Posted on 11/02/2014 11:38:17 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
A student group at UNC called The Real Silent Sam has gotten to the bottom of a scandal involving student athletes.
Ian Tuttle of National Review reported.
Student Group Says UNC’s Student-Athlete Fraud Is Actually a Result of White Supremacist, Heteropatriarchal Capitalism
An enormous academic scandal is not sitting well with some students at the University of North Carolina — but not for the reasons one might think. On Wednesday, UNC student group The Real Silent Sam hosted a “Rally Speaking Back To The Wainstein Report,” expressing disappointment with the recent investigation that found that at least 3,100 students over 18 years were enrolled in “paper classes” in the school’s Department of African and Afro-American Studies — that is, courses that effectively did not exist. Why are these students up in arms? Per the event notice on Facebook:
The Wainstein report and the administration’s handling of what has been labeled an “academic scandal” reveals ways in which our university participates in the “American” system of white supremacist, heteropatriarchal capitalism and brings our understanding of what it means to be a Tar Heel into question. This report is only the most recent example of the onslaught of continued assault and commodification of bodies of color that is integral to the inception and continued practice of our institutional bureaucracy.
To the students’ credit, this is a paragraph of which Michael Eric Dyson would be proud. It is a prose gem of pseudo-intellectualism, from words such as “heteropatriarchal” to phrases such as “commodification of bodies of color” to provocations such as putting “American” in scare quotes.
Are you sure it isn’t the fear of fat wolves?
Agree, but that’s maybe the top 5%. If you are self-aware enough to know you’re not in that group, your choice of school just opened wide. A reasonably smart kid could get a four year degree in under a year with little or no student loan debt. Ted Cruz wouldn’t be Ted Cruz without Princeton and Harvard Law, but how many kids are in that league?
Yessiree, I sure am mighty proud of all them young uns what go to them big high falutin universities and do all that fancy book learnin’ to come up with them big fancy words I don’t know the meaning of.
Fat wolves or thin it definitely is the fear of being chased by wolves around your kitchen table in stocking feet on a newly waxed floor. I’m getting an anxiety attack just thinking about it!
Valid point.
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I second that.
When our son decided to go to Reconquista University (UCLA) I grounded very loudly. But he got a good education in math and very little BS except in the general ed courses. He did his first two years in judo, almost no liberal claptrap. He just discharged from active duty marines, has a good head on his shoulders and most of his peer and profs didn’t want any of him.
> On Wednesday, UNC student group The Real Silent Sam hosted a “Rally Speaking Back To The Wainstein Report,” expressing disappointment with the recent investigation that found that at least 3,100 students over 18 years were enrolled in “paper classes” in the school’s Department of African and Afro-American Studies — that is, courses that effectively did not exist.
...and that’s raciss.
so who was helped more by the “student” athlete fraud at UNC?? black student athletes or white student athlete?
“Did the University Provost care so little for the affairs of the AA Studies Department that he or she was unconcerned about its operations? Or was the Provost so afraid of being called a “racist” that he or she simply ignored the problems?”
I think most of us know the answers to these questions...
Well, I am. But am way past caring about it.
I followed a similar path. Community college, then on to University of Florida.(after USAF) Certain majors “need” to go to decent Universities. Doctors, lawyers, engineers...
While most of the information is the same, the competition and connections are not.(access to expensive equipment as well)
I expect sciences and math to be solid topics and not susceptible to the liberal claptrap
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