Believing him requires one to believe there is no connection between the sudden, massive slowdown in mail delivery and the President’s constant lies about the danger of vote-by-mail, as well as his refusal to allocate the requisite funding to the USPS. You find yourselves in a position where you can make a powerful, moral choice, one that will show your students, faculty, alumni and, yes, donors, what it means to be a beacon of higher learning and intellectual and literal freedom.
Jeff Clark, professor of mathematics, proposed the motion. Your email address will not be published. The attack on USPS was personal for Penick, as her father returned from eleven consecutive months of combat in the Vietnam war to work the rest of his career with the USPS, a job Penick said that paid for her four years at Elon.
King’s exhortation that there comes a point where silence is betrayal, where inaction is complicity! Elon University faculty and alumni are raising concerns over the actions of the Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the threat these actions could pose to the presidential election in the coming months. Only single-use containers are being used on campus this semester, as well as in the dining halls, as an effort to minimize the risk of transmitting COVID-19.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This spring, second-year Elon College Fellows will choose a research subject and partner with faculty mentors for their two-year research projects. Jeffery Clark, professor of mathematics at Elon, requested that Bush ask Book and Board of Trustees Chair Edmund Moriarty to make a clear statement regarding their position on the USPS and DeJoy. President Connie Book said in a statement to the academic council that the Board of Trustees is aware of community concerns, and that DeJoy shares the same values Elon holds regarding “a free, fair and impartial election process is essential and forms the foundation of American democracy.”, “I hope [the university] will reexamine their position with respect to trustee DeJoy, reflecting upon Elon by virtue of his public actions,” Clark said. It is clear that he is involved in dismantling the U.S. Post Office and interfering with the political process and the United States Constitution. Louis DeJoy stands with his wife, Aldona Wos. “It’s just that I value, and the people signing the petition and the people calling for his removal value, democracy over donations, and it’s clear that Elon does not.”.
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When Book mentioned in her response that the people they had heard from “weren’t aware of how much DeJoy had done for the university,” Penick said she felt the comment was condescending towards those voicing their concerns.
Now, Clark will be making a motion in the Sept. 4 faculty meeting. and Kyra O'Connor
DeJoy has overseen budget cuts and temporary slowdowns in postal operations, as well as the reorganization of leadership and the removal of mailboxes and mail sorting machines. For it is painfully obvious that if Trump acted as he does in any normal job, he would be fired; similarly, in a healthy Democracy, DeJoy’s would not have been hired—his conflicts of interest and utter lack of qualifications for the role would have ruled him out.
Clark wrote faculty and staff in hopes of having a discussion, and has continued to email to keep the conversation going. “I can’t tell you how disappointed I was for a fixation on ‘we’re okay, so I guess it’s not a problem,’” Clark said.
(CNN) Once again, it strains credulity to think he met with Trump in the middle of a firestorm about the USPS, and all that Trump had to say on the matter was “congrats on the new role.”. No!
DeJoy refuted claims of the post office being unable to handle a surplus of mail-in ballots come November in a hearing on Aug. 21, but Democratic congressmen — and their constituents — are still not convinced.
Once DeJoy sold New Breed to Connecticut-based XPO Logistics in 2014, he transitioned to CEO of XPO’s North American supply chain until he became a member of the company’s board of directors, where he served until 2018. Kyra O'Connor
“I googled DeJoy to see that he was also a Trump megadonor and it soon became apparent what Trump and DeJoy had planned for the post office in regards to their attack on mail-in voting and attempts to sway the 2020 election in Trump’s favor,” Penick said.
Protestors hold signs on the corner of Country Club Road and Cleburne Street in Greensboro N.C. on Sunday, Aug. 16. Postal Service (USPS) operations that have resulted in mail delays: 8/3/2020, Date on which four Democratic U.S. senators wrote a letter to DeJoy demanding information about those changes, calling it "essential that the Postal Service not slow down mail or in any way compromise service for veterans, small businesses, rural communities, seniors, and millions of Americans who rely on the mail – including significant numbers who will be relying on the Postal Service to exercise their right to vote": 7/30/2020, Number of West Virginia post offices that the USPS had scheduled to close next month, though it reportedly "slowed" its plans after receiving a July 28 letter of concern from U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-West Virginia), who had heard what he called "troubling reports" about planned closures in his state and nationwide: 2, According to one small business owner who heavily relies on USPS, percent of their packages — which used to be delivered within about seven days — that are now taking weeks to arrive at their destination: 5-10, Date on which the USPS distributed a document later obtained by the Washington Post and verified by the American Postal Workers Union in which the USPS, an independent agency in the federal executive branch, announced an "operational pivot" to control costs through overtime limits and other changes that it says mean "temporarily — we may see mail left behind or mail on the workroom floor or docks": 7/10/2020, Of the $8.8 billion loss the USPS reported in fiscal year 2019, amount that was attributable to a law the lame-duck Republican Congress passed in 2006 requiring the agency to pre-fund health benefits for future retirees rather than the usual pay-as-you-go approach: about $6.6 billion, Value of the grant a bipartisan deal reached in the Senate as part of coronavirus relief legislation would haven given the USPS, only to have the grant canceled after President Trump — an outspoken foe of voting by mail and of Jeff Bezos, CEO of USPS-dependent online retail giant Amazon — threatened to veto the entire $2 trillion bill over its inclusion: $13 billion, Value of a Treasury loan the USPS got instead that requires it to hand over proprietary information about its biggest private-sector contracts: $10 billion, Month in which the Trump-appointed USPS Board of Governors unanimously selected DeJoy, the wealthy former CEO of North Carolina-based New Breed Logistics and a major Republican donor, to serve as the new postmaster general: 5/2020, Value of the contracts DeJoy's company held with the USPS beginning in 1992 to repair postal equipment including mail bags and hampers: $3.5 billion to $4 billion, Size of investments in USPS competitors or contractors currently held by DeJoy and his wife, Dr. Aldona Wos — a physician who serves as vice-chair of the President's Commission on White House Fellowships and who as secretary of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services under Gov.
“But Elon cannot align themselves with the all out attack on democracy that DeJoy and Trump have been launching over the last few weeks.”. 8/19/20 4:58pm. DeJoy currently funds 12 Odyssey Scholarships, something Clark said he hopes will not change as a result of the faculty motion. Elon SGA legislation denounces Louis DeJoy, puts pressure on Board of Trustees Representatives passed legislation denouncing Louis DeJoy’s conduct as U.S. Postmaster General, and asks Elon University’s Board of Trustees to deliberate on DeJoy’s conduct By Kieran Ungemach | …
DeJoy testified before the House Oversight Committee and denied any changes in the postal service.
“And that they might just reconsider their role in terms of as Board of Trustees, what they stand for publicly.”. Some know him as a successful businessman or the former CEO of New Breed Logistics. Awards & Recognitions. Post-consumer compostable waste, such as used to-go boxes, is not currently being composted this fall semester due to challenges coming from COVID-19, according to the Elon sustainability website. Elon, NC 27244. Mr. DeJoy has said that he shares those values and the board looks forward to hearing his testimony that began today in Washington.”. In the Elon community, alumni, faculty and students have expressed their concerns regarding the university’s continued affiliation with DeJoy. My goal is to foster an economy that alleviates poverty, provides meaningful, sustainable and just jobs, and protects and restores the environment. Required fields are marked *.
Isn’t that how we got here to begin with—accepting Trump’s despicable actions for years because he was (supposedly) wealthy and powerful, rather than shunning and investigating him?
Ten years after becoming a trustee, DeJoy was honored with Elon’s medal for entrepreneurial leadership in 2017 for his work with New Breed and XPO Logistics. August 22, 2020. Fortunately, it is not too late to do the right thing. Alumnus Rob Shapiro drafted a form letter to send to alumni engagement that has since been circulated on Twitter. “As the current postmaster general is an Elon trustee, it is important that other Elon voices be heard in support of the USPS.”.