Chrissy Clark is a staff reporter at the Washington Free Beacon. She reports on college campuses and issues of higher education. Her work is featured in The Federalist and The Daily Signal. Chrissy received her degree in political science from Michigan State University. Follow her on social media @chrissyclark_ or contact her at chrissy@freebeacon.com.
In 1983 the University of Nevada-Las Vegas replaced its Confederate mascot with a mountain man bearing a striking resemblance to Yosemite Sam. The cartoonish mustache and complete lack of Confederate garb, however, were not enough to save him from administrators, who last week removed a statue of the mascot following student complaints about its “racist roots.”
The student group in charge of Georgetown University's off-campus speaker fund is pushing to mandate 50 percent of its annual $85,000 budget exclusively to "amplify black voices." 
Florida State University's student senate narrowly voted to keep its president despite his history of anti-Semitic comments. 
Cornell University's most prominent donors are staying silent on a growing campaign to oust a conservative law professor.
Florida State University's student government tapped a student who called an Israeli a "stupid Jew," among other anti-Semitic online posts, to replace as president a member they ousted for expressing his Catholic beliefs in leaked private messages.
Activists targeting a University of Chicago academic for criticizing the "defund the police" movement saw early success on June 12 when a prominent economics journal put him on leave and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago cut ties with him. 
Cornell University law professor William Jacobson thought that he had grown callous to petitions for his ouster. Activists—both students, faculty, and alumni—have called for his firing on numerous occasions since he launched the popular conservative website Legal Insurrection in 2008, but the campaign against him has taken personal attacks to new levels in the wake of George Floyd's death in police custody. 
On Friday evening Johns Hopkins University (JHU) announced it will push back the creation of a private campus police force amid national unrest following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.
Students and professors are calling on the University of Pennsylvania to not only disarm police but eliminate its crime alert system and employee background checks as part of a campaign to ban all forms of law enforcement on campus. 
Students and professors are demanding that an academic journal fire a professor who criticized efforts to defund the police.
