Posted on 12/07/2023 5:24:39 AM PST by MtnClimber
The Ivy league and their kindred so-called elite campuses may soon go the way of Disney and Bud Light.
After October 7, the public was shocked at what they saw and heard on America’s campuses.
Americans knew previously they were intolerant, leftwing, and increasingly non-meritocratic.
But immediately after October 7—and even before the response of the Israeli Defense Forces—the sheer student delight on news of the mass murdering of Israeli victims seemed akin more to 1930s Germany than contemporary America.
Indeed, not a day goes by when a university professor or student group has not spouted anti-Semitic hatred. Often, they threaten and attack Jewish students, or engage in mass demonstrations calling for the extinction of Israel.
Why and how did purportedly enlightened universities become incubators of such primordial hatred?
After the George Floyd riots, reparatory admissions—the effort to admit diverse students beyond their numbers in the general population—increased.
Elite universities like Stanford and Yale boasted that their so-called “white” incoming student numbers had plunged to between 20 and 40 precent, despite whites making up 68-70 percent of the general population.
The abolition of the SAT requirement, and often the comparative ranking of high school grade point averages, have ended the ancient and time-proven idea of meritocracy. Brilliant high school transcripts and test scores no longer warrant admissions to so-called elite schools.
One result was that the number of Jews has nosedived from 20-30 percent of Ivy League student bodies during the 1970s and 1980s to 10-15 percent.
Jewish students are also currently stereotyped as “white” and “privileged”—and thus considered as fair game on campus.
At the same time, the number of foreign students, especially from the oil-rich Middle East, has soared on campuses. Most are subsidized by their homeland governments. They pay the full, non-discounted tuition rates to cash-hungry universities.
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The difference between Ivy League Harvard and Penn compared to tech powerhouse MIT is that, at MIT, the few liberal arts majors there are treated as special ed.
Was definitely true a generation or more back.
It may still be true academically, for all I know, but a lot of social engineering has expanded the liberal ed window there, and the classroom is different from the campus “streets.” MIT used to be hands-off on loud political mouthiness, but now seems to encourage it in the name of DEI.
Still not in the STEM classrooms, AFAIK.
>>>At the present rate, a Stanford law degree, a Harvard political science major, or a Yale social science BA will soon scare off employers and the general public at large.<<<
VDH’s very insightful writing is a sign of things to come. Are the parents of these worthless students PROUD of them because they are in ivy league colleges? Are they NOT paying attention to their children, or do they just not care?
MIT has been infected with wokeness as badly as any Ivy League university. Indeed, the president of MIT was one of the ones who embarrassed herself in Congressional testimony a day or two ago.
I had the honor of attending VDH lectures when I was a history major at Fresno State. He was a rockstar there and several professors taught there just so they could work with him. VDH was apolitical at that time (late 90s), but I always wonder how much respect he lost from them because of his now-public political views.
Our universities were lost when the 1960’s “flower children” took over with their drugs and anything goes society.
If you lived through the 60s and were well-read and watching what was going on, then you watched as the adults who ran the universities were shaping them and breaking them down by using any excuse to change the university in reaction to any sort of pressure from the kids, no matter how transient and trivial.
Reagan had been a campus activist contributing to the college president’s resignation.
Some point to the 1950s with the Beatniks and others to the 1960s with the Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything(S.W.I.N.E.) Al Capp had them pegged in 1966..
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It goes way way back...
In 1938 my grandfather didn’t allow my aunt to attend Columbia University because it was “full of communists.’ He had come from Europe and he knew what he was talking about. He made her go to a Catholic college run by nuns.
VDH ping
Vic should go do a little research on Antonio Gramsci.
"Victor Davis Hanson: How Were the Universities Lost?"
Post-FDR era, constitutionally clueless, follow the money universities have to comply with unconstitutional federal vote-winning social experiments in order to receive unconstitutional federal funding for various things like research and student loans. Such funding is arguably state revenues, including citizens' wallets, stolen by the feds by means of unconstitutional, post-17th Amendment ratification federal taxes.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
“If the tax be not proposed for the common defence, or general welfare, but for other objects, wholly extraneous, (as for instance, for propagating Mahometanism among the Turks, or giving aids and subsidies to a foreign nation, to build palaces for its kings, or erect monuments to its heroes,) it would be wholly indefensible upon constitutional principles [emphases added].” — Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2 (1833).
From the congressional record:
”Simply this, that the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Constitution, is in the States and not in the federal government [emphases added]. I have sought to effect no change in that respect in the Constitution of the country.” —John Bingham, Congressional. Globe. 1866, page 1292 (see top half of third column)
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves [emphasis added]. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Pelosi: "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." (non-FR; 6 sec.)
Democrats [And RINOs] Are Terrified Of An Educated And Informed Public (3.12.23)
The remedy for corrupt state and federal governments is that all Trump-supporting patriots need to primary ASAP all state and federal incumbent lawmakers and executives in 2024, except for MTG, Gaetz & Company (and others?).
After all, lawmakers and executives continue to show that they do not have the patriotism and leadership skills necessary to find legislative support for effective remedies for unconstitutional government policies.
Exclusive: Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Dumbfounded’ GOP Colleagues Will Not Call for Biden’s Impeachment! (6.10.23)
Trump supporters need to replace incumbents with patriots who will not only support Trump to finish draining the swamp, but will also support Trump to put a stop to unconstitutional federal taxes by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A).
Consider the repealing of 16&17A as part of reparations for victim taxpayers of the unconstitutionally big federal government having to pay a lifetime of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot reasonably justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers and a few other constitutionally enumerated expenses.
Finally, consider that corrupt political party and media fuss about "obsolete" electoral college is because the electoral college is the only thing stopping the corrupt political parties from establishing a permanent puppet presidency that will unquestioningly sign unconstitutional taxing and spending bills into law.
How many are foreign born students?
Sorry, Victor, your numbers are WAY out of date.
According to the Census Bureau (probably July 2022), non-Hispanic whites are 59% of the general population.
In addition, the Census Bureau classifies most Middle East and North African immigrants, and European Muslims, as white.
Consequently, European Caucasian whites are just 57%-58% of the USA general population.
Keep in mind all the non-citizens who were in that last census and are now counted.
This article does not appear to answer the question it sets out to ask.
The Universities were lost over a century ago. This barely seemed to go past 1970.
I'll believe it when parents refuse to pay for their children to go there next semester.
If you get a bunch of teenagers who are treated as an elite and are told that they are going to be future masters, they tend to act like it. It mostly delays the maturity adulthood but doesn't withdraw the associated privileges.
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