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Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social |
USC’s handling of this is an unmitigated, unprincipled train wreck. Given how many people they have working in disaster mitigation and crisis management these days, it’s amazing that they are handing this so badly.
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Roldy
@alwaysroldy.bsky.social
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I’m sure Bari Weiss, free speech warrior, is on it!
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Dr PWilliams
@drpwilliams.bsky.social
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Really ... USC having leadership issues?
They had to fire the Dean of the medical school when they could no longer ignore the meth binges & criminal cohorts.
Then they had to fire his successor as well when it came out they had covered up his sexual harassment history.
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Russ
@massivruss.bsky.social
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IT's spring, 2024. There *will* be dozens or more highly disruptive Pro-Palestinian protests at commencements across the country. Many will be frankly anti-Semitic. At least one will be escalate into some kind of danger. It's not all this talented young woman's fault.
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Shawn
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It's not ideal. But they picked an anti-Semitic bozo as a valedictorian and had to wriggle out of it somehow. Understand there were other options. Unconvinced there are clear-cut better options.
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Alan "the Truth shall make ye flee" J
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It's all optics. That's what worried them more than anything else.
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riwoche རི་བོ་ཆེ་
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EXACTLY: "Given how many people they have working in disaster mitigation and crisis management these days, it’s amazing that they are handing this so badly."
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Matthew Nadler
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Can anyone explain how she was chosen, beyond the fact that it's done by the provost?
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Paula Schaap
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Having done some research into how universities handled various kinds of rights cases with students and faculty for cases I worked on when I practiced law, I'm not the least surprised. Rapacious corporations handled things better.
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Popehat
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/2 First: let’s assume arguendo they are telling the truth, that they think the security and disruption risks are too high to let the chosen valedictorian speak. That’s the exact definition of a heckler’s veto. It’s also incredibly alarming, far more than their brush-off suggests.
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Tom Macfarlan
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I genuinely thought this was about University of South Carolina until this article. More surprised now that I know it's SoCal.
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Kakotechnia
@kakotechnia.bsky.social
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Be a real shame if you were home to, say, the most well-funded school of communication in the country
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Darrel
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The LATimes reports "USC officials chose [the speaker] from nearly 100 student applicants who had GPAs of 3.98 or higher." Would have been a lot easier just to have chosen someone else.
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Luke
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Apropos of nothing, at first glance the stone border pattern made it look to me like there are a load of ??????????????? under the school's name
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Susan Brooks
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This is academia. They're so cosseted, they have no idea how the real world operates.
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Southern Mark Smith
@mirlitonpirogue.bsky.social
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My man, let me tell you a story about Reggie Bush and the NCAA.
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Patrick Schmidt
@pdwschmidt.bsky.social
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And, this may be where you're going with this, but the stated reason may be cover for something else, namely avoiding antagonizing either donors or just the flocks of parents who would prefer colleges to be politely neutral, with no whiff of "politics". So, they're going to sanitize this.
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Ian the Bathstronaut
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doesn't matter how many crisis comms folks you have when exec leadership can unilaterally make boneheaded decisions
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