The Regressive Left Is Losing The Campus War

by Guest Wed Mar 23, 2016 9:58 am

A turning point is underway in the culture wars over American universities. Dismayed by their wild-eyed radicalism and anti-intellectual demands, college faculties, administrators, and much of the media are turning their backs on the regressive left.

Left-wing activists have been running rampant on college campuses for years. In 2014, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) found that the number of speaker disinvitations on campus, typically prompted by the allegedly “offensive” views of a visiting speaker, had more than tripled over ten years. Activist crusades against cultural appropriation, sexism and racism have led to the banning of an eclectic range of items on campus, from Charlie Hebdo to mini-sombreros.
In one low point, student leaders at the University of Minnesota blocked a proposed annual moment of remembrance for 9/11 on the grounds that it could promote “Islamophobia.”
Previously quick to take the side of students demanding “safety” from offensive speech (Minnesota’s faculty quickly complied with activist’s demands to censor Charlie Hebdo, for example), it now seems that colleges administrators have had enough with the regressive left.
The President of Oberlin, an infamously liberal college, recently rebuffed a list of demands from left-wing activists on campus, the University of Missouri has been uncompromising in its decision to fire radical assistant professor Melissa Click over her attempted physical intimidation of a student reporter, and a growing number of professors are now speaking out against the culture of safe spaces and censorship on campus.

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/21/regressive-left-on-defensive-on-campus/#

Brilliant article and much to read. I mean seriously, attempts to block a remembrance service just sums up everything that is wrong with the regressive left

by Original Quill Wed Mar 23, 2016 1:52 pm

Isn't this that extreme RW rag, Breitbart? Mostly adjectives, with no content? Invented the term "regressive left," which you are fond of plagiarizing?'

Breitbart.com wrote:The regressive left played into the hands of its opponents with hysterical responses to recent visits to U.S campuses from Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos and Professor Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute.

A visit by Yiannopoulos to the University of Rutgers led to bizarre scenes in which activists smeared red paint on their faces and chanted “Black Lives Matter”

That's "Rutgers University," my friend. It's not a Land Grant university, and there is no such place as Rutgers. The name is after it's founder, Henry Rutgers.

University of Rutgers indeed! Evil or Very Mad

by Guest Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:04 pm

Original Quill wrote:Isn't this that extreme RW rag, Breitbart? Mostly adjectives, with no content? Invented the term "regressive left," which you are fond of plagiarizing?'

Breitbart.com wrote:The regressive left played into the hands of its opponents with hysterical responses to recent visits to U.S campuses from Breitbart Tech editor Milo Yiannopoulos and Professor Christina Hoff Sommers of the American Enterprise Institute.

A visit by Yiannopoulos to the University of Rutgers led to bizarre scenes in which activists smeared red paint on their faces and chanted “Black Lives Matter”

That's "Rutgers University," my friend. It's not a Land Grant university, and there is no such place as Rutgers. The name is after it's founder, Henry Rutgers.

University of Rutgers indeed!

Rutgers President on Free Speech and Academic Freedom
From time to time, people in and outside the Rutgers community have raised concerns regarding comments made by Rutgers faculty members, by students, and by speakers on our campuses who have been guests of student organizations. Some of the comments have been offensive to many people and have been inconsistent with the commitment Rutgers has to reasoned discussion and balanced points of view. Such comments do not represent the position of the University, nor should they be construed as having been expressed on behalf of the University.
Having said that, all of the members of our community—our faculty members, students, alumni, and staff—are free to express their viewpoints in public forums as private citizens, including viewpoints that the University itself or I personally may not share. And we do not restrict the activities of recognized university organizations, including the speakers they invite to campus, as long as these organizations obey the law and follow University policy and guidelines regarding these events.
Furthermore, academic freedom—the right of our faculty in the discharge of their duties to express their ideas and to challenge the ideas of others without fear of retribution—is a cornerstone of American higher education. Our University is a community of diverse ideas; we value academic freedom’s protections that enable our faculty to state their views and engage in lively discourse. At Rutgers we encourage our faculty to explore new and sometimes controversial ideas and to subject assumptions to scrutiny, all within the boundaries of civil and respectful discourse, which academic freedom requires.
Both academic freedom and our First Amendment rights are at the core of what we do. Our University policy on speech is clear. All members of our community enjoy the rights of free expression guaranteed by the First Amendment. Faculty members, as private citizens, enjoy the same freedoms of speech and expression as any private citizen and shall be free from institutional discipline in the exercise of these rights. In addition, they also enjoy academic freedom of expression when functioning in their roles as faculty members. In all cases, however, the conduct of a faculty member must be in accordance with standards dictated by law.
While I will not defend the content of every opinion expressed by every member of our academic community, or of speakers who we invite to our campus, I will defend their right to speak freely. That freedom is fundamental to our University, our society, and our nation.

http://president.rutgers.edu/public-remarks/speeches-and-writings/rutgers-president-free-speech-and-academic-freedom

by Original Quill Wed Mar 23, 2016 2:50 pm

Rutgers University, where I received my Masters and PhD degrees, is the eighth oldest university in the United States. In fact, it predates the existence of the US, since the latter was created at the earliest, in 1776.

Rutgers.edu wrote:Chartered in 1766 as all-male Queen’s College in New Brunswick, New Jersey, the school, affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church, was renamed Rutgers College in 1825 in honor of trustee and Revolutionary War veteran Colonel Henry Rutgers.

In the mid-19th century, Congress established the nation’s land-grant colleges in response to the Industrial Revolution. In 1864, Rutgers prevailed over Princeton to become New Jersey’s land-grant institution, tasked with offering educational access to a wider range of students who would be the new workforce for America’s expanding businesses, factories, and farms.

Rutgers University was originally paired with a private women's institution, Douglas College. This is in much the same way that, say, Radcliffe College is paired with Harvard University.

Rutgers University has grown, both by incorporating lesser institutions into its fold, and by expansion. Today it has three campuses, the original in New Brunswick, NJ, and a second in Newark, NJ, and a third in Camden, NJ. It boasts two law schools, a major medical school, and a world renowned bio-sciences research and education institution.

When one speaks of a "University of..." one is generally naming that institution by a place, or a government edict establishing it. Hence, we may speak of the University of Michigan or California, where the institutions are located in Michigan and California, respectively. Alternatively, we might speak of a Land Grant university, where the institution is established by the Land Grant Act of, say, 1879--where the US government gave grants establishing the institution, at a certain place (state). Again, the name is tied to a location--generally a state, to which the grant is made. Rutgers University attained Land Grant status, but nearly a century after it was established. Hence, the Land Grant status did not affect it's name.

Rutgers University is not tied to any location, save that it has a street address in New Brunswick. It's name derives from it's founder, Henry Rutgers. I'm sorry, but when someone refers to the University of Rutgers, I have lost all respect for that person. If he is dealing with matters of research and education and cannot comprehend a simple thing like an institutional name, he has nothing to offer.

Consider it a simple short-cut in today's complex and difficult world.

by 'Wolfie Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:11 pm

GOOD OL' Didge...

NEVER lets the facts get in the way of his neo-nazi Zionist rants..

AND never short of yet another phony propaganda article to back up his inexcusable and insufferable agendas.

POOR ol' Didgeri has become a perpetual embarrassment to all of those other good Right Wing folks on here..

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by Guest Wed Mar 23, 2016 6:15 pm

WhoseYourWolfie wrote:

GOOD OL' Didge...

NEVER lets the facts get in the way of his neo-nazi Zionist rants..
Unfounded accusation not back up with any sense what so ever, claiming now Zionists are comparable to Nazi ideology, which proves the point on ignorant regressives

AND never short of yet another phony propaganda article to back up his inexcusable and insufferable agendas.
More waffle, nothing to counter the argument, where he is trying to compare instead his shrivelled excuse for a dick

POOR ol' Didgeri has become a perpetual embarrassment to all of those other good Right Wing folks on here..

Thanks for proving the article right, in how regressives talk the biggest load of shit ever

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