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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale is on the cusp. There is a silent but very real tug of war between the more moderate/conservative factions of students, faculty, alums, admins etc and the very liberal ones. I think the ultra liberal side might be winning but the fight is not over yet. They haven't become Brown just yet.

I hope they never will. It will be such a pity. Yale already is the most liberal HYPSM school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yale is on the cusp. There is a silent but very real tug of war between the more moderate/conservative factions of students, faculty, alums, admins etc and the very liberal ones. I think the ultra liberal side might be winning but the fight is not over yet. They haven't become Brown just yet.

The dreadful way in which Yale handled the couple who had the temerity to suggest that Yale students ought to bear responsibility for their own Halloween costumes led me to lose a lot of respect for that school. They should have had the back of the professor and his wife - instead, they placated a handful of screaming, immature black students who, quite frankly, should have been expelled. It seemed to reflect an abdication of responsibility and total willingness to let the inmates run the asylum.

[Anonymous]

How about Harvard:
https://www.harvard.edu/media-relations/media-resources/popular-topics/unrecognized-single-gender-social-organizations

If you, in your spare time, are part of any group that is single-sex, then as a Harvard student you are banned from playing on a sports team or holding a student leadership position.

That includes being a member of groups for women in STEM fields. In your spare time.

What's next, they'll ban you depending on which church or mosque you attend on the weekend?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Culture changes. What you want your former school to be is really rather irrelevant if current students and recent graduates find that the environment and education suit them, don't you think?

OP: I have donated almost every year since I've graduated, and think I've reached the point where I can't justify it anymore. Culture changes, but my college has started fluff "studies" majors and lost any semblance of free speech. I was on campus for homecoming and couldn't believe how much students, administration, and faculty equated any semblance of conservatism as something that needs to be apologized for. If they are going to criticize people having wealth, then they don't need my money earned thru capitalism.

Am I reading this right: they don’t like Trump and you don’t think their opinions could possibly have any validity.

You anti trump people are so strange. The world is a complex place and can not be just seen as pro trump or anti trump. You sound like those tea partiers who think Obama is Muslim who is a a member of a racial black power Christian church.

[Anonymous]

Hooooooo boy, yes. Swarthmore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about Harvard:
https://www.harvard.edu/media-relations/media-resources/popular-topics/unrecognized-single-gender-social-organizations

If you, in your spare time, are part of any group that is single-sex, then as a Harvard student you are banned from playing on a sports team or holding a student leadership position.

That includes being a member of groups for women in STEM fields. In your spare time.

What's next, they'll ban you depending on which church or mosque you attend on the weekend?

It's not clear that's the case. A "final club" of men clearly would trigger the policy as a "social organization," but I'd bet they treat associations of female STEM majors differently.

It's all based on the assumption that men cannot be allowed to exclude women in any social context. Women and minorities rarely are held to similar standards by college administrators.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hooooooo boy, yes. Swarthmore.

can you be more specific? DC was just admitted. I'd really like to know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is on the cusp. There is a silent but very real tug of war between the more moderate/conservative factions of students, faculty, alums, admins etc and the very liberal ones. I think the ultra liberal side might be winning but the fight is not over yet. They haven't become Brown just yet.

The dreadful way in which Yale handled the couple who had the temerity to suggest that Yale students ought to bear responsibility for their own Halloween costumes led me to lose a lot of respect for that school. They should have had the back of the professor and his wife - instead, they placated a handful of screaming, immature black students who, quite frankly, should have been expelled. It seemed to reflect an abdication of responsibility and total willingness to let the inmates run the asylum.

+1 I wonder what the screamer lady is doing now, i.e. job offers, internships etc. I wouldn't hire her in a million years.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yale is on the cusp. There is a silent but very real tug of war between the more moderate/conservative factions of students, faculty, alums, admins etc and the very liberal ones. I think the ultra liberal side might be winning but the fight is not over yet. They haven't become Brown just yet.

The dreadful way in which Yale handled the couple who had the temerity to suggest that Yale students ought to bear responsibility for their own Halloween costumes led me to lose a lot of respect for that school. They should have had the back of the professor and his wife - instead, they placated a handful of screaming, immature black students who, quite frankly, should have been expelled. It seemed to reflect an abdication of responsibility and total willingness to let the inmates run the asylum.

+1. DS was a triple legacy but he chose not to go for that reason. One goes to college to learn, not be distracted by political agendas of the left.

[Anonymous]

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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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Culture changes. What you want your former school to be is really rather irrelevant if current students and recent graduates find that the environment and education suit them, don't you think?

OP: I have donated almost every year since I've graduated, and think I've reached the point where I can't justify it anymore. Culture changes, but my college has started fluff "studies" majors and lost any semblance of free speech. I was on campus for homecoming and couldn't believe how much students, administration, and faculty equated any semblance of conservatism as something that needs to be apologized for. If they are going to criticize people having wealth, then they don't need my money earned thru capitalism.

Am I reading this right: they don’t like Trump and you don’t think their opinions could possibly have any validity.

You anti trump people are so strange. The world is a complex place and can not be just seen as pro trump or anti trump. You sound like those tea partiers who think Obama is Muslim who is a a member of a racial black power Christian church.

This has nothing to do with Trump. It's about the SJW agenda taking over our nation's colleges and universities.

[Anonymous]

Middlebury and Carleton are two more that have tipped too far left.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yale is on the cusp. There is a silent but very real tug of war between the more moderate/conservative factions of students, faculty, alums, admins etc and the very liberal ones. I think the ultra liberal side might be winning but the fight is not over yet. They haven't become Brown just yet.

The dreadful way in which Yale handled the couple who had the temerity to suggest that Yale students ought to bear responsibility for their own Halloween costumes led me to lose a lot of respect for that school. They should have had the back of the professor and his wife - instead, they placated a handful of screaming, immature black students who, quite frankly, should have been expelled. It seemed to reflect an abdication of responsibility and total willingness to let the inmates run the asylum.

+1. DS was a triple legacy but he chose not to go for that reason. One goes to college to learn, not be distracted by political agendas of the left.

If I can prevent it, none of my kids will go to Yale.

We are exploring options in California, Canada and even the UK.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Canadian universities are looking more attractive by the day.

Great education at reasonable fees, and actual diversity without the actual BS.

Oh, like Laurier in Ontario where they accused a TA of being transphobic for showing a clip from a respected Canadian TV program that had professors debating both sides of gender pronouns?

http://nationalpost.com/opinion/christie-blatchford-wilfrid-laurier-investigation-into-lindsay-shepherd-affair-complete-but-public-wont-see-report

As a Canadian, I feel that I should point out a) the professor, and the way he handled the "intervention" with the TA, was widely criticized across the Canadian media, b) Laurier indicated they do not stand behind his POV, and c) Laurier is really the bottom of the barrel as far as Canadian universities are concerned. It's where my cousin who took 7 years to finish high school went--not anywhere close to an elite institution.

+1.

Have never even heard of that. DS is researching UBC, McGill, U Toronto.

[Anonymous]

Well avoid Berkeley ^^. I'm not sure there are any even-handed schools left in California. I attended Harvard Law. It has become so left that I no longer give any money.