Katey Stone, who led the Crimson to a national championship, accused the school of ousting her over false allegations and treating female coaches worse than their male counterparts.
The response to the Trump rally shooting showed that the 2024 election social media conflagrations have begun. Whether academic freedom should protect such statements is debatable. As the news broke about a gunman’s July 13 attempt to kill former president Donald Trump during a Pennsylvania rally, John James, an English instructor at Bellarmine University in Louisville, posted on Instagram above one of the latest headlines: “If you’re gonna shoot, man, don’t miss.” The next day, James deactivated his Instagram account, he said. But Libs of TikTok, an X account that often personally targets liberals, had already broadcast a screenshot of his post to its millions of followers, and hateful messages began pouring in to him and university employees.