Posted on 05/14/2017 5:19:47 AM PDT by rktman
Across the country, loud and sometime violent campus protesters are often met by administrators who ultimately give in to demands related to perceived slights on issues ranging from race to gender and sexuality to alleged hate speech. But one college president is fighting back, and he says the pursuit of truth – not unanimous political ideology – ought to be the goal of higher education.
Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Everett Piper burst on to the scene in late 2015 when he wrote an open letter to his students and famously explained their campus was not a day care but a university. He is also the author of the forthcoming book “Not A Day Care: A Coddled Nation is a Crippled Nation.”
Piper is also speaking up after the latest round of campus unrest, the cancellation of Ann Coulter’s scheduled appearance at the University of California-Berkeley. In his column for the Christian Post, Piper unloads on what he sees as an assault on free speech and an abdication of the role of higher education.
“The liberal arts institution was founded some 1,000 years ago, let’s say at Oxford, for what? To educate a free man and a free woman, to educate culture and what it means to enjoy liberty, and liberation, thus the word liberal,” said Piper, in a follow-up interview to his column.
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He’ll be out of a job soon in todays world.
Oklahoma is different territory...
Somehow they'll get him.
The President of Univ of Arkansas at Ft Smith does not put up with the snowflakes either.
A grown up in a sea of children...
My guess is as he becomes better known, the organized academic left will infiltrate the university and coordinate demonstrations, sit ins, etc. On top of that you can expect fake "hate crimes" and an unexplained spike in vandalism and possibly violence.
This school is my Alma Mater. Piper did take a stand. We need more people to take a stand and not topple. Go Piper, Go Oklahoma Wesleyan University.
It hurts when your butt has been spanked hard. It hurts! awwwwwww, the Snowflakes are crying.
We need to stop calling these thugs “snowflakes”. They are not temporarly delusional teenagers.
“Oklahoma Wesleyan University President Everett Piper .... wrote an open letter to his students and famously explained “their campus was not a day care but a university”............
Trump needs to hire this guy, there HAS GOT TO BE a place for the good “prof” in his staff. Common sense is badly needed in high government, Piper seems to have enough to go around.
“They are not temporarly delusional teenagers.”.....
So then, after they “mature”, they become “snowfakes”?
“He’ll be out of a job soon in todays world.” Prez. Trump gave us reason to believe (more than hope) that the people of core principles in this country are steering the course of this nation toward a better place than it had been heading to. In other words, this administrator will not stand for childishness.
It will be a severe backlash when the whole country gets the message that these snowflakes are not interested in maintaining a FREE Republic.
Hear, ye! Hear, ye! We have found a hero in Oklahoma!
“A grown up in a sea of children...”
Calling them children only trivializes the seriousness of the problem. They are brown shirt thugs.
Born in IA.
Army brat overseas.
Worked for OK and other oil companies.
Live in Missouri.
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