In the last decade, The 502s have graduated from playing cramped stages at local spots — they had starter shows at Fiddler’s, Austin’s Coffee and Will’s Pub — to selling out larger venues. They’ve played festivals from Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo, toured internationally and garnered over 1.2 million monthly Spotify listeners, going viral on TikTok along the way.
The false report of a gunman drew a large police response to the university’s campus northwest of Philadelphia, where freshmen and their parents were told to shelter in place.
The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression has long been a critic of progressive campus culture. Now it’s taking on new, and surprising, targets.
The Trump administration has fixated on everything from college admissions to student discipline as part of its pressure campaign to remake Harvard University. But buried in the government’s onslaught of demands and inquiries against the Cambridge institution is an investigation that could upend employment practices for institutions well beyond academia.
The cancellation is just the latest of many incidents at colleges across the country and reflects how Trump’s anti-DEI crackdown is affecting Black students. For the second year in a row, a Black student group at the University of Missouri is facing pushback from administrators over their attempt to hold a back-to-school event with the word “Black” in the name.
