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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HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M

Good point. Colleges are in a tough spot. There are more seats than butts to fill them. So all universities are competing for students. As a result. Yhe schools don't want to alienate prospective or current students.

Having said that, if they dumped their woke agendas, they'd be able to control their students and do what they are supposed to do. That's educate. Right now they indoctrinate.

You reap what you sow.

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

American Universities are, like most other things in America, run by money, both directly through fees and donations, and indirectly through research projects and funding. And there is the corporate $ again.😷

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eli1601 · 70-79, M

@whowasthatmaskedman [quote]American Universities are, like most other things in America, run by money, both directly through fees and donations[/quote]

And football

whowasthatmaskedman · 70-79, M

@eli1601 Maybe... College football is a thing almost unique to America and as a non sports fan I wont pretend to understand its exact place in the system. But its clearly part of the college marketing profile..😷

eli1601 · 70-79, M

@whowasthatmaskedman The colleges are where American football started and grew in the late 1800's, long before the NFL was a thing. In fact the Ivy League schools were where the sport was born, especially Yale, Princeton, and Harvard.

jehova · 31-35, M

I saw this while i was in college my class might have been the last to not dictate to professors what was to be taught i got a BA in 2012. Now its a popularity game to get students to stay enrolled at all. Wtf happened.

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jehova · 31-35, M

@Bumbles i was in albany ny. Idk much about the situation in so. Africa. Please explain.

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@jehova Divestmemt from apartheid Soutf Africa. In the 80s.

jehova · 31-35, M

@Bumbles ah yes unnecessary favortism based on colonial priorities with strong undertones of racial discrimation and preferencial treatment of non native settlers.

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.

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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.

fun4us2b · M

Very unfair - I hope the parents/students paying the tuition can assert themselves by suing for at least a refund...not to mention the damage to their learning.

Bumbles · 51-55, M

@fun4us2b The schools are ignoring their prime directive: — education. Not protest.

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BigGuy2 · 26-30, M

It starts in Elementart School with Bullying ... teachers will ALWAYS believe the Bully when he/she says they didn't do anything, because if they believe the victim, they'd have to do something about it

jehova · 31-35, M

@BigGuy2 that culture is shifting but yes i see your point.

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