The UW-Eau Claire College Republicans identified the faculty member [who pushed over their information table promoting a conservative candidate for the state Supreme Court] as English Department Chair José Felipe Alvergue.*
“The faculty member involved has been placed on administrative leave pending [an] investigation,” [said the provost].
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Tatiana Bobrowicz, chair of the UWEC College Republicans, told Newsweek in a written statement on Tuesday that the man came up to the table about 8:30 a.m. and asked why they were so close to the polls. She said she began to explain to him that the table had been approved by the university and was in compliance with requirements, when he said, “the time for this is over,” and flipped the table.
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He has a May 7 court date for disorderly conduct. Having read his web page, I pity the judge who tries to get one coherent sentence out of the dude.
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* My project is of knowing, and in knowing––or returning sentience to the decolonialized––engaging with the ongoing care work of the self in the era of its sublimation into the expansive, polluted power of supremacist monopoly capitalism.