Posted on 12/24/2014 7:50:20 AM PST by SeekAndFind
There are almost too many to choose from, but here are eleven of the most politically correct moments on college campuses in 2014:
In December, Princeton students relaunched Tiger Microaggressions, a service that takes other students reports of microaggressions and publishes them on its Facebook page. According to the operators, absolutely anything can qualify as a microaggression since there are no objective definitions to words and phrases.
In August, college students invented a nail polish that changes color if it comes into contact with date-rape drugs only to incite rage from feminists who insist that anything that might help women protect themselves actually promotes rape culture by acknowledging that we live in a world where rapes happen. (FYI: We do.) Or, as feminist activist Rebecca Nagle eloquently put it: I dont want to f[***]ing test my drink when Im at the bar. . . . Thats not the world I want to live in. The fact that fear of whether or not someone could be wearing the polish might deter potential rapists from drugging womens drinks (whether or not they themselves were actually testing their f***ing drinks or not) was not addressed.
In October, an Arizona State University rally against rape culture was slammed for promoting rape culture because it encouraged men to respect women and respect for women should be a given and not have to be encouraged. Come on, you guys!
Oops. I guess I accidentally oppressed some people with the way I ended No. 3 at least according to the More Than Words: Inclusive Language Campaign launched at Macalester College this past summer. It included videos featuring student explanations and posters covering the campus walls that dispensed politically correct instructions such as telling students to stop using words such as crazy or derp and replace them with person with a mental health condition or person with a learning or cognitive disability (even though those arguably kind of maybe sound even more offensive.)
I thought hed do a perfectly fine job, but it just felt inappropriate to have a white man there, the anonymous student behind the so-called Campaign to Abstain at the all-womens Wellesley College said.
In November, Elon University instructed its orientation officers to use the term first-year instead of freshman because the term freshman is sexist and actually suggests that women might make good rape victims.
In June, more than 700 students, professors, and faculty at the University of Minnesota ordered the school to admit its just a product of the evil actions of colonial Americans and must fundamentally alter its structure to make it up to marginalized communities starting with forcing all students to take a transgender-sensitivity class.
In September, the student editorial board at the University of Oklahoma wrote an article all about how bras are racist because they come in colors named nude and not everyone is that color when theyre nude. They also said that Band Aids were an example of white privilege.
A sorority at California State University, Fullerton, got in serious trouble in September for hosting a Taco Tuesday event because some attendees wore culturally insensitive attire (read: sombreros and mustaches.). A similar thing happened in April at Dartmouth University, where backlash forced a fraternity to cancel a fundraiser yes, fundraiser for cardiac patients because one student complained that the fiesta theme was offensive. Although the fraternity was careful to warn students to definitely not wear sombreros to the event, they did plan to serve virgin frozen drinks, salsa, guacamole, and gasp! burritos, so apparently Mexican food is offensive in itself.
In May, the student government at the University of California, Irvine, demanded that the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity be punished because they hosted a fundraiser yes, again, fundraiser where students wore grass skirts and coconut bras. Thats apparently racist against Pacific Islanders. A group of students even released a statement that said stuff like tell members of your organization to stop wearing our traditional/cultural attires, they dont know jack s[***] about its cultural significance.
The schools dining services also planned to remove the labels from all of the existing machines just to make sure no student has to see one and be traumatized. But to end the year on a good note: At the request of the university president, the school is reconsidering its decision.
30K??? My sister graduated from a Big 10 school about 6 years ago and it was 48K/year. Princeton was 58K/year in 2014.
Most private colleges range from about $50K per year in tuition, room, board, and expenses up to about $65K.
The Ivies don't have a sticker price any higher than many other schools.
However, most middle class folks don't pay the sticker price for college. Most folks get some financial aid at most colleges. And the financial aid at the Ivies is among the highest of all schools, led by Harvard, Princeton, and Yale.
In fact, families of students with family incomes of $65K or less aren't expected to contribute at all to the student's education at Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. Students are still expected to make a contribution, called “student self-help,” usually in the range of $3K - $5K per year from their earnings from part-time work, but the Expected Family Contribution for families with these income is $0K.
Harvard, Princeton, and Yale do not use student loans in their financial aid packages. Students may borrow their student self-help contribution, and families are free to borrow their Expected Family Contribution, but if one of these three schools gives you a financial aid package worth $60K, it's all grants - no loans.
Most HYP students graduate with less than $10K in student loans, and many graduate without any debt at all.
Ironically, for most families, going to an Ivy League school, especially Harvard, Princeton, or Yale, will cost less than almost any other alternative.
sitetest
Personally, I believe the problem resides in the term, "you" as second person plural to begin with. It sounds singular, which is why there are so many 'fixes' for it.
Most folks don’t pay Princeton their $60K+ sticker price.
It appears that if you get a good education, you learn much about how not to be. LIBs are mentally disturbed.
Band Aids with Freckles?
Which means we are less offensive than the damn yankees!
“A student newspapers editorial board wrote a whole piece about how racist bras are.”
Well, I gotta go along with that.
“What are you pulling at back there?”
“Relax, honey. I’m just trying to remove the racism from you.”
If they live their lives under this umbrella of political correctness, how will they describe their inevitable failure in life?
Another incident:
George Wills Speaking Invitation Due to his Conservative Views
The liberal bias on college campuses continues. Scripps College created a speaker series program designed to promote conservative opinion on campusbut Pulitzer-prize winning columnist George Will was uninvited from his speaking engagement solely because of his conservative views. Ironic, huh?
"Yo soy fiesta." --Gronk
That’s it! Arrest all liberal teachers for torturing our children. Forcing groupthink on then is a worse torture than water boarding.
Liberalism is a cult.
The best part.
The “Ivy League School” that we considered, a private school, is $60K per year versus our state university (with instate tuition) which is around $30K per year. About half. Even less if our son goes to one of the affiliated “extension” universities.
Probably not an apples and apples comparison because of the instate kickback, but a huge savings just the same. Private universities, which tend to be “Ivy League,” don't offer the instate kickback. Although they may offer other incentives (as you mentioned).
Also we are going to save money by having my son live with us. Actually save A LOT! I estimate around $60K over four years. Most schools will allow the student to commute as long as they live within a certain radius. True, my son will miss out on the campus life and all of the socializing but that can be a distraction too.
Also, our goal is to avoid all debt and loans. This is actually good since it changes our mindset from “who cares how much it costs, our son will pay it off when he gets a job after graduation” and forces us to look for the best value.
The best gift we can give to our son is a college degree AND NO DEBT!
I would like to invite all these liberal PC wussies to the front line to fight ISIS
No, they SUPPORT ISIS along with every one of our enemies.
It's called "Higher Education" don't you know. They get high mainly on Marxism and progressivism and hate Americaism.
I suggest that the new congress begin the dismantling of the college loan/grant programs in place that allow these "Universities" to keep raising tuition costs that allow more "professors" to do "research" and other subversive activities. The taxpayers are in effect subsidizing the overthrow of our culture and country. This must stop.
No, they SUPPORT ISIS along with every one of our enemies.
I agree. Too many liberals want the destruction of the USA.
> No, they SUPPORT ISIS along with every one of our enemies.
Given that we now have reliable reports of ISIS executing foreign fighters who have joined them and then proven incompetent, useless, or chicken[bleep]...
Yeah. Load 'em on planes and send 'em over there.
Pacific Lutheran University has a billboard campaign with over 100 billboards in King and Pierce counties depicting miffed people tearing up placards with “offensive” words and phrases on them. The “Words Can Hurt” campaign is run out of the diversity office at PLU with billboard space donated by a local ad company and will run into next spring.
It’s a real pleasure to drive around here in Pugistan and see these poker faces scolding you for yet another offense to their superior sensibilities.
bkmk
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