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UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine has dropped in the rankings, and some faculty members are reportedly pointing to admissions decisions that "prioritize diversity over merit" as a likely cause.
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Rep. Randy Weber (R-TX) does not believe that President Joe Biden has the legal authority to erase student debt, concluding that he is "buying votes," making the remark during an appearance on Breitbart News Daily on Thursday.
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MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle responded to accusations from Republicans that President Joe Biden is trying to buy votes with his student loan plans.
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President Joe Biden revealed that his administration will be canceling more than $7 billion in student debt for 160,000 people.
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A teacher in Arkansas, whose students surprised her on national television in 2020, has been sentenced to prison for having sex with a 17-year-old student she met at the school where she taught.
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A Wisconsin man is accused of trying to groom a seventh-grade student for sex via Snapchat messages when he was a teacher in Kenosha.
The post ‘Catastrophic for the Family’: Fired Wisconsin Teacher Suspected of Grooming 7th-Grade Girl for Sex appeared first on Breitbart.
A New York City teacher accused of sexual activity with a student remains in the classroom even after officials fired her.
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Maher Bitar, the White House Coordinator for Intelligence and Defense Policy at the U.S. National Security Council (NSC), was a radical pro-Palestinian activist and a leader within Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP).
The post Biden’s NSC Intel Director, Maher Bitar, Is a Former Radical Pro-Palestinian Activst appeared first on Breitbart.
Pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a talk from Peter Thiel and blocked the American tech entrepreneur from leaving the Cambridge Union.
The post WATCH: Anti-Israel Mob ‘Trapped’ Peter Thiel at Cambridge Union Debating Society for ‘Profiting From Genocide’ appeared first on Breitbart.
You can tell when the PolitiFact website is going to negotiate around the facts. On May 7, its top headline on the homepage asked: “Are ‘outside agitators’ co-opting campus protests?”
This isn’t quite the right question. The media have presented these events as “student” protests, so if half the participants aren’t college students, how would they describe the nonstudents? PolitiFact writers Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu and Loreben Tuquero offered this summary:
—Police, city and university officials nationwide have blamed ‘outside agitators’ for campus protests but have provided little evidence for their claims.
—Law enforcement experts say police often consider ‘outside agitators’ to be people who move from city to city and are paid to be agitators.
—Historians say government and law officials commonly use the ‘outside agitator’ narrative to delegitimize protesters and their demands.
First, the “little evidence” is a weird claim, when PolitiFact’s article acknowledges facts like the New York Police Department reported that “32 out of 112 people arrested at Columbia’s private campus were unaffiliated with the university. At nearby City College, 102 out of 170 people arrested were not students.” Add it up, and 134 out of 282 protesters were not students. So, when Mayor Eric Adams complains about “outside agitators,” he’s not in need of a “fact check.”
They even scolded leftist Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., and Hank Johnson, D-Ga., over their “agitator” concerns.
They did not mention the recent story of an outside agitator named James Carlson, who was part of the army that briefly occupied Hamilton Hall at Columbia University. He’s a 40-year-old trust fund heir who owns a townhouse in Brooklyn worth $3.4 million.
PolitiFact typically seeks out “experts” to match the narratives it wants to underline. It doesn’t like people suggesting these protesters aren’t local and they might be paid to protest. It found William & Mary law professor Timothy Zick to define the outside agitator spin: “It was used as sort of a phrase that would link protesters, no matter how peaceful they were, to Communists and other infiltrators who were causing disruption.” The term is used to cast doubt on protester “sincerity.”
Angus Johnston, “historian of student activism” at Hostos Community College in New York, explained, “The idea behind the concept of the outside agitator is that dissent can never be coming from the people who are expressing that dissent.” It also turned to Johnston to underline, “Some experts have been quick to note the main goal of a protest is to get others to join in.”
This spin is nothing like how the media spun the tea party protests against Obamacare legislation. They sought to discredit them as donor-funded “AstroTurf” (not grassroots). They went looking for the most racist or ignorant-sounding sign they could find to present protesters as a kooky “fringe” movement.
NBC’s Chuck Todd decried “town hall madness.” The front page of The Boston Globe lamented the “quarrelsome masses hollering questions downloaded from activist websites.”
MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann ranted, “The truth is out about the societal sabotage dressed up as phony protests against health care reform. … When Hamas does it or Hezbollah does it, it is called terrorism.” That looks pretty funny right now, since these protesters are a much better match for that Hamas spin. All of this was about “delegitimizing protesters and their demands.”
Protests are covered in wildly divergent ways, depending on whether the activists are on the Left or the Right. This is just as true for liberal “fact-checking” organizations as it is for liberal media outlets.
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A massive group of faculty and staff at UNC wants student protesters to be allowed to get back to class after anti-Israel demonstrations.
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A 26-year-old man who cannot swim was severely injured after being shoved into a lake in Farmerville, Louisiana, on April 14.
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A friend of a man engaged to a Wisconsin elementary school teacher who is accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a fifth grader reportedly said the couple's wedding is not going to happen.
The post Report: Fiancé of Wisconsin Teacher Accused of Cheating on Him with Fifth Grader Cancels Wedding appeared first on Breitbart.
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