College Freshman

clocked_it · 2013-10-27T12:49:20+00:00

College professors push their agendas on their students all over the place. The worst is political science, where you can definitely tell where your professor stands, just on how he lectures about historical events.

2013-10-27T15:40:14+00:00

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2009/03/treatment-.html

Via Critical Mass, here’s a short follow-up film on the indoctrination efforts of Delaware University’s ResLife programme - described by its proponents as a “treatment” - in which students were told, “The term [racist] applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.” The film, embedded here in two parts, is aimed primarily at trustees and alumni, but it deserves wider attention.

Part 1: Wait for the marshmallow “oppression” story around 2:05.

Part 2 : “The immediate effects were to intimidate and humiliate students. The long-term effect is to teach conformity.”

As Erin at Critical Mass points out, the “treatment” prescribed at Delaware wasn’t some bizarre anomaly or distortion, but was hailed as an award-winning exemplar of “social justice education.”

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/257grkhi.asp?pg=1

If you're tempted to ask why students require administration backing in order to form a "community," you don't understand the codependent relationship between self-engrossed students and the adults whose career consists of catering to that self-involvement. Students in today's university regularly act out little psychodramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of deans and provosts. The essence of those psychodramas is to force the university to recognize a student's narrowly defined "identity" through ever more elaborate bureaucratic mechanisms. Rather than laugh the student players off the stage, the deans, provosts, and sundry other administrators willingly participate in their drama, intently negotiating with them and conferring additional benefits wherever possible.

In 2007, at the behest of feminist students, Yale added yet another layer of costly bureaucracy-the Sexual Harassment and Assault Resources and Education Center-to its already generous sexual assault infrastructure. I asked physics professor Peter Parker, convenor of the college's Sexual Harassment Grievance Board and a sponsor of the new S.H.A.R.E. Center, how many sexual assaults on students there were at Yale. He said that he had "no idea." (In fact, the number of reported unconfirmed assaults can usually be counted on one hand.) So if students came to the administration demanding a malaria treatment center, would Yale build it without first determining the prevalence of malaria on campus? I asked him. "We didn't make our judgment based on numbers, but based on concern by students in the community," he answered.

WhoIsHarlequin · 2013-10-27T15:15:38+00:00

I think English departments on most college campuses are consistently among the most feminist of the departments. I think it's because they do a lot of reading but there is no real science involved so higher forms of logic and reason go out the door.

sunset261 · 2013-10-27T17:00:03+00:00

same with my experience. Our readings were almost always about Feminism or women's issues. It often got a bit heated between me and the teacher. One time we we're on the subject of Bill Clinton cheating and I got to piss her off by saying "well his wife is Hillary Clinton so I don't really blame him."

rightsbot · 2013-10-27T12:30:17+00:00

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Vegemeister · 2013-10-27T20:56:31+00:00

I had a class like that. The professor had us read "Wampum as Hypertext: An American Indian Intellectual Tradition of Multimedia Theory and Practice". Here's a brief excerpt so you can get the general idea:

Given the preceding origin story, I posit that the “history” of hypertext is a Western frontier story, a narrative that most often begins with the exploration of the land of Xanadu and the Memex and eventually leads to the trailblazing of the World Wide Web. Few stories have been told of hypertexts that existed in Native American territories long before the land of Memex and Xanadu. Consequently this essay offers a preliminary hypertextual historiographical decolonial narrative that suggests that the concept of hypertext and the rhetorical work it does are not new—nor is it unique to Western culture, despite the terminology’s Western etymology (hyper + text; see fig. 5). To accomplish this goal, this essay demonstrates how wampum is an example of a pre-Memex, pre-Xanadu, and pre-Internet American Indian technology that was not only imagined but became a reality and that not only works like hypertext but in fact extends those capabilities beyond the current capacity of interconnected hypertexts we see on the “World Wide” Web.

And here's one of the more hilarious portions:

...Thus the beads and stringing technologies could be represented as 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0, or strands of wampum code that when strung together communicate information to their “readers.”

Similarly, the standard language that Web designers use to create hypermedia documents is the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML). Web documents are typically digitally written in HTML, and they consist of nothing more than standard text with formatting codes that contain information about font, layout, design, and hyperlinks. When broken down to its simplest form, digital coding for computers is represented as 0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|, or strands of binary code that when strung together communicate information to their “readers.”

She gave us the option of doing an extra credit art project at the end of the semester. So I made a Fruit Loop wampum belt, using the method taught to children for racially insensitive Thanksgiving projects. Each row was 8 Fruit Loops wide, and the whole belt encoded the ASCII representation of "0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|". I mounted the thing on a black matte and attached a placard reading "0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|0|".

Her reaction when I turned it in didn't give away whether or not she recognized it as satire, unfortunately, but I prefer to think that she did and was honor-bound to give me the 5 points anyway.

I don't think I've had a better smug in my life.

nickb64 · 2013-10-28T03:44:25+00:00

There are core beliefs of thought reform.

An individual is not an autonomous moral being, but a member of a racial and historical group that possesses moral debt or credit.

There is only one appropriate set of views about race, gender, sexual preference, and culture, and holding an inappropriate belief, once truth has been offered, is not an intellectual disagreement, but an act of oppression or denial.

All behavior and thought are "political," including opposition to politicized "awareness" workshops.

The goal of such opposition is the continued oppression of women and of racial or sexual minorities.

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On virtually any college campus, for all its rules of “civility” and all its prohibitions of “hostile environment,” assimilationist black men and women live daily with the terms “Uncle Tom” and “Oreo” said with impunity, while their tormentors live with special protections from offense. White students daily hear themselves, their friends, and their parents denounced as “racists” and “oppressors,” while their tormentors live with special protections from offense. Believing Christians hear their beliefs ridiculed and see their sacred symbols traduced - virtually nothing, in the name of freedom, may not be said against them in the classroom, at rallies, and in personal encounters - while their tormentors live with special protection from offense. Men hear their sex abused, find themselves blamed for all the evils of the world, and enter classrooms whose very goal is to make them feel discomfort, while their tormentors live with special protections from a “hostile environment”. The purpose of speech codes - patriotically orthodox or politically orthodox - is to suppress speech, and to privilege one partisan, ideological view of the world. Ideally, for the purposes of oppression, the very threat of the code suffices. When that does not suffice, those codes are, indeed, invoked.

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Programmatic differentiation by race is now typical in higher education. Half a century after the defeat of Nazism, our universities distinguish by blood and equate blood with culture. Sixty years after the Nuremberg Race Laws, we ask our students to check off their bloodlines and to act accordingly. The justification for this submergence of the individual into the tribe is the same as it was under Fascism: The individual is a function - politically, morally, and historically - of genetic and cultural collectivities. Campus life begins with the sorting of students into oppressors and victims. This has proven catastrophic in terms of the distances and mutual suspicions of undergraduate relationships.

Alan Charles Kors/Harvey Silverglate, The Shadow University (1998)

2013-10-27T15:49:10+00:00

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JaydenPope · 2013-10-27T19:49:58+00:00

Typical feminism. The average woman has probably never seen any sort of oppression in her lifetime and this artificial mongering is only going to keep fucking up girls till feminism gets stopped.

Title	College Freshman
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