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Fairness dictates that we note
the University of Michigan
decided that
their students were mentally stable
enough after all
to endure the showing of American Sniper
on campus. Clearly they were unable to stand ridicule
of their politically-correct wussiness.
Katherine Timpf provides a list: "Seven Other Things That Have Been Declared ‘Unsafe’ at Colleges" Among her examples…
2. Face paint of any color at any event everLast October, Arizona State University’s athletics department banned facepaint — “whether the theme is black, maroon, gold or white” — because ASU is an “inclusive and forward-thinking university” and they must make sure that “everyone feels safe and accepted.” They did not explain whether or not any students had actually reported feeling threatened by the paint, and if so, how those students were handling their lives currently.
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At Minding the Campus, John Leo summarizes
a new report from the National Association of Scholars:
"Sustainability:
Higher Education’s New Fundamentalism". From the report:
To the unwary, “sustainability” is the newer name for environmentalism. But the goals of the sustainability movement are different. They go far beyond ensuring clean air and water and protecting vulnerable plants and animals. As an ideology, sustainability takes aim at economic and political liberty. Sustainability pictures economic liberty as a combination of strip mining, industrial waste, and rampant pollution. It pictures political liberty as people voting to enjoy the present, heedless of what it will cost future generations. Sustainability’s alternative to economic liberty is a regime of far-reaching regulation that controls virtually every aspect of energy, industry, personal consumption, waste, food, and transportation. Sustainability’s alternative to political liberty is control vested in agencies and panels run by experts insulated from elections or other expressions of popular will.
The University Near Here has its very own Sustainability Institute. They don't advertise their hostility to economic and political liberty, but I imagine they would do so if plied with enough organic, locally-produced wine.
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George Leef has
an
interesting and provocative article
looking at
a new book by Kevin Carey: The
End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of
Everywhere. It's about the impending breakout
of low-priced higher education. Folks in the employ of
your traditional bricks-and-mortar universities, beware:
One implication of the rise of the University of Everywhere seems to be that in the future, students who are serious about learning and demonstrating their capabilities will stop enrolling in the typical college or university. Those institutions have developed great expertise in hauling in money but remarkably little expertise in teaching and assessing student outcomes.
Why it's enough to make a University administrator sound like Governor William J. Le Petomane: "We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!"
I've put Carey's book on the top of the to-be-read pile.
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Despite the blog's title, we don't do a lot of puns here. But
this one gave me a chuckle:
precisely. what's the problem? pic.twitter.com/gFBhtL73JD
— sadvil (@crylenol) March 27, 2015