{"id":855941,"date":"2021-10-07T09:44:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=855941"},"modified":"2021-10-07T09:44:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:44:07","slug":"montana-state-university-professors-faculty-harass-students-over-mask-mandate-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/montana-state-university-professors-faculty-harass-students-over-mask-mandate-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana State University Professors, Faculty Harass Students Over Mask Mandate Protest"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fmontana-state-university-professors-faculty-harass-students-over-mask-mandate-protest%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=855941&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/3.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Montana State University (MSU) professors and other faculty members have taken it upon themselves to verbally accost students protesting MSU\u2019s mask mandate. In emails obtained by The Daily Wire, at least five MSU professors and faculty used their work emails to harass and swear at engineering student and Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) Chair Dylan Dean. Their responses were prompted by Dean\u2019s invitation for staff to sign YAL\u2019s petition on ending the mask mandate. A coalition of unidentified professors, Concerned MSU Faculty, also targeted Dean on social media.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>A previous director and substance abuse counselor at MSU, Rick Winking, emailed Dean that he was a \u201cstupid f**k.\u201d Winking told Dean in a subsequent email that his September 1 retirement had afforded him plenty of time to \u201cf**k with dumb s**t whiners\u201d like Dean. MSU IT programmer Edwin Little told Dean that students don\u2019t have freedom when it comes to masks and called him \u201can ignorant a**hole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cYour freedom stops when it affects my health,\u201d wrote Little. \u201cThis is a horrible, self-centered idea. You are an ignorant a**hole.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Greg Lutgen, a plant sciences and plant pathology research associate, told Dean to \u201cfrigg off ya hoser.\u201d \u201cHoser\u201d is a Canadian derogatory term that can mean \u201cidiot\u201d or \u201closer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Seth Pincus, a chemistry and biochemistry professor, said Dean was a \u201cselfish idiot\u201d and blamed him for the necessity of mandates.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHonestly, I think you are a selfish idiot who cannot even consider the potential suffering you can cause others, particularly the immunocompromised and children too young to be immunized,\u201d wrote Pincus. \u201cThis is a serious disease. We have the tools to stop it. If you behaved as a citizen concerned about others, loved thy neighbor, and believed in the golden rule, we would not need mandates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MSU Montana Manufacturing Extension Center Senior Business Advisor Alistair Stewart told Dean to \u201cgrow up, and act your age.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Twitter, Concerned MSU Faculty <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedMSU\/status\/1433215348187095041\"><span>told<\/span><\/a><span> Dean that he wasn\u2019t welcome on campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThen go to another school,\u201d wrote the coalition. \u201cWe don\u2019t want your kind at MSU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8173913043478\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Then go to another school. We don&#8217;t want your kind at MSU.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ConcernedMSUfaculty (@ConcernedMSU) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ConcernedMSU\/status\/1433215348187095041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>It appears that the administration hasn\u2019t been receptive to the students\u2019 opposition, either.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, YAL members and other MSU students attempted to deliver a petition opposing the mask mandate with over 1,100 signatures to MSU President Waded Cruzado.<\/span> <span>In footage obtained by The Daily Wire, two armed officers stopped MSU students at the entrance of Montana Hall, the administrative building housing Cruzado\u2019s office.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cSo, you have the right to do what you\u2019re doing out there. You do not have a right to en masse \u2013 I started to smell some alcohol out there,\u201d said one of the officers.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The students responded with confusion, saying they didn\u2019t smell any alcohol.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m just saying what I smell, okay?\u201d reiterated the officer. \u201cYou want to make a delivery, you want to drop something off for somebody, you can make an appointment, that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dean explained that the administration had refused to make an appointment for two weeks, and offered to show the officers the emails.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The officer explained that Cruzado wasn\u2019t there. He repeated to the students that they could make an appointment to turn in the petition; Dean repeated that the administration had refused appointments with them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat is between you and them,\u201d said the officer. \u201cToday, you will not be coming in here. I strongly suggest that you make that appointment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At that point, Dean of Students Matthew Caires came out of Montana Hall and told the students he\u2019d been directed to take the petition inside for them. Dean said he felt more comfortable accompanying Caires inside to deliver the petition. Caires said that couldn\u2019t be done but promised \u201con his word\u201d that the petition would be delivered to Cruzado\u2019s secretary; the second officer further promised that their body cameras would record the delivery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dean turned down that offer. He promised to come back at a later time to deliver the petition himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a separate interaction that wasn\u2019t recorded, Dean alleged that one of the officers explained that school officials had ordered Montana Hall to be shut down prior to YAL\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CUGfU8nLl6G\/\"><span>protest<\/span><\/a><span>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dean also revealed to The Daily Wire that he\u2019d encountered Cruzado after the incident. The president reportedly told him that she\u2019d been on vacation when the incident occurred, and wasn\u2019t aware of why her colleagues had shut down Montana Hall<\/span><b>.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span>YAL Chief of Staff Sean Themea told The Daily Wire that the pushback from MSU\u2019s professors, faculty, and leadership hasn\u2019t deterred them.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis week, starting today, we\u2019re having a group of students who are inspired by this fight to call the administration and start phone banks. We\u2019re not going to quit,\u201d stated Themea. \u201cWe just want students to be able to choose what\u2019s best for their health.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MSU didn\u2019t respond to our inquiries by press time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>Corinne Murdock is a reporter for The Daily Wire and AZ Free News. Have something you think the mainstream media won\u2019t cover? Send tips to <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:corinnejournalist@gmail.com\"><i><span>corinnejournalist@gmail.com<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montana State University (MSU) professors and other faculty members have taken it upon themselves to verbally accost students protesting MSU\u2019s mask mandate. 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