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I'm Bridget Todd, and this is There Are No Girls on the Internet.

I'm here with my producer, Mike.

Mike, I missed talking about the news with you last week, but I'm excited to be here doing it with you now.

Yeah, it's been over a week, but things kept happening, and so here we are.

Let's talk about them.

Things kept happening.

Just right up the top, we are usually having this conversation on Thursday nights for Fridays. We're having it

on Monday night coming out tomorrow on Tuesday because I was off last week getting nasal surgery.

I am mostly recovered from it. Thanks for all the well wishes. But looking forward to

be capping the news that you may have missed this week on the internet.

So let's start with one that has really kind of got me boiling my beans over here.

So just today, Texas A&M negotiated an updated settlement agreement with Dr. Kathleen McElroy. The university also announced that they were replacing their outgoing president who resigned over Dr.

McCleroy's racist, botched hiring. So if you've not been following this story, it is infuriating to me.

And I think it really shows how far we have fallen when it comes to conversations about inclusion

in this country. Basically, Dr. McElroy is a black woman with a long and storied career in journalism

spanning 20 years in different editing positions at the New York Times. Ever heard of it? Before

Helming University of Texas Austin's Journalism School from 2018 to 2022, where she is also a

tenured professor. So she was meant to be joining Texas A&M's journalism school, which is also

her alma mater. However, Texas A&M had originally hired her on a tenure track program to really

revive the school's journalism department, but because Dr. McElroy is a black woman, with a history

of doing media work that sometimes involves race,

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