Minnesota State University will have counselors standing by to comfort “student leaders” who have an “emotional response” after being required to attend a new diversity training.
"...applications of mathematics in society can be deleterious to our humanity unless very carefully monitored and checked,” worrying particularly about how math facilitates transactions of money and finance.
"We’re not against helping those in need, but it isn’t fair for my son to be removed from his residence and left on the street in the middle of his studies..."
"What is occurring on college campuses is about power and control - speech is impeded as a last resort, used when people or groups fail to self-censor."
“I have been kicked. I have been punched. I have been thrown up against lockers... I’ve been spit on. A lot of chair throwing, turning over desks, screaming, running around the classroom..."
Nationally, students owe more than $1.4 trillion on their loans, nearly 50% more than all credit card debt in the US...nearly 40% of student loan borrowers will default by 2023. And yet, most Americans still believe that college is a sound investment.
"Billions of dollars are being siphoned away from the state’s poorest districts by the state’s burgeoning education bureaucracy...The problem arises when all those dollars are doled out."
" The job for those of us who are 65 or older is to relay the fact that guns were more available and less controlled in years past, when there was far less mayhem. Something else is the problem."