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

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Anonymous wrote:My college which has always been very liberal (think Oberlin level) when I attended has turned into a circus. There is this obsession with diversity, both economic and racial, that is ridiculous. Everything is about identity politics and I cringe reading the alumni magazine.

Well, just daydream about separate water fountains and a 2000 mile wall. That should brighten your day.

Is there no middle ground between Trumpism and the far left? They all seem to push different identity politics, but if push comes to shove I can’t side with the far left that basically wants to empty the pockets of every white person. They aren’t much different than Mugabe or Winnie Mandela.

You poor, poor victim! Grow the hell up and stop with the pity party. Geez!

The far left is just as insidious as the America First crowd. Many of us want nothing to do with them (and, presumably, with you). Perhaps you are the one that needs to look in the mirror both when far-left universities stop getting donations and far-right candidates win office.

Well said.

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Anonymous wrote:No money for wellesley. So tired of the Hillary worship and giving diplomas to transgender

Oh good, the horror. Giving an education to people who are different then you. Damn all those colleges giving diplomas to Black people too, right?

This thread. Like what? Colleges are liberal - well, they always have been. When I went to college the place was constantly up in arms about Viet Nam. And thank God it was, because that got my West Virginian ass up and actually reading about politics and realizing maybe the Viet Nam war was a travesty, which in turn made me look at other issues I was sadly uninformed about and taking a more nuanced view of politics.

I certainly didn't become a raging liberal, but it made we realize that there was more to politics then coal, lying idiots, and small town West Virginia. Colleges trend liberal nowadays because sadly it's hard to support modern conservatism when you have even a slight understanding of reality, economics, and history. See: the tax plan.

No, they haven't. Most universities and SLACs were started to train the children of ministers. You are confusing a liberal arts educationi with Liberalism. They are two separate things.

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Ivy alum. Stopped donating a long time ago. They want to charge 70-80k in tuition, they don’t need my money. I instead donate locally to shelters and community charities. Higher education is a self fueling bubble of its own that bears little resemblance with reality and I say this as a liberal, albeit a pragmatic liberal.

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Anonymous wrote:No money for wellesley. So tired of the Hillary worship and giving diplomas to transgender

I know that phone autocorrect systems are mean, but you don't seem to punctuate like a Wellesley alum.

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When I went to school, colleges were slightly to the left. After all, most young people are fairly liberal. However, all views were shared for the better of classes. I'd have hated having a room of everyone sharing the same view. Where is the learning in that? Nowadays, most more conservative students (whom are still slightly left) are afraid to say anything. They have been "bullied" to stay silent. I've just decided to stop giving to my alma mater which I loved when I was there. But, times have changed, and I wouldn't send my kids there anymore. I want my kids to have a more balanced education. Also, really, who at that age wants to make everything political? My kids want to learn but have fun too. The hard left takes all the fun out of college.

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Anonymous wrote:Ivy alum. Stopped donating a long time ago. They want to charge 70-80k in tuition, they don’t need my money. I instead donate locally to shelters and community charities. Higher education is a self fueling bubble of its own that bears little resemblance with reality and I say this as a liberal, albeit a pragmatic liberal.

+1 moderate conservative here

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Anonymous wrote:When I went to school, colleges were slightly to the left. After all, most young people are fairly liberal. However, all views were shared for the better of classes. I'd have hated having a room of everyone sharing the same view. Where is the learning in that? Nowadays, most more conservative students (whom are still slightly left) are afraid to say anything. They have been "bullied" to stay silent. I've just decided to stop giving to my alma mater which I loved when I was there. But, times have changed, and I wouldn't send my kids there anymore. I want my kids to have a more balanced education. Also, really, who at that age wants to make everything political? My kids want to learn but have fun too. The hard left takes all the fun out of college.

+1 out of college and out of life

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Anonymous wrote:When I went to school, colleges were slightly to the left. After all, most young people are fairly liberal. However, all views were shared for the better of classes. I'd have hated having a room of everyone sharing the same view. Where is the learning in that? Nowadays, most more conservative students (whom are still slightly left) are afraid to say anything. They have been "bullied" to stay silent. I've just decided to stop giving to my alma mater which I loved when I was there. But, times have changed, and I wouldn't send my kids there anymore. I want my kids to have a more balanced education. Also, really, who at that age wants to make everything political? My kids want to learn but have fun too. The hard left takes all the fun out of college.

Excellent comment

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Anonymous wrote:When I went to school, colleges were slightly to the left. After all, most young people are fairly liberal. However, all views were shared for the better of classes. I'd have hated having a room of everyone sharing the same view. Where is the learning in that? Nowadays, most more conservative students (whom are still slightly left) are afraid to say anything. They have been "bullied" to stay silent. I've just decided to stop giving to my alma mater which I loved when I was there. But, times have changed, and I wouldn't send my kids there anymore. I want my kids to have a more balanced education. Also, really, who at that age wants to make everything political? My kids want to learn but have fun too. The hard left takes all the fun out of college.

Excellent comment

+1

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A white girl at a state school posts racist comments on social media outside of class - she gets expelled. Meanwhile, minority kids getting a free ride to the nation’s most elite schools can say all sorts of hateful, anti-white things on campus - they aren’t disciplined at all. It’s just one form of the bullying and hypocrisy from the left that is routine on campuses now.

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Anonymous wrote:A white girl at a state school posts racist comments on social media outside of class - she gets expelled. Meanwhile, minority kids getting a free ride to the nation’s most elite schools can say all sorts of hateful, anti-white things on campus - they aren’t disciplined at all. It’s just one form of the bullying and hypocrisy from the left that is routine on campuses now.

Indeed.

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Michigan. How many freaking diversity and inclusion deans, seminars, etc. Do they need? A lot of the students are Asians paying full freight who don't even care.

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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.

+1000

Pence is an ultraconservative Koch brothers tool. But as the Vice President, he is owed respect.

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Bates College. I gave them the benefit of the doubt last year and donated. Never again. From their whacked recent faculty hires to their bait and switch English courses to push an agenda, they have destroyed the classic liberal education. And I am appalled that every alumni doesn’t feel the same way I do.

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Colleges = political brain washing machines