Posted on 11/30/2015 1:40:29 PM PST by jazusamo
Storm trooper tactics by bands of college students making ideological demands across the country, and immediate preemptive surrender by college administrators -- such as at the University of Missouri recently -- bring back memories of the 1960s, for those of us old enough to remember what it was like being there, and seeing first-hand how painful events unfolded.
At Harvard, back in 1969, students seized control of the administration building and began releasing to the media information from confidential personnel files of professors. But, when university president Nathan Pusey called in the police to evict the students, the faculty turned against him, and he resigned.
At least equally disgraceful things happened at Cornell, at Columbia, and on other campuses across the country. But there was one major university that stood up to the campus storm troopers -- the University of Chicago.
After student mobs seized control of a campus building, the University of Chicago expelled 42 students and suspended 81 other students. Seizing buildings was not nearly as much fun there, nor were outrageous demands met.
Clearly it was not inevitable that academic institutions would follow the path of least resistance. Most of the leading academic institutions have multiple applications for every place available in the student body. Students who are expelled for campus disruptions can easily be replaced by others on the waiting lists.
Why then do so many colleges and universities not only tolerate storm trooper tactics on campus but surrender immediately to them? That is just one of a number of questions that are hard to answer.
People so open minded that their brains have fallen out....
The Left eating their own. Enjoy the show, and stock up on popcorn.
I expect them to progress to cannibalism soon.
Right on...Our daughter was here earlier and we were talking about the fiasco going on in colleges across the country after she mentioned the OK college president that told students “this isn’t a day care center.”
She attended a liberal college in the eighties but her major was criminal justice, that was the only conservative department. It was hilarious back then when we’d talk about it and she just brought up the fact these colleges are reaping what they have sown.
Her Mom and I are still very proud of her. :)
You did a good job as a parent. Not surprised.
US Universities....
1. Suck up American youths that would be great for practical, real-world trades —plumbing, electricians, building, agriculture.
2. At University American youth undergo Leftist Indoctrination, rack up huge debt, and via silly G.E. requirements and whacko majors create jobs for old lefties whose value in the outside market would be ZERO.
3. The trades experience a labor shortage
4. Illegals flood in for those trades, later voting for benefits
THE CYCLE IS A LIBERAL “TWOOFER” IN WHICH SOCIALISM IS ADVANCED, WAGES DRIVEN DOWN AND WHITES ARE REPLACED.
Because everything is run by lawyers now. "Feeling discriminated against" is now actionable, especially with our current moron juries.
This happened back I nthe 60[s I believe when black folks were demanding their ‘rights’ by violating the rights of others, rioting, destroying towns etc-
[[The riots had economically significant negative effects on blacks’ income and employment. Further, those effects may have been larger in the long run - from 1960 to 1980 - than in the short run - from 1960 to 1970.
The riots significantly depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s.]]
http://www.nber.org/digest/sep04/w10243.html
It occurs to me that some college professors/activists see the students as a force that is very powerful and very pliable. The temptation to try and ride this whirlwind must be very strong. Imagine if you could control the mobs of students.
How times have changed. Circa 1967 Northeast Louisiana State College, Monroe, Louisiana. Two days before Thanksgiving the students would “Riot.” We would all gather outside of the University Presidents Home on Campus and yell, “We want a Holiday.” After about ten minutes of “Rioting” it would be announced that we would have an extra day off for Thanksgiving. It was all in good fun and nothing was harmed. Campus security did not even bother to show for “the riot.”
I had to laugh at one of the riots, as one of the girls lost a contact lens. In 1966 contacts cost a lot of money. All within about ten feet of her stopped moving and we all carefully searched the ground for her lens. We found it and then “the riot” proceeded as normal.
Times have changed and not for the better.
Thanks for the great story, you’re so right about the times changing and not for the better.
The Revolutionary Communist Party has their filthy hands in a lot of these riots. And they not too subtle about it.
bttt
“The riots significantly depressed the median value of black-owned property between 1960 and 1970, with little or no rebound in the 1970s.”
When I went from Boulder to Rutgers Law in 1978, you could obtain title to a row house simply by occupying it and bringing it up to code. Nobody was bothering.
Today's 'students' have never heard of Kent State.
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