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Welcome to modern colleges, where 'smart' students are taught to hate the military by leftist faculty.
1 posted on 09/18/2007 9:12:49 AM PDT by zendari
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BTTT (Barf To The Top)


2 posted on 09/18/2007 9:20:53 AM PDT by Cold Heart
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The first sentence reeks of nauseating elitism. The author has no concept of duty, honor, sacrifice in the defense of freedom. He looks as service academy students as he would the garbageman.


3 posted on 09/18/2007 9:21:09 AM PDT by henkster (The dems have reserved your place on the collective farm.)
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So her brother’s a hero and she’s a tick turd.

That about sum it all up?


5 posted on 09/18/2007 9:27:10 AM PDT by FormerLib (Sacrificing our land and our blood cannot buy protection from jihad.-Bishop Artemije of Kosovo)
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I like this “message” posted to this twit:

“The bottom line here is that your brother is a better man than you any day of the week. It is people like him who keep wimps like you free and able to write the garbage you float out there. Be glad he has rescued your family name from anonymity.”

Not sure if this was just an internet visitor or someone from Columbia (with some sense) reacting to this article. If this did come from a Columbia undergrad or graduate, it takes away my general disgust after reading this opinion piece... Taking the good with the bad. In the meantime: a big salute to the young Midshipman (sp?) and I hope his family’s shame will recede over time.

7 posted on 09/18/2007 9:30:40 AM PDT by ReleaseTheHounds ("You ask, 'What is our aim?' I can answer in one word: VICTORY - victory - at all costs...")
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The author: “The author a Barnard College senior majoring in political science.”

Of course. Preparing for a law school application, and will likely use the Columbia + law school pedigree to run for office or in some other activist capacity. One of the biggest ironies is that no where else in the world do liberals have more freedom to be liberals than in the US, and that is because of the sacrifices of those in the military who defended that freedom. Universities have become ‘stamping factories’ where students are all cast into the same die molds and replicatively stamped into being uncreative liberals. The concept of universities being the places you go to to learn how to be open-minded and think objectively and creatively is no longer applicable.

8 posted on 09/18/2007 9:31:16 AM PDT by pieceofthepuzzle
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WOOOOWWW!!!! This chick is dense enough to shield you from a nuclear blast. Hmmmm, let’s see the “NAVAL” Academy??? They must teach cooking there, not how to fight a war or lead troops. And we all know that Annapolis is hurting for students so much that the recruiters hang out on corners lying to kids about a free education and all the sailing time they could imagine.<<<<<Being sarcastic, for you boneheads who dont get it. My God, and Annapolis isn’t elite? There is about a 20 step interview process and a Congressional appointment necessary for just being accepted, let alone making it through. Man this bimbo makes my blood boil, not that the little ring knocking homo officers who graduate form there arent mostly pompous little pricks who every Chief wants to ring their lousy little necks....ahem I do digress. Sorry the enlisted guy in me is coming out, lol. But the fact is they are worthy if not better competition for anyone who graduates from or is still attending the almighty Columbia. Libtards, blah!!!
9 posted on 09/18/2007 9:33:43 AM PDT by Seabee133
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“I know why I chose Columbia: the campus is magnificent, the education is top-tier, and my peers are intelligent. I could look at a stranger, tell him or her that I went to Columbia, and hear the predictable, “Wow, you must be smart.””

Typical leftie, first they must convince you of their superior intellect.

“The reality of sending my brother to the Naval Academy began to set in: this was not a school; this was the military. While they boast a first class education, the main goal of this institution was to get my brother “combat ready.” During the first two “induction days,” the head of the Navy openly admitted that their goal was to transform these boys into men who would willingly die defending our country.”

And this really throws her into a tailspin. The thought there is something more important than self. This poor author’s head must have been ready to explode at this point after realizing her self-absorption had not infected her brother. Clearly the principles of duty and self sacrifice for the good of others are just a bit too abstract for her comprehension.


10 posted on 09/18/2007 9:34:03 AM PDT by bereanway (Hunter in '08)
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FYI about Columbia...

[From Horowitz’s book ***The ProFessors; The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America***]

Guess which university has more of these lib-loons than any other?


11 posted on 09/18/2007 9:38:26 AM PDT by Mrs.Z
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I know why I chose Columbia: the campus is magnificent, the education is top-tier, and my peers are intelligent. I could look at a stranger, tell him or her that I went to Columbia, and hear the predictable, “Wow, you must be smart.”

That is the most shallow statement imaginable. I can't imagine carrying one whit about what a stranger may think about me and where I went to school. Unlike this weakling, I don't need the constant reassurance of those around me to know my intelligence level.

12 posted on 09/18/2007 9:38:51 AM PDT by SoftballMominVA (Never argue with an idiot. He will bring you down to his level and beat you with experience)
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the U.S. Naval Academy is not an elite college; it is first and foremost a branch of the U.S. military

The fact that the name refers to the United States Navy might have given someone with an IQ over room temperature a clue that this was the case. I guess Barnard students don't make that cut.

She begged me to call a naval lieutenant Monday morning to start the out-processing forms for my brother. After leaving countless messages for the lieutenant, he finally called me back, at which point he informed me that my brother would have to go through 13 exit-interviews to be dismissed, including an interview with the head of the Navy. When I asked him whether this might intimidate him out of leaving, the lieutenant reminded me that my brother had signed an oath legally binding him to the Navy. When I reminded the lieutenant that he had signed that oath after he had been yelled at all day and that his hair had just been shaven off during his first day there, he comforted me that John was not at all forced to sign the oath.

Had she really read the catalog as she claims she would know midshipmen can withdraw without incurring a service obligation before they start their junior year. I guess reading comprehension isn't a strong suit at Barnard, either.

Dollars to donuts her brother likes Annapolis, doesn't want to leave and doesn't share sis's leftist aversion to the military.

13 posted on 09/18/2007 9:43:21 AM PDT by colorado tanker (I'm unmoderated - just ask Bill O'Reilly)
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1897875/posts


14 posted on 09/18/2007 9:44:38 AM PDT by Petruchio (Out to Lunch)
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If I ever owned a large business I would tell human resources department that anyone who has a degree from a service academy would get an interview for whatever job they was applying for.

I would also inform them that any applicants from schools like Columbia may be given an interview in spite of their education if they have other things in their favor.

Tammy Bruce wrote that she was in a Columbia journalism class when Reagan got shot and the teacher and students cheered the news.


16 posted on 09/18/2007 9:45:19 AM PDT by Swiss
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Her brother must have been real happy with his idiot sister calling up and trying to get him out of the military bacuase she found out after the fact there were guns there.


20 posted on 09/18/2007 10:06:38 AM PDT by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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I could look at a stranger, tell him or her that I went to Columbia, and hear the predictable, “Wow, you must be smart.”

Oh, don't worry hon, I read the rest of the article. I know you're not smart...

21 posted on 09/18/2007 10:13:20 AM PDT by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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"Wow, you must be smart."

She should recognize that her brother has intelligence and character. It takes more than "smart" to be accepted to an academy. While my SAT and ACT scores would have likely granted me admission to nearly any college, a few poor choices and "youthful indiscretions" scuttled any possibility of an academy appointment.
23 posted on 09/18/2007 10:20:34 AM PDT by philled ("CNBC?...You might as well be doing ham radio at that point."-- Dennis Miller)
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....it taxes parents, siblings, and participants if they do not understand what they were signing up for... Dear author; you mean if they are drooling morons? I've known what the US Navel Academy was about since, maybe, 5th grade. When do you Columbia types figure it out? And, you lying turd, I'll just bet you you asked your brother why he wanted to go he didn't "admit" he liked the "structure". I'll bet he said things you just don't understand. Things like duty, honor, service, committment. You don't deserve your brother; and he deserves a more loyal family.
25 posted on 09/18/2007 10:40:28 AM PDT by bobsatwork
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My posted response at the website:

“I had difficulty finishing this rant as I was laughing so hard the words began to blur with tears. I am 61 now and retired after 28 years in the Navy and Navy Reserve. During that time I was privileged to serve with the best people in the world, including my shipmates in Vietnam. Meanwhile, my alma mater, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst , has descended into a cesspit of third-rate minds majoring in Victims Studies and Racism Studies, “graduating” tens of thousands of surly, unbathed unemployables who settle like sediment into Liberal enclaves like Amherst and Cambridge and San Francisco, free to lead lives of self-indulgent, mindless Liberalism while kept safe and pampered by their betters in the armed services.

One can only hope that the ignorance of this article’s writer will somehow cure with age. “


26 posted on 09/18/2007 11:29:42 AM PDT by pabianice
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One of the hilarious Comments on this drivel:

ABNORMAL PSYCH 481

Final Exam Question:

During your initial interview, a new patient, without significant affect, states:

I know why I chose Columbia: the campus is magnificent, the education is top-tier, and my peers are intelligent. I could look at a stranger, tell him or her that I went to Columbia, and hear the predictable, “Wow, you must be smart.”

Identify the primary psychopathology demonstrated by this statement, probable courses of therapeutic approach and likelihood of recovery.

EXTRA CREDIT

How would the fact that the patient lied about being a Columbia student, but was actually a Barnard College senior majoring in political science affect your diagnosis or treatment?

Posted by: anonymous (not verified) | September 18th, 2007 @ 2:25pm

27 posted on 09/18/2007 11:41:48 AM PDT by Madame Dufarge
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Wow, you must be smart!!! < GUFFAW> < SNORT>


28 posted on 09/18/2007 11:45:39 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
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This piece of rubbish is contemptible on so many grounds. But I would like to call attention to a really odd aspect of the attitude of the little shrew who wrote it: She seems to think that her brother is her child! She speaks throughout like it is her direct responsibility to either allow or not allow him to make the choice to attend the Naval Academy. And at the end, we see that she herself is a college senior. What an arrogant twit. The young midshipman probably chose this route as the only way te get free of this suffocating family.


31 posted on 09/18/2007 4:38:12 PM PDT by SergeiRachmaninov
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