The Universities need to reassert their authority but they have no idea how.

Too many years of teaching kids not to respect any authority has come home to roost. The tyranny of the few is here, ruining education for other students, or graduations affected, and the Universities are letting it all happen.

Students don’t own the school…they pay for a service. They make no rules.

And Universities are terrified of doing anything serious about it.

I feel sorry for the kids who want an education.

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trollslayer · 46-50, M

Is this a newspaper "letter to the editor" from 1970, or something you just wrote?

Sounds like something Archie Bunker would have said.

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@trollslayer This is an illiberal movement as it seeks to drown out anyone else’s ability to not participate. It’s Hysterical and absurd.

trollslayer · 46-50, M

@Bumbles true. But how is that different than the protests in the 1960s or 1970s?

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@trollslayer The Universities weren’t run in such a way that made them incapable of exercising authority. Columbia being taken over is not something I look back on with nostalgia, either.

The take it all down element is a temper tantrum, The schools have no influence on policy. It’s a charade.

trollslayer · 46-50, M

@Bumbles idk, they didnt seem capable back then, either. They called national guard to help out, and kids got shot.

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@trollslayer You’re referring to Kent Statte, but that is one tragic example where the National Guard, not the school, was at fault.

The current movement is a massive freak out about stock portfolios.

trollslayer · 46-50, M

@Bumbles and rightfully so. One way to end the protests would be to validate that their concerns are real

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@trollslayer Validate feelings? Exactly my point.

This is just melodrama. Look at this pic. She’s this upset aabout a stock position in a large cap international index fund? Seriously? They are told to leave then freak out when a rule is being enforced. It’s so sophomoric.