Ricochet is the best place on the internet to discuss the issues of the day, either through commenting on posts or writing your own for our active and dynamic community in a fully moderated environment. In addition, the Ricochet Audio Network offers over 50 original podcasts with new episodes released every day.
Video: Mizzou Protest Shuts Down First Amendment
A young photojournalist tried to do his job today and take pictures of a protest movement roiling the University of Missouri. The protest, named #ConcernedStudent1950, complains of institutionalized racism at the Mizzou campus and society at large. Their disruption has gotten so bad, the university president decided to resign earlier today. Since this is obviously news, sympathetic reporters are there to spread the protesters’ progressive message. Unfortunately for the journalists, Mizzou doesn’t seem to teach its students about the First Amendment.
Published in Education
Looks like anti-Asian hate to me (hey, if they are going to make the rules, we should all play by them).
I may very well be wrong, but I suspect he wasn’t given a choice in the matter. My guess is it became a resign or be fired situation.
All ethnic and gender grievance studies programs should be eliminated all across academia.
And yes, for many people college is a waste of time. The “college for everyone” nonsense has to stop.
Pretty sure that’s not what I said, but ok.
Ok great. When the US falls behind China and Korea and Japan in science and technology, you’ll know who to thank.
Pretty sure one of the most fundamental concepts in economics is that markets under-invest in public goods, scientific research being one such good. But if we want to ignore economics, then yes, everything will be taken care of by philanthropy.
How many?
That’s a straw-man argument.
That is a baseless argument. If the research possibly result in an economic productive outcome it will surely get funded.
Only the federal government funds adventures. Free markets fund results.
Pretty sure it is, but hey, don’t believe your lying eyes.
Got it. Pretty sure this is just defending the trough.
OK, let’s go ahead and zero out your comments.
Weep & AIG,
The resignation is the really important thing going on here. After FIRE fights and fights for freedom of speech on campus the President resigning destroys their work and puts fear back on the side of the trivial left. No matter what he should not have resigned.
There is no War going on. They want to curtail campus freedom not increase it. The football team is undoubtedly pampered with every luxury that the ordinary students don’t have. This is the most ridiculous display of childish willfulness anyone could imagine. These greedy little monsters wouldn’t know what real prejudice was if their lives depended on it.
Let’s get clear. If this is what the campus has been reduced to it’s not worth anything. Shut it down. Let the football players find scholarships somewhere else. Let the students who participated try to get into another college.
Shut it down.
Regards,
Jim
I used to work in a university. So what?
Oh, and “facts”? Unemployment is lower for college grads and salaries are higher? Gasp. I am being crushed under the weight of the facts onslaught.
Pampering babies until they’re 20 years out of diapers but zero years out of living in reality does not create great future employment candidates. There’s a reason why the latest jobs report had negative job growth for younger people but positive job growth for retired people – no one wants to hire babies.
– Workers aged 55 and over: +378,000
– Workers aged 25-54: -35,000
Those in the aforementioned ethnic/gender grievance programs and “interdisciplinary studies” for starters. There are others.
No, it isn’t.
So “public goods” is a baseless argument. Ok, thanks.
Gee, I wonder why no one likes “conservatives” in universities? Who cares, just nuke em!
So you don’t care about facts that contradict your world view. Ok, thanks.
First off, a Zerohedge link is just, well, expected.
Second off, hmm, 24-54 is “babies”. Ok strike another blow at my argument. Except that in your own link, 20-24 increases by 61,000.
Sigh.
Great. Thanks for clarifying. They represent approximately 0.01% of students at universities (actual number, I’m not making it up).
I (a college graduate) am doing my part: My daughter (age 37) recently commented something about her daughter (age 14) attending college. I immediately told her I didn’t think it was worthwhile, that college degrees don’t pay for themselves, that my granddaughter should consider vocational training (perhaps as a (medical technician of some sort), also because my granddaughter is not academically inclined.
Anymore, I think college degrees should only be considered if you want to teach (because it’s required for teaching) or if you want to go into the sciences.
How do they not pay for themselves? How does a $30k average student loan debt (which is the average today), not get repaid if it affords you an extra $1 million in lifetime earnings compared to a HS degree? (average numbers today)
What’s the ROI on that?
What else gets the axe? English? History? Classics?
Geez, that was unbearable to watch.
Here is a new video of the protestors in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXQkXXBqj_U
This is why the federal government should fund basic research. It should fund adventures. I wish it didn’t have such a near total monopoly on such funding, though.
It’s not ours to shut down. However, accreditation boards should take these anti-intellectual policies into account in their evaluations, and it should not be a place where students can go with their federally subsidized loans.
Hey, hey. Ho, ho. Melissa Click has got to go.
Yep. That’s precisely the point!
We can wish for an alternative system, but none will come about. It’s a public good.
Yep!
Yes, but I don’t see the university having any “anti-intellectual” policy here. They’re just giving in to mob activism. Bad and stupid, but they’re just trying to preserve their reputation. It hardly falls under the purview of accreditation boards.
Lets be clear: a couple of dozen students in a campus of 35,000, is hardly what the campus has been reduced to.
The American Association of University Professors thinks academic freedom should be under their purview. (See their October 2012 statement on “Accreditation and Academic Freedom.) This issue is a matter of academic freedom.
We don’t need an alternative “system.” We need the federal government to back off and allow a little more room for private donors to work. There are private groups that would fund some things that come under the heading of “public good” if it weren’t for the feds sucking the life out of everything that is not the state.
Even if private funding accounted for as much as ten percent of basic research, that would make a huge difference.
I’m not so sure about that. If they got the President to resign, then it is what the campus has been reduced to.