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"Northwestern University has long been a school hostile to free speech. My alma mater was ranked 197 out of 203 universities for free speech in a major survey by FIRE.... This month showed why Northwestern developed a reputation for speech intolerance and a lack of ideological diversity. Northwestern University’s Associated Student Government suspended the funding for the College Republicans due to objections to posters for an event featuring writer and critical race theory critic James Lindsay."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Last to admit Jewish students and first to censor thoughts. Wonderful!
Jonathan Turley is not a Conservative, he’s a Classical Liberal…possibly the last remaining one.
A University is at it’s core a place of education, questioning and debate. Northwestern is no longer a University. Instead it is a political indoctrination gulag.
Worth noting that JB Pritzker was on Northwestern’s Board of Trustees while the university sunk to this state.
If you are an Alumnus of this place do not contribute to them and tell the administration why!
Hmm, when Old Joe went to MSU in the 70s Northwestern was an easy win. I used to chalk up their poor gridiron performance to their high level of academic requirements.
Then Northwestern was good for a while. Now they stink again and nobody associates Northwestern with academic achievement.
Oops, I forgot to add that I still associate Northwestern with high priced education.
These weak little liberal babies. Northwestern, when did the faculty and student body become so weak and feeble minded? If you are so sure in the superiority of your ideals and values you should welcome a civilized debate because you cannot lose!!!
This is what we have lost – the capacity to debate/discuss/even argue to find a better truth.
We are doomed as a species because of our hubris and our narcissism.
Censorship for any reason is wrong. If they do not like it do not listen to it. If they do like it, you have a right to hear it. The price of freedom is not free.
As an NU alum, this is just the latest embarrassment of being associated with the woke nonsense cosplay that goes on at this campus:
hiring of a filthy anti-Semite professor
violent student protesters who demand a right to privacy and a student newspaper that caves in to that demand
support for the terrorist boycott of Israel
violent anti-police riots
The last time they called me and asked for money, I cussed them out in epic fashion
Northwestern seems to be a university that rich parents choose to send their children to so that their minds become closed little ideological walnuts. Most parents choose to send their kids to other universities to open their minds to the world.
Their parents rely have been relying on northwestern’s legacy reputation. NW has really embraced DIE so the standards have fallen significantly. They basically say that whites/asians should aim for a ACT of 35 or SAT of 1540 with a 4.1 GPA and multiple Tier I and Tier II activities (national recognition, all-state, etc) Except if your skin color is something other than light skin, then you can pretty much do whatever you want. They’ve had a surge in applications in recent years since they went ACT/SAT optional and embraced DIE. Now what is more important is your identity group. Admissions… Read more »
And why many Illinoisans send their children out of state.
Defund them. No contributions. That’s all they would listen to.
That degree means little to most people today. People used to say, Oh Northwestern, what a prestigious university. Today, the consensus outside of academia, is Oh boy, Northwestern, what an awful woke university with no standards. And their football team is AWFUL too. Chicago’s ‘Other’ big 10 team no one pays attention to.
You tend to write with such an air of authority and essentially claiming your viewpoint represents the majority of “those who count” in our society. Unless you are an official poll taker let me guess you have no comparable credentials and only know what you know from your own life experiences which by definition is a limited viewpoint.
Yes, I do write with an air of authority, because what I write is true and correct, and I’m just repeating what influential people believe and think.
And so, I’ll bet those influential people are more alike than not ethnically, politically and financially. America is ever changing, so that group will be changing with it as time passes. What was true and might be true even now is not necessarily going to be true at some point. They are today’s Alamo-fighter equivalents, perhaps.
Such veiled language. Did you mean to say that a new group is in charge, and they will not uphold the academic and civic values that were the standard of excellence in the past?
Yes and he’s insinuating that it’s racist to suggest that Northwestern’s prestige has declined significantly since they embraced DIE.
Ah, shucks, in a few weeks. the Supreme Court is going to issue a 6-3 opinion saying that admitting candidates to universities based on race is racist.
Northwestern will officially be the ‘racist’ university pretty soon.
That’s what we are seeing and reading in the daily news, isn’t it? Denying what the news says doesn’t make older truths remain current truths necessarily.
I don’t rely on the current news to determine what is of value in academics or civics.
James, I reject your premise ENTIRELY. There was ‘no group in charge’ as if ‘the people in charge’ were some monolith group of people all the same race/color/ethnicity/religion that discriminated against groups. For 100 years all they had in common was academic rigor. Tough club to get in but worth it if you could. Now today, the monolith group in charge is everyone except straight white men. They’ve made that clear that they don’t want white men, who are in fact, actively discriminated against. Why do you think Bennett Meredith rescinded his offer? He was told not to go there… Read more »
Bennett Meredith probably didn’t know the difference between Northwestern and Northeastern Illinois University LOL
James, even college football players don’t want to go play for Northwestern because its reputation is so bad. Look up Bennett Meredith who rescinded his acceptance to NW because it’s so terrible. Good choice for him because they were 1-11 last season. This is indicative of the university’s reputation overall. Bad sports, poor and increasingly worse academics, absurd woke entitled students. Even local residents don’t want NW to expand their stadium because they have such a poor opinion of NW as a neighbor. NW has a legacy reputation where parents my age and older remember NW as being a good… Read more »
Do you know anyone that cares about NW Football, a legit Big 10 Team, that isn’t an alumni? I’ve never personally known anyone (outside of alumni) that’s ever attended a game. No one cares about northwestern academically or socially. It’s so bad that Northwestern students today are now wishing they attended Loyola instead.
I think sports beyond childhood is a waste of time and couldn’t care less about following any of it in terms of being a spectator.
Well, that seems awfully racist. You may not care, but college football is the ticket for many poor minority youths to go to college, get a college degree, and some even go into the NFL.
Sure, but again I have no interest one way or another personally.
I’ve been telling debtsor to stop doing this since I started posting here. He’s most likely a professional troll, upvoting himself with VPNs. This is the new face of politics: professional trolls raiding opposition sites and fomenting hate, perpetuating self-defeating myths, and doing their best to convince everyone that they’re helpless and alone in the face of overwhelming opposition. There is military literature explaining exactly how to do this, dating back over 100 years. Look into PsyOp, MISO, Active Measures, Political Warfare, Psychological Warfare, etc. They’re easy to spot: Some start off with a good sentence to get your attention… Read more »
Dave, I have looked into military style spy-ops and propaganda. It’s precisely what we stand against. If you think that makes us part of the problem, so be it. “Mission accomplished?”
Thank you for taking a formal stand against it! I think it’s extremely important that people are educated about these techniques. Are you interested in working on an article about them with me? I’m going to be shopping some material around soon. I don’t care about attribution, credit, compensation, or how you edit it. There’s no need to name names, incite, or go anywhere that is defamatory.
No thank you. If I understand your position, it is to use those same techniques, including censorship and propaganda.
How do you conflate censorship and propaganda with education? The entire point of this website is to persuade!!! Claiming your “facts” are more factual than those on other properties is amusing. All I want to do is explain the science behind it, so laypersons can better understand the information they consume.
None of us can be certain as to another’s motivations, and whatever we choose to say is only speculation. Right or wrong I choose to take people at face value until convinced otherwise.
I had your attitude until I started studying psychological literature associated with persuasion. Some of these techniques we are witnessing are extremely advanced and almost impossible to counteract without education.
We’re in a new age. Communication technology is now so advanced, that looking inward and focusing on ethics, character and personal improvement will almost always lead to failure when pitted against strategic systemic influences.
LOL I’m just a dude with too much time on my hands thanks to a covid business shutdowns. My employer is still trying to get back to 2019 and realistically, in this industry, it may never go back. I’m not a paid troll at all. I have a lot of hurry up and wait, and well, I come here.
What a joke of a college.
Northwestern University –
Raising the next generation of even more thin skinned (if that’s possible)
marxists/communists…