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University of Wisconsin-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin sent an email to all UW students and staff at 12:18 a.m. Saturday morning. The email was one long, profanity-laden rant which ended in the statement, “This joint ain’t gonna sunset itself”.
In a statement released this morning, Mnookin acknowledged this was a mistake, but she stopped short of apologizing for the email and refused to unsend it.
“While I understand some members of our community may be upset with the email, and I do regret sending it, as I was under the influence of several dozen Trulys, I will not apologize as that would be in direct opposition to our ideals of pluralism," Mnookin said.
A Daily Cardinal analysis shows the email violated the university’s own “statement on statements” by containing overtly political undertones. Many are asking, is this institution still neutral?
The email’s subject line was “Sifting and winnowing through another baggie” which, while it hasn’t been confirmed, Daily Cardinal experts believe is a reference to ingesting a “baggie” of cocaine, which is a central nervous system stimulant and tropane alkaloid derived from the South American coca plant.
The email contains several other possible drug references.
While some have been offended by the contents of the email, especially the persistent mentions of a conspiracy theory alleging that COVID-19 is “snake venom created by the deep state” and that French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron’s wife is “actually an Italian man named Sergio”, a majority of students have applauded it, crediting it with changing their perspective of Chancellor Mnookin.
“I used to think she was boring and out of touch, but after reading that email, I kind of love her now, I’d kill to have her in the blunt rotation,” one anonymous student told me, the Cardinal.
“I didn’t even know who Mnookin was till I got that email. Honestly, I still don’t, but the fact that she was bragging about getting cross-faded with my engineering professor while anonymously sending hate tweets to various members of the Gopher football team was pretty based and red-pilled,” another anonymous student said.
Dominic Violante is The Beet editor for The Daily Cardinal.
