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  Wow! Who Would Have Thought! 2/21/22 Yahoo News : Binghamton University recently forced a professor to remove a section of her syllabus that said priority would be given to “non-white folks” to speak during classroom discussions after finding the policy violated the  university ‘s faculty staff handbook. Ana Maria Candela wrote in her “Social Change- Introduction to Sociology” syllabus that she planned to practice “progressive stacking” during class discussions at the New York state school, according to  Campus Reform. “This means that we try to give priority to non-white folks, to women, and to shy and quiet people who rarely raise their hands,” she wrote. “It also means that if you are white, male, or someone privileged by the racial and gender structures of our society to have your voice easily voiced and heard, we will often ask you to hold off on your questions or comments to give others priority and will come back to you a bit later or at another time,” the syllab...

   2/15/22 Inside Higher Education : A professor of physical anthropology is  suing  San José State University, saying she’s being retaliated against for her controversial stance on the repatriation of skeletal remains for reburial. In two examples of alleged retaliation, Elizabeth Weiss says she was suddenly removed as curator of the university’s collection of remains, a role she’d held for 17 years, and locked out of the research facility itself. The lawsuit accuses San José State of multiple violations of Weiss’s First Amendment rights.... Most of the bones in question were found in Alameda County, Calif., and range from 500 to 3,000 years old, Weiss said in an interview. They are in the process of being repatriated, but she would like access to them until they’re gone. Weiss, who remains a faculty member, doesn’t know if she’ll ever again see the skeletal X-rays that are part of the university’s collection, either, even though she said these X-rays are not subjec...

  You may be aware that many universities are now including occupied land statements in syllabi and other official documents.  These are of the form: "We acknowledge that we occupy lands originally owned by [name whatever tribe claims to have been there from the beginning of time, even though most tribes moved a  lot , in the centuries before and after Columbus]." Satire:  A Memo From Privilege University’s Diversity Offices It has, however, come to our attention that there are still some who have not yet completed this essential task. Our DIE agents in the field—Students and Teachers Advocating for Safety and Inclusion (STASI)—have reported that some suggest they could find no evidence that the founders of our school victimized indigenous peoples. Please recall that all at PU are required to attend the mandatory Liberatory and Inclusive Education Sessions (LIES) in which information is plentifully available regarding the moral and spiritual superiority of the  ...