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Will Anyone Ever Again Take A Mizzou Degree Seriously?
I have never met Tim Wolfe, and it has been years since I have set foot on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia.
But I did grow up on a college campus where my father was a high level administrator as well as a full professor, and, I can tell you that if you think the United States Senate is a challenge, try the faculty and student senates of any university. That’s where the real politics of destruction lies. Campus politics makes the real thing seem like a walk in the park.
Wolfe was, until last Monday, the President of Mizzou.
Some morons on campus who think that somehow they’re more equal than anybody else because they’re “minorities” chased him out of town with a hunger strike, some demonstrations and, get this, a 4-5 football team.
That’s right. A football team, which has been on a four game losing streak, told the media it would boycott Brigham Young this weekend at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City if Wolfe didn’t resign because of his alleged poor handling of racial issues on campus. And their football coach, a clown named Gary Pinkel, said he stood with the students. Now I need to point out that the President of Mizzou makes about $400,000 a year while Pinkel makes about $3.1 MILLION. Ahh, state run academia… Of course, Wolfe resigned.
What’s this all about?
Apparently, you are not allowed to even mildly disagree if someone calls a campus institutionally racist. And, when a student cries “racist,” the President better hop to immediately.
Hey, I’m all for freedom of speech on campus.
But freedom should mean freedom. I saw NBC interview some student who said that some other student “called me the N word.”
Really?
I have a question for him that the NBC correspondent forgot to ask:
Did you ask your mommy to pick you up and dust you off afterwards? And did he call you a nigger or the N word? Apparently, some words are simply unacceptable unless they’re said by rappers or black big shots. And the penalty for a white student at Mizzou calling a black student at Mizzou a nigger is that the President has to resign? Seriously?
Let me tell you punks/clowns where all of this is getting you.
Mizzou is reputed to have a great school of journalism. My colleagues and I, one of whom is a Mizzou grad, hire a lot of journalists.
Do you think a recent degree from Mizzou will hold much weight with us going forward?
The reason you go to college is to get prepared for life.
In real life, you can’t get the football team to threaten a boycott if your boss doesn’t get fired.
That only happens on college campuses where the long suffering taxpayers are picking up the tab for a bunch of dilettantes allegedly getting an education.
You show me a legitimate example of institutional racism at Mizzou which rises to the level that the President should have to resign because of it, and you might get some sympathy.
But, so far, you have been long on noise and very short on details.
So the net effect is that the next time a recent Mizzou grad sends my colleagues and I a resume looking for a job, you know what we’ll be thinking.
Why don’t you ask your football coach for a job?
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