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Students at expensive New York university occupy campus, demand A-grades for everyone
FOX News ^ | December 17, 2022 | By Scott Whitlock

Posted on 12/17/2022 4:46:42 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

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To: OHPatriot

Stupid parents are fools separated from their money.


81 posted on 12/17/2022 8:30:28 AM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Night Hides Not

LOL. College was better back then.


82 posted on 12/17/2022 8:37:03 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Ann Archy
Isn’t Sen. BOB KERRY the President of this school?

I believe you are correct.
83 posted on 12/17/2022 8:40:39 AM PST by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Steven Tyler

Adding to my post #68...

Assuming your brother is in college today, here’s another possibility: If the prof teaches at multiple colleges, he/she might have given your brother’s class an exam from another course at another college, just to avoid the extra work of creating a new exam.


84 posted on 12/17/2022 8:48:42 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

America is finished.


85 posted on 12/17/2022 9:05:47 AM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: EEGator

“He wound up interning at the NSA.”

Cool place.


86 posted on 12/17/2022 9:13:38 AM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: PLMerite

I wouldn’t know...
:)


87 posted on 12/17/2022 9:14:07 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ridesthemiles

who sue the parents - the kids or the university - and why


88 posted on 12/17/2022 9:14:29 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The teachers taught them well. Commies always get eaten by their commie off spring.


89 posted on 12/17/2022 10:49:04 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I am so sick of this crap! Why even have colleges at all?? None of these snowflakes wants to go to class, take tests, etc. Just give everyone a degree in the major of their choice and be done with it!


90 posted on 12/17/2022 10:59:56 AM PST by Polyxene (Out of the depths I have cried to Thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Expel them all.


91 posted on 12/17/2022 11:21:25 AM PST by Rob_Henry
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good luck finding gainful employment with those bogus, unearned “A”s.


92 posted on 12/17/2022 11:23:23 AM PST by SamAdams76 (4,733,703 | Truth Social | 87,874,312 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: rbg81

My conclusion, an exam to find out the class genius

BTW, my Brother went on to earn a Masters of Engineering


93 posted on 12/17/2022 12:03:37 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: EEGator

Exactly.
Kids that were #1 and #2 in High School learn they are not so special. No more coasting, hit the bokoks and listen to the lecture


94 posted on 12/17/2022 12:05:33 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Tired of Taxes

No, decades ago.
Still a top tier school for Engineers and Computer Science


95 posted on 12/17/2022 12:08:35 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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To: Steven Tyler

Ah, I see... In that case, my other posts don’t apply.

Guessing your brother’s professor was trying to weed out students.


96 posted on 12/17/2022 1:16:15 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: IAGeezer912
I’ll never hire any of these students in my company.

You really, really hope not. I'd like to see lists made with photographs, so we'd know who to avoid.

If this "school" tells them anything but "Take a hike", it should be shut down and the endowment confiscated or something.

97 posted on 12/17/2022 2:47:09 PM PST by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: Steven Tyler
5 out of 100 is really low, even for a first engineering class. These introductory classes are usually sophomore level and purposely very hard to weed out aspiring engineers early.

My sophomore chemical engineering class was doing brain twister mass balance solutions. Algebra only. Prerequisites were freshman algebra and freshman chemistry I & II. About 60 started the class IIRC, about 20 passed it C or better. Easily half of the students dropped the class after the first test. No mercy.

Mechanical and electrical have their own introductory classes as well. Lots of folks don't make it through but I don't recall the typical weed out rate. I had to take two ME and one EE classes that were in this intro category. Not familiar at all with civil engineering or “environmental” engineering. Meteorology is also in the engineering college and is probably harder than ChE.

The rigor of that ChE class came in handy 15 years later when doing a mass balance for an entire oil refinery using the monthly production reports. It took 9 months. 2/3 of this was the math (computer assisted), 1/3 writing a public domain report to submit to regulators, a management report for internal use and a training plan for operations.

98 posted on 12/17/2022 2:58:47 PM PST by Hootowl99
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To: Hootowl99

It was a mid-term, not a final exam.


99 posted on 12/17/2022 4:04:47 PM PST by Steven Tyler
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