Every college admin who sics cops on kids for "nonpeacefully protesting" absolutely MUST BE pressed for specific details about what, EXACTLY, wasn't peaceful. If they claim people were blocked from class buildings, ask for comment from MULITPLE people who teach and take classes in those buildings…
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GWU admin thinks it's putting stickers and spraypaint on a statue of George Washington, which seems pretty tame to me
That happens literally all the time, anyway
it was not a particularly persuasive letter from the president!
things that are routinely tolerated when it’s about football games somehow become outrages when it’s about bombing refugee camps
… It is graduation season and these universities have a very clearly veated interest in making these protesting students look bad and trying to make any police response *to* them look Good. Don't just let them claim shit; make them PROVE it.
… It is graduation season and the administrations of these universities have a very clearly veated interest in making these protesting students look bad and trying to make any police response *to* them look Good. Don't just let them claim shit; make them PROVE it.
You can just sent your university president or chancellor an email. It's not even illegal.
Yet.
Like, I just asked my university admin to clarify what "wasn't peaceful protest" about the student encampments on campus, and who was "impeded" from entering the buildings where I have my offices and classrooms, because it sure as hell wasn't me.
have you gotten a response yet? Curious to see what nonsense they are using there
NOPE
The response i got still didn't make a case for why cops needed to be brought in in the middle of the night, wearing riot gear, to roust sleeping students
The response i got still didn't explain why cops needed to come in in the middle of the night, in riot gear, to roust sleeping students.
And if you don't care about violence, understand that many in the public *very definitely do* which is why the admins & cops use that framing go justify their own
In god we trust all others bring data
Makes you think if they would have chosen the same path if it was the beginning of the school year.
But Damien, the "policy violations."
(of policies that we just changed)
(Or made up entirely)
Don't for "process"! Of course, at MIT they suspended students without using the usual process, so I don't want to read another letter to alumni whinging about "policies" or "process" and how the students were in violation
Don't forget "process"! Love it when "process" makes it impossible for admins to change anything
Of course, at MIT they suspended students without using the usual process, so I don't want to read another letter to alumni whinging about "policies" or "process" and how the students were in violation
When Columbia president first called cops it was clear it was simply for breaking the rules. I know this bc I argued with people who thought breaking the rules was a reasonable reason to call police. Now they’ve retconned that they support peaceful protest but the protesters were aggressive.
Exactly. "Aggressive, how?" Should be the immediate follow-up
"They [checks notes] wanted my $13B endowment to sell some Raytheon stock."
Why make them document their lies? Sounds exhausting. Just assume that they always lie, and think about how to end our current social system entirely
to use as a cudgel against the dumbass liberals continuing to believe this horseshit. if the only thing they care about is institutional power, force them to confront how the prestige is gone and no one respects it for this
I guess. But it takes a lot of work to document this and at the end no one will cease to believe, because their belief wasn't based on fact and can't be contradicted by fact.
Yeah, I get that. I spent yesterday debating with people who will only hate me for it :(
Still, though. Not everyone needs to do this work, but it's important work. It's a part of witnessing the moment. It might not change minds now but might affect how well we can tell the story later
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Humanities classes are great. People should take them. Universities should require them for graduation.
Calling people who don’t take these college classes “illiterate clods” is… not great.
People claim they have a right to obsess over the admin because the admin wasn't able to prove you were lying and stalking them to your new friend's impossible standards. People stalk the admin for complaining about stalking, essentially.
I know people who flunked classes for daring to disagree with a professor. With those types of profs, I just regurgitated what they said on my papers because that was clearly what they were looking for. It wasn't worth repeating a class.
I edited a lot of advisories and similar products in the early pandemic and a lot of it was me commenting 'what about the people who don't have backyards' 'what about the people who live in buildings without HVAC' 'what about people who can't afford to hire a private space for their gathering'
Would you like advice from someone who is an exec admin for people in a similar hard on for meetings environment?
Furry admin: *takes action on someone who wasn't actually breaking chat rules*
Furry admin: *receives a very tame sarcastic comment in response*
Furry admin, while smashing that Mute User button:
College administrators should have to take atleast one class on political mobilisation events. What are they thinking is going to happen when you call cops on students for peaceful protesting?
Totally legitimate. I only get pissed when people (who I do not work in and admin role for. which is zero people.) ask me to "send them a reminder". We all have calendars.
I am apparently on someone's list of people who they claim block for no reason and I am here to assure everyone that there is always a reason even if it's not clear to those who were blocked. 🤷♀️
then i'd probably ask for more details. who are these people and what is their authority on goodness?
I have the misfortune of assuming people who claim to be intelligent know the foreseeable consequences of the things for which they advocate. So, to me, they know that what they claim to want would be terrible for those they claim to want to benefit from it, and they don’t care.
every recent trend piece has me convinced that polyamory is for people who get off on complex scheduling and admin work
Skinamarink is kind of a 50/50 on if people like it from what I've seen. For some people it's boring and for others, it seems to click and that was it for me.
Totally get ya on the Slasher genre. They have to be good for me to like them. But when they're good they hit.
For a bunch of people who yap on and on about American Greatness, this is a recipe for pretty much exactly the opposite
these people blocked me mostly for sticking up for a friend being bullied in a thread while they were suspended from the app
what I'm clearly, absolutely, definitively saying, is if I call someone out and they block and run, that shit is cowardly
these people are why I hate this app
I have this idea for a podcast where people discuss the logistics and admin that must logically precede nearly every Doctor Who story, and it’d basically be this.
“Now, listen up Cory, Lowery and Garvey. You’ve been picked for a highly important assignment.”
“Where are we going, sir?”
“I don’t know.”
“Why are we going?”
“I don’t know.”
“What do we do when we get there?”
“I don’t know. Now, off you go.”
Doctor Who - Deleted Scene - Mission To The Unknown.
There is a parade of people from Trumps first admin who won’t endorse him, and probably won’t vote for him. Yep it should be major news.
even if every one of those buildings were empty, which obviously they aren't, that scale of infrastructure destruction could be a war crime in an of itself ... who's going to rebuild all of this? and who will it be rebuilt for?
These are people who claim to be Christian and yet they clearly practice Manichaeism, which the church labelled as heresy very early on.
It really seems like the only way to move the ship off state on this is to keep a low hum of discontent aimed at Biden from people who are clearly Democrats, and who are certainly going to vote for him no matter what. (Just, this seems to be slowly changing the aim of the admin, nothing else.)
When the Tories whang on about "cutting admin costs to focus on front line staff" they mean getting rid of the admin and IT people who could fix this stuff. It's a choice.
I’ve had a lot of experience with the NHS lately. The care is excellent but so far comms problems include:
- letter sent to wrong address
- letter sent after the appointment had already happened
- letters & texts giving 4 different dates for same appointment >1/3
www.theguardian.com/society/2023...
Chaotic communication by NHS in England ‘causing treatment delays’
Report says patients’ health is being endangered by problems including referrals going missing and late diagnoses
www.theguardian.com
People who learned history from cable documentaries and hollywood movies should have to apply for a license to comment on it
They claim it will be ‘a deterrent’. Why would it deter people from coming if it wasn’t a dangerous and appalling place for people to be sent?