15 Excerpts That Show How Radical, Weird And Out of Touch College Campuses Have Become

Townhall.com ^ | November 28, 2015 | John Hawkins

[Kaslin]

How radical, weird and out of touch have liberals on college campuses gotten since Obama came into office? It's worse than you ever thought and although there is an almost unlimited number of problematic incidents to choose from, these 15 are particularly effective at getting across how bad things have become.

1) "College Students Say Remembering 9/11 Is Offensive to Muslims The everything-is-offensive brand of campus activism has struck a new low: Students at the University of Minnesota killed a proposed moment of silence for 9/11 victims due to concerns insulting, childish concerns that Muslim students would be offended."

2) "Portland State University Offers Course Teaching How to 'Make Whiteness Strange' According to Portland State University Professor Rachel Sanders' 'White Privilege' course, 'whiteness' must be dismantled if racial justice will ever be achieved. The course description states that 'whiteness is the lynchpin of structures of racial meaning and racial inequality in the United States" and claims that 'to preserve whiteness is to preserve racial injustice.' Students taking the course will 'endeavor to make whiteness strange.' In order to make whiteness strange, the description says students must 'interrogate whiteness as an unstable legal, political, social, and cultural construction.'"

3) "A University in the San Francisco Area Actually Told Students To Call 911 if They Were Offended. Administrators at a Catholic university in the San Francisco Bay Area have rescinded an official school policy instructing students to clog up the regional 9-1-1 emergency reporting system to report 'bias incidents.'

The school is Santa Clara University, reports Campus Reform Until this month, however, Santa Clara administrators have been instructing students to report 'bias incidents' using the emergency service reserved for dispatching police, firefighters and ambulances.

'If the bias incident is in progress or just occurred: ALWAYS CALL 911 IMMEDIATELY,' the Santa Clara website instructed students in fierce, all-capital letters."

4) "Educators in the Volunteer State are very concerned that students might be offended by the usage of traditional pronouns like she, he, him and hers, according to a document from the University of Tennessee Knoxville's Office of Diversity and Inclusion.

For all you folks who went to school back when there were only him and her here's a primer: some of the new gender neutral pronouns are ze, hir, zir, xe, xem and xyr."

5) "A Professor at Polk State College has allegedly failed a humanities student after she refused to concede that Jesus is a ‘myth' or that Christianity oppresses women during a series of mandatory assignments at the Florida college. According to a press release from the Liberty Counsel, a non-profit public interest law firm, Humanities Professor Lance 'Lj' Russum gave a student a 'zero' on four separate papers because the 16-year-old did not 'conform to his personal worldviews of Marxism, Atheism, Feminism, and homosexuality.' The law firm has called for a full, private investigation of the professor and the course curriculum."

6) "College Codes Make 'Color Blindness' a Microaggression; wait, what? UCLA says "Color Blindness," the idea we shouldn't obsess over people's race, is a microaggression. If you refuse to treat an individual as a 'racial/cultural being,' then you're being aggressive."

7) "The phrase 'politically correct' is now a microaggression according to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The university’s 'Just Words' campaign is the work of UWM’s 'Inclusive Excellence Center' and aims to 'raise awareness of microaggressions and their impact' microaggressions like 'politically correct' or 'PC.'"

8) ) "'American,' 'illegal alien,' 'foreigners,' 'mothering,' and 'fathering' are just a handful of words deemed 'problematic' by the University of New Hampshire's Bias-Free Language Guide.Saying 'American' to reference Americans is also problematic. The guide encourages the use of the more inclusive substitutes 'U.S. citizen' or 'Resident of the U.S.' The guide also tries to get students to stop saying 'Caucasian,' 'illegal Immigrant,' 'mother,' 'father' and even the word 'healthy' is said to shame those who aren't healthy."

9) "Late yesterday afternoon, ACLJ filed a lawsuit on behalf of Brandon Jenkins against officials of The Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) in Maryland for denying Brandon admission to its Radiation Therapy Program in part due to his expression of religious beliefs. As one faculty member explained to Brandon, on behalf of CCBC, the ‘field [of radiation therapy] is not the place for religion.'"

10) "A California school co-founded by a firebrand who once called for an 'intifada' in the U.S. has become the nation's first accredited Muslim college."

11) "According to Coastal Carolina University, sex is only consensual if both parties are completely sober and if consent is not only present, but also enthusiastic. This is a troubling standard that converts many ordinary, lawful sexual encounters into sexual assault, and it should frighten any student at CCU.”

12) "Clemson University apologizes for serving Mexican food. Students took to Twitter to call the event culturally insensitive and to question the school's efforts to promote diversity. Clemson Dining issued an apology to 'offended' students after hosting a 'Maximum Mexican' food day."

13) "All-Women's College Cancels 'Vagina Monologues' Because it Excludes Women Without Vaginas."

14) "The 'Black Lives Matter' leader who landed a teaching gig at Yale University delivered a lecture this week on the historical merits of looting as a form of protest, backing up his lesson with required reading that puts modern-day marauders on par with the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party."

15) "Assistant Dean (at Cornell) Tells a Project Veritas Investigative Journalist that the University Would Allow an ISIS Terrorist to Hold a 'Training Camp' on Campus, Saying: 'It Would be Like Bringing in a Coach to do a Training on a Sports Team.'"

[Soul of the South]

“Why don’t the demrats do something??”

They have. That’s why we have leftist running state universities and schools.

[Nifster]

True f the entire world around us....some time ,somewhere, some how folks have got to grow a pair and stand for what is right

[Smokin' Joe]

Seriously, where would you send a kid today?

Seriously? To a trade school to learn aircraft or auto mechanics, plumbing, electrical wiring. or something on that order. They will make a fortune off of the people who have degrees and can't remember 'righty tighty, lefty loosey'.

[Smokin' Joe]

Why aren't Republican governors and state legislatures demanding accountability from administrators, professors and staff at state funded colleges and universities.

Because higher education is a sacred cow, and because it brings in wads of grant money (no where near as much as it spends).

[Neoliberalnot]

Same as I told the United Way. Gratifying perverts at the expense of little boys. How sick we have become. I also cut off my alma maters.

[Neoliberalnot]

True. I was being sarcastic. Have you made any attempt to influence these decisions?

I have personally been in higher education as a career. Being one of about 10% of campus conservatives, I have made many attempts to have an influence. If not for tenure and several million in grants, I would have been fired long ago. I have come to despise the place and find it a source of embarrassment, but I am a productive research scientist, not some hateful mental case in liberal arts.

[Soul of the South]

“True. I was being sarcastic. Have you made any attempt to influence these decisions?”

Two things:
1) I have tried to reason with my elected representatives (all GOP) with no results. They are completely focused on serving the constituents who provide most of their campaign funding.
2) I accepted the invitation to teach a business course at a local University (I am a retired senior corporate executive). One semester of teaching two sessions was eye opening. The snowflakes are in control. I had several conversations with tenured faculty members who realize the situation is out of control but they will take no action. They are afraid of negative student evaluations so they structure the instruction (as well as the grading) to ensure high marks on student evaluations. As a result, high standards of performance to which I was held as an undergraduate and graduate school student decades ago seems to have gone away. These students are coddled and are in for a huge awakening when they go into the business world.