Several Schools Cancel Classes/Mid-Term Exams & Offer Counseling After Election

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  1. RAM PhD

    RAM PhD Member

    WHAT?

    Some schools are having "cry-ins," offering counseling to students who have been traumatized because Trump will be the next POTUS.
     
  2. catlin0915

    catlin0915 New Member

    I could be wrong, but I'm willing to bet the professors who agreed to do it weren't Trump fans. Are schools ok with this? Disciplinary action or are they also hardcore liberals as well. I know most of the colleges that I attended tilted in that direction.
     
  3. Neuhaus

    Neuhaus Well-Known Member

    Tenured faculty have a pretty long leash. Cancelling classes, being overly political in the classroom and just generally being weird is not enough to discipline a professor. They're pretty solid unless they start sleeping with students or openly harassing individuals (like the Marquette professor who named a grad student on his blog in the course of a rant and she had to be escorted to her car by campus police daily because of death threats or the whacko in Florida who was harassing Sandy Hook families).

    Otherwise all professors begin crying "academic freedom" and voting no confidence on university presidents.

    My professors at Scranton, a Jesuit school, were all very liberal. There was one priest who was adamantly pro-life and students used to give him an incredibly hard time. I guess how dare a Catholic priest at a Catholic school hold Catholic beliefs?

    Anyway while it's tempting for me to go on a snowflake rant the fact is that when I was 18 years old I said and did really stupid things. I cringe t think about some things I said back then that I thought, at the time, made me look smart or sophisticated. For better or worse college is a mystical dreamland between high school and the real world. You get to pretend you're an adult for four years. You enjoy your illusion while your parents pay a legion of administrators to generally try to save you from yourself. its also your first election, if you're a traditional student. You still think your opinion matters and that your close circle of friends represents a diverse worldview. I can understand it might be shocking when all of your friends are pro-Hillary only to find that there is a vast world beyond your little island that disagrees with you.

    They'll have a good cry. And during the next election they might have another good cry. That's their right. But their boss, assuming they found a job despite lacking any marketable skills, won't be having cry-ins or hug parties. And eventually they'll grow up.

    You can accelerate the process of growing up using one of five options; Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines or Coast Guard. And, just in case anyone is thinking it, "stress cards" are an urban legend.
     
  4. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    In related news, Wellesley College (Hillary's alma mater), Sarah Lawrence College, and Sweet Briar College have, after an absence of many years, reinstituted their majors in home economics.
     
  5. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

  6. Bruce

    Bruce Moderator

    I know a police officer for the Wellesley College Police, and she said that the school put on a huge event for alumni on election night, complete with a rented tent, catered food & drink, etc.

    I guess it wasn't a pleasant spectacle as the results came in; lots of drunk, angry women.
     
  7. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member

  8. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    Well, it's about time. Guys have been getting drunk and angry for years in social situations. Another testimony to gender empowerment!

    Of course, we've had this in trucking for years - as more women have entered the field they have learned to be disgusting pigs, as the men have always been. :laugh2:
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    (Chill out, people, I was a feminist before most of you were a gleam in your parents' eyes.)
     
  9. b4cz28

    b4cz28 Active Member

    They always have been way more disgusting then men, look at any bathroom at a sports event or concert. Also, I once took a course (Texas course on reducing gender inequality in the CJ system) that said some crazy numbers about sexual assault, infidelity and domestic violence. Like 3/4 of all divorces in Texas (not sure the year) were the results of women cheating and that woman were way more likely to molest a child than a man was. On the subject on domestic violence woman 9 times out of 10 instigated physical contact. Yet the arrest were the complete opposite. Bruce could probably tell us if any of that is accurate in law enforcement.

    See Steve, you're not the only one who can hijack a thread lol. I just read the whole exchange with Jan and was rolling lol.
     
  10. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    You know the article is satire right?
     
  11. Steve Levicoff

    Steve Levicoff Well-Known Member

    I think some of our opinionists did not realize that The Babylon Bee is satire. For the unknowing, it's essentially a Christian version of The Onion, similar to the long-defunct Wittenburg Door.

    A great example of their satire is at Initialism Referring To Non-Hetero Communities Now Longer Than Alphabet | The Babylon Bee. Recently, a theatre in Columbus, OH, to which I have gone many times rebranded itself a year ago. While it was not established as a gay theatre when founded in 2008, they discovered that there was a niche market to which they could appeal, and now are known as Columbus' "LGBTQQIA" theatre.

    I've always felt that the gay movement has changed its moniker more times than the civil rights movement. (Colored became black, which became Afro-American, which become black again, which became African-American, etc.) Well, gay became gay and lesbian; then became gay, lesbian, and bisexual; then became gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered; then became gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (or questioning); and is now gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, queer, questioning (yes, they now have two q's), intersex (I still haven't figured that one out), and affirming. Go figure...

    And, when I lecture or do workshops on theatre (yes, I do that sort of thing occasionally), I still find it difficult to say "LGBTQQIA" with, pardon the pun, a straight face.

    The Babylon Bee should be required reading for people who take things too seriously. Like people who pursue a master's at a reputable Catholic university yet believe false prophets with pink hair. :laugh2:
     
  12. Life Long Learning

    Life Long Learning Active Member

    Are they 12 or 22....wait I know.....in todays US colleges it the first one!
     
  13. decimon

    decimon Well-Known Member


    Yup.

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  14. cookderosa

    cookderosa Resident Chef

    Ok, good. Just making sure- I'm poking fun. In fact, that story is so funny, I'm going to read it again.:banana:
    Did you guys see Trump will appear for his first interview tonight on 60 Minutes? I'm pretty excited, and I almost never watch tv.
     
  15. TomE

    TomE New Member

    Hehe...knowing some of my professors in college, I'm sure some would love to have an election every year and for the GOP to win. An annual week-long holiday in the middle of fall term??!! Where is my Republican straight-ticket ballot??!
     

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