“The administrators keep leaning on ‘safety’ without consulting or sharing their thinking with the Senate or wider faculty,” she said. “We do not necessarily doubt that there were safety concerns, but some question whether this series of decisions to call [#LAPD on nonviolent protesters] harmed & endangered members of campus community while also sending a message to anyone threatening the campus that those threats work.”
What I don't think you'll see in any news story is that my #USC colleagues have been occupying the halls of the administration building for two days now, trying to get disciplinary sanctions of students dropped. They've been met with stonewalling.
It's really awesome that faculty are going to the mat for students & really heartbreaking it's not moving the needle.
Admin censure is so much less than the campus community deserves & also so much less than is visible from inside.
(I’m personally mortified that in the later tense minutes of the Senate meeting, I posted my private dropbox link where over a dozen statements from depts live in a folder called “commencement shitshow” and then people were like, this isn’t opening for me?)
@CedarTea Ok if i'm being brutally honest ... the NYT story is better but the LAT absolutely wiped the floor with them with the picture they selected (and have now already replaced, lol, but I screenshotted it)
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