Tag: James A. Bacon
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FUCK UVA Redux: The Revolution Consumes Its Own
by James A. Bacon Militant students and faculty held an online gripe session today skewering President Jim Ryan and Provost Ian Baucom, and their rhetoric — including calls for Ryan’s resignation — is more heated than ever. While I support the actions Ryan and Baucom took to shut down the UVA Encampment for Gaza, where…
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Has the Rural Brain Drain Ended?
by James A. Bacon Remote work isn’t the only trend encouraging Americans to relocate from major metropolitan areas to small towns and rural communities, suggests Hamilton Lombard in a new StatChat post. The rise of social media has allowed smaller communities to emulate the entertainment and culinary offerings of big cities, while the rise of…
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UVA Soft on Nazis but Brutal to Students?
by James A. Bacon A continuing meme in the ongoing rhetorical battle between leftists and anarchists on the one hand and the Ryan administration on the other is that University of Virginia authorities brutally cracked down on peaceful protesters May 4 while allowing White supremacists to march through UVA unmolested in 2017. For example, the…
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Team Ryan Defends Shutdown of Tent Encampment
by James A. Bacon The University of Virginia called in the Virginia State Police to disperse “UVA Encampment for Gaza” protesters because they feared the demonstration was spiraling out of control, said President Jim Ryan, University Police Chief Tim Longo, and other University leaders in a virtual town hall early this afternoon. Some protesters had…
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Intellectuals Yet Idiots on the Loose
by James A. Bacon Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the “Black Swan” and “Antifragile” author and curmudgeonly critic of just about everyone, coined the term Intellectuals Yet Idiots (IYIs) to describe the modern-day class of journalists, academics, and other cultural elitists who think they know everything better than anyone else. The term well describes professors with the…
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With the Tents Down, the Blowback Begins
by James A. Bacon Following the decision to take down the tents in the UVA Solidarity Encampment for Gaza “liberated zone” at the University of Virginia on Saturday, UVA President Jim Ryan is facing strong blowback from leftist elements in the UVA and Charlottesville communities. Pro-Palestinian protesters had rebuked the administration’s orders to take down…
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Militants to Ryan Administration: “Bullshit”
by James A. Bacon Pro-Palestinian militants erected tents last night at their “liberation zone for Gaza” near the University of Virginia chapel in defiance of orders to take them down. The administration’s immediate response: engage in dialogue. “We are writing to acknowledge the document you shared with us early this morning outlining the interests of…
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At UVA, One Pro-Palestinian Protest Disperses, a Second Persists
by James A. Bacon One of two pro-Palestinian demonstrations at the University of Virginia wound down around 5 p.m. yesterday without incident. Although the rally was marked by all-too-familiar anti-Israel chants and sloganeering, protesters dispersed at the scheduled time. A parallel demonstration, a tent-free “encampment,” continues this morning. University officials set clear expectations from…
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Amid Arrests on Other Campuses, Tensions Mount at UVA
Many concerned alumni and students have reached out to us. We are keeping an eye on UVA’s Encampment for Gaza and monitoring social media. At this time, we are putting our faith and trust in @presjimryan. From what we have seen and heard, @UVAPolice is doing an exceptional job… pic.twitter.com/iGoXUylU9Z — The Jefferson Council (@TheJeffersonC)…
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A Creative New Way to Use Children as Human Shields
BREAKING: The Encampment at Virginia Tech has been told that they will be arrested if they don’t disperse. They are pleading with the administration to not arrest anyone because children are present. “Do our children scare you?” pic.twitter.com/eAiZkWsn3T — Stu (@thestustustudio) April 28, 2024 Stu Smith, producer of StuStuStudios, captured this video yesterday from the…
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Virginia Tech Cleans up Encampment. UVA Faces Similar Test.
by James A. Bacon Virginia Tech arrested two dozen or more students Sunday night while dispersing an “encampment” similar to other anti-Israeli protests spreading around the country, according to media reports. The gathering of several hundred people on the lawn of the Graduate Life Center was “not a registered event consistent with university policy,” Tech…
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TJ High School Falls From 1st to 14th Place
Score a big victory for “equity.” The Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, ranked the top high school in the country by U.S. News & World Report two years ago, has fallen to 14th place, tweets the Coalition for TJ. TJ had been the center of an admissions controversy after progressives, who found…
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Extensive Plagiarism Alleged for UVA PhD Dissertation
by James A. Bacon Natalie J. Perry, who now leads a Diversity, Equity & Inclusion program at UCLA, plagiarized long passages in her PhD dissertation at UVA, allege Luke Rosiak and Christopher F. Rufo in The Daily Wire. In describing the plagiarism in Perry’s dissertation, “Faculty Perceptions of Diversity at a Highly Selective Research-Intensive University,”…
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Keffiyehs, Yarmulkes and “Belonging” at UVA
by James A. Bacon It’s “Palestinian Liberation Week” at the University of Virginia this week, and the Students for Justice in Palestine have organized loads of activities for antizionists, culminating with a “Die-In for Gaza” Friday. “Wear your keffiyeh,” urges UVA’s Students for Justice in Palestine on its Instagram page. Keffiyehs are traditional Arab scarfs,…
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Public School Enrollments Still Declining
Virginia K-12 public school enrollment will decline by nearly 31,000 students, or about 2.9 percent, over the next four years, according to the demographic research group at the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. The fall-off is expected to be sharpest among high school students, which augurs negatively for future…