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GMU Professors Dishonor the Memory of Justice Scalia

<p>A group of radical undergrad professors is spearheading an effort to oppose the renaming of Virginia&rsquo&semi;s George Mason University School of Law in honor of&nbsp&semi;former conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia&period; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Following Scalia&&num;8217&semi;s sudden death in February&comma;&nbsp&semi;GMU received a &dollar;30&comma;000&comma;000 pledge to rename the university&rsquo&semi;s law school&period; The&nbsp&semi;GMU Faculty Senate &lpar;not a law body&rpar; immediately passed a resolution opposing the idea&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>So why does this so-called &ldquo&semi;senate&rdquo&semi; have such a problem with a well-funded and well-deserved name change&quest;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We oppose &ldquo&semi;the memorializing of a Supreme Court Justice who was a significant contributor to the polarized climate in this country that runs counter to the values of a university that celebrates civil discourse&comma;&&num;8221&semi; writes the group&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Instead of utilizing the massive donation to enhance education at GMU&rsquo&semi;s law school&comma; the faculty senate seeks to &ldquo&semi;emphasize the university&rsquo&semi;s continuing support for groups that were slighted by Justice Scalia and that may have been offended by the university&rsquo&semi;s embrace of his legacy and underscore the university&rsquo&semi;s support for civil discourse that bridges the great diversity present at the university&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While I&rsquo&semi;m not surprised that GMU professors lack ideological diversity&comma; I do wonder if these leftist radicals &lpar;with taxpayer-funded jobs&rpar; have actual records of such polarization on campus&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As it turns out&comma; those preaching about rigid views and polarization are in fact divisive figures themselves&period; Craig Willse&comma; a leader in the opposition movement&comma; teaches a cultural studies course that focuses on &ldquo&semi;neoliberalism&comma; urbanism&comma; biopolitics&comma; and racial formations&period;&rdquo&semi; Willse&nbsp&semi;writes that his scholarship is &ldquo&semi;informed by his political work outside the academy&comma;&rdquo&semi; which includes &ldquo&semi;community organizing around housing access&comma; social movements for trans justice and prison abolition&comma; and queer anarchist anti-war activism&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>And he thinks Scalia is step beyond the mainstream&quest;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Oh&comma; and let&rsquo&semi;s not forget that Willse is also the faculty adviser to &ldquo&semi;GMU Students Against Israeli Apartheid&comma;&rdquo&semi; a group that in 2013 protested a commencement speech delivered by Jewish philanthropist and businesswoman Shari Arison&period;&nbsp&semi;And still&comma; Willse has the gall to condemn Scalia as &ldquo&semi;racist&period;&rdquo&semi; Unbelievable&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Author&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;strong>This story is a disgusting example of the hypocrisy that has become endemic to our nation&&num;8217&semi;s universities&comma; but I can&&num;8217&semi;t say I&&num;8217&semi;m surprised&period;&nbsp&semi;As I wrote last month when pro-Trump chalk messages caused revolts on numerous campuses&comma;&nbsp&semi;it seems&nbsp&semi;liberal students are offended by just about anything these days&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note&colon;<&sol;strong> I took a master&&num;8217&semi;s at this place&period; Now I&&num;8217&semi;m embarassed to tell anyone&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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