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06-11-2017, 07:40 PM
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NC is pretty close to ND, right?
In other news:
Trump slogans photoshopped out of NJ high school yearbook
POSTED 5:19 PM, JUNE 11, 2017, BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
WALL, N.J. — A New Jersey school district is investigating why the yearbook photos of two high school students were altered to remove President Donald Trump’s name on clothing they wore.
The Wall Township district also is probing why a Trump quote submitted by the freshman class president wasn’t included under her photo while a quote by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt appeared under the senior class president’s photo.
One student wore a sweater vest with Trump’s name on it; another student wore a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Trump Make America Great Again.” But neither feature appeared in the photos published in the yearbook.
District Superintendent Cheryl Dyer told the Asbury Park Press that she was “quite disturbed by the entire situation,” noting that the school’s dress code doesn’t prevent students from expressing their political views. It wasn’t clear who altered the yearbook photos or why. The district hires a company to take the photos and print the yearbooks.
Grant Berardo said he was shocked when he saw the yearbook photo of him in the T-shirt, minus the Trump reference.
“I sent it to my mom and dad, just like ‘You won’t believe this.’ I was just overall disappointed,” he told the newspaper. “I like Trump but it’s history, too. Wearing that shirt memorializes the time.”
Wyatt Dobrovich-Fago was surprised but not initially concerned when he saw Trump’s name wasn’t on the sweater vest he wore for his photo.
“(I thought) maybe they just cropped it out, and it wasn’t something I should worry about, they just did it,” he told WABC-TV in New York.
Then his sister, Montana, noticed the Trump quote she had submitted to run with her class president photo had not been published, even though she had met the deadline to submit it.
“I like thinking big. If you’re going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big. By Donald Trump,” Montana said, recounting the quote.
Her brother then started questioning what had happened.
“I’m like, well, that’s kind of crazy, two things against Trump in a way,” Wyatt said.
Berardo’s father wants the school district to republish the yearbooks at the district’s expense with the unaltered photos.
Trump slogans photoshopped out of New Jersey high school yearbook | New York's PIX11 / WPIX-TV
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06-15-2017, 09:13 AM
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genius move:
The department is planning to rewrite the first two years of its history degree. The rewrite will take out words such as “genius”, brilliance” and “flair,” as they’re deemed “sexist terms,” The Telegraph reports.
History tutors at the University of Cambridge in the UK have reportedly been told to stop using words like “genius” because it is offensive towards women.
According to The Telegraph, Dr. Lucy Delap, a British history lecturer, said, “we want to use language that is transparent. We’re rewriting our first two years of our History degree to create a wider set of paper choices, to make assessment criteria clearer, and to really try and root out the unhelpful and very vague talk of ‘genius,’ of ‘brilliance,’ of ‘flair’ which carries assumptions of gender inequality and also of class and ethnicity.”The department is planning to rewrite the first two years of its history degree. The rewrite will take out words such as “genius”, brilliance” and “flair,” as they’re deemed “sexist terms,” The Telegraph reports.
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06-20-2017, 05:03 PM
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well, i guess this kid wasnt joking.
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Jason Krasner Lynne Strow Piccolo Oh stfu. A degree doesn't mean ****. You're just some bitter old ---- that treated her kids like **** and now they want nothing to do with you and EVERYBODY can clearly see why. You don't get respect just because you're older. Go expire in a fire you loathsome piece of ****.
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06-21-2017, 01:52 PM
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It's not just the students, the profs are losing it as well.
Anti-gun professor calls 911 because ROTC drill uses parade rifles on campus
An English professor at the University of North Dakota has made a public pledge to call 911 every time she sees ROTC drills with parade rifles. She is so terrified of guns on her campus that she has taken to calling the police to report uniformed students carrying out standard drills with fake weapons.
She proudly proclaims “[The 911 dispatcher] also tells me that ROTC will be doing these exercises for the next couple weeks. So I reply that I guess I’ll be calling 911 for the next couple weeks—and I will. Every time. It’s not my job to decide whether people carrying guns at school are an actual threat. It’s my job to teach and to get home to my family.”
She even wrote a letter to the Grand Forks Herald complaining about the young men and women trying to get an education while simultaneously training to protect this country. She believes that it is a violation of her rights for tomorrow’s soldiers to train on her quad, and she plans to waste public resources to prove a point. Feel free to read her ranting below.
Anti-gun professor calls 911 because ROTC drill uses parade rifles on campus
An English professor at the University of North Dakota has made a public pledge to call 911 every time she sees ROTC drills with parade rifles. She is so terrified of guns on her campus that she has taken to calling the police to report uniformed students carrying out standard drills with fake weapons.
She proudly proclaims “[The 911 dispatcher] also tells me that ROTC will be doing these exercises for the next couple weeks. So I reply that I guess I’ll be calling 911 for the next couple weeks—and I will. Every time. It’s not my job to decide whether people carrying guns at school are an actual threat. It’s my job to teach and to get home to my family.”
She even wrote a letter to the Grand Forks Herald complaining about the young men and women trying to get an education while simultaneously training to protect this country. She believes that it is a violation of her rights for tomorrow’s soldiers to train on her quad, and she plans to waste public resources to prove a point. Feel free to read her ranting below.
Apparently, it’s not enough that UND’s administration is attacking the quality of education by cutting programs and experienced faculty and jacking class sizes. Now, we must also feel under physical attack as well.
I look up from my office computer to see two figures in camo with guns outside my window. My first thought is for my students’ and my safety: I grab my phone, crawl under my desk and call 911. The dispatcher keeps me on the line until someone can see if ROTC is doing maneuvers.
I can barely talk—first, with fear, and then with rage when the dispatcher reports back that yes, in fact, I’ve probably just seen ROTC cadets, though they’re going to send an officer to check because no one has cleared it with them. They thank me for reporting it.
A few minutes later, a university officer calls me back—not to reassure me, but to scold me for calling 911. He says ROTC has permission to do this exercise. When I tell him that this was news to 911 and that they encouraged me to call whenever I see a gun on campus, he seems surprised.
He also tells me that ROTC will be doing these exercises for the next couple weeks.
So I reply that I guess I’ll be calling 911 for the next couple weeks—and I will. Every time.
It’s not my job to decide whether people carrying guns at school are an actual threat. It’s my job to teach and to get home to my family.
It’s already highly inappropriate to conduct unnecessary military maneuvers in the middle of the quad. But with school shootings on the increase and tensions at UND running high, it’s especially irresponsible.
We’re already under financial and emotional attack. We don’t need to feel under physical attack, too.
Heidi Czerwiec
Grand Forks”
Anti-gun professor calls 911 because ROTC drill uses parade rifles on campus
I look up from my office computer to see two figures in camo with guns outside my window. My first thought is for my students’ and my safety: I grab my phone, crawl under my desk and call 911. The dispatcher keeps me on the line until someone can see if ROTC is doing maneuvers.
I can barely talk—first, with fear, and then with rage when the dispatcher reports back that yes, in fact, I’ve probably just seen ROTC cadets, though they’re going to send an officer to check because no one has cleared it with them. They thank me for reporting it.
A few minutes later, a university officer calls me back—not to reassure me, but to scold me for calling 911. He says ROTC has permission to do this exercise. When I tell him that this was news to 911 and that they encouraged me to call whenever I see a gun on campus, he seems surprised.
He also tells me that ROTC will be doing these exercises for the next couple weeks.
So I reply that I guess I’ll be calling 911 for the next couple weeks—and I will. Every time.
It’s not my job to decide whether people carrying guns at school are an actual threat. It’s my job to teach and to get home to my family.
It’s already highly inappropriate to conduct unnecessary military maneuvers in the middle of the quad. But with school shootings on the increase and tensions at UND running high, it’s especially irresponsible.
We’re already under financial and emotional attack. We don’t need to feel under physical attack, too.
Heidi Czerwiec
Grand Forks”
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