Meanwhile UVM to enforce policy violations among pro-Palestine demonstrators
by Guy Page
A black woman who is also the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations has apparently been disinvited to speak at the 2024 University of Vermont graduation commencement ceremony later this month.
In a letter sent Friday to the UVM community, President Surimesh Garimella announced that Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, will not be the commencement speaker. The letter also stated that UVM will also take action against the pro-Palestine demonstrators encamped at UVM, many of whom have criticized the selection of Thomas-Greenfield:
“The demonstration has been continuously in violation of university policies since its inception. Those who continue to violate UVM policies do so intentionally despite having been given the opportunity to express themselves within campus rules. Therefore, regrettably, appropriate student conduct processes have been initiated for those who have persistently violated university policy.”
Garimella did not specify whether the decision was UVM’s or the ambassadors, but he stressed that grads deserve a graduation weekend free of demonstrations and distraction:
“After their years of hard work and commitment to success, they deserve a weekend of ceremony and celebration befitting their accomplishment. It is with regret that I share that our planned speaker, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, will not be joining us to deliver the Commencement address,” he said.
“First, I want our students to know that I see and hear you. I see you mourn for lives lost in Israel and Gaza. I hear your calls for peace and a just end to the current unrest in the region. I hear your frustration with foreign policy decisions. I see your efforts to bring attention to your viewpoints and to make your city and your university safe places of which you can be proud. The voices of our community are as diverse and powerful as the issues are complex and heavy. I hear you all. I, too, wish for an end to these seemingly intractable disputes and hope that would bring us all some measure of comfort and restore our sense of security and community.
“Second, I want to share my perspective on the demonstration at Andrew Harris Commons. Since it took root, I have been very clear with my colleagues in university leadership that we should take every reasonable step to help student demonstrators understand the safety risks that attend with so-called encampments and offer practical solutions for planning a safe and effective demonstration. I also want to ensure that the demonstrators at the site do not unduly disrupt nor target their classmates or other members of the community.
“While I am grateful to the students and university leaders who have engaged in conversation, I note that the demonstration has been continuously in violation of university policies since its inception. Those who continue to violate UVM policies do so intentionally despite having been given the opportunity to express themselves within campus rules. Therefore, regrettably, appropriate student conduct processes have been initiated for those who have persistently violated university policy.
“Student demonstrators must also understand that UVM will not tolerate acts or threats of violence nor targeted harassment of others based on their identity or viewpoint. Such actions will be swiftly addressed to the fullest extent of university policy and the law. There is no room at UVM for antisemitism, Islamophobia or any discrimination based on race, national origin or ancestry.
“There are unlimited ways to express viewpoints without targeting others. I am proud of our faculty and staff who have modeled these discussions and grateful to our DEI team who have held programs with national experts who have intelligently and sensitively discussed a variety of viewpoints throughout the year.
“Third, we are looking forward to the upcoming Commencement ceremonies and the opportunity to celebrate our 2024 UVM graduates. After their years of hard work and commitment to success, they deserve a weekend of ceremony and celebration befitting their accomplishment. It is with regret that I share that our planned speaker, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, will not be joining us to deliver the Commencement address.
“We’re eager to welcome our Catamount families to campus in a few short weeks to celebrate our newest alumni, and grateful to all of the hardworking staff who help to make the celebration a special one.”
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It would appear we have the wrong leadership at UVM. The style of their approach is to cave. Why pay the big bucks when we can place the children on the board to make the decisions formerly conducted by the adults.
No big dollars shelled out for dysfunctional academia. Protesters get what they want A win -win
I will be interested in what UVM President will actually do with the students who will not stand down. They should be expelled, for breaching UVM code of conduct, and breaking Vermont laws. Time will tell who runs UVM ! Regardless, what happens now? Even if they are arrested, most of us know where that goes with Sarah George leading the charge. Will the protesters be back in 24 hours ? Vermont seem to think we can pick and choose which crimes will be prosecuted and which ones aren’t. Hate crimes, destruction, vandalism, intimidation, is NOT protected by the 1st Amendment (peaceful assembly) because it is NOT peaceful.
The UVM Code of Conduct restrictions on hateful and intimidating speech must have an asterisk, where exceptions are cited for when targeting Jewish persons, whether of Zionist or pro-Israeli belief or of the liberal, self-hating variety. They are all fair game at many of our formerly-esteemed institutions of “higher learning”. Suddenly the campus liberals have re-invigorated free speech.
Perhaps DEI is the problem here, not the cure?
Exactly, and what entities are driving DEI and equity via the Social, Emotional and Learning global initiative? The United Nations and World Economic Forum. There seems to be a crack in the UN, student and university partnership. The student revolutionaries indoctrinated into liberation theology and the theory of Herbert Marcose are rebelling from their masters
I am proud of our students nationwide standing up to the genocide of innocents because a book of fairy tales told a group of people that someone else’s land is theirs.
Human societies are organized by “fairy tales”. The question is whether you get to choose the fairy tale you live by. I like the “fairy tale” that tells me to live a full life with empathy for others trying to do the same. Only one “fairy tale” does that.
The other stuff you said is right though. And a few years ago, cops were kneeling for the stunning and brave students who spoke truth to power. Wierd that today it’s STFU.
The Bible: The most read, scientifically researched & documented, vastly popular historical text in the world. But the rhetoric constantly & repetitively spewed by indoctrinated youngsters is also part of a text as well. Rules for Radicals by Marxist Saul Alinsky. So, it’s just a matter of choice, and the choice of the majority by far is the Bible. Not even close, nor will it ever be.
A thorough study of the history of the region going back 5000 years could be argued that it is a tossup as to whether the land currently comprising the Nation of Israel more belongs to Jew or Moslem. With that in mind, I go by merit to decide who I think is more DESERVING of the land. If one considers overall contributions to the human condition by Jews vs Arabs over history, that discussion begins and ends with the Jewish people.
Chris, like the protesters, you hide behind your first name and they hide behind masks. If you believe so strongly, in your beliefs then stand up for them. Many veterans have made the ultimate sacrifice so you have that right. But like the protesters, I don’t believe you have the courage to do so
question//// what is the shirion collective/// fact or fistion///
At least this President of UVM did not climb a ladder to access his own office to negotiate with the rabble, like a predecessor of his did. He does however have a problem understanding who is in charge of the asylum. Since it is manure spreading season, the clever thing to do would be to hire some local farmers to come to the green with their spraying equipment and provide some needed fertilizing services to feed the trampled grass.
“Death To America!” chant the unpeaceful protestors who vandalize the statues of Founders and light US flags on fire. Now, again, what does that have to do with Palestine & the Islam religion again?
In the end, I think the females fighting for Hamas & Isis ought to definitely take up Iran’s offer & go to university there though. The ONLY foreseeable problem is that as per the Taliban, females ordinarily cannot become schooled beyond 4th grade, can only study arts or humanities and never science or technologies as females don’t possess the intellect, they must realize that their very life is worth, in Blood Money, only half of that of any males’ life and that they must remember that they may never drive, move freely, or speak without a male’s permission at any time.
Otherwise, girls – Enjoy that collegiate experience!!!!!!!!!!
I’m guessing that they don’t want us playing in the sandbox stealing oil in the name of “freedom.” Wouldn’t burn the flag but can’t say I disagree. Lots of Taliban over there in Israel lol. Like usual, please make it make sense.
Stealing the oil or buying it? Saudi’s seem happy with the arrangement they have judging from the number of them buying outrageously expensive stuff across Europe.
??? The government of Iran invited all US Hamas supporting “protesters” to attend university in Iran. Per chance a fact-check on the internet might assist your confirmation of this fact. Israel, contrarily, is regarded worldwide as a democracy, the majority of citizens practice Judaism – not Islam, and thereby Israel has never instituted the Taliban as does Iran. Thereby, your assertions, also known as disinformation, are not factual whatsoever.
This militant form of Islam, that of the Taliban, is however forcibly enforced in Iran and Afghanistan & in other locales wherein Islam is practiced in the Middle East. This too is factual & can be easily verified online. According to the Islamic legal system, “Mohammad” professed that females are intrinsically inferior to males and the citizenry is controlled & subdued, suppressed, & subject to abuse accordingly – part of which is described in my post above accurately and also equally verifiable by perusing the internet & viewing firsthand the prattle emanating from Iran’s “Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution” easily accessed via posted videos online or on television.
Human rights violations in nations that enforce Sharia law are brutal and often murderous & discriminate against & oppress females at every life stage beginning in infancy.
As is not typical, please refute provide demonstrable evidence in order to refute such reputed facts and utilize references that confirm such proofs.
And again, do enjoy your collegiate experiences in Iran, girls! Don’t forget your Burkas!
Iran doesn’t “institute the Taliban.” That doesn’t even make sense. Iran is Shia, the Taliban in Afghanistan are Sunni. They don’t play nice, and they have had border clashes as recently as last year.
correction/// what is the shirion collective/// fact or fiction/// you may want to research this//// this may explain some of the current events///
Pardonnez moi. My point was the ludicrousness of Iran inviting students from the USA to study there, in obvious response to Chris’ point that there was no such overture made and which inferred no such massive human rights against females even exist in those parts of the world.
As a female who is more than sympathetic as to the atrocious and abominable treatment females are subjected to in both countries, its laughable that which one indiscriminately murders and rapes females and keeps them in unrelenting bondage is based upon the Taliban and which is based upon sharia law is of import at all is unsurprisingly misogynist in and of itself.
I realize this is likely intended to cause engagement regardless of what Guy is permitting or no longer permitting within the comments, so I’ll just suffice it to state that no matter who is perpetrating what in these terrorist theocracies, both and others are 100 percent guilty of killing and brutalizing women.
S.Lowry: Pardonnez moi, and I’ll pray to Allah (or is Mohammad??) for forgiveness as soon as is possible – yet the entire point was obviously to refute the inference by “Chris” who inferred that the invitation by the “Supreme Leader of the Islamic Resolution” never was an overture whatsoever, and the inference that females aren’t, apparently, actually brutally demoralized, beaten, raped, and murdered routinely in both countries based solely upon the irrefutable fact that radical Islam poses that females are birthed solely to procreate, hold no inherent value, and whose very lives are inferior to the lives of males.
The incontrovertible fact is that females would never be permitted in such universities without the express permission of a male relation and the education of females in either of those rogue, terrorist theocracies & wastelands are virtually non-existent. Further, the terrorist regimes which are responsible for routinely beating, torturing, raping, and/or murdering females in that part of the world based upon their twisted scripts under either sharia law or the taliban is neither imperative nor crucial. Instead, it is merely the horrific human rights violations that these girls & women endure and that keep them enslaved that is the point of my remarks & my highly accurate descriptions of such which are the offenses.
Tragically, instead of condemning the unconscionable treatment that 51% of the population receive at the hands of these ghastly regimes in the Middle East and understanding the preposterousness of the invitation for female American students to complete their “education” at an Iranian institution, it is the clarification of the taliban vs. sharia law that is of imperativeness? If there’s anything that doesn’t make sense here, it’s unsurprisingly the disregard of the point of the post which remains the mistreatment of females.
Again, enjoy your college experience in Iran, gals! And remember…don’t dare reveal a lock of hair…
If you want to make a successful, rational argument, it helps to get your facts straight. And neither one of us cares enough about the cultural issues of Iran or Afghanistan to actually do anything about it. You’re certainly welcome to though, and more power to you.
By the way, exactly where within Israel are there “lots of Taliban” according to “Chris”? Seems like that’s what doesn’t make sense to me, but perhaps clarification of how & where & when the primarily Jewish population in that parliamentary democracy practices that movement might be helpful.
They’re not. It was sarcasm only works when the other person is in on the joke, so my apologies. You are the joke, or at least your working understanding of the Middle East that is. S. Lowry is right. Do you know the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni, or are all Muslims the same to you? Do you think that NO WOMAN in the Middle East has rights? Iranian women had more rights than American women did before we started messing around with their Shah, but wouldn’t know or care. Nuance matters. To educated people at least. I get you’re obsessed with me, but next time, read a magazine or something.
You may not care about what you are mischaracterizing as “cultural” issues in Iran & Afghanistan – but I most assuredly do primarily because they are decidedly not “cultural” issues but, once again, the blatant oppression, physical & mental abuse, rape, and murder of females who comprise the majority of human beings worldwide. While personal disdain of women may lead one to accept and possibly even celebrate the brutal & inhuman treatment of millions of women in countries around the globe, your own severely inaccurate, misinformed, and fallacious statement inferring that such murderous acts are nothing more than “cultural” disparities are not merely irrational, but appalling & but of course, misogynistic at their core.
And again, I reiterate that what I don’t care enough about is merely whether these human rights violations are carried out at the hands of those who enforce either the taliban or sharia law, but only that they continue to be carried out to begin with by both – and the fact that there are, tragically, men residing within the USA who, like the maniacal leaders who actually perpetrate these acts against innocent women in the Middle East, men here who “don’t care enough” about the victims either.
In conclusion, it appears that it is you who hold no understanding or rationality to even broach the topic of human rights violations against females in much the same manner than Chris doesn’t, after claiming that Israel somehow has “lots of taliban”.
And remember pro-Hamas UVM students: Keep that skin & hair covered. After all, in Iran, your intrinsic value is but only half of that of any of the repugnant males who live to dehumanize you. They do persist the world over. Reprehensible, but true.
I said I don’t care enough to _do anything about it._ And neither do you, unless you’d like to sign up for a war with Iran, so drop it with the misogyny talk. You act just like a leftist, accusing anyone you disagree with of -isms, constantly playing the victim while personally attacking others, and attempting to publicly shame as an argumentative tactic. It’s getting old.
Yee-Haw Boys. Looks to me like a little 15 year old girl named Malala Yousafzai shows more courage to the world than do supposedly a couple of adult men on Vermont Daily Chronicle. Contempt for women much or just on here?
Question: Why was Linda Thomas-Greenfield, U.S. Ambassador to the UN, disinvited? Her State Department bio indicates her job is Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of African Affairs since 2013? Her recent “X” posts were celebrating freedom of the press day (lol) and russia, russia, russia – clearly a Biden regime tool. The UN has done little to help Africa, other than destablize it, which is what they do across the globe. I guess that is why Niger has kicked out France and the USA – Here’s a head scratcher, US and Russia forces on the same base? https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-troops-enter-air-base-hosting-us-soldiers-post-coup-niger
UVM is walking very thin lines participating in DEI fraud, pretending to care what students think other parrotting globalist mantras likes climate change, the CV-19 scamdemic, and keeping those endowment trust fund checks flowing in. Follow the money and all roads lead to…….
Interesting times indeed.
By the by, I concur James. But this is really nothing, try reading a few archives of the VDC….they already played their hand way back when.
Holding women accountable and expecting actual equality in light of the request is not misogyny. I’ll agree that Sharia law is, but just like you, I have more immediate concerns to actually act upon.
Lowry: Holding women accountable for what precisely? Some act you participated in and didn’t like the outcome of? Such is life. As far as equality, God bequeathed females with equality, not “males”. It is innate. Thereby, misogyny again rears its ugly head.
I’d recommend a disintereted third party for you to share your woes with as opposed to spreading them on VDC and intentionally antagonizing female posters whom you dont particularly happen to like since they won’t kowtow. Perhaps someone who understands true equity and knows that men prey upon women at least as much as the other way around.
This is a predictably personal response, again with the errant accusation that there was “…some act I participated in and didn’t like the outcome of.” You can’t even imagine that I’m not acting the way that you are, and the projection really shows. But you’re right about one thing- men and women are equally capable of preying upon one another. It’s rather been my main point on the subject since “way back when.”
Actually, my offense at your assertion that women “need” to be held “accountable” (as if that isn’t misogynistic, pompous, & anti-female enough on face value) is not even primarily based upon that condescending quip, but instead I was referencing your former statements on VDC from last year which are easily accessible through an aforementioned archives search and which impugn you in this particular regard. But no matter – yes, men and women have the ability to harm one another and the capability to love & respect one another which is why it is completely senseless to continue to taunt the opposite sex online or anywhere else. It serves no useful purpose, doesn’t right any past wrongs, and certainly does nothing to advance the highly complex interpersonal relationships all human beings often enter into.
Of course you’ve made plenty of condescending remarks about male accountability, and plenty of false, and quite personally insulting accusations about my own, but whatever. 🙄
At least you finally admit that it’s a two way street.
You can have the last word if you like.
Chris: You are unquestionably not the jokester here but rather the joke yourself, as you have yet to even remotely attempt to describe how there are a “lot of taliban” in Israel.
Can you comprehend that Israel is a functioning Parliamentary Democracy? Do you understand that Israel has never condoned or established ANY of the extremist Islamic ideologies into their system of governance? Can you even begin to gain any understanding of my statements wherein I maintain that any & all jihadist’s human rights violators are ONE in the SAME and that these militants ALL abuse, rape, & murder innocent women because of some infraction of their crazed anti-women lawfare that they implement?
And most of all, can you self-reflect just enough to know why you derive such desirous pleasure in chronically attacking almost exclusively female posters who refuse to bow to the sheer lunacy you present as a poster on VDC? It is woefully apparent that you are severely threatened by women in general & even more woefully humiliated by a past VDC poster who commented that “you aren’t very good at this”. You aren’t. But you’re also very obviously very young! So, I’m always seeking to assist youngsters.
But no, there simply are NOT a “lot of taliban” in Israel. Whatever that means. Please do feel free to eventually describe……..
UVT pro-Hamas girls: Again, don’t forget to pack your Burkas…..according to your fellow traveler (look it up) Chris – there are at least as many murderous Taliban hanging out courtesy of Israel in the Holy Land, as there are in EITHER Afghanistan or Iran. So, no need for trepidation. Enjoy your stay!
OK, I guess I’ll bite if you want….what condescending remarks about what “male accountability”? I’d like specifics, especially since my initial postings – prior to you responding to one of my general statements on here – had nothing to do with male/female relations whatsoever. I have no issues with many of my brethren.
More importantly though, I’d still be interested to hear about there being a “lot of Taliban” throughout Israel. Is Netanyahu in on it? Inquiring minds and all that.
OM_G lady, you’re the one who turned this into a gender issue. I just corrected your incorrect statement about the Taliban, and you accused me of supporting rape and abuse. I’m not sure if you’re trolling or just this un-self aware, but if this thing had a block or mute, you’d be on it. And before I leave you to your own devices, here’s a pro tip: if you reply to your own comment to which someone else has replied, your comment will fall under both, and you won’t have to clog up the board with new posts. You’re welcome.
Yet you never “corrected” the male poster to whom I was replying to re: his assertion that there are a “lot of taliban” in Israel, somehow.
You ignored my explanation that I will never “distinguish” nor differentiate between either/any of the militant, murderous Islamic regimes who treat women like chattel in that part of the world as it makes NO difference in the grand scheme of egregious human rights violations.
You made it a point to “correct” me, as you describe it, in a derogatory manner knowing that Guy Page has specifically requested over & over that posters not use denigrating language against other posters.
You do the exact same yet again in referring to me as “lady”, though I’m nearly certain that that point will be met by yet more derogatory statements in turn.
And lastly, I am aware of how to vanquish the “reply” button though I purposely choose not to do so, as unlike others – I obviously have no issue with defending myself or my positions. Some other posters do.
I honestly think you’re just unwell. Have a great life.
/mute
Chris: I’m still awaiting that clarification from you as to where the taliban is apparently embedded in Israel…….and perhaps how you even acquired this “knowledge”?
Ditto. Just realize that when you battle someone who you perceive to be the enemy – the “enemy” sometimes battles back with equal vigor.