Posted on 04/10/2015 4:41:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The University of Michigan made headlines this week for initially canceling a screening of the blockbuster film American Sniper because some Muslim students said that it being shown would make them feel “unsafe.” The college has since reversed this decision, but it’s not the only time something like this has happened. Here are seven other things that a school or its students have declared hazards to campus safety:
1. Bill Maher
When the University of Berkeley announced that Bill Maher would be its graduation speaker last October, more than 6,000 students signed a petition demanding that he be banned because he “perpetuates a dangerous learning environment” and “they cannot stand for any action that makes our students feel unsafe.”
2. Face paint of any color at any event ever
Last October, Arizona State University’s athletics department banned facepaint — “whether the theme is black, maroon, gold or white” — because ASU is an “inclusive and forward-thinking university” and they must make sure that “everyone feels safe and accepted.” They did not explain whether or not any students had actually reported feeling threatened by the paint, and if so, how those students were handling their lives currently.
3. A petting-zoo camel (due to concerns over racial tensions)
Students at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota planned to bring a camel (one which had been trained for these kinds of events) to campus last spring as part of a fun “Hump Day” event celebrating the end of the year — only to be told that the idea was not fun, but actually so horribly racist against Middle Eastern students that it would be “possibly unsafe” for anyone to attend. It was canceled.
4. The word “bullet” (not to be confused with actual bullets, which are a perfect example of something that can actually be dangerous)
Last fall, the student newspaper staff at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia decided to change the publication’s name from The Bullet to The Blue and Gray Press on the grounds that the word “bullet” “propagated violence.”
5. Calling freshmen students “freshmen”
Last November, the administration at Elon University in North Carolina instructed student orientation leaders not to call the freshmen “freshmen” — because the word makes women sound “vulnerable” and therefore suggests that they “might be targets” for sexual violence, according to the school’s Inclusive Community Wellbeing Director. (Yes . . . “Inclusive Community Wellbeing Director.”)
6. Cinco de Mayo–themed parties
On May 19, 2013, Northwestern University’s Hispanic/Latino Alliance wrote a letter explaining why they were totally not ridiculous for having told students that they shouldn’t drink tequila or eat tacos at parties earlier that month: Sometimes people will be “drinking tequila shots while saying things like ‘cinco de drinko,’” and that contributes to a “campus climate” where Mexican students “feel unwelcome if not often unsafe.”
7. Posters
Students at Boston College did something crazy last month: They put up posters advocating for free speech without officially registering as a campus group before doing so. School administrators called the cops, and Dean of Students Thomas Mogan explained that the posters were “a nuisance and in some cases a safety hazard.” What he thinks “safety hazard” means remains unclear. Maybe someone had to go into a Cinco de Mayo party to grab one.
— Katherine Timpf is a reporter for National Review
“So, tell me why it is worth going in debt by tens of thousands of dollars to attend college again? “
A friend has just sent his boy to a ten month training school to be a diesel mechanic. The cost? $50,000.
This is why more and more entrepreneurs are drop outs.
Long ago there was a book published called “The Closing of the American Mind”. Most students on campus, with the assistance of the school administration, have closed and welded shut their mind. The new “right” is to now demand never even hear an opposing viewpoint or opinion from the established dogma of the Left. I’m reminded of the words spoken by Big Brother in the Apple 1984 ad...
“We have created for the first time in all history a garden of pure ideology, where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests of any contradictory true thoughts.”
The Army (Navy, Marines, Air Force) provides many vocational training schools.
Jesus. I sent myself to a job on the railroad when I was 18... learned diesel mechanics, steam fitting, construction, heavy equipment operation...all the way through high finance and public relations... and they paid ME... and I put myself through Engineering School with that money. I think the 4 year B.S.M.E. cost less than 50 grand. This was in the late ‘90s.
“The Army (Navy, Marines, Air Force) provides many vocational training schools.”
Ya know? I mentioned that. But they’re Obama supporters so he sneered at me.
How will these kids survive life?
Dang, you’re an unusual one from New Jersey, being a conservative, huh?! My background sounds similar to yours. Except I joined the Navy at 17..on subs, got out and worked for a few years...ended up with a contract job at an Arkansas nuclear plant documenting as-built piping systems. Saved my money and went to Univ. of TN, Knoxvile, BSME, on my own dime...I think it cost me around 40K all said and done.
Brains...
That’s crazy. Here in LA , technical schools charge $300 average on 6 months intensive school for plumbers and electricians. They keep the costs down because everything is subsidized (no wonder the city is broke)
“A friend has just sent his boy to a ten month training school to be a diesel mechanic. The cost? $50,000.”
Holy cow! When I went to vocational school (electronics) in the ‘80s, it cost $30/quarter plus books. I made a very good living with that education. My midlife crisis lured me into culinary school, which ran about $30K plus books for 18 months. The good news is your friend’s son will probably be imminently more employable than someone with a $240k liberal arts degree. Still be a while paying off those loans though.
Diaper call!
Last fall, the student newspaper staff at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia decided to change the publication’s name from The Bullet to The Blue and Gray Press on the grounds that the word “bullet” “propagated violence.”
I've seen presenters do that with their Power Point presentations, calling them "dot points" rather than "bullet points." Semantic foolishness, IMO...
The pampered, pudgy, whining adult-infants these schools are creating will be fine dining for the international Islamic coalition.
They will be the main course for someone's dinner.
After all, fatty cattle are raised for a reason.
Your work ethic will haunt you for the rest of your life.
Trust me, I know.
The students will be the commasars to make sure the edicts of the Comenturn are obeyed by the proteterate. Lots of jobs once the “Worker’s Paradise” is established. The slave camps will need guards—the education centers will need the right people to educate the young into the Progressive New Order. In this new Amerika—lots of folks going to die.
I’m thinking they may never make it out of their parents’ houses.
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