June 17, 2019 By Thomas Lifson
In the wake the landmark $44-million verdict against Oberlin College for defaming a five-generation family business, information is coming to light about the behavior of students and administrators at that once respectable institution that is simply appalling. As throughout the entire story, Legal Insurrection is owed a huge thank-you for its deep dive into the evidence.
A revealed in a tweet from L.I., a 2017 article in a student publication at Oberlin, The Grape, discussed the predominance (over 80%!) of Oberlin students in shoplifting arrests in that small Ohio city...............
Let me restate this.
Oberlin students acted as predators on the larger community. The pervasiveness of the student culture that regarded shopkeepers as prey is indicated by the admission of the author that he himself had stolen from the people he interviewed.
These students, whose yearly costs of attending Oberlin (70K) far exceed the average income of the surrounding community (55K), care not a whit about the people who work long and hard to serve them — all the time pretending that they are interested in "social justice."........Oberlin wanted its students to be granted something akin to extraterritoriality, exempt from law enforcement action in the town of Oberlin
.........No wonder the jury exceeded the guidelines for punitive damages. This is utterly appalling — a cancer on social order........
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