http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7308
This is quite funny…
I really hope that this is a piece of satire.
It’s becoming quite hard to tell.
It is true but certainly has the feel of satire because it is so extreme.
I don’t know this publication, but I don’t think it’s satire because during the Ferguson situation, an acquaintance’s D told her mother her Brown classmates were similarly complaining and asking for extensions because they were busy protesting.
I heard it on CNN this afternoon.
Yeek. We now live in a world in which you can’t tell real life from satire.
When I see stories like this they make me want to cross the school off but it’s awfully hard to tell how seriously this stuff is being taken on any campus, but something I’d like to know about Brown and the other schools where such over the top demands have been made this year. Every school will have some fringe elements, but how well does this represent the student body at Brown or at the other schools which have been discussed?
I’m not sure it matters how many students are part of these episodes because apparently the administrations seem to accommodate and capitulate, thus setting the stage for the next group and the next group. Whether it is a handful of students or a majority seems irrelevant. The toxin just seems to build thus damaging the school.
Click through this article to the actual article it’s based on from the Brown student newspaper – it’s really, really, not satire. Someone ought to ask these kids what they plan to do after graduation. No employer or professional school is going to cut them slack because they “just have to help people.” The sense of entitlement is pretty astonishing (it really comes off as “I shouldn’t be held to the same standards as people who aren’t as noble and high-minded as I am”). I think some faculty may cave on an individual basis, but I doubt that the Brown leadership will be buying into their arguments.
Yep, read this last week when the Brown Daily Herald arrived in my inbox. Reads like The Onion, but it’s not.
I was at Brown during the height of early 90s PC, and thought things got a bit ridiculous then—but this is a whole new level of coddling and whining. It never would have occurred to me to ask a professor for an extension unless I had a death in the family or I was in the hospital myself.
I continue to hope this attitude only affects a minority of students, but I’m not sure anymore.
Apparently, whether Columbus day can be celebrated as a holiday should count as life and death issue for some students now since they are not sleeping and losing weight.
Unbelievable. I hope this is a joke. Because if it isn’t it is the highest level of foolishness. These students have received an opportunity to attend an elite institution in a time when their race and financial situation did not impede them - they have the whole world as an oyster - and instead they need to find self righteous outrage over something this petty? If these kids want to spend all their time being activists, they should give up their places to some of the many kids who would appreciate it.
There are real human rights issues in the world. If I could ask my late mother-in-law, who was in an internment camp in Indonesia doing forced labor for the Japanese at age 11 what she thought of this, well, I can imagine her disgust.
My daughter thinks she is interested in Brown so I am pretty unhappy about this. Would love to hear from anyone who can speak to how this is being received on campus. Is this a tiny fringe group of students or are they being taken seriously by the student body?
Actually at some other Ivy campuses protestors got notes from administration asking to excuse them from tests next day. Brown is surprisingly “not progressive” in this regard. You can send your daughter to Brown - it is marvelous.
How many such notes can an administration issue if these seem to be long term?
Columbus day was like in October?
It seems nonsense stopped closer to the finals.
@mathyone: Our D is a 2014 graduate of Brown. She laughed when I told her about the article. Even now she finds it hard to understand how some students can squander the chance for a great education (not to mention their parents’ money). Like the vast majority of students, our D focused on getting an education, and she landed her dream job (and a six-figure salary).
Xyr be crazy!
It’s a handful of students. A well-known poli sci professor was on the radio this morning, and she said that she never excuses students for such a thing. Said they need to learn time management, and much to do about nothing. All students have pressures of ECs, schoolwork, jobs, but this topic presses buttons and reinforces stereotypes, and draws attention.
My D graduated two years ago – loved Brown beyond words and now doing great in her career.