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originally posted by: IAMTAT
"Because I'm dealing with having been arrested on campus, or having to deal with the things that my family are going through because of larger systems — having to deal with all of that, I can't produce the work that they want me to do. But I understand the material, and I can give it to you in different ways."
originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: Urantia1111
Oberlin is probably ahead of the curve...this appears to be the natural evolution of universities. Report cards will eventually be replaced by rap sheets listing arrests for civil disobedience.
At Oberlin, it started in December, when the temperatures ran high, although the weeping willows and the yellow poplars that had flared in the fall were bare already. Problems had a tendency to escalate.
There was, to name one thing, the food fight: students had noted the inauthenticity of food at the school’s Afrikan Heritage House, and followed up with an on-site protest. (Some international students, meanwhile, complained that cafeteria dishes such as sushi and bánh mì were prepared with the wrong ingredients, making a mockery of cultural cuisine.)
There was scrutiny of the curriculum: a student wanted trigger warnings on “Antigone.”
In mid-December, a group of black students wrote a fourteen-page letter to the school’s board and president outlining fifty nonnegotiable demands for changes in Oberlin’s admissions and personnel policies, academic offerings, and the like.
“You include Black and other students of color in the institution and mark them with the words ‘equity, inclusion and diversity,’ ” it said, “when in fact this institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy.”
originally posted by: IAMTAT
Some recent 'on-campus' protest examples:
At Oberlin, it started in December, when the temperatures ran high, although the weeping willows and the yellow poplars that had flared in the fall were bare already. Problems had a tendency to escalate.
There was, to name one thing, the food fight: students had noted the inauthenticity of food at the school’s Afrikan Heritage House, and followed up with an on-site protest. (Some international students, meanwhile, complained that cafeteria dishes such as sushi and bánh mì were prepared with the wrong ingredients, making a mockery of cultural cuisine.)
There was scrutiny of the curriculum: a student wanted trigger warnings on “Antigone.”
In mid-December, a group of black students wrote a fourteen-page letter to the school’s board and president outlining fifty nonnegotiable demands for changes in Oberlin’s admissions and personnel policies, academic offerings, and the like.
“You include Black and other students of color in the institution and mark them with the words ‘equity, inclusion and diversity,’ ” it said, “when in fact this institution functions on the premises of imperialism, white supremacy, capitalism, ableism, and a cissexist heteropatriarchy.”
www.newyorker.com...
originally posted by: LesMisanthrope
a reply to: IAMTAT
This proves that activism is a platform to make self-seeking demands. It's all a costume for people who seek power.
"You know, we're paying for a service. We're paying for our attendance here. We need to be able to get what we need in a way that we can actually consume it," student Zakiya Acey told The New Yorker.
This is retarded! I have to hire 7 new technicians, how am I to trust that the people I hire know the difference between a screwdriver and an oscilloscope if there are no standards?
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
This is retarded! I have to hire 7 new technicians, how am I to trust that the people I hire know the difference between a screwdriver and an oscilloscope if there are no standards?
When interviewing them have a co worker come in and casually drop a few loaded (industry-situational) questions, see their responses, weed them out and avoid a law suit....oh an make sure they can do simple math without a calculator....and ask what their favourite tv shows are...I could go on...but I'm sure you've been in business long enough.
originally posted by: TheConstruKctionofLight
a reply to: bobs_uruncle
This is retarded! I have to hire 7 new technicians, how am I to trust that the people I hire know the difference between a screwdriver and an oscilloscope if there are no standards?
When interviewing them have a co worker come in and casually drop a few loaded (industry-situational) questions, see their responses, weed them out and avoid a law suit....oh an make sure they can do simple math without a calculator....and ask what their favourite tv shows are...I could go on...but I'm sure you've been in business long enough.
originally posted by: In4ormant
Next they will demand social activism is an accredited course and they should all recieve A's.
Where are the parents paying for this at? My kid would hear me coming down the hall.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
Snowflake Alert!
Well, okay.
In a nutshell...students at Oberlin College are worried that academics are getting in the way of their activism.
Simple solution: Start a petition to get rid of those pesky tests...and because their grades have been suffering (what with all the protesting, travelling to protests and getting arrested and all)...they would really prefer to receive no grades lower than a 'C'.
originally posted by: Metallicus
a reply to: IAMTAT
School is to learn skills and a trade.
If you want to be useless and broke you can do that for basically free.
What a bunch of useless idiots.
originally posted by: 200Plus
My last course of study required a B- or better to pass. After getting an Associates I transferred schools and I am required to have a D to pass the courses. I cannot begin to explain what a load of stress is removed when that bar is lowered (I still maintain a 3.68, I just have less stress about it).
I cannot fathom the level of entitlement that one would have to have to demand a school automatically pass you because your extracurricular activities took up too much time. Kids these days need to get their priorities straight.