northwestern University, the President\u2019s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate disbanded after members quit over President Michael Schill giving in to anti-Israel protesters\u2019 demands without consulting them.<\/p>\n<p>The concessions included full-ride scholarships to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/America1stLegal\/status\/1786114841599410431\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">five Palestinian undergraduates<\/a> to attend Northwestern\u201d and that the school would \u201cprovide and renovate a house for MENA\/Muslim students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Schill is the author of papers like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Black, Brown, Poor &#038; Poisoned: Minority Grassroots Environmentalism and the Quest for Eco-Justice<\/li>\n<li>Race, the Underclass, and Public Policy<\/li>\n<li>The Special Bias of Federal Housing Law and Policy: Concentrated Poverty in Urban America<\/li>\n<li>Polarization, Public Housing and Racial Minorities in US Cities<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At Columbia, radicals took over a campus building and covered it in communist symbols, with a female PhD student demanding the delivery of food as \u201chumanitarian aid.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reporter grills Columbia student after she demands the university help feed protestors occupying Hamilton Hall:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It seems like you&#8217;re saying, &#8216;we want to be revolutionaries, we want to take over this building, now would you please bring us some food&#8217;.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vNczSAM4T1\">pic.twitter.com\/vNczSAM4T1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPostMillennial\/status\/1785386376755900611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 30, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At Barnard College, Columbia\u2019s women\u2019s college, president Laura Rosenbury is the author of papers like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Marital Status and Privilege<\/li>\n<li>Friends with Benefits<\/li>\n<li>Postmodern Feminist Legal Theory: A Contingent, Contextual Accountability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Universities appoint presidents known for academic writings on oppression. Current student unrest reveals a disconnect. Academic analysis highlights the clash. 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