An all too familiar scene was enacted on
the campus of Swarthmore College during a meeting on May 4th to discuss demands
by student activists for the college to divest itself of its investments in
companies that dealt in fossil fuels.
As a speaker was beginning a presentation
to show how many millions of dollars such a disinvestment would cost the
college, student activists invaded the meeting, seized the microphone and
shouted down a student who rose in the audience to object.
Although there were professors and
administrators in the room -- including the college president -- apparently
nobody had the guts to put a stop to these storm trooper tactics. Nor is it
likely that there will be any punishment of those who put their own desires
above the rights of others.......It's not just academics who won't defend
decency. Trustees could fire college presidents who cave in to storm trooper
tactics. Donors could stop donating to institutions that have sold out their
principles to appease the campus barbarians. But when nobody is willing to
defend civilized standards, the barbarians win.
Whether on college campuses or among
nations on the world stage, if the battle comes down to the wimps versus the
barbarians, the barbarians are bound to win....To Read More....
My Take – Amazing isn’t it! When these thugs attack free speech they cave
in like the cowards they are. When
Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli demanded access to information about Mike
Mann to see if fraud was perpetrated, they stand like a rock claiming academic
freedom was under attack. The universities of this nation are corrupt, incompetent and greedy. Does the student body really want these
things? It seems unlikely to me, since
the outrageous demands perpetrated by the radicals at the universities in the
60’s were not shared by most
students. It was a vocal and violent
minority that perpetrated these things, and at times by threatening the lives of
the faculty. The thugs, leftists and
radicals who want these things want them because they undermine all that are
foundational to a stable society. That
is the goal of leftists. Whose fault is it? It is the fault of those who pay the salaries
of those in leadership positions. I can
guarantee that if the government ended student loan policies and the alumni got up on their hind legs and revolted this would end. The fix? Defund!
There are entirely too many kids in colleges anyway since a substantial percent will never finish their studies, but they will still have huge student loans they can't repay.
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