Long After Protests, Students Shun the University of Missouri

NY Times Link



Students complaining of official inaction in the face of racial bigotry joined forces with a graduate student on a hunger strike. Within weeks, with the aid of the football team, they had forced the university system president and the campus chancellor to resign.

It was a moment of triumph for the protesting students. But it has been a disaster for the university.

Freshman enrollment at the Columbia campus, the system’s flagship, has fallen by more than 35 percent in the two years since.

The university administration acknowledges that the main reason is a backlash from the events of 2015, as the campus has been shunned by students and families put off by, depending on their viewpoint, a culture of racism or one where protesters run amok.

Before the protests, the university, fondly known as Mizzou, was experiencing steady growth and building new dormitories. Now, with budget cuts due to lost tuition and a decline in state funding, the university is temporarily closing seven dormitories and cutting more than 400 positions, including those of some nontenured faculty members, through layoffs and by leaving open jobs unfilled.

Few areas have been spared: The library is even begging for books.

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They have seen a 35% fall in enrollment at Columbia (Missouri), Their main campus. Social Justice Warriors destroyed the University as parent, students, and non-Liberals decided the college was not worth their time.

People are starting to take a good strong look at where to send their children for school or to send them at all, and deciding against these Liberal institutions. The indoctrination going on in our university system is now exposed, just like the media and normal Americans are rejecting the left.

Expect this trend to continue as these Universities preach closed mindedness and open their doors to foreign students over our children that grew up locally.

 

I hope it gets to the point where employers see what kind of degrees their applicants got and reject them flat out. Any liberal arts degree gets shown the door.

 

I'm sure Evergreen College will be next to see large enrollment declines

 

Since when?

 

You're asking "since when" will this future scenario happen? How odd.

 

You said you're shown the door when you have a liberal arts degree. I asked you "since when?" since that was never the case in the past.

Can you let me know who is getting "shown the door" with what specific liberal arts degrees? Please don't include women's studies in that. What other liberal arts degrees are you getting shown the door for?

 

Here's my post in its full context. I've highlighted the critical part that you seemed to have skimmed past that could possibly explain this unnecessary confusion on your part:

As you can clearly see, I was not referring to anything that happened "in the past", but expressed a hope for the future.

Why wouldn't I include women's studies? Is that not a liberal arts field? I was making a broad generalization of liberal arts degrees and didn't feel the need to list out each one I believe students should be rejected for having. It didn't seem like a necessary thing to do.

 

Oh, gawd - just when I thought I'd never see that barking moonbat's face again...

 

And I'll ask you again, what companies are showing the door to people with liberal arts degrees. And what precisely is wrong with, oh let's say, a mathematics degree, which is a liberal arts degree?

Women's studies is a joke. That's why you don't include them. Same with sociology and communication, with exceptions. Do you know what else constitutes "liberal arts degree"?

 

Why would you be asking me which companies are showing people with liberal arts degrees the door? How have you managed to miss the point, twice, that I was hoping for a future scenario where that happens? Not the present? Are you attempting to troll?

 

Okay, so why do you want people with liberal arts degrees to not get jobs? What specifically do you have against math majors? Economics majors (your President has a liberal arts degree)? Biology majors? Chinese language majors? Physics majors?

 

Not all liberal arts degrees and the people who obtain them are lame, but some sure are more equal than others.

I'm looking at a copy of the conservative Young America's Foundation's publication Veritas and they've got some real doozies in their "Dirty Dozen" list of most bizarre and politically correct college courses. See if you can get through the list without laughing or hurling (in no particular order):

- Gender and Food Politics
- Black Hair Politics
- Queering God: Feminist and Queer Theology
- White People
- Transgender Cultural Production
- Ecofeminism

 

Read Talon's response below yours. People who major in these kinds of degrees are obviously making bad choices, and their heads are filled with propaganda, not actual knowledge. I hope conservative business owners stick it to these people.

 

Should be easy to discriminate against these majors. Can you imagine what that looks like on a diploma?

 

Math is propaganda, not actual knowledge? Physics is propaganda, not actual knowledge? The Chinese language is propaganda, not actual knowledge?

Now I know you're being facetious. Because nobody with a working brain would say that.

 

Those are classes, not majors. Unless you can come up with a university that confers a degree in Black Hair Politics?

 

I can come up with universities with "Ethnic studies" as a major, and this would fall under that.

 

I have a wealthy friend that spends his money on educating young men from Middle School through College pulling them from failing private schools and provides for them through college. They only get the college deal if they have a B or better average and are studying non-Liberal Art majors. I will bet he makes exceptions for specific schools too. Now I have to ask him.

 

Good thing I never said it then, right? Worthwhile people will know that my criticism against liberal arts majors didn't include mathematics and science.

 

So you didn't really mean "liberal arts degrees" then. You said "any liberal arts degree gets shown the door" (in your future Utopia). You don't have the slightest clue what a liberal arts degree is, obviously.

 

Actually not necessarily. Anyone can take these college courses.

And you don't know what specific courses are required for an "Ethic Studies" major.

 

I honestly didn't know STEM majors were included as "liberal arts" degrees. I've never seen them described as that when I went to school. Seems like a worthless classification to contain both Physics and Gender Studies.

For a supposed moderator of another political message board you sure like to troll and redirect to off topic discussions. Maybe that's why you had to come here.

 

I don't need to, as "Black Hair" would fall under that major, regardless.

 

I don't troll. I'm also not a "moderator" on another board. You're the one who posted that about liberal arts degrees, not me. Was this thread about liberal arts degrees? No. I asked you to clarify the off topic post you made.

I didn't "have" to come here. I'm still a staff member on that other board. I chose to come here.

 

You don't even know where that course was offered. And you don't know that those courses are open to anyone to take - Business majors, Engineering majors, and so on.

You didn't attend college, apparently.