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An email popped up in my university inbox. From the all-too-generic address [email protected], I expected a commonplace "welcome back" or Title IX compliance notification. Two keystrokes out from the trash folder, I caught the subject line: "A statement from IU President Michael McRobbie on immigration executive order."
I have grown accustomed to being a political minority in the classroom-studying journalism and public affairs only furthers this reality. In many ways, this has benefited my education; but, as I enter my final semester, I am concerned by our academic leaders' foray into politics.
Taking aim at President Trump's temporary ban on immigration from select nations with a propensity for terror, Indiana University President Michael McRobbie announced "the executive order ... is contrary to the very core of our values as an institution." Saving nuance, he added, "This is why we urge...