{"id":2309,"date":"2017-04-04T21:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2017-04-04T21:48:18","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T03:48:18","slug":"student-activists-want-college-president-gone-wont-cave-demands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/04\/student-activists-want-college-president-gone-wont-cave-demands\/","title":{"rendered":"Student activists want college president gone because she won\u2019t cave to demands"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/93237714\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 66.666667% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/93237714?et=aARYgBmfSZV38nzV8zF6QQ&amp;tld=com&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=w6q_KEenR-KzqohFwmYEk9FwDwtoqF8hY32cLMarqx4=&amp;caption=true\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Finally, a college president is standing up to the crybullies on campus.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Northern Arizona University students need a safe space after being told by President Rita Cheng that she doesn\u2019t support them. And because of that, they want her ousted from her leadership post. And why not, that\u2019s what social justice warriors do.<\/p>\n<p>At a recent Q&amp;A session, Cheng was asked by a sophomore student:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHow can you promote safe spaces if you don\u2019t take action in situations of injustice such as last week when we had the preacher on campus and he was promoting hate speech against marginalized students? As well as, not speaking out against racist incidents like blackface two months ago by student workers followed by no reform and no repercussions?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cheng lowered the gavel and declared college to be a place to debate opposing ideas, not shelter from them:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cAs a university professor, I\u2019m not sure I have any support at all for safe space. I think that you as a student have to develop the skills to be successful in this world and that we need to provide you with the opportunity for discourse and debate and dialogue and academic inquiry, and I\u2019m not sure that that is correlated with the notion of safe space as I\u2019ve seen that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The crybullies certainly didn\u2019t like hearing that, and so, they marched out of the meeting and ran to the media to tattle on Cheng and say she is \u201cunfit\u201d as a president of a university.<\/p>\n<p>While Cheng said she is happy to meet with any student who disagrees, she is staying put as NAU\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>There must be something in the water at NAU because this is the same school where a student was deducted points for not using \u201cgender-neutral\u201d language in an essay. Let\u2019s hope Cheng has a little chat with that professor to remind her about the First Amendment. It\u2019s time these fascists are put down.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T <a href=\"https:\/\/heatst.com\/world\/calls-for-college-president-to-resign-because-she-rejects-safe-spaces\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Heat Street<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is what happens when you run to a safe space and find out it\u2019s not there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2673,"featured_media":2314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Student activists want college president gone because she won\u2019t cave to demands<\/title>\n<meta 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