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22 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

You know how that one friend of yours decided to suck dick for money?

No?  You don't know about that, because it happened behind closed doors and he kept it quiet?

Yeah.  It's like that.

And yet, you know about him. How is that?

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Just now, Pato del Muerto said:

And yet, you know about him. How is that?

Cuz it always gets out eventually, dude.  I tried to warn you, but you went in there and closed the door behind you anyway.

We know, Pato.  We know.

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This letter from Jim Ryan, who was forced to resign as UVA's President, is something. This paragraph stood out to me and it captures the problem with this "compact."

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Finally, as indicated earlier, the lines between policy and the law have been repeatedly blurred during
this entire episode. The Board and University leaders set policy; the DOJ enforces the law. Too often,
people within the DOJ and on our own Board have implied that if we were following policies that they
did not favor, we were somehow doing something illegal. That is not the case, obviously. DEI, for
example, is not itself illegal. One can do illegal things in the name of DEI, just like one can do illegal
things in the name of promoting viewpoint diversity. But diversity itself, including viewpoint diversity,
is not against the law.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6xW62HI5oZaP15xhmtbaemtBtqrNZR/view

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Why wasn't aggy on the list? They would have signed before the document even arrived. They just banned lessons that might portray white people as bad (slavery, segregation, redlining, etc.), are they putting it out there to get dear leader's attention? They can get that special treatment in federal grant money and buy them some athletes. 

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22 hours ago, 'stache said:

Why wasn't aggy on the list? They would have signed before the document even arrived. They just banned lessons that might portray white people as bad (slavery, segregation, redlining, etc.), are they putting it out there to get dear leader's attention? They can get that special treatment in federal grant money and buy them some athletes. 

 

aggie would lick the orange dumbass's mouth clean after he blew all the guys at the party 

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On 11/14/2025 at 4:18 PM, 'stache said:

Why wasn't aggy on the list? They would have signed before the document even arrived. They just banned lessons that might portray white people as bad (slavery, segregation, redlining, etc.), are they putting it out there to get dear leader's attention? They can get that special treatment in federal grant money and buy them some athletes. 

Because aggy is a pick me and a degree mill. No need to get them to sign a compact incentivizing them to do something they will do for free already. 

Plus, the universities being pressured to accept the "deal" are all widely considered to be good/elite schools by other academics and universities.

UT, UCLA, USC, Cornell, UVA, and/or UNC caving would signal a degree of inevitability and crank up pressure on peer schools to seek and accept their own deal, or risk being punished alone. 

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9 hours ago, tx 3 putt said:

The University of Texas at Austin has named a high-ranking administrator with an extensive history of racially inflammatory statements and support for DEI policies to a committee tasked with overhauling the university’s core curriculum.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/ut-austin-placed-dei-advocate-on-core-curriculum-review-committee/

As first reported by The Texas Horn, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Richard Reddick, who was recently named to a new core curriculum task force, has an extensive history of far-left statements. These include references to the United States’ alleged “white supremacist” founding, comparisons of President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and advocacy for so-called “diversity statements” in hiring.

Reddick’s university biography page confirms that he has published numerous articles in support of DEI and won several awards on the subject.

Most notably, Reddick appeared on a September 2025 podcast on which he framed higher education reformer Christopher Rufo’s efforts, and efforts to dismantle DEI, as “anti-democratic.”

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As first reported by The Texas Horn, Senior Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education Richard Reddick, who was recently named to a new core curriculum task force, has an extensive history of far-left statements. These include references to the United States’ alleged “white supremacist” founding, comparisons of President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, and advocacy for so-called “diversity statements” in hiring.
Reddick’s university biography page confirms that he has published numerous articles in support of DEI and won several awards on the subject.
Most notably, Reddick appeared on a September 2025 podcast on which he framed higher education reformer Christopher Rufo’s efforts, and efforts to dismantle DEI, as “anti-democratic.”

Good.

Though this strikes me as dare I say it - a token appointment - so the rich white guys can keep on twisting their white supremacist, anti DEI campaign to diminish UT from within.
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Nah.  Rich Reddick is a fast riser and growing influence.  Not token.  
 

Also it’s not like it’s hard to interpret the learnings of the author from the tone, but it sort of irks me that they wrote something that is supposed to inform us of this dude and they manage to not use the words “doctor” or “Harvard”

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50 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

Nah.  Rich Reddick is a fast riser and growing influence.  Not token.  
 

Also it’s not like it’s hard to interpret the learnings of the author from the tone, but it sort of irks me that they wrote something that is supposed to inform us of this dude and they manage to not use the words “doctor” or “Harvard”

And how did he get into Harvard and become a "doctor"? Illegal and "racist-against-whites" DEI initiatives. That's how. In fact, there's probably a smart hard working white out there that had his spot at Harvard stolen by that black guy. It's like you're not even paying attention.

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Posted
15 hours ago, Reese Bennett said:

Deadline has now passed and apparently, UT did not respond at all. I think someone in this thread said that is what would happen, so kudos to you.

Better than a kick in the head I guess

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The deadline was extended and UT is fighting to keep its status with the compact secret.  

 

https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/11/19/exclusive-trump-extends-deadline-for-universities-to-sign-higher-education-compact/

 

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/11/21/public-universities-dont-want-discuss-compact

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In response to an Oct. 22 public records request from Inside Higher Ed, UT Austin shared only the initial emails exchanged by federal and university officials inviting the university to consider the compact, a copy of the proposal itself, and Eltife’s statement. The rest it wants to keep private.

UT system officials argued in a letter sent Tuesday to the attorney general’s office that the requested records are protected by attorney-client privilege and should not be disclosed.

 

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1 minute ago, Your Mom said:

Well, there may actually be some legit attorney-client stuff in there - quite a bit, maybe.  When the compact offer/demand came in, I suspect that there were significant conversations with legal counsel regarding risks, repercussions, possible responsive strategies, etc., and a good bit of back and forth on that.

Any communication sent to the Trump administration - a third party - would NOT be privileged.  Now....that assertion of privilege will be reviewed by our Attorney General's office, and that Open Records division is . . . .short-staffed, by woefully inexperienced people (they ran off all the experienced folks) and (this is different than it used to be) much more susceptible to pressure/demands from politicians above than it used to be.  So, that part of the process isn't so great.  But, once they issue their decision and records are withheld, the requestors can appeal that and take it to court for a legit third-party evaluation of whether the privilege actually applies.

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19 hours ago, Reese Bennett said:

Deadline has now passed and apparently, UT did not respond at all. I think someone in this thread said that is what would happen, so kudos to you.

I did. Good for us. This is something that should’ve been totally ignored as is the remainder of this guy’s term. 

1 hour ago, Your Mom said:

Sigh

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What an amazing offer. Sell your university out to wildly unpopular fascists led by a lame duck president with dementia who gained power by deceiving the people and failing to follow through on anything he says. Who is a pedophile and rapist implicated in legal documents. Who just got routed in an off year election and had members of his party in congress stab him in the back recently. 

Or......

Just wait out a year or two of hardship and don't become the cowards who capitulated to pedophile fascists.

Such a tough choice. 

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7 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

What an amazing offer. Sell your university out to wildly unpopular fascists led by a lame duck president with dementia who gained power by deceiving the people and failing to follow through on anything he says. Who is a pedophile and rapist implicated in legal documents. Who just got routed in an off year election and had members of his party in congress stab him in the back recently. 

Or......

Just wait out a year or two of hardship and don't become the cowards who capitulated to pedophile fascists.

Such a tough choice. 

When you realize that our state is run by unprincipled spineless cowards whose sole source of self-satisfaction is punching down.....the conundrum checks out.

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

What an amazing offer. Sell your university out to wildly unpopular fascists led by a lame duck president with dementia who gained power by deceiving the people and failing to follow through on anything he says. Who is a pedophile and rapist implicated in legal documents. Who just got routed in an off year election and had members of his party in congress stab him in the back recently. 

Or......

Just wait out a year or two of hardship and don't become the cowards who capitulated to pedophile fascists.

Such a tough choice. 

I disagree with much of that characterization. But you don’t give people like Trump the time of day. Don’t waste a single second grinding on this. Ignore it. Then, ignore it when he lambasts you in the media, and ignore it when the governor puts pressure on you. 

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