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    How much are social justice warriors costing their colleges?

    https://usa.spectator.co.uk/2018/06/...pford-student/



    Douglas Murray

    18 June 2018


    It has become abundantly clear in recent years that becoming a Social Justice Warrior (SJW) is bad for your health. But recent developments in north America suggest that it is also very bad for your bottom line.

    It is now three years since the University of Missouri underwent a prominent bout of SJW-itis. On that occasion various students at the university demanded that the college President should resign, acknowledge his ‘white male privilege’ and henceforth organise both faculty and staff along strictly racialist lines. Instead of telling these students who the grown-ups were, and where to go, the university authorities repeatedly bowed to radical student pressure. During the ensuing protests, reporters were harassed by students and university employees. And in an incident that was soon seen around the world, assistant professor, Melissa Click memorably called for ‘some muscle over here’ to help her physically eject a reporter who was trying to report on the student and faculty temper-tantrum.

    Clearly after seeing these scenes a lot of parents in the state of Missouri decided that it wasn’t worth re-mortgaging the house in order to make their children dumber. And so over the last two years the University of Missouri lost a third of its freshmen. It has had to shut down a number of dorms and has already had to lay off dozens of employees, with more redundancies likely to come. It turned out that the University of Missouri did indeed need some muscle, and that it was required to carry out the belongings of staff they were forced to let go.

    Fast-forward to the spring of last year and it was another American campus – Evergreen State College – that was making international news. This was the campus that was meant to have a day when all white people were ordered off the university’s property, ostensibly to make some point about historic racism. Recognising that ordering people where to go based on skin-pigmentation might be said to be the epitome of racism, one left-wing professor – Bret Weinstein – refused to comply with the demands of the racial segregationists. As a result both he and his wife were forced to retreat from the campus for their own safety. While students rampaged, faculty and officials remained silent or acquiesced in the intimidation of the couple. So the first glimpse of Evergreen for most of the world was of a place where the most thuggish students could dictate whatever rules they wanted to supine college authorities who were begging the students for mercy (and on one memorable occasion begging permission to use the bathroom). Weinstein and his wife – who were among the most popular and respected professors at Evergreen – subsequently agreed to a settlement and left the employ of the university.

    But yet again it turns out that advertising to the world that you believe in racial segregation and obedience to the loudest common denominator turns out not to be good for business. In the wake of the Weinstein affair there has already been a 5 per cent enrolment decrease at Evergreen in the current academic year. And the university authorities are now predicting a further fall in enrolment of almost 20 per cent in their 2018/19 intake.

    Certainly the behaviour of many students and faculty at Evergreen was so appalling throughout last year’s events that it can hardly be surprising if students and their parents, having looked once at the institution, then looked away.

    And now yet another university that suffered from a prominent bout of SJW disease has also begun to pay for its vice. As I noted here at the time, until last November, Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario was hardly an internationally recognised institution. Indeed until last November few enough Canadians had heard of the college. But then there was the Lindsay Shepherd affair, when a bright young graduate teaching assistant got hauled in front of a university inquisition for treading into the gender neutral pronouns debate that has strangely rocked modern Canada. Shepherd smartly recorded and released her resulting interrogation, after which it became clear that the people in charge at Wilfrid Laurier University had a level of intelligence and comprehension only slightly above that of the average beermat.

    The exchange included a tearful Shepherd arguing that in a university ‘all perspectives are valid’, only for one of her interrogators to let slip the truth of life at Wilfrid Laurier by saying, ‘That’s not necessarily true.’

    Once again, if you were a sane prospective student or a parent who had saved to send your child to college, it was not obvious that Wilfrid Laurier was best equipped to prepare students for the rigours of working life. Or indeed life, period. Though there are, for the time-being, still some roles for ‘gender-policy enforcement officers’ and the like, the wiser type of parent and offspring is clearly able to recognise that there won’t always be a future for people trained solely for such roles.

    Now it has become clear that Wilfrid Laurier’s time in the limelight has also had results precisely like those that have affected the University of Missouri and Evergreen State. New enrolment figures show that while university admission confirmations have risen by 0.3 per cent across Ontario as a whole, at the province’s most notorious university – Wilfrid Laurier – admission confirmations (as of this month) are down 15.2 per cent on this time last year. And first-place choices for Wilfrid Laurier are down 12.5 per cent. As one of the few adults at Wilfrid Laurier – professor David Haskell – wryly put it:

    “‘We practice hard-line, leftist indoctrination’ seems to have failed as a marketing strategy.’”

    Indeed.

    We have heard a lot about campus craziness in recent years. We have watched – and chronicled – the Stepford students take over, and we have watched repeatedly as the adults have either joined them, departed the room or hidden under their duvets. But perhaps now we are finally seeing a change in that trend. That is the positive assertion, led by students and parents, that the best cure for SJWs is not just to mock them or expose them, but to deliver them to something that is purest garlic to them. The sweet competition of a genuinely free market.




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    The exchange included a tearful Shepherd arguing that in a university ‘all perspectives are valid’, only for one of her interrogators to let slip the truth of life at Wilfrid Laurier by saying, ‘That’s not necessarily true.’
    I'm not sure what effect the author of the OP article hoped to achieve by relating this particular anecdote.

    If it was shocked recoil at the interrogator's reply, then the attempt is (or should be) a complete failure.

    The interrogator is correct, as far as it goes. In fact, I would go even further and drop the word "necessarily."

    It's unfastidious, mush-brained nonsense like "all perspectives are valid" that has led directly to a world full of just the sort of insanities described in the article.
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    College free speech stuff... I was surprised.

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    Georgetown University adopts ‘Chicago Statement’

    https://www.thefire.org/georgetown-u...ago-statement/

    (FIRE) Foundation for Individual Rights in Education

    FIRE is pleased to announce that last week Georgetown joined a growing list of colleges and universities that have adopted policy statements committing themselves to protecting free speech that closely mirror the University of Chicago’s “Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression,” better known as the “Chicago Statement.”
    The ideas of different members of the University community will often and naturally conflict. It is not the proper role of a University to insulate individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive. Deliberation or debate may not be suppressed because the ideas put forth are thought by some or even by most members of the University community to be offensive, unwise, immoral, or ill conceived.
    Chicago Statement: University and Faculty Body Support

    https://www.thefire.org/chicago-stat...-body-support/

    By FIRE June 15, 2018
    The following institutions or faculty bodies have adopted or endorsed the Chicago Statement or a substantially similar statement.

    Princeton University: Officially Adopted.
    Purdue University: Affirmed by the Board of Trustees.
    Johns Hopkins University: Officially Adopted.
    American University: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Chapman University: Officially Adopted.
    Winston-Salem State University: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    University of Wisconsin system: Affirmed by Board of Regents.
    University of Virginia College at Wise: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Columbia University: Officially Adopted.
    Louisiana State University: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    City University of New York: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Franklin & Marshall College: Officially Adopted.
    University of Southern Indiana: Officially Adopted.
    University of Minnesota: Affirmed by Faculty Body.
    Washington University in St. Louis: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Eckerd College: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Vanderbilt University: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    University of Missouri system: Officially Adopted.
    Georgetown University: Officially Adopted.
    University of Montana: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    The Citadel: Officially Adopted.
    Kansas State University: Officially Adopted.
    Kenyon College: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Claremont McKenna College: Officially Adopted.
    Amherst College: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Michigan State University: Officially Adopted.
    Appalachian State University: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    State University of New York- University at Buffalo: Officially Adopted.
    University of Denver: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    Ashland University: Officially Adopted.
    Northern Illinois University: Officially Adopted.
    Denison University: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    University of Central Florida: Affirmed by Faculty Senate.
    University of Nebraska: Affirmed by Board of Regents.
    University of Maine System: Affirmed by Board of Trustees.
    Middle Tennessee State University: Affirmed by Board of Trustees.
    University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill: Affirmed by Faculty Council.
    Joliet Junior College: Affirmed by Board of Trustees.
    California State University Channel Islands: Officially Adopted.
    University of Arkansas at Little Rock: Officially Adopted.
    Ranger College: Affirmed by Board of Regents.
    Gettysburg College: Affirmed by Board of Regents.



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