The wave of campuses denying BS rubbish is just getting stronger. A vote on academic boycott of Israel in Bowdoin College was turned down with an overwhelming majority: 228 votes in favor, 1,144 votes against and 247 abstaining votes. In other words, more than 70% of the votes rejected the resolution, completely slamming BS attempts on campus.
This time, as
Legal Insurrection points out, some amusing irony is also at hand. In order to be up for voting, BSemites at campus needed to get at least 20% of the 1,915 students in the student body to sign a petitions supporting the motion. Even though they managed to get the petition signed by the required amount - 385 students - it turns out that only 228 voted for the resolution in the ballots:
This is a particularly crushing blow to the boycott movement, with 150 fewer students voting in favor than signed the Petition. This reflects that many students were pressured into signing the Petition and also were misled as to the nature of the boycott.
That 85% of student body participated reflects that the student body spontaneously rose up against this threat to academic freedom.
Indeed, academic freedom has once again been protected, and BS nonsense has once again been rejected.
