Tag: Fredric March
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NAACP takes UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank to school
NAACP’s letter demands UW restore Fredric March’s good name September 2021 Dear University of Wisconsin-Madison & University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Communities: … Guided solely by social-media rumor and grievously fact-free, mistaken conclusions – the name of Wisconsin native and Golden Age acting icon Fredric March was stripped from both UW-Madison’s Fredric March Play Circle (in late 2018)…
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Winnowing but not sifting
No mistake goes unforgiven Our apologies to University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank. The Werkes called the chancellor a “craven coward” for knowing better but for acceding nonetheless to the Woke cultural vandals by obliterating the name of renowned actor and alumnus Fredric March. Blank was well aware that, as an undergraduate in the early…
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The high school to be named later
Only in Madison! It’s why we love this town, whatever you wanna call it. As one of the citadels of Cancel Culture, the name of one of our public high schools is objectionable and must be changed. That would be James Madison Memorial High school, located on the west side of Madison WI. Old Madison,…
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Make this the Best Years of Their Lives
Our plea to Tommy Thompson on behalf of university students everywhere! Dear Governor, Mr. Cabinet Secretary, UW System President, My Old Boss: Restrained, moderate Blaska sez: I have some appreciation for the separation of powers at our great university system. Don’t know that you have to go all S.I. Hayakawa about this but get your chancellors…
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Wisconsin’s university chancellors are craven cowards
The progressive cancel culture is canceling our culture The NAACP, faith leaders, actors, and alumni wrote this week to the chancellors of the University of Wisconsin campuses at Madison and Oshkosh and to Gov. Tony Evers to restore the good name of a real-life civil right activist. Or, as academic John McWhorter puts it “repeal…
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Defending the UW-Madison against the barbarians at the gate
This post has been hacked by a UW-System prof (retired) who is holding the fort against the barbarians at the gate, quivering with righteous indignation. By Gary L. Kriewald “Whatever may be the limitations which trammel inquiry elsewhere, we believe that the great state University of Wisconsin should ever encourage that continual and fearless sifting…