Posted on 03/20/2023 5:04:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The list of serial embarrassments at Stanford reads like the suicides of Greek tragedy, where divine nemesis follows hubris.
Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities. It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle.
That was then. But like the descent of California, now something has gone terribly wrong with the university.
Students at Stanford Law School recently shouted down visiting Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan. He had been invited to give a lecture by the school’s Federalist Society.
The judge never even got the chance. The law school students drowned him out. They flashed obscene placards. They screamed that he was “scum.” One yelled he hoped the judge’s own daughters would be raped.
Others bellowed, “You’re not welcome here, we hate you!” “Leave and never come back!” “We hate FedSoc [Federal Society] students, f–k them, they don’t belong here either!” and “We do not respect you and you have no right to speak here! This is our jurisdiction!”
When the judge tried to reply, they drowned him out with “liar” and “scumbag.” Then, mission accomplished, they smugly stomped out.
Note these were ostensibly not teenaged undergraduates. Instead, they were wannabe adult professionals, in law school to learn jurisprudence and to enter the elite American legal system that is supposed to have protocols separating it from the mobocracies prevailing abroad.
One of those foundational principles is to honor the Constitution’s protection of free speech and expression—not to mention the ancient idea of respecting an invited guest, or the custom to treat with deference a federal judge, to say nothing of the duty to honor the codes and laws of the institution
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Who would ever want to hire one of these nasty leftist students from Stanford? They would disrupt your business too.
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I don't know what they're teaching at Stanford Law School, but most obviously none of those tenets.
BTTT
The braindead kids now have cellphones. They are convinced they no longer need an education. Besides, grownups are stupid and don’t know anything. The Snowflake and Zero kiddies only go to college for the “protests”, the spring breaks and to “hang out” and “hook up” at Starbucks wearing a cool “College” or Che’ T-shirt and a pack full of crap on their back that they’ve been wearing since their Head Start days.
The debacle revealed four disturbing characteristics about the Stanford law students: One, they acted as if they were bullies and cowards. Videos of the mess showed how they turned mob-like in their chanting, flashing creepy placards, and, like Maoists, walking out on cue. Yet, when the judge fired back at their rudeness, like wounded fawns they took offense and pouted. And later, when there was mention that the names or photos of the protestors might be published, tit-for-tat, in the manner they themselves had put up posters of the Federalist Society members, they screamed that such exposure was unfair.
Two, they seem incompetent. ....
Professor Davis nails it! regarding the downfall of the modern Stanford University. An excellent read to start your week.
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The ChiComs bought it.
There is nothing wrong with Stanford that could not be solved by th Biggun’
Stanford was at the heart of the Global Warming grant money trend in 1990. At the time, the Ozone Hole was the big talk of the news every night, but the grant money was drying up. I was doing a space systems field study experiment at the time for my PhD at Sandford and someone mentioned the Global Warming thing. First I had heard of it. I didn’t need grant money as I was DoD/Intel funded for everything I ever did, but the place was buzzing for climate study money.
I was surprised anyone bought that nonsense as we were concerned at the time from DMSP data that the Earth was cooling and headed into an ice age by 2030. Ice core samples showed 2030 being the point when temps could become radically negative below the average. Starting in 2023, people would notice snow accumulations in places that usually only saw snow every 100 years.
What was interesting about Stanford was that grant money mattered far more to the institution than anything else. They were wealthy, had billions in pledges and in their bank accounts, yet, everything rotated on more money. Arts departments became science to them if they could score money, and that is where we are today. The Arts departments run the Science departments.
It all started when they changed their team name from the “Indians”.
Guess where you find such people in great quantity?
And while you're there on campus, don't forget that most professors are only one or two steps removed from their students in the naive, not-too-bright-in-the-ways of the world category. May as well recruit them too...they can be useful in a variety of ways.
They don't have to worry about being hired. They'll get elected. Entry level will be the apprenticeship program of the local school board.
Marxists gunna Marxism.
It seems that many universities are in a nosedive with no intention of pulling out of it. But not in China.
I earned my BSEE at the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the latter half of the ‘60s. As a young, Army National Guard Lieutenant, I also fought campus anti-war/anti-business riots my last three years. Five years later, I earned an MBA.
I escaped before the Political Correctness spewed forth there. I have absolutely nothing to do with the UW and their appeals for donation go directly to the trash can.
Like most educational institutions, they no longer educate…they indoctrinate.
Before the American Revolution, John Adams set the standard for what American lawyers should be: against all public opinion and contrary to his personal views, he successfully defended the six Brit soldiers accused of murder in the Boston Massacre. John Adams knew that this act could endanger his property and his family, his practice as a lawyer, and his standing in the community, but he knew that he had to do what was right. The French lawyer Malsherbes was opposed to the monarchy but when Louis XVI needed a defender against the French mob and the executioners, Malsherbes rose to his defense and was so effective that even the mob voted for the guillotine, but only by one vote. Malsherbes’ reward was to be himself sent to the guillotine as was his entire family. Contrast this conduct to the s-heads at Stanford who won’t tolerate one degree of divergence from their unipolar views.
Hate definitely has a home there.
A business opportunity: Publish lists of students who were leftwing activists.
Help employers avoid hiring trouble.
I’ve worked with hundreds of well educated Chinese from Wuhan and other places. Fun loving people, entrepreneurial, great people, non-communist. Their education systems are no joke. They held themselves to high standards. If I asked a question they did not know, they would hold a study session that night to learn all about what I asked. In America, no one would do that. They’ve got all night video games to play instead.
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