For fun: first impressions of colleges based on tours...

[Anonymous]

Boston College: very classic college feel

BU: too tucked away in the city, couldn’t even find parking

Harvard: didn’t tour but drove by and people were treating it like a tourist attraction

Holy Cross: really pretty campus and nice dorms and library

Tufts: hilly and kinda bland

Haverford: forgettable

Dickinson: very beautiful campus next to but not enveloped by the local city and nice dorm buildings

[Anonymous]

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Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

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Anonymous wrote:Took a tour of JMU with daughter. At very beginning of the tour, the guide shared her pronouns. We walked past a nice big 4 story science building where it seemed every other window had a BLM sign. It was interesting because as we came around the building we looked back on the opposite side and saw no signs. It was if the idea was to virtue signal the visitors on tour that day. And finally, for that real college experience, we had to step over some vommit on the sidewalk. Hard pass.

I’m laughing! We had a similar experience at Gettysburg (not the vomit) but DC was turned off by all the woke stuff and virtue signaling .

We toured a dozen colleges and the tour guides shared their pronouns at almost every single school. I think this is the norm.

We took a tour at Auburn about a month ago, and the guide did not share his (I'm assuming) pronouns. I don't really see the point--it's not an ongoing relationship, it's a 90 minute tour. I'm not going to be talking to his friends and family later about how "he" did this or that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

What college is full of trump and confederate flags?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

Driving around rural Virginia these two definitely go together.

[Anonymous]

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DC was turned off by all the woke stuff and virtue signaling.

I'm curious, how would you and your DC feel about a campus that has Trump flags in the windows and students wearing MAGA hats?

College educated is not associated with Trump's demographic. What university is full of Trump flags and MAGA hats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

Driving around rural Virginia these two definitely go together.

Not true and I live there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

DC was turned off by all the woke stuff and virtue signaling.

I'm curious, how would you and your DC feel about a campus that has Trump flags in the windows and students wearing MAGA hats?

College educated is not associated with Trump's demographic. What university is full of Trump flags and MAGA hats?

I can't say that I've witnessed it, but states where 80% of the population voted for Trump (like Alabama, West Va.) would probably have Trump flags and MAGA hats on the students. And while Trump does love "the poorly educated" voters, some of his voters surely do have college degrees. (sadly)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

What college is full of trump and confederate flags?

Trump had a flag? I’ve lived forever in rural Virginua and Charlottesville and have never seen this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you define "woke" especially on a college campus? Are you offended when people share their pronouns or by a t-shirt that supports the LGBTQ community or a "stop Asian violence and hate sign" or is it just black lives matter signs? Do the kids need to dress a certain way?

Did you read the post that started this discussion? The point was that it was clearly performative. It becomes annoying (if not necessarily offensive) when it becomes theater to show how “good” you are. It becomes offensive when it is used to stifle communication from people who have opinions, or even just characteristics, that don’t fit neatly within the current liberal orthodoxy (See, for example, the comment above about how people who mentioned this “clearly don’t want anyone who isn’t white attending college.”).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DC was turned off by all the woke stuff and virtue signaling.

I'm curious, how would you and your DC feel about a campus that has Trump flags in the windows and students wearing MAGA hats?

College educated is not associated with Trump's demographic. What university is full of Trump flags and MAGA hats?

I can't say that I've witnessed it, but states where 80% of the population voted for Trump (like Alabama, West Va.) would probably have Trump flags and MAGA hats on the students. And while Trump does love "the poorly educated" voters, some of his voters surely do have college degrees. (sadly)

Poster that did the tour of Auburn last month here-

I didn't see a single confederate flag or Trump flag/hat. And we drove there from--get this!--West Virginia! Two days before we drove down, we attended the WVU/Iowa State football game--no Trump/Confederate stuff there either!
Also visited University of Alabama several months ago and did not see them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

What college is full of trump and confederate flags?

Trump had a flag? I’ve lived forever in rural Virginua and Charlottesville and have never seen this

I've seen Trump flags mostly in Maryland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

Roll Tide!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Trump flag...who cares. Confederate flag. Just no.

But the two are often flown together so how would a student discern the difference?

What kind of people are you associating with that fly both Trump and Confederate flags?

What college is full of trump and confederate flags?

Trump had a flag? I’ve lived forever in rural Virginua and Charlottesville and have never seen this

Look at the back of the pickup truck flying the confederate flag and there will usually be a second pole with a trump flag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

DC was turned off by all the woke stuff and virtue signaling.

I'm curious, how would you and your DC feel about a campus that has Trump flags in the windows and students wearing MAGA hats?

College educated is not associated with Trump's demographic. What university is full of Trump flags and MAGA hats?

I can't say that I've witnessed it, but states where 80% of the population voted for Trump (like Alabama, West Va.) would probably have Trump flags and MAGA hats on the students. And while Trump does love "the poorly educated" voters, some of his voters surely do have college degrees. (sadly)

You haven’t witnessed it? That’s another way of saying you’re just making sh*t up. I’ve been to multiple college sporting events attended by thousands of people (sometimes hundreds of thousands of people) in deeply red states over the last year, and I don’t remember seeing a single MAGA hat or flag on campus. In fact, the only place I’ve seen people wear MAGA hats is DC. I know someone who isn’t a Trump fan who bought one from a street vendor in DC purely because he knew it would trigger the locals. I don’t know who voted for whom, but the vast majority of people (even in red states, in college or not) are just not that obsessed with politics.