UNC Under Fire After Professors Threaten To Hold Grades Hostage In Solidarity With Hamas
By: JusticeTristan (The Federalist)
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The University of North Carolina is facing criticism after instructors announced they would withhold grades from students until the school reinstated individuals suspended for pro-Palestinian demonstrations on campus.
On Monday, the university at Chapel Hill confirmed reports of professors punishing students by refusing to submit grades unless the school administration ends suspensions of those who engaged in protests last week. Nick Craig, a local radio host in Wilmington, North Carolina, published a screenshot of a professor's message to students about holding their grades hostage.
"The University has suspended 15 of your and my fellow students for their participation in a peaceful protest calling for UNC to divest funding for Israel's military action against civilians in Gaza," said the unnamed teacher. "In solidarity with these students, I (along with many other faculty, teaching assistants, fellows, and graders across campus) have decided to withhold my reporting of final grades to the Registrar's Office."
BREAKING: A professor at UNC Chapel Hill is apparently going to withhold grades from students if the administration does not unsuspend students who were part of protests last week #ncpol#ncgapic.twitter.com/AdeBA3qca8
— Nick Craig (@nicholasmcraig) May 6, 2024
In a joint statement to The Federalist, UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Chris Clemens and Graduate School Dean Beth Mayer-Davis confirmed the anonymous report posted on X.
"We are hearing concerns from students whose instructors have informed them they will withhold grades as part of a protest," they said. "These students depend on the timely submission of their grades for graduation, jobs, and athletic eligibility, and it is part of the required duties of all faculty and graduate TAs to submit grades by the registrar deadlines."
The administrators said, "The provost's office will support sanctions for any instructor who is found to have improperly withheld grades, but [it] is our hope we can resolve this matter amicably and without harm to students."
UNC faced immediate controversy over faculty threats to withhold grades in solidarity with pro-Palestinian demonstrators, with users on X demanding officials fire instructors participating in the pressure campaign. The school refused to reveal the names of those involved.
If professors at UNC are refusing to issue grades to students, that is fraud, and the university and its professors should be hauled into court and held accountable for it. https://t.co/Fi7RodGGNC
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) May 6, 2024
Demonstrations supporting the Iranian-backed terrorist group defending the Gaza Strip drew national attention last week when members of a school fraternity protected an American flag torn down by terrorist sympathizers. A GoFundMe page set up for the UNC-Chapel Hill chapter of Pi Kappa Phi to reward the brothers with a party raised more than half a million in donations a week later.
One of the best photos of 2024 so far:
Fraternity brothers are pelted by anti-Israel protesters at UNC Chapel Hill while protecting the United States flag as it is re-hoisted following its removal by protesters.
Well done, gentleman. pic.twitter.com/0DiBQcVLBu
— Max Meyer (@mualphaxi) May 1, 2024
"Commie losers across the country have invaded college campuses to make dumb demands of weak University Administrators," the crowdsourced fundraising page reads. "But amidst the chaos, the screaming, the anti-semitism, the hatred of faith and flag, stood a platoon of American heroes."
According to The New York Post, three dozen pro-Hamas demonstrators were arrested in campus demonstrations last week at UNC. On Monday, more than 700 school faculty delivered a petition to university leadership demanding students who were suspended over protests be reinstated and granted amnesty.
Pro-Hamas sit-ins or encampments have been reported across at least 120 universities, causing some to grapple with whether to hold spring commencement ceremonies. Officials at Columbia University, which became the epicenter of the latest antisemitic outbreak last month, announced Monday the school would cancel the traditional grand ceremony for graduates after weeks of sustained protests. Columbia's decision follows the University of Southern California's announcement in April to do the same.
The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that activists have prepared for these demonstrations for months with trainings planned and funded by left-wing groups, some of which have been affiliated with the Communist Party.
"At Columbia University, in the weeks and months before police took down encampments at the New York City campus and removed demonstrators occupying an academic building, student organizers began consulting with groups such as the National Students for Justice in Palestine, veterans of campus protests and former Black Panthers," read the Journal. "Though there isn't a centralized command overseeing the student movement opposing Israel's invasion of Gaza, there are connections between longstanding far-left groups and the protesters."
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One would think that "professors" wouldn't be this stupid. But here we are.
Need to fire the moron activist teachers so that colleges and universities can get back to what they really should be doing which is properly educating students!
Just stop their financing.
Good Grief! Let's keep what one person says in proportion...
Did you even bother to read the article? Notice the plural I bolded for you? It is not just one professor that is making the threat.
You didn't even make it to the second paragraph of the article.
Good grief, let's read the article and learn it is NOT just one individual before trying to dismiss it.........
It's not like those grades weren't paid for.
Time to start putting these professors and students on planes so they can stand together with their brothers in Hamas.
Maybe strap them to the CDS packages of aid being air dropped.
There's a force multiplier of craziness within the left wing bubble of universities.
The Columbia law review is demanding law school exams be cancelled in the wake of the police operation that cleared the university’s unauthorized encampment, saying the "violence" had left them "irrevocably shaken" and "unable to focus." all couched in the usual racialist gibberish of white supremacy and equity.
Lawyers who can't handle the trauma of people being arrested. Next doctors who demand licenses despite not being able to handle the sight of blood.
Fire the professors and replace them with some who understand their job. The Dean should award these students an A
Blessed be the day when molehills are no longer talked of being mountains.
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That's right don't read or try to give an argument a fair hearing.
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Or, people read the article and similar ones like it and know what is occurring in this country and are sick and tired of any unfavorable "news" to the left being dismissed out of hand because...well, liberals.
The argument you are trying to make is equally attributable to the right.
I feel a large majority of Americans can recognize that withholding grades in violation of the university's policies and to the detriment of students isn't fair or something the majority wants no matter how the minority squeals.
Do you not also feel that the article could have been written minus the obvious clickbait descriptives. It is articles such as the above and also many from the left that are adding to the milaise America is currently experiencing.
I fear not only for the sanity of your country but also mine as both the left and the right up here have adopted the same rude paths to a hoped for 'victory' that in all likelihood will be eventually rued. As some sage once put it, "be careful of what you wish for, you might get it".
I am more interested in the facts in the article than I care about how it is written.
if you can dispute any of the facts, do so.