Posted on 03/27/2017 9:57:14 AM PDT by rktman
Swarthmore College — a fancypants, politically-correct hothouse bursting at the seams with wealthy white kids — has announced that it may punish five students for their role in a four-hour takeover of an administrative office last month.
The students facing the prospect of punishment for breaking school rules have reacted with disappointment and confusion.
The demonstrating students are part of Swarthmore’s Mountain Justice group, a campus organization which is perpetually demanding that Swarthmore’s trustees sell all the fossil-fuel stocks in the school’s luxurious $1.9 billion endowment portfolio.
The latest divestment protest occurred on Swarthmore’s campus on Feb. 24, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
About 80 students joined the four-hour sit-in at the office of Mark C. Amstutz, the chief investment officer at the Quaker-founded liberal arts bastion in the suburbs of Philadelphia.
A hardcore group of about two dozen students later held a “die-in” outside another academic building where Swarthmore’s trustees were meeting.
The protesting students then resumed their normal lives — consuming gobs of electricity, going places in automobiles, that kind of thing.
Then, on March 17, Swarthmore’s administration sent disciplinary citations to five of the students. The quintet of protesters now faces punishments ranging from a mere warning to possible probation.
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Awwww...... entitled little snowflakes!
“Possible probation” is as draconian as it gets at Swarthmore, which should surprise nobody. Lord knows we wouldn’t want the kiddies traumatized by anything as severe as a good talking-to. If these are the Leaders of Tomorrow, I ain’t a-goin’.
-PJ
Wow, look at all the pretentious hyphenated names. Yup, these are leftwing self-styled elites; very self-absorbed. Now, I don’t mind that they’re all borderline narcissists - to each their own. The problem is they think they know so much and want to tell everybody else how to live, but thay can’t even screw a lightbulb in, metaphorically.
The concept of lowering graduate job placement numbers from proggie universities is great.
Sadly, HR directors are mostly university grads, and fully indoctrinated.
Sorry, I could't resist...
They all have two last names!!
Signatories of the letter include Rebecca Howes-Mischel, Naomi Zikmund-Fisher, Bethanne Bruninga-Socolar, Carol Church Holm-Hansen, Summer Miller-Walfish and Andrew Gilchrist-Scott.
Pro’ly the best lesson they will learn in their entire academic career there, that actions have consequences. And the consequences seem extremely light.
Hmm. Don’t see Joey Bago Deenutz
LULZ
CC
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams loved to read the Greek and Latin authors in the original languages. John Adams encouraged his son John Quincy Adams to read Thucydides in the original Greek, "the most perfect of all human languages."
The officials who ran the British Empire in the 19th century generally had studied Classics at Oxford or Cambridge and did a pretty good job of running the colonies.
There are probably a lot of frivolous majors at Swarthmore but I wouldn't include Classics among them. Of course a student could major in Classics elsewhere for one-tenth of the cost of Swarthmore.
It came from a discussion on how empty some of these liberal arts colleges grant degrees in courses that would not be all that beneficial when they left college with only that degree and tried to get a job. Admittedly a degree in Classical Studies would be nice and an adjunct to something that you could obtain a position where it’d be good to have it but not as an only requirement. What I guess I’m saying is that getting an empty degree to show you went to four years of college and have a whopping student loan the only thing to show for it and then complain the only job you can get is a greeter at Walmart.
I am amazed that a Quaker organization actually arrived at a disciplinary decision. Truly amazed.
“Swarthmore has a rich tradition of student activism “
That’s one way to spin it, sure. I imagine it’d be described a bit differently if these same students were holding a sit-in designed to push Swarthmore toward investing in companies building the Border Wall
Derived from the lessons of experience, my wife avoids doing business with women with hyphenated last names.
They dindu nuffins
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