Who Is This Mystery Professor? She Threatened Violence If Williams College Adopted the Chicago Principles

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - Williams College biology professor Luana Maroja saw her colleagues behaving badly at a meeting meant to discuss bringing the Chicago free speech principles to campus on November 15, 2018. She wrote about her alarming experience that day in "Freedom of Speech at Williams College: Art the Walls Closing In," an article which first appeared in Jerry Coyne's blog, "Why Evolution is True" on November 29, 2018. Maroja wrote:

While most professors at the meeting were highly supportive of free speech and many sent me grateful emails, I was shocked at the behavior of some of my colleagues. For example, one professor turned to the students and said that they should read the names missing from our list of signatories, as “those were professors that were with the students” (an appalling tactic that created an “us vs them” atmosphere).

Even more appalling than this divisiveness was a threat of actual Antifa-style violence. "Another professor," Maroja said, "stated that she was involved in creating violence in UC Berkeley for Milo Yiannopoulos’s disinvitation and would be ready to do the same at Williams."

Here's my quesiton. Does anyone know the name of that professor?

I'm assuming a lot of people know exactly who Luana Maroja is talking about. There were a number of professors at this meeting and a number of students as well. Maroja, so far, has declined to name the mystery professor. Nevertheless, we do have some interesting clues.

Obviously, we know the suspect is most likely a woman and we can guess that this woman was most likely someone who was at UC Berkeley around January, 2017. Although I'm not an FBI profiler, I think it is reasonable to assume that the mystery professor is someone who is still fairly young, someone who has a grudge, who has poor impulse control, and perhaps has a history of aggressive campus activism. All in all, it is hard to imagine we are talking about an older person when we think about running along with the Antifa crowd.

If you know the name of the mystery professor for sure, then please call me at 949-338-5921 or send an email to johndrew25@msn.com.

I'd be happy to do some research about them. What disturbs me the most about this professor is that her willingness to engage in violence is potentially dangerous to students and other faculty members. Secondarily, I'm concerned that the sight of a Williams College professor willing to threaten violence to stop free speech sets a bad example for student activists and may, in fact, have encouraged the ugly behavior we was during the last school year, particularly the bigoted, anti-white tirade which disrupted the College Council meeting on April 9, 2019.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

Burn the Bylaws: Williams College Students Criticize College Council

WILLIAMS COLLEGE, MA - Samuel Wolf at the Williams Record penned an interesting article about the recent town hall event conducted by the College Council. The purpose of the town hall was to gain input regarding the future of the student organization. The results were both appalling and disturbing.

Adam Jones ’21, a Marine Corps veteran, took issue with College Council 

at its October 22, 2019 town hall. 

It turns out that one of the students most adamant about abolishing the College Council is an impressive, ex-military student named Adam Jones '21. Jones has a spectacular military record. Prior to coming to Williams College, Jones served as a Battalion Gunner's Aide in the 2nd Battalion 8th Marines. “Disband yourself,” he said. “Apply your efforts and your talents to things that matter on this campus. Force this institution to pay for the labor that you provide. And form an organization that serves as a forum – a forum – a place for ideas to be discussed, not decided on. An organization of 40 will never have the mandate to decide the issues of a campus of 2,200. So don’t kid yourself.”

Jones also suggested that student representatives were foolish for doing what they did because their work amounted to unpaid labor on behalf of the college.

Jones' excellent advice was spurned, however, Suiyi Tang ’20 who has described herself elsewhere as a queer, feminine Asian American. Hailing from Communist China, Tang serves as the Co-Chair of the Minority Coalition at Williams College, a group which also dishes out money but with less strings attached and only to minority students. “Whatever we work for should be with the goal of increasing student autonomy, rather than ceding it,” she said. Tang, along with Isaiah Blake '21, was a leader of the CARE Now group which opposed efforts to bring to Williams College freedom of speech protections similar to the Chicago Principles. Her aim appears to bring some of the same stifling social control that afflicts her native land into the United States.

Another defender of the College Council was Joseph Moore '20 who last year distinguished himself as one of the representatives who was most aggressively opposed to allowing a Jewish student organization Williams Initiative for Israel (WIFI) to gain status as a recognized student organization. “It looks like any potential reform of CC that takes the shape of more involvement by admin is going to deepen our lack of autonomy and make it even harder to resist the administration,” Joseph Moore ’20 said. The alarming decision to deny WIFI official status brought immediate negative attention to the college and resulted in a decision by the administration to strip the CC of its power to approve student organizations.

The event also demonstrated the continuing efforts to undermine the status of young white men on the campus. As far as I can tell, no one complained, for example, about the disturbing anti-white and anti-male comments of a black student, Emmanuel Copeland '23. “My fear is about turning over things like the budget to the administration,” she said. “We already know that most of the admin are white and male, and that doesn’t fix the problem of CC being white and male. You’re just giving it to white male middle-aged people.”

To her credit, however, Copeland eventually figured out that it was a mistake to say that "most of the admin are white and male." In a later communication with the Williams Record, Samuel Wolf reports that Copeland noted that she had fact-checked her statement and found that the administration has a fairly balanced ratio of women and men but that “the administration aren’t racially diverse at all.” It is difficult to underestimate the crowds' negative reaction if the roles were reversed and a white student said that the problem of the CC was that is was black and female.

Another black student, Morgan Whaley '20, asserted that student representatives should be paid for their work. “There’s a lot of unpaid student labor on campus,” she said. “For the administration to see institutions like CC or JAs [Junior Advisors] or housing as such integral parts of the tradition of this college, but then also not [care] about the students who actually run those, I think is problematic.”

According to the report in the Williams Record, both Joseph Moore and Suiyi Tang expressed concerns about the schools new, tighter restrictions on student protests. Surprisingly, support for the public safety aspects of these restrictions came from Landon Marchant '20. Marchant is a female student who now wants to be seen and treated as if she were a man. Her story is particularly interesting because she used to serve in the military in the U.S. Air Force, mainly as welder-machinist. Like Jones and Moore, she came to Williams College after studying at a community college. Thanks to the Trump administration, people with her odd behavior are now banned from openly serving in the military.

“If somebody’s protests are going to interrupt my ability to have a safe, stable life, both at Williams and afterwards, I actually do have a problem with that,” she said. “I respect your free speech. I have a very big problem with you removing my ability to function as a human who also believes in the same rights and dignities that you deserve.” It may be that you can take the girl out of the military, but you can't take the military out of the girl.

One of the students who appears most open to ignoring or destroying the bylaws which govern the distribution of money to students groups is CC Co-President Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí ’20. Born in Mexico, Cabrera seems clueless about the impression he leaves as he apparently seeks to bring to the U.S. the same dysfunctional values which characterize Mexican politics. In an earlier interview, he reported, “When I was a rep, I would chant, ‘Burn the bylaws!’”

Speaking about the WIFI scandal, he responded, “I think that this whole situation kinda reflects on how limiting it can be to operate a student representative body with a set of rules. The student body changes entirely every 5 years… Every 5 years, different priorities and different expectations come in … I think this whole situation was an example of us running into an outdated document.” With leaders like this, I can understand why so many students also voted to seat Papa Smurf.

According to Cabrera-Lomelí, the next steps may include “forming an independent commission of students that will research, design, and present a series of concrete reforms and/or a future alternative to CC to present to the Council and the student body by Winter Study.” 

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

Press Record: Williams College CC Townhall Reveals Alarming Extent of Open Animosity Against White Male Students

WILLIAMS COLLEGE, MA - This week's Press Record podcast was a frightening revelation of the extent to which the campus climate is overwhelmingly biased against white men. At a special townhall meeting, members of the beleaguered College Council solicited comments from a crowd of about 40 students - many of whom were reportedly drinking beer or White Claw ® which is a hard seltzer that combines seltzer water, gluten free alcohol, and a hint of fruit flavor.

The most vocal complaint was that the College Council had too many whites on it and that too many of those whites were men. This complaint is similar to an earlier complaint by black student activist Isaiah Blake '21 who famously complained that following established procedures and CC's rules is "like sucking white dick everyday." Part of the problem, as I see it, is that black students like Blake have been requesting funds for what appears to be personal consumption expenses at black only events. Both personal use of funds and socially exclusive use of funds violate CC expectations.

This policy, enforced by the white male students, interferes with Blake's request: "We want some money to fucking cook some fried fucking chicken and be niggers for once."

Consistent with Williams Liberty's earlier prediction that black students would be pushing for more free money some participants in the townhall meeting went so far as to say that black and low-income students should be paid to sit on the student council. One student yelled out that the existing arrangement was "...bullshit, unfunded labor..." This trope was part of a common theme scene at Williams College and elsewhere in which black students assert they deserve more financial resources (free money) to compensate them for the extra costs they supposedly take on by simply being black in a predominately white institution.

There were calls, as well, for the CC to abolish itself. However, even this suggestion was used to further debase white men. It was even suggested that little progress would be made if the students transferred power from white male student leaders on the CC to white male administrators. Listening to the broadcast, it is clear that demonizing young white men is the order of the day at Williams College. Creating a hostile, anti-white male climate appears to be socially popular and informally enforced.

Personally, I found the comments at the townhall were chillingly reminiscent of the vicious anti-white tirade directed against white male students at the April 9, 2019 College Council meeting.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

WIFI Scandal Results in Williams College CC Loss of Power to Approve Student Groups

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - It looks like the most interesting Williams College news is now coming from the interviews done on the Press Record podcast.

In this latest podcast, Rebecca Tauber '21 interviews College Council (CC) co-president Ellie Sherman '20. Sherman reveals a number of interesting things that haven't gotten much attention in the Williams Record including a nascent movement for the CC to abolish itself. You can hear the whole podcast along with its nifty jingle by clicking on the link below.

https://soundcloud.com/williamsrecord/101119-restructuring-college-council

Most alarmingly, Sherman interprets the bigoted anti-white male tirade that marked the April 9, 2019 CC meeting as merely a conflict over funding for Black Previews. In contrast, most of the world saw this as an egregious example of the sort of anti-white harassment that is apparently routinely dished out to, and passively accepted by, white male students at Williams College.

Sherman indicates that a campus poll revealed that the student's top demand of the CC was the call for the abolition and restructure of the CC itself. Sorting through the code words, it looks like the aim of the abolition and restructure effort is to further advantage black students seeking free money by loosening the rules for obtaining funding and reducing the power of the white males who have apparently been standing in the way of dishing out the free money. According to Sherman, the CC is already working with "consultants" on this issue.

From the context of her comments, it is clear that these consultants are seeking ways to advantage black students like Isaiah Blake '21 who demanded money for a Black Preview event which would allow him and his associates to "fucking cook some fried fucking chicken and be niggers for once." Blake's complaint was that he did not like having to ask for this money, asserting it "is like sucking white dick every fucking day."

Apparently, Sherman and her fellow leftists fail to see that the CC would be better off hiring consultants to advice them how to properly conduct a meetings, maintain order, and implement thoughtful measures to guard against corruption. The CC, after all, has been the scene of highly questionable financial dealings in the past regarding the hoarding of CC money by student organizations and the failure of its treasurer to properly handle the CC's financial arrangements last summer.

Later, Sherman indicated that the CC had completely lost its power to approve or disapprove student organizations after the massive conflict over the approval of a student group called Williams Initiative for Israel which resulted in a Title IX investigation of Williams College.

The Press Record podcast also included some of the comments from anonymous students. They were asked what should be the biggest priority of the CC? The answers were interesting:

"Allocating funds."

"Rewriting the bylaws."

"CC should focus on abolishing itself. Rebuilding its foundations to be better in the future." 

"I want them to equally fund all student groups."

"Inclusion and diversity. No diversity, equity." 

"Abolish CC" 

"What does CC stand for?"

Clueless in Williamstown: Leftist CC Members Ask What's Wrong with Us?

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - The Williams Record printed a brief statement from the Executive Committee of the Williams College Council which displays the profound degree to which student leaders have failed to learn from their self-made disasters last semester including allowing CARE Now activists to brutally demean white male representatives, discriminating against a Jewish student organization on political grounds, and allowing its members to vote secretly whenever the going got tough. Impervious to reality, the authors of the article seem to completely miss why the CC was subject to massive, national level, negative attention last semester.

The article goes off track almost immediately by failing to recognize that the leftist ideologues who dominate the CC are completely responsible for their own failures, failures which, predictably enough are simply the negative consequences of their own leftist ideology. Instead, the student leaders blame an amorphous "system".

...these problems are not something new. They come up each semester, regardless of who is serving on Council. The issue couldn’t be clearer: CC’s troubles are larger than any one person. They are rooted in its own rules and structure.

Oh, please. Where in the rules and structure does it suggest it is okay to verbally humiliate white male representatives as occurred at the famous April 9, 2019 CC meeting? 

What was so alarming about that effort is that the student representatives failed to protect the white students from the bigoted tirade directed at them by Seyi Olaose '22 and Isaiah Blake '21. Instead, the CC's response then, and now, appears to be that this racist, anti-white, verbal tirade was justified because of they way the CC considers requests from black students. Nonsense. No one should be harmed with verbal abuse. There should be absolutely no tolerance for it. No one deserves it. No one at all. 

In a shocking display of self unawareness, the student leaders assert that they have power on campus apart from the school itself, saying: "We, a small group within CC, may not know the answers to all these questions but what we do know is that the future of student government at Williams will be conceived by its students." Please. Someone on campus needs to educate these privileged kids about reality. The CC is simply, always, a dependent, relatively powerless, toothless organization. It is there to reduce the power of students through co-optation. Simple as that. 

Blind to the causes of its national disgrace, the student leaders of the CC announce they intend to fix their existing problems by doing....wait for it...more of the same! In this case, they plan to reach "...out to members of multiple student clubs that have historically been marginalized by our processes." This excludes, of course, the white male students who have been consistently the targets of abusive practices like affirmative action, vile anti-white ideologues, and biased anti-white professors and staff. 

My prediction. Look forward to a humorous year where the CC does exactly the same things that caused so many problems last year. Also, don't send your precious children to Williams College. If they are there now, find them a better place to grow...somewhere they can thrive.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist and a former Williams College professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.

Accountability for Thee, But Not for Me: Williams Record Admonishes Williams College Council

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - In the Williams Record today, we can find a nifty opinion piece where the unnamed authors ignore the vicious, bigoted abuse of white students on the College Council, while demanding new standards for elected student leaders that the Williams Record would never live up to itself. How charmingly New England...

1. Transparency

For example, there is now a demand for greater accountability from the CC, particularly a call to stop the abuse of power we saw last semester when student representatives took the cowardly approach of discriminating against a Jewish student organization, Williams Initiative for Israel (WIFI), by failing to reveal their vote records. This way student representatives managed to bring negative national/international attention to their decision in a manner which shielded them from appropriate individual consequences.

Pro Tip: The Williams Record should also also list its editorial board members and how they vote on each collective opinion. The current practice of saying that an editorial opinion was the product of a majority of the board members is a subterfuge designed to give each member of the board the opportunity to plausibly deny they supported any particular editorial position. 

2. Diversity and Equality

The major news from last semester was not the process of approving funding for Black Previews. It was the outright, hateful, bigot tirade that two CARE Now black activist students directed again white male students on the College Council at the April 9, 2019 meeting. Watch the video (the shouting begins at 45:00).

The verbal attack on the young white men was so intense that it brought some of them to tears. This display of emotion only emboldened the verbally abusive students. Seyi Olaose '21 used these tears to further the white student's humiliation.

Seyi Olaose: This is white liberal s***.

Isaiah Blake: This is the s***, the tears…

Seyi Olaose: Because nobody wants to talk. Because you had a lot of questions. You had a lot of questions. And I’ve had classes with you. I know what kind of d***heads you are. I’ve had political science with you. It’s s*** that opens up all a yo white moderate f***ing liberal bullshit. I know the type of person you are. So what do you want to say?

The Williams Record conveniently forgets its responsibility to preserve a healthy learning environment for white male students on campus, students who should have never been verbally abused in this manner.

Pro Tip: The Williams Record should start printing up anonymous comments from white students who wish to complain about the way their are being mistreated by members of the administration, faculty and student body. Failing to protect white male students is clearly racism by any definition. 

3. Communication

The Williams Record insists The CC site should be updated more frequently to reflect weekly developments. Meanwhile, the paper only reports once a week and censors comments from those it disagrees with including outside political activists.

Pro Tip: The Williams Record should permit its opponents to register their objections to their news articles. This way full communication might be restored...especially for ex-faculty and ex-students who have been harmed by the leftwing bias of the campus.

4. FinCom Reform

The Record wants the student body to elect the members of the committee that approves requests for funding. I assume this is because the FinCom is dominated by white guys. The Record probably thinks fiscally responsible, white men would be less likely to make those decisions if they were subject to direct election. 

Pro Tip: Likewise, the Williams Record should open up the deliberations of its editorial board. In fact, the members of the board should be directly elected by the students. The editorial board should be expected to behave in a manner more consistent with its own seemingly Maoist ideology. 

5. Acknowledging Mistakes and Revising Policy

The Williams Record asks the CC to correct some of its "mistakes" while ignoring the most glaring, alarming mistakes which caught national attention. There is no suggestion that the CC should properly and accurately record its minutes, enlist a Sargent-at-Arms to police their meetings, or follow its own bylaws for the achievement of a quorum. The CC meetings I watched last semester were poorly led, poorly policed, and conducted with little attention to the CC's own, written rules and regulations. This is an affront to anyone with a sincere interest in democratic governance. It also opens up members of the CC to public ridicule for their fecklessness and inexperience with obvious political norms. 

Pro Tip: The Williams Record should follow its own procedures and immediately do everything in its power to make the campus more hospitable for white male students, Republicans, Jews, and conservatives. This means appointing conservative columnists, developing positive stories about the white race and its cultural achievements, protecting pro-Israel students from physical threats and verbal abuse, and providing opportunities for conservative students, faculty and alumni to add their opinions and recommendations in a fair and balanced manner within each article. 

The most significant question on campus is whether or not the Williams Record has the guts needed to apply the standards it expects of the CC to itself. Does it, in the end, do the right thing or not? 

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is a former Williams College political science professor. He is an occasional contributor at American Thinker, Breitbart, Front Page, PJMedia and WND.