Earlier this year DePaul University was given the first-ever "Lifetime Censorship Award" by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education for its long, inglorious history of punishing and suppressing mostly conservative speech.
The nation's largest Catholic university – which doesn't want students to hear about radical Islam's threat to gay people, vandalism against pro-lifers or criticism of race preferences – has appeared with regularity on FIRE's annual list of the worst colleges for free speech.
[...] DePaul is slashing dozens of staff positions to "place the university in a better long-term position to invest in strategic growth," according to a statement to staff Thursday obtained by the Chicago Sun-Times.
The 62 full- and part-time staff members are mostly in administrative support roles, and they represent 3.5 percent of non-faculty workers. The statement didn't specify exact positions. The school avoided the ire of its faculty by sparing them any layoffs.
Source: https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/45753/
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 14 2018, @09:45AM (2 children)
My only knowledge of DeVos is the following quote: "Elisabeth Dee DeVos is an American businesswoman and government official serving as the 11th and current United States Secretary of Education since 2017." Now, she is a member of the US government and, as such, we need to be mindful of what such people say. Whether you like it or not, the very right wing - as opposed to the not quite so right wing - currently have control in the USA. But, no matter, lets look at this logically.
Is the story untrue? Are staff not being laid off, or is this just a false claim by, in your view, the right wing? The best information I can find on the internet is that it actually is true. So the story stands on a factual basis.
My previous comment was to your challenge:
so has nothing at all to do with TFS. Your Chomsky story is still in the queue, it hasn't been deleted nor has it been replaced by any alt-right propaganda, and another editor might well decide to run with it. But making childish challenges is not the way to get your submission on the front page. It will be judged on its own merits, an editor will have to decide whether it is likely to promote an intelligent discussion, and whether it has any place on a site that concentrates on STEM and related issues, no matter how lose that connection might actually be. In my opinion, your submission would be extremely interesting on a site that is dedicated to discussing politics - but we are not that site. So put it in your journal and you can discuss it to your heart's content.
Ari, sorry to have to break it to you, but you are NOT the same Aristarchus that lived 2400 years ago. It is a figment of your imagination. The real Aristarchus is dead.
This is not an 'ideologically doomed website' because we don't have ideology. We do support free speech, we encourage and promote the exchange of ideas that our stories generate, and we are all trying to do the best that we can for our community. Individuals will have their own political views and they are welcome to express them in the discussions that we have. But they do not push their own views in the stories that appear on the front page.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday June 14 2018, @05:27PM
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday June 15 2018, @12:20AM
And with such a profound naivete, you expect me to take your word for it that I am not the same aristarchus I have always been?
Look up Betsy's brother, Eric Prince, founder of the mercenary company formerly known as "Blackwater". Is this the reason all these alt-right dog-whistle articles keep getting put on the main page? Are we dealing with Hanlon's Razor here?