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Clemson University Faculty Signed Up for Anti-Trump Protest Group

From Campus Reform: Faculty members and students at Clemson University, inspired by a trending anti-Trump manifesto, are amping up their political boycotts of the country’s new president. The protest group, known as “Indivisible Clemson,” explicitly purports to be an outlet for Clemson students and staff to “fight the Trump agenda,” basing its protest tactics on […]

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Melville Mixes with Black Lives Matter and Donald Trump

A panel of college professors claimed that Herman Melville’s books can be applied to today’s issues of Black Lives Matter, America’s capitalist society and the presidency of Donald Trump. The panel discussion was held at the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) annual convention in Philadelphia earlier this year. Gary Vaughn Rasberry, an assistant professor of English […]

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Clemson Professors Go on Hunger Strike to Protest Trump’s Executive Order
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Clemson Professors Go on Hunger Strike to Protest Trump’s Executive Order

The hunger strike will last a week, per Campus Reform: Clemson University professors Chenjerai Kumanyika and Todd May announced a week-long hunger strike Friday to protest President Trump’s Executive Order on immigration. Beginning Monday at Sikes Hall, The Fast Against Silence aims to pressure the Clemson University administration into publicly denouncing the order. “By fasting Professors Kumanyika […]

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University’s History Department Signs Petition to Condemn Trump Immigration Executive Order
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University’s History Department Signs Petition to Condemn Trump Immigration Executive Order

From the New University, the official campus newspaper at the University of California-Irvine: Nearly 60 faculty, staff, and graduate students of the History Department at UCI signed a statement on change.org condemning the executive order issued by President Trump on Jan. 27 which suspends the resettlement of refugees and bans entry to nationals from seven […]

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Small, Hijab-Wearing Protest Group at Dartmouth Criticize Trump’s Refugee Executive Order
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Small, Hijab-Wearing Protest Group at Dartmouth Criticize Trump’s Refugee Executive Order

From Campus Reform: Dartmouth College students and faculty members protested President Trump’s executive order on immigration by wearing hijabs to show, as one professor wrote, that “we’re all Muslims now.” A student in the Tuck School of Business sent an email Tuesday to faculty members, staff, and students in the classes of 2017 and 2018 […]

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