by leaking their version of how Pres Gay botched her Congressional testimony to the Harvard Crimson.
Yes I know the only people at UO who care about this are the Harvard alumni, and the people like me who only got into places like Columbia: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/29/wilmerhale-testimony-prep/
People at UO should care. Higher Ed is going to be rocked by this, maybe all the way to little UO. DEI is collapsing. The woke/Jew hatred nexus is exposed in all its ugliness. Our president Scholz keeps making inane attempts at even-handed statements, wanting to keep both factions on campus somehow quiescent. To our credit, neither Eugene nor UO has really disgraced itself so far — unlike the very disgraced Eastern elite schools. At least the value of higher ed remains beyond question — right?
Will DEI collapse, or will it expand to have a special Jewish office/club/safe space on campus? Academia usually expands bureaucracy to deal with problems instead of ever reducing it.
Good question. My guess is the woke/antisemitic/Israel-Hamas dynamic will make this impossible. And look at the many pro-Hamas attacks on Christian festivities during the holidays. My sense is there a huge rethinking going on in the Jewish community. The ousting of Gay at Harvard is just the beginning of the dismantling of DEI/woke, is my guess.
I don’t know how this will play out at Oregon. Scholz will do everything he can to appease everyone.
I wonder if Phil will weigh in? No idea.
What do you mean by “woke/Jew hatred nexus”?
My own term, but an idea that is very current if you dig some. Basically, wokeness as a major source of the huge upsurge in antisemitism. DEI, white supremacy, Jews as the leading source of oppression in the world, leading to attacks and renewed attempts at outright extermination. One serious expositor of this thinking is Alan Dershowitz of Harvard Law. try
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/opinion/education/4341008-campus-antisemitism-has-become-systemic-due-to-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/amp/