Posted on 11/12/2015 6:41:58 AM PST by rktman
College has become a very expensive place where Christianity, conservatism, the American flag, and the Constitution of the United States of America are not welcome anymore but Islam, atheism, communism, and environmentalism are invited...
It became glaringly obvious at the University of Missouri, where the college president was forced to resign over a debacle involving alleged social injustices and alleged racism, that the football revenue was far more important than the academic excellence of its students. When the football team threatened to boycott the upcoming football games, then the ball started rolling and the president resigned.
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Instead of resigning, the president of the university should have told the punks on the football team that if they refused to play, their athletic scholarships would be revoked.
What we do have is the Golden Rule which is those that have the gold make the rules.
Yep, that's what Reagan did with the airport controllers and it's what Trump will do with illegal aliens. Leaders stand up, they don't cower.
“their athletic scholarships”. You mean their 4 year try outs for the NFL? :>}
Striking athletes won’t generate a lot of sympathy, given that athletics overall is a money-sink for most schools and the athletes themselves are receiving scholarships disproportionately.
“We get more money than we deserve, give in to our temper tantrum demands or we won’t play!”
This will lead many schools to kill athletic programs if the striking athletes problem goes nation wide.
I say close the institutes of higher learning that are considered racist.
Fire the teaching staff, keep the janitors and groundskeepers to keep the place spiffy, send the protesters home to their parents or to jobs at McDonalds.
Nothing against McDonalds, mind you.
You know, looking back over the past 68 years, I gotta say that these pampered little ungrateful gutter trash spoiled snots have NO clue what hard times are. And would dismiss any attempt to splain what hard times are.
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