Photo credits: Jefferson Council
Headline: New York Times, 7/14/2025
Stephanie Saul reports:
The Jefferson Council, a band of conservative-leaning University of Virginia alumni, was impatient and fed up.
For years, the group had railed against the university’s president, James E. Ryan, for his robust promotion of campus diversity initiatives.
They had counted on Glenn Youngkin, the state’s Republican governor who vocally opposed D.E.I., to force a new direction at one of the country’s most prestigious public universities. But as 2025, the final year of Mr. Youngkin’s term, began, the university’s diversity, equity and inclusion apparatus was still in place. And time was running out, with polls showing that the governor’s race would be an uphill battle for a Republican candidate.
The Jefferson Council, however, had a new ally in its fight: President Trump.
Photo by Retiring Guy
In an world-turned-upside-down explanation, Joel Gardner compared the actions of the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice to force the ouster of UV president James E. Ryan to Eisenhower's decision to send troops to Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce the Supreme Court's desegregation decision.
That reasoning is just plain sick!
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