@katliamom I am not going to address it. The whole thing is so ridiculous. Including the things are that are banned, like you aren’t allowed to ask another student if they are good in math.
I don’t like the attitude from the Yale protestors, but it’s ridiculous to think the entire university thinks something because of some protestors.
Also, we don’t live in an age when students are reprimanded for speaking up to express their views. Colleges allow free speech, even when criticizing authority figures on campus.
If you don’t like to be around liberal students, there are some very conservative schools you could attend. The vast majority of schools have a wide range of views and no protests.
As a Univ of Michigan student, considered one of those liberal beacons, I think it’s funny when I hear things about my activist campus and whatnot because of something that a small group of students did.
Honestly, most students at any of these so-called PC/SJW universities are never going to hear about these things until the media makes a huge deal out of it.
There have always been and there will always be an outspoken group of students at any uni- and maybe a little bigger and louder at some. The only reason they seem more numerous now is because the 24/7 media needs to fill their airtime and large segments of the population gobble this crap up.
It’s…all…a…bunch…of…crap…
Move on.
PS: Even when you hear about the deans or whomever emailing things out, how many students do you think really read those emails? I’d bet you it’s less than 5% of the student population.
Cue the old, oft-paraphrased aphorism:
If you’re not a liberal when you are young, you have no heart. And if you are not a conservative when you’re older, you have no brain.
That is one way to answer the question: Yes, there is no shortage of PC/Left-minded undergrads.
However, there is still plenty of variety of viewpoints among student bodies. Consider, if you will, that:
- No two people agree on everything, guaranteeing at least a modicum of variety, and
- No school is exclusively liberal or conservative. And remember, there are multiple areas in which those philosophies are applied: economic policy, international policy, domestic social policy, crime and punishment, etc. So even among a table of ten self-defined liberals, their liberalism will likely vary among the different applicable axes and, if they converse long enough, arguments will ensue.
In sum, I don’t think people should cross schools off of their lists based solely on political ideological tendencies. You’ll find people who agree with you politically but whom you cannot stand, and people whose politics you abhor but whom you really enjoy being around.
Why?
Because for most people, political ideology/activism is just one part of them, and what really draws us to one another is our personalities and (other) shared interests.
So most kids probably shouldn’t worry too much about political vibe, in my opinion.
You will run into some of this at most universities. It’s pretty hard to measure just how noisy and effective they are.
It is widespread and potentially dangerous. It is strongly encouraged by a large segment of the faculty. Remember the innocent Duke Lacrosse players and the pot-bangers?
Right now the University of Missouri is in turmoil because someone in a passing car yelled a racial slur at someone several weeks ago, and someone else drew a swastika on a bathroom wall in feces. Black students (joined by others) have been essentially assaulting the school’s president, and now 30 black players of the football team are on strike, demanding the resignation of the president. And the poor guy had absolutely nothing to do with it. Apparently they thought he didn’t make enough of a flap about it.
Oh, they haven’t been “assaulting” the school president. Their protest is that the overall culture is racist with many examples over recent years, and they don’t see the administration as taking steps to help change that.
Demanding that the president resign and going on a hunger/football strike when your demands are not met can be considered a form of assault.
Linking together a bunch of words can considered a form of argument as well. But not always.
Social justice warriors have completed their takeover of American higher education. Upon enrolling I was required to write a ten page formal apology for being white where I promised to preface all use of gender-specific pronouns with trigger warnings. I additionally had to renounce God and accept Elizabeth Warren as my true idol.
You’ll find living SJWs on the average college campus, but most never do anything beyond writing on their tumblr or making a Change.org petition. I think allegations of rampant political correctness are overblown by the fast-paced nature of lite news media. Plus the apology was only five pages.
@SaintSaens Do you feel comfortable telling us the name of the institution? It might be helpful to those currently in the application cycle. What would happen if you didn’t write that paper?
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What are the elements of the assault?
An apparently false claim …
@intparent A group of students blocked the car of UM system president Tim Wolfe during the school’s homecoming parade. Stopping someone from going where they have a right to go is a form of assault. He was also met outside a Kansas City fundraiser by a group of protesting students who as usual spent their time shouting at him.
These students are scum. They are seeking the resignation of their school’s president over something that he had nothing to do with. The school needs to pull the scholarships of any football players who don’t show up for practice and fire the coaches.
^^^How are the coaches at fault? I really don’t know the details of this controversy. Did the coaches encourage the footballers to strike?
Someone should teach these kids that cursing and shouting and posturing as if to commit assault (Yale girl) are not protected free speech.
The coaches are backing the players.
Not going to take any sides here about the Mizzou thing, but as a student here who has been following this since day one, I will say that a lot of people aren’t aware about all of the events that have taken place on campus as the national news outlets haven’t been reporting it completely. Anyone who’s interested in learning more about what’s going on at Mizzou should read this [url=<a href=“http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/5/interactive-timeline-historic-fall-mu/%5Dtimeline%5B/url”>http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2015/11/5/interactive-timeline-historic-fall-mu/]timeline[/url] that the campus paper put together. There have been a lot of events that have occurred, more than most people know about. And while racism has become the focal point of the protestors’ cause, there’s more at play than just race; people are also not happy because earlier in the year grad students had their health insurance taken away and contracts with Planned Parenthood were broken, so people are also upset at Wolfe for that too (and also our Chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin).
@EarlVanDorn Calling the protestors “scum” is taking things a bit too far, in my opinion. These students who are protesting truly believe in their cause and while they may not be completely in the right (Are there things they could have done better? Yes, but the administration has also made some mistakes.), they do have a valid claim that there is racism on campus (whether anything can really be done to prevent that is another matter…). They aren’t wrong with their claims and I wouldn’t categorize this whole thing under the PC mentality. Like I said, there are other things at play than just racism, though that’s become the focal point of wanting Wolfe removed.
“Demanding that the president resign and going on a hunger/football strike when your demands are not met can be considered a form of assault.”
@EarlVanDorn – Funny. When Ghandi asked the British to resign in India, and went on repeated hunger strikes, it was called “non-violence.”
“scum” wow — I suppose those people on the Edmund Pettus bridge were scum as well.
You truly don’t even WANT to know the motivations of the protesters --you simply lump them together with Ferguson protesters, Occupy Now, whatever — w/o a single thought as to what would drive a person to the point of jeopardizing one’s own college career.
Can’t you simply say: “I don’t understand what would drive a person to this level of behavior.” and then seek to understand? That alone, would ratchet down the demonizing and screaming that goes back and forth.
What would cause a Ferguson resident to firebomb his own neighborhood? Easy answer: He’s scum. Real answer: not so easy to discern – but might be enlightening for you to learn.