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The University of Austin, or UATX, is teaching its inaugural class of 92 college students. The school, with its focus on free speech, has been labeled by some as “anti-woke.”

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[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Does Weiss frequent the place? They got a bell tower?

[-] Barx@hexbear.net 11 points 1 day ago

Citations Needed just did an episode on her

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~60 Minutes could have done America a favor and cribbed notes from that episode.~~

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I fucking hate both sides-ism. I can do better...

60 Minutes could have done America a favor. They could have redone the Citations Needed episode word-for-word with video presented by Adam and Nima.

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago

Holy grifting Christ

I thought that project took the bag and ran years ago

The billionaires that fund all this right wing bullshit must not look into what they're funding at all. It must be incredibly easy to get money from them... hmm...

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 7 points 2 days ago

I thought that project took the bag and ran years ago

Before today I don't remember the last time I looked at the Wikipedia page. About a year ago? Anyway - at that time the page was pretty snarky for Wikipedia. It had stuff like... to date the university remains unaccredited -and- the university has no formal campus. Right-wingers must have been annoyed but what could they do? The comments were accurate and acceptable.

Now right-wing editors have tried to make the uni seem like an actual university.

University of Austin

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The Scarborough Building in Austin, the current home of UATX

The University of Austin (UATX) is a private liberal arts university located in Austin, Texas. The university has established a campus in downtown Austin's Scarbrough Building, and enrolled its first undergraduate cohort in the fall of 2024.

UATX is not accredited, and its students are not eligible for Federal Student Aid. However, it is approved to grant bachelor’s degrees by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The founding class has been offered free tuition.

It's very useful to show an actual building as a form of misdirection and PR. The page is still funny if you parse it carefully. "The university has established a campus [in a] building," which surely means they rent a floor or two and that's the entire "campus" of their "university". By square footage I'd bet it's about a 1/10th (if not far smaller) than the size of the average community college in Texas.

[-] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 days ago

I think Mr. Chapo! covered an update on them not long ago now that I think about it. Something from Bari anyway. I think I instinctively memory hole all the shit from the horrid collection of Zionists Will has read from over the years

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

"Texas gets a knucklehead manufacturer" would be a better headline

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