An Ivy League Welcome

Columbia University officials have been considering reinstating ROTC chapters, lifting a ban against the program since 1969. The faculty, with less courage than a Wisconsin Democrat, decided to poll the opinion of the students to see if they would accept a ROTC detachment to pollute their denizen of liberal indoctrination.

During a campus town hall meeting students were permitted to express their opinion about allowing ROTC to return to Columbia. Anthony Maschek, a freshmen addressed the crowd and told them some truths that never seems to make it pass the Ivy façade called higher education. He was for the reinstatement of Military education and warned the gathering about the evil people who wish to do harm to America and Americans. For his time he was heckled, ridiculed, and insulted by enlighten minds full of mush.

Anthony Maschek, 28, currently a Columbia University freshman a decorated U.S. Army veteran who served with the 10th Mountain Division in Iraq where he was severely wounded in a fire fight in 2008. SSG Maschek spent two years at Walter Reed Army Medical Center recovering from his wounds.

He received the treatment I would have expected from an insipid diploma mill like columbia.

Wow! Diploma mill? The thing about Ivy’s is it is hard as anything to get into unless you are legacy or perhaps a minority (but then you better have done pretty well in high school). I always am amazed at the attitude about college at Free Republic. Someone has to be a doctor, lawyer, engineer, etc. Not everyone can be a bus driver and maid. We have to have someone going to college.

The (bullsh*t) reason that the Ivy League schools (and other fine institutions of liberal thought) have used to keep ROTC off their pristine campuses was a convoluted one. They argued that because of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," which discriminated against gays, they could not authorize a military-related organization at their schools, since that would be tantamount to supporting discrimination (against a favored victimology class, at that.)

Now that DADT has been repealed, and people of all sexual ~~perversions~~ persuasions are welcome to join our armed forces, the elite colleges are searching desperately for a rationale to prevent this offspring of our military-industrial complex from soiling their Marxist lawns.

If Columbia students are so smart, why did they applaud Ahmadinejad and jeer this fine American? And I can tell you: when I was a NYC college student back in the ‘70s, we had student dances with Columbia boys (it was all male then). They weren’t all that bright. Same with the Yalies.

The United Stated college is an absolute disaster.

The vast majority of college students don’t need to be in college. Almost all do it because a bachelors degree has become a requirement of employment.

Why? Because high schools are even more of a disaster. So now college is where you learn things you should have been taught in high school.

What we lack is a strong vocational education system. One where young people are taught skills where they can immediately find employment and satisfaction.

But we’ve abandoned vocational education, because “educators” feel it’s stigmatizing and racists.

Yes, colleges are diploma mills. They neither want nor do train students for life. They exist to perpetuate themselves. They exist so professors will have funding to continue their research. They certainly don’t prepare individuals for life after graduation. What students do receive is a huge debt.

By the way, a doctor, a lawyer and engineer are vocations and can be trained absent a traditional liberal arts program.

And seriously, do we really need more lawyers, or holders of degrees in ethnic or women’s studies or political science?

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