Posted on 11/20/2016 3:04:26 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Converse College administration responded to this report after it was published. The full response is posted below.
Women’s college loses it when Hillary Clinton loses election
When Republican Donald Trump was elected president last week, the intelligent, determined young women of Converse College – along with their esteemed instructors – lost their minds.
They posted video of themselves crying on Snapchat. They walked around campus in tears, and the administration set up “safe zones” where students weren’t allowed to discuss the election results.
One of my professors pushed back a midterm “given recent upsetting events,” and students planned to organize “silent protests” on Thursday.
If this sounds like the typical college reaction to Trump’s victory, there’s a twist: Converse is a women’s liberal arts college. From President Krista Newkirk on down, the Converse community invested a huge part of its identity in Democrat Hillary Clinton shattering the last remaining glass ceiling in America.
The only acceptable sentiments to express since Wednesday have been grief and outrage. Feelings are so raw that the few contrarians on campus have become targets.
One student even claims she got kicked out of class after she challenged her professor’s comparison of Trump’s election to the September 11 terrorist attacks.
‘Never been so disgusted in my life’ Before she was ejected from class by her professor, the student wrote a Facebook post scolding those who were “comparing 11/9 to 9/11”:
"You are comparing today to a day that killed thousands of people in MY HOME. You are disrespectful, you are unintelligent and you should think before you post things on social media. I am disgusted."
That comparison continued in the student’s class, she said. (The student requested anonymity to share her story, so The College Fix is not naming the professor either.)
The professor told the class “I haven’t felt this way since 9/11” and called Nov. 9 the second worst day in American history, according to the student. That spurred her to disagree and tell her professor it was disrespectful to those who lost their lives on 9/11.
“I went to her class and got kicked out for expressing my opinion,” the student said. She asked to meet with the dean of the department, who told her the issue would be “rectified in a professional and acceptable manner,” according to the student.
“I have never been so disgusted in my life,” the student told The Fix.
The Converse College, who goes to a sneaker college?
Www.thefire.org
Liberalism IS a mental disease.
GREAT shot, Mr. raygun!!
What whaaa whaaa.
My favorite candidate didn’t win the presidency
This somehow equates to the senseless murder of 3,000 innocent Americans at the hands of Islamic terrorists?
Liberalism is indeed a mental disorder.
Both of them?
The student lied....
Converse College released a statement Wednesday referring to the classroom incident, saying the student was “NOT Ejected From Class”:
An article was recently posted online claiming a Converse student was ejected from class after expressing a political viewpoint in opposition to her faculty member. The faculty member and student involved have asked Converse to convey that this claim is untrue and to clarify the situation. The student was not removed from class. There was a discussion in the class regarding the outcome of the election in which the faculty member and the student disagreed. The student was given the opportunity to leave class and she chose to do so. Both parties have resolved the situation to their full satisfaction, and the professor has apologized to the student as well as to the other members of the class.
Converse College strongly supports civil discussion of different perspectives among all of its community members. In any case where we discover that this principle has been violated, Converse has and will continue to take appropriate action. In an address to the full faculty and staff this week, President Newkirk reiterated the College’s policy on academic freedom and added, “I urge you to be careful about stating your personal political views in the classroom and potentially creating an environment where the students believe that there is only one right opinion, or only one right opinion on our campus or in your class. We must be open to other points of view and allow students to explore these issues in the public discourse.
SNL - The Bubble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI
Snowflakes of the female persuasion, obviously. Do they let transgender females in I wonder, or strictly those born female?
Why was the student given the opportunity to leave? What does that actually mean? What would have happened if the student refused to leave?
ANOTHER good reason to put the adults in charge - defund these leeches!
“The United States Department of Education (ED or DoED), also referred to as the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government. Recreated by the Department of Education Organization Act (Public Law 96-88) and signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on October 17, 1979, it began operating on May 4, 1980.
The Department of Education Organization Act divided the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare into the Department of Education and the Department of Health and Human Services. The Department of Education is administered by the United States Secretary of Education. It is by far the smallest Cabinet-level department, with about 5,000 employees. It has an annual budget of US$73 Billion (2016).”
Somehow, that doesn't ring true.
You know that for a fact?
The article states “The student was given the opportunity to leave class and she chose to do so.”
Exactly. The student was given the opportunity to leave. She wasn’t “kicked out” like she said!
Apparently these @zzwholes don’t remember December7,1941, or June 25,1950.
Shame,shame shame.
And Bill Maher would be gone from cable TV for having called the first female U.S. president a dumb tw*t. (and I don't mean "twit.")
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