https://twitter.com/TJMoe28/status/664556378132889600 "Here's an email that Dale Brigham was sent last night after confirming he was having class." lol, I can see why he left.
Administrators run universities. Administrators run schools on the business model now, because it's all about the bottom line; students are considered customers and they need to get a product they will pay for.
The thing is, these universities are largely funded by tax dollars, both directly to the universities from state and federal coffers, and also indirectly through subsidies paid to the students in the form of scholarships, grants and loans, much of the latter of which is ultimately defaulted on and therefore picked up by taxpayers that way. Also, the primary concern of these administrators is not primarily concern for the willingness of their customers to continue to pay for their product, it is their devotion to the leftist social political agendas of political correctness and identity politics. Political correctness is basically the regulation of speech in a way that requires it conform to leftist ideals and is already a real threat to the right of free speech in this country. Identity politics in most cases like this is about enabling and encouraging racist practices that favor of black people. This is what the Democrat left is up to on college campuses these days. And if they have their way, our entire society will be ruled by these requirements, the law and the constitution be damned, with episodes like those in these videos being regarded as an acceptable means for the left to impose its will on people across the country. If that sounds attractive to anyone here, be sure to vote for Hillary Clinton, as she will continue and expand the policies and practices of Barack Obama that have helped to enable and encourage the development of this increasingly fascist culture.
No I said facts matter. I didn't say please send me random facts. This is where I believe you deflected. "I'm sure this is the only schmuck in Missouri who has ever done or said a racist thing because everyone didn't call the police every time they were called the n word." You are saying racism is rampant ∴ the specific relevancy or truth to the individual events that started this entire mess isn't important. NS did the same by dismissing those events and calling them the straw the broke the camels back. If you don't want to call that deflecting, call it whatever you want.
Check out this: HILARIOUS SHORT FILM MOCKING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SCHOOLS It is on facebook. Unfortunately, it is far to close to the truth.
The comments on this nyt oped are good too. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/11/1...e-speech.html?referer=https://www.google.com/ Mizzou, Yale and Free Speech Nicholas Kristof On university campuses across the country, from Mizzou to Yale, we have two noble forces colliding with explosive force. One is a concern for minority or marginalized students and faculty members, who are often left feeling as outsiders in ways that damage everyone’s education. At the University of Missouri, a black professor, Cynthia Frisby, wrote, “I have been called the N-word too many times to count.” The problem is not just racists who use epithets but also administrators who seem to acquiesce. That’s why Mizzou students — especially football players — used their clout to oust the university system’s president. They showed leadership in trying to rectify a failure of leadership. But moral voices can also become sanctimonious bullies. “Go, go, go,” some Mizzou protesters yelled as they jostled a student photographer, Tim Tai, who was trying to document the protests unfolding in a public space. And Melissa Click, an assistant professor who joined the protests, is heard on a video calling for “muscle” to oust another student journalist (she later apologized). Tai represented the other noble force in these upheavals — free expression. He tried to make the point, telling the crowd: “The First Amendment protects your right to be here — and mine.” We like to caricature great moral debates as right confronting wrong. But often, to some degree, it’s right colliding with right. Yes, universities should work harder to be inclusive. And, yes, campuses must assure free expression, which means protecting dissonant and unwelcome voices that sometimes leave other people feeling aggrieved or wounded. On both counts we fall far short. We’ve also seen Wesleyan students debate cutting funding for the student newspaper after it ran an op-ed criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement. At Mount Holyoke, students canceled a production of “The Vagina Monologues” because they felt it excluded transgender women. Protests led to the withdrawal of Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker at Rutgers and Christine Lagarde at Smith. This is sensitivity but also intolerance, and it is disproportionately an instinct on the left. I’m a pro-choice liberal who has been invited to infect evangelical Christian universities with progressive thoughts, and to address Catholic universities where I’ve praised condoms and birth control programs. I’m sure I discomfited many students on these conservative campuses, but it’s a tribute to them that they were willing to be challenged. In the same spirit, liberal universities should seek out pro-life social conservatives to speak. More broadly, academia — especially the social sciences — undermines itself by a tilt to the left. We should cherish all kinds of diversity, including the presence of conservatives to infuriate us liberals and make us uncomfortable. Education is about stretching muscles, and that’s painful in the gym and in the lecture hall. One of the wrenching upheavals lately has unfolded at Yale. Longtime frustrations among minority students boiled over after administrators seemed to them insufficiently concerned about offensive costumes for Halloween. A widely circulated video showed a furious student shouting down one administrator, Prof. Nicholas Christakis. “Be quiet!” she screams at him. “It is not about creating an intellectual space!” A student wrote an op-ed about “the very real hurt” that minority students feel, adding: “I don’t want to debate. I want to talk about my pain.” That prompted savage commentary online. “Is Yale letting in 8-year-olds?” one person asked on Twitter. The Wall Street Journal editorial page denounced “Yale’s Little Robespierres.” It followed up Wednesday with another editorial, warning that the P.C. mind-set “threatens to undermine or destroy universities as a place of learning.” I suggest we all take a deep breath. The protesters at Mizzou and Yale and elsewhere make a legitimate point: Universities should work harder to make all students feel they are safe and belong. Members of minorities — whether black or transgender or (on many campuses) evangelical conservatives — should be able to feel a part of campus, not feel mocked in their own community. The problems at Mizzou were underscored on Tuesday when there were death threats against black students. What’s unfolding at universities is not just about free expression but also about a safe and nurturing environment. Consider an office where bosses shrug as some men hang nude centerfolds and leeringly speculate about the sexual proclivities of female colleagues. Free speech issue? No! That’s a hostile work environment. And imagine if you’re an 18-year-old for whom this is your 24/7 home — named, say, for a 19th-century pro-slavery white supremacist. My favorite philosopher, the late Sir Isaiah Berlin, argued that there was a deep human yearning to find the One Great Truth. In fact, he said, that’s a dead end: Our fate is to struggle with a “plurality of values,” with competing truths, with trying to reconcile what may well be irreconcilable. That’s unsatisfying. It’s complicated. It’s also life.
He reigned because he was unwilling to appease these out of control students. The University has since announced that they are not "accepting" his resignation. His resignation is a P.R. disaster for them. They cannot stop him from leaving of course. This weak response is all they have. Meanwhile, the wound continues to fester and ooze all kinds of vile crap. This really has gotten completely out of control and as long as the left's political correctness and identity politics agenda's rule their thinking, there will be literally no way to end or resolve this.
Mitch Daniels being awesome <blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">What on earth is a university president doing, sending this email? <a href="https://t.co/8cXd5wSYyX">pic.twitter.com/8cXd5wSYyX</a></p>— roxane gay (@rgay) <a href="https://twitter.com/rgay/status/664594845562970112">November 12, 2015</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
No he appeased people like you. He resigned because he was a baby. Because he can dish it out but once someone criticizes him he ran away like a coward. Minorities have to put up with the b.s. all their lives, and put up with idiots like you all the time. This guy should suck it up and deal with it.
Criticizing minorities students for being cowards - the whole "don't give into bullies" crap. I mean are you serious? Saying death threats are the same as bullying is just a joke.
I've been insanely swamped with work recently but wanted to weigh in on this subject as it is something that I care about. I fully understand why the students are upset but I think they have gone about this the wrong way and I also don't think the president of MU should've resigned. He didn't handle things well but at the same time is some hateful things and some awful graffiti grounds for dismissal of the school president? A university is supposed to be a place to ferment free speech and free thought. A lot of that might not be acceptable to many and yes might very well be hurtful. As I've said before though what point is there to free speech if it only protects that which is inoffensive and mild? Merely shouting down or forcing out people who do not meet one's acceptable standards of speech accomplishes nothing except to show that being loud. It doesn't educate but instead drives such thought underground to where it festers. This is why I said that in the case of the SAE students in Oklahoma I wouldn't have kicked them out of school but instead would've had them stand publicly in a forum where they would have to openly explain why they did what they did and also listen directly to those who found it offensive and hurtful. The problem I see now is that too many only see free speech in terms of when it benefits them. They uphold speech and decry limitations when it represents there beliefs yet demand silence when it goes against their own. What instead should be an open presentation of speech. If one's position is truly just they will prevail in the competition of ideas rather than just a one sided argument. This is one reason why I have argued against laws that have banned groups like Westboro Baptist Church from protesting on public land outside of military funerals. Just to be clear I'm not disagreeing with the students that there hasn't been hateful rhetoric or saying that the students shouldn't be allowed to protest. They have as much right to stand up in the public square and express their views. What I do disagree with though is the manner that they have carried out. Most disturbing is their "No Media" zones and the attempt to block out the media. I particularly find troubling is Prof. Glick's attempt to intimidate a reporter. As someone who should be teaching students the value of the First Amendment she has made a mockery of that. It is one thing for young students to misunderstand both the letter and spirit of it and another for someone who should know better. I am also troubled by the student who undertook a hunger strike. Frankly this is an insult to those who went on hunger strikes to speak truth to power, people like Gandhi, Bobby Sands and the hunger strikers in Tiananmen. They were fighting a battle where their rights really were restricted by a much great power. Not a situation where some students, not even university officials, may have said hateful things. I have little problem with the Mizzou football team refusing to play. If they feel that way that is their right to do so. I would though say they should give up their scholarships too since the basis of those is their involvement with the football program. What I find troubling though is the outsized influence of sports on universities. I love college football and am a huge fan of both my undergrad and graduate school's team but I would be willing to sacrifice those if it affected the academic standing and mission of the those schools. Things like this where the not just the fate of the coaches and AD but also of the non-athletic staff is tied to the football team shows how skewed our priorities are. My bottom line is that at a university students should have the right to stand up and protest what they see as hateful and hurtful the result of that though shouldn't be silencing the voices that they find offensive but to educate.
I think there is free speech and there there are tweets threatening violence, there are crap-swastika's being applied to people's dorm walls, and other acts of intimidation. Intimidation does not equal free speech. You're seeing BOTH sides use intimidation though. A hunger strike is not intimidation though, misguides as it is. I am disturbed by the media free zones though as well.
Many of these threats were never verified. The student leader chained the kkk was on campus then had to retract Just the threat on yik yak was verified and the guy was arrested.
