The Fresno City Council will weigh in on an issue of nationwide importance at Thursday's meeting. Councilman Miguel Arias wants his colleagues to support filing a friend of the court brief on behalf of the DACA case at the U.S. Supreme Court. President Donald Trump is trying to end DACA,...
Fresno State's Performance Trumps Jarrar & Other Dust-Ups
National recognition for classroom performance keeps on coming for Fresno State. The U.S. News and World Report's 2018 Best College rankings are out, and Fresno State is pegged at No. 3 among public universities and No. 5 overall for its graduation rate performance. The latest good news builds upon a...
Fresno State's 'Trump Must Hang' Professor Yearns for Classroom Gig
Lars Maischak, whose anti-Trump tweets created conflict and calls for his firing in 2017, says that he has signed a three-year contract with Fresno State. He will continue to teach his history class, but online only. After Breitbart in April 2017 exposed Maischak’s tweets that “Trump Must Hang,” the school...
Jarrar is Media Victim & Target of ‘Online Lynch Mob’
EDITOR'S NOTE: In February 2017, the author of this piece, Fresno State lecturer Lars Maischak, became a national story after tweeting "To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better.” Once again, a professor at Fresno State is the target of an online lynch mob. ...
Prof Drops Out of Literary Event After Tweeting Barbara Bush Was ‘Amazing Racist’
Randa Jarrar, whose tweet that former first lady Barbara Bush was an "amazing racist" is stirring national outrage, has withdrawn from a planned speaking engagement Saturday at Fresno City College. The school said in a statement released Wednesday afternoon that the "headline speaker for LitHop 2018, Randa Jarrar, has informed...
Fresno State Professor Taking Paid Leave
The embattled Fresno State professor who was revealed to make derogatory tweets about President Donald Trump is on an indefinite paid leave. In an e-mail sent by university president Joseph Castro to students, faculty and staff, Castro says that Maischak will no longer teach, but will remain in a researching...
Fresno State Professor Taking Paid Leave
The embattled Fresno State professor who was revealed to make derogatory tweets about President Donald Trump is on an indefinite paid leave. In an e-mail sent by university president Joseph Castro to students, faculty and staff, Castro says that Maischak will no longer teach, but will remain in a researching...
Fresno State Students Return, React to Maischak Tweets
It’s 10 a.m. on a Monday morning in the Social Science Building at Fresno State. Normally, students would be settled in for Professor Lars Maischak’s American History 11 class. But, events of the past week have made this lecture anything but normal. Maischak is the professor who made controversial tweets...
Fresno State Students Return, React to Maischak Tweets
It’s 10 a.m. on a Monday morning in the Social Science Building at Fresno State. Normally, students would be settled in for Professor Lars Maischak’s American History 11 class. But, events of the past week have made this lecture anything but normal. Maischak is the professor who made controversial tweets...
Timeline of Controversial Fresno State Prof’s Week
It started with a series of critical tweets, critical of President Trump to a few dozen Twitter followers. Now, the saga of Fresno State Professor Lars Maischak is interrupted. His classes for Monday and Tuesday, when Bulldog students return from spring break, are cancelled. The University alerted the media in...