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The University Gone Feral
National Review ^ | 11/17/15 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 11/17/2015 2:49:28 AM PST by markomalley

The university, long exempted from social norms and rules, has gone wild in the 21st century — or rather, regressed to pre-puberty.

The University of Missouri campus police now request that students — a group not known for polite vocabulary — call law enforcement if someone disparages them with hurtful names.

On the same campus, a media professor shouts for students in the vicinity to strong-arm a student photographer to stop him from taking pictures in a way that she does not approve. Other staff members try to block and push away a journalist they find bothersome. Since when do thuggish faculty, in Michael Corleone fashion, call in muscle to intimidate students who are exercising their First Amendment rights?

Since when do quite privileged Yale students — in mini–Cultural Revolution style — surround and, teary-eyed, shout obscenities at their professor? Their target was declared to be guilty of some infraction against the people by an ad hoc court of whiny elites, poorly acting the role of the Committee of Public Safety. Apparently his offense was to suggest that students should not become hysterical when they see Halloween costumes they don’t like. Shouting down guest speakers, disrupting events, and mobbing individuals would not be tolerated at Disney World, so why on campus?

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To: LS

When my mother died I inherited her books. One was Giant at the Crossroads. It ended frighteningly badly with the fall of Rome.


21 posted on 11/17/2015 4:38:33 AM PST by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: markomalley
Universities have gotten exactly what they deserve, and so have we, the taxpayers who have permitted them to expand.

Since the opening of the floodgates to admit barely adult, poorly- or unqualified youths into the classrooms, the power structure of the campus has shifted from the faculty and administration into the hands of the student population and their organizers.

This shift began to be evident directly after government-backed tuition loans became available, allowing the colleges to to reap the nation's wealth by lowering the standards of both admissions and the quality of faculty applicants needed to process the magnifed undergraduate population.

This downward trend of quality is due to almost unrestricted access to loans by any child willing to mortgage his/her future to possess a diploma hardly worth the paper on which it is written, from a provider that treats each student as merely another cash cow to be herded by barely experienced instructors ill-fitted to prepare one for a promised meaningful future.

IMO.

22 posted on 11/17/2015 4:38:48 AM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: markomalley

Shouting down guest speakers, disrupting events, and mobbing individuals would not be tolerated at Disney World, so why on campus?



23 posted on 11/17/2015 4:52:03 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

Don’t you hate it when that happens?


24 posted on 11/17/2015 4:56:18 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: LS



25 posted on 11/17/2015 4:57:47 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: imardmd1
This downward trend of quality is due to almost unrestricted access to loans by any child willing to mortgage his/her future to possess a diploma hardly worth the paper on which it is written, from a provider that treats each student as merely another cash cow to be herded by barely experienced instructors ill-fitted to prepare one for a promised meaningful future.

This would be called a four-bagger in baseball.

26 posted on 11/17/2015 4:59:52 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: EinNYC

I think you are grossly understating the problem, from what I see it would appear that “students” are GRADUATING from college needing more years of remedial classes than they did when they started first grade. Certainly the immaturity being displayed would not have been tolerated for one minute in a first grade classroom circa 1950 when I entered first grade. Any college student acting in such a way in the state of South Carolina would most likely have wound up in a state hospital for the mentally ill.

Lest anyone be uncertain, allow me to add that I am not being in any way sarcastic or facetious. I mean the above comment to be taken literally.


27 posted on 11/17/2015 5:08:53 AM PST by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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To: markomalley

28 posted on 11/17/2015 5:35:04 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

29 posted on 11/17/2015 5:35:42 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: markomalley

Poor Ms. Glick. She can’t help it... it’s in her genes.


30 posted on 11/17/2015 5:49:07 AM PST by Mashood
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To: markomalley
VDH nails it.

American campuses have become breeding grounds for budding Hitlers, not budding Einsteins.

31 posted on 11/17/2015 6:20:35 AM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: LS

Marquette?


32 posted on 11/17/2015 6:55:26 AM PST by Thunder 6
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To: LS

One of those where 90% of athletes are not Catholic? :)


33 posted on 11/17/2015 6:58:39 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Travis McGee

LOL! Radical queer gender studies.


34 posted on 11/17/2015 7:40:38 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 20 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: markomalley

“Shouting down guest speakers, disrupting events, and mobbing individuals would not be tolerated at Disney World, so why on campus?”

If he’s implying that these graduates could get jobs at Disney World as greeters, he’s wrong.


35 posted on 11/17/2015 9:22:49 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

36 posted on 11/17/2015 10:17:34 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: markomalley

Just who do these snowflakes think is going to hire them if and when they graduate. They are intent on obtaining a degree based on socialist ideals. That has not and will not work in the real world. Getting a job and dictating to your superior your work conditions will get you directions to the door. Then they will have to spend their time whining to some government official about how they were discriminated against.


37 posted on 11/17/2015 10:25:38 AM PST by JayAr36 (How much more corruption will we willing to take from the Washington???????)
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To: JayAr36
Just who do these snowflakes think is going to hire them if and when they graduate.

I think a great many of them will try to get jobs in government, academia, or with sort of liberal-run, non-profit org. Some of them might grow up, but the vast majority will be involved with some sort of non-productive job. They will find some way to screw the tax-payer.

38 posted on 11/17/2015 11:00:06 AM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: markomalley

To find the dumbest and most ignorant children, go to a university.


39 posted on 11/17/2015 11:12:41 AM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: markomalley

Frankly, it’s a bunch of spoiled rotten little red libs attacking other spoiled rotten red libs.

I love it.


40 posted on 11/17/2015 11:13:50 AM PST by Fledermaus (To hell with the Republican Party. I'm done with them. If I want a Lib Dem I'd vote for one.)
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