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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/20/columbia-barnard-student-protesters
‘…..The Columbia and Barnard chapters of the American Association of University Professors have issued a joint statement condemning Columbia president Minouche Shafik’s crackdowns on student-led pro-Palestinian protests…..’
‘……In the statement released on Friday, the chapters said: “We are shocked at her failure to mount any defense of the free inquiry central to the educational mission of a university in a democratic society and at her willingness to appease legislators seeking to interfere in university affairs.”
“President Shafik’s administration did not consult; they informed the committee of its decision,” the committee’s executive chair said, according to the statement….’
‘…It went on to add: “In Wednesday’s hearing, president Shafik repeatedly claimed that she was inaugurating a new era at Columbia. Her actions thus far suggest that this era will be one of repressed speech, political restrictions on academic inquiry, and punitive discipline against the university’s own students and faculty.”
US requires bird flu tests for dairy cows being moved across states
We might be shot down from our high-flying Cloud 9 relying on dairying, and have prohibitions on other exports as well. Just saying. We could get bit in the bum. Coarse comment eh but the edifying warnings that we have been fed over last decades have generally gone to landfill.
“Hydrogen could also have great potential for decarbonising heavy road transport. Road transport carries over 90% of our domestic goods by weight and is a crucial sector for our economy and exports. Hon Simeon Brown
Minister for Energy
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA2404/S00149/minister-welcomes-hydrogen-milestone.htm
All the better to not send it by rail eh! How these pollies can trot out helpful info like this is amazing.
What many of us are wondering.
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2404/S00039/universities-for-aukus-the-social-license-confidence-trick.htm
Universities For AUKUS: The Social License Confidence Trick
Sunday, 21 April 2024, 2:34 pm
Opinion: Binoy Kampmark
“Can we still see universities as places to learn and produce knowledge that, at the risk of sounding naïve, is for the greater good of humanity, independently transient of geopolitical skirmishes?” Wanning Sun from the University of Technology, Sydney, asks in hope. “The history of universities during the Cold War era tells us that it is precisely at such times that our government and our universities need to fight tooth and nail to preserve the precarious civil society that has taken millennia to construct.”
History can be a useful, if imperfect guide, but as its teary muse, Clio, will tell you, its lessons are almost always ignored. A recent investigative report published in Declassified Australia gives us every reason to be pessimistic about Sun’s green pastured hopes for universities untethered from compromise and corruption. Far from preserving civil society, the Australian university sector is going the way of the US model of linking university research and innovation directly to a gluttonous military industrial complex…