Comments on: Another college president …

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sun, 12 May 2024 12:49:42 +0000

She needs four relatives to help her change a light bulb.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Fri, 10 May 2024 23:15:50 +0000

Speaking of another institute named after Thomas Jefferson, this happened:

GOING VIRAL: Thomas Jefferson University Graduation Announcer Botches Common Names During Ceremony (VIDEO)

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/going-viral-thomas-jefferson-university-graduation-announcer-botches

It is becoming more difficult by the day to distinguish reality from satire.

Can you imagine these poor graduates, having spent so much time, effort and money (borrowed or not) on their education to have this happen on their long-awaited graduation day?

The word “embarrassment” doesn’t even begin to cover it.

By: Marisa

Marisa — Fri, 10 May 2024 22:24:06 +0000

Right on Hurin3!

Huxley, I was not there. My first show was a couple years later.

It’s the most famous live bootleg GD recording and wasn’t officially released until a few years ago. There is ongoing controversy within GD fandom as to whether or not the show is worth the hype or massively overrated.

On 5/8/17 the GD tribute band Dark Star Orchestra performed the show from beginning to end — not note for note but every song in order — in Barton Hall in honor of the 40th anniversary. But when Dead and Company, the latest iteration of the actual band, played there on 5/8/23 they did not stick to the setlist.

The real Grateful Dead played two more times at Cornell, 5/7/80 and 5/16/81.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Fri, 10 May 2024 16:16:58 +0000

Barry @4:28 pm ended with “But is any of the above Martha Pollock’s fault????”
My answer is yes. She participated in and even helped lead the DEI abomination. Was she the main driving force? No, but she is still culpable for her actions.
One could just as easily ask and answer similar questions:
Is the concentration camp guard or executioner guilty of crimes against humanity, even though his last name didn’t start with Hi?
Is the klansman that threw the rope over the limb guilty of murder, even though he wasn’t the grand wizard nor did he place the noose over the condemned man’s neck?
Note that in both these cases there was extreme peer pressure to participate, which I believe was the justification of your question. But in all three cases that offers no defense: you done wrong, you knew (or at least should have) that it was wrong, you caved to peer pressure and did it.
Sorry, guilty! Fire her azz and may she never again hold a job in education at any level.
It is in those moments where everyone you know is urging you to act against all moral decency that you discover your own morality. Or lack of.

By: sdferr

sdferr — Fri, 10 May 2024 15:33:38 +0000

https://im1776.com/2024/05/10/the-implosion-of-the-universities/

I don’t know whether this piece has been linked in another of neo’s threads already or not, but it is in my view well worthy of another link if so. It touches on Bloom’s Closing in particular, hence my inclusion of it here.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 10 May 2024 13:42:24 +0000

Related to the revolting concept of university intolerance:
“Stanford’s Censorship: An Interview with Dr. Scott Atlas”—
https://stanfordreview.org/stanfords-censorship-an-interview-with-dr-scott-atlas/
H/T Powerline blog.
What Stanford U. did to Dr. Atlas is unconscionable…

By: sdferr

sdferr — Fri, 10 May 2024 13:16:56 +0000

Today at 4:00 pm the Athenian Stranger will hold an X spaces broadcast on Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind:

The Closing of the American Mind remains relevant, particularly given the ongoing student protests.

Even and perhaps especially despite Bloom’s eloquence, the book is often misunderstood both by its advocates and its critics — that’s what I’ll discuss.

https://twitter.com/Athens_Stranger/status/1788440616239853995?t=o0kd3FUprV5jhiBY6Ff5cw&s=19

By: Ray

Ray — Fri, 10 May 2024 12:32:44 +0000

Have you heard what happed to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, the Fairfax County Public school, ranked No. 1 in the country by U.S. News & World Report? The liberals noticed that it wasn’t very diverse. mostly white and Asiatic students, so they changed the admission criteria, now it’s down to no. 14.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:24:56 +0000

It’s useless to discuss it in re New York, but there are things that Republican legislators can do to throw sand in the gears of the woke machine in red states.
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One of these it to require that the boards of all four-year institutions be of a size which does not impair function (5-19 members) and (barring a special dispensation) be elected by a postal ballot of alumni registered to vote in the state in question. These elections could be held at a uniform point in a quadrennial cycle and the ballot counting done by the board of elections in the county in which the main campus sits.
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Another would be to require that the president of any institution be a person who has not worked in higher education during the previous ten years.
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Another would be to limit degree and concentration programs at state institutions to those delineated in a glossary incorporated into the state education law.
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Another would be to empower the state auditor to close programs and discharge their faculty upon a formal determination that the program was not in compliance with the description supplied in the state’s glossary. (A great many teacher-training programs are begging to be shut down).

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Fri, 10 May 2024 11:13:53 +0000

A while back, a fellow identifying himself as a Republican state legislator offered a post explaining how people like himself were stymied by the social dynamics of Republican legislative caucuses. I do wish Neo would fish it out and make a post of it.