MU, KU, Ithaca College, Yale University...what do they have in common?

2015-11-13T01:45:32-05:00

In the summer of 1969, when debating whether or not to enter college, a very dear, old family friend said to me, "Donnie, the difference between a high school senior and a college freshman...(and here he paused for several seconds)...is only three months." It actually took me several years, post military active duty, to fully grasp the simple, yet profound meaning in that simple sentence he spoke to me that day.

I am sickened, though not surprised, by what I have seen in the news this last week concerning MU, and now the copycat colleges elsewhere. I had little doubt that Pandora's Box had been thrust open by the abrupt resignations of the MU school president and its chancellor. Overnight, more institutions of higher learning (?) have followed suit.

Among many things I've learned from this entire mess are these three: (1), today's college kid would have had a better heads up before he/she had started college if they'd been given the advice I had been given. (2), America's parents are nowhere to be found. And, (3), education does not power colleges and universities. Sports do. And money powers sports. A university president resigns when a Big Ten football team refuses to play its next game, and the NCAA threatens a $1 million dollar fine and team suspension, which would have resulted in more fines and an exorbitant loss of revenue for the school.

When did colleges stop educating and start promoting MLB, NBA, and NFL wannabes? And when did college KIDS get as damn smart as they only think they are???

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Nov 13 at 2015 3:34 AM

2015-11-13T03:34:21-05:00

Spoiled brats for students and progressive cowards for administrators will do that for you.

Response by MCPO Roger Collins made Nov 13 at 2015 11:32 AM

2015-11-13T11:32:45-05:00

Fascism

Response by SSG Kevin McCulley made Nov 13 at 2015 11:59 AM

2015-11-13T11:59:54-05:00

I think it is quite clear to see that modern liberals and the American Democrat Party are fascist

Response by SCPO Carl Wayne Boss made Nov 14 at 2015 5:30 PM

2015-11-14T17:30:25-05:00

The State of Missouri needs to shutter the College and send the Students home to Mommy & Daddy with this message... Your Progeny are college students first and foremost when they are on campus this regardless of their race, religion, color or any other "classification"... not activists or anarchists.

There are only three "classifications' of people on this campus... (1) Administrative Staff, (2)Instructor/Professorial Staff and (3) Students. We the Administrative Staff and Instructor/Professorial Staff run the college and the Students... are to conform to the standards set forth in the Student Handbook or leave.

This includes football players and any other students on sports scholarships... you are "Students" who happen to take a class called "football" or "baseball" and are no different from any other student, and if you can't live with that you don't belong here, consider you Student status terminated.

Of course I doubt anyone on the Missouri State Board of Regents would have the balls to make such a pronouncement and then stand behind it... so they're stuck with a boiling cauldron of anarchistic BS rather than a college. Oh furthermore any Instructor or Professor that incites or holds solidarity with the students that are out of line should be immediately terminated and their teaching credentials removed so they can no longer incite riots among the student population anywhere else.

Yeh that'll happen... not in the current climate in this country. Too far on the wrong side of the "not politically correct scale"!