Maybe white and Jewish students are too smart to go to the Poison Ivey League universities.
By avoiding Vietnam.
Ridiculous tuition costs?
Universities were lost the day “The Naked Communist” came out. Nut even before that, as Lenin so eloquently stated: “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”
It was telegraphed what the Marxists were going to do in academia. Instead of doing something, people were called McCarthyites and our political right backed off. Now apply this to every institution.
Parents footing the bill and the debacle of student loans are coming home roost. If my kid is an engineer or med school worthy, find a way. Other than that, one year of college to make an effort and show me As and Bs or sonny boy of mine, you can go to work.
The loss of the universities started with the Vietnam student deferment.
Too much money available discouraged sound practices of business management, like not hiring idiots/firing idiots.
Its probably that aimple.
Back in the 1950s it was joked that there were more communists teaching at Princeton than in Moscow. Years later it was found that it wasn’t a joke!
They have succeeded.
Book Review: America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything
Start with federal money and accreditation to enforce a universal race to the bottom.
I call it “edufacturing.”
White liberal women. Same as it ever was.
The difference between Ivy League Harvard and Penn compared to tech powerhouse MIT is that, at MIT, the few liberal arts majors there are treated as special ed.
>>>At the present rate, a Stanford law degree, a Harvard political science major, or a Yale social science BA will soon scare off employers and the general public at large.<<<
VDH’s very insightful writing is a sign of things to come. Are the parents of these worthless students PROUD of them because they are in ivy league colleges? Are they NOT paying attention to their children, or do they just not care?
I had the honor of attending VDH lectures when I was a history major at Fresno State. He was a rockstar there and several professors taught there just so they could work with him. VDH was apolitical at that time (late 90s), but I always wonder how much respect he lost from them because of his now-public political views.
Our universities were lost when the 1960’s “flower children” took over with their drugs and anything goes society.
If you lived through the 60s and were well-read and watching what was going on, then you watched as the adults who ran the universities were shaping them and breaking them down by using any excuse to change the university in reaction to any sort of pressure from the kids, no matter how transient and trivial.
Reagan had been a campus activist contributing to the college president’s resignation.
Some point to the 1950s with the Beatniks and others to the 1960s with the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything(S.W.I.N.E.) Al Capp had them pegged in 1966..
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It goes way way back...
In 1938 my grandfather didn’t allow my aunt to attend Columbia University because it was “full of communists.’ He had come from Europe and he knew what he was talking about. He made her go to a Catholic college run by nuns.
