Anne Whitesell

The centers (including their hiring practices) operate largely outside the normal procedures of the university. So lest you think this is just your average professor beating up reporters, think again.

A Professor Tackled a Man Who Was Trying to Interview Gordon Gee. Now He’s on Leave. Viral video showed an assistant professor shoving a man with a camera to the ground. Ohio State University called the incident “concerning.”

The Chronicle story about this misses the larger context. The Ohio legislature mandated the creation of civics center at public universities to promote "intellectual diversity."

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Fact-checking the Bad Bunny halftime show

I don't know what causes migraines, but living under an increasingly authoritarian regime certainly doesn't help.

Do students get lost less on campuses where the buildings look different?

I'm beginning to think acres of identical brick buildings is a bad idea.

Unpacking Americans’ Opinions on ‘Pro-Life’ Policies: Abortion, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide.
(@annewhitesell.bsky.social @prri.org)
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Trying to get @reuning.bsky.social to moderate his expectations on how quickly the town and university will be back up and running after 12”+ of snow.

This isn’t Minnesota, or even central PA. We’re basically in the South.

My favorite part of this is how American Catholics diverge from official Church teaching. As a Catholic, I don't find this surprising, but it does support my annoyance at assumptions that Catholic must equal conservative.

Unpacking Americans’ Opinions on ‘Pro-Life’ Policies: Abortion, Capital Punishment, and Assisted Suicide Every January, thousands of Americans descend on Washington, D.C., for the National March for Life, an event first held to remember the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Along with everything else happening in the world, today is the National March for Life and because I've become obsessed with the consistent life ethic, I decided to write about American public opinion across several "pro-life" policies:

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I assumed this was his move to ethnographic research.

This hit me hard, as my MIL in the Minneapolis suburbs prepares to take groceries to immigrant families this week.

Catholic Vice President Vance takes to social media to justify killing of Renee Good After the tragic shooting of Renee Good at the hands of ICE, the Catholic vice president of the United States took to social media to justify the killing.

"Vance knows that, by virtue of her humanity, Good was endowed with inherent dignity, made in the image and likeness of God. [...] Vance knows that lying and killing are sins.

Vance knows. He doesn't care."

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He, in fact, did not make it out healthy.

It was less than a decade ago when we held our failed vote.

How the times have changed.

Vance's argument has a long history. He statements could have come out of the country's mid-century fascists, who also argued for anti-immigrant housing policy. I trace that history here: theconversation.com/the-trump-ad...

FWIW, natural family planning is more than the rhythm method.

Hey, I wrote this!

Many thanks to Pope Leo for promoting my research agenda.

The most tense moments in my marriage to @reuning.bsky.social came when we were making pasta, so I'm going to need this to get resolved.

Or my marriage is doomed.

What does ‘pro-life’ mean? There’s no one answer – even for advocacy groups that oppose abortion The term ‘pro-life’ can seem simple – but how Americans and advocacy groups interpret it varies widely.

When Pope Leo spoke about immigration as a pro-life issue, I knew I had to write about it.

Today my piece in @theconversation.com is out about what it means to be "pro-life."

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In case anyone is wondering what it’s like to work at a polling station on a college campus for an off off year election, we’ve already googled “space-time continuum” and have nearly finished a 1,000 piece puzzle.

So much wrong with this, but I have to point out that SO MANY SNAP RECIPIENTS ARE WORKING AND STILL CAN’T MAKE ENDS MEET.

It’s a writing course, so they’re not allowed to use AI for writing. The links alone aren’t a problem, but it’s a red flag. And looking at their Google doc version history usually shows they didn’t write their own assignment.

I've filed 4 academic integrity violations this semester because of this.

I recommended this episode to my students after seeing how distraught they were over the AWS outage on Monday!

Updating my LEGO White House

I know my brain is broken because I read 6 or 7 and went:

The joy my students are experiencing from Canvas being down is pretty incredible.

But the despair they feel from GrubHub being down is also incredible.

patrick star and spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other in a room and talking about chaos . ALT: patrick star and spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other in a room and talking about chaos .

Universities when Canvas is down:

Making our first batch of vegetarian chili tomorrow ❤️❤️❤️

Gotta love that even his relationship with God is transactional.