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In today's MetroTalk, remember when we clapped for the NHS? Well, now, public satisfaction with the NHS is at its lowest level ever, despite this, one reader reminds us to...

It was supposed to be the year we took off our masks and breathed a sigh of relief following COVID. And things did start returning to normal, or normal-ish: some annual ...

It was supposed to be the year we took off our masks and breathed a sigh of relief following COVID. And things did start returning to normal, or normal-ish: some annual ...

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This November, a now-former trustee at Linfield University will go on trial for eight counts of sexual abuse. The accusations against him, brought by four different women, date back to 2017. Since that time, a series of Linfield students and faculty have brought more accusations of harassment and inappropriate touching against multiple other trustees and one high-ranking administrator at the small, private university in McMinnville. The story has largely been bubbling under the surface, drawing...

Complaint against 4th Linfield trustee alleges inappropriate touching, comment Updated May 06, 2021; Posted May 06, 2021 The encounter on May 3, 2019, left the woman feeling uncomfortable, she said. She didn’t go to university officials at the time but later wrote down the details in a letter that was presented to university leaders in February 2020. Photo by Daniel Hurst, courtesy of Linfield UniversityLC- Facebook Share In the latest harassment allegation naming a Linfield University tru...

Longtime Linfield donor resigns from board, ‘appalled’ by firing of professor who held endowed chair in her name Updated 10:53 PM; Today 10:13 PM “Suppressing voices of dissent only causes further damage,” Ronni Lacroute wrote to the board. “I also cannot accept the administration’s claims that there are no problems anymore related to sexual misconduct or student safety on campus.”LC- Facebook Share Longtime Linfield University trustee Ronni Lacroute, who endowed a Shakespeare ...

Linfield University President Miles K. Davis. Last Tuesday, Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon, fired Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a tenured professor of English and a Shakespeare scholar who had accused President Miles K. Davis of anti-Semitism. According to The Oregonian ( Linfield University President Miles K. Davis made anti-Semitic comments, professor says; Davis alleges ‘smear campaign’), President Davis faces allegations by two psychology professors that he made an inappropr...

A tenured professor was fired with a hearing. Why? Illustration by The Chronicle; photos from Daniel Pollack-Pelzner and Timothy D. Sofranko This week Daniel Pollack-Pelzner found out he was fired from Linfield University when his MacBook froze and a message said he was locked out. He couldnt get into his university email, and an auto-reply from his personal account to his Linfield address said, “Daniel Pollack-Pelzner is no longer an employee of Linfield University.” Pollack-Pelzner was a...

Linfield University president defends firing of tenured professor, says he has no plans to resign Updated May 01, 2021; Posted Apr 30, 2021 President Miles K. Davis also Friday recalled that he had discussed physical characteristics of Jews and other Semitic peoples with professor Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, after he had previously denied to an independent investigator making any such comments. “I might have well said that from a physical characteristic perspective, youd be hard pressed to tell...