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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A young Michigan native recently transformed from a right-wing evangelical Christian into a vegan fan of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) after he had a jarring encounter with Turning Point USA, the Trump-loving organization for young conservatives.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Boston Globe reports that 21-year-old Giani DiTrapani had a shocking experience recently when he attending a Turning Point event that was held at Michigan State University.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although DiTrapani had for years been a conservative Trump supporter, he nonetheless believed that man-made climate change was a major problem that needed to be addressed. Because of this, reports the Globe, he found himself “flabbergasted” when a speaker at the Turning Point event extolled the virtues of pumping more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>As speaker Alex Epstein said that increased CO2 emissions were a positive sign of economic development and passed out pins that said, “I Love Fossil Fuels,</b>” DiTrapani found himself disturbed that so many of his fellow conservatives were cheering on rhetoric that was completely contradicted by basic science.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Is this what conservatives really think?” he tells the Globe that he recalls asking himself. “The climate really changed my mind.”</font></div></div><div style="font-size: medium;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
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</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/29/how-the-southern-poverty-law-center-enraged-nominal-conservatives-into-betraying-free-speech-values/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/29/how-the-southern-poverty-law-center-enraged-nominal-conservatives-into-betraying-free-speech-values/</font></a></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p class="entry-meta" style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; text-transform: uppercase;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-06-29T09:14:52+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box;">JUNE 29, 2017</time> BY <span class="entry-author" itemprop="author" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://www.popehat.com/author/ken/" class="entry-author-link" itemprop="url" rel="author" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">KEN WHITE</a></span></font></p></header><div class="entry-content" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last week I argued that the <a href="https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/21/free-speech-triumphant-or-free-speech-in-retreat/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">legal</em> outlook for free speech in America remains bright: the Supreme Court's defense of speech is consistent and robust.</a> But the <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">cultural</em> outlook remains grim.<b> Free speech, as a value, is under cultural assault — and feckless, politicized, and unlikely-to-be-effective legal assault — from across the ideological spectrum. Case in point: conservatives suing over mean, unfair, or unprincipled characterizations of their positions.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>The latest culprit is <a href="https://www.lc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Liberty Counsel,</a> a group that litigates in pursuit of what it identifies as Christian values</b>. Liberty Counsel has sued <a href="https://www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx?ads_cmpid=53230123&ads_adid=3903805483&ads_matchtype=e&ads_network=g&ads_creative=138283222544&utm_term=guidestar&ads_targetid=kwd-334327887&utm_campaign=&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&ttv=2&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIhuGPo6Xj1AIVUGV-Ch2jQASXEAAYASAAEgJRl_D_BwE" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">GuideStar,</a> a database of charities, over <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/26/after-conservative-backlash-charity-tracker-guidestar-removes-hate-group-labels/?utm_term=.cb03240eddef" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">GuideStar's controversial adoption of the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate group" designation of entities including Liberty Counsel, which GuideStar later retracted</a>. Liberty Counsel's <a href="https://www.popehat.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Liberty-Counsel-Complaint.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">complaint — which you can read here —</a> is simply vexatious and unethical. It is — to abandon my pretense of decorum for a moment — a thoroughly contemptible and un-American piece of shit, and the lawyers who filed it deserve scorn. Liberty Counsel has filed a frivolous, censorious lawsuit against Guidestar in a cynical and craven attempt to avoid the more well-funded and ready-to-litigate PLC.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The complaint, filed in federal court in Virginia, accuses Guidestar of a violation of the Lanham Act — that is, it accuses Guidestar of false advertising based on Guidestar offering its opinion that Liberty Counsel is a hate group. It also accuses Guidestar of defamation and of interfering with its prospective economic advantage. These frivolous theories boil down to one idea: you're not allowed to repeat the SPLC's negative opinion of us.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There are many reasons to criticize the modern SPLC,<a href="https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/29/how-the-southern-poverty-law-center-enraged-nominal-conservatives-into-betraying-free-speech-values/#wsa-endnote-1" name="wsa-inline-1" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 0; position: relative; vertical-align: baseline; top: -0.5em;">1</span></a> which has sadly fallen from a group that once fought Klansmen and Nazis to protect rights down to the level of a shrill, doctrinaire, orthodox-leftist flailing denouncer of miscellaneous petty thoughtcrime. It is no longer to be trusted or taken seriously. If you want your money to support people protecting the powerless from violent bigotry rather than funding the sophomoric assembly of tendentious enemies lists, you should donate elsewhere.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the SPLC's conduct is core, classic political speech. Ranting political generalizations about other people and groups and parties is exactly what the First Amendment protects. The SPLC's classification of a dizzying array of entities as "hate groups" may be unfair, unprincipled, immature, and even immoral. But it's also opinion absolutely protected by the First Amendment. Only provable statements of fact can be defamatory. It's certainly possible that the SPLC could make a false and defamatory statement of fact about a group in the course of classifying it as a "hate group" — for instance, by falsely attributing a statement to the group, or falsely claiming the group participated in some specific act. But that's not what's at issue in Liberty Counsel's cowardly-indirect attack on the SPLC. Their complaint says the defamation is the "hate group" classification. "Hate" and "hate group" are not provable statements of fact. They're opinion. You may think the opinion is stupid and without basis, but that doesn't magically turn it into a fact. You may think that having such an opinion expressed about you is very harmful, but that doesn't turn it into a fact either. "Hate group" occupies a place in the American lexicon with "SJW" and "cuck" and "fake news" and "far left" and "extremist" and "death party" and "party of death" and "libtard" and "wingnut" and anything else you'll see people shout at each other on Twitter. "Hate" and "hate group" aren't factually provable, because they're based on opinion. The opinion that being against gay marriage or affirmative action or generous immigration makes you a "hate group" may be stupid, but it's inescapably an opinion.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Were this not true, American political discourse would be cramped, chilled, and constantly hazardous. Want to start a <a href="http://www.professorwatchlist.org/index.php" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">list of professors you think are too liberal?</a> Better get a lawyer first if your opinion classifying them can be defamation. Want to give <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/12/19/us/politics/nra.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">letter grades to politicians based on their voting records?</a> Better have deep pockets if your argumentative interpretation of their actions is subject to litigation. Want to <a href="http://freebeacon.com/politics/meet-the-ten-most-liberal-senators/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">make lists of politicians as "liberal" or "conservative"</a>? You may think that's safe — but if opinion-based classifications are fair game for litigation, then it's not. Want to engage in political hyperbole and elbow-throwing rhetoric? See you in court.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Liberty Counsel knows this. These are not <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">stupid</em> lawyers. These are <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">unethical</em> lawyers, abandoning core American civic virtues to indulge in politics by other means. Liberty Counsel is part of the "do it to them because they did it to us" movement — the belief that, because some liberals someplace supported restrictions on free speech, it's acceptable to abuse the system to go after the free speech rights of these liberals here.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They aren't alone. Take Maajid Nawaz. <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/10/maajid-nawaz-splc-anti-muslim-extremist/505685/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">SPLC was roundly criticized — reasonably </a>— for calling Nawaz, a Muslim, an "anti-Muslim extremist." Nawaz has now announced — to the fawning approval of the loathsome Bill Maher — that <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/449004/quilliam-radical-muslim-group-hate-group-southern-poverty-law-center" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">he's crowdfunding a lawsuit against SPLC for that characterization.</a> His <a href="http://maajidnawaz.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">site reveals just how broadly he wants to police political speech he doesn't like through litigation:</a></font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 40px 40px 24px;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Legal action will, ideally, create a precedent, and provide a warning to those who think they can throw around damning labels like "Islamaphobe" "racist" and "Nazi" without any evidence and simply get away with it.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If nothing else, perhaps Nawaz's broad policy of censorship of hurtful opinions will win him support amongst Islamic extremists. He should target cartoons next. But someone needs to tell Nawaz that if he sues in speech-unfriendly United Kingdom courts, any judgment he secures will be worthless against the America-based SPLC. Under the <a href="https://www.popehat.com/2010/08/27/speech-act-a-bulwark-against-buffoonish-brits/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">SPEECH Act, foreign defamation judgments are not enforceable in America unless they are secured using America's speech-protective laws.</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If the SPLC told factual lies about Nawaz — for instance, by claiming he said things he didn't — then that's potentially defamatory. But calling him an "anti-Muslim extremist" simply means "he's a guy who, in our narrow ideology-addled opinion, holds views that are unacceptable." That may be stupid, but it's not defamatory. The remedy for it is more speech, calling out the SPLC as hacks — and indeed, condemnation of the SPLC about its comments on Nawaz have been widespread and bipartisan. It's the same with Liberty Counsel. Guidestar dropped the SPLC "hate group" classifications <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/26/after-conservative-backlash-charity-tracker-guidestar-removes-hate-group-labels/?utm_term=.9626d0c93dba" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">in response to criticism.</a> In its press release about the lawsuit, <a href="http://www.lifenews.com/2017/06/28/pro-life-legal-group-sues-guidestar-for-calling-it-a-hate-grous/?utm_content=buffer2d74b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Liberty Counsel said that GuideStar</a> "has lost all credibility." That's a very odd admission by a party seeking to prove that Guidestar's words hurt it, but it's also a spark of honesty in an otherwise dishonest campaign of political litigation: Guidestar offered an opinion, critics responded, and Guidestar suffered reputational consequences for its actions. That's how free speech is supposed to work.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I express no opinion in this post about whether Liberty Counsel's policy positions make it a "hate group" — though the SPLC saying it certainly is not a reason to believe it, and Guidestar showed questionable judgment in adopting the SPLC's term. But I do believe that Liberty Counsel's conduct in filing this case demonstrates that it is a foe of core American values and ought to be shunned on that basis.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 26px; box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">However secure the First Amendment is under current Supreme Court precedent, there's a cultural war over free expression in America. People who pick the side of censorship and seek to undermine free speech rights are not worthy of your support or respect.</font></p><div class="wsa-footnotes" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 5px 15px; padding-top: 5px;"><ol style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 26px 40px; padding: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: decimal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="transition-property: all;"><a name="wsa-endnote-1" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;" /></span><a name="wsa-endnote-1" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">Please join me in sympathy for the </a><a href="http://www.splc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">wonderful and principled<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Student Press Law Center</span></a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, </span>which is <a href="https://twitter.com/SPLC/status/880063335839825922" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">now the target of a lot of the Southern Poverty Law Center's bad press.</a>  <a href="https://www.popehat.com/2017/06/29/how-the-southern-poverty-law-center-enraged-nominal-conservatives-into-betraying-free-speech-values/#wsa-inline-1" class="wsa-up" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.1s ease-in-out 0s;">▲</a></font></li></ol></div><h3 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last 5 posts by Ken White</font></h3></div></div><div style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2017/04/rightwing-billionaires-are-intentionally-funding-hate-speech-college-campuses/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">https://www.alternet.org/2017/04/rightwing-billionaires-are-intentionally-funding-hate-speech-college-campuses/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.splc.org/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Student Press Law Center</font></a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SPLC is a legal assistance agency devoted to “educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship.” The center provides legal advice and educational materials to students, along with a network of 150 attorneys offering free representation under most circumstances. It produces a quarterly report of Student Journalism censorship cases.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://cms.studentsforacademicfreedom.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: inherit; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Students for Academic Freedom</font></a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SAF’s mission is to “end the political abuse of the university and to restore integrity to the academic mission as a disinterested pursuit of knowledge.” Founded by David Horowitz, a central focus of SAF has been the promotion of an Academic Bill of Rights, dedicated to ensuring non-political instruction and freedom of expression. Students for Academic Freedom has over 200 College and University chapters, dedicated to the removal of political concerns from academic considerations.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-left-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: initial; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-image: initial; font-style: italic; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" em="em" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Student Free Press Association</strong><br style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat;" />P.O. Box 76<br style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat;" />Hillsdale, MI 49242</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If you have any questions, please contact <span class="il" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Jennifer</span> Kabbany at <span class="mask" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">jkabbany [at] TheCollegeFix (dot) com</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Student Free Press Association, publisher of<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> The College Fix</span>, is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law. SFPA’s tax ID number is 27-2277658. Learn more about SFPA’s work <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/about/" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://www.thecollegefix.com/about/&source=gmail&ust=1475871623107000&usg=AFQjCNG_loYiBdQuD9cJDwzvIMNY8VGM3w" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s; text-decoration: none;">here</a>.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012 donors trust 100K</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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padding: 0px 0px 0px 1.33em; list-style-position: outside; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a href="http://thecollegefix.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90378351ae56a868ffa8680ae&id=97ce24f200&e=ff8c39d73e" target="blank" style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; word-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Universities works to purge male students of toxic masculinity</a>"  </font></span></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a href="http://thecollegefix.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=90378351ae56a868ffa8680ae&id=d599266d40&e=ff8c39d73e" target="blank" style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; word-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Professors tell students: Drop class if you dispute man-made climate change</a>"</font></span></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a href="http://thecollegefix.us10.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=90378351ae56a868ffa8680ae&id=c2ee65e62d&e=ff8c39d73e" style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; word-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;">White students undergo weekly 'deconstructing whiteness' program</a>"</font></span></span></p></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"<a href="http://thecollegefix.us10.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=90378351ae56a868ffa8680ae&id=c4f3c549e1&e=ff8c39d73e" style="display: inline; cursor: pointer; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; word-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%;">Believing in two genders is a 'hate crime' under police investigation at college</a>"</font></span></span></p></li></ul><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There’s still much work to be done. Every day, my colleagues and I work closely with many aspiring journalists: young men and women who went to college to learn, not to be indoctrinated by leftist ideologues or harassed by hateful "social justice warriors."</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These talented young patriots often feel isolated and powerless on campuses dominated by leftism and political correctness.</font></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 22.5px;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><span style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><em style="animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">These young conservatives need your support!</font></em></span></span></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; animation-duration: 0.1s; animation-name: fontfix; animation-iteration-count: 1; animation-timing-function: linear; animation-delay: 0.1s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); 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Miller</font></span></span></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The ExxonMobil Corporation is fighting back against government attempts to use RICO</b> — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — to subpoena its records regarding global war– er, climate change.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">good</span> thing.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As reported previously by <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The College Fix,</span> some 20 professors, led by George Mason University’s Jagadish Shukla, had signed a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26750/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">asking her to use RICO</a> in order to go after companies like Exxon “and other groups skeptical of man-made global warming, also known as climate change.”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic lawmakers like Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Edward Markey (MA), and California’s Barbara Boxer are also in on the action.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Government officials and environmental activists are seeking a legal solution along the lines of that <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/memo-shows-secret-coordination-effort-exxonmobil-climate-activists-rockefeller-fund/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">used against the tobacco companies</a> some years back.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/04/13/wsj-confirms-collusion-behind-exxonknew/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Exxon responds</a> by saying “Cigarettes are a harmful, addictive product used by a portion of the public […] while fossil fuels are fundamental to the world economy.”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, if there’s any sort of conspiracy, maybe climate activists should look at themselves. For, according to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/04/13/wsj-confirms-collusion-behind-exxonknew/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Wall Street Journal</span></a>, many of them had gotten together “to establish in public’s mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all creation) toward climate chaos and grave harm.”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A memo obtained from a January “closed-door” meeting of the Rockefeller Family Fund<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/memo-shows-secret-coordination-effort-exxonmobil-climate-activists-rockefeller-fund/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">shows that</a> the activists’ goals are to “delegitimize [ExxonMobil] as a political actor,” “force officials to disassociate themselves from Exxon,” and “drive divestment from Exxon.”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26750/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">RELATED: WHO is acting like an <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">authoritarian regime</span>? The power of the state makes a BIG difference</font></a></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The memo also proposed ‘creating scandal’ by using lawsuits and state prosecutors to obtain internal documents from ExxonMobil through judicial discovery.”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon noted the “chilling effect of this inquiry, which discriminates based on viewpoint to target one side of an ongoing policy debate” and “strikes at protected speech at the core of the First Amendment.”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attorneys David Rivkin and Andrew B. Grossman</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26750/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition-duration: 0.2s, 0.2s, 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, opacity; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;">point out</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that “Intimidation is the point [of these efforts]. Individual scientists, think tanks and private businesses are no match for the vast powers that government officials determined to stifle dissent are able to wield.”</span></font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Quite recently, big-time climate activist <b style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bill Nye “The Science Guy”</b> alluded to the possible criminality of those who question climate science.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-nye-the-science-guy-i-can-see-where-youd-want-to-throw-climate-deniers-in-jail/article/2588567?custom_click=rss" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">In a video</a> posted last Thursday, Nye said “We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron? Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nye, <a href="https://politicalconnection.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/bill-nye-not-really-a-science-guy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition-duration: 0.2s, 0.2s, 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, opacity; background-repeat: no-repeat;">who’s actually a mechanical engineer</a>, is such an outspoken force against global war– er, climate change that he’s “connected” climate change <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/03/bill-nye-the-propaganda-guy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition-duration: 0.2s, 0.2s, 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, opacity; background-repeat: no-repeat;">to the actions of radical Islamist terrorists</a>. Uh <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">huh.</span></font></span></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The engineer <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/nasa-takes-facebook-shut-down-7756979#ICID=sharebar_twitter" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">recently was backed up</a> by a <b>government entity</b> — NASA</span> — in a social media scuffle about climate change.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Nye posted on Facebook that a prominent climate change “denier” had refused to take his bet that 2016 would prove to land in the top ten hottest years on record, critical commenters pounced. And that’s when the space agency jumped to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">his</span> defense.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s right, the agency which once thrilled the world with its incredible scientific ingenuity is now … <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">monitoring Facebook </span>to “correct” statements about climate change.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps someone should investigate <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Nye.</span> Does his engineering background technically make him a “scientist”?  In a 2014 pre-debate interview he said he didn’t “go in[to the debate] as a scientist,” and reminded everyone that he’s an engineer. Yet, he <a href="https://politicalconnection.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/bill-nye-not-really-a-science-guy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">has made millions of dollars</a> by referring to himself as “The Science Guy.”</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;" /><center noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Climate change even affects flatulence.</span></font></center><span noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;" /><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Should the popular media personality change his moniker to Bill Nye “Boy, Am I Sly”? Bill Nye “Oh My”? Bill Nye “Stop Fossil Fuels or We’re All Gonna Die”? Bill Nye “Chicken Salad on Rye”?</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keep in mind, too, that The Engineering Guy’s qualifications for addressing climate change aren’t questioned because he’s on the “right side” of the debate. However, anyone on the other side who in <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">any way</span> can be dubbed as “not qualified” to speak on climate science, <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-climate-contrarian/16913#.VxEJNfkrK70" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">is denounced immediately</a>.</font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If this trend continues, should the government begin investigating <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">other</span> “anti-science” folk? Anti-vaccine activists? Those against <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/09/17/the-debate-about-gmo-safety-is-over-thanks-to-a-new-trillion-meal-study/#644ac420ca93" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">GMO crops?</a> What about those who deny that a <a href="http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/what-my-baby-looks-like/week-12/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">several-months-old fetus</a> is <a href="http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/fetusperson.shtml" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">actually “human”?</a></font></p><p noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Remember <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">those</span> the next time someone mentions the so-called “party of science,” or that he “believes” in science.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">fix bs</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PETITION: ‘We do not believe students have a protected right to use a student publication … as a platform to proliferate racist stereotypes and misinformation’</font></strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A student at Duke University who has penned columns for the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Duke Chronicle</span> that favor conservative and libertarian principles is now the target of a student protest demanding his termination as the campus newspaper’s opinion editor in a petition that calls the columnist’s views “racist” and “unsafe.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Duke student Jonathan Zhao – a rising senior tapped as the new opinion page editor of the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Duke Chronicle</span> – has written columns in the past titled “<a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/04/18/gay-marriage-not-right#.VXUyIM9Vikp" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">Gay marriage is not a right</a>,” “<a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/01/24/equal-pay-anti-feminist#.VXUyVM9Vikp" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">Equal pay is anti-feminist</a>” and “<a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2013/01/10/farewell-arms-control#.VXUyac9Vikp" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">A farewell to arms control</a>.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zhao has also held positions with the Romney for President campaign and the libertarian think tank the Cato Institute, according to his LinkedIn <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/jonathan-zhao/4b/41b/858" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">page</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While he has often touted positions counter to mainstream politically correct beliefs on campus, the tipping point against Zhao came after he penned a <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/05/27/plight-black-america#.VXUymM9Vikq" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">column</a> May 27 titled “The plight of black America” that stated: “The greatest obstacle to the advancement of black Americans isn’t racism or past injustices but rather the black community itself.” <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/PetitionImage.jpg" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;"><img class=" wp-image-22818 alignright" src="http://www.thecollegefix.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/PetitionImage-500x216.jpg" alt="PetitionImage" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 9px 0px 24px 30px; padding: 0px; border: none; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 50%; height: auto; float: right;" width="382" height="165" /></a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Between that and Zhao’s appointment as opinion page editor, it was all too much for Duke University’s left-leaning students, who savagely smeared Zhao’s reputation in a Change.org petition demanding <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Chronicle</span> editors fire him. The petition is headlined: “We are demanding the immediate removal of Jonathan Zhao as editor of the Duke Chronicle’s editorial page.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“[W]e do not believe students have a protected right to use a student publication meant to serve and represent the Duke community as a platform to proliferate racist stereotypes and misinformation about an entire group of people – a group of people to which the writer does not even belong,” stated the <a href="https://www.change.org/p/the-duke-university-chronicle-we-are-demanding-the-immediate-removal-of-jonathan-zhao-as-editor-of-the-duke-chronicle-s-editorial-page" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">petition</a>, written by a group calling themselves “Concerned and Conscious Duke Students.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The petitioners do not address Zhao’s lengthy “black America” column point by point, but rather attack his character and suggest anyone who believes as he does is unfit to serve as editorial page editor.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Certainly, that student shouldn’t be permitted to oversee one of the most well-read sections of the paper,” the petition continued. “Not only was this particular article by Jonathan Zhao abhorrent, but this writer also has a history of publishing inflammatory and ill-conceived pieces in the newspaper.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The petition suggests Zhao is too biased to fairly edit the opinion section.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We are concerned that if Zhao continues as an editor of the opinion column, he will also continue to abuse his position of power to create an unsafe educational environment for marginalized students,” it states. “This is not a question of being ‘politically correct,’ nor is it a matter of censorship.  Rather, this is a call to hold The Chronicle’s staff and the content they produce to a higher standard of journalistic ethics.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As of Sunday, the pseudo-censorship petition had almost 900 signatures, with many signers posting vicious comments about Zhao, calling him a disgrace and accusing him of bigotry.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an email Saturday to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The College Fix</span>, Zhao stated that “unfortunately due to Duke Chronicle policies governing interactions with other news outlets, I am unable to provide you with a statement.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his <a href="https://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/05/27/plight-black-america#.VXUymM9Vikq" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">column</a> on “black America,” Zhao argued that racism and past injustices are not the main things holding the African-American community back from success.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Instead of paving a road to prosperity, the self-defeating economic policies advocated for by the black community are shackles of poverty and disillusionment, miring blacks in a cycle of underachievement and social immobility,” Zhao wrote. “In addition to failed economic policies, there are also cultural issues within the black community such as the erosion of marriage that must be internally overcome. Because the economic and cultural problems are casually interrelated, they must be addressed simultaneously if any real progress for black Americans is to be achieved.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Zhao acknowledged in his column that it would likely rile feathers and concluded by writing, “the black community must embrace societal institutions like marriage and the rule of law and also disavow the mentality of victimhood in favor of an outlook of empowerment. Only having done so can America truly achieve Dr. King’s dream of an integrated, colorless society.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Following backlash from that opinion column, the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Duke Chronicle</span> released a <a href="http://www.dukechronicle.com/articles/2015/06/02/editors-note#.VXUy4c9Vikq" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;">statement</a>saying “we have changed the policy regarding guest columns to avoid any appearance of bias in the process.”<br style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">The College Fix</span> e-mailed the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Duke Chronicle</span> on Sunday for comment on the petition, and Editor-in-Chief Amrith Ramkumar responded with, “Sorry, we won’t be commenting on that.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/22023/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED: Duke University’s Muslim Students Association blackballed Islamic feminist’s campus speech</font></a></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/17212/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED: ‘Man Up,’ ‘Don’t Be A Pussy’ Labeled Offensive Language at Duke University</font></a></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/22508/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s, border-color 0.2s;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RELATED: Duke prof called ‘racist’ for arguing Asians have integrated better than blacks</font></a></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">College Fix <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">reporter David Hookstead is a student at the University of Wisconsin Madison.</span></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The ExxonMobil Corporation is fighting back against government attempts to use RICO</b> — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — to subpoena its records regarding global war– er, climate change.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is a <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">good</span> thing.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As reported previously by <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The College Fix,</span> some 20 professors, led by George Mason University’s Jagadish Shukla, had signed a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26750/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">asking her to use RICO</a> in order to go after companies like Exxon “and other groups skeptical of man-made global warming, also known as climate change.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Democratic lawmakers like Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Edward Markey (MA), and California’s Barbara Boxer are also in on the action.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Government officials and environmental activists are seeking a legal solution along the lines of that <a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/memo-shows-secret-coordination-effort-exxonmobil-climate-activists-rockefeller-fund/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">used against the tobacco companies</a> some years back.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/04/13/wsj-confirms-collusion-behind-exxonknew/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Exxon responds</a> by saying “Cigarettes are a harmful, addictive product used by a portion of the public […] while fossil fuels are fundamental to the world economy.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indeed, if there’s any sort of conspiracy, maybe climate activists should look at themselves. For, according to <a href="https://wattsupwiththat.com/2016/04/13/wsj-confirms-collusion-behind-exxonknew/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Wall Street Journal</span></a>, many of them had gotten together “to establish in public’s mind that Exxon is a corrupt institution that has pushed humanity (and all creation) toward climate chaos and grave harm.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A memo obtained from a January “closed-door” meeting of the Rockefeller Family Fund<a href="http://freebeacon.com/issues/memo-shows-secret-coordination-effort-exxonmobil-climate-activists-rockefeller-fund/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">shows that</a> the activists’ goals are to “delegitimize [ExxonMobil] as a political actor,” “force officials to disassociate themselves from Exxon,” and “drive divestment from Exxon.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26750/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">RELATED: WHO is acting like an <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">authoritarian regime</span>? The power of the state makes a BIG difference</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The memo also proposed ‘creating scandal’ by using lawsuits and state prosecutors to obtain internal documents from ExxonMobil through judicial discovery.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Exxon noted the “chilling effect of this inquiry, which discriminates based on viewpoint to target one side of an ongoing policy debate” and “strikes at protected speech at the core of the First Amendment.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Attorneys David Rivkin and Andrew B. Grossman</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26750/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition-duration: 0.2s, 0.2s, 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, opacity; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;">point out</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> that “Intimidation is the point [of these efforts]. Individual scientists, think tanks and private businesses are no match for the vast powers that government officials determined to stifle dissent are able to wield.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Quite recently, big-time climate activist <b style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Bill Nye “The Science Guy”</b> alluded to the possible criminality of those who question climate science.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-nye-the-science-guy-i-can-see-where-youd-want-to-throw-climate-deniers-in-jail/article/2588567?custom_click=rss" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">In a video</a> posted last Thursday, Nye said “We’ll see what happens, was it appropriate to jail the guys at Enron? Was it appropriate to jail people from the cigarette industry who insisted that this addictive product was not addictive?”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Nye, <a href="https://politicalconnection.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/bill-nye-not-really-a-science-guy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition-duration: 0.2s, 0.2s, 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, opacity; background-repeat: no-repeat;">who’s actually a mechanical engineer</a>, is such an outspoken force against global war– er, climate change that he’s “connected” climate change <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2015/12/03/bill-nye-the-propaganda-guy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition-duration: 0.2s, 0.2s, 0.2s; transition-property: color, background-color, opacity; background-repeat: no-repeat;">to the actions of radical Islamist terrorists</a>. Uh <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">huh.</span></font></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The engineer <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/science/nasa-takes-facebook-shut-down-7756979#ICID=sharebar_twitter" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">recently was backed up</a> by a <b>government entity</b> — NASA</span> — in a social media scuffle about climate change.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Nye posted on Facebook that a prominent climate change “denier” had refused to take his bet that 2016 would prove to land in the top ten hottest years on record, critical commenters pounced. And that’s when the space agency jumped to <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">his</span> defense.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That’s right, the agency which once thrilled the world with its incredible scientific ingenuity is now … <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">monitoring Facebook </span>to “correct” statements about climate change.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Perhaps someone should investigate <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Nye.</span> Does his engineering background technically make him a “scientist”?  In a 2014 pre-debate interview he said he didn’t “go in[to the debate] as a scientist,” and reminded everyone that he’s an engineer. Yet, he <a href="https://politicalconnection.wordpress.com/2014/01/29/bill-nye-not-really-a-science-guy/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">has made millions of dollars</a> by referring to himself as “The Science Guy.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" /><center style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 16px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; background-repeat: no-repeat;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Climate change even affects flatulence.</span></font></center><span style="font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" line-height="line-height" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></span><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Should the popular media personality change his moniker to Bill Nye “Boy, Am I Sly”? Bill Nye “Oh My”? Bill Nye “Stop Fossil Fuels or We’re All Gonna Die”? Bill Nye “Chicken Salad on Rye”?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Keep in mind, too, that The Engineering Guy’s qualifications for addressing climate change aren’t questioned because he’s on the “right side” of the debate. However, anyone on the other side who in <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">any way</span> can be dubbed as “not qualified” to speak on climate science, <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/are-you-now-or-have-you-ever-been-a-climate-contrarian/16913#.VxEJNfkrK70" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">is denounced immediately</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If this trend continues, should the government begin investigating <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">other</span> “anti-science” folk? Anti-vaccine activists? Those against <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/09/17/the-debate-about-gmo-safety-is-over-thanks-to-a-new-trillion-meal-study/#644ac420ca93" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">GMO crops?</a> What about those who deny that a <a href="http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/what-my-baby-looks-like/week-12/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">several-months-old fetus</a> is <a href="http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/fetusperson.shtml" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">actually “human”?</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Remember <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">those</span> the next time someone mentions the so-called “party of science,” or that he “believes” in science.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">In a marvelous case of “turnabout is fair play,” thirteen Republican attorneys general have sent<a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2862197-AG-Coalition-Resp-Letter-2016-06-15.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">a letter</a> to their Democratic opposites warning them that if they persist with “fraud” probes of climate skeptics, then <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">they’ll</span> respond in kind with their own investigations.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">“If it is possible to minimize the risks of climate change, then the same goes for exaggeration,” the letter reads. “If minimization is fraud, exaggeration is fraud.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Twenty professors and scientists <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24297/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">had sent a letter</a> to President Obama, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s John Holdren suggesting the government use RICO  — the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act — to prosecute “companies and organizations which have ‘deceived’ the public about climate change.” <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27069/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">ExxonMobil quickly became a target</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">“Consider carefully th[is] legal precedent and threat to free speech,” GOP state prosecutors state in their letter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/16/gop-ags-dems-climate-alarmists-can-be-prosecuted/print/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Washington Times</span> reports</a>:</p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: italic; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" em="em" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">“We think this effort by our colleagues to police the global warming debate through the power of the subpoena is a grave mistake,” said the letter.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The name of the coalition itself shows that the attorneys general “have taken the unusual step of aligning themselves with the competition of their investigative targets,” namely the solar and wind energy.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">“If the focus is fraud, such alignment by law enforcement sends the dangerous signal that companies in certain segments of the energy market need not worry about their misrepresentations,” said the GOP letter.</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27069/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">MORE: The push-back against attempts to punish climate skeptics</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Democrats have denied that the effort violates Exxon’s free-speech rights. Schneiderman spokesman Eric Soufer said in a statement that, “The law is clear: the First Amendment does not give any corporation the right to commit fraud.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The campaign against Exxon, backed by a bevy of climate change groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists, which has advised the Democrat-led coalition, also violates the Constitution by sending the message that certain viewpoints represent a prosecutable offense, the letter said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">“Actions indicating that one side of the climate debate should fear prosecution chills free speech in violation of a formerly bipartisan First Amendment consensus,” said the Republicans.</p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Even before those profs and scientists had urged RICO action, various Democratic lawmakers had hassled university climate skeptics. Arizona Rep. Raúl Grijalva, for example, <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/21469/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">demanded information</a> from professors at Pepperdine, the University of Delaware, and CU-Boulder.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Senators Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Edward Markey (D-MA), and Barbara Boxer (D-CA) <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26750/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">also were engaged</a>, as well as (Democratic) California Representatives Ted Lieu and Mark DeSaulnier.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/16/gop-ags-dems-climate-alarmists-can-be-prosecuted/print/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Read the full article</a>.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">UPDATE:</strong> Competitive Enterprise Institute attorney Hans Bader <a href="https://cei.org/blog/climate-change-witchhunt-expands-include-more-innocent-victims-conservative-ags-object" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">has much more</a>.</p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/24297/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">MORE: Profs, scientists want feds to crack down on climate skeptics</a></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/21469/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">MORE: Gov. investigating profs who questioned climate change</a></p></div><div>
</div><div>DAVE HUBER - ASSISTANT EDITOR •JUNE 20, 2016</div><div>Turnabout, as they say, is fair play.</div><div>
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</div><div>CLIMATE CHANGE</div><div>Fossil fuel divestment would cost university endowments billions of dollars, study finds</div><div>COLLEGE FIX STAFF •JUNE 7, 2016</div><div>Billions. With a B.</div><div> science-climate-environment</div><div>CLIMATE CHANGE CURRICULUM K-12 EDUCATION</div><div>Portland, Oregon school board prohibits classroom materials on climate change skepticism</div><div>COLLEGE FIX STAFF •MAY 22, 2016</div><div>Science.</div><div>
</div><div>CLIMATE CHANGE FREE SPEECH</div><div>The push-back against attempts to punish ‘heretical’ views on climate change begins in earnest</div><div>DAVE HUBER - ASSISTANT EDITOR •APRIL 16, 2016</div><div>Government efforts to find wrongdoing is 'an abuse of process,' and mocks First Amendment protections.</div><div>
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</div><div>CLIMATE CHANGE</div><div>Professor debunks claim fossil fuels damage planet</div><div>
</div><div>AAYUSHI MADANI - UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN •MARCH 26, 2016</div><div>The truth about oil and coal ...</div><div><b>
</b></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><b>There’s more trees and animals on the planet today than ever before thanks to fossil fuels</b>, a professor told a room full of University of Michigan students Wednesday.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Many assign blame for deforestation and animal extinction on fossil fuels, when in reality most of it occurred well before the widespread introduction of oil and coal use, said</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Dr. Pierre Desrochers, associate professor of geography at the University of Toronto and senior fellow at the Center for Industrial Progress.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">The guest lecturer came as some students <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26714/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">demand</a> the public university divest from companies that profit from fossil fuels, calling such divestment a moral choice and way to fight climate change.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">But Desrochers — invited to campus to argue the “Moral Case For Fossil Fuels” — said divestment would cause more problems and solve few, if any.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">He told the 125 or so students in the audience that before the development of fossil fuel use, animals were slaughtered on a massive scale for food, clothing and many other uses, and forests were razed for wood. In fact, possibly as much as 90 percent of animal extinction and deforestation appeared before the introduction of fossil fuels, he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">But the use of coal and oil reversed that trend, he added, noting coal helped replace firewood and charcoal in many instances. Moreover, tractors were invented, producing food faster and more efficiently. Forest cover, which had been decreasing until then to make way for farmland and for wood to supply fuel, started increasing from 12 percent to 24 percent, he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">“We produced a lot more food on a lot less land after carbon fuels,” Desrochers said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/25649/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">RELATED: Professor warns students: Planet on verge of global apocalypse due to human activity</a></strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">The talk went largely without incident despite the fact that campus flyers touting the guest lecture were <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26714/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">vandalized repeatedly</a> leading up to the event.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">
But the only outburst during the talk came from a student who shouted out that Desrochers was attempting to commodify black lives. The comment was made as Desrochers discussed a problem in Africa in which its residents largely rely on a domestic food supply, leading to a chronic state of undernourishment and ultimately deaths in the poverty-stricken continent.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Ultimately, the expert said, fossil fuel divestment proponents are willing to sacrifice companies’ dividends that support their universities and the financial aid they supply to low-income students. Yet, he said, these same protesters are rarely willing to live the change they wish to see in the world.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">It’s consumers who actually burn the most fuels. The process of extraction, processing and transportation represents only 20 to 30 percent percent of emissions, whereas consumers shoulder 70 to 80 percent of emissions, he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">“We abolished slavery; apartheid was abolished,” he said. “So if fossil fuels are so bad, why don’t we boycott them? We realize that boycotting fossil fuels might involve some real sacrifices. Now I have not heard of any fossil fuel activist make any real sacrifices, so how can they tell us to?”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Yet the divestment movement has seen a success at several colleges, such as Georgetown, Stanford and University of Washington. To what end?</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">The divestment movement only targets publicly traded companies, which produce a tiny amount of carbon fuels. The larger global players are privately traded companies, and thus the divestment movement has no effect on these as they are not traded on the stock market, he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Fossil fuels aren’t the hideous monsters they are presented to be, he argued. In fact, the increasing use of fossil fuels since the 1850s is in tandem with an increase in life expectancy of people in both developed and developing nations, increasing from 28 years in 1820 to 71 years in 2000, on average. This is also paralleled with an increase in body size and standard of living over the years, he added.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Fossil fuels also help deliver foods faster and farther than ever before, fighting poverty and hunger and helping economies thrive, he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Carbon fuels led to railroads, which can carry enormous loads of food over long distances. Now each region, instead of trying to feed itself, specializes in creating what its best at, making food affordable and increasing prosperity and development, he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">In the past, “backyard chickens were not a lifestyle statement; it was a necessity,” Desrochers said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">He also dismissed the notion that fossil fuels lead to global warming.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">“Climate changes all the time,” he said.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Meanwhile, even University of Michigan President Mark Schlissel has dismissed students’ pleas to divest from fossil fuels, telling protesters in a <a href="https://president.umich.edu/news-communications/on-the-agenda/addressing-climate-change-as-a-powerful-community/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">statement</a> that while he appreciates their “commitment and passion,” their request is not “linked to immoral and unethical actions and ideologies.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">“Fossil fuels enable us to operate the university, to conduct research and to provide patient care,” he said. “At this moment, there is no viable alternative to fossil fuels at the necessary scale. In addition, most of the same companies that extract or use fossil fuels are also investing heavily in a transition to natural gas or renewables, in response to market forces and regulatory activity.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://xn--more%20cli-fi%20in%20the%20college%20classroom-il42atb:%20Great%20(and%20not-so-great)%20climate%20doomsday%20stories/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">RELATED: More ‘cli-fi’ in the college classroom: Great (and not-so-great) climate doomsday stories</a></strong></p></div><div>---</div><div>
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">A video of the June 2 event shows Yiannopolous enter the venue in a police outfit costume with a hot pink “penis gun” in his holster. As some in the crowd cheered, he proceeded to pretend spank a person wearing an Obama mask with a fake baton to kick off the festivities. Another person in a Donald Trump mask said “Obama, you’re fired!” Prior to the event, some College Republicans handed out pacifiers to students upset Yiannopolous visited the campus.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Campus officials allegedly imposed the sanction after they learned Yiannopoulos, who sings the praises of Donald Trump, was to be invited back to the campus this fall by the group. UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman is no fan of Trump, and the school leader even sent an email to the entire campus community – professors, students and employees – to denounce Donald Trump’s call to halt Muslim immigration in December.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">As for the latest development, campus spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon told The College Fix via email that UCI College Republicans still maintain all other privileges afforded registered campus organizations, but the sanction against them was handed down because the group failed to provide proof of insurance for Yiannopoulos’ private security firm for his June 2 “Dangerous Faggot Tour” visit.</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">MORE: Fire alarm pulled during anti-PC documentary at UC-Irvine, canceling event</div><div style="text-align: left;">
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">“This is a requirement for all registered campus organizations,” Lawhon said, adding “the revocation of privileges to reserve space has been imposed on other registered campus organizations that fail to provide adequate information regarding their events.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">“We take very seriously the safety and security for all students and community members,” she continued. “Our policies and procedures are designed to minimize physical risk associated with hosting events on campus. We also take very seriously the right of College Republicans and a wide variety of student groups to host events and speakers representing a diversity of ideas and perspectives.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">MORE: UC Irvine welcomes ‘political prisoner’ involved in cop killings</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Not so, said Peter Van Voorhis, vice president of the College Republicans at UCI, who told The College Fix on Tuesday that UC Irvine has a “horrendous record of protecting the rights of conservative students.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">“Administration has been incredibly difficult in terms of funding and event planning,” he said. “They use every method possible to shut us down and they continually try to cut our funding.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">MORE: UC Irvine chancellor condemns Trump in email to campus</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Van Voorhis said the sanction came down after administrators learned the group was planning to bring Yiannopolous back to the campus, likely this fall.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>
</b></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>“Time and time again they deny equal funding and equal protection to conservative groups,</b>” he said. “They only enforced an outdated and ambiguous rule when we made it clear that we were planning another large event with Milo Yiannopolous. This is academic McCarthyism at its highest level, and we will not tolerate it.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">MORE: Pro-Israel UC Irvine event shut down by SJP activists</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">UCI College Republican President Ariana Rowlands told<b> Breitbart News</b> the official reason campus officials gave for the sanction does not ring true because “the group previously hosted <b>conservative pundit David Horowtiz</b>, who also required private security, but the group were never asked to provide an insurance certificate, and were not penalised for not doing so.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Ironically, in introducing Yiannopolous at the June 2 event, Van Voorhis said one of the reasons UCI College Republicans brought the controversial firebrand to the campus was because “<b>we are tired to school administrators continuing to trample on the rights of conservative students to speak their minds.”</b></div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">In the wake of the decision, <b>Reason associate editor</b> Robby Soave points out that the “university has the right to create rules in order to facilitate safe and productive speaking events. It may also punish students for breaking these rules, as long as it enforces them fairly, without consideration for the ideological views of said students. I’m not sure what happened here, but if I were a university administrator, I would be reluctant to make life difficult for a student-group for an entire year because of a mere paperwork mix-up.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Correction: An earlier version of this story stated the sanctions against the UC Irvine College Republicans effectively meant they could not host large events on campus through spring 2017. Campus spokeswoman Cathy Lawhon, in an email to The College Fix, stated<b> they still can host events</b>: “There are huge venues available on campus to College Republicans that don’t have to be booked through Student Center and Events Services. … The Bren Events Center holds 8,000 people. That’s not under the purview of Student Center and Events Services. There are also auditoriums and large classrooms that are rented directly by the schools.”</div><div style="text-align: left;">
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</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colleges and universities would have to tell their students in writing that they are presumed innocent when accused of sexual misconduct, under a <a href="http://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/CEFTA-6.16.2016.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">sweeping model bill</a> offered by a due-process advocacy group.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dubbed the Campus Equality, Fairness, and Transparency Act (CEFTA), the bill would largely overturn the regulatory apparatus that has governed campus sexual-misconduct proceedings since the Department of Education’s 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter, <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27886/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">now the subject of litigation</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though CEFTA is written for introduction in Congress, its author – Stop Abusive and Violent Environments – <a href="http://www.saveservices.org/sexual-assault/cefta/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">wrote</a> that it could be modified for the state level as well.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill would codify the Supreme Court’s 17-year-old definition of “sexual harassment” (<a href="https://mainweb-v.musc.edu/vawprevention/policy/daviscase.shtml" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Davis v. Monroe</span></a>), which is much narrower than that mandated by a “<a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/13503/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">blueprint” document</a> issued by Education and the Department of Justice in 2013.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27886/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: Accused student sues the feds to end ‘unlawful’ investigations</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It would require schools to give both accusing and accused students their own “confidential advisor” for the adjudication process.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That person would walk the “complainant” (accuser) through “remediation options” such as schedule reassignment and informal resolution processes, but also</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: italic; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" em="em" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">explain that the institutional disciplinary proceedings have limited jurisdiction, scope, and available sanctions, and should not be considered a substitute for the criminal justice process, and that the failure to allow the collection and preservation of evidence by law enforcement may limit the complainant’s future options.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The advisor for the accused student would walk that person through</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: italic; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" em="em" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">procedures for obtaining investigatory reports and evidence that may be used in the disciplinary proceeding, potential sanctions, possible interim measures, and options for obtaining counseling or academic assistance and legal advice.</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27697/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: Lawyer for me, not for thee in campus rape investigation</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In perhaps the biggest change from today’s average campus investigation, the model bill would put investigators under strict rules for how they handle cases:</font></p><blockquote style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px; border-width: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); font-style: italic; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" em="em" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" quotes="quotes" none="none" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“make reasonable efforts to contact all potential witnesses, not just those recommended by the complainant or accused student”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“seek to gather and disclose both inculpatory [confirming] and exculpatory [exonerating] evidence”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“thoroughly document and/or videotape all communications with potential witnesses, evidence collected, and interviews conducted, which shall be made available to the complainant and accused prior to any institutional disciplinary hearing”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: normal; font-stretch: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“not serve as victim advocate, prosecutor, adjudicator, or appellate adjudicator for the same case”</font></p></blockquote><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill would put a strict firewall between different roles in an investigation. That means the same person could not serve as, say, victim advocate and investigator, or adjudicator and “appellate adjudicator,” in the same case.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/13503/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: New sexual harassment rules alarm free speech advocates</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In another major change, students would have the option of hiring lawyers who could actively represent them, and accused students would be told what they are accused of – including the “factual information” about the incident – within 48 hours of an investigation starting.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(A <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27697/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">recent lawsuit</a> against Lynn University alleged the school deprived the accused student of a lawyer while his accuser brought a veteran litigator.)</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Though it does not mandate a standard of proof – “preponderance of the evidence” has been enforced by the Department of Education since the 2011 letter – the bill said the standard should be “consistent” with local laws.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The evidence standard “shall” also fit with “the severity of the alleged sexual conduct violation and the potential penalties” – suggesting that the threat of expulsion would carry a higher evidence standard, and that expulsion would be off the table in cases where consent was not clearly revoked.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The bill would also order schools to focus on reducing sexual violence “associated with alcohol and drug abuse,” by issuing policies that address standards of conduct; penalties for breaking the law and campus rules; health and safety risks of substance abuse; alcohol effects on judgment and risk-taking; and counseling or treatment options for students.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Finally, schools would be required to “make a good faith attempt” to enter into a memorandum of understanding with local law enforcement.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.saveservices.org/wp-content/uploads/CEFTA-6.16.2016.pdf" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Read the model bill</a> and <a href="http://www.saveservices.org/sexual-assault/cefta/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">SAVE’s summary</a>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27129/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: Student accused of rape – over his sex partner’s protests</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">not a student?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> grep piper:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="il" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Greg</span><span noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> spent several years as a technology policy reporter and editor for </span><a href="http://www.warren-news.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" background-color="background-color" opacity="opacity" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Warren Communications News</a><span noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> in Washington, D.C., and guest host on C-SPAN’s “</span><a href="http://series.c-span.org/Series/The-Communicators/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" background-color="background-color" opacity="opacity" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">The Communicators</a><span noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.” Previously he led media and public relations at Seattle’s</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> </span></span><a href="http://www.discovery.org/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" background-color="background-color" opacity="opacity" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat" rgb="rgb">Discovery Institute</a><span noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, a free-market think tank.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span class="il" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Greg</span><span noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> is developing a Web series about a college newspaper, COPY, whose pilot episode was a semifinalist in the TV category for the</span><a href="http://www.scriptapaloozatv.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" transition="transition" color="color" s="s" background-color="background-color" opacity="opacity" rgb="rgb" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat">Scriptapalooza</a><span noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" line-height="line-height" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"> competition in 2012. He graduated in 2001 with a B.A. from Seattle Pacific University, where he co-founded the alternative newspaper PUNCH and served as a reporter, editor and columnist for </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" px="px" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><a href="http://www.thefalcononline.com/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Falcon</a>.</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">===</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px none; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Title IX changes mean cases are decided on ‘flimsiest of evidence’</font></strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two months after it <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/26879/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">announced a search for a plaintiff</a> to sue the Department of Education over its enforcement of Title IX, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has found its man: a former University of Virginia law student.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit filed in D.C. federal court Thursday names both Office for Civil Rights (OCR) chief Catherine Lhamon and Education Secretary John B. King as defendants.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It challenges OCR for issuing a “Dear Colleague” letter in 2011. That “unlawful” letter forced colleges to change their Title IX procedures around sexual harassment and assault complaints – in particular a lower evidence standard – or risk losing their federal funding.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The core of the dispute is whether OCR violated the Administrative Procedure Act by not asking for public comments on its proposed guidance, which the lawsuit contends does not have the force of law otherwise. The Dear Colleague merely asked those “interested in commenting on this guidance” to contact the department after it was issued.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27153/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: Lawmaker sues the feds for exceeding authority in rape rules</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“OCR has taken a ‘shoot first, ask questions later’ approach, and it has managed to empty more than a few magazines before being challenged about whether it is even allowed to do so,” reads the suit.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At least <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27129/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">two</a> <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27153/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">separate</a> lawsuits filed since FIRE’s announcement in April have squarely challenged the legality of OCR’s 2011 letter.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Innocent under the old system, guilty under the new</font></strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The lawsuit lays out changes made by several universities in response to direct threats from OCR years after its Dear Colleague was issued. Both <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/19170/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Princeton</a> and <a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20650/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">Harvard Law School</a> dumped their “clear and convincing” evidence standards, for example.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">FIRE chose to sponsor the lawsuit by former UVA law student “John Doe” because his verdict was determined by the preponderance-of-evidence standard mandated by OCR, Susan Kruth, a FIRE senior program officer for legal and public advocacy, told <span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The College Fix</span> in a phone interview Thursday.</font></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/27129/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: Student sues the feds to overturn Title IX rape rules</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January a UVA adjudicator found that “Jane Roe,” who claimed she was intoxicated during a 2013 sexual encounter with Doe, was unable to give “effective consent.” Roe herself had made the accusation a year and a half after the encounter.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Throughout the university investigation, Doe maintained the woman had consented to sex, and that she did not show any signs of intoxication, much less that she was “incapacitated” – the legal standard for inability to consent.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The retired judge who served as adjudicator in the investigation called the case “very close” and “very difficult,” suggesting repeatedly that she was wary of the preponderance standard. She said both the clear-and-convincing standard – used by UVA before the Dear Colleague – and the “reasonable doubt” standard “would tip the scale much more” in Doe’s favor</font></p><div data-twitter-event-id="0" class="SandboxRoot env-bp-350" style="direction: ltr; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1.4; white-space: initial; position: relative; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: initial;"><div class="EmbeddedTweet EmbeddedTweet--mediaForward media-forward js-clickToOpenTarget js-tweetIdInfo" data-click-to-open-target="https://twitter.com/JohnKingatED/status/709523746999177217" data-iframe-title="Twitter Tweet" data-dt-full="%{hours12}:%{minutes} %{amPm} - %{day} %{month} %{year}" data-dt-months="Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec" data-dt-am="AM" data-dt-pm="PM" data-dt-now="now" data-dt-s="s" data-dt-m="m" data-dt-h="h" data-dt-second="second" data-dt-seconds="seconds" data-dt-minute="minute" data-dt-minutes="minutes" data-dt-hour="hour" data-dt-hours="hours" data-dt-abbr="%{number}%{symbol}" data-dt-short="%{day} %{month}" data-dt-long="%{day} %{month} %{year}" data-scribe="page:tweet" data-tweet-id="709523746999177217" id="twitter-widget-1" data-twitter-event-id="2" style="overflow: hidden; cursor: pointer; border: 0px; border-radius: 4px; max-width: 520px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" lang="en"><div class="EmbeddedTweet-tweet" style="padding: 14.4px 20px 11.6px; border-style: solid; border-color: rgb(225, 232, 237); border-width: 0px 1px 1px; border-radius: 0px 0px 4px 4px;"><blockquote class="Tweet h-entry js-tweetIdInfo subject expanded

                   is-deciderHtmlWhitespace" cite="https://twitter.com/JohnKingatED/status/709523746999177217" data-tweet-id="709523746999177217" data-scribe="section:subject" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none;"><div class="Tweet-header u-cf" style="position: relative; padding-left: 45px; margin-bottom: 14px; white-space: nowrap;"><div class="Tweet-body e-entry-content" data-scribe="component:tweet"><ul class="Tweet-actions" data-scribe="component:actions" role="menu" aria-label="Tweet actions" style="margin: 8.4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--heart web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=709523746999177217" data-scribe="element:heart" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" white-space="white-space" initial="initial"><ul class="Tweet-actions" data-scribe="component:actions" role="menu" aria-label="Tweet actions" style="margin: 8.4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; border: none;"><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" line-height="line-height" px="px" white-space="white-space" initial="initial"><br /></span></ul>he judge said she was required to apply “the weakest standard of proof” because of OCR – a condition that weighed “[f]irst and foremost” in her finding that Doe was responsible for assault.</span></a></font></ul></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a class="TweetAction TweetAction--heart web-intent" href="https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=709523746999177217" data-scribe="element:heart" style="text-decoration: none; outline: 0px; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The case was so close that the adjudicator handed down an unusually mild sanction against Doe: four months of counseling and a lifetime ban from UVA, a sentence reached in consultation with the university’s Title IX coordinator.</font></a></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/20650/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: Harvard Law caves to feds, adopts low evidence standard</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doe was nonetheless harmed even before the investigation ended: His diploma was withheld for nearly a year and his anticipated employer withdrew its employment offer pending completion of his degree.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although Doe has since received his law degree, he has yet to become a member of the Virginia state bar and “cannot support himself” financially, according to the suit.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">‘Widespread and well-documented’ criticism of OCR</font></strong></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because the Dear Colleague was issued as a “significant guidance document” it should not have the force of law, though OCR has made it a de facto mandate through its use of warning letters to schools that didn’t comply right away, FIRE says.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Following the law isn’t optional, and discontent with the 2011 ‘Dear Colleague’ letter is widespread and well-documented,” FIRE Executive Director Robert Shibley said in a<a href="https://www.thefire.org/former-uva-student-challenges-unlawful-sexual-misconduct-mandate-federal-lawsuit/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;">statement</a>&nbsp;released alongside the lawsuit on Thursday.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“A growing number of innocent students have been trampled in the wake of these new requirements,” the lawsuit&nbsp;says. Cases are often decided against the accused on the “flimsiest of evidence.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It’s a big step challenging the federal government but it is an important one because they are overreaching … to violate students’ rights,” Kruth told&nbsp;<span style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: oblique; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; background-repeat: no-repeat;">The Fix</span>.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><twitterwidget class="twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered" id="twitter-widget-1" data-tweet-id="709523746999177217" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: static; line-height: 16px; visibility: visible; display: block; transform: rotate(0deg); max-width: 100%; width: 500px; min-width: 220px; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;" /></p><p style="text-align: left; box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;"><a href="http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/19170/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-repeat: no-repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">MORE: Princeton forced to lower evidence standard in rape cases</font></a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px 0px 26px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 28px; font-family: " noto="Noto" serif="serif" georgia="georgia" font-size="font-size" rem="rem" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" color="color" rgb="rgb" text-align="text-align" center="center" background-color="background-color" background-repeat="background-repeat" no-repeat="no-repeat"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Mark Schierbecker is a senior at the University of Missouri. He is a free-speech activist, atheist activist and independent journalist. He recorded a&nbsp;</span><a href="https://youtu.be/xRlRAyulN4o" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 22px; vertical-align: baseline; transition: color 0.2s, background-color 0.2s, opacity 0.2s; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: no-repeat;">viral video</a><span style="line-height: 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;of students and faculty preventing journalists from documenting protests that led to the resignation of University of Missouri System President Timothy Wolfe. The video received over 2.7 million views on YouTube and launched a national conversation about freedom of speech on campus.</span></font></p></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></div><div><table class="table table-bordered" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 847px; max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221); line-height: 20px; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><thead style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box; text-transform: capitalize; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><th class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; border-width: 0px 1px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">#</font></th><th class="sortable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; border-width: 0px 1px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><div class="t" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; width: 311px; height: 27px;"><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Donor</font></div><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><div class="btn-group-vertical" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: right; margin-left: 5px;"><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="donor_name ASC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 3px 3px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="donor_name DESC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: -1px 0px 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-down" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button></div></div></div></th><th class="sortable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; border-width: 0px 1px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><div class="t" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; width: 236px; height: 27px;"><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recipient</font></div><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><div class="btn-group-vertical" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: right; margin-left: 5px;"><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="recipient_name ASC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 3px 3px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="recipient_name DESC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: -1px 0px 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-down" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button></div></div></div></th><th class="sortable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; border-width: 0px 1px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><div class="t" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; width: 82px; height: 27px;"><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amount</font></div><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><div class="btn-group-vertical" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: right; margin-left: 5px;"><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="contribution ASC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 3px 3px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="contribution DESC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: -1px 0px 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-down" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button></div></div></div></th><th class="sortable" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; border-width: 0px 1px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><div class="t" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table; width: 55px; height: 27px;"><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Year</font></div><div class="tc" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; overflow: hidden;"><div class="btn-group-vertical" style="box-sizing: border-box; position: relative; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; float: right; margin-left: 5px;"><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="year ASC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 3px 3px 0px 0px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-up" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button><button class="btn btn-plain" type="submit" name="order_by" value="year DESC" style="font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 8px; margin: -1px 0px 0px; overflow: visible; cursor: pointer; display: block; vertical-align: middle; touch-action: manipulation; border: none; white-space: nowrap; padding: 0px; border-radius: 0px 0px 3px 3px; -webkit-user-select: none; position: relative; float: none; width: 9px; max-width: 100%; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="fa fa-angle-down" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; text-rendering: auto; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; transform: translate(0px, 0px); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font></button></div></div></div></th><th class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.2em; vertical-align: middle; border-width: 0px 1px 2px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-right-style: solid; border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Link</font></th></tr></thead><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">1</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donors-capital-fund/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donors Capital Fund</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$100,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/dtdcf140044/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donors-capital-fund/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donors Capital Fund</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$165,600</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2014</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/dtdcf140266/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">3</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donors-capital-fund/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donors Capital Fund</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$100,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2013</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/dcf2013079/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">4</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donors-capital-fund/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donors Capital Fund</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$165,600</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2013</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/dcf2013199/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">5</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/the-lynde-and-harry-bradley-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2013</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/brad16187/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">6</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donors-capital-fund/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Donors Capital Fund</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$100,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/dcf2012403/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">7</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/the-lynde-and-harry-bradley-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2012</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/brad15609/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">8</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/searle-freedom-trust/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Searle Freedom Trust</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$100,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/1480339searle-freedom-truststudent-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">9</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donorstrust/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DonorsTrust</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$165,600</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/donorstrust11486/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">10</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donorstrust/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DonorsTrust</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$96,903</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/donorstrust11485/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">11</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/donorstrust/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">DonorsTrust</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$100,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2011</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/donorstrust11484/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">12</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/joyce-and-donald-rumsfeld-foundation/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Joyce and Donald Rumsfeld Foundation</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$500</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/1441797joyce-and-donald-rumsfeld-foundationstudent-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">13</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/searle-freedom-trust/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Searle Freedom Trust</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$100,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2010</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/1478608searle-freedom-truststudent-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">14</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/searle-freedom-trust/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Searle Freedom Trust</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/recipient/student-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Student Free Press Association</font></a></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">$75,000</font></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">2009</font></td><td class="text-center" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 8px; text-align: center; line-height: 1.42857; vertical-align: middle; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);"><a href="http://conservativetransparency.org/transaction/1478498searle-freedom-truststudent-free-press-association/" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none;"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">+</font></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Milo Yiannopoulos</b>&nbsp;(<span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap;"><span class="IPA nopopups"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" title="Help:IPA for English" style="text-decoration: none !important; background: none;">/<span style="border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted;"><span title="/j/ 'y' in 'yes'">j</span><span title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/ primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'n' in 'no'">n</span><span title="/ɒ/ short 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="'p' in 'pie'">p</span><span title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ə/ 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span></span>/</a></span></span>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-2" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_language" title="Greek language" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Greek</a>:&nbsp;<span lang="el">Μίλων Γιαννόπουλος</span>&nbsp;<i>Milon Giannopoulos</i>; born 18 October 1983)<sup id="cite_ref-age_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-age-3" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;is a British journalist and entrepreneur. Yiannopoulos founded&nbsp;<i>The Kernel</i>, an online tabloid magazine about technology, which he sold to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Dot" title="The Daily Dot" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Daily Dot Media</a>&nbsp;in 2014. He rose to notability in late 2015 when he began to provide media coverage and commentary surrounding the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy" title="Gamergate controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Gamergate controversy</a>. He is the technology editor for&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Breitbart.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Breitbart.com</a>, a conservative news and opinion website based in the United States.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><div id="toc" class="toc" style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); padding: 7px; display: table; zoom: 1; background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);"><div id="toctitle" style="direction: ltr; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2 style="margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border: none; display: inline; line-height: 1.3; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contents</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2>&nbsp;<span class="toctoggle" style="-webkit-user-select: none;">&nbsp;[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#" id="togglelink" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">hide</a>]&nbsp;</span></div><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Early_life" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Early life</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Education" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Education</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Career" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Career</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#The_Telegraph_Tech_Start-Up_100" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;"><i>The Telegraph</i>&nbsp;Tech Start-Up 100</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#The_Kernel" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;"><i>The Kernel</i></span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Gamergate" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Gamergate</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Breitbart_Tech" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Breitbart Tech</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Yiannopoulos_Privilege_Grant" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3.4.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant</span></font></a></li></ul></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Media_coverage" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Media coverage</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Other_activities" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Other activities</span></font></a><ul style="list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 2em; padding: 0px; list-style-image: none;"><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-11" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Feminism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.1</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Feminism</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Judaism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.2</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Judaism</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#The_Dangerous_Faggot_Tour" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.3</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">The Dangerous Faggot Tour</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#Social_Media" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">5.4</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Social Media</span></font></a></li></ul></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#References" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">6</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li><li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-16" style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#External_links" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><span class="tocnumber" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">7</span><span class="toctext" style="display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">External links</span></font></a></li></ul></div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Early life</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos' stepfather is an architect.<sup id="cite_ref-Ng_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Ng-4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;The Jewish magazine&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tablet_(magazine)" title="Tablet (magazine)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tablet</a></i>&nbsp;wrote that Yiannopoulos has "recently taken to claiming, when it suits him, matrilineal Jewish heritage... [though he] identifies religiously as Catholic".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Education"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Education</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos attended the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Manchester" title="University of Manchester" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Manchester</a>, dropping out without graduating.<sup id="cite_ref-tab_6-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-tab-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;He then attended&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfson_College,_Cambridge" title="Wolfson College, Cambridge" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wolfson College, Cambridge</a>&nbsp;where he studied&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_literature" title="English literature" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">English literature</a>&nbsp;for two years before dropping out.<sup id="cite_ref-forbes_7-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-forbes-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Arthur_8-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Arthur-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;Regarding dropping out of university, in 2012 he told&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Forbes</a></i>, "I try to tell myself I'm in good company, but ultimately it doesn't say great things about you unless you go on to terrific success in your own right."<sup id="cite_ref-forbes_7-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-forbes-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2015, in an article titled "I dropped out of Manchester and Cambridge but it’s honestly fine," he wrote that he didn't believe a university degree was necessary for success, and that he believed he had achieved success without one.<sup id="cite_ref-tab_6-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-tab-6" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Career</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos originally intended to write&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_criticism" title="Theatre criticism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">theatre criticism</a>, but became interested in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_journalism" title="Technology journalism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">technology journalism</a>&nbsp;whilst investigating&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing" title="Women in computing" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">women in computing</a>&nbsp;for&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Daily Telegraph</a></i>&nbsp;in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_9-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Brown-9" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;He also appeared on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky_News" title="Sky News" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Sky News</a>&nbsp;discussing social media,<sup id="cite_ref-sky_10-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-sky-10" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Breakfast" title="BBC Breakfast" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BBC Breakfast</a></i>&nbsp;discussing&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Pope Benedict XVI</a>'s&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI%27s_visit_to_the_United_Kingdom" title="Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">visit to the United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-papalvisit_11-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-papalvisit-11" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As a gay&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Roman Catholic</a>, Yiannopoulos has debated&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage" title="Same-sex marriage" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">gay marriage</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsnight" title="Newsnight" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Newsnight</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-newsnight_12-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-newsnight-12" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup>&nbsp;and on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_4" title="Channel 4" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Channel 4</a>'s&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_O%27Clock_Live" title="10 O'Clock Live" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">10 O'Clock Live</a></i>&nbsp;with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_George" title="Boy George" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Boy George</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10oclock_13-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-10oclock-13" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup>&nbsp;He later debated singer with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Young" title="Will Young" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Will Young</a>&nbsp;on&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsnight" title="Newsnight" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Newsnight</a></i>&nbsp;on the use of the word "gay" in the playground and&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinchy_Stryder" title="Tinchy Stryder" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Tinchy Stryder</a>&nbsp;on the same programme in May 2014, about copyright infringement and music piracy. In March 2015 he appeared on&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Questions" title="The Big Questions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Big Questions</a></i>, debating on topics relating to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism" title="Feminism" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">feminism</a>&nbsp;and discrimination against&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men" class="mw-redirect" title="Men" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">men</a>&nbsp;in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">United Kingdom</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-14" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[14]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In an articled titled "I’m Sooo Bored of Being Gay", Yiannopoulos writes regarding his sexuality, "I’ll never forget the precise moment I chose to be gay. It was the endpoint in a process of rebellion against my white middle-class parents...Today, thanks to society’s endless mollycoddling and celebration of “alternative” lifestyles, the joy of rebellion is drying up for me. You see, I only plumped for homosexuality to irritate my parents. But now even they are fine with it. A few years ago, my mum said, perhaps cannily, “All I want is for you to be happy. That came as devastating news... Now my gayness was not only roundly applauded by wider society but even my own parents, what was the point?" He concludes: "Since gay people have been so endlessly praised, flattered and catered to by the media and politicians, I’ve lost interest in sleeping with men. I want to feel oppressed again! That’s why, from today, I’m going to make a go of being straight. Wish me luck!"<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-15" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[15]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos has written under the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nom_de_plume" class="mw-redirect" title="Nom de plume" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">pseudonym</a>&nbsp;<i>Milo Wagner</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Arthur_8-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Arthur-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Telegraph_Tech_Start-Up_100"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><i>The Telegraph</i>&nbsp;Tech Start-Up 100</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos organised a method of ranking the most promising technology start-ups in Europe, The Telegraph Tech Start-Up 100, in 2011. It operated through an events company, called Wrong Agency, that Yiannopoulos had started with David Rosenberg, a friend from&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Cambridge University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Cambridge University</a>. The company was dissolved shortly after the ceremony that awarded the top start-up.<sup id="cite_ref-Arthur_8-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Arthur-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;Mike Butcher of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch" title="TechCrunch" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">TechCrunch</a></i>&nbsp;said the main prize had been given to music streaming service&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify" title="Spotify" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Spotify</a>, even though his casting vote had gone to the controversial&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payday_loan" title="Payday loan" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">payday loan</a>&nbsp;company&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonga.com" title="Wonga.com" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wonga</a>, because the Telegraph considered Wonga's reputation objectionable. Butcher wrote that Yiannopoulos "was put in an incredibly invidious position [because] the legitimacy of the methodology behind the judging process ... was sat on, unceremoniously. I don’t think he should take the blame for this at all. He could only do what he could do under the circumstances given [the] overt pressure from his backer. I reached out to him about all this but he’s declined to comment—perhaps understandably."<sup id="cite_ref-techcrunch110517_16-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-techcrunch110517-16" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[16]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Kernel"><i><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Kernel</font></i></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Together with university friends David Rosenberg and David Haywood Smith, journalist Stephen Pritchard and former&nbsp;<i>Telegraph</i>&nbsp;employee Adrian McShane, Yiannopoulos launched&nbsp;<i>The Kernel</i>&nbsp;in November 2011 to "fix European technology journalism."<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-17" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[17]</a></sup>&nbsp;<i>The Kernel</i>&nbsp;was at that time owned by&nbsp;<i>Sentinel Media</i>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2012, the online magazine became embroiled in a legal dispute with one of its contributors after he said it failed to pay money owed to him.<sup id="cite_ref-Arthur_8-3" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Arthur-8" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup>&nbsp;<i>The Kernel</i>&nbsp;closed in March 2013, with thousands of pounds owed to former contributor Jason Hesse when he won a summary judgement from an employment tribunal against parent company&nbsp;<i>Sentinel Media</i>. Margot Huysman, whom Yiannopoulos had appointed associate editor and was one of the people seeking payment, said that many working for the site had been "screwed over" personally and financially.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-18" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[18]</a></sup>&nbsp;Yiannopoulos also threatened, via email, to release embarrassing details and photographs of a Kernel contributor who sought payment for their work for the site and he also accused the contributor of being behind the "majority of damage to The Kernel". The unnamed contributor told the Guardian that the emails had been referred to the police.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-19" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[19]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">German venture capital vehicle BERLIN42 acquired&nbsp;<i>The Kernel</i><span class="nowrap" style="white-space: nowrap; padding-left: 0.1em;">'</span>s assets in early 2013. The website displayed plans for a relaunch in August 2013 with fresh investment and Yiannopoulos reinstated as editor-in-chief.<sup id="cite_ref-sindy_20-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-sindy-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup>&nbsp;BERLIN42 founding partner Aydogan Ali Schosswald would join its newly formed publishing company, Kernel Media, as chief executive. Yiannopoulos personally paid six former contributors money that the defunct company was unable to pay.<sup id="cite_ref-sindy_20-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-sindy-20" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[20]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The&nbsp;<i>Independent on Sunday</i>&nbsp;reported that the relaunched publication, based between London and Berlin, would focus on "modern warfare, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, pornography and space travel" from August, but newsletter&nbsp;<i>The Nutshell</i>&nbsp;would not return.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-21" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[21]</a></sup>&nbsp;In 2014,&nbsp;<i>The Kernel</i>&nbsp;was acquired by the parent company of<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Dot" title="The Daily Dot" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Daily Dot</a></i>, Daily Dot Media.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">After the acquisition by Daily Dot Media, Yiannopoulos stepped down as Editor-in-Chief though he remained an advisor to the company.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-22" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[22]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Gamergate" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gamergate</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Yiannopoulos was responsible for early news coverage of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy" title="Gamergate controversy" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Gamergate controversy</a>, criticising what he saw as the politicisation of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_culture" title="Video game culture" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">video game culture</a>&nbsp;by "an army of sociopathic feminist programmers and campaigners, abetted by achingly&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_correctness" title="Political correctness" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">politically correct</a>&nbsp;American tech bloggers."</span><sup id="cite_ref-bullies_23-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-bullies-23" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[23]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNN_24-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-CNN-24" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[24]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Metro_25-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Metro-25" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[25]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;In December 2014, he announced he was working on a book about Gamergate.</span><sup id="cite_ref-MiloBook_26-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-MiloBook-26" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[26]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As part of his coverage of Gamergate, he published correspondence from GameJournoPros, a private mailing list used by video game journalists to discuss industry related topics.<sup id="cite_ref-Recode_27-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Recode-27" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ihe_gjp_28-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-ihe_gjp-28" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[28]</a></sup>&nbsp;Yiannopoulos said that the list was evidence that journalists were colluding to offer negative coverage of Gamergate.&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-bbart_gjp_29-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-bbart_gjp-29" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[29]</a></sup>&nbsp;Kyle Orland, the creator of the list, responded to the leak on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars_Technica" title="Ars Technica" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Ars Technica</a>. Orland disputed the claim that the list suggested collusion among journalists, but said that he had written a message saying several things that he "soon came to regret".&nbsp;<sup id="cite_ref-ATGJP_30-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-ATGJP-30" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[30]</a></sup>&nbsp;Carter Dotson of pocketgamer.biz said that the list was indicative of an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber_(media)" title="Echo chamber (media)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">echo chamber</a>&nbsp;effect in the gaming press.<sup id="cite_ref-PGB_31-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-PGB-31" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[31]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Ryan Cooper of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Week" title="The Week" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">The Week</a></i>&nbsp;argued that Yiannopoulos "had little but sneering contempt for gamers" beforehand, highlighting Yiannopoulos' comments describing gamers as 'pungent beta male bollock-scratchers and twelve-year-olds' and 'a bit sad'</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Ryan_Cooper_Week_32-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Ryan_Cooper_Week-32" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[32]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-33" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[33]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the controversy, Yiannopoulos said that he received a syringe filled with an unknown substance through the post,<sup id="cite_ref-TechC_34-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-TechC-34" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[34]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-KotakuAU_35-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-KotakuAU-35" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[35]</a></sup>&nbsp;as well as a dead animal.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In May 2015, a meetup in Washington D.C. for supporters of Gamergate arranged by Yiannopoulos and&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christina_Hoff_Sommers" title="Christina Hoff Sommers" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Christina Hoff Sommers</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;was targeted by a bomb threat made over Twitter, according to the local police responding to information supplied by the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">FBI</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-36" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[36]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Similarly, three months later, an event with</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Professional_Journalists" title="Society of Professional Journalists" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Society of Professional Journalists</a></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in August 2015 was also targeted by bomb threats, forcing the evacuation of an event with Yiannopoulos and Sommers.</span><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-37" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-38" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[38]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-39" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[39]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-40" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[40]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Breitbart_Tech"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Breitbart </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Tech</span></font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In October 2015, the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breitbart_News_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Breitbart News Network" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Breitbart News Network</a>&nbsp;placed Yiannopoulos in charge of its new "Breitbart Tech" section, which he said will "be free speech central—and we'll talk about stuff people really care about: Freedom, free speech, love, sex, death, money and porn." The site has six full-time staff, including an&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esports" class="mw-redirect" title="Esports" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">esports</a>&nbsp;specialist.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-41" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[41]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-42" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[42]</a></sup></font></p><h4 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 22.4px; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Yiannopoulos_Privilege_Grant" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant</font></span></h4><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2016, Yiannopoulos co-founded the Yiannopoulos Privilege Grant with Margaret MacLennan, “a scholarship exclusively available to white men who wish to pursue their post-secondary education on equal footing with their female, queer and ethnic minority classmates.”<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-43" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[43]</a></sup>&nbsp;The grant plans to disburse 50 grants of $2,500 to disadvantaged young men to assist them with their tertiary expenses, starting in the 2016-17 academic year. 100 grants of the same amount will be dispersed in the second year, and 200 in the third.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-44" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[44]</a></sup>&nbsp;Discussing the grant on his Twitter, Yiannopoulos cited statistics that men only make up 43% of the USA's college students,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-45" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[45]</a></sup>&nbsp;that women perform significantly better than men at many levels of education,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-46" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[46]</a></sup>&nbsp;and that "women's advantage in graduation is evident at all socioeconomic levels and for most racial and ethnic groups"<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-47" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[47]</a></sup>&nbsp;as reasons for his grant, and personally contributed a significant amount of the funds himself.</font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to the charity,&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Times" title="International Business Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">International Business Times</a></i>&nbsp;journalist Tom Mendelsohn labelled Yiannopoulos a "troll" and stated that the journalist's "scheme" was "designed to derail social progress both by fanning the flames of controversy over the tiny efforts of redress certain institutions are making towards women and minorities, and by attempting to return power to whites." Mendelsohn also claimed that the grants were unnecessary due to the large number of other scholarships available for white men, and the wealth of the white male demographic in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-ibtimes.co.uk_48-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-ibtimes.co.uk-48" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup>&nbsp;After receiving substantial media attention on platforms such as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed" title="BuzzFeed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BuzzFeed</a><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-49" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[49]</a></sup>&nbsp;and<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Business_Times" title="International Business Times" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">International Business Times</a></i>,<sup id="cite_ref-ibtimes.co.uk_48-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-ibtimes.co.uk-48" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[48]</a></sup>&nbsp;the Privilege Grant's official website was temporarily taken down due to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack" title="Denial-of-service attack" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DDoS</a>&nbsp;attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_50-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-:0-50" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup>&nbsp;Addressing his attackers on Twitter, Yiannopoulos stated "I started a charity to help poor kids get to college. Response from progressives was to call me a racist, DDoS the site. They’re wonderful."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_50-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-:0-50" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[50]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Media_coverage"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Media coverage</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos was twice featured in&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_UK" title="Wired UK" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Wired UK</a>'s</i>&nbsp;yearly top 100 most influential people in Britain's digital economy: At 84 in 2011<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-51" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[51]</a></sup>&nbsp;and at 98 in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-forbes_7-2" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-forbes-7" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-52" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[52]</a></sup>&nbsp;He was called the "pit bull of tech media" by Ben Dowell of&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Observer</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-observer_53-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-observer-53" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[53]</a></sup></font></p><h2 style="font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(170, 170, 170); line-height: 1.3; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Other_activities"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Other activities</font></span></h2><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yiannopoulos hosted the Young Rewired State competition in 2010, an initiative to showcase the technological talents of 15–18-year-olds,<sup id="cite_ref-msn_54-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-msn-54" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[54]</a></sup>&nbsp;and organised The London Nude Tech Calendar, a calendar featuring members of the London technology scene to raise money for Take Heart India.<sup id="cite_ref-calendar_55-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-calendar-55" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[55]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He organised the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonwalk_(dance)" title="Moonwalk (dance)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">moonwalk</a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob" title="Flash mob" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">flash mob</a>&nbsp;tribute to&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Michael Jackson</a>&nbsp;in London's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_Street_station" title="Liverpool Street station" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Liverpool Street station</a>&nbsp;shortly after&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Michael_Jackson" title="Death of Michael Jackson" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Jackson's death</a>&nbsp;in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-moonwalk_56-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-moonwalk-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup>&nbsp;He explained that the idea of a flashmob as a tribute to Jackson was originally a humorous suggestion on Twitter, but then decided to make it happen, inviting people via social networking websites.<sup id="cite_ref-moonwalk_56-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-moonwalk-56" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[56]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Feminism" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Feminism</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2007, he self-published two collections of poetry. A self-professed "proper nut-job groupie" fan of pop singer&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariah_Carey" title="Mariah Carey" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Mariah Carey</a>, in 2014, he wrote a column<sup id="cite_ref-BI_57-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-BI-57" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[57]</a></sup>&nbsp;for<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Insider" title="Business Insider" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Business Insider</a></i>&nbsp;explaining why he flew to Berlin to purchase Carey's album,&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me._I_Am_Mariah..._The_Elusive_Chanteuse" title="Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Me. I Am Mariah... The Elusive Chanteuse</a></i>&nbsp;five days before it was available in the UK and US.<sup id="cite_ref-gawker_58-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-gawker-58" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[58]</a></sup>&nbsp;In December 2014, he wrote a widely read two-part article entitled "The Sexodus: The Men Giving up on Women and Checking out of Society," detailing how the effects of third wave feminism have harmed gender relations and caused young millennial men and boys to stop dating women and drop out of society.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-59" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[59]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In October 2015, Yiannopoulos and feminist&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Bindel" title="Julie Bindel" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">Julie Bindel</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;were scheduled to participate in the&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Manchester" title="University of Manchester" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">University of Manchester</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Free Speech and Secular Society's debate ′From liberation to censorship: does modern feminism have a problem with free speech?′, but the student union banned Bindel, then later also Yiannopoulos.</span><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-60" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[60]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The union cited Bindel's comments on&nbsp;</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">transgender</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;women and Y</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">iannopoulos' opinions on&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture" title="Rape culture" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">rape culture</a>, which they stated were both in breach of the union's&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_space" class="mw-redirect" title="Safe space" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">safe space</a>policy</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-61" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[61]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-62" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[62]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In November 2015, Yiannopoulos was scheduled to give a talk at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Bristol University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Bristol University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-63" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[63]</a></sup>&nbsp;After protesters attempted to have Yiannopoulos banned from the university, the event was turned into a debate between Yiannopoulos and&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Daily Telegraph</a></i>&nbsp;blogger and feminist Rebecca Reid.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-64" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[64]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Judaism"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Judaism</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2016 on&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rubin_Report" title="The Rubin Report" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Rubin Report</a></i>, Yiannopoulos said that pointing out statistics is not anti-Semitic. He said, in part, "...the Jews run everything; well, we do. The Jews run all the banks; well, we do. The Jews run the media; well, we do… It’s a fact, this is not in debate. It’s a statistical fact... Jews run most of the banks; Jews completely dominate the media; Jews are vastly disproportionately represented in all of these professions. That's just a fact. It’s not anti-Semitic to point out statistics... It's not anti-Semitic to point out that these things are true."<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-65" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[65]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-66" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[66]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Dangerous_Faggot_Tour"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Dangerous Faggot Tour</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In early 2016 as part of his self-titled "The Dangerous&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(slang)" title="Faggot (slang)" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Faggot</a>&nbsp;Tour" he delivered speeches in Universities in North America, including&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University" title="Rutgers University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Rutgers University</a>&nbsp;in February and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pittsburgh" title="University of Pittsburgh" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">University of Pittsburgh</a>&nbsp;in March. In May, his engagement at&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DePaul_University" title="DePaul University" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">DePaul University</a>&nbsp;was ended after twenty minutes when student protesters affiliated with&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter" title="Black Lives Matter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Black Lives Matter</a>&nbsp;stormed the stage at the event.<sup id="cite_ref-Depaulia_67-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Depaulia-67" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[67]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-68" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[68]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-69" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[69]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-70" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[70]</a></sup>&nbsp;Responding to the incident, DePaul President Dennis Holtschneider, apologized in an email for the "harm that was unleashed" by Yiannopolous's appearance on the campus, and also criticized the student protesters for disrupting the event. Attendees of the talk, organized by DePaul's College Republican's Chapter, criticized university police and event security for not removing the protesters.<sup id="cite_ref-suntimes_71-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-suntimes-71" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[71]</a></sup>&nbsp;DePaul university later agreed to reimburse the College Republicans for the costs of event security.<sup id="cite_ref-depaul_security_72-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-depaul_security-72" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[72]</a></sup></font></p><h3 style="margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; border-bottom-style: none; line-height: 1.6; background: none rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="mw-headline" id="Social_Media"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Social Media</font></span></h3><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In December 2015 Yiannopoulos changed his Twitter profile to describe himself as&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzfeed" class="mw-redirect" title="Buzzfeed" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Buzzfeed</a>'s "social justice editor", Twitter briefly suspended him.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-73" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[73]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In January 2016,&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">Twitter</a>&nbsp;removed the blue "verification" checkmark from Yiannopoulos' (@Nero) Twitter account.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-74" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[74]</a></sup>&nbsp;Twitter has a policy of not commenting on individual cases and so has not explained the reason for the removal of verification.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-75" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[75]</a></sup>&nbsp;Some news outlets speculated that Yiannopoulos had violated its speech and harassment codes,<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-76" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[76]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-77" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[77]</a></sup>&nbsp;while others worried that Twitter was targeting conservatives.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-78" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[78]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-79" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[79]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-80" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[80]</a></sup>&nbsp;The controversy brought the journalist increased visibility and an influx of 25,000+ new followers.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-81" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[81]</a></sup>&nbsp;During a debate with Yiannopoulos on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC" title="BBC" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">BBC</a>&nbsp;programme&nbsp;<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Questions" title="The Big Questions" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">The Big Questions</a></i>, journalist Connie St. Louis said the removed verification resulted from Yiannopoulos openly calling for an assassination via his Twitter account.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_82-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-:1-82" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[82]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-83" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[83]</a></sup>&nbsp;St. Louis later issued an apology on the show's official Twitter account, stating "this was incorrect and she apologises for this error".<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-84" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[84]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In March 2016, Yiannopoulos acquired accreditation for a White House press briefing for the first time. Prompted by his recent de-verification by Twitter, Yiannopoulos asked the White House to comment on the free speech stance of prominent social media platforms, arguing in one case, that "Conservative commentators and journalists are being punished, being suspended, having their tweets deleted by Twitter."<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-85" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[85]</a></sup></font></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: 22.4px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">For his criticism of Islam after a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Orlando_nightclub_shooting" title="2016 Orlando nightclub shooting" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">terrorist attack on a gay nightclub</a>, his Twitter account was briefly banned </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in June 2016. After tremendous backlash, his account was restored.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Nolan_2016_86-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Nolan_2016-86" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[86]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Milo_Twitter_Ban_87-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Milo_Twitter_Ban-87" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[87]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;Milo's Twitter account was banned and reinstated a few days later again.</span><sup id="cite_ref-YOU_CAN.27T_STOP_THE_MILO_88-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-YOU_CAN.27T_STOP_THE_MILO-88" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[88]</a></sup><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;The 'Arabic Twitter' sends Milo threats to 'bomb, decaptitave and sodomize' him after his criticism of Islam and its link to the Orlando mass shooting in a gay club.</span><sup id="cite_ref-Milo_2016:_Death_Threats_89-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Yiannopoulos#cite_note-Milo_2016:_Death_Threats-89" style="text-decoration: none; background: none;">[89]</a></sup></font></p></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">==<br />vs LEGIT?<br /><br />About the Student Press Law Center<br /><br />Since 1974, the Student Press Law Center has been the nation's only legal assistance agency devoted exclusively to educating high school and college journalists about the rights and responsibilities embodied in the First Amendment and supporting the student news media in their struggle to cover important issues free from censorship. 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