The Amazing Bolt-Cutting Wielding Professor of Political Incorrectness By James Reed

     I like this story, a lot:
  https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-professor-johns-hopkins-student-protest-fired-bolt-cutter-20190811-5khyw4amwvfphoduanytuiifzy-story.html

“A Johns Hopkins University associate professor has been fired for attempting to break up a student protest with bolt cutters. Daniel Povey — who until recently was a research professor at the Baltimore school’s Center for Language and Speech Processing, part of the university’s Whiting School of Engineering — reportedly acted because he feared that his research stored on servers cut off by the protest would be lost. The dust-up occurred in May between Povey and students protesting the school’s relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a state legislature bill that enabled Johns Hopkins to create an armed police force on campus. Students were in the middle of a month-long sit-in that shut down Garland Hall, Johns Hopkins’ main administrative building, which housed servers containing the research of several people, including Povey, according to The Baltimore Sun. On May 1, the protesting students “locked down the building, chained the doors shut, covered the windows and forced the administration building to close during the final week of the university’s spring semester,” The Sun reported.

Povey was supposed to maintain servers for the university’s Center for Language and Speech Processing, housed at Garland, and the sit-in’s escalation prevented him from doing so. Fearing for the research after two servers failed, he stormed the building by using bolt cutters on May 7, according to The Sun. After a fight, he was thrown out of the building. In his termination letter, which Povey posted online, Johns Hopkins officials told him he had been “clearly and repeatedly instructed” not to enter Garland Hall because it was closed. “You acted in deliberate defiance of the administrations directives,” wrote faculty vice dean Andrew Douglas in the letter. “You have flagrantly and unapologetically violated JHU directives and your actions have endangered the University community. Further, you stated you feel no remorse or regret for your actions.” While the termination is effective Aug. 31, Povey already has another job, he wrote in a lengthy counterpunch to the administration’s position, alleging that he as a white male was being discriminated against. Moreover, he said, there was a “double standard” in his firing versus, as he put it, no consequences for the protesters, who he said were mostly African-American, though “there may have been a white trans person in the core group.” The protest was cleared by police on the same day as Povey’s move, The Baltimore Sun said, with several arrested. Povey was suspended a few days later. The termination letter was sent Thursday. Hopkins spokeswoman Karen Lancaster told The Baltimore Sun that “the safety, security, and protection of our students and others are of paramount importance to the University.”

     Hopefully the professor will be taking legal action to protect his rights. This shows how far the universities have gone, and I can see no way back from this level. That is why the world-wide movement to close them down, started right here, is advancing day by day.