Anonymous wrote:Pretty concerning. Affirmative action is one thing, but not being allowed to have a magazine about your culture/topic of interest?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/us/u-of-alabama-student-magazines-dei.html
"The University of Alabama on Monday suspended two student magazines — one appealing to women, another to Black students — saying they ran afoul of guidance from the Justice Department on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.
University officials told staff members at the publications — a women’s lifestyle magazine called Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six, which encompasses Black culture and student life — that because of shifting federal policy on D.E.I. programs, the university could no longer support them. One official attributed the decision in part to a July memo from Attorney General Pam Bondi, in which she included recommendations on how institutions receiving federal funding could avoid what the Trump administration deemed unlawful D.E.I. practices.
In a meeting on Monday announcing the suspensions, Steven Hood, the university’s vice president of student life, told students that their magazines had violated those standards. He specifically cited portions of the memo warning against the use of “unlawful proxies” — described as the use of “ostensibly neutral criteria that function as substitutes for explicit consideration of race, sex or other protected characteristics.”
In light of the federal guidance, “you can understand why as a public institution we might not be able to support magazines that are based on demographics like these two magazines are,” Dr. Hood said, according to a recording of the meeting that was shared with The Times."
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