CU 101 course required in dorm ( multiculturalism versus white privilege )

The University of Colorado has sent letters to the 400 students signed up to live next year in the Cheyenne Arapaho dorm — saying they must take a 101 course, or move to another hall.

The wide-ranging course explores the history of higher education, and touches on topics including diversity, binge-drinking and the psychology of going away to college...

But some professors — who say they support a more tolerant campus — are concerned with how the university is rolling the CU 101 course into its curriculum.

Hadley Brown, a newly elected CU student-body president, and the others on her winning ticket, said during their campaign that they wanted to uphold the diversity goals outlined by past student leaders.

"Ideally, I think that it would be excellent for all incoming students to take it," said Brown, a senior English major. "This is something I think is sorely needed. So many students at CU lack multicultural education and education about white privilege."

This white privilege crap makes me laugh every time. I come from a family who worked for everything we have and I'm white. I didn't have time to protest because I always had to work. I went to college on my GI bill that I earned with two tours in Nam because my family could not afford to pay for my education. I worked extra part time jobs to be able to afford my wife's college education and we both worked to get the things we needed and wanted.
Now my service connected disabilities are kicking my butt but I'm still working and doing what I can.
All white people were not born rich or with opportunities around every corner. I've earned everything I have, nothing was given to me!!! I've shoveled horse crap out of stalls, washed dishes, worked and managed fast food restaurants, and unloaded trucks. I've received promotions by busting my butt to show my bosses that I'm hard working and dependable. I never thought anyone owed me a job or a raise. If I didn't like what I was doing I found a better job and then quit the one I had. And get this, I stayed in our home and was an active full time parent to my children!!!!! Most of these entitlement minded people need to get a couple clues. Clue #1 WORK IS NOT A FOUR LETTER WORD!!!!! It's how you get things in this life. Clue #2 is that nobody owes these lazy idiots a damn thing!!!!!

When I went to school as a returning vet (also two tours), I was awarded 5 points in admission for being a vet and a couple for having a NY Regents diploma. I also had a diploma from DLI.....which didn't count, nor did any of the other service schools or training, since it was included in the original five.

However, all minority students were awarded 20-25 admission points for just applying. At the university I attended, the minorities were the majority.

Cui bono?

Excellent.

When my older son was a senior in a California University, one of the deans told him that if he didn’t volunteer for so PC group several hours per week, he wouldn’t be graduated.

I had a lawyer friend send the dean a letter explaining that was involantary servitude and slavery had been banned in America. Did he and the university want to go to court to rediscover that reality.

He didn’t “volunteer”, and he was graduated with honors.

The NEA has a death grip on education, Dave. They've created teaching positions for people that have degrees in Education and Communication.....

I went to visit my son's HS Biology teacher to see how he was doing and find out what the course expectations were. Since I work in the field, I asked the teacher about the lesson on eucaryotic and procaryotic cells and their differences since homework assignments seemed to be missing. The teacher told me that was too advanced and this was a general overview.

I asked the teacher if she had a degree in Biology and the answer was no. She had a degree in Education

Hmmmmm....

As a refresher, eucaryotic cells make up the higher plants and animals. Procaryotic cells make up bacteria. This is basic.

Imagine my surprise finding infection teaching in a high school.

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