Saturday, May 04, 2024

Collapse!-----Northwestern Cuts Deal with Encampment Organizers, Establishes Full-Ride Scholarship for Palestinian Students | National Review

“So how will this work? Pro-Hamas demonstrators get to influence decisions on @NorthwesternU hiring of Jewish vendors?!?,”  -  ZACH KESSEL
"After five days of anti-Israel demonstrators occupying Deering Meadow on Northwestern University’s campus, Northwestern president Michael Schill and the rest of the university’s leadership decided to accede to several of the protesters’ demands.
  • ...the university released a list of concessions in a celebratory statement Monday afternoon in exchange for the removal of the encampment on the lawn.
  • Most notable among those concessions is a promise to offer full-ride scholarships to Palestinian students and guaranteed faculty jobs for Palestinian academics...
  • Northwestern will also provide a “house for MENA/Muslim students” and 
  • will “advise (threaten) employers not to rescind job offers for students engaging in speech protected by the First Amendment.”
  • Other concessions in the deal Schill and the rest of Northwestern’s leadership struck with the encampment occupants — one of whom assaulted a student journalist attempting to take video — include student oversight of the university’s partnerships with suppliers and the investment of its endowment...

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