Matt 15:14 KJV Let
them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
University blind led by blind
From first to second
defenestration of Prague
There is a parallel between the meanderings of
current denizens of our universities and those of first century Judaism. The
moral confusion of the led is a reflection of the moral confusion of their
leaders.
That great prophet of the last century, William
F. Buckley, warned us of the cluelessness of American tertiary education in his
God and Man at Yale (God and Man at Yale: The Superstitions of 'Academic
Freedom': William F. Buckley: 9780895266927: Amazon.com: Books http://amzn.to/1mKwEne ). The "big blog daddies"
at PowerLine have provided updates using their alma mater as an example. The
latest is included below.
The softening of the penalties for
"physical action" in our elite universities over the last half
century is reminiscent of the softening of penalties for city leader
backwardness during the two centuries of European religious wars (Defenestrations
of Prague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://bit.ly/Nc0cu6
). There was a literal softer landing toward the end of those conflicts. A
garbage heap, rather that pikes. We may have some hope from the parallel.
Perhaps a new era is at hand.
Threats of “physical action” at
Dartmouth, then and now [UPDATED TWICE]
POSTED
ON FEBRUARY 26, 2014 BY PAUL MIRENGOFF IN DARTMOUTH
PowerLine
post http://bit.ly/1fvPMLO
A collection of Dartmouth students who describe
themselves as “Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and
Differently-Abled students” have threatened “physical action” if the
administrators do not respond to their list of demands. The list of demands is
lengthy. Here are some of them:
Incorporate into each department at LEAST one queer
studies class.
Commit multi-millions of dollars to increase
faculty and staff of color in all departments, and create a “professor of
color” lecture series.
Require ALL professors to be trained in
“cultural competency” and the “importance of social justice in their day to day
work.”
Ask faculty to use preferred gender pronouns.
Allow body and gender self-determination.
Provide gender-neutral housing to all students.
Provide gender-specific AND gender-neutral bathrooms in EVERY BUILDING on
campus.
Provide free legal assistance and financial aid
for undocumented students to “better understand each of their unique legal
statuses.”
Require that every Dartmouth student be taught
and made aware that the land they reside on is Abenaki homeland.
All male-female checkboxes should be replaced
with write-in boxes to make forms, surveys, and applications more inclusive for
trans, two-spirit, agender, gender-nonconforming and genderqueer folks
campus-wide.
The students say that Dartmouth must commit to
meeting these demands by March 24, 2014. Otherwise “physical action” will
ensue.
I was once part of a group of Dartmouth
students that threatened (and engaged in) physical action if the administration
did not respond to a demand. The physical action was taking over Parkhurst
Hall, the main administration building. The demand was ending ROTC at
Dartmouth.
Our demand was probably more pernicious than
the entire laundry list presented by the “Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@,
Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students.” But at least it
had the virtue of being sane.
The administration’s response to our demand
made me secretly proud of Dartmouth even at the time. The College obtained a
court injunction against the building-takeover. When we violated the
injunction, it gave us time to reconsider (which was never going to happen).
Then it called in the national guard to remove us (through physical action).
Having violated the injunction, we were in
contempt of court. This meant that our sentence was pretty much at the
discretion of the court. It sentenced us to 30 days in jail, just enough time
for law abiding Dartmouth students to finish their trimester course work
without further interference from our lot.
That course work did not include a queer
studies class or instruction that we were all squatting on the Abenaki
homeland.
How will the current Dartmouth administration
respond to the “physical action,” if any, of the current incarnation of campus
rads? We’ll see. My guess is that if the students take over a building,
Dartmouth will serve them snacks.
STEVE adds: One thing I have discovered to my
dismay during my year here at Colorado is that the gender-extremism is much
worse than I imagined it could be. There
is virtually no resistance to it from administrators who probably–or at least
should–know better. It is an iron law of
extremists that if they meet no resistance, they’ll keep going. The average administrator reminds me of the
stories of Lyndon Johnson, asking uncomprehendingly about North Vietnam, “What
does Ho want?”, not realizing that what Ho wanted was to defeat the United
States and conquer the whole of Vietnam.
Johnson kept thinking Ho was like a ward-heeling pol who could be bought
off with a few more post offices. The
cravenness of college administrators treat campus extremists the same way.
Instead, Dartmouth and other colleges should
follow the example of the University of Chicago back in the 1960s, which simply
expelled the first students who conducted sit-ins and other “direct
action.” Problem solved.
UPDATE: I can’t say for certain, but it may be
that the story about “physical action” at Dartmouth, first reported on The
College Fix, is satire. I certainly hope so.
If the story is satire, it is very cleverly
done, and it fooled a number of good bloggers including at NRO, where I first
picked up the story. Nonetheless, satire or not, I shouldn’t have written this
post without checking more carefully.
SECOND UPDATE: According to the “D” —
Dartmouth’s student-run newspaper — more than 200 students and faculty met
yesterday to discuss the “physical action” demands. Several students said that
they were among the authors of the document. Sadly, then, it looks for now like
this was not satire, at least as the word is commonly understood.
Related Notes [Retained from my Clearly / EverNote copy of article. Mike Adams is must read concerning leftie campus capers.]
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