UW-O Rebranding: Equity and Diversity are now called ‘Success and Belonging’
What legislative defunding?
excerpted from The MacIver Institute:
The UW-O Campus Center for Equity and Diversity has just been rebranded as the Center for Student Success and Belonging.
UW-Oshkosh is the first system campus to undertake cost cutting measures to deal with their projected $15 million deficit. Of the 13 universities, 10 are projected to run deficits next year.
There’s no word on how much the UW-O name change cost, but we do know the cost of the 8 DEI staff on the UW-O campus is about $530,000/year. What stuff does the DEI/Student Belonging Center do?
Dan O’Donnell recently reported that in September UW-O hosted a “Don’t Yuk Our Yum” intro to kinks and BDSM at the Campus Center for Equity and Diversity put on by a sex toy store. Specifically, a “mission-driven, education-based sex toy store.”
Also on their docket: Last week’s Sex Ed Olympics with educational activities involving learning to quickly turn a condom into a dental dam, and a couple days later Sex Trivia competition. Last week, they hosted a ‘rage against beauty norms’ event where participants could use a hammer to smash a scale. This week they have training in legislative advocacy for LGBTQ+ Rights and spin on current legislative proposals, a Pride Gala (a celebration of queerness!), and training in LGBTQ History.
Up next month is training on inclusion of LGBTQIA+ students (beyond simply teaching about the ‘many oppressions facing them in a time of rising hate and intolerance’ particularly toward Trans children) by using a multimedia approach to teaching about the joy of LGBTQIA+ identities.
They also have a strong focus on ‘green’ menstrual hygiene, hosting weekly events focused on “environmental and financially sustainable solutions to menstrual hygiene management” and providing “participants who menstruate” (which those who are not gender deniers would call “women”) a sustainable menstrual hygiene kit. This is just the DEI/Belonging center. …
The UW-O and the UW-O Foundation have awarded 20 scholarships to students based on their sexual orientation and ‘identity” – as long as that orientation and identity was not heterosexual or ‘cisgender.’ This year the scholarship is for LGBTQIA+ ‘activists’ which would, on paper at least, not rule out recipients solely based on their gender or sexual orientation.
The LGBTQ+ campus resource center offers, and fundraises on the UW-O website for, the Transgender Courage Fund that provides transgender students – and alumni – grants “in support of affirming transgender identity,” future success, and housing and medical care needs for transgender individuals. Underwear Fitting, Pride Café and the Rainbow FloorUW-O also provides space and support for Gender Outfitters, to give students the ‘ability to access products necessary for gender transition or expression.’ Gender Outfitters offers bras, underwear, chest binders, sizing help, a changing area, safety tips, a ‘safe place’ to send parcels, and financial assistance.
UW-O: Deficits, Protests, Underwear, and Grounds Beautification | MacIver Institute
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What the heck is ‘green’ menstrual hygiene? Asking for a friend.
I plan to attend their meeting (with ostentatious displays of “manspreading”) and announce that I identify as a woman, then watch the ensuing consternation with great glee. As to your question, I suspect it involves the substitution of leaves (rhubarb would work nicely) for tampons.
If you attend, please take copious notes; better yet, livestream it.
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It’s bad enough to have to endure this sort of lunacy at UW-Madison, where it’s to be expected, but when places like OSHKOSH start jumping on the bandwagon (or pridewagon), you know things have gotten well and truly out of hand. How many of the parents whose kids attend this institution (unlike their elite counterparts at Madison) know what they’re paying for?
UNLESS you are a Caucasian, straight, Conservative, employed (or retired) male (genetically confirmed for correct number of X and Y chromosomes), Other than that, everybody is welcome and included.
Anyone who can fog a mirror has always known that Lefty will obsequiously-n-unquestioningly obey their handler’s slightest whim; comically, really.
Lefty’s handler’s GPS is telling it to Redirect. Why? The latter very accurately senses a backlash to the breathtakingly ruinous, despicably anti-social crap (57 genders, hairy guys in little girl’s bathrooms, pushing ROTD, tolerating p!$$!ng and $#!tt!ng in public, Grand Theft Anything, Grooming/Recruiting children, Anti-Semitism, RAYcism, etc.) they’ve been unrelentingly advocating.
As well Lefty should; it’s been met with a refreshing jolt of Whisky Tango Foxtrot.
DIE is on the ropes and suckin’ wind; to wit:
DIE Officers HARM THE STUDENTS THEY CLAIM TO HELP
It gets worse.
Coca-Cola has QUIETLY SCRUBBED bLack LIES Matter from their website.
Think shareholders might wonder how this despicable grift spent the million$ they were given?
Howse about those with stakes in Cisco, ETSY, Grubhub, IBM, Microsoft, Peloton, Shopify, Reddit, etc., etc. etc.?
A Fool And (insert appropriate pronoun) Money Are Lucky Enough To Get Together In The First Place G. Gekko
The Gotch