https://blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/31/uchicago-blocks-seniors-from-graduating-over-pro-palestine-protests/
Four seniors will not receive their diplomas until complaints of "disruptive conduct" are resolved, but officials won’t say what violations the students committed. Commencement is Saturday.
UChicago administration needs to have their paychecks withheld until the seniors graduate. They need to do their job; no hand outs to lazy UChicago admins if folks did the work and dont graduate.
Sorry but why are all these uni’s so against protesting to end a genocide?
Isnt learning to better ourselfs the goal of uni…Im sorry i almost pissed myself laughing…. No mostly for football and money. Still tho..
Because their endowments have massive amounts of money tied up in Israeli stocks and bonds.
Source?
I highly doubt university endowments are heavily leveraged in such a small sector of the global economy. That would be recklessly undiversified for any portfolio and, well, stupid.
However, I would not be surprised if a significant number of their wealthy donors got mad about the protests. A lot of elites seem to have put their blinders on after October 7 and divorced themselves from the current reality on the ground.
While UChicago is home of the first Heisman Trophy winner and was a founding member of the Big 10 conference, football is definitely not what the Maroons are known for.
It's not like universities like U Chicago and Harvard were opposed to genocide and segregation when it happened on this continent.
“The origin narrative of the University of Chicago does not begin with John D. Rockefeller in 1890. It does not even begin in the city of Chicago. It actually begins on a 3,000-acre cotton plantation in Lawrence County, Mississippi. Hundreds of enslaved African American men, women, and children lived and died on that plantation to make the University of Chicago, and its $7 billion endowment, possible. The University of Chicago refuses to acknowledge this part of its heritage.”