Posted on 11/11/2015 11:57:50 AM PST by abb
Hundreds of students, faculty and staff members, flooded Ithaca College’s academic quad Wednesday afternoon protesting I.C. President Tom Rochon and his handling of racial incidents on campus and in solidarity with campuses including University of Missouri and Yale University.
Urging a vote of no confidence, protesters gathered following a month of racial tensions sparked by a number of incidents occurring since the start of the academic year. At approximately 1 p.m., students began to gather. Within 30 minutes, hundreds of students had flooded Ithaca College’s Academic Quad.
A number of students spoke against the administration, naming Rochon the leader and perpetuator of “a broken system†that pretends that I.C. is diverse.
“We have no desire to work with this broken system,†a student said into the microphone.
Following student speeches, the crowd of protesters walked across the quad, guided by student leaders and shouting, “Tom Rochon. No Confidence.â€
After students spread and laid down on the wet pavement, they fell silent for 20 minutes at 2 p.m. The eerie silence was broken at 2:20 p.m. as hundreds streamed back towards Freedom Rock in front of the student center.
“We have power,†students chanted, in a roar that filled the quad.
Students also circulated papers titled “The Case Against Tom Rochon,†which list seven grievances against him, ranging from “his disregard for minority community members†to “his questionable ethics.â€
“When asked to propose solutions, Rochon fails as a former scholar to conduct even the most basic research by drawing on eight years of reports and recommendations that involved countless hours of work by students, faculty and staff, or by accessing the many demands that have been addressed to him and gone unanswered,†the paper reads.
All of the kids in those pictures have something in common:
I wouldn’t hire any of them for any job I could think of. Not even third shift assistant bathroom attendant. No real skills, no real life experience, no work ethic, and they would just be a pain in the ass.
And lets do a quick time warp to November of 1980.
The beards? Solidarity with Islamist Jihadists maybe?
“Too many VERY privileged white families send their kids to that school.”
My thoughts as well.
No wonder they can’t get jobs after graduating, all they do is walk out of classes.
another stupid leftist will kowtow to Obama’s Maoists.
"My thoughts as well."
True, but it was mainly the children of the upper-class and nobility who were the driving forces behind the French and the Russian revolutions.
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Patrick Henry College
Christendom College
Pensacola Christian College
Grove City College
Bob Jones University
DeMint at Yale: ‘Academic Censorship as a Political Weapon’
When says something ‘unpopular’ then gets hounded, (by progressive students),out of business or bullied, which can happen almost anywhere... But they are most likely to happen in our colleges and universities, where honest inquiry and debate are ‘quickly becoming secondary’.. to the “right†not to hear contrary opinions.
These instances of ‘academic intolerance’ go hand in hand with a general ‘revolutionary insanity among students’ which seems to be promoted MORE THAN than actual education on campus these days.
Further....When you put blinders on students to protect them from ideas that might hurt their feelings, they also become blinded to ridiculous and offensive behavior of their own.
Any institution of higher learning worthy of the name should be open to the free exchange of ideas......Censorship in academia is being excused using the same justifications for all censorship through history: Those considered lacking in virtue don’t get a platform to speak. Free speech applies only to people saying the right things.
The Left knows that if there is honest and open debate, those who have the truth on their side will win out—and this happens to be the worst-case scenario for people who aren’t concerned with the truth as much as political ‘POWER’. ....(which is exactly what the students shouted..”We have power”.)
Academic censorship, political correctness, saying who has the right to speak on a topic and who does not, bullying those who break the taboos of this new cultural Marxism—it all adds up to a means of control.
Control who gets to speak, and you control the debate. Control the debate, and you control how people think. Control how people think, and you control society....the easiest way to win an argument is to tape your opponent’s mouth shut..... (And therefore TRUTH is never known).
http://dailysignal.com/2015/03/26/demint-at-yale-academic-censorship-as-a-political-weapon/
You can start with Grove City (PA) College. Years ago, they decided that government money just wasn’t worth it. They told the federal government to go pound salt, and have lived happily ever arter :)
Sooooooooooo these little a$$holes will be job hunting soon....ef em and bring on the H1b visa!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Probably Cornell since it’s next door.
I’m guessing that there aren’t many negro “student-athletes” playing on the Division III Ithaca College football team. No scholarships, no free shit and no shot at the nfl.
Funny, I don't remember the 60's ";^)
I wonder if any presidents of a these bastions of Marxism (that they helped create) will develop any balls to save their sorry asses.
Where’s S.I. Hayakawa when you need him?
Burt Robeson: I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with C.
Vicky: Cornell.
Todays, Children of the Corn!
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