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Victor Davis Hanson: What Happened To Stanford University? The list of serial embarrassments at Stanford reads like the suicides of Greek tragedy
American Greatness ^ | 03/21/2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 03/21/2023 8:29:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Edited on 03/21/2023 10:57:30 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

The list of serial embarrassments at Stanford reads like the suicides of Greek tragedy, where divine nemesis follows hubris...

Stanford was once one of the world’s great universities.

It birthed Silicon Valley in its prime. And along with its nearby twin and rival, UC Berkeley, its brilliant researchers, and teachers helped fuel the mid-20th-century California miracle.


(Excerpt) Read more at amgreatness.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: freespeech; stanford

1 posted on 03/21/2023 8:29:48 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

This country is going to hell in a hand basket with all this crazy woke bs. A lot of these students attending Ivy League schools are apparently immature idiots.


2 posted on 03/21/2023 9:00:38 PM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

Unfortunately, it is not just Stanford that has gone woke.


3 posted on 03/21/2023 9:07:16 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: SeekAndFind

This is the school that started the name-changing nonsense way back in 1970, when they changed their name from the “Indians” to the “Cardinal” (a singular name is stupid enough as it is)


4 posted on 03/21/2023 9:09:54 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Sad. In the past Stanford and Berkeley were model universities. Today, Stanford and Berkeley are empty gongs that lack charity and due submission to the Lord. Proof: “like wounded fawns they took offense and pouted.” That is anti-Christian and demonic. Both Stanford and Berkeley need to hire Catholic professors immediately or continue down the boring road of emptiness.


5 posted on 03/21/2023 9:17:47 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Stanford

The Board of Silicon Valley Bank

Law School chums of Stanford prof parents of Sam Banking Fraud made his bail.

Law professor testified against Trump in bs impeachment over Ukraine.

On and on.

Marxist economic criminals, Stanford.


6 posted on 03/21/2023 9:38:36 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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To: SeekAndFind
The Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Tirien Steinbach and the judge...

What do you know, I guessed right on both of them!


7 posted on 03/21/2023 10:08:25 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how thery control you. )
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To: dfwgator

Now it a tree.
Stanford has slid into the abiss of ultra woke bs.


8 posted on 03/21/2023 10:17:32 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: FlyingEagle

Nothing more than obamanites in their Marxist muslim agenda to take down the hub of western man.

Worst part is they have nothing to replace it with.
Marxism died where it was born.

Islam hosts all the failed third world nation states that have a monopoly on illiteracy and unemployment. Collectively they are called the UN.
Ever notice that on a global overview that the Muslim Marxists have formed the Russian Iranian China nexus?


9 posted on 03/21/2023 10:33:19 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”
Lavrentiy Beria


10 posted on 03/22/2023 3:02:03 AM PDT by silverleaf (It’s not propaganda just because you disagree with it. )
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To: SeekAndFind

The Left tries to take over everything. That’s why we have Marxist cultural institutions.


11 posted on 03/22/2023 3:32:44 AM PDT by popdonnelly (All the enormous crimes in history have been committed by governments.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Notice that every institution in the nation including government, educational and business, that has adopted affirmative action policies has gone to shite. Without merit based leadership and high standards, what has taken generations to build is quickly destroyed.


12 posted on 03/22/2023 3:50:27 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I wonder why VDH fails to mention the role that females have played in all this. A photo of the meeting he describes notes the overwhelming majority of female law students. As he goes on, he issues the name of one woman (womyn?) after another who has assisted in the plummeting of Stanford’s reputation. It is to be recalled, however, that the university has for years been radical and his own Hoover Institution at Stanford existed as a beacon of conservatism in an ocean of radicalism. And who was seen as the lighthouse keeper? Why not Condeleeza Rice, the pleasant but feckless politico qua university administrator?


13 posted on 03/22/2023 5:02:11 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: SeekAndFind

: “For 16,937 students, Stanford lists 2,288 faculty and 15,750 administrative staff.”

I find that statistic staggering. These incredibly high tuitions and burdensome student loans are supporting an employment agency that places people in its own organization. And I’m sure that leftism is one of the employment criteria.


14 posted on 03/22/2023 5:08:41 AM PDT by djpg
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To: SeekAndFind

My many contacts in the legal field are telling me their firms avoid hiring Ivy League grads. They’ve become poison.


15 posted on 03/22/2023 5:55:49 AM PDT by keats5
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To: SeekAndFind

Some think the hippy days faded not so Universities and colleges swung far left to keep their agendas and theories alive and look at the results.

Socialism + Marxism = Communism


16 posted on 03/22/2023 9:51:52 AM PDT by Vaduz (LAWYERS )
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