Posted on 07/24/2019 9:26:44 AM PDT by robowombat
The degree seems to be useful for a career in documentary filmmaking.
You’re right. It’s just a matter of time.
Liberalism destroys everything it touches.
For generations, this was where the daughters of VERY wealthy Southerners went to "finish" their education as marriageable Southern Belles. I graduated high school in the 70s, and for serious students the college was pretty much the punch line of a joke . . . the name said with an exaggerated upper-class Southern accent and batting of eyelashes.
Much of the fame of the school has to do with its highly impressive equestrian program. It was never about getting a "marketable" bachelor's degree, unless you're thinking about the marriage mart.
Maybe they have gone in a different direction since the 70s, but I would think that sort of reputation would make it very difficult for parents to consider it a serious school.
Obviously they have some very engaged and supportive alumnae, but I don't think "real jobs or real income" was ever the issue there.
I'm guessing that about the time you graduated most of these lady's finishing colleges had to at least start transforming in order to survive.
Rural Virginia was once full of these colleges. Some of them went the full feminazi route. I think Mary Baldwin College in Staunton was one of those. Others chose the co-ed route, including Sweet Briar.
BTW, my brother position there was as an economics professor and he uses a lot of equations and fairly advanced math. So I am guessing the rich southern Belles in the marriage market model has changed a lot in the last four decades.
As a “little l” libertarian (hat tip to AnnaZ), a few years ago I overcame my mental block and connected the dots between historical growth of every government (not just ours) and the direction ours was going.
I nearly wept as I contemplated the historical reality of a government NEVER voluntarily growing smaller or relinquishing power it has been given. Absent a coup, revolution, or other national catastrophe, we can expect a people’s republic once the AOC people get enough votes. That may take a few decades more, but the trend line and historical uniformity of outcome spells inevitable to me.
We are reaching the anarchy stage mentioned here.
Types of Government, Explained
My old boss graduated from there (also known as Hempshire College). He was even a prof for a while there, and met his now wife there.
It doesn’t sound like it’s changed much over the last 20 years.
Well deserved not so distant closure.
But I imagine the *parents* - who after all are footing the bills for a $40,000 education - probably think the same thing we were thinking when we heard "Sweet Briar".
Relic of the Sixties, and well-known bastion of Leftie politics and permissive “scholarship” can’t find enough suckers to join the other Marxist cadres.
And those 15 student and the perfect embodiment of the useful idiot concept.
JoMa
Oh noze! The speech might foster “intense debate”...can’t have any intense debate on a college campus - the students might start to think and actually learn something of the real world...
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