This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be! - ThreadSky

joshuajfriedman.com • 7 days ago

This part of the Tufts declaration somehow warms my heart the most: a full-throated defense of Rümeysa Ötürk's op-ed criticizing the Tufts president, signed by the Tufts president! This is how it's supposed to be!

Reposted from Joshua J. Friedman

"The University declares that this opinion piece was not in violation of any Tufts policies. Further, no complaints were filed with the University or, to our knowledge, outside of the University about this op-ed."

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lilbrownbat.bsky.social•7 days ago

It did take rather a long time to get to this, so perhaps a muted golf clap is in order.

mind-ur-business.bsky.social•7 days ago

Better to have a take a bit more time and have the impact intended then to have it be rushed and then over looked.

lilbrownbat.bsky.social•7 days ago

We're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. For a legal filing? Sure, take what time you need*. For a statement? Get it out there fast.

*remembering that after a certain time, whatever you're thinking of is irrelevant.

lurkem.bsky.social•7 days ago

It was a week, it was with 21 other declarations, it was a legal filing. All this takes time to organize, write, edit, file. Celebrate and encourage the people doing something, even if it took a few days longer than you wish it had.

lilbrownbat.bsky.social•7 days ago

Am I incorrect that this was Tufts' first statement on the matter?

lurkem.bsky.social•7 days ago

Statements on March 25, March 26, April 2. Obviously the April 2 one is the best of them, but it really does take time to research, write, edit, and get sign off for something like this.

https://www.tufts.edu/president/speeches-and-messages

lilbrownbat.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thanks for the resource, but I don't think the first two amount to much.

1st statement: This is what we think happened, we weren't in the loop
2nd statement: Well gosh that's unfortunate, we get that you're all scared, hope she gets some due process rsn
3rd statement: Yeah, about that due process

athul.acharya.cc•7 days ago

My kid is ~15 years away from applying to colleges but I will remember this (and what Columbia and Harvard did instead)

auntmarilee.bsky.social•7 days ago

My kid is 1 year away and I’m crafting a letter in my head.

shriketron.bsky.social•7 days ago

All Ivy Leagues are all burned for my kids.

All that endowment. All that quisling.

I'm waiting to see how the California Uni's hold up.

Otherwise, only European uni's have any viable rep. Less expensive too (vs endowment).

I will shit on anybody from Columbia and Cornell from now on.

shriketron.bsky.social•7 days ago

To be fair any non-US uni, esp Canada or Europe, currently have rep to me, at this point.

And I'm a guy still boycotting Apple for what Jobs did back in the 90s, so I will remember.

lmhinh.bsky.social•7 days ago

California has an official sanctuary policy in place, SB 54. That’s why Trump refuses to provide FEMA support.
I think the UC’s & CSU’s have purged the last of Wilson’s chancellors.

shriketron.bsky.social•7 days ago

Thanks. I'm waiting to see if they fold, or they stand. That'll say a lot for later.

lmhinh.bsky.social•7 days ago

The public schools don’t have endowments to raid so I doubt he will Target them. I think he’s targeting private institutions on purpose—large endowments that he can seize.

shriketron.bsky.social•6 days ago

Really? I thought it was those schools had endowments which they're refusing to use to weather any funding cuts.

sproutie65.bsky.social•6 days ago

Add U Michigan to your list of who to avoid. They caved on DEI. Others have caved by suspending PhD admissions and cutting funding for research like UPitt and Johns Hopkins.