{"id":71412,"date":"2021-06-29T14:51:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=71412"},"modified":"2021-06-29T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T18:51:51","slug":"listen-to-this-graduate-student-explain-her-smashing-covid-jab-victory-against-her-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=71412","title":{"rendered":"Listen to this graduate student explain her smashing Covid jab victory against her college."},"content":{"rendered":"

Graduate Student Tells RFK, Jr. How She Took on Her School\u2019s COVID Vaccine Policy \u2014 and Won<\/h1>\n

Cait Corrigan told RFK, Jr. on the \u201cRFK Jr. The Defender Podcast\u201d that she was threatened and harassed by her classmates, professor\/academic advisor and the president of Earlham College when she pushed back against the school\u2019s refusal to accept her religious belief exemption for the COVID vaccine.<\/em><\/h3>\n

By Children’s Health Defense Team
\nThe Defender<\/p>\n

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Cait Corrigan, a graduate student studying peace and social transformation at Earlham School of Religion<\/a> in Indiana, single-handedly changed the policy at her school that required students to provide proof of a negative COVID test and proof of COVID vaccination in order to attend graduation.<\/p>\n

In an interview with Children\u2019s Health Defense<\/a> Chairman Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., on the \u201cRFK Jr. The Defender Podcast<\/a>,\u201d Corrigan said her college tried to reject her religious belief exemption for the COVID vaccine despite having used the exemption for her undergraduate and graduate degree programs.<\/p>\n

Corrigan said she reminded her school that she\u2019s protected under Indiana state law which allows college students to file religious belief exemptions for vaccines. When the school failed to reply to her email, Corrigan contacted her district senator who put her in touch with Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita.<\/p>\n

Rokita advised Corrigan to file complaints with the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (CHE) and the Indiana Civil Rights Commission \u2014 both of which conducted their own investigations, said Corrigan.<\/p>\n

A month later Corrigan received a letter showing the school\u2019s response to CHE which stated that Corrigan and her family were free to attend graduation without getting the COVID vaccine.<\/p>\n

The very same day, Corrigan said Earlham updated its website to reflect that its COVID testing and proof of vaccination policy for graduation was no longer a requirement, but instead a recommendation.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Corrigan\u2019s victory didn\u2019t come without major blowback.<\/p>\n

Corrigan said she was harassed and threatened by some of her classmates, her professor who doubled as her academic advisor, and the president of Earlham College.<\/p>\n

I was called an \u201canti-vaccine activist\u201d who \u201cdabbles in right-wing propaganda,\u201d said Corrigan. She was also accused of being anti-Semitic, she said. The accusations were \u201ccompletely insane,\u201d said Corrigan.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview to hear how Corrigan\u2019s professor offered her money to not attend her graduation, as well as threatened to retract the letter of recommendation he wrote for her to continue her graduate degree at Boston University, where she\u2019s accepted a full-paid scholarship.<\/p>\n

Listen here:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n