Berkeley students shut down exam, demand 'take-home' instead

Campus Reform ^ | October 2, 2017 | Kyle Perisic

[Political Junkie Too]

Knowledge is "white privilege" because it's all "white knowledge" about what "white people" did.

Why should we have to study that to get ahead in the world?

-PJ

[henkster]

Why don’t they just demand a passing grade and be done with it?

Oddly enough, this is actually the logical result of applying what the liberal/communist profs want for the rest of society. My comparative political systems prof in 1980 should have called his class "Soviet Communism Here and Now." He was all for "workers controlling the means of production" and all that. I should have told him that I agreed with him completely. In fact, students should control the means of production of grades. We could all voter ourselves "As" for the course and gone to the bar for some beers.

I wonder how he would have reacted to having his theories applied against him. It seems to me that is exactly what just happened at Berkley.

[CommerceComet]

He said resumes from students at brain-dead colleges go right into the trash.

I'm guessing that Cal-Berkeley isn't one of those schools provided you get a degree in a real discipline. The vast majority of the students are not lunatics.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Absolutely right. Replace all those Western dead white men and their theories with their African equivalents. You know...guys like Newton, Pythagoras, Euler, Reynolds, Volta, Watt, Planck, Bohr, Galilei, Tesla, Pasteur, Faraday, Edison, Copernicus, Kepler, Maxwell and thousands more. What did they ever do to deserve such fame? We should use all the suppressed African discoveries instead.