As Scott Walker mulls White House bid, questions linger over college exit

Washington Post ^ | 02/11/15 | david-a-fahrenthold

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MILWAUKEE — Scott Walker was gone. Dropped out. And in the spring of his senior year.

In 1990, that news stunned his friends at Marquette University. Walker, the campus’s suit-wearing, Reagan-loving politico — who enjoyed the place so much that he had run for student body president — had left without graduating.

[betty boop]

If what you know is women’s studies, gay studies, the history of American imperialism, and the rich and their hateful millions, then you might as well know nothing.

Actually, you know less than nothing. What you have here is the perfect picture of "self-lobotomization" of a formerly vibrant culture. This is pure irrationality in practice, trying to drum up adherents to its cause.

None of the degree tracks you mention conduce to the well-being of a free society under equal and just laws.

I wonder about the parents of students opting for such majors, who may be to some degree footing the bill to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars, to purchase a college degree for their kids. Or else their kids will be saddled with eternal bills for government loans, that cannot ever be discharged — either through bankruptcy court, or death.

Anyhoot, kids studying in such majors would seem to have somewhat limited job prospects. What do these courses of study fit the student for, other than jobs in political activism, community organization, "education," etc., etc., ad nauseam?

All this at the same time that American businesses are desperate to hire qualified candidates in science, technology, engineering, mathematics. So desperate, one hears, that they have to find their qualified candidates from overseas, and lobby the federal government to issue work permits to foreign nationals, because there isn't a sufficient enough number of Americans qualified to staff those jobs.

It's all so very, very sad.

[betty boop]

Liberals are devolving to their usual tactic; ignore the issue (s), attack the person.

These silly people. They really do believe that if you can kill the messenger, then you don't have to read the message. Let alone engage and respond to it in a logical, rational way.

Oh, how they try to cheat!!! But for all their machinations, Reality is still what it IS: It does not yield to silly people.

[YHAOS]

“These silly people.

I agree; they are “silly.” But why abandon a tactic as long as it continues to work so well.

[Praxeologue]

Just because your priority would have been finishing your last year doesn’t mean it was Walker’s.

My concern was not that he didn't finish his degree. It was the fact that he accumulated less than three years' credits in four years. What was going on? He's not saying.

[Thunder 6]

yes...but none of them went to Marquette. ;)

[Thunder 6]

I’d rather my President went to Marquette. But then I am biased: MU ‘86

[Alamo-Girl]

They really do believe that if you can kill the messenger, then you don't have to read the message. Let alone engage and respond to it in a logical, rational way.

Exactly.

The ad hominem is a logical fallacy, by the way.

Thank you so much for all of your insights, dearest sister in Christ!