Posted on 11/13/2015 6:40:56 AM PST by rktman
Universities can’t withstand mobs, as countless assaults have proven. I’ve lived through two: at Washington University in St. Louis, in 1968, and then about a decade later at the University of Rome. In the summer of ’68 I saw a good deal of the French “Revolution,†which took over most of Paris for a week or so. Its headquarters were at the Sorbonne.
It’s in the nature of campus revolts that the leaders aren’t going to be satisfied with limited reforms to the school; they are inspired by inflated rhetoric, and they see themselves at the center of a great moment in world history. They have, after all, been told that they are the Next Big Thing, the new elite, those destined to govern. Or rule, as the case may be. So they must constantly demonstrate their power versus the hated “Establishment.†That the Establishment gave them these misguided notions is beside the point, it’s part and parcel of the phenomenon, as several professors are being reminded.
So the purge is on, and my guess is that it will get a lot worse before the inevitable reaction sets in. When I was at Rome U, it was routine for “fascist†professors to be beaten, or locked in elevators, or worse. One morning a law professor who sat on Italy’s Supreme Court was gunned down in the middle of the campus. Thereafter, on exam days, the sidewalks were lined with armed police, and rightly so: some of the student “activists†were real terrorists, they were in the Red Brigades or Potere Operaio or some such.
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Alumni can stop stupidly sending dollars to the campii.
Why cost so high? Supply and demand. Students are willing to pay it, so schools are happy to charge it. Prices will keep rising until students stop paying the price. And students are happy to go to any length - including confiscating the money from others thru police power of the state - to make those payments.
What they’re forgetting is education is free. Public libraries are open. Internet brings most of the sum total of human knowledge to their phones. Innumerable people are willing to spend inordinate time helping others learn.
What they’re forgetting is certification, live personalized professors, and buildings with extensive resources aren’t free.
I can see an intermediate term where we say
“fine, you don’t want us on your campuses, we won’t go. And, we won’t pay”
Then they’ll cry about a “two tiered system” because they kicked out the people who formed the new “tier” that they envy.
Good point.
And while we’re at it, be aware they’re not “liberals” or “leftists”, they’re “neo-Bolsheviks”.
The new administrators have been completely indoctrinated into the PC ideology and are 100% with the protesters, even to the point of shutting down their universities. What is more interesting is that college sports teams have discovered (or will, very quickly) that they can completely control a major university by threatening not to play.
Yup. It’s all about the Benjamins.
Nothing will change until police hoses and fire dogs are brought to the party.
This is actually just the extension of the purge in corporate America, where token blacks & females have demanded white men be removed from positions to make way for tokens. They also demand the same activism that they expect of the school administrators.
Every white guy with a decent job should be aware of those above & below him conspiring to replace him with a token; knowledge is power, and I’ve kept my job by keeping my knowledge.
Yeah but it is hard to get worked up over the left attacking other lefties.
Pseudo intellectuals with pseudo causes eating their own.
The IRS, DHS, HHS, DHS ... unionized, government jobs where any ideological enemy will be he harassed and harangued into oblivion.
Or, keep your job by keeping your company private.
It is hilarious watching the parents of college kids get all worked up over this.
The Baby Boomers are in charge of the colleges, so they think its cool.
The kids have been raised in a world where they think everything should be fair, and they “deserve” everything YOU have.
Boy, these kids are in for a rude awakening. Where do they think their student loans are coming from?
LOL! As long as their parents are payin’, what do they care? Mrs. rktman paid her way through college by working part time and paying off the remaing school loans by working hard. No free ride. And, who decreed that you MUST complete your college studies in 4 years? Isn’t it possible that there are some students who have to work their way through and maybe it takes them 6 years to get a Bachelors degree? Which these days doesn’t mean a whole lot. Especially if there’s no work experience to go with it. But at least they may be making $15/hr flippin’ burgers or filling taco shells.
Most community college students are in remedial mode. (Our tax dollars at work.) But the students really know how to work their “smart” phones.(Our tax dollars at work again)
LOL! As long as their parents are payin’, what do they care?
Parents payin’? . . . .in my neck of the woods the taxpayers are subsidizing higher education beginning with the community colleges.
Sure, if you own the company - but you may be at a competitive disadvantage because the government will only award contracts to companies with the requisite number of tokens. This war on Anglo men is wide-reaching...
My son just got out of the nuclear Navy, he was a nuke tech. His fellow sailors with college experience told him how ridiculously easy college is going to seem compared to nuke school.
Not only were they right but he is really getting sick of the PC victim crap and he LOATHES feminists.
You have raised your son well. We thank him for his service. May God bless him!
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