Should have happened long ago. But it’s the only thing these schools will understand, pull the money.

Quote:The social justice warriors making noise on campus are also making an impact on alumni. The NY Times reports some older, successful alumni are pulling back on donations because they are so turned off with what they see happening on their former campuses:

A backlash from alumni is an unexpected aftershock of the campus disruptions of the last academic year. Although fund-raisers are still gauging the extent of the effect on philanthropy, some colleges — particularly small, elite liberal arts institutions — have reported a decline in donations, accompanied by a laundry list of complaints.

Alumni from a range of generations say they are baffled by today’s college culture. Among their laments: Students are too wrapped up in racial and identity politics. They are allowed to take too many frivolous courses. They have repudiated the heroes and traditions of the past by judging them by today’s standards rather than in the context of their times. Fraternities are being unfairly maligned, and men are being demonized by sexual assault investigations. And university administrations have been too meek in addressing protesters whose messages have seemed to fly in the face of free speech.
Scott MacConnell, who graduated from Amherst in 1960, is registering his discontent with campus culture by writing the school out of his will:

http://hotair.com/archives/2016/08/05/al...-protests/

A guy from Amherst is registering his disconnect with campus culture? Nice!

What's next? Is someone from Bennington or Vasser College going to go bonkers about Roe v. Wade?

(08-06-2016 09:47 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  A guy from Amherst is registering his disconnect with campus culture? Nice!

What's next? Is someone from Bennington or Vasser College going to go bonkers about Roe v. Wade?

I especially like the letter from the Asian lesbian English professor.

(08-06-2016 09:51 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-06-2016 09:47 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  A guy from Amherst is registering his disconnect with campus culture? Nice!

What's next? Is someone from Bennington or Vasser College going to go bonkers about Roe v. Wade?

I especially like the letter from the Asian lesbian English professor.

One can not be to cautious.

(08-06-2016 09:51 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-06-2016 09:47 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  A guy from Amherst is registering his disconnect with campus culture? Nice!

What's next? Is someone from Bennington or Vasser College going to go bonkers about Roe v. Wade?

I especially like the letter from the Asian lesbian English professor.

"More important, because of the lack of an adequate core curriculum, English majors and even MAs graduate without ever having read a Victorian novel or a Romantic poem. One has to begin every class, whatever its theme, with a potted history lesson, because one cannot take for granted that students know when the World Wars or the American civil war occurred, or when Socrates lived or Shakespeare wrote. But all of them know the laundry list of ideas that should offend them. And all they can really write about is their own limited lives. As one colleague of mine says, the educational system is highly successful – it set out to inculcate self-esteem and it has done so.”

(08-06-2016 02:34 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(08-06-2016 09:51 AM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-06-2016 09:47 AM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  A guy from Amherst is registering his disconnect with campus culture? Nice!

What's next? Is someone from Bennington or Vasser College going to go bonkers about Roe v. Wade?

I especially like the letter from the Asian lesbian English professor.

"More important, because of the lack of an adequate core curriculum, English majors and even MAs graduate without ever having read a Victorian novel or a Romantic poem. One has to begin every class, whatever its theme, with a potted history lesson, because one cannot take for granted that students know when the World Wars or the American civil war occurred, or when Socrates lived or Shakespeare wrote. But all of them know the laundry list of ideas that should offend them. And all they can really write about is their own limited lives. As one colleague of mine says, the educational system is highly successful – it set out to inculcate self-esteem and it has done so.”

Then they should go to Arkansas Tech. We covered everything in English writing from Beowulf, to Canterbury Tales, to Shakespeare, to Edgar Allan Poe, to Melville, to whoever have written books from all countries. I read "Goblin Market" which was weird.