BASC denies guest lecturer, director David Romps resigns in protest
David Romps alleged that BASC faculty rejected his request to invite speaker Dorian Abbot because of Abbot’s social and political beliefs.
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David Romps alleged that BASC faculty rejected his request to invite speaker Dorian Abbot because of Abbot’s social and political beliefs.
I guess only a handful of people know where to find Robert E. Lee nowadays—or rather his most famous likeness, the bronze equestrian statue that for more than a century sat high atop an obelisk rising from a traffic circle on a broad, leafy avenue in Richmond, Virginia.
A scientist's speech at MIT on climate change was canceled because of past remarks opposing affirmative action policies.
A leading climate physicist at University of California, Berkeley, resigned in protest after his colleagues rejected his bid to invite a speaker to campus following outrage on the speaker’s views on the sweeping violence last summer after George Floyd’s death.
A UC Berkeley climate scientist very publicly resigned as director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center this week after the center refused to host a speech by a scientist who has criticized affirmative action.