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"Students aren’t eager to attend a school best known for 'a hair-trigger protest culture lacking any adult control.'"--John Sexton |
More evidence that what goes around comes around, as Mizzou's cowering before the Black Lies Matter crowd has resulted in a massive reduction of enrollments: "...students from both in-state and out of state that just did not apply, or those who did apply but decided not to attend.” Thanks to Mizzou's having surrendered to racist campus radicals, 400 people (who had absolutely nothing to do with alleged campus racism) have lost their jobs and the library has been reduced to begging. Frank Berrien & John Sexton have the stories.
Sexton also responds to a Huffing & Puffington hit piece by the former Provost at Evergreen College which indicates that the only reason Evergreen faculty wanted Professor Bret Weinstein gone is that he exposed Evergreen's lawless environment to the general public, thereby causing embarrassment to the faculty. Poor, poor dears... Dr. Weinstein's interview with Tucker Carlson is embedded below.
I guess I've been told! MRC's Nicholas Fondacaro reports that 'CBS News Sunday Morning' recently entertained the nation with one Faith Salie (Google is your friend), who moaned, groaned and, er, lied about conservatives' use of the word "snowflake". You know you've found your mark when the proggie twits lecture you about language.
While poking about for material for this article, I ran across an Op-Ed written by Ashe Schow, a Senior Political Columnist whose work appears on conservative news sites as well as the Washington Examiner. The article, written about a year ago, provides an excellent look at the "snowflake" phenomenon. Here's a taste:
They commanded their college administrations to change the names of buildings by judging past actions by today's standards. They protested speakers who they found controversial and they labeled as "hate speech" anything they found objectionable.
It was a year of humiliation for institutions of higher education, which found administrators giving in to the absurd and petty demands of the students they were supposed to be preparing for life as adults.
Last but certainly not least, Tom Knighton explains: "San Jose State University is now forcing students to pay for and attend an "orientation program" that seems to be less about orientation and more about Leftist indoctrination." Now being indoctrinated by leftist ideologues infecting the university - a "feature" included in tuition - you must now pay an additional fee for, er, being indoctrinated. Go figger.
- Airaksinen, Toni: Prof: Colleges must train 'social justice warriors' to fight Trump
- Berrien, Hank: FROM BAD TO WORSE: After Caving to Black Lives Matters, Mizzou Closes Seven Dorms, Cuts 400 Jobs
- Fondacaro, Nicholas: CBS Bemoans & Smears Conservatives for Using ‘Snowflake’ as an Insult
- Knighton, Tom: San Jose State Freshmen Charged $250 for Mandatory 'Diversity And Inclusion' Training
- Schow, Ashe: What's next for the college snowflakes?
- Sexton, John: Professor Weinstein’s Sin: He Stepped Outside The Progressive Bubble And Spoke To Tucker Carlson
- Sexton, John: NY Times: Campus Protests ‘A Disaster’ For Mizzou
- Google "Snowflakes are useful idiots"
- The Communist Takeover Of America - 45 Declared Goals (Annoted)
- Protect Yourself From The Evil Patriarchy With The Brand New "Portable Safe Space" Available From Just $79.95
- "If fascism comes to America, it will be through our college and university system."
Higher education has “a special mission to educate the next generation of Social Justice Warriors,” according to a recent op-ed by two academics. Warning that Donald Trump will cause "catastrophic consequences" for the nation's "social sustainability," James Martin and James Samels says colleges must focus on training students to engage in social activism.
Higher education has “a special mission to educate the next generation of Social Justice Warriors,” according to a recent op-ed by two academics. Warning that Donald Trump will cause "catastrophic consequences" for the nation's "social sustainability," James Martin and James Samels says colleges must focus on training students to engage in social activism.
Melissa Click, fired by the University of Missouri Department of Communication
After it was reported at the end of June that the University of Missouri, crippled by a plunge in enrollment after its debacle over charges of racism in 2015, was attempting to recoup its losses by renting dorm rooms to football weekend visitors, there is now this: The New York Times reports that the university is temporarily closing seven dormitories and cutting over 400 positions, including those of some non-tenured faculty members.
But here’s the big surprise: as the Times notes: “Students of all races have shunned Missouri, but the drop in freshman enrollment last fall was strikingly higher among blacks, at 42 percent, than among whites, at 21 percent.”
Instead of covering the news of the day, CBS News Sunday Morning chose to lecture their viewers about why it was a bad thing to call someone a “snowflake.” “It's the political putdown of the moment: snowflake. And to its fans, Faith Salie has one word of advice: chill,” hyped host Jane Pauley as she led into the segment. A measured tone for a segment that freely smeared conservatives.
San Jose State University is now forcing students to pay for and attend an "orientation program" that seems to be less about orientation and more about Leftist indoctrination.
This past school year, colleges and universities saw some of the most embarrassing displays of student and faculty behavior ever witnessed in modern history.
Bolstered by a grievance culture that promotes victimhood, campus protesters demanded "safe spaces" from ideas they disagreed with and "trigger warnings" on readings that might make them uncomfortable. They accused those whose comments might seem slightly insensitive of committing "microaggressions."
It was Professor Bret Weinstein’s decision to step outside of the progressive bubble and speak to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson that earned him the anger of many of his colleagues. Michael Zimmerman, a former provost at Evergreen College, published a piece at HuffPost today making the case that this, more than anything else, is why faculty wanted him to resign or be investigated. Zimmerman included excerpts from emails sent after Weinstein’s appearance on Fox
The protests at Mizzou and the resignation of the college president were widely celebrated as a success at the time, but things haven’t worked out well for the school which is now renting out empty dorm rooms for events like the upcoming solar eclipse. It turns out students aren’t eager to attend a school best known for, as the Times puts it, “a hair-trigger protest culture lacking any adult control.”
 | @dragon40, Certified Curmudgeon “The only way a society can avoid being crushed by the burden of its idiots is if the non-stupid work even harder to offset the losses of their stupid brethren.”--Carlo M. Cipolla |  |