Activist Tantrums — The New Campus Speech

America is at a crossroads in the choice of rules: radical or rational. Institutions are standing at the same range on the road, including colleges and universities who find that the wrong choice is not only painful, it is already devastating.

 

A letter was issued to the "academic community" last week over the signature of the University of Missouri acting chancellor, Hank Foley, announcing a loss of nearly 25% in the Mizzou listing - a projected drop Of 1,500 people in the student body last year. This hemorrhaging of students results in a significant financial loss of $ 32 million from one calendar year to the next.

 

Congratulations, University of Missouri! You have become another victim of radical bullies, and willingly to that.

 

Remember last fall when the flagship campus of the state "Show Me" had both the president and the chancellor resigned after allegations of racism - some totally unfounded - sent students, faculty Defense of the left tenure and the community of Columbia a frenetic response fueled by Political accuracy and fear of being marginalized?

 

Within a few days, an average American campus, founded in 1839 as the first higher education institution in western Mississippi, was consumed by radical "demonstrations" led by the "Black Lives Matter" crowd. But the news speaks of "student" protests, no organized professional disturbances, is it?

 

How far is Columbia, Missouri from Ferguson, Missouri? Just under two hours by car. And while accounts include mentions of actual campus disputes, Ferguson's fuel exploded sparks after, according to the Washington Post, graduate student from Jonathan Butler University declared a hunger strike and Mobilized a campus group, Concerned Student 1950, blocking traffic for three hours. The members of this authorized assembly tied their identity to the first year. Black students were admitted to the University of Missouri while they expressed their anger in 2014 with the mantra "Hands Up, Do not Shoot" attached to shooting the black teenager, Michael Brown in their neighboring community.

 

Speaking at the Washington Post in November 2015, Butler drew Mizzou into the fray: "There was national coverage, so that the school does not cover this and does not really answer that, and we are only two hours away. Road, I think it was a huge mistake Their share and contributed to the current cultural environment that we have. It just shows that there are things motivated by racist motives - murders, assaults, other things - that happen and we're going to sweep them under the carpet. "

 

And, what responsibility, other than providing a safe and stimulating environment for its students, exists for universities? Well, in the spirit of the social justice warriors who plan to live their adult life claiming and waving, activism is now the priority of an institution of higher education where they engage in their inaugural uprisings.

 

Yet at the University of Missouri, only 46% of its student body, according to US News and World Report, graduated in four years, costing $ 19,000 a year for state students and $ 32,000 for People out of bounds.

 

Thus, the radicals won because of the resignation of school officials at the University of Missouri, but the rational ones took their tuition and seek to find academic excellence elsewhere.

 

At the University of Tennessee, another college of land, the "leaders" continue to meet these moments of decision ... and choose poorly. The Knoxville Campus is home to a Diversity and Inclusion Office that made the headlines in 2015 for its gender-neutral pronouns - no, it neither. Instead, the taxpayer-funded office issued a request last fall students and faculties to use "ze, hir, hirs and xe, xem, xyr" instead of singular versions of pronouns rejected by Transgender people and people who do not identify in the gender binary ... and the pronouns of their gender identity, rather than the pronouns of the sex they were assigned to birth. "

 

The rapid reversal of the insanity of the University of Tennessee taught to Office of Diversity nothing. They have completed 2015 with another directive to "ensure that your holiday party is not a disguised Christmas party" among a list of "best practices" to celebrate the holiday season.

 

The Tennessee General Assembly not only noticed the encroachment of activism on academics in Knoxville, but is working to defend the Burea