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There was a cultural watershed moment early in the Trump campaign. The MSM demanded he apologize over something and ... he said, "NO!"

Then a week later they went to Huckabee demanding he apologize and he said, "You know what? No!"

The entire, "Somebody somewhere has hurt feelings. Apologize!" leftist media tactic died.

Someone needs to do that on the college campi.

"Students won't play football? You're all losing your scholarships and kicked off campus and the coach? You're fired, too!"

27,000 applications to Yale every year and 2,000 accepted.

You don't like it?

LEAVE.

We'll replace you tomorrow.

Trump re-attached the balls to America.

1 posted on 11/08/2015 7:53:02 PM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

I have thought about this a lot.

I do think we perhaps should allow the serpents to kill each other on college campuses.

Colleges will become unbearable.


2 posted on 11/08/2015 8:01:19 PM PST by lonestar67 (I remember when unemployment was 4.7 percent / Cruz 2016)
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You no longer need brick and mortar buildings. You can get an education through internet course work. It will happen one way or another.


3 posted on 11/08/2015 8:04:13 PM PST by windcliff
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Looks like they’re training a lot of future Sharptons.


6 posted on 11/08/2015 8:18:41 PM PST by aquila48
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Save and grow community colleges as local centers of lifeA-long learning for everyone. Transfer research to the private sector and use existing college resources to coordinate distance-learning until they die out by attrition. Education is what is needed, and we now have better ways to accomplish it than the traditional college campus.


8 posted on 11/08/2015 8:29:15 PM PST by bigbob (But, I read in Scientific FReeper that wind power sucks, or something.)
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The campi aren’t worth saving; the students are.


11 posted on 11/08/2015 9:39:51 PM PST by TBP (with the wrong hand)
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When what is given up is the very core of academic existence - free inquiry, free consideration, free expression - when these are given up the academy is already lost, and the inhabitants are merely travelers in an intellectual wasteland. If their keepers will not fight for them, then they are unworthy of the name.

This is not an issue that breaks down to conservative, liberal, or anything of that fine nuanced political silliness, this breaks down to civilization versus barbarism. At the moment barbarism appears to be winning, as it often does in history when the keepers of civilization fail in their charge. For those of us who have been systematically marginalized, dehumanized, and shown nothing but contempt now to be expected to rise above that and save the unworthy is, I think, asking a bit much. It may well be that the academy is an affectation that has outlasted its purpose and will go under to the savages, and to attempt to save it merely an avenue for accompanying it into oblivion. Honor and defend what the institution stands for, not the institution itself. And mourn what once was the very bastion of civilization, for now it is not.

13 posted on 11/08/2015 9:56:27 PM PST by Billthedrill
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This is what happens when schools stop teaching valuable skills because there are no jobs to send their graduates to; and instead turn their campuses into 60k a year “cool hang-out clubs where the children learn to hate America and God.


18 posted on 11/09/2015 4:19:01 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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As a prof I have thought colleges were beyond saving for 20 years. All I do is, like Napoleon’s rear guard, slow the collapse.


19 posted on 11/09/2015 4:24:54 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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You will never be able to change the campus until you get rid of the main reason for all the false teaching which has been going on at our campuses for 50 years .. The Teachers’ Unions.

These unions set the agenda .. and they are wanting to indoctrinate all these young people for the DemocRATS to have a continual line of voters coming from the campus.

To me .. it seems the only thing these unions want to teach our young people is .. how horrible Americans are.

And .. we wonder why our young people have turned away from their families and poisoned themselves with alcohol or drugs; or they have joined a group of protesters.


21 posted on 11/09/2015 6:01:27 AM PST by CyberAnt ("The fields are white unto Harvest")
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