Princeton Dropping Woodrow Wilson’s Name Because of His ‘Racist Thinking’
Princeton University is dropping the name of former President Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school and Wilson College, citing his “racist views and policies.” Princeton University President Christopher Eisgruber made the announcement Saturday. “Wilson鈥檚 racism was significant and consequential even by the standards of his own time. He segregated the federal civil service after it had been racially integrated for decades, thereby taking America backward in its pursuit of justice. He not only acquiesced in but added to the persistent practice of racism in this country, a practice that continues to do harm today,” he said in a message to the school community. “Wilson鈥檚 segregationist policies make him an especially inappropriate namesake for a public policy school. When a university names a school of public policy for a political…
The Morrison government providing $10 million to further boost online safety through the eSafety Commissioner after seeing an explosion in internet usage.
Cyber Safety Minister Paul Fletcher says traffic over the NBN has increased by around 70 percent during the day with lots more people working and studying from home during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The extra internet usage is a very good thing but a small proportion of human interactions online are bad ones,” Fletcher told ABC television’s Insiders program on June 28.
“That’s why the eSafety Commissioner is there to support Australians who have been the victim of cyber bullying, unauthorised sharing of intimate images and so on.”
Colin Brinsden
Focus News: ESafety Commissioner Gets Additional $10M Funding
Mississippi Governor Says He’ll Sign Bill Changing State Flag If Legislature Passes It
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) said Saturday that if the state legislature passes a bill on the state flag, he’ll sign it. “The legislature has been deadlocked for days as it considers a new flag,” Reeves said in a statement. “The argument over the 1894 flag has become as divisive as the flag itself and it’s time to end it. If they send me a bill this weekend, I will sign it.” Lawmakers have been mulling changes—or an outright replacement—to the flag in recent weeks, an extension of a discussion that’s been ongoing for decades. Mississippi’s flag, adopted in 1894, includes the Confederate battle flag. Tate Reeves in a Nov. 1, 2019, file photograph in Tupelo, Miss., before winning the gubernatorial election. (Brandon Dill/Getty Images)Renewed criticism has hit people and…
