Hwang of Shame: Ex-Student, Kristina Hwang '18, Demands Williams College Fund Leftist Extremism

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - It looks like the Williams College kids are complaining about Maud's most recent email deploring racism in America.

As far as I can figure it out, some of them think they can guilt her into giving away some of the school's vast resources to support their pet political causes. In their view, the wealth of the college has been extracted from the blood, sweat and tears of POC. This is odd, of course, because most of the school's endowment is based on long-term exposure to the stock market.

This is a truism that should cause an epiphany among leftist students. Or should I write ex-students?

One of the key leaders of this effort to shame Maud and perhaps even get her fired is Kristina Hwang '18.  She pronounces her name kur-TAYN HOO-hah. Two years after her graduation, she works as a Research Data Associate at NYU Langone Health.

Her current effort to harvest alumni email addresses and contact information appears to be an illustration of still another truism: "You can take the girl out of the leftist extremist college, but you can't take the leftist extremist college out of the girl.

During her time at Williams College, Kristina Hwang '18 was affiliated with CARE Now. This was a hideously evil organization led by one of the school's most famous hypocrites. The primary leader of the group was Isaiah Blake '21. As you may recall, he is the Williams College student who rose to national attention on the basis of his videotaped, hateful rant against white men on the College Council. He famously said: "Every time to be here is like sucking white dick every fucking day."

"We don’t have dialogue, because every time we try to talk to you we get shut down by the white moderate white liberal bullshit," he said.

Kristina Hwang signed the petition being promoted by CARE Now that was hostile to any effort among the faculty to protect free speech on campus by adopting something like the Chicago Principles.

She was part of a team that won funding from the school’s first Towards Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (TIDE) grants. This was a series of grants of up to $5,000 that went to various Williams College departments, offices, faculty, staff and students. The grant that Kristina Hwang won seems to have foreshadowed her post graduate employment. It was titled “Radical Care: Practices in ‘Alternative’ Healing Towards Inclusion, Diversity & Equity.” The aim of the grant was to bring in outside educators and speakers to campus for three workshops on alternative healing practices.

If you check out her Instagram account -- which is @psyfieri -- you will find links to a Williams College shaming site called tinyurl.com/payupwilliams If you are interested in the full extent of the present (ex-)student online protest, then you can read the full thing below the break. If you are like me, you may want to harvest some of the contact information they share and use it to send your own message condemning the wasting of Williams College funds on organizations which are seemingly indifferent to looting or the murder of law enforcement officers.

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.

Too Many Rules, Too Many White Guys? Williams College Student Leaders Seek to Abolish College Council

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA - For most of the world, the bigoted hate speech directed against white male representatives at the April 9, 2019 Williams College Council meeting illustrated how identity politics has created an environment of open antagonism. For key student leaders, however, that tirade has provoked a sincere desire to scrap the College Council all together.

What would replace it would probably be a new student organization which would limit the influence of white students and allow the no-strings attached distribution of cash grants to black students.

This is, after all, the demand which apparently ignited the angry anti-white tirade in the first place. The complaint of the black students who viciously attacked white male representatives was that being forced to politely ask for money and justify its use was so unfair that it was the equivalent, as Isaiah Black '21, said of "sucking white dick." In this case, Isaiah Blake indicated “We want some money to fucking cook some fried fucking chicken and be niggers.”

In this case, Blake's request apparently violated at least two of the key rules supposed to be enforced by the College Council including stipulations that

1. All events funded by College Council must be free to attend and open to the entire campus.
2. College Council funds cannot be used for personal items, food for non-all-campus events, alcohol & other regulated substances, or direct donations to charity.

From the nature of Blake's comments it is perfectly clear that he was trying to establish a black only event and that the use of the money would be to purchase food for a black only event.

Instead of looking for ways to limit the verbal abuse of white students, a number of student leaders have turned instead to a new approach with would junk the existing bylaws along with the rules and procedures which are in place to avoid self-dealing, corruption, and the misuse of scarce College Council funds. In other words, these student leaders are looking to create a governing system which would resemble the corrupt big city systems which have enriched corrupt black leaders for years.

This development follows years of concern among student leaders over the abuse of CC funds by student groups including groups which stockpiled the money they received instead of spending it as they promised. See,

Transparency in College Council Funding (2011)

In 2018, good government activists on the College Council caught the group's treasurer violating at least three of their bylaws. In response, however, the members of the College Council ended up protecting the feckless treasurer and censuring the student leaders who led the effort to clean up his mess. See,

Following investigation, College Council votes to retain treasurer; censures co-presidents

Predictably, the anti-accountability, anti-rules, anti-CC activists are also worried that having bylaws, rules, expectations and accountability gives too much power the white guys on campus, the ones who - out of common sense not racism - are skeptical of the advisability of giving out large amounts of cash to their fellow students without much oversight. As two leftist student leaders noted earlier this year:

...College Council continues to reproduce the biases of the administration. For instance, last week, College Council engaged in blatant anti-Blackness disguised as strict adherence to constitutional rules and bylaws. When Black femme organizers requested funding for Previews programming aimed at creating space for Black pre-frosh, they were met with an onslaught of questions. This interrogation fixated on the presumed exclusivity of Black Previews and failed to reckon with the fact that Black Previews is not about exclusivity, but about inclusivity and belonging. Black students have taken on the extra labor to independently fill a gap in Previews programming that the administration and Office of Admission has overlooked. Notably, the barrage of questions came primarily from white men and non-Black members of color on College Council. 

As the school year progresses, readers of Williams Liberty are advised to look out for changes in student government which would increase the likelihood of corruption, that is practices which would make it easier for students to line their own pockets with money that is supposed to go for activities which benefit the entire campus. In particular, they should look out for practices which are disguised as beneficial to the community which, instead, provide opportunities for students to spend CC resources on themselves by prohibiting standard accountability measures including collecting receipts, sticking to request guidelines, and following the CC's bylaws and procedures.

Unfortunately, traditional anti-corruption measures are now seen as "anti-Blackness." This attitude is supplemented and encouraged by the post-modern view that corruption is perhaps just as good as clean government. Clean government is seen as a white cultural attitude which has no more authority or moral standing that the idea that it is okay to loot public or government resources to benefit one's own race or oneself.  In this context, the misappropriation of student funds may be interpreted as a means of creating equity, that is taking resources from whites and giving it to blacks as a matter of justice.

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.