Posted on 01/19/2016 8:06:39 PM PST by MtnClimber
College presidents have always received a lot of mail. But these days we get more than ever. Much of it relates to student unrest, and most of the messages are unpleasant.
Our usual practice is to thank the sender for writing and leave it at that. The combination of receiving more than 100 emails and letters a day and recognizing that the purpose of many writers is to rebuke, rather than discuss, leaves us little choice about how to respond.
But that certainly doesnât mean we donât think long and hard about the issues being raised. Some writers ask why our campus is so focused on how âblack lives matter.â Others express a mixture of curiosity and rage about microaggressions and trigger warnings. And finally, what about those oft-criticized âsafe spacesâ? On this last topic, here are two stories. The first was told to me privately by another institutionâs president, and the second takes place at my institution, Northwestern University.
A group of black students were having lunch together in a campus dining hall. There were a couple of empty seats, and two white students asked if they could join them. One of the black students asked why, in light of empty tables nearby. The reply was that these students wanted to stretch themselves by engaging in the kind of uncomfortable learning the college encourages. The black students politely said no. Is this really so scandalous?
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That Space Cadet glow.
Yep, he's getting hammered, and very properly so. Apparently his answer to racial sensitivity is apartheid. I think the good Doctor owes South Africa an apology.
Interesting, the black student owns all the seats at the table near him. Jackass.
This guy isn’t qualified to scrub toilets.
I was commissioned through OCS, so went through BCT at Benning.
Ran into my old DI in RVN. He had made E-8 and was 1SG of an Engineer company.
He said “BCT was tough, so, if a kid was going to break, he would do it there, not in combat”.
This current system is such a disservice to the troops!
Live Long and Prosper
“For more than four decades, we have had a building on campus called the Black House, a space specifically meant to be a center for black student life. “
That’s not safe enough. There need to be special “black safe-space” colleges which devote their entire campus to safe-spaces for blacks.
The lunatics are in full possession of the facility.
SSDD
I learned a lot about Jewish culture, they learned something about Christian culture, and we all had a blast. The concept of a "safe space" never entered anyone's mind.
We went back to school and stayed friends. We learned science, engineering, and how to get along together. If there had been "safe spaces" we would have learned how to exclude each other.
I definitely don’t remember that when I was going through BCT at Benning in ‘06. Must be pretty new.
Looks like a caste system is inventing itself on the backs of #blacklivesmatter.
“I wonder, when the students he is coddling apply for their first post-graduation job, will they ask, âWhere is the Safe Space here at XYZ Industries?â”
The student is more likely to hear, “Thanks for applying but we hired the fellow from Pakistan. He was prepared to work within our organization without needing a Safe Space.”
IOW - my job is to ensure more emotionally crippled, social misfits are produced - F*** education - with education, they aren’t so pliable to Left-Wing Despotism.
The time out cards have been gone on for over a decade including BUDS (Navy SEAL training); a friend who did BUDS was disgusted at how wimpy the training is, and that was a decade ago.
Benning probably held out longer than most. The last time I was there (~two years ago) they were still letting folks use spitoons over in Bldg 4; the rest of the Army stopped this years ago.
No, it is rude, and typical.
Courtesy is only required from white people.
Why?
Black lives matter is NOTHING BUT PART OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY NETWORK....simply trying to destroy America....
I thought they wanted equality. They do not.
“A group of black students were having lunch together in a campus dining hall. There were a couple of empty seats, and two white students asked if they could join them. One of the black students asked why, in light of empty tables nearby. The reply was that these students wanted to stretch themselves by engaging in the kind of uncomfortable learning the college encourages. The black students politely said no. Is this really so scandalous?”
If whites had said it to blacks this liberal “president” would have screamed racism and bloody murder.
So, what I just heard this president liberal say is that it is OK to segregate lunch counters to whites only.
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