PJ MediaJ. Christian Adams
May 3, 2013
A group of undergraduate professors at George Mason University are leading the charge to oppose
renaming the law school after late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
A public Virginia university,
GMU received a $30,000,000 pledge to rename the law school. However, the George Mason Faculty Senate -- which is not a law school body -- passed a resolution opposing the name change. The reasons the GMU faculty senate
opposed the well-funded name change included the following:
The memorializing of a Supreme Court Justice who was a significant contributor to the
polarized climate in this country that runs counter to the values of a university that
celebrates civil discourse.
Instead of accepting and utilizing the massive donation to enhance legal education at George Mason, the Faculty Senate charted an alternative course. They seek to:
... emphasize the university’s continuing support for groups that were slighted by Justice Scalia and that may have been offended by the university’s embrace of his legacy. Underscore the university’s support for civil discourse that bridges the great diversity present at the university.
Nobody should be surprised that professors on campus lack
deologicali diversity. However, when the leftist radicals in these
taxpayer-fundedjobs scold the rest of the country about how supposedly rigid and polarizing Justice Scalia was, it's worth us taking a peek to see if
they happen to have
>actual records of polarization and ideological rigidity.
Who are the professors at George Mason University leading the charge to brand Justice Scalia as a divisive figure far outside of the mainstream?
George Mason School of Law in Arlington, Virginia
Well, it turns out that many of them are divisive figures themselves, teaching subjects far outside of the mainstreamthanks to the largess of Virginia taxpayers. Let's meet just a few:
Craig Willse
The opposition to honoring Scalia has been led by Craig Willse, a cultural studies professor whose work focuses on "neoliberalism, urbanism, biopolitics, and racial formations."
According to Willse’s university bio, his scholarship “is informed by his political work outside the academy,” which has included “community organizing around housing access, social movements for trans justice and prison abolition, and queer anarchist anti-war activism."
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