Any other alums who think their school has gone off the deep end?

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It's my money. I can believe anything i want. I am not required to give it to the Looney left.

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I've been pleased that Princeton under Chris Eisgruber has NOT gone off the deep end. He's done a very good job of setting the right tone and working with different groups.

Even so, I've cut back on my annual giving to Princeton substantially. The school already has the largest endowment per student of any major university, and the facilities are far, far nicer than when I attended. I went to a high school that's now over 60% FARMS, and figure contributions to scholarship funds for kids who are lucky to attend UMBC or George Mason is a better use of money.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been pleased that Princeton under Chris Eisgruber has NOT gone off the deep end. He's done a very good job of setting the right tone and working with different groups.

Even so, I've cut back on my annual giving to Princeton substantially. The school already has the largest endowment per student of any major university, and the facilities are far, far nicer than when I attended. I went to a high school that's now over 60% FARMS, and figure contributions to scholarship funds for kids who are lucky to attend UMBC or George Mason is a better use of money.

This. The money I have to give is finite. Regardless of their politics, my university that is sitting on billions and billions of dollars doesn't need my cash. I'd rather give it to organizations and education institutions that DO need the money.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been pleased that Princeton under Chris Eisgruber has NOT gone off the deep end. He's done a very good job of setting the right tone and working with different groups.

Even so, I've cut back on my annual giving to Princeton substantially. The school already has the largest endowment per student of any major university, and the facilities are far, far nicer than when I attended. I went to a high school that's now over 60% FARMS, and figure contributions to scholarship funds for kids who are lucky to attend UMBC or George Mason is a better use of money.

This. The money I have to give is finite. Regardless of their politics, my university that is sitting on billions and billions of dollars doesn't need my cash. I'd rather give it to organizations and education institutions that DO need the money.

+2. I went to Wharton, but they’re about the last place that needs my money.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Notre Dame for undergrad. No. In fact one of the things I liked most about it was that it's very politically diverse. Like, a 50/50 split which is pretty rare at colleges these days. I liked being in an environment where there really was people on all along the political spectrum not just "liberal" to "practically communist."

And then I went to Yale for law school and yeah...that one's gone a little far. No money to them.

I really respect the way some ND students walked out at graduation. They got to protest his policies, but let other students and their families appreciate the special day. Back in the day I saw it as a conservative school, but now I would encourage my children to attend.

It was rude and disrespectful. If you are going to do that, just don't go at all. Or do like the rest of us do, sit through interminable boring lefty speeches with a polite look on our faces. I know a number of ND families thought that move to be just too pointed and rude and I agree.

“How much did Mike Pence’s NFL walkout cost taxpayers?”
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/how-much-did-mike-pences-nfl-walkout-cost-taxpayers-2017-10-08

Thank you.


What Pence got at ND was totally in line with the disrespect he's shown the nation and humanity.

Oh grow the f up. Vice President Pence is a fine man. You are an irrational person who can't deal with the fact that Hillary lost. GTFU.

Are you serous?! Pence is a fine man? Really? He is an ignorant, creepy, heartless and sadistic jesus freak. That is all he is.

And you're spewing religious slurs. Classy.

[Anonymous]

Back to the original question, 100% yes I stopped giving. My concern was also that how are these kids going to function and earn a living? I know it's not a trade school, but they're not even teaching them facts anymore, just Everyone is a Victim 101 - 999.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question, 100% yes I stopped giving. My concern was also that how are these kids going to function and earn a living? I know it's not a trade school, but they're not even teaching them facts anymore, just Everyone is a Victim 101 - 999.

..and another thing... GET OFF MY LAWN!!

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And you're spewing religious slurs. Classy.

I did not post what you are responding to, and I would not use that language, but I will politely point out that the Vice President of the Unites States of America believes the earth is 6,000 years old.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question, 100% yes I stopped giving. My concern was also that how are these kids going to function and earn a living? I know it's not a trade school, but they're not even teaching them facts anymore, just Everyone is a Victim 101 - 999.

..and another thing... GET OFF MY LAWN!!

+1. Do you really think that all these kids study is Victim 101 and their parents are fine with that? Of course not. They may take Victim 101 one semester, and maybe even Victim 201 another semester, but the rest of the time most of them are studying something useful.

But hey, you sound awfully like a victimized snowflake yourself, when you complain about your values being dissed by your alma mater. In fact, MAGA is all about victimhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question, 100% yes I stopped giving. My concern was also that how are these kids going to function and earn a living? I know it's not a trade school, but they're not even teaching them facts anymore, just Everyone is a Victim 101 - 999.

..and another thing... GET OFF MY LAWN!!

+1. Do you really think that all these kids study is Victim 101 and their parents are fine with that? Of course not. They may take Victim 101 one semester, and maybe even Victim 201 another semester, but the rest of the time most of them are studying something useful.

But hey, you sound awfully like a victimized snowflake yourself, when you complain about your values being dissed by your alma mater. In fact, MAGA is all about victimhood.

You really think that their parents have any clue what they're studying? What kind of helicopter parents did you have that knew that? Did your parents proofread your essays and call your prof's for you too? Frickin' millennials.

And I'm a new poster, not the maga poster.

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Anonymous wrote:Back to the original question, 100% yes I stopped giving. My concern was also that how are these kids going to function and earn a living? I know it's not a trade school, but they're not even teaching them facts anymore, just Everyone is a Victim 101 - 999.

+1000. I love you! exactly how I feel about my SLAC!

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Anonymous wrote:It's my money. I can believe anything i want. I am not required to give it to the Looney left.

+1. I no longer give to SLAC or law school

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Anonymous wrote:My SLAC has gone crazy left and doesn't even tolerate conservative or republican points of view. So I don't give. That doesn't mean much in of itself but there are sufficient alumni who feel this way such as it has really made the endowment suffer. The other problem is that the institution went from highly selective to almost 50% selectivity rate -
due to lack of quality applications - which just disgusts a lot of alums. It was once a great school but no longer is.

I'm having a hard time coming up with any SLACs that used to be highly selective but now have a 50% admission rate. So I'm going to call this one fake news.

Well, off the top of my head there's Occidental College. It used to be on the same level as Pomona and Stanford in California. Now it has a 45+% acceptance rate.

When was Occidental on the same level as Stanford and Pomona?

On and off since 1907. In 1907 Oxy produced its first Rhodes. Pomona then suggested they combine into one college. Oxy turned Pomona down. Oxy then produced 9 more Rhodes Scholars. In the early 70s it was highly competitive. Most students applied also to Pomona, Stanford as well as Oxy (fewer California students went east then so the selections in California for a top student were not as great as they are today) and UCLA. USC was considered a third-rate party school, and Pitzer even lower. The joke about USC was that the students stood in line the first day comparing notes as to their test scores and when UCLA turned them down. Much has changed.

So Occidental was last highly competitive (stats to verify that?) approximately 45 years ago, but it's fall has been the result of social awareness from the last 5-10 years?

That's not how that works.

Ignore PP.

Occidental has never remotely been a first tier CA school.

I think you are wrong. It got me into Yale Law School back in the late 70s. I also competed for the Rhodes. It was a significant name in California at one time.

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Anonymous wrote:I've been pleased that Princeton under Chris Eisgruber has NOT gone off the deep end. He's done a very good job of setting the right tone and working with different groups.

Even so, I've cut back on my annual giving to Princeton substantially. The school already has the largest endowment per student of any major university, and the facilities are far, far nicer than when I attended. I went to a high school that's now over 60% FARMS, and figure contributions to scholarship funds for kids who are lucky to attend UMBC or George Mason is a better use of money.

Well . . . . that BLM stuff jumping on the couches in the Woodrow Wilson Center really turned me off to Princeton.

[Anonymous]

Harvard has moved too far left. I no longer give money, but then they don't need my money.