I’ve always
suspected that in higher education football was king and liberal arts programs were
more about socialist indoctrination than about education. There are exceptions in science majors which prepare
students with college degrees to be meaningful contributors to society and
tomorrow’s inventors.
I’ve watched
several college presidents dance to the tune of rich alumni who influenced the donation
purse based on the collegiate sports performance and listing themselves as successful
based on how many new buildings they left behind and how much they’ve improved
the athletic programs and infrastructure, including the football stadium. Top coaches
are often the highest paid staff members of any college, even more than the
president.
It became
glaringly obvious at the University of Missouri, where the college president
was forced to resign over a debacle involving alleged social injustices and
alleged racism, that the football revenue was far more important than the
academic excellence of its students. When the football team threatened to
boycott the upcoming football games, then the ball started rolling and the
president resigned.
The
community organizing mob rule has taken over this university and it is likely
to repeat itself across the country. Nobody bothered to fact-check the outrageous
allegations made by various students, stoked by outsiders who came to the
campus to cause chaos, and certain faculty members who were down right abusive
in their behavior.
It is certainly
an element of pride to have winning football, baseball, or basketball teams. To
cave education standards to the demands of lunatics who make up non-existent
problems on campus, and to demand that the president apologizes for his manufactured
“white privilege” is an element of shame. The demands made resemble the fascistic
activism of post-Weimar Republic in Germany and the activism of the communist
agitators in Stalinist era.
Colleges are
supposed to be inclusive, diverse, multicultural, and tolerant, a place to
exchange divergent ideas and philosophies. But tolerance ends the moment you
disagree with liberals and their progressive agenda of “its’ my communist way,
or the highway.”
A college
has become a very expensive place where Christianity, conservatism, the
American flag, and the Constitution of the United States of America are not welcome
anymore but Islam, atheism, communism, and environmentalism are invited with
open arms.
Colleges have
become places where faculty members agree with students that the Constitution
is a threat, should be banned from libraries, banned from campus altogether,
and shredded.
Colleges are
no longer the vaunted place of learning; they are just a lucrative business
that turns out the next generation of indoctrinated young people with worthless
degrees that cost their parents thousands of dollars. Nobody questions the out
of control tuition that pays the inflated salaries of college professors like Melissa
Click, mass media associate professor at University of Missouri, who bullied a
student on campus who was exercising his freedom of speech and of assembly. She
called for “muscle” to throw this student off campus. She has since resigned
her position. http://dailycaller.com/2015/11/10/student-bullied-by-mizzou-professor-says-she-needs-to-go/
The football team
had threatened to boycott the upcoming games in support of students who
demanded president Tim Wolfe’s resignation because he had not done enough to
address invented racism on his campus, following alleged incidents that turned
out to be entirely fabricated.
Why the president
chose to resign instead of suspend the football players who refused to do what
they were given scholarships, shelter, and food for, remains a mystery. It
appears that the worship of collegiate sports is a larger mission of a
university than actually educating our youth to become productive citizens.
Athletic programs
spend so much money tutoring football players to make sure they pass their classes
in order to remain in the game. There is a pool of well-paid tutors who earn money
helping at risk-of-failing or failing football players to study or guiding them
to write assignments and papers.
Interestingly, all the
student agitation, indoctrination, and hatred come from liberal arts professors
who teach outrageous subjects. The curriculum would be laughable if it was not
so expensive to pursue these insane majors. The fluff and ridiculous classes
have a large audience and customers who are willing to pay good money to be
taught women’s studies, racial studies, receiving worthless degrees that will
not garner the awardees a job for the next few centuries.
These are students who
cannot pass serious courses, and avoid them like the plague. They comprise the
dumbed-down segment of the American educated youth with a diploma on the wall
that is not worth the beautiful paper that is printed on by the craft of
artisans who probably never set foot in a university but are more talented and
skilled than thousands and thousands of college graduates who receive these
glossy pieces of paper after they expended no real effort.
I am familiar with the
verbal abuse, threats, fear of failing a class, and fear of liberal professors
lording over grades that students must endure if they have the temerity to show
their patriotism, Christianity, libertarianism, or conservatism in class.
I am also familiar with accusation
of racism lobbed at professors if minority students who miss class a lot, do
not do the minimum class work required, are disruptive in class by being late, talkative,
obnoxious, eating or drinking in class, using cell phones, or are just
unprepared to put in the effort necessary to succeed in a more challenging
curriculum.
We are now a country where
adults cave in to malcontents. We have raised generations of sheltered kids who
are afraid of their own shadows but speak loudly on issues they do not understand
or know nothing about, and vote massively each time for their own demise. They
are ignorant of the world around them and of the issues involved but are easily
manipulated by the community organizers with a communist agenda, the liberal media,
their liberal college professors, the comedians pretending to be journalists, and
their equally uninformed friends.
American young people are
the product of an exaggerated self-esteem inculcated by parents and schools. Precious
Johnny can do no wrong; it might hurt his feelings if he does not get a trophy
for walking across the stage without tripping or for participation.
Students
are asking for “safe spaces“ on campus where they can be protected from
reality, from life, from failure, from people who disagree with them, from
symbols and negative comments that upset them or hurt their feelings, from
jokes they don’t like, from anything that might destroy their kumbaya view of
the world.
Rush
called them cowards. “They're just scared to death of reality. They're
scared to death of life. And they have been raised and educated to
believe that it is legitimately possible to shield yourself from anything that's
upsetting. And if somebody gets through that shield and succeeds in upsetting
you, then they have to go.” http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2015/11/10/mizzou_a_generation_of_sheltered_kids_and_the_adults_who_cave_to_them
Such mental
weakness leaves these young collegians ripe for picking by very clever ultra-leftist
community organizers like Black Lives Matter or Occupy Wall Street, and
vulnerable to the next snake-oil salesman.
