One University president has had enough of self-absorbed students in need of safe spaces

American Thinker ^ | 11/30/2015 | Carol Brown

[needmorePaine]

Toddler Brigade

Generation Binky

[oldplayer]

Oklahoma Wesleyan has a decent reputation in our state and in the immediate area. President Piper is a frequent quest on a popular Tulsa morning drive time talk show. He speaks his mind and WILL be backed up by his Trustees.

Oldplayer

[tanknetter]

Standing up to the snowflakes bookmark.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Eileen Brennan was a treasure. That was her best role.

[TBP]

I bet he gets forced out soon.

[Americanexpat]

We are turning out a generation of pussies makes you wonder how even sorrier the next generation will be.

[hal ogen]

He probably has “white privilege” also.

[Billthedrill]

There is a certain risk of painting with too broad a brush when we extrapolate the antics taking place at Mizzou, Harvard, and other playpens for the privileged, to all universities throughout this very large country. As a staffer at one of them I have to smile a little at the thought of an undergraduate demanding a Safe Space replete with pounding pegs and Play-Doh around here. The little darling would be hooted off campus if the engineering students didn't kill him first.

At some point the administrators of the high-rent playpens are going to wake up to the fact that this sort of stuff is incredibly corrosive to academic reputation. For certain schools that may not matter; for others already creaking under the strain of increasing tuition and massive student loans, it may begin to matter where it didn't before.

[ridesthemiles]

Reminds me of something that happened to me years ago. Was doing bookkeeping for a small family business. College ‘graduate’ family member wanted to work at the family business.

He had no accounting classes nor any bookkeeping experience.

However, his Dad got squeezed —0dominating Mom—into telling me that I was being terminated in 2 weeks, so that his son could take over MY JOB. Then I was informed by both the Dad & the son that I was to TEACH the kid how to do the job. He had absolutely no experience nor any background in anything like this job.

I WALKED OUT THE DOOR.

Last I heard, the kid didn’t last a month. NO PAYROLL CHECK was correct for 4 ++ weeks. Other 4 employees were revolting against the kid over incorrect paychecks.

I didn’t cry a single tear. Was working within 2 days elsewhere.

[Albion Wilde]

bttt

[Retain Mike]

So let me see if I have got this right. Parents are supposed to spend the first five years of the life of a child getting them ready to enter the public education system. Then the next fifteen years are spent in retrograde operations making them suitable for recess and naps again. Right?

[Oatka]

Oh well at least it is a very small start.

Chinese proverb: "The longest journey begins with the first step."