Posted on 11/14/2016 11:49:51 AM PST by C19fan
Several groups on Grounds collaborated to write a letter to University President Teresa Sullivan against the inclusion of a Thomas Jefferson quote in her post-election email Nov. 9.
In the email, Sullivan encouraged students to unite in the wake of contentious results, arguing that University students have the responsibility of creating the future they want for themselves.
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God forbid these snowflakes see a copy of the Declaration of Independence.
Quote more Jefferson.
Those who ignore or run away from the past only fool themselves.
He used whale-oil lamps, too, which I suppose invalidates his input to the PETA types. This doesn't just get ridiculous, it's arrived.
Maybe they would rather have quotes from Mao Zedong, like “Power flows from the barrel of a gun.” Or Josef Stalin: “The people who vote decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” No matter that these monsters murdered millions. They were the vanguard of history, don’t you know.
This is so utterly depraved and demented. It would be bad enough at any university, but good heavens, this is the university FOUNDED by Jefferson.
Screw these loathsome SJWs, they should all be fired. They are incompetent to teach at President Jefferson’s university.
Don’t teach at the university founded by Jefferson then.
When you read an article like this, it more clearly than anything identified the dry rot, the cancer, etc. that has infected academia these days.
My hope is that the President of Uva doesn’t back down on this and continues to quote Jefferson when appropriate.
I recommend that the Virginia legislature make it a misdemeanor offense for UVA staff and students to refer UVA as “Mr. Jefferson’s University”. Jefferson died several centuries ago. Mr. Jefferson’s University died several decades ago.
Exactly.
There is an easy solution. If they don’t want Thomas Jefferson quoted at Mr. Jefferson’s university, transfer to Patrice Lumumba University in Russia.
They should find another place to work, then.
Don’t count on anything from Sullivan. She used the Rolling Stone rape-hoax story to restrict fraternities. Even after the story was proven to be a total lie, she kept the restrictions in place.
Sullivan should start quoting James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton from the Federalist Papers.
Problem solved.
This is it. I have had it with these d***e bags. This crap has to STOP. Colleges and universities which employ these hack agitators need to have all federal funds cut off. Academic freedom is now as empty a phrase as Freedom of the Press. It looks like, after nearly 150 years America will be facing a second civil war over this situation.
Here is one: “ ...that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any government become abusive of these ends, IT IS THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT..”
Half of America just DID and hopefully it is JUST THE BEGINNING. GOD BLESS PRESIDENT TRUMP AND GOD DAMN THESE “PROFESSORS.”
A business solution to this little problem. Something that can quickly be instituted by the new administration.
In much the same way that home and auto loans are determined based on the ability of a person to pay the loan back, student loans should be made based upon the ability of the graduate to pay back the loan assuming the graduate is employed in their chosen field of study.
I.E. a person enrolled in chemical or mechanical engineering would get a sizable loan to pursue their studies, where as someone enrolled in women’s or chicano studies ... not so much.
In short time the student loan issue would disappear as graduates now have the ability to repay said loan and departments that cannot pay for themselves, and where most of the troublemakers come from, wither on the vine.
Just a thought.
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