/span>Posted on 12/17/2014 5:19:45 AM PST by servo1969
Last week, Robby wrote here about how "students are so coddled by the feelings-protection regime at university campuses that they now believe disheartening national news developments—such as the grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases—entitle them to final exam extensions." Columbia Law School delayed final exams for students who felt unable to take them in the wake these developments. Students at Harvard and Georgetown began demanding their universities follow suit.
One might think that Oberlin College, known for it's ultra-crunchy reputation, would be all about this. At least one professor at Oberlin, however, is having none of it:
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So, that made me laugh enough to want to pass it on. Notice that the student who sent the email isn't writing on behalf of herself but that of black students she just knows must be too traumatized to take exams and yet unable to speak for themselves. Good for Professor Raney for quickly and succinctly putting an end to this nonsense.
After receiving her professor's response, the student posted the exchange publicly to Facebook, with the message: "TRIGGER WARNING: Violent language regarding an extremely dismissive response from a professor. This is an email exchange I had with my professor this evening. ... We are obviously not preaching to the choir. Professors and administration at Oberlin need to be held accountable for their words and actions and have a responsibility to their students."
But I don't mean to pick too much on this student, an Oberlin freshman. This is the environment she's inherited and set of social cues she's learned from people who should know far better—like professors and administrators at Ivy League law schools, for a start.
Professor: No.
Student: HATE CRIME!
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”
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.
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.
So I took German 4 pass-fail and got a lot more party time
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.
and she believes it too, . . .
“...and as a white, middle-class person, I have to privilege...”
Another self-loathing piece of trash. People like this have ruined this country.
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.
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.
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.
― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
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.
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.
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.
Her name is Della Kurzer-Zlotnik
So that Google will always find this
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.
Certainly explains a lot about Ms. Kurzer-Zlotnik. The apple, apparently, does not fall far from the tree.
“...and as a white, middle-class person, I have to privilege...”
And not so hot in her grammar.
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