From the Daily Mail:
Woke institution Oberlin College has finally paid out the full $36.5 million it owes an Ohio bakery it defamed with false racism claims, one week after the store owners begged college officials to pay up.
The liberal arts college had been ordered to pay after jurors ruled that it had, in fact, defamed Gibson’s Bakery by blasting the institution as racist after a storeowner chased down three black students who stole from the business in November 2016.
With legal fees and interest, the amount rose to over $36.5 million.
Oberlin College had tried to appeal the case to the Ohio Supreme Court, which announced on August 30 it would not take up the issue.
Finally, in a statement on Thursday, the college announced it ‘has initiated payment in full of the $36.59 million judgment in the Gibson’s Bakery case and is awaiting payment information from the plaintiffs.
Former Oberlin dean of students Meredith Raimondo led the woke mob’s attacks against Gibson’s, and even turned up outside the business to screech accusations while toting a bullhorn.
While named as a defendant in the suit, she won’t have to pony up any of the cash.
And despite the disgrace she heaped on her former employer, Raimondo has now landed a cozy job at Oglethorpe Liberal Arts College in Atlanta, and has yet to speak over her role in the costly scandal.
Who will join me in starting a GoFundMe for Oberlin?
Let’s see what’s important to Oberlin right now. From the Mission and Values page:
Related:
- Oberlin College Ghetto Dorms
- “Students for a Free Palestine Hosts Nakba Vigil” (Oberlin Review, May 22, 2022)
- “Student Groups Demand Divestment from Fossil Fuels” (Oberlin Review, May 20, 2022)
- “Presidential Initiative Report Released, Proposes DEI Recommendations” (Oberlin Review, May 20, 2022): The report provides recommendations to make Oberlin more racially equitable, including hiring a diversity, equity, and inclusion officer … creating more conscious hiring processes … In December, President Ambar announced plans to create a center on campus to synthesize community building, civic engagement, and academic and career-related opportunities, all in pursuit of racial equity and inclusion.
There are some prophetic comments in the “Oberlin College Ghetto Dorms” link from 2014. It is interesting to trace the origins of the current insanity.
For the real origins of the current insanity watch Yuri Bezmenov’s lecture from 80s. Hint: it’s not insanity, it’s deliberate enemy action. And hordes of useful idiots aka “academics and intellectuals”.
Wow, that’s great news. A little slice of justice in these times of madness! I’m sorry that the father and son did not get to see the final payment completed. Hopefully college administrations will learn to stay neutral when students practice their free speech and let the justice system handle things based on facts.
I looked at some articles about this case recently. It sounds like Oberlin is in the wrong but I would say there are a lot of pitfalls for schools in the legal system. I looked at the analysis here and would have made the wrong calls myself on multiple issues. For example, the fact that the school funds the student senate and then it is liable for what the student senate says. I do not know how you would deal with it other than putting a legal disclaimer or something on everything the students publish if you fund their clubs.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/colleges-should-pay-heedto-oberlins-costly-libel-case/2022/04/07/04c251fe-b680-11ec-8358-20aa16355fb4_story.html
@An anon, the link should be renamed colleges-should-pay-heedto-what-their deans-do-during -their-working-hours.html
Oberlin has already made the point that their insurance is pickling this up; save your GoFuindMes for somebody in real need.
The college’s statements have been a bit vague, so I am not sure that insurance is actually paying the whole thing.
The school’s finances are a mess. https://www.oberlin.edu/investment/assets says “Over the past 20 years, the General Investment Pool has grown from $634.6 million to $936.6 million”
If we adjust this purported “growth” for inflation in the cost of everything relevant to higher ed we will find, I think, that the endowment has actually shrunk. That’s terrible compared to the S&P 500 and to what Harvard and other big schools have done.
But, of course, if the payment is being covered by insurance that means that Americans who pay insurance premiums will ultimately pay this bill. The only people who will escape are those who are smart enough to rely on means-tested government benefits, e.g., public housing, and who therefore do not need to purchase insurance.
@philg, something tells me that two sets of 1) Oberlin graduates and 2) “people who … are smart enough to rely on means-tested government benefits ” do overlap.
Not sure about Oberlin itself even though I saved a teen from it before, but have examples of another woke-before-it-became-mandatory highly ranked liberal arts “teaching” school, two people that followed example of past graduate, full time homemaker with no other work experience. Post-college they rely on parental and grand-parental assets to receive some useless MA degrees somewhere else, after several years post-college break in their parents basement.
What are the best states for men when divorce hits? And how do these states intersect with state wokeness levels?