Today I learned that UNC has "a far-right white nationalist campus group." One second later, I learned that our provost, Chris Clemens, used to be their sponsor. www.dailytarheel.com/article/2024...
UNC's Graduate and Professional Student Government passed two no-confidence resolutions for UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts and Provost Chris Clemens in a meeting Tuesday evening.
Correction on this: I believe this is a *former* campus group. Clemens did sponsor it, though. Further details below, including quotes from Clemens. bsky.app/profile/malm...
Yesterday, I learned that our Provost, Chris Clemens, used to sponsor a nativist student group. From 2009. "He told the Indy he 'hesitated at first,' due to Matheson’s focus on immigration, before sponsoring the group to foster a 'diversity of opinion.'" indyweek.com/news/orange/...
A new student group at UNC-Chapel Hill that decries “radical multiculturalism” and “mass immigration”and whose faculty sponsor, ironically, is married to a Hispanic womanwill host former U.S. Congress...
😳 Related, Adam Burston has a chapter in this new book (in which I also have a chapter) about campus conservative groups and radicalization. Nowhere near as extreme as what it sounds like is happening at UNC, but still:
Yuccccck.
Sadly, not surprised about Clemens
That's bad
Reading the entire DTH article...the perspective of the Undergraduate student government is different and they give some good reasons why they don't support the resolutions,
Disgusting.