No Exam Delay for Oberlin Students 'Traumatized' By Grand Jury Decisions (Hilarious)

reason.com ^ | 12-16-2014 | Elizabeth Nolan Brown

[servo1969]

Student: Can we get extra goof-off time before our finals?

Professor: No.

Student: HATE CRIME!

[Gaffer]

One would think this pathetic diversionary tactic is just for delay of exams. However, I’d be willing to bet that in the back of their puny minds they are thinking “if we can get this, we can have them dispense with the exams altogether”

[grania]

They're outraged that Obelin will not acknowledge that they expect and think they deserve white privilege.

These spoiled brats really caused a lot of damage for Cleveland over the holidays. People avoiding inner cities during holiday spending season doesn't do any favors for anyone who lives in the city and depends on income from the holiday season.

[Gaffer]

Yes. But I don’t think they actually think about the potential damage caused by their self-indulgent whimsy. They are only thinking “what and how does this affect ME and how I feel.”

Nothing else matters to them. That’s elitist privilege.

[silverleaf]

some things never change
I remember when 4 died at Kent State and to “assuage our anxiety” Penn State students were allowed to convert any course that term to “pass-fail”

So I took German 4 pass-fail and got a lot more party time

[Mercat]

I think of this generation as the Harry Potter generation. At least twice final exams were canceled at Hogwarts because of stuff that happened during the spring semester.

[txnativegop]

and she believes it too, . . .

[I want the USA back]

“...and as a white, middle-class person, I have to privilege...”
Another self-loathing piece of trash. People like this have ruined this country.

[Savage Beast]

What if they're disheartened because the wrong person won the Miss America contest?

The United States--the nation that produced the men (most of them less than 21 years old!) who stormed the beaches of Normandy, is now producing generation after generation of fools and scoundrels!

What else would you expect? Fools and scoundrels run U.S. universities, run Washington, produce Hollywood movies, and control television! Truth for its own sake is not even a consideration for these people!

It is the American people themselves who are at fault. They have tolerated this descent into decadence. It is they who have squandered the priceless heritage bequeathed them by the generations who went before, including the men who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I tried to derive the meaning of the sentence:

“I have to privilege of being able to step away from these events....and put enough energy into schoolwork....

But quickly gave up.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

The contrast between the blithering coddled ones of today and the generation who both lived through the depression *and* stormed the beaches of France is mind-ripping.

[servo1969]

“We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

[txrefugee]

C.S. Lewis. A giant among a nation of pigmies. Perhaps we in America will be blessed with a few giants on our slide into the dust bin of history.

[98ZJ USMC]

The contrast between the blithering coddled ones of today and the generation who both lived through the depression *and* stormed the beaches of France is mind-ripping.

To a large extent, it's those same "Greatest Gens" fault. In the understandable desire to be sure that what they went through would not happen again; naïve, but understandable, they created the most self-centered, character-defective generation in history. They refused to believe a lot of things that were happening, primarily Communist infiltration of every single institution in this country. Not all did, of course, but enough to start the slow spiral downward.

The service they preformed, along and the WWI generation was heroic. On par with anything in our history. Unfortunately, the destruction done by turning their backs on tried and true parental technique, in favor or that espoused by Communists and radical liberals, may be irreversible.

I'm a tail-end Boomer (I consider myself Generation Jones) and I have absolutely nothing in common with Boomers.

[EQAndyBuzz]

If I heard my kids did this at college, they would get a not too pleasant visit from me.

Thankfully my kids are smart and think for themselves. They learned a long time ago that groupthink doesn’t do anything but make kids stupid.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I have trouble with that view even if it is historically correct, and it probably is. They didn’t have the touchy-feely stuff back then and it is largely BECAUSE they didn’t have the touchy feely back then that we had men who could storm beaches under machine gun fire.

That they also had the shortcoming of failing to impart one last piece of morality when they got the rest of it pretty right is in many ways nitpicking, even if (and I cannot disagree with you) that that missing nit was and is responsible for much of what we face today. They were not building a nuclear reactor nor advanced fighter place where the undone last .25% destroyed the whole project. Certainly, nobody informed them that they did.

[IncPen]

Her name is Della Kurzer-Zlotnik

So that Google will always find this

[Savage Beast]

I wonder what would have gone through the minds of the men about to storm the beaches of Normandy and the men and women who struggled to survive during the Great Depression and to bequeath a better life to their children and grandchildren, had they been able to foresee these future generations and what they would do with the priceless heritage that their parents and ancestors had provided for them, at great expense.

I know that my parents and grandparents would have been grief-stricken. I am.

Were these contemporary American decadents capable of shame, they would be grief-stricken themselves. Obviously they are not.

[wbill]

So, I googled. Found this.

Certainly explains a lot about Ms. Kurzer-Zlotnik. The apple, apparently, does not fall far from the tree.

[Kozak]

“...and as a white, middle-class person, I have to privilege...”

And not so hot in her grammar.