A reader at Emory University in Atlanta writes with news that the campus is freaking out because someone wrote “TRUMP 2016″ on the sidewalk there, and put other pro-Trump graffiti around campus. New York magazine’s Jesse Singal writes:
The article gives no indication the chalkings were themselves racist or otherwise offensive, other than that they expressed support for a gross political candidate, though one did read “Accept the Inevitable: Trump 2016.”
A reader writes:
Like other commenters, I came from modest circumstances but now live very differently. My town is affluent. My husband and I are white collar professionals, as are most parents.
I think globalization has certainly hurt the poor white communities Kevin Williamson writes about. But it’s also fraying my “elite” community, although in a much different and far less dire sense.
Siberia (the non-academic version). Image via Shutterstock.
“Forget what the Right says,” the headline instructs me: things aren’t so bad for conservatives in the academy. Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn, Sr. write,
Submitted by Robert Gehl via DownTrend.com,
An Illinois college has reversed its position and will allow students to pass out copies of the U.S Constitution on campus.
It’s a good move, since the Alliance Defending Freedom threatened to sue them if they didn’t.
Under the old policies, students were threatened with arrest if they passed out the founding documents on the campus of the College of DuPage.
You might remember this e-mail I published from an anonymous person who had just been hired as a staffer (not faculty) at a small liberal arts Christian college. The person, an orthodox Christian, wrote at the time: