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UCLA Unleashes Absurd, Anti-Intellectual & Dangerous Attack On Campus Free Speech
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
One of the most dangerous trends in America today is occurring on college campuses. These are the places I grew up viewing as laboratories for free speech, youthful energy and resistance to the status quo.
Unfortunately, what they’re turning into are anti-intellectual wastelands in which America’s supposedly “best and brightest” are being transformed into unthinking, mentally shackled, emotionally stunted automatons. The only thing being produced on college campuses these days seem to be frightened, thoughtless worker-bees, conditioned to shut-up and instinctively worship authority. Rather than teaching kids to think critically, administrators have created an environment where kids aren’t encouraged to think at all.
For those of you who may have missed it, I’ve covered this topic before. See:
Rutgers University Warns Students – “There is No Such Thing as Free Speech”
A Professor Speaks Out – How Coddled, Hyper Sensitive Undergrads are Ruining College Learning
Moving along, today’s piece relates to a recent incident on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus. A fraternity-sorority party was held under the theme “Kanye Western,” in which partygoers wore costumes parodying Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian. Naturally, this was simply too much to handle for a vocal group of censorship-inclined students. As such, the accusations began to fly that the greek students wore blackface, and school administrators immediately moved to suspend the social activities of the fraternity and sorority before completing an investigation.
Interestingly enough, in the days that followed, it became clear that the students weren’t actually wearing blackface at all (not that it would have mattered from a free speech perspective). Conor Friedersdorf did an incredible job for making the case for free speech in his excellent Atlantic article. Here are a few excerpts:
A half-century ago, student activists at the University of California clashed with administrators during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, a series of events that would greatly expand free-speech rights of people at public colleges and universities.
Today, activists at UCLA are demanding that administrators punish some of their fellow students for expressive behavior that is clearly protected by the First Amendment.
What did UCLA students find so outrageous as to warrant the violation of the fundamental right to free expression? A “Kanye Western” theme party where students wore costumes that parodied rap superstar Kanye West and his celebrity wife, Kim Kardashian. For this, UC student activists would squander their inheritance.
Perhaps 18-to-22-year-olds can be forgiven for failing to appreciate what’s at stake in their activism. But UCLA administrators cannot be forgiven for complying with student demands to punish this free expression—a glaring illustration of their low-regard for the First Amendment, California law, and liberal ideals.
This is precisely the point. Young kids going to college are precisely that: Young kids going to college. Administrators are the ones who are supposed to be responsible for protecting free speech and upholding the U.S. Constitution within their spheres of influence, not pandering to hypersensitive students accustomed to always getting their way by merely shouting “racist” at whoever they happen to disagree with that week. Where are the adults in the room?
Meanwhile, critics of the critics insist that West is a famous celebrity, not a stand-in for black culture; that stuffed butts were a reference to Kim Kardashian, who is white and of Armenian descent, not black; that there is nothing wrong with appropriating the dress of hip-hop culture, which is not the same as black culture; that it’s myopic for privileged student activists to focus on a frat theme party while living in a city plagued by police killings, homelessness, housing discrimination, and other injustices; that activists are giving Greek organizations too much power to set their agenda; and that college kids these days are oversensitive to the point of self-parody.
It is salutary for collegians to contest such matters in the student newspaper, on campus, and on social media. Evidently, public discourse has changed some minds. Said the frat, “we sincerely apologize for the offense and hurt we caused to our fellow Bruins, especially those in the African American community … We are grateful for the dialogue we have had so far, and we intend to continue communicating with our fellow Bruins about how SigEp and Alpha Phi can make this a learning opportunity.”
What’s unhealthy is the movement to suppress free speech at UCLA.
This is another key point, and the issue that presents the greatest danger. By coddling students from opinions they may find offensive or hurtful, you are doing them a tremendous disservice. It would be far better to allow the student body to engage in debate and rational argument about such topics. This will teach kids to become critical thinkers and strong advocates for causes they believe in. Creating a sterile environment in which various opinions aren’t given the freedom to be expressed does a incalculable harm to these students, and fails to prepare them in any way for the real world.
University administrators bear the most culpability. After hearing objections to the theme party, but before finishing an investigation into it, UCLA officials suspended the social activities of the fraternity and sorority, effectively punishing them without due process even as these same officials publicly acknowledged that they didn’t have all the facts. Moreover, university officials are abusing their authority merely by investigating protected speech in the first place. And the student newspaper is cheering them on, demanding in an editorial that the office of UCLA Fraternity and Sorority Relations take a more active role in preemptively clearing all party themes.
Think about what sort of example this teaches the student body about due process and the rule of law. This is a total disaster and administrators should be fired for this.
UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh, one of America’s foremost First Amendment scholars, has published several Washington Post items explaining why these reactions are legally dubious. “The suspension of the fraternity and sorority is likely unconstitutional,” he wrote. “Costumes that convey a message are treated as speech for First Amendment purposes (see, e.g., Schacht v. United States (1970)and Cohen v. California (1971)). And a university may not punish speech based on its allegedly racist content; see, e.g., Rosenberger v. Rector (1995), which holds that a university may not discriminate against student speech based on its viewpoint.”
He adds that “interim speech restrictions imposed before a full investigation and adjudication have historically been seen as more constitutionally suspect (as so-called ‘prior restraints’), see, e.g., Vance v. Universal Amusement, Inc. (1980); and the prior restraint doctrine is applicable to restrictions imposed by universities, see Healy v. James (1972). But in any event, even setting aside the prior restraint doctrine, suspending an organization’s social activities because of the offensive message conveyed by the organization’s past speech violates the First Amendment.”
In a followup post, he notes that the Supreme Court has unanimously held that student organizations have the right to express “the thought that we hate,” a far more offensive message than anything conveyed by the Greek organizations at UCLA.
Students who value fundamental human rights, protecting unpopular activism, or safeguarding the political liberties of the least powerful among us ought to be lobbying for the most stringent free-speech protections possible, not undermining core human rights that have benefitted generations of marginalized people as a salve for outrage at a frat party. As the ACLU once explained in answer to the question of why it sometimes mounts defenses of speech that is racist or promotes intolerance.
Restricting the speech of one group or individual jeopardizes everyone’s rights because the same laws or regulations used to silence bigots can be used to silence you. Conversely, laws that defend free speech for bigots can be used to defend the rights of civil rights workers, anti-war protesters, lesbian and gay activists and others fighting for justice. For example, in the 1949 case of Terminiello v. Chicago, the ACLU successfully defended an ex-Catholic priest who had delivered a racist and anti-semitic speech. The precedent set in that case became the basis for the ACLU’s successful defense of civil rights demonstrators in the 1960s and ’70s.
The college students fighting to limit free speech or to punish free expression are courting tremendous harms that would ultimately fall disproportionately on the least powerful, most marginalized groups of the present and future––and as UCLA graduates, they are highly unlikely to be in either group, which may help explain their lack of concern for how their behavior could affect the less privileged. It is nevertheless incoherent for activists who say that they live in a system of white supremacy to empower state administrators to police speech at their discretion!
But there is no “black point of view,” a prejudicial notion that is so easily refuted that it’s a wonder anyone invokes it. There are plenty of black people––a majority, I would wager––who understand better than many other Americans the importance of the First Amendment to the history of the civil-rights movement and the future of other civil-rights causes. As if to underscore that point, the Los Angeles Times highlighted an open letter sent to UCLA by Michael Meyers, president of the New York Civil Rights Coalition. He said that “as an African American civil rights leader” he had to speak out. “We are increasingly alarmed—and distressed—by the failure of public university officials to support free speech and diversity of opinion on campus,” he wrote in the letter to UCLA’s chancellor. “Diversity of opinion surely includes the right of students to contest orthodoxy and to poke fun at popular culture and celebrities.”That is exactly right, and UCLA administrators should publicly apologize for acting to the contrary rather than caving to the illegal demands of student activists.
In case you missed it above, Connor brought up another key observation in this whole preposterous charade. He notes:
“It is nevertheless incoherent for activists who say that they live in a system of white supremacy to empower state administrators to police speech at their discretion!
Indeed, I didn’t think I was the one to see the absurdity in the fact that students at UCLA who portray themselves as some sort of victim, are the same ones who wield such tremendous power at the university. So much so, that administrators suspended due process and violated free speech rights merely to massage their thin skins and empower their self-rightious behavior.
How about the fact that it was America, a country with a sordid history of slavey and virtually no limits on free speech, which elected a black man President. Twice. Similarly, why is anti-Semitism so much more entrenched in parts of Europe than in the United States, despite all the “hate speech” laws across the pond. I’ll tell you why, because free speech works and censorship doesn’t.
Indeed, the real victims in the saga are clear. The suspended fraternity and sorority, free speech, logic, and of course the UCLA student body as a whole.
I’m speechless.
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Hey Mike...
if theyre attending college its already to late.....
Hey kids, there's a difference between knowledge and wisdom, start reading Proverbs from the Bible.
Grow the fuck up, kids. No one gives a shit what you approve or disapprove.
Boy, they are really not going to like the Huck Finn/Nigger Jim party next week.
One of the few enduring techo breakthrough of the 21st century is the DVD.
I have finished watching Mr Bean's Holiday, laugh 'till cry ,laugh quite an entertaining junket.
None of it PC.
I read the article above and wonder if I will ever make it to the 22nd century.
La mer........https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXQh9jTwwoA
"...are being transformed into unthinking, mentally shackled, emotionally stunted automatons."
Yes. And they are forbidden to question the great lies of our age...
* egalitarianism
* feminism
* homosexuality
* holocaustianity
* miscegenation
* usury
* American Imperialism
* immigration
WELCOME... To Obamaville. Where they've read a lot of books, will insist on telling you how smart they are, yet will completely f*ck up everything that they touch.
The American Liberal Arts Complex has become a make-work program for Marxist half-wits. Seriously, are any of these grads capable of writing a novel? a textbook? a short story? a thesis? Are they capable of critical thinking? Of scientific proof? Obviously not.
But they're "college-educated" by other "college-educated", and since they're not capable of independent thinking, they're out to police your thoughts. Can any of these grads build a house? Or command a unit? Run a project? Since they're not capable of producing anything of value, they'll make sure you're not allowed to either.
Because Equaaality sounds soo much better than Envy.
Academic America's Marxist vanguard of Useless Idiots, kept alive only by borrowed money and borrowed time. Tick tock, bitchez, your end can't come soon enough. The Day the EBTs Don't Clear we're gonna lock the gates to your Ivory Towers and let The Diversity devour you. Hopefully all you proud fucking parasites exterminate each other. Good riddance.
Outrageous. Universities need to bring back stonings, trial by fire, witch dunking, and book burning to prevent the possibility that someone may be offended.
They already have. Just say the financial word, niggardly, and see how hot the flames are under your feet while you are tied to that pole.
For you progressives - look up the word before shrieking in horror.
We just chopped a few faggots of firewood. Winter is right around the corner, you know!
Lend me a fag, and a light will ya?
faggots take it up the asshole and get the AIDS
That would be Harvard University;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University
And the Salem Witch trials.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials
Huh. Universities were off base then too.
26.1 miles by the new road.
Half that by the old road.
Aunt Jamima, Rastis, Honeycutt, Lil nigga Jim, Ol Sleep and Eat, Uncle Ben, Toby good nigga masta.
Or the "Come as your Favorite Ethinic/Racial Minority" theme party...and don't get me started on "Bill Cosby Night"
"The man" is not going to bail the Universities out unless they start acting like good "Bailout" material. See Jamie Dimon.....
yet, in the square outside the student union and the basketball stadium, loud music blasts hip hop crap, repeatedly screaming NIGGER and mu fuker, etc. but thats not offensive
College is for dummies
All per plan...they didn't hire Napolitano to head the UC system for nothing
If you see something say nothing- that might offend anyone within earshot. Because, God forbid, you might unwittingly unleash upon them a microaggression. The wailing and moaning: think about it, do you want that? Better just to say nothing, and probably never leave the house.
Nothing a bucket of Prozac and a polo mallet can't fix. Back to the world of dreams.
I'm offended! Legal paperworks in the mail.
Legal paperwork is in the circular file.
Helped you with it.
No charge,
Let's be honest and actually connect the dots, "America’s supposedly “best and brightest” are being transformed into unthinking, mentally shackled, emotionally stunted automatons." In other words what "empowerment movement" in academia actually achieves is to manufacture rape bait for Globalist Corporate Executives. ...Yeah, you are are "going to sue"... because you're a "terrorist" and have kilograms of gold bars stacked in your basement to finance a legal war against against the corporate Leviathian and feed yourself and your family over the intervening years.
Bend over Bitch, or You're Fired!
(sadly, Trump is probably one of the few who actually understand that, and it's long term consequences...)
Every success they have in banning words, punishing groups and individuals emboldens them to do more. They won't stop unless they experience real pain. The SJW's need to have their noses bloodied.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/new-leaked-documents-show-russian-trol...
It's difficult to carry on a conversation today without offending someone,,, somewhere. We're all so... s e n s i t i v e....
That offended me.
When they re-establish the draft to fight WW3 those college kids will have something real to worry about.
Post-Caitlyn will drag become the new blackface? Good-bye Pythons.
"debt of honor" pbs
human resources and wall street is desperate and have a new angle
getready;-)
r
it is about cost-of-labor and nothing more
https://enronnext101.wordpress.com/
WTF is a 'Kanye West'? Is that someplace in the Florida keys?
A douchebag rapper with a chip on his shoulder, a wife with a big butt who is a celebrity because, um, well, because she is a celebrity and a former mother-in-law who was once a father-in-law.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIUzLpO1kxI
Administration finds it easier to steal money if they mollycoddle their pawns via rule abiding behaviour, and prosocial attitudes. This is why I am not one that speaks prosocially most of the time. Only fascists opt for a prosocial attitude, manner of speech/discourse, in the face of totalitarianism. This is also why Marx appeals to me so much.
Prosocial?
Is this newspeak? I can't keep up.
It's Social Science, shovelhead. The word prosocial comes from Social Psychology/Experimental Psychology. It comes from assessment of attitudes & behaviours within the domain of Social Psych. Economics is also a discipline that falls under the Social Sciences umbrella. Economics is not considered to be a hard science within academia. I come from Experimental Psychology, but I am an Empiricist/Scientist in terms of philosophy of science.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosocial_behavior
Bolshevism always begins on college campuses.
And I say that with a BA in Philosophy, heh.
Laboratories = Anti-intellectual wasteland
Pretty much stopped there
It is shown which information can be extracted from the monitoring of radionuclides emitted from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and transported to Europe. In this part the focus will be on the analysis of the concentration ratios. While (131)I, (134)Cs and (137)Cs were reported by most stations, other detected radionuclides, reported by some, are (95)Nb, (129m)Te, (132)Te, (132)I, (136)Cs and (140)La. From their activity ratios a mean burn-up of 26.7 GWd/t of the fuel from which they originated is estimated. Based on these data, inventories of radionuclides present at the time of the accident are calculated. The caesium activity ratios indicate emissions from the core of unit 4 which had been unloaded into the fuel storage pool prior to the accident. http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/09/scientific-proof-that-fukus...
My wife and I are going full black-face this Halloween. Seriously.
Could getcha killed. Seriously.
/s
Reprecussions for my actions?! Surely, you jest?
I do, and stop calling me Shirley.
I believe that for a change we will be ISIL for halloween this year.
Hasidic has become old.
Isn't that lesbo ex-HLS witch in charge there?
If you want to teach garbage, there must not be debate.
If you think that Universities are here to help you develop critical thinking skills and rational analysis of the world around you it means you are not up to date.
Actually they teach you how to effectively kill all the urges to free expression of your analytical thoughts and rational conclusions and instead they teach you how to submit to total brainwashing.
Here is quite comprehensive take what the educational system in US and elsewhere is truly for:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/education-blessings-o...
I wish I could disagree with this.
It's not just the universities. Political correctness has been extraordinarily effective in constraining the free exchange of ideas in every arena. As George Orwell pointed out.."At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is "not done"... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals"
In Serbian we don't have a word for political corectness. If woudl take you some time to explain to people why they shoudl not say what they think and what the benefits are of pretending yuo agree to something you dont.
In the USSA we've given rise to mindless lemmings instead of people. They know not how to think - only how to do without question. We've a problem over here.
wait we are upset at a university taking away the right of rich brats to throw a themed party because its their freedom of speech?
let me know when they are getting shot and killed by the national guard for opposing a war.
In an era where lies and deceptions regularly emanate from the highest levels of US .gov, it is critical that the free-minded speak truth. It may be uncomfortable to discuss why niggers have lower IQs and commit a disproportionately higher level of violent crime than other ethnicities, but if we're gonna continue having the 'diversity is our greatest strength' meme driven into our brains thru casting decisions on everything from phone adverts to Bond movies, those making that argument are gonna need to accept the criticism and at least pretend to be a little bit introspective. If not, well then, fuck you, let's get it on, b/c I am going to stand for freedom. All the way.
Do it again ...!
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Those 60s 'heroes' gave it all up once the draft went away.
Now those old codgers can't wait for more wars - - to send the youngsters off to fight. As long as the guy they voted for started the war, its just fine.
Those 60s 'heroes' of which you speak were the very ones screaming for "free speech" and yelling "power to the people" on campus back then. They didn't really mean it then; one was only able to speak freely if one was ready to parrot the party line. Now those very same 60s 'heroes' are in charge of many college faculties, and they are still trying to tell others what sort of "free speech" is acceptable. Note how political correctness increased as more and more of those idiots, er, I mean 60s 'heroes', rose in the ranks of academia, government, etc. Their impulse then was toward totalitarian control, and it remains so to this day.
UCLA is one of the WORSE schools out there, factory teaching by a mediocre faculty that dont know how to teach and bloated admnistration who dont give a shit about students except for what money they can bring in. For those studying there, you already have my sympathies.
I recall a philosophy prof who would regularly (and openly) smoke weed in his office. His academic purpose, it would seem, was to be as leftist (in an in-you-face outrageous manner) as he could be. His reward? A Chairman position of the religion dept at a big-city institution of 'higher learning'. Let me tell you something, there was NOTHING religious about that guy. Hence the farce of him becoming head of a religion dept. Kind of like that fucker the Pope.
My organic chemistry professor made a chemical similar to the pheromone of a bitch in heat and sprayed it on a few arrogant asshole Chairs of the psychology/ sociology departments. The large outside gathering for homecoming was an event to remember for us all. He was put in the penalty box for a long time.
It seems creative initiative on campus is not appreciated by those who have achieved power in Academia. There lies the problem.
Religiosity isn't necessarily associated with conformity.
Religion involves a belief in a/mulitple superhuman power(s). It requires faith. The guy I knew had no faith in any such entity. Your statement is both deceptive and false. One can be very non-conformist and religious. Like the 'Heaven's Gate' followers, or Joan of Arc.
UCLA knows where donors come from, that is for sure....
" who dont give a shit about students except for what money they can bring in. "
Pretty much covers the ameriKan Pre-school through University these modern days.
I'd like to add that by about 1980, students couldn't write in complete sentences or take tests with discussion questions. The world had been reduced to multiple choice.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3272289/Could-views-God-i...
FEAR NOT. THEY ARE WORKING ON MIND CONTROL AT UCLA.
Psychologists have discovered it's possible to significantly change a person's beliefs simply by targeting their brain with magnets.
Using what's known as transcranial magnetic stimulation, the researchers were able to temporarily shut down the part of the brain associated with detecting and solving problems.
People who were subjected to this treatment reported that their belief in God dropped by a third following the stimulation, while there was an increase in positive feelings towards immigrants.
The study was carried out by Dr Keise Izuma from the University of York and Colin Holbrook from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
They recruited 38 participants with an average age of 21, to take part in the study.
Each of these participants said they held significant religious beliefs, and the majority held moderate to extremely conservative political beliefs.
Political views were important because it suggested they were more likely to have stronger viewpoints on immigration.
Half of these participants formed part of a control group and received a low-level 'sham' procedure that did not affect their brains.
The other half received enough energy through transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to lower activity in the posterior medial frontal cortex (pMFC).
This part of the brain, located near the surface and roughly a few inches up from the forehead, is associated with detecting problems and triggering responses that address them.
Following the treatment, all the participants were first asked to think about death before being asked questions about their religious beliefs and their feelings about immigrants.
The death task including writing brief responses on the subject of their own death.
To address their levels of prejudice, participants were asked to read two essays - one critical and one positive - written by an immigrant from Latin America about the US.
After reading each essay, participants rated how much they liked the person who wrote the essay and how much they agreed with their views.
Religious belief was measured using a version of the Supernatural Belief Scale.
Items were presented in random order and rated according to the same scale used in the immigrant ratings.
Questions included: 'There exists an all-powerful, all-knowing, loving God', 'There exist good personal spiritual beings, whom we might call angels' and 'There exists an evil personal spiritual being, whom we might call the Devil.'
The findings, published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, reveal that people whose brains were targeted by TMS reported 32.8 per cent less belief in God, angels, or heaven.
They were also 28.5 per cent more positive in their feelings toward an immigrant who criticised their country.
The investigators additionally found that the magnetic stimulation had the greatest effect on reactions to the critical author in the essay test.
'We think that hearing criticisms of your group's values, perhaps especially from a person you perceive as an outsider, is processed as an ideological sort of threat,' said Dr Izuma.
'One way to respond to such threats is to 'double down' on your group values, increasing your investment in them, and reacting more negatively to the critic,' he continued.
'When we disrupted the brain region that usually helps detect and respond to threats, we saw a less negative, less ideologically motivated reaction to the critical author and his opinions.'
The researchers said this reduction in both religious beliefs and prejudice highlights how much such views are influenced by the part of the brain involved with detecting threats.
Given the similar percentages, there may also be a link between how strongly a person's religious beliefs may influence their view on immigrants, and vice versa.
Dr Izuma said: 'People often turn to ideology when they are confronted by problems.
'We wanted to find out whether a brain region that is linked with solving concrete problems, like deciding how to move one's body to overcome an obstacle, is also involved in solving abstract problems addressed by ideology.'
'We decided to remind people of death because previous research has shown that people turn to religion for comfort in the face of death.
'As expected, we found that when we experimentally turned down the posterior medial frontal cortex, people were less inclined to reach for comforting religious ideas despite having been reminded of death.'
Dr Holbrook added that the findings are consistent with the idea that regions of the brain that have evolved to deal with threats are 'repurposed' to also produce ideological reactions.
He told MailOnline: 'The most striking finding was that the shifts in ideology did not appear driven by shifts in emotion.
'The participants did not report any difference in their emotional states whether their brain area had been turned down or not.
'In addition, we observed a decrease in emotionally positive beliefs in God, and an increase in acceptance of an emotionally negative, harsh critic of the participants' national groups.
'This shows that the findings were not driven by a general shift in responses to positive or negative emotional stimuli.'
'Whether we're trying to clamber over a fallen tree that we find in our path, find solace in religion, or resolve issues related to immigration, our brains are using the same basic mental machinery,' the researchers concluded.
More research is now needed to understand exactly how and why religious beliefs and ethnocentric attitudes were reduced in this experiment.
The project was an interdisciplinary collaboration between the University of York and UCLA, including Dr Holbrook and Dan Fessler from the Department of Anthropology and neuroscientists at UCLA's Brain Mapping Center.
This included Marco Iacoboni, a world authority on transcranial magnetic stimulation and Director of the Brain Mapping Center.
I am strangely attracted to you.
--Mr Positive.
I remember attending a Conference where TMS was being heavily touted as "The Greatest Thing Ever" for management of endstage Parkinsons - either as a stand alone therapy, or in combination with existing pharmacotherapies (apomorphine). I remember the same groundless hype when latanoprost was developed ("the end of operative management of Glaucoma" comes to mind), along with many, many others.
My best recollection of groundless hype was a Rep flogging Teicoplanin (Targocid) - and claiming that the mode of action prevented the emergence of resistance. Funny, then, that that month's issue of the Journal of Applied Bacteriology had a good Paper on emergence of enduring (and effective) teicoplanin resistance in a selection of ICU isolates . . . . . .
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Does this mean our Caitlyn Jenner-themed sorority party is ill-advised?
Basically, American students are being turned into the Chinese.
The higher-end university administrators are parasites on society, even at chickenshit schools.
It is time to start publishing how much these mediocroties are paid.
Then you'll see a revolution.
But where did all these administrators come from? And what do they administrate?
University deans and boards are terrified of any campus issue that contains even a whiff of sex or race. So, what to do? Fix the problems themselves . . .or create a new "program" to "focus on the problem" and "educate" the transgressors, both real and imagined? Hell yes, let's get us an administrator!
Kicking the can seems so popular these days.
Yet, i see no professional team or betting line in Vegas.
A whole generation reaches douchebag status at 20. That's quite an achievement- usually you don't get there till you hit middle age and buy a sports car with your easy office paycheck while lecturing others about frugality and hard work.
I have recently met a few grads from Uni of Davies, CA and was surprised with how one-dimensional, turned against each other, competing irrtionally against and jealous of their 'best friends' they were.
these were some of the 'best in class and athletics' students. Unable to meaningfully agreggate in any way, but skiled at kissing ass and being fearful.
That's what pretty much made me realize the US is doomed. THey had no confidence either (although loud) and were glued to i-phones even when walking around SF
The 60's the last decade that really gave a shit about anything moral.
The 60's--gave a shit about anything moral? Smoking dope, free love, communes, spit on returning military, I could go on but it would take pages. I was there. Shot twice and spit at. Fuck you and your dreamboat.
This is just another helping of "cultural marxism."
Ahhhh,,, Another ameriKan government school success story. And the hits just keep a coming.
In the 1950's, half of the people in America had not finished high school. Under 10% had college degrees. The latter were, indeed, quite often the best and the brightest. Nevertheless, ordinary people were able to get good jobs, fair wages and benefits, leave home and marry, buy houses and raise families, often on only one income, and then work their way up. There was generally no sales tax. A movie cost a quarter, a haircut was a dollar and a cup of coffe was a nickel. Life was not always good, but people had freedom and choices and generally did okay.
Today, it's college for the million, including far below average people who absolutely do not belong there. To pay for it, they enlist for life in indentured servitude. These debts cannot be discharged even in bankruptcy. Crazy. Stupid. Sad. Is it working? Of course not...
Is it working? Of course it is! Ask the tenured multi-culti-studies prof who is currently on sabbatical in Belize. He rents out his mansion in the green leafy hills high above campus for $4k per month. Workin' great, man!
Belize? Seriously? Keep it, especially the nouveau riche poseurs and pretentious academic expats.
US college = Joke.
...and the joke will be on them when they try to run that shit up a flag pole to get a salute for employment.
This world does not start and end with this generation of "special snowflakes".
Back in college, we had The Clash, Lou Reed, The Stooges. We had Ken Kesey and we had National Lampoon. We had the LGBTQ crowd minus the street closures and flying spittle. Date rape, micro-aggressions and racial victimhood had yet to be invented.
Lookit what these fuckers got. And they don't "learn" this shit in college . . .the K-12 cartel has already primed the pump. Diversity on campus means, we look different but think alike. Admins love that, because herd behavior is predictable. Keep the herd together, beat the strays into submission, and for the truly independent thinkers we have star chamber prosecutorial boards unencumbered by any legal protections.
It wasn't always like this, kiddies. You are getting screwed, sorry. It wasn't my idea.
It's not your fathers Oldsmobile.
I keep noticing the new Buick s though
theyre trying to shut down all the BDS movements againts israel so they are squelching all movements
Private Colleges still teach the truth such as Macro and Micro economics. But the Students who go to public universities are effed. Might as well call them Re-education camps.
Are you sure you are talking of UCLA? It reads like an 1974 article about Lumumba university.
Or mabbe
USA == N.Korea
CabalA$$lickerLiarDemonicObama : 'U wanted change , u r shortchanged'
Does that mean for the first time in 30 plus years a Mr. T costume isn't allowed for halloween?
I Pity the fool.
Once I worked as faculty for CSUF. I guess I was their token whigger, except my ancestors created Bowling Green Kentucky, whence my white trash manager graduated and sucked lib ass to the hilt to get long.
I have his name in my book. Done.
What goes around comes around.
Institutions of higher learning... or lower living?