Posted on 06/16/2019 5:44:52 PM PDT by Hojczyk
This week, however, the bill came due for Oberlin when a jury awarded over $11 million in damages to a family bakery for being defamed as racist by its college students and officials. That motion was later followed by a whopping $33 million punitive award. It is only the latest example of how faculty members and officials are driving their institutions toward financial and intellectual bankruptcy, thanks to their advocacy or acquiescence.
We are reaching a critical point in higher education in the United States where leaders are ceding control to a small group of activist students and faculty members. Too often, those challenges are met not with acts of conscience but with cowardice. Professors fear being labeled as either insensitive or racist for objecting to protests or changes on campus.
Meanwhile, the costs mount with no reflection from administrators. Even with $44 million in total damages, Raimondo remains dean of students, and the college remains unapologetic. Oberlin was founded in 1833 on the belief that it is “peculiar in that which is good.” What happened at Gibson’s Bakery was neither good for Oberlin nor for higher education.
I was reading the twitter feed regarding this
One of the documents, college officials had to distinguish the difference between college students and preschool children, and they couldn’t.
Basically Oberlin College spent 44million dollars to prevent a food fight
Success in Academia administration depends on slavish commitment to left wing dogma and the creed of political correctness. Someone else will pay the penalties, their jobs will never be at risk.
“Reaching a critical point”... “losing”...
Dude. They lost it, a long, long time ago. Where have you been?? LOL. Jeeze Louise.
If Oberlin appeals they should be cut off from all federal funding including student loan guarantees.
Liberal administrators selected and enabled liberal teachers to train students to be permanently angry activists. This is why fake hate crimes as often involve professors as students.
The liberals are only horrified when their creations turn on THEM. They intended for their angry mobs to tear down the social structures they think should be destroyed.
Not to mention their shirt, in the case of Oberlin.
Ofcourse their BS in Social Justice comes with an emphasis in whatever real subjects like History or Math e.t.c.
When you are enrolled in Social Justice with Math emphasis, you learn things like 2+2 = 4, unless you are black, hispanic or LGBT. Then you get to pick whatever number you want, to make up for past history or any injustice.
You learn that Math is a subject of inequality, because some people get it and others don't, you have to work hard at it to learn the subject.
"Well, I recently graduated from Oberlin College, and..."
"You may stop right there. This interview is over. On your way out, please tell my secretary to send in the next applicant."
There will come a time when most colleges and universities like that will be shut down. As a country, we’d do FINE if we had only three kinds of higher education: for-profit schools that focus on career training, Bible colleges and trade schools.
The point of higher education should never be indoctrination into the “liberal arts,” or knowledge for knowledge’s sake. Colleges should be there to train professionals to do their work, to send champions of God out into the world, or both.
It MAKES ME SICK to the think of kids rotting their brains on topics like art history, “social sciences,” journalism, black studies, art, film or drama.
Appropriate college topics are STEM fields, accounting, business administration and the like. We stick to teaching useful subjects like that. We also should drop every degree requirement that is not DIRECTLY job-related. An accounting student shouldn’t waste his/her time reading Shakespeare instead of learning about accounting.
Also, probably 80% of a students we send to college belong in trade schools instead.
"When some people contacted Oberlin to object that the students admitted guilt, special assistant to the president for community and government relations Tita Reed wrote that it did not change a “damn thing” for her. Reed also reportedly participated in the campus protests."
tita is likely still on the job, receiving a large bonus for her part in this fiasco.
Research institutions like Edison and Tesla worked in were hardly the “elites of society.” One important aspect of American life has been the contributions of ordinary people wit exceptional skills. Bicycle mechanics who developed airplanes (Wright brothers). A printer (Ben Franklin)who developed the lightning rod. A movie star who developed a radio controlled frequency hopping method of controlling torpedoes(Hedi Lamar).
In an email to the Oberlin community on Friday, Carmen Twillie Ambar, the college president, said that the case was far from over, and that “none of this will sway us from our core values.”
I wonder why she would say that?
Job training should be the ultimate goal of higher education. And we have EXCELLENT for-profit colleges that can do that. But we don’t need to rot the brains of young adults with nonsense from commie, atheist professors or a bunch of books those professors make them read.
People have to be careful about what they expose themselves to. God gave us the ability to create language and to read and write so that we could read His word and to learn what’s needed to make a living.
But any studying done outside of the learning the Bible needs to be justified. Basic rule: If it does not bring you closer to God or help you make a living, stay away from it. Too much “free think” leaves one vulnerable to demons and witchcraft.
It’s a real college (at least it was). A fellow high school grad of mine attended it. He was a talented sax player and went for their music program. One of our high school music teachers who attended Oberlin recommended it.
If there is a ‘teaching’ moment here, its to and for the students. There is a need to discern the reality they did to a local business with the unfounded calls of long standing racism and elevating shoplifters as victims and heroes.
It’s definitely a real college, ranked 58th in average SAT. It’s a typical liberal art college aside from the politics, tends toward wealthy students, and not particularly career oriented.
I certainly wouldn’t major in history or political science there, and wouldn’t recommend it in general, but it isn’t a bad school.
I assume the minority President was chosen mainly because of the racist bakery controversy.
Agreed! nobody “Lost’ their way! They mind-numbed Marxists and anyone who can’t figure out the Commie Manifesto or Russian history are doomed one way or another. Read a bio of Lev Davidovich Bronstein, aka Leon Trotsky. The obvious notable is why did he have to change his name....the second IMO is the name Axelrod pops up frequently! A good topic of a novel would be the roots of the commies who infiltrated US academia, Hollywood, and our government but no one would ever read it!
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