Posted on 05/31/2021 9:52:03 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Princeton University will no longer require students to take Latin or ancient Greek to earn a classics degree, a change that comes as part of a larger effort “to address systemic racism” on campus.
Princeton faculty approved the elimination of the Classic’s Department’s “classics track,” which required students to have an intermediate proficiency in one of the two languages before entering the track.
Classics professor Josh Billings, director for undergraduate studies, said faculty believe the change will improve the Classics Department because it will add “new perspectives” to it.
“Having people who come in who might not have studied classics in high school and might not have had a previous exposure to Greek and Latin, we think that having those students in the department will make it a more vibrant intellectual community,” Billings said.
The changes were given “new urgency” because of Princeton President Christopher Eisgruber’s call to “to address systemic racism.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Some tidbits about Margaret Thatcher:
“In order to qualify for entrance to Oxford she needed to have studied Latin for five years. She had a lot of chemistry credits, but no Latin, so in one year she learned enough Latin to pass the exam. When she left to attend Oxford she was 16 years old, about to be 17.”
“After getting a degree in chemistry she worked as a chemist for a food manufacturer. She is credited with helping to invent soft-serve ice cream which can be dispensed from a machine rather than scooped by hand.”
https://gardenofpraise.com/ibdthatcher.htm
In other words, classics enrollments are down, so now they’ll recruit anyone. Gotta maintain those tenured jobs..
WTF is this s**t? The Romans and Greeks are responsible for the existence of Western Civilization. These “woke” leftists are all dead in the brain!
They're racist, too! (Along with any correct answer, being on time, completing a task, individual responsibility, etc...)/sarc
New motto of the Classics Department - “It’s All Greek to Me,”
That's the way it's going anyway, just chart the explosion of 4-year "Physical Education" degrees from the Last Century to the New Century, which were then quickly re-tracked inside the university $hell game for dem basekeetball playuz; and the diplomas now read some sort of "Health Sciences and UpBEAT Management" [H-SCUM] bullshit...
Then, even with a full scholarship they end up 50K student debt!
Day One After College, wake up Monday as entry-level knobs at Enterprise, and they had to beat 2 other H-SCUM grads just to get that jerb...
So yeah gib dem all AA's after 2 years for A10dance and maybe gib the hangers-on their BA in H-SCUM.
Meanwhile they will completely avoid the far-more-profitable Lern2Code path, although I cannot wait for the day BLM and the Gibmees declare computer languages racist...
Did they replace “Latin” with Latin(o) Studies?
Don’t even want to know what they replaced Greek with.
Typing while the Doors “Back Door Man” is playing in the background.
dey b shot!
Will ballet companies now stop requiring classes and let anyone join the company??? Well then, here I come. Be very afraid......
*****
That's about all you need to know about him.
“ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος.”
Wow. Haven’t seen this in many years. Keeps repeating God and Word. What does it say?
Universities already have humanities courses that study ancient authors, and courses in ancient history that don’t require a knowledge of Greek and Latin. But the classics department? Without a requirement of proficiency in Latin and Greek, there’s no point in having a classics department.
Should’ve just added Swahili to the curriculum.
.... Go ahead, get your Princeton degree in Classics without Latin OR Greek.....
NO!!!! Those who do so are just bogus dilettantes, period!!!
I took Latin in high school, and later as an adult I took New Testament Greek. I’m not an elitist or a classical scholar—I’m a scientist and a practicing Christian!!! But learning classical languages helped me with my English, and NT Greek helped me understand the Scriptures!
The “Princeton degrees in Classics without Latin OR Greek” are designed to produce woke graduates, who are ignorant of and despite our Western and Christian culture!!!! PHOOEY to them!!!!
“How can you get a degree in the classics without studying the classics?”
*sorry* I was showing off that white privilege again.
Double down, require As.
It’s like buying a car with no engine.
A degree in Igbo or Bantu
would be more valuable
than one in BLM or Antifa.
Coming sooner that they thought;
Joe and Frito are walking through a Costco, much bigger than what was in Joe’s time;
“Greeter: Hi, welcome to Costco. I love you.
Frito: Yeah, I know this place pretty good. I went to law school here.
Joe: You went to law school? At Costco?
Frito: I know! I couldn’t believe it, either. But luckily, my dad was an alumnus, so he pulled some strings.”
-”Idiocracy”
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