by bearbabbling | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
Yes, yes, I know this is the Year of the Free Speech, according to our Most Holy President of the University (NAME REDACTED PER POLICY), and we know we’re not to try to shout down evil speakers anymore. Damn. But we can still hound, harass, block, annoy, and...
by bearbabbling | Oct 25, 2023 | Uncategorized
As colleges and universities are now being rated on their commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and are rejecting Merit as a holdover of the colonialist, white cisheteronormative, patriarchy, we at the Bear were happy to read Cornell to Phase Out Dean’s List...
by bearbabbling | Oct 24, 2023 | Uncategorized
Dear BB, I would have never expected Prof. Russell Rickford to denounce BLM, but it did happen! It was NOT exhilarating or energizing to see him “‘unequivocally oppose and denounce racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, militarism, fundamentalism and all...
by bearbabbling | Oct 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
The trans STEM graduate student activists on campus who fight for equity in the sciences will not have to worry that the free speech advocates for equality and the merit aficionados will cause them harm at Cornell University during this theme year for free expression....
by bearbabbling | Oct 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
In this theme year for Free Expression, there is a certain amount of anxiety on our campus that DEI will be decentered, displaced, and marginalized by free speech. But remember, free expression is not necessarily free speech. The free speechers claim that free speech...
