Marquette President Michael Lovell R.I.P.

Dear members of the Marquette community:

It is with deep sadness that we write to share the difficult news that Marquette University President Michael R. Lovell passed away today following a three-year battle with sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

Together, we pray for President… pic.twitter.com/QDMaOkMZlu

— Marquette University (@MarquetteU) June 9, 2024

Dear members of the Marquette community:

It is with deep sadness that we write to share the difficult news that Marquette University President Michael R. Lovell passed away today following a three-year battle with sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.

Together, we pray for President Lovell’s family, especially his wife Amy, his children, and his friends, as well as for all members of our Marquette and Milwaukee communities, as we grieve this immeasurable loss.

President Lovell and Amy were in Rome with members of the Society of Jesus and the Board of Trustees on a Jesuit formation pilgrimage when President Lovell fell ill and was taken to a hospital in Rome.

President Lovell’s decade of leadership at Marquette was marked by a deep commitment to innovation, entrepreneurship, and community renewal and development — consistent with the university’s Catholic, Jesuit mission that animated him. An entrepreneur at heart, President Lovell pushed Marquette and Milwaukee to ask what could be rather than settling for the status quo. Throughout his presidency, he attended hundreds of campus events each year and continued to teach undergraduate students in his product realization class, saying that he gained great energy from his interactions with students, faculty and staff.

A fixture of the Milwaukee community, President Lovell served on multiple local boards and national higher ed consortiums, where his peers valued his collaborative spirit, humility and ability to advance complex ideas. Together, President Lovell and Amy were trailblazers in directly addressing our region’s mental health issues. His contributions to Marquette will be remembered forever, just as his loss echoes throughout our community.

Support and resources are available for the campus community through Campus Ministry, the Faber Center, the Counseling Center and the Employee Assistance Program, which is available 24/7. A campus prayer vigil is being planned and funeral arrangements will be shared in Marquette Today when they are available.

The days ahead will be full of heartbreak. In this time of grief and sadness, let us come together as a community linked by faith and love.

Sincerely,

Todd Adams

Chair, Marquette University Board of Trustees

Dr. Kimo Ah Yun'

Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs

Joel Pogodzinski

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer

Rest in peace.

Marquette President Michael Lovell's Son Withdraws From School

Michael Lovell, Marquette University's president, has a family matter and a university matter playing out very publicly.

Matt, Lovell's son, has withdrawn from Marquette because he made racist and sexist posts on Instagram meme accounts.

Posts included derogatory statements about women and Black people.

Read more:https://t.co/VRKhP7B2Rz

— Marquette Wire (@MU_Wire) August 6, 2020

This article is actually very troubling to read. I feel sorry for the Lovell family.

Apparently, no one is allowed to make mistakes anymore.

If you do something wrong, something inappropriate, you're done. Zero tolerance.

Marquette University's administration under Michael Lovell has had a disturbing number of cases of documented hostility and harassment directed at conservative students, incoming students, and faculty. Embracing Leftist political correctness has become more important at Marquette than embracing its Catholic identity. Too often, the values that once were Marquette's foundation are dismissed for their inconvenience. Upholding the Leftist agenda appears to be the priority.

Repentance and forgiveness are so important in a Catholic community. Everyone is a sinner and everyone can choose to come back to God and be forgiven.

Unfortunately, the Democrat/Leftist mob that wields power at Marquette doesn't share that perspective. If you don't fall in line with what the mob deems acceptable in terms of politics and morals, if you express different views, you're removed or are pressured to leave. Quite simply, that is not Christlike.

In the case of Matt Lovell, he admits and deeply regrets posting "offensive, racist and sexist images on social media."

I don't know the specifics, but both Michael Lovell and his wife were "horrified and shocked" by their son's posts.

It's impossible to comment fairly without knowing the exact content of the posts and make an informed judgment on the resolution of the matter.

However, speaking generally, I think we need to accept that human beings are not perfect. We fall short. Taking responsibility for one's actions along with sincere repentance is an opportunity for growth to become a better person. Likewise, others become better people by showing compassion and forgiving transgressions.

I don't see how we can function as individuals and as a community and country if we deny the reality that we all need forgiveness.

Marquette fails as an institution of higher learning if there's no room to learn.

McAdams v. Marquette - WI Supreme Court Ruling

Justice delayed is justice denied.

Marquette University is guilty of denying Professor John McAdams justice. That reality will remain a stain on the university's reputation in perpetuity.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court delivered its ruling today in favor of John McAdams in McAdams vs. Marquette. It's a legal smackdown that will forever tarnish Marquette's history.

From Campus Reform:

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled in favor of professor John McAdams on Friday, ordering Marquette University to “immediately reinstate” the academic with “tenure, compensation, and benefits."

According to the decision, the court ruled that the university violated its contract with McAdams, which included an academic freedom clause.

“The undisputed facts show that the University breached its contract with Dr. McAdams when it suspended him for engaging in activity protected by the contract's guarantee of academic freedom,” the court wrote.

“Therefore, we reverse the circuit court and remand this cause with instructions to enter judgment in favor of Dr. McAdams, conduct further proceedings to determine damages (which shall include back pay), and order the University to immediately reinstate Dr. McAdams with unimpaired rank, tenure, compensation, and benefits,” the court added.

This is what justice looks like.

Marquette is left to scramble in the wake of this humiliating legal defeat.

...In a press release on Friday morning, Marquette University spokesman Chris Jenkins wrote that the school “will comply with the terms of this decision,” stressing that “it does not change the university’s commitment to the safety and well-being of our students.”

“This case has never been about academic freedom or a professor’s political views,” Jenkins added.

Clearly, the Wisconsin Supreme Court disagrees. It has always been about academic freedom and Marquette's violation of its contract with McAdams.

Marquette University President Michael R. Lovell provides his comments on the decision in the following email:

Dear members of the Marquette community,

Recently, the Wisconsin Supreme Court issued a decision in a case brought by a Marquette University political science associate professor.

In this case, we stood up for decency and for the rights of our students, and we remain committed to upholding those values as a community.

Our values do not change when they are challenged. They become stronger.

I want you to know that I will personally continue to pledge ourselves to the holistic development of students. We will continue to educate students who are men and women for and with others throughout the world. Our Catholic and Jesuit mission calls us to live in the spirit of cura personalis, care for the whole person.

We will continue to live as servant leaders with a commitment to the Jesuit tradition and Catholic social teaching for all people, beliefs and faith traditions. And we will continue to nurture an inclusive, diverse community that fosters new opportunities, partnerships, collaboration and vigorous yet respectful debate.

Too often these days, our conversations and disagreements become degraded and toxic. The environment found on social media often reflects the overall level of social discourse in our country. Pope Francis recently warned about the dangers of online communication in Gaudete Et Exsultate.

At Marquette, we need to help create pathways for people of all political perspectives to have real conversations with each other. No more talking past one another. We can do better when it comes to raising the level of our public discourse. I’m optimistic as I meet our next generation of students, we will do better.

Best,

Michael R. Lovell
President
Marquette University

Lovell has the audacity to cite Pope Francis, attempting to appeal to a higher court, exploiting Catholicism to suit his ends.

That is truly offensive.

This entire chapter in Marquette's history has been a disgrace.

I hope this ruling will be a turning point for Marquette, redirecting its path away from the radical political correctness it has embraced. I hope this ruling leads Marquette back to its Catholic foundation. I fear that will not be the case, given the extremism of Marquette's current administration.

Nonetheless, this is a tremendous victory for free speech and academic freedom. Vindication is finally delivered for defenders of free speech on the Marquette campus.

Dr. McAdams has been fighting this battle since 2014, and today he has won. I'm grateful he refused to back down. He's an academic freedom champion, a First Amendment hero.

I hope this high profile Supreme Court ruling prompts Marquette alumni and other donors to recognize what is happening at the university. I hope those still supporting Marquette will demand changes to restore the Jesuit institution to its previous greatness.

AMDG

Marquette Expels Student for Goofy Pic

Marquette University is spiraling out of control as it strains to appeal to the Left.

John McAdams reports the story of a student expelled for posting a silly photo.



McAdams writes:

White guys staging a tableau of this sort may be a bit silly, but it’s not the least bit racist.

The fellow in the hoodie in the back (see the arrow) is a Marquette student. A Latino, we will call him “Enrique.” The photo was shot almost two years ago, with Enrique and some of his high school buddies and members of his soccer team. The black doll was owned by one of Enrique’s buddies; he carried it around a lot.

Enrique’s dad, in an e-mail to the Warrior Blog, confirmed that his son’s intention was “merely a game” and not any sort of racist display.

Apparently, reason isn't applied and justice doesn't matter at Marquette. All that matters is being on the right side of issues, meaning on the Left.

Hate crimes have no place on our campus. We expect Marquette University to hold these students accountable for their appalling behavior. This is a Jesuit University and we stand against... https://t.co/nyg4FWWyLt

— Marquette Democrats (@marquettedems) April 26, 2018

Student complaints are addressed even if their accusations are unfounded.

I have the right to be at this university just like every other white student. I worked my ass off for my spot, twice as hard. And for the Lovell to laugh in the face of my struggle and oppression. Go fuck yourself. I am Marquette too.

— Saint Samantha 👑 (@SaintSamantha1) April 26, 2018

Mike Lovell, rather than being a steadying force at the university, serves as the head cheerleader of virtue signaling.

It bears repeating: We shouldn’t expect only students of color to respond to racism. I’m asking all of @MarquetteU to join me and share why you #StandAgainstRacism pic.twitter.com/ZzS4nlSxqU

— Michael Lovell (@PresLovell) April 30, 2018

It's good that Marquette doesn't endorse hate crimes. It's not good that the university has no qualms about destroying a student's future at Marquette all to support a false narrative.

Alumni need to realize that Marquette University is lost. Its Catholic values have gone missing.

The strange, altered mission of this unrecognizable Marquette is not worth supporting.

Marquette Buys Ad to Attack McAdams

Marquette University has been waging war against Political Science Professor John McAdams for years.

Those attempting to silence McAdams, and conservative and Catholic views in general on campus, used a blog post written by McAdams to bring the tensions to the breaking point.

On his Marquette Warrior blog, McAdams documented some troubling happenings that occurred in a Marquette University classroom in November 2014, "Marquette Philosophy Instructor: 'Gay Rights' Can't Be Discussed in Class Since Any Disagreement Would Offend Gay Students."

The instructor, Cheryl Abbate, was a doctoral student in the philosophy department at Marquette, teaching "Theory of Ethics." It must be understood that Abbate taught the class. She served in the role of teacher. As the teacher, Abbate was in a position of authority. She exploited that position to bully one of her undergraduate students.

Since December 2014, McAdams has been severely punished by Marquette, resulting in a legal battle that will be decided by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

In short, it's a mess. Marquette has been dealing with the public relations nightmare that comes with being recognized as one of the greatest threats to free speech on campus in the country.

Under Marquette President Michael Lovell, the university radically lurched to the Left, destroying free speech on campus in the process. Lovell permitted the stifling of speech that gives voice to Catholic teaching, muzzling a student, and attempted to fire McAdams for merely outlining the story of an instructor's undeniably inappropriate behavior in the classroom.

In the face of persistent negative national attention, Marquette has refused to settle the McAdams matter in a reasonable fashion. In fact, the university has gone to rather bizarre lengths to destroy McAdams.

Marquette actually bought an ad on Google to get its propaganda to those searching "John McAdams Marquette."


Screenshot from Marquette Warrior

John McAdams writes:

Marquette, knowing they have been taking a public relations beating over their attempt to fire this blogger, has bought a Google ad to point people to their biased and selective page of “resources” on our case.

We do not know how much they are paying per “click through,” but the top position in a Google search does not come cheap.

The page promoted by Marquette's ad purports to relay the "facts" on McAdams v. Marquette. It's an official university page.

Here is a flat-out false assertion found on the page:

MYTH: This court case is about academic freedom and freedom of speech.

FACT: Putting a student teacher’s name and contact information on the internet before a hostile audience, commonly referred to as doxing, is not an exercise of academic freedom or protected speech. Had he written the exact same post without that information, he would not have been disciplined.

This case is about John McAdams’ reckless and harmful behavior toward a student teacher at Marquette University, which caused her irreparable harm.

This type of conduct, publishing a student teacher's name and contact information on the internet before a hostile audience, commonly referred to as doxing, violates a professor’s contract and duties to Marquette students and colleagues.

John McAdams crossed the line when he put a student teacher’s name and contact information on the internet subjecting her to ruthless, hateful attacks.

Academic freedom and freedom of speech are essential tenets of our campus community. John McAdams has enjoyed these essential freedoms for 40 years at Marquette, including publishing more than 3,000 blogs and internet postings on a variety of topics. A circuit court judge ruled that academic freedom does not mean that a professor can harass, threaten or intimidate a student.

McAdams did not dox Abbate.

Marquette is lying about that. There's no other way to put it.

"Facts"?

No.

As I've been doing since 2014, I strongly encourage Marquette donors to withhold their support from the university.

Of course, if you think censorship on campus, stifling academic freedom, and assaulting Marquette's Catholic identity are appropriate, then get out that checkbook.

Angela Davis at Marquette University

Thursday afternoon, Matt Kittle hosted Mark Belling's radio program. He interviewed John McAdams.

One of the topics they discussed was a lecture by Angela Davis at Marquette University on Wednesday.

Marquette is honored to host the brilliant political activist Angela Davis tomorrow at 7 pm at the Al McGuire Center.

— Marquette Today (@MarquetteToday) March 28, 2017

Scholar, activist and renowned speaker Dr. Angela Davis will deliver a distinguished lecture today at 7p.m. https://t.co/klTSOhEEYZ pic.twitter.com/szmyhyeIdH

— Marquette Today (@MarquetteToday) March 29, 2017

Marquette University proudly welcomed the Communist.

From John McAdams' Marquette Warrior blog:

Ethan Hollenberger, at the event and tweeting about it notes that President Lovell called Davis an “awesome example.” This about a woman who is a self proclaimed Communist, and who bought guns for her fellow black militants in a plot that led to the killing of several innocent people.

When Ben Shapiro was at Marquette, the university required the reading of a disclaimer that noted that Shapiro’s views were not necessarily the views of Marquette University.

No such disclaimer was read at the Davis event.

Davis discussed a mural of FBI most wanted terrorist Assata Shakur, which decorated the wall of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center at Marquette, until we reported it, and an embarrassed Marquette administration had it painted over.

Davis called the mural “whitewashed” and called Shakur “a comrade and a friend.”

Good grief.

Marquette has really lost its way.

The Davis event was held at a large campus venue. Ben Shapiro was only given a lecture hall in the Chemistry building.

It gets worse.

McAdams writes:

[W]hen Ben Shapiro, a rather mainstream conservative spoke on campus, Marquette officials threatened to charge the Young Americans for Freedom (who sponsored the event) for security.

They backed off that, but then staffer Chrissy Nelson tried to undermine the event by advising leftists to sign up for a ticket and not show up, depriving an interested student of a seat. She did so at the suggestion of an unnamed “director of diversity.”

...While minor contributions to Shapiro’s speaker’s fee were made by Student Government and the Residence Hall Council, apparently all of Davis’ fee was paid by Marquette. Out of tuition money.

So what we have here is Marquette officially lauding and supporting a Communist who was party to a murder plot.

As McAdams notes, the problem is Marquette does not offer students a balanced group of speakers, with views from the Left and the Right.

The university is lauding and promoting Leftists, while dismissing, condemning, and marginalizing conservatives.

Where was the official university disclaimer before Davis' lecture? Why was Shapiro treated so shabbily?

From the Washington Examiner:

Marquette University, a Jesuit school in Milwaukee, plans to host radical communist activist Angela Davis for a lecture Wednesday night.

The lecture is part of a series of "inclusive conversations" the school is hosting in order to confront the challenges of racial inequality. "As a Catholic, Jesuit university committed to social justice," the university's website reads, "we seek to energize our campus and engage all Milwaukee's communities by asking, 'What is your freedom dream now?'"

Davis is most renowned for her career of radical leftist activism, involving leadership stints in both the Black Panther Party and Communist Party. Today, she continues to proclaim that "capitalism is the most dangerous kind of future we can imagine" telling the Los Angeles Times recently, "as long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us."

...At the Women's March in January, Davis called on activists to become "more militant."

"Those who still defend the supremacy of white male hetero-patriarchy," she said, "had better watch out."

Her views on abortion and marriage openly contradict Catholic teachings. Nevertheless, Marquette is touting Davis as a "living witness to history" and featuring her remarks as a "distinguished lecture." Davis' speaking fee has previously been listed between $10,000 and $20,000.

Marquette donors really need to think about what they're doing when they write out their checks to the university.

Sadly, I think the chant, "WE ARE -- MARQUETTE," should be replaced.

"We were Marquette."

John McAdams Receives Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Award

Marquette University is back in the spotlight, and not in a good way.

Since 2014, John McAdams, a political science professor at Marquette, has been battling the Jesuit university's shocking attacks on him, the Catholic tradition, academic freedom, and free speech.

When the university tried to fire him, McAdams sued. Depending on how things play out, the case may go before a jury in June.

At CPAC on Friday night, McAdams will receive the Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Award for Academic Freedom from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

It is honor that McAdams has certainly earned.

M.D. Kittle writes:

Still fighting for his speech and contractual rights two years after Marquette University drove him out of the classroom, Professor John McAdams will receive a top national academic freedom prize Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland.

McAdams will be awarded the Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick Award for Academic Freedom for his outspoken criticism of political correctness on college campuses.

“Professor McAdams is a fearless defender of free speech and open inquiry, and a martyr to political correctness,” said Richard Graber, president and CEO of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, which supports the Kirkpatrick Award. “His dismissal from Marquette University flies in the face of the traditions of academic freedom.”

The award carries a $10,000 stipend and honors the memory of Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations “who was known for her outspokenness in hostile environments, her clarity and determination in the midst of oppression, and her fierce dedication to American ideals and academic freedom,” according to a statement.

Whenever I write a post about John McAdams, I always encourage donors to Marquette University to withhold their financial support.

After decades of giving financial gifts to the university, we have proudly NOT donated to Marquette since learning of the McAdams matter. No donation in 2014, 2015, or 2016. We will give no money to Marquette until John McAdams is back in the classroom and receives appropriate recompense from the university. I strongly urge others to do the same.

Ben Shapiro and Marquette Feminists

Marquette University does not have an inclusive, open, intellectual environment. The university does not welcome the free exchange of ideas. Academic freedom, when it comes to conservatives, is a joke.

But you already know that.

Marquette University Feminists Tell University President To Take Action Against Shapiro

A feminist student group at Marquette University wrote a letter to the university’s president, Michael Lovell, accusing Daily Wire Editor-in-Chief Ben Shapiro of “perpetuating racism and xenophobia,” and urging Lovell to take action regarding Shapiro’s upcoming YAF-sponsored lecture on campus.

The group calling itself “Empowerment,” which terms itself on its Facebook page as “Marquette’s Gender Equality (Feminist) Club; dedicated to the promotion of inclusive discussion concerning intersectional feminism,” writes in the letter that students “demand [the] university take responsibility.”

...

Young America’s Foundation, which is sponsoring the lecture by Shapiro, had a salient comment for the Marquette administration:

If you care about the conservative students on your campus who are constantly harassed for their beliefs, and if you care about engendering an environment that facilities intellectual inquiry, you will ignore this letter, apologize for the actions of your staff, and send President Lovell to attend the lecture.

There is no way Lovell would attend Shapiro's lecture. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if he cited the rioting and violence on other campuses, allegedly in response to conservative speakers, as an excuse to cancel Shapiro's appearance.

YAF's response to the Feminists' letter was perfect.

A formal apology from the administration is definitely in order, given that Marquette staff was exposed plotting to undermine the event.

Keep up the good fight, YAF.

Ben Shapiro and Marquette Lecture

This is precisely why we cut off all donations to Marquette University and will not support its "mission."

DEVELOPING: Posts obtained by YAF show Marquette staff attempting to undermine a YAF lecture with @benshapiro. https://t.co/Me7ALcwwaq

— YAF (@yaf) January 30, 2017

Emily Jashinsky writes:

Facebook posts obtained by Young America’s Foundation show at least one member of Marquette University’s staff engaging in attempts to undermine an upcoming Ben Shapiro lecture organized by the school’s Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter.

In a comment on a Facebook thread, Chrissy Nelson, listed online as a program assistant for Marquette’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Studies, alleges that a director of diversity on campus suggested to her in a phone conversation that people should reserve seats to the lecture through Eventbrite posing as students in order “to take a seat away from someone who would actually go.” Nelson wrote that she would be “promoting” this suggestion, actively impeding Marquette students’ ability to hear from a respected conservative voice.

In a subsequent comment Nelson continued to boast that she “will encourage students to protest” Shapiro’s lecture the day after it occurs.

In yet another comment, Nelson, who began the post by identifying herself as “staff at Marquette,” wrote, “what has been directed to students is not to protest because the speaker has told Marquette he hopes students do protest to make an example of the protestors.”

Nelson also alleged that Marquette “allowed” Shapiro to speak only “because of the backlash DePaul University had with not allowing it,” in reference to DePaul’s widely-condemned decision to ban its school’s YAF chapter from hosting a Shapiro lecture on campus.

Nelson even explicitly directed former Marquette professor Susannah Bartlow to register for the lecture as a student to “take away a seat from a student that would be interested in going.” Bartlow was fired in 2015 for allowing the mural of a convicted cop killer to be painted in the resource center.

So, Nelson acknowledges the problem of overtly silencing free speech on the Marquette campus. It's necessary to be a little more sneaky about it.

The plan: Reserve seats for the lecture to take away seats from those actually interested in hearing Ben Shapiro.

I'd like to hear from Marquette's president Mike Lovell on this effort to undermine an event and shut down the free exchange of ideas on campus.

I also hope Ben Shapiro addresses the disgrace of Marquette's assault on John McAdams, associate professor of political science.

Marquette Pro-Life Display Vandalized

Of course, we all know Marquette University is losing its Catholic identity.

A pro-life memorial on campus being vandalized is not surprising, nor is it surprising that the university's president, Michael Lovell, is basically MIA.

From the Daily Caller:

Activists at Marquette University in Wisconsin defaced a pro-life protest at the school and then boasted of their deed on Facebook, winning praise from the school’s College Democrats chapter.

On Thursday, the organization Marquette for Life erected a “Memorial for the Unborn,” a display that used 1,200 small blue and pink flags to represent the 1.2 million abortions in the United States each year. Accompanying the flags was a display board that explained the memorial and its purpose.

Within hours, though, the memorial was defaced by opposing activists who covered the display board with their own signs bearing statements like “We want doctors, not missionaries” and “My body, my freedom.” They also scattered a pile of wire coat hangers around the display, representing the use of such coat hangers in illegal home abortions.

After the display was defaced, Marquette student Clare McCullough went on Facebook and publicly proclaimed the defacement as the response of Marquette’s feminist community, while slamming the Catholic university for allowing the display to be created in the first place.

Marquette feminists were disturbed by the pro-life display, condemning it as "damaging to the mental health of students" and a case of "public shaming."

I wonder if those feminists are concerned about the damage done to human beings by abortion. Apparently not.

From Campus Reform:

Marquette’s feminism club has now publicly condemned Thursday’s pro-life display at the Catholic institution as “damaging to the mental health of students” and an act of “public shaming.”

The “Marquette Empowerment” student group—which “strives to maintain an environment in which each individual opinion is valued”—slammed the pro-life display as a means of “stigmatizing abortion” in a letter Sunday, though the statement also offered a half hearted condemnation of students who vandalized the display with pro-abortion literature.

“The ‘Memorial of the Unborn’ is a display which directly undermines this healing by further stigmatizing abortion,” the letter states. “Rather than fostering discussion and understanding, the display is damaging to the mental health of students and a disturbing act of public shaming.”

As Campus Reform initially reported, the annual pro-life display put on by “Marquette for Life” was vandalized and defaced, an act which was later celebrated by the school’s College Democrats.

Now, Marquette Empowerment is criticizing the Catholic institution for its stance on abortion, even celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Planned Parenthood in its letter.

...The letter concludes by mocking “the harmful nature” of the previous year’s pro-life display, which “employed crosses to emulate a ‘fetus graveyard.’”

After several students apparently complained to the school’s administration about the crosses, Marquette for Life decided to use pink and blue flags in their place, but still faced criticism this year for promoting “the gender binary.”

This is insane.

Crosses bring complaints? Any student choosing to attend Marquette should be prepared to see Christian/Catholic symbols.

The "Marquette for Life" group tried to respond to the cross criticism by replacing the "offensive" crosses with flags.

Not good enough. The pink and blue flags are hostile, denoting "the gender binary."

Ridiculous.

Marquette University still sells itself as a Catholic institution. It needs to act like one.

Certainly, a pro-life student group, reflecting the values of the Church, should be free to express themselves. The vandalism should be strongly condemned by university officials and students alike.
_________________

Read John McAdams: “Empowerment:” Intolerant Marquette Feminists Want to Ban Anti-Abortion Speech

John McAdams Sues Marquette

Professor John McAdams is suing Marquette University.

From CBS 58:

Marquette University Professor John McAdams filed a lawsuit in Milwaukee County Circuit Court against Marquette University for allegedly illegally suspending Professor McAdams in the fall of 2014 and making the decision to terminate his tenure and fire him from Marquette.

According to a press release, Marquette University guarantees its tenured faculty academic freedoms, including the right to free speech.

The release from McAdams attorney goes on to say, Marquette suspended Professor McAdams for blogging about an incident between an undergraduate student and a graduate instructor where the Instructor told the student that any discussion on gay marriage in an ethics course would be considered homophobic and inappropriate.

In February Marquette University President Michael Lovell announced that he would follow the recommendation of Marquette’s Faculty Hearing Committee and suspend McAdams without pay through January 2017, and adding the requirement that McAdams apologize in order to be reinstated.

McAdams attorney said, “Professor McAdams will not apologize because he has done nothing wrong. “

...Professor McAdams also stated that, “I think the most overlooked aspect of this matter is that no one in the Marquette Administration has taken seriously the complaint of the undergraduate student who was silenced by the Instructor. I’m saddened that Marquette’s treatment of the undergraduate student at the center of this controversy failed to adhere to its guiding principle of Cura Personalis.”

I gave Lovell and Marquette way too much credit.

I really thought that eventually they would realize how inappropriate their stance on this matter was. I thought they would quietly reinstate McAdams and do their best to make the matter go away, because they were so clearly in the wrong.

Instead, Marquette dug in, deep, against academic freedom and Catholic values. How could they possibly think that would turn out well?

Marquette has been exposed as advocating censorship. The environment of this alleged Catholic institution is hostile to Catholic teaching. Academically, the atmosphere is chilling.

Big problem.

This bears repeating. I encourage donors to Marquette University to withhold their financial support.

Prof. John McAdams Sues Marquette University https://t.co/EPEChFLsvN via @RightWisconsin

— RightWisconsin (@RightWisconsin) May 2, 2016

John McAdams Responds to Marquette's FAQ on 'Personnel Matter'

Marquette's Defensive, Evasive and Dishonest Attack on John McAdams https://t.co/I36WxvXi8K via @RightWisconsin

— RightWisconsin (@RightWisconsin) April 14, 2016

Marquette is in a deep hole and just keeps digging.

Really crazy. Really shameful.

From Marquette Today, "Frequently Asked Questions and Answers on personnel matter":

There has been a lot of misinformation on the internet and from groups outside our campus about a personnel situation involving Marquette and Associate Professor John McAdams. Marquette University has put together a Frequently Asked Questions page to share the facts and to make clear our position as a university. Dr. McAdams’ suspension with the university is continuing. Before returning to the faculty, he must provide an assurance that he will not continue behaviors that harm others within the Marquette community.

"Personnel matter."

I think "assault on academic freedom" would be better. "Failure to permit Catholic teaching on campus" and "assault on free speech" would also be more appropriate. "Personnel matter" is so vague. Why not at least name the professor in the title?

This question is a killer: "Did Dr. McAdams criticize a fellow instructor, or a student?"

The target of Dr. McAdams’ blog was a graduate student instructor. She remains a student first. The university has established channels in place for faculty members to express concerns. These standard channels of authority, which all university faculty members are expected to follow as a condition of employment as defined by the Faculty Handbook, include an associate dean, dean of the college or the provost.

I have a big problem with this apparent lack of accountability for graduate students serving as instructors.

They must be kidding. A "student first"?

No. No way. That doesn't fly.

When Cheryl Abbate taught that class, she most definitely was not filling the role of student.

Absolutely absurd.

Here's another: "Is this issue about freedom of speech or academic freedom?"

No, this issue is about the professor’s conduct toward a graduate student. Dr. McAdams has been blogging for more than a decade, publishing approximately 3,000 posts, and the university administration has never disciplined him. He has the right to talk about controversial topics on his blog, and to disagree with and debate Marquette-related positions freely. Where Dr. McAdams crossed the line is when he launched a personal attack against a student, subjecting her to threats and hateful messages. Dr. McAdams continues to use the student’s name on his blog, even recently identifying where she is currently studying, leading to more hostile and threatening messages.

All accountability can now be deemed a "personal attack."

In other words, it's impossible to hold an instructor such as Cheryl Abbate, previously employed by Marquette University, accountable.

Abbate, like other Marquette faculty, serve in a public capacity.

It's silly to suggest that McAdams was somehow crossing the line to name an instructor. Commenting on her treatment of a Marquette student is not wrong.

And McAdams is not responsible for any hostile or threatening messages Abbate received when her actions as a Marquette instructor were made known. He did not encourage any abusive behavior. Marquette should have a problem with the authors of the inappropriate messages, not McAdams.

McAdams does a great job analyzing Marquette's many evasive and inaccurate statements on the "personnel matter." His analysis can be found on his blog, Marquette Warrior.

That, of course, was the site of the original comment that exposed Marquette's disgrace back in 2014. It's fitting that McAdams continues to use his blog to enlighten and inform.

The piece can also be found on Right Wisconsin.

Marquette and John McAdams: Lovell's Decision

Finally, we have some new information regarding Marquette University's attempt to fire John McAdams.

Marquette University President Michael Lovell has decided to offer the tenured McAdams a path to return to campus.

However, Lovell has to know that McAdams would never accept the offer as it stands.

In short, rather than standing up for Catholic values and free speech, Lovell is choosing to keep Marquette in the national spotlight as an institution that squelches free expression and fosters censorship and harassment.

Good idea?

No.

From FOX6 News:

FOX6 News has learned Marquette University political science professor John McAdams is suspended without pay until January 2017. He could get his job back if he submits a letter of apology by April 4th — but McAdams does not plan to do that. He instead plans to fight the suspension.

...McAdams has been suspended, banned from stepping foot on campus since December 2014, after he wrote a controversial blog post about a student who felt his instructor blew off a request to discuss his opposition to same-sex marriage.

...On Thursday, March 24th, McAdams learned his suspension will be lengthened until January 2017. He is suspended without pay, and required to write an apology within the next two weeks.

“That`s a deal killer. No, I`m not going to do that,” McAdams said.

...McAdams has the backing of the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty and is now weighing his options.

“They asked me what I wanted to do and I simply gave them a one word answer ‘fight,'” McAdams said.

Perfect response.

Marquette's assault on free speech and academic freedom cannot be accepted.

Lovell's statement to the "Dear Marquette community" is terribly disappointing.

Lovell writes:

Following the faculty statutes, a Faculty Hearing Committee made up of seven of Professor McAdams’ peers conducted a hearing over a period of four days last September. The committee consisted of a diverse set of tenured faculty members from different academic disciplines. After months of deliberations, the committee issued a thorough 123-page report to my office in January regarding Professor McAdams’ actions. It is noteworthy to mention that the report provided a unanimous recommendation on a path forward regarding the issue under consideration.

Today, I want you to know that after significant personal deliberation, I have decided to formally implement the Faculty Hearing Committee’s unanimous recommendation. While I cannot provide specific details of the recommendation because it relates to a personnel matter, I can assure you that my decision has been guided by Marquette University’s values and is solely based on Professor McAdams’ actions, and not political or ideological views expressed in his blog.

Simply put, that is absurd.

It's painful to witness the disintegration of Marquette under Lovell's leadership.

We will continue to withhold all financial support to Marquette.

We didn't make a 2014 year-end donation to the university. We made no donations in 2015. It appears we're on course to carry this pattern through 2016.

Very sad.

Michael Lovell's First Year: The Numbers

From Marquette University's July 2015 Alumni Newsletter:

By the numbers: A look back on President Lovell's first year

July 1 marked the official one-year anniversary of Michael R. Lovell as president of Marquette University. The Marquette community celebrated many major milestones with our 24th and first lay president. From tweeting to 6,000 followers to traveling 20,000 miles to visit with alumni across the country in the Journey Continues events and worshipping with hundreds of students inside the Joan of Arc Chapel, relive the moments of a year to remember.

24: 24th President Michael R. Lovell was inaugurated as the 24th and first lay president of Marquette University on September 19.


1.238: 1.238 million people watched the television newscasts covering President Lovell's major announcements from his Presidential Address, which resulted in more than 100 media stories.


4: 4 major academic leaders were announced. Dr. Jeanne Hossenlopp took on a new role as vice president for research and innovation, Dr. Brian Till was named Keyes Dean of Business Administration, Dr. Dan Myers was named university provost, and Dr. Kristina Ropella was named Opus Dean of Engineering.


275: 275 innovation proposals were submitted for the $5.7 million strategic innovation fund. The teams included 449 faculty members, 212 staff members, 127 non-Marquette-affiliated individuals, 106 students and 52 alumni.


20,000: 20,000 miles were logged on a 14-city tour across the United States as President Lovell met with 4,000 alumni and friends for his Journey Continues events.


1,366: 1,366 donors from around the world contributed $316,675 to the James Foley Scholarship Fund in honor of the slain journalist and 1996 alumnus.


6: 6 Guiding Values 12,000 Marquette community members learned of and live the university's
Guiding Values.


19: 19 new police officers were commissioned, and the Marquette University Police Department was formed May 1.


5,280: 5,280 feet or one mile was walked by President Lovell in high heels to promote awareness of and education about domestic violence.


19: 19 percent of Marquette freshmen became the first in their family to attend college. In April, the Rick Majerus Family Foundation donated $1 million to support scholarships for first-generation students in the Klingler College of Arts and Sciences.


200-plus: 200-plus speaking engagements in President Lovell’s first year, which was defined by community collaboration and innovation.


3: 3 new leaders started in the Department of Athletics. Coach Steve Wojciechowski was hired April 1, Vice President and Director of Athletics Bill Scholl was hired September 9, and Coach Carolyn Kieger was hired May 1.


5,000,000: $5 million was donated by Dr. Michael and Billie Kubly to establish the Charles E. Kubly Mental Health Research Center in the College of Health Sciences.


10: 10 gallons of freezing cold water were dumped on President Lovell’s head by Marquette students for the Ice Bucket Challenge to promote awareness of ALS.


1,638: 1,638 words from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee’s Catholic Herald were written to describe how “faith comes first” for President Lovell and his family.


6,000: 6,000 Twitter followers and counting for @PresLovell, who tweeted more than 850 times to the Marquette community during his first year.


4,355: 4,355 faculty, students and staff completed the Campus Climate Study, and 34 individuals — including community members — formed the President’s Task Force on Equity and Inclusion.


8,000: 8,000 square feet of space on the sixth floor of the seven-story Global Water Center will house Marquette scientists who will offer solutions to the world’s most pressing water issues.


800: 800 block of West Michigan Street will be home to the new Athletic Performance Research Center. It's part of a strategic partnership with the Milwaukee Bucks and supports President Lovell's goal of doubling Marquette's research in five years.


5: 5-plus minutes of dancing with the women of Cobeen Hall to The Wobble took place in front of a captivated Valley Fields audience.


2,186: 2,186 pounds of food were donated in just one hour after President Lovell in November challenged the Marquette campus community to donate 1,000 pounds.


1,000,000: $1 million was invested in the Promote Assets and Reduce Crime Initiative by the Near West Side Partners, a group led by five neighborhood anchor institutions, including Marquette.


20: 20 higher ed institutions attended a summit in August at Marquette to foster student innovation and entrepreneurship for an initiative called the Commons.


1,332: 1,332 books were donated by Marquette basketball to the College of Education's Hartman Literacy and Learning Center. Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade and his Wade’s World Foundation announced the Live to Dream program to enhance literacy for inner-city children.


30: 30 Years The amount of time Gerald "Gerry" Rauenhorst served as a Marquette trustee, the university's longest-tenured trustee. Rauenhorst, who passed away in 2014, was honored by President Lovell and Marquette in September at a ceremony renaming the College of Engineering the Opus College of Engineering after the company he founded.


192: 192 members actively participate in the president’s running club, which meets every Tuesday and Thursday at St. Joan of Arc Chapel.


1: 1 Miraculous story of recovery highlighting the power of prayer. Jen Waters, then a junior, overcame life-threatening injuries while studying abroad in Madrid.


THANKS for a great year

Without question, this is an inadequate summary of Michael Lovell's first year as president of Marquette University.

Some additions, by the numbers:

1: One professor banned from campus

The disgrace of Lovell allowing Professor John McAdams to be banned from campus and treated like a terrorist is omitted.

1: One professor in the process of being fired

The disgrace of Lovell's effort to fire Professor John McAdams is omitted.


?: An unknown amount of instances Catholic teaching is under attack on campus

The disgrace of Lovell allowing students to be harassed for discussing Catholic teaching and values is omitted.
 

?: An unknown amount of chilling instances of "silencing"

The disgrace of Lovell presiding over the "silencing" on the Marquette campus is omitted.
 

1: One spot on the list of top 10 threats to free speech

The disgrace of Marquette making the list of the the top 10 threats to free speech on campus under Lovell's watch is omitted.
 

1: One mural honoring a convicted murderer and domestic terrorist

The disgrace of Lovell permitting Marquette to display a mural honoring domestic terrorist and convicted cop killer Assata Shakur until there was a national outcry against it is omitted.

Wow. Great numbers. Way to go President Lovell. Nice first year. Be proud.

As a result of Michael Lovell's first year at Marquette, we decided to cut off all monetary donations to the university, breaking a pattern of years and years and years of annual gifts.

I wonder what the number of people deciding to do the same is.

That would be an interesting addition to the "By the numbers: A look back on President Lovell's first year" list.

Marquette Faculty and Staff Petition - Assata Shakur Mural

Marquette University is a mess.

It is truly sinking into the abyss.

More than sixty Marquette faculty and staff signed a petition supporting the mural honoring Assata Shakur, objecting to its removal.

John McAdams provides the text of the petition and the accompanying letter, along with his analysis.

McAdams writes, "This is a virtual thesaurus of politically correct ways of trying to defend the indefensible." He calls it "downright evil."

Yes, we're talking about good and bad, right and wrong, moral and immoral.

See, Marquette University is allegedly a Catholic Jesuit university.

That, of course, has become questionable. Marquette's purported Catholic identity and its values are disappearing.

More than sixty faculty and staff actually are troubled that a mural glorifying cop killer, domestic terrorist Assata Shakur was removed.

Author of the letter, Stephen Franzoi, Professor Emeritus, Psychology Department, defends the honoring of Assata Shakur, and twists the removal of the mural into an indication of Marquette's failure to tend to African-American and female students.

I agree with McAdams and his analysis.

He concludes:

That sixty-plus people signed this shows how corrupt Marquette has become. It’s true that this is only a small proportion of all Marquette faculty and staff. But this mentality permeates certain departments at Marquette, including two departments integral to a liberal arts education: English and Philosophy. And it’s dominant among the activists who are constantly pushing Marquette to be less and less a Catholic university, or more a citadel of secular political correctness.

Marquette really has a problem.

It is stunning that President Michael Lovell wants to rid Marquette of John McAdams when he's responsible for exposing individuals seeking to undermine Marquette.

McAdams is trying to thwart the university's downfall. He's not the enemy.

I want to know the names of the signers of the petition, but that's a secret.

Why?

Are they ashamed of their position? Do they fear the consequences of supporting a mural honoring a domestic terrorist and convicted murderer?

That might be because their position is WRONG, BAD, IMMORAL, certainly not consistent with the values of a Catholic university.

Again, I strongly encourage donors to withhold all financial support from Marquette University at this time.

Susannah Bartlow Fired By Marquette

Removing the mural wasn't enough.

That quick application of paint to cover the mural honoring Assata Shakur, the cop killer, domestic terrorist, Leftist revolutionary, wasn't going to do the trick.

Marquette University has removed Susannah Bartlow, director of the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center.

Poor Bartlow.

She's a scapegoat in a way.

Bartlow was just carrying out what has become the New Order at Marquette, yet she has to take the blame when Marquette once again finds itself disgraced in the national spotlight.

Marquette's administration is the problem, not just the underlings.

John McAdams explains:

Bartlow screwed up badly. But the ultimate responsibility lies with top Marquette administrators, who created a large “diversity” and “inclusion” and “gender” and “sexuality” bureaucracy, hired the kinds of bureaucrats drawn to those offices, and now find themselves embarrassed when the predictable things happen.

Exactly.

Shakur Mural: Marquette Statement

Marquette University acted speedily to remove its mural honoring domestic terrorist cop killer Assata Shakur.

Marquette University statement: May 18, 2015

Update: May 18, 2015

As of the evening of May 17, 2015, the mural has been removed.

Marquette University statement: May 17, 2015

Our university’s senior leadership just became aware of a mural that was created and displayed in a remote area of campus. This is extremely disappointing as the mural does not reflect the Guiding Values of Marquette University. It is being removed immediately. We are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the mural and will take appropriate action.

Wrong.

Marquette's alleged "guiding values" are twisted beyond belief.

A mural honoring someone on a mission to preach revolutionary Leftist doctrine is a perfect reflection of Marquette's "guiding values" and its rejection of Catholicism.


So, the mural honoring a domestic terrorist, the one that was displayed in that oh so remote area of campus, has been removed.

So what?

The removal of the mural does nothing to change the intolerance that permeates Marquette and its rejection of Catholic teaching.

If some students are discussing something like their personal opposition to gay marriage, another student overhearing the discussion is encouraged to report them to the university administration under its harassment policy.

Liberal Kirsten Powers, author of The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech, declares Marquette's harassment policy to be "modeled on Chairman Mao's Little Red Book."

Yeah, it's that bad.

Nice work removing that disgraceful mural, Marquette. Honoring a cop killer and domestic terrorist was not a good decision, but you own it.

Now, what about your Mao Little Red Book policy?

Explain those "guiding values" currently in place.

Any plans to deal with them?

Jesuit university Marquette's war on free speech and Catholicism certainly isn't relegated to a "remote area of campus."

That can't be solved with a quick coat of paint or a removal of a banner.

It must be understood that under President Michael Lovell's leadership Marquette University does not promote Catholic values. Moreover, under his leadership, Lovell has solidified the reality of Marquette.

It is a hostile environment, squelching the free exchange of ideas.

When is the mural honoring Mao going to be erected?

Assata Shakur and Marquette University

Marquette University is a mess.

Allegedly, it's a Jesuit institution. But lately, it's at the center of the war on free speech and the Left's censorship agenda.

The problems for Marquette don't stop there.

The Marquette Gender and Sexuality Resource Center is assisting in the national ridicule the university so richly deserves.

The latest disgrace involves a mural of Assata Shakur, married name Joanne Chesimard, gracing the center's campus offices.



Why honor Shakur?

She must be a great role model, the embodiment of Catholic values, right?

Wrong.

Assata Shakur is no hero.

John McAdams writes that Shakur is a "black militant who was convicted of murder and fled to Cuba, where she is still protected by the Communist government."

Read about Shakur: "Hunted Leftist Terrorist Laughs at FBI from Cuba"

Convicted cop-killer (of a New Jersey State-Trooper) and “domestic terrorist” Chesimard has been living in Cuba since 1984 as a Castro-coddled celebrity of sorts. And it’s not like bounty hunters can operate freely in a Stalinist country. So the $2 million may be symbolic — as in the U.S. Justice Dept. putting on a game face and saying: “Look Castro, we’re serious here!”

In the early 1970’s Chesimard belonged to a Black Panther offshoot known as the Black Liberation Army. “This case is just as important today as it was when it happened 40 years ago,” said a recent press release from Mike Rinaldi of the New Jersey State Police. “Chesimard was a member of the Black Liberation Army, a radical left wing terror group that felt justified killing law enforcement officers…This group conducted assaults on police stations and murdered police officers.”

More than a mere member of these domestic terrorists, Chesimard was described by former assistant FBI director John Miller as “the soul of the Black Liberation Army.”

More details:

In 1973, while wanted for multiple crimes from bank robbery to murder, Chesimard and two accomplices were pulled over for a tail-light violation on the New Jersey Turnpike. As the troopers were routinely questioning them, Chesimard (who was in the passenger seat) and her pals opened up on the lawmen with semi-auto pistols (no word on whether these were properly registered).

As trooper Werner Foerster grappled with the driver, Chesimard shot him twice — then her gun apparently jammed. As Foerster lay on the ground wounded and helpless, Chesimard grabbed the trooper’s own gun and blasted two shots into his head, much in the manner of her Cuban idols Che Guevara and Raul Castro murdering hundreds of their own (always defenseless) “counter-revolutionary” enemies.

Good grief!

This domestic terrorist was caught and convicted and sentenced to life in prison, but she escaped in 1979. She made her way to Cuba and pontificates her revolutionary drivel from that safe haven.

Shakur is a convicted killer and Marquette honors her.

How screwed up can that place get?

Dear @MarquetteU This is the woman you are celebrating with a mural... and the police officer she murdered. pic.twitter.com/PAiNhsFoZH

— Charles Sykes (@SykesCharlie) May 17, 2015

Marquette is acting quickly to douse this latest scandal, if it does, in fact, remove the mural quickly. Tweeting something isn't action.

@SykesCharlie It is being removed immediately. Our senior leadership just became aware of the mural, which was displayed in a remote area.

— Marquette University (@MarquetteU) May 18, 2015

Oh, that's the explanation. The mural was in a "remote area."

That is the definition of a "lame excuse."

@SykesCharlie It's extremely disappointing. We are reviewing the circumstances surrounding the mural and will take appropriate action.

— Marquette University (@MarquetteU) May 18, 2015

"Appropriate action"?

That's an absolute joke!

If Marquette had an inkling about "appropriate action," it would not be in the process of firing Professor John McAdams.

I think the mural should remain. Actually, it should receive a more prominent position on the campus. Michael Lovell should see to that.

The mural belongs somewhere special, like right next to St. Joan of Arc Chapel. The mural of Shakur exemplifies what Marquette University has become.

Quite simply, it's perfect. Assata Shakur is the new Marquette.

_________________

Another reminder: Join me and cut off all donations to Marquette.

Had you planned to include a gift to Marquette in your will? If so, I encourage you to change that, too.

Above all, I suggest you join me and strongly encourage students considering Marquette to immediately reject that university as an option in their college search. Warn them.

_________________

UPDATE: Marquette Univ. Removes Mural of Escaped Cop Killer Assata Shakur

Marquette and Kirsten Powers - 'The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech'

Marquette University's free speech problem isn't going away.

The attempt to fire Professor John McAdams is about to get more national attention.

President Michael Lovell, you definitely have a problem.

From Amazon:

Lifelong liberal Kirsten Powers blasts the Left's forced march towards conformity in an exposé of the illiberal war on free speech. No longer champions of tolerance and free speech, the "illiberal Left" now viciously attacks and silences anyone with alternative points of view. Powers asks, "What ever happened to free speech in America?"

From the Inside Flap:

Free speech and freedom of conscience have long been core American values. Yet a growing intolerance from the left side of the political spectrum is threatening Americans' ability to freely express beliefs without fear of retaliation. USA Today columnist and Fox News contributor Kirsten Powers calls it "The Silencing."

Powers chronicles this forced march toward conformity in an exposé of the illiberal tactics deployed to shut down debate on some of the most important issues of the day. While preaching tolerance and claiming to hold liberal values, the "illiberal left" works to delegitimize political and ideological opponents in ways that stifle freedom of expression, thought, and religious belief.

In The Silencing, Kirsten Powers, herself a proud liberal--but from a far more tolerant Jeffersonian tradition--exposes the illiberal left. You'll learn:

•Why the illiberal left has become an Orwellian "big brother," policing what it deems acceptable speech and opinions
•How the illiberal left is obsessed with delegitimizing Fox News
•How illiberal left pundits--even self-proclaimed "feminists" (and Powers names names)--engage in outrageously misogynistic and sexist dismissals of their female opponents
•How illiberal colleges and universities limit freedom of expression to tightly regulated "free speech zones" and ban speakers (even liberals) with whom the illiberal left disagrees
•How "truth" matters little to the illiberal left, for whom ideology is everything
•How is it that liberalism, once associated with open-mindedness and reason, has become a vehicle for irrational prejudice, ideological conformity, and the marginalization and punishment of alternative opinions? Kirsten Powers chronicles this troubling trend in perhaps the most important--and chilling--political book of the year.

Not a proud moment for Marquette University to be featured as a prominent player in the WAR ON FREE SPEECH.

Unfortunately, that's where Lovell finds himself.

Disgraceful.

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Reviews:

"Kirsten Powers explodes and skewers 'The Silencing'—the demonizing and repression of different views, especially conservative views. Here is a liberal calling out other supposedly liberal people who claim to believe in free speech but tell all who disagree with them to shut up. Hallelujah—you are lucky to have this book in your hands!"
—Juan Williams, Fox News political analyst and New York Times bestselling author of Muzzled

"I salute my friend Kirsten Powers for boldly and eloquently breaking the spiral of silence on silencing."
—Eric Metaxas, New York Times bestselling author of Miracles and Bonhoeffer

"Tolerance and free expression are founding values of our republic and yet they're under attack from the extreme wings of the American political spectrum. Shining a harsh light on the 'illiberal left,' Kirsten Powers exposes a grim campaign to silence speech. This is an important book."
—Ron Fournier, senior political columnist and editorial director of National Journal

"In this examination of the multiplying attacks on freedom of speech, Kirsten Powers casts a cool eye on the damages done to politics, academia, and civic discourse by the aggressive assertion of a perverse new entitlement. It is the postulated right to pass through life without being disturbed, annoyed, offended, or discomposed by the expression of anyone else's thoughts."
—George F. Will, Pulitzer Prize–winning syndicated columnist and author of the New York Times bestseller A Nice Little Place on the North Side

Marquette: Fundraising Phone Call

The fundraising calls from Marquette University started up again.

Rather than being annoyed by the calls that no doubt would persist night after night, it was with great satisfaction that we picked up and informed Marquette that we would not be donating.

Why would we offer our financial support to an institution like Marquette?

Read: "Student Rejects Marquette Because of Politically Incorrect Intolerance."

Read the email sent to Professor John McAdams regarding a student's choice to reject Marquette because of its intolerance, and the accompanying analysis from McAdams.

McAdams writes:

Is Marquette worse than other institutions? That depends on the institution, but Marquette claims to provide an “academically rigorous, service oriented, and values oriented” education and to serve a “Catholic mission.” It is difficult to see how this can be so if the university seeks to silence disfavored views and to ostracize what are still orthodox Catholic positions.

No student should come to Marquette thinking that the institution is anything more than a standard, secular, politically correct generic university.

Let's be honest.

Marquette's "Catholic mission" is a crock.

Without a doubt, its alleged emphasis on values and service is not rooted in the Catholic faith anymore.

Under President Michael Lovell, Marquette has lost its way.

As McAdams says, "No student should come to Marquette thinking that the institution is anything more than a standard, secular, politically correct generic university."

Sadly, that's true.

Milwaukee and the surrounding community will be less as a result.

However, I do think it's important to remember the good that Marquette did.

Thousands of us are out here, "being the difference," not standard or secular or politically correct or generic.


Video: 30th Anniversary of 1977 Marquette Warriors

"We are Warriors forever."

--Bo Ellis