Trump Unveils His "Secret Weapon" to Bring Racist Universities in Line

He's ordering federal accreditors, the bureaucrats who certify higher ed institutions as legit and eligible for federal funds and loan guarantees for students, to start requiring schools allow free speech and prioritize actual merit.

Deep State Media organization NPR:

President Trump on Wednesday signed a list of executive actions aimed at both higher education and K-12 schools.
One of the actions takes aim at college and university accreditors, organizations the White House says have "abused their authority by imposing discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)-based standards."
Another promises new discipline guidance for K-12 schools, with the goal of "ensuring school discipline policies are based on objective behavior, not DEI," the White House said in a statement.
"Today's Executive Orders pave the way for critical innovations -- inviting more competition in the higher education accreditation system, ensuring transparency in college finances, supporting new technologies in the classroom, and more," Education Secretary Linda McMahon wrote on social media.
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The collection of orders aim to cement Trump's conservative agenda when it comes to education in America, including rolling back the policies from the Biden administration, bolstering workforce training, improving teaching about artificial intelligence in schools, and launching a new White House initiative on historically Black colleges and universities.

The order pertaining to college accreditation directs McMahon to "overhaul" the system. Accreditation is the process colleges are required to go through to receive federal financial aid, aimed at ensuring that a program meets an acceptable level of quality.
Trump referred to accreditation on the campaign trail as his "secret weapon" in his efforts to combat what he considers ideological bias in higher education. The executive action aims to use the process as a way to hold colleges accountable for "ideological overreach" and to increase "intellectual diversity" on campus.
The action directs the education secretary to recognize new accreditors in an effort to encourage more competition. Trump has previously modified the accreditation system: During his first administration, he removed restrictions that forced schools to use accreditors based on their geographic region.
"Trump's goal is to manipulate accreditors in order to force colleges and universities to do his bidding and punish them when they resist," said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors in a statement. "He is weaponizing the accreditation process to gain the leverage he seeks."

What a weird way to say "he's fighting blatant racial (and political) discrimination in taxpayer-funded schools."

Another executive action warns that federal grants for universities could be revoked if schools do not complete "full and timely disclosure of foreign funding."
In a briefing announcing the order, White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, "We believe that certain universities, including, for example, Harvard, have routinely violated this law, and this law has not been effectively enforced."
Federal law already requires schools to disclose gifts or contracts worth $250,000 or more from foreign entities. In a statement, a Harvard spokesperson said the school had, for decades, been in compliance with the law.
On Truth Social on Thursday, Trump dug in on Harvard again calling the university "a Liberal mess" and "a threat to Democracy."

He also is revoking Obama's and Biden's executive orders which demanded that schools not punish black kids, and/or severely punish white kids to make up for the fact that so many black kids violate school rules.

In an executive action aimed at K-12 schools, Trump requested new federal guidance on school discipline. The measure calls for revoking previous policies by Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama aimed at reducing racial disparities in, for example, suspensions and expulsions. The new guidance would prohibit using "racially preferential discipline practices."
"Trump's order empowers local school boards by encouraging real discipline," said Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty and a visiting fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "By ending federal overreach, it frees educators to focus on teaching, not chaos, ensuring kids get a quality education."
But some civil rights activists disagree.
"These executive orders are another move to dismantle civil rights protections," said Judith Browne Dianis, who runs the Advancement Project, a civil rights nonprofit. "The Administration wants to rebuild the school to prison pipeline but civil rights law is clear: schools cannot punish students more harshly because of race, color, national origin, sex, or disability."

LOL.

Princeton University's President defiantly continues racist policies which other Princeton professors admit deliberately disfavor whites, Jews, and males of all races.

Christopher F. Rufo and Ryan Thorpe report for City Journal:

Amid the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the Ivy League, one university president has positioned himself as a leader of the academic resistance: Princeton's Christopher L. Eisgruber.
Earlier this month, the Trump administration suspended hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded grants to Princeton as part of its investigation into racial discrimination and anti-Semitism at the New Jersey campus. Eisgruber, though, was defiant, telling the New York Times that he's "not considering any concessions" and calling for other university presidents to follow his lead.
This isn't Eisgruber's first bid for the spotlight. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, he declared that Princeton--where he has served as president since 2013--was guilty of "systemic racism." In a letter to students that September, he went so far as to claim that racism was embedded in the very "structures of the university itself."
Eisgruber was right to say that he presides over a system of racial discrimination--but not in the way he imagines. The university does not discriminate against "oppressed" groups, such as blacks and Latinos, but against those seen as "oppressors."
"At Princeton, it's totally common knowledge that there are favored groups and disfavored groups," one professor said. "And the disfavored groups are whites, Jews, males," and others commonly disliked by the Left.
A City Journal investigation confirms that Princeton has, in fact, entrenched a system of racial discrimination and segregation. We have obtained more than a dozen internal documents and conducted interviews with a half-dozen employees, who confirm that the university has flagrantly violated the principles of the Civil Rights Act in the name of "social justice."
The basic structure of this system is the university's "diversity, equity, and inclusion" bureaucracy, which has expanded dramatically under Eisgruber's tenure. An infographic circulated by Princeton shows at least 40 academic and administrative departments with established DEI committees, with the express purpose of adjusting the campus's racial composition. As Princeton's first annual diversity report noted, "Every administrative and academic leader is being held accountable for demographic evolution."
According to several Princeton faculty members, "demographic evolution" is a euphemism for racial quotas and outright discrimination in academic hiring. A 2021 internal report outlining best practices for faculty recruitment described how staff were trained to "increase the diversity of the applicants at every step in the process." The report advised search committees to discount negative references for minority candidates and to ensure that every shortlist included at least "two women and/or two underrepresented minority candidates."
The implicit message from Eisgruber and the administration: don't hire white men unless absolutely necessary. According to one professor, who requested anonymity for fear of reprisal, this meant abandoning merit-based hiring in favor of race-based preferences--the only way, given the current pipeline, to accomplish Eisgruber's stated goal of increasing "by 50 percent the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty members from underrepresented groups over the next five years."
Though many of these policies relied on euphemism, some were openly and explicitly discriminatory. The university's Target of Opportunity Program, which was cancelled shortly before the 2024 presidential election, made funding available for departments to hire "candidates from groups that are underrepresented on campus." According to conversations with Princeton professors, this referred primarily to racial minorities and women. The program covered half of each hire's salary, allowing departments to bring on new faculty without bearing the full financial burden. In effect, the administration created financial incentives to prioritize hiring racial minorities.

Princeton also has an illegal policy to discriminate against white suppliers and vendors.

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The reality is that Princeton has violated the principles of the Civil Rights Act. It may have gone further: in Morenoff's estimation, its contracting policy likely ran afoul of New Jersey civil rights law ("among the strongest, most sweeping non-discrimination statutes in the nation") and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. And its hiring preferences may have violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits racial discrimination in hiring unless the employer can fit one of a few narrow exceptions--which, Morenoff said, there is "good reason to doubt."
While Eisgruber has remained publicly defiant toward the Trump administration, he seems to recognize his vulnerability. The university has been quietly scrubbing its website of DEI materials and recently updated its page to include a statement on Princeton's ostensible commitment to "equal opportunity and non-discrimination."

One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation.

The statement points out that faculty hiring has "stagnated" while "administrative" staff -- mostly in DEI make-work "jobs" -- has grown by double.

This is fascinating. More than 100 Yale professors have called for an audit of the university's sprawling bureaucracy.

The audit, they say, would "preempt potential federal intervention" and send the message: "Yale prioritizes intellectual vitality over bureaucratic inertia." pic.twitter.com/C37Fjk6FuE
— John Sailer (@JohnDSailer) April 25, 2025

Is our academics learning?

Posted by: Ace at 02:23 PM

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1 go get 'em Trumpy!

Posted by: kallisto at April 25, 2025 02:23 PM (dCxaZ)

2 "Trump's goal is to manipulate accreditors in order to force colleges and universities to do his bidding and punish them when they resist," said Todd Wolfson, president of the American Association of University Professors in a statement. "He is weaponizing the accreditation process to gain the leverage he seeks."

Gee, I sure hope so.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:25 PM (s8j++)

3 Biden canceled the School-to-Prison Pipeline, but Trump is reopening it. Drill, baby, drill!

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (/dDa4)

4 Nope

Posted by: Da Judge at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (2UnvF)

5 Wish I could stay and chat on this thread, but I do have to go somewhere else...

This is very relevant to me because our Faculty Senate was discussing some of these things yesterday at their meeting.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at April 25, 2025 02:26 PM (7fElN)

6 Federal law already requires schools to disclose gifts or contracts worth $250,000 or more from foreign entities. In a statement, a Harvard spokesperson said the school had, for decades, been in compliance with the law.

They don't want to have to identify their Middle Eastern and CCP sugar daddies.

Posted by: Colleges and instathots suck Qatari dick for $ at April 25, 2025 02:28 PM (TbWk/)

7 More like demographic devolution.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 02:28 PM (63Dwl)

8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.

Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (B9Prs)

9 Is our academics learning?

Posted by: Ace

Odds are yes to at least trimming the huge administrative staff overload. Ratio of staff/admin to professors is now something like 3 tenured faculty to one administrator. At Ivies, it is more like 1.5 or so admin to tenured faculty.

Used to be, administrators like Deans, etc. would do their stint and then return to their jobs as regular faculty. Instead, now, we have national searches for administrators that have no idea about the place they landed but are eager to rise up to the next position either at the current university or up the food chain.

That is where you get lame brained initiatives from admin that bulk up costs, do nothing, and consume useful faculty time for teaching or even the increasingly worthless research required to keep your position.

Admin simply have MOAR as their standard for promotion--more money, more spending, more staff.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (ctrM5)

10 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (GYt5+)

11 Wish I could stay and chat on this thread, but I do have to go somewhere else...

This is very relevant to me because our Faculty Senate was discussing some of these things yesterday at their meeting.

Did anyone actually have the courage to raise his hand and say "ya know, maybe we should stop treating white people like lepers".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (s8j++)

12 Money. The secret weapon is always money.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (wBaIH)

13 Trump Unveils His "Secret Weapon" to Bring Racist Universities in Line
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Yeah…. No

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at April 25, 2025 02:30 PM (9Xevu)

14 Not so fast there.

Posted by: The Honorable Judge Kiki Manaluaha at April 25, 2025 02:31 PM (jc0TO)

15 Do you know who else prioritized actual merit and allowed free speech?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:31 PM (bXihk)

16 Eisgruber?
Seriously?

Posted by: Sound kinda nozzie at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (vsUjd)

17 Hola
Posted by: Thanatopsis at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM

Brother!

Posted by: the insensible rock at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (jc0TO)

18
"He is weaponizing the accreditation process to gain the leverage he seeks."

Fight weaponization with weaponization.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (63Dwl)

19 Why are these universities entitled to any tax dollars at all, whether they be bastions of conservatism and free speech or raving liberal loons?

Posted by: F*ck Those Niggas at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (RihOl)

20
Yeah…. No

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge

Fuck off, ya pineapple headed asshole.

Posted by: BifBewalski at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM (MsrgL)

21

Harvard taught me everything I know!

Posted by: David Hogger at April 25, 2025 02:33 PM (6FYeO)

22 This is nice and all. I would like to see a Trumpian style home school and/or voucher arrangement that takes aim at the public school systems butts in seats = federal dollars, which is the main driver of how shitty the public education system has become.

It practically takes a Constitutional Amendment to kick an axe murder in the process of axe murdering out of a public school. I am only marginally exaggerating.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at April 25, 2025 02:33 PM (i24o9)

23 Eisgruber?
Seriously?
Posted by: Sound kinda nozzie at April 25, 2025 02:32 PM

Could it be any plainer??

Posted by: REEEE!! at April 25, 2025 02:34 PM (jc0TO)

24 8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe

GOP officeholders come from the insulated class (see Codevilla's The Ruling Class versus the Country Class). Back when I studied regime longevity, there was a theoretical construct, I think the author was Eric A. Nordlinger but it has been years, posited that regimes get away with more shit with more insulation from the consequences of bad decisions.

From memory, he used the concepts of insulation, malleability, and resistance to determine regime longevity. Insulation from the people for ruling class is key because it protects them from removal and punishment for bad decisions.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:34 PM (ctrM5)

25 I would like to see a Trumpian style home school and/or voucher arrangement that takes aim at the public school systems butts in seats = federal dollars, which is the main driver of how shitty the public education system has become.

In the end, that is the only solution. Money must follow the student, and the parents make the decisions. "Educators" can KMA.

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (s8j++)

26 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (B9Prs)

They'll try as soon as they control all three branches, a 9-0 SC, Hollywood, Academia, the pharmaceutical industry, the IPCC, the Intergalactic Federation of Martians, and Whoopi Goldberg's dusty dildo collection.

Then we will finally see action!! You have never seen sleeve rolling like this!

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (bXihk)

27 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

28 "Underrepresented minorities"? Are you kidding me?

If "underrepresented minority" is their criteria for who gets preferential treatment now, then that necessarily must mean that WHITE MEN should get preferential treatment, since after 50 years of racist "affirmative action" policies, they are the ones underrepreented as compared to how many would have been hired if everything was merit-based.

So yeah, let's bring it on. "Underrepresented." You got it.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (pMi6S)

29 In the end, that is the only solution. Money must follow the student, and the parents make the decisions. "Educators" can KMA.
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (s8j++)

Disagree. Too many of them would prefer to bite the ass that pays them.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (VNX3d)

30 Please leave us out of this.

Posted by: Whoopi Goldberg's dusty dildo collection at April 25, 2025 02:36 PM (vsUjd)

31 24 8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe

He has no need to worry about history or reputation. He's already been impeached...twice. He's already lost an election, at least for historical context. He's already survived 2 assassination attempts, one which actually hit him. He was and is a pariah to the whole governmental class.

So, unlike all the Rs of the past, he has nothing to lose and no sh&ts to give. It's very freeing, as you can tell.

Posted by: Nova Local at April 25, 2025 02:36 PM (tOcjL)

32 You can't just allow students to have civil liberties without due process.

Overturned. And now, you will blow me.

Posted by: Some Faggot in a Black Dress at April 25, 2025 02:37 PM (BI5O2)

33 They'll try as soon as they control all three branches, a 9-0 SC, Hollywood, Academia, the pharmaceutical industry, the IPCC, the Intergalactic Federation of Martians, and Whoopi Goldberg's dusty dildo collection.
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You left out the Klingon High Command

Posted by: GOPe at April 25, 2025 02:37 PM (9Xevu)

34 Everytime I see a college trying to avoid government investigations and keep their funding, I think of the Horta "no kill I". Except the Horta was sympathetic

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 02:37 PM (6TePA)

35 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.

I agree, but I do wonder if we had to go through the lunacy of the last 17 years to get to the point where a majority finally said "enough of this!".

Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (s8j++)

36 25 I would like to see a Trumpian style home school and/or voucher arrangement that takes aim at the public school systems butts in seats = federal dollars, which is the main driver of how shitty the public education system has become.

In the end, that is the only solution. Money must follow the student, and the parents make the decisions. "Educators" can KMA.
Posted by: Archimedes
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Reform is going to have to occur at the state level. Federales only account for about 10 percent or so of school funding and even that will decline if Trump wins his budget fights.

Constitutionally, education falls under the police powers reserved to the states under the 10th. As long as they do not discriminate (which the federales can punish), then fed power is limited to carrot and stick in certain areas like disabled or Title I students. Plus school lunch money.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

37 One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation. -Ace-

More likely, they're trying to "lock in their gains" while appearing to do something completely different, all the while stalling for time.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (FCbAQ)

38 I remember when Trump University got closed and had to pay back tuitions due to "false advertising"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:39 PM (D7oie)

39 Reform is going to have to occur at the state level.
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That's not due process. Overturned. Blow me.

Posted by: Some Faggot in a Black Dress at April 25, 2025 02:40 PM (BI5O2)

40 Prioritize intellectual vitality over bureauqatic inertia.
Down the bureaucrats. Drown the bureaucrats.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (MJMyx)

41 31 24 8 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe

He has no need to worry about history or reputation. He's already been impeached...twice. He's already lost an election, at least for historical context. He's already survived 2 assassination attempts, one which actually hit him. He was and is a pariah to the whole governmental class.

So, unlike all the Rs of the past, he has nothing to lose and no sh&ts to give. It's very freeing, as you can tell.
Posted by: Nova Local
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I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

42 Remember when they bragged that Obama was the "Deporter-in-Chief"?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:42 PM (bXihk)

43 37 One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation. -Ace-

More likely, they're trying to "lock in their gains" while appearing to do something completely different, all the while stalling for time.
Posted by: OneEyedJack
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Fire the Bosses
Hire the Profs

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (MJMyx)

44 I could care less about compliance, just defund them.

Ivy Leagues don't need federal tax dollars.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (4pwAx)

45 I agree, but I do wonder if we had to go through the lunacy of the last 17 years to get to the point where a majority finally said "enough of this!".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (s8j++)

Without Trump "we" wouldn't be here doing this.

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (bXihk)

46 At the college i was at they would literally run things like chillers airhandlers vehicles to mechanical end of useful life failure while making sure Administration got 5% or more salary increases and free health care to go with their 30 paid days off a year.
A busy day for them was 3 hours of meetings.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (riPCw)

47 38 I remember when Trump University got closed and had to pay back tuitions due to "false advertising"

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:39 PM (D7oie)

Damn near every university has been engaged in decades-long campaigns of consumer fraud. It should be the subject of the biggest, most expensive, most punitive nationwide class action the world has ever seen.

Posted by: Mail and wire fraud are predicate offenses for RICO too at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (TbWk/)

48 It's the Poison Ivy League.

Posted by: SWIDT? at April 25, 2025 02:44 PM (vsUjd)

49 I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

Quit reminding me of my naivete.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (FCbAQ)

50 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

Who said that was the goal?

Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (bXihk)

51 Dated, but accurate, Mark Felt, "Deep Throat," "Follow the money." From the late 1900's.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (QSrLX)

52 -------
I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig
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I consider whatever thoughts he had were superseded by the authority.
_Skull X Bones

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (MJMyx)

53 Giddyup, Donaldus Maximus!

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (09exb)

54 That Yale letter is an embarrassment.

>> our core mission: faculty, students, and research

Some might think a university's core mission would be the teaching and creation of knowledge. They seem to be identifying core "stakeholders."

>>Yale has five times as many administrators....
>>It's an absurdity--but one that, ironically, gives us an edge.

This is nuts. So it is an advantage to be so wasteful that they have lots of room to improve? Is this how they teach their kids? I can imagine "You got an F, but that gives you an advantage because you have so much to improve"!

This is 3rd rate high school logic. Yale.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (Zhfc2)

55 So, off topic and reposted from the previous thread because I was proud of finding the clip on Rumble:

Tracey Ullman did a bit on her show "Support group for the overly woke"
That was funny then, and completely unairable today

https://tinyurl.com/37d5csn7

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (D7oie)

56 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (0HaGk)

57 I could care less about compliance, just defund them.

Ivy Leagues don't need federal tax dollars.
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (4pwAx)

This. Stop giving them any money. Sick of this stuff.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (/dDa4)

58 50 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

Who said that was the goal?
Posted by: ... at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (bXihk)

That is kind of my point, DEI has harmed the supposed beneficiaries, and the whole of society.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (Dv3i1)

59

Didn't that poor, poor black woman Michelle Esther Obama go to Princeton?

CAN YOU WHITES NOT UNDERSTAND HER PAIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (et1vG)

60 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (0HaGk)

Steal it from conquered societies. A time honored tradition

Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (FCbAQ)

61 Amid the ongoing showdown between the Trump administration and the Ivy League, one university president has positioned himself as a leader of the academic resistance: Princeton's Christopher L. Eisgruber.

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What, "Eisensatzgruppenführer" wasn't available?

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (FH+Da)

62 Read through the post.

If I understand it correctly, it basically said that billion dollar endowment universities won't get stolen taxpayer money unless they suck up to Jews.

Posted by: TLDR at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (RihOl)

63 Didn't that poor, poor black woman Michelle Esther Obama go to Princeton?

CAN YOU WHITES NOT UNDERSTAND HER PAIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (et1vG)

Are you talking about how Aunt Esther never speaks up? Right, Michelle?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (VNX3d)

64 Most if not all public universities do the same shit.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at April 25, 2025 02:49 PM (IZezY)

65 Didn't that poor, poor black woman Michelle Esther Obama go to Princeton?

CAN YOU WHITES NOT UNDERSTAND HER PAIN!!!!!!

Posted by: Dr.Rev. Senator Your Highness E Buzz Miller, Esq PhD MA MS at April 25, 2025 02:47 PM (et1vG)
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If she would only open her maw to grunt out to us how much she suffers.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:49 PM (Dv3i1)

66 Dated, but accurate, Mark Felt, "Deep Throat," "Follow the money." From the late 1900's.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 02:45 PM (QSrLX)

Geez, that has the potential to make some people feel old.

Posted by: BEN ROTHLISBERGER at April 25, 2025 02:49 PM (i24o9)

67 How can it not be, J.Kerry is a member and George Bush is a member, many elites are members of the Skull n Bones fraternity; How can it be that Skull n Bones is not a heavy player, especially considering the heavy hand that Yale is playing today, in part of DeepState?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (MJMyx)

68 I could care less about compliance, just defund them.

Ivy Leagues don't need federal tax dollars.
Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:43 PM (4pwAx)

This. Stop giving them any money. Sick of this stuff.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director

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Does anyone really believe Trump or any Republican is really going to reform these places?

Let's just be honest with ourselves they will never change, best thing is to just make them fund their own dumb country club.

99% of Americans resent the whole Ivy League scene, no tears if they have to dip into their $100+ billion endowments for everything.

Posted by: Leupold at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (4pwAx)

69 The Ivy League has always been off putting to a majority of the country. It's the "who you know" not what you know attitude. As long as you know the right people and have lots of money you are in. In other words Snobs.

They really need to work on changing that. And I'm not talking about being politically correct. Their doors should be open to everyone who qualifies and wants the education.
Assholes should be kicked out they are not worth the trouble.

Posted by: Case at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (OrSPY)

70 50 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

Who said that was the goal?
Posted by: ...
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While reading this post my thinking was that we get our first black President and the main thing he does is stack the deck against whites.

Same with muzzies -- the first thing they do with power is try to harm whites and non-muzzies.

When who created and support Western Civilization (white and other colors) realize that this is how it all ends, not how it improves.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (Zhfc2)

71 62 Read through the post.

If I understand it correctly, it basically said that billion dollar endowment universities won't get stolen taxpayer money unless they suck up to Jews.
Posted by: TLDR

The trolls are weak these days.

Then again, they've always been weak.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (pMi6S)

72 Steal it from conquered societies. A time honored tradition
Posted by: OneEyedJack at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM (FCbAQ)

The Klingons are space muslims?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (Dv3i1)

73 A real worker told me once that the FBI is the only agency that can turn a Ryder truck full of register tapes into a Federal case that sends 12 people to Leavenworth. So, yeah, little badge, big laws. When the rumor gets out that the CPA's have the numbers the race is on to roll over at the US Attorney's office.

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 02:50 PM (QSrLX)

74 would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM
*****
Because islam is religion of peace is why it's never going to happen. There won't be a Lady Gaga concert there either. Or a library with internet. Or a fashion show. Or a Christian church or a synagogue or an ashram.

Islam is a cultural death cult.

Posted by: torabora at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (riPCw)

75 27 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel

Observational equivalence problems. Those that get passed through do benefit. Those that try and fail don't.

Closest example is by a UCLA law prof back in the day that did a rigorous study of affirmative action and law students. He found that attrition in mismatches between admits from aa to a highly ranked school that had below median scores and grades were more likely to drop out and not complete than if they attended a law school where their scores and grades were in the median (50 percent above and below).

The ones that survive the process benefit but the only way to raise the whole disadvantaged group up would be to water down standards.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (ctrM5)

76 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM

A benevolent race of aliens visited their planet seeking trade and they murdered them and stole their ship.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (jc0TO)

77 Chinese and Saudis will just donate $249,999 a pop to get under the reportable limit. Sure, they’ll have to make over a thousand of those donations but hey, staying below radar.

Posted by: haffhowershower at April 25, 2025 02:51 PM (5SvjB)

78 "One hundred Yale professors signed a statement recommending that the school freeze all new hiring and conduct an investigation into its own hiring practices. This, they hope, will forestall a federal investigation.

The statement points out that faculty hiring has "stagnated" while "administrative" staff -- mostly in DEI make-work "jobs" -- has grown by double."

So, Yale is in favor of DOGE now?

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2025 02:52 PM (ZR+Gx)

79 If I understand it correctly, it basically said that billion dollar endowment universities won't get stolen taxpayer money unless they suck up to Jews.
Posted by: TLDR at April 25, 2025 02:48 PM

The universe of things that you don't understand correctly is vast, Joe.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 02:52 PM (jc0TO)

80 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?

Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:46 PM (0HaGk)

Tech makes no sense in Star Trek. Every retarded hobo species of rock-like aliens has warp drives, but Starfleet's flagship is continually suffering near-lethal breakdowns that only clever, seat-of-the-pants engineering can solve.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:53 PM (/dDa4)

81 Posted by: TLDR
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It moved, Jerry!

Posted by: Sid at April 25, 2025 02:54 PM (paSBy)

82 Tech makes no sense in Star Trek. Every retarded hobo species of rock-like aliens has warp drives, but Starfleet's flagship is continually suffering near-lethal breakdowns that only clever, seat-of-the-pants engineering can solve.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 02:53 PM (/dDa4)
____

Maybe Starfleet should close down its DEI programs.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:54 PM (Dv3i1)

83 Klingons got space faring ability the same way the Packleds did. They stole it

Posted by: Smell the Glove at April 25, 2025 02:54 PM (6TePA)

84 A good week in the markets. I guess the recession is over.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (jc0TO)

85 49 I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

Quit reminding me of my naivete.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

I got off the Bush train when he mentioned Religion of Peace and his later comments about his amnesty program crashing and burning was due to racism on the right.

If I had not though John F'n Kerry was far worse in 2004, I would not have voted for Jorge Arbusto for reelection.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (ctrM5)

86 Trump sure has been keeping those Hawaiian judges busy. Usually they're just sitting in a hammock smoking da kine pakalolo.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (v0R5T)

87 "Oh no, this sub-literate species clothed in dirty rags used their cloaking technology and shield-bypassing transporter to kidnap Starfleet's number 1 captain!"

Posted by: TNG Writer at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (/dDa4)

88 That was funny then, and completely unairable today

https://tinyurl.com/37d5csn7
Posted by: Kindltot
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Forgot about her. Always enjoyed her early shows.
I understand why the X couldn't stand her.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (MJMyx)

89 More likely, they're trying to "lock in their gains" while appearing to do something completely different, all the while stalling for time.
Posted by: OneEyedJack

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I read it as the standard pissing contest between administration and faculty.

Faculty mostly complained about lack of salary increases and they see that big pot of money going to administrators.

This has nothing to do with DEI, or waste, it is them wanting the power. They want faculty back on top of the pay scale heap. Everything else is a bullshit diversion.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (Zhfc2)

90 He's ordering federal accreditors, the bureaucrats who certify higher ed institutions as legit and eligible for federal funds and loan guarantees for students, to start requiring schools allow free speech and prioritize actual merit.
________________

I love it! What a brilliant idea!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 02:55 PM (YqDXo)

91 "How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?"

That kind of makes sense. Thinking of the Spartans who didn't leave much behind other than their reputation as a great warrior culture.

Posted by: Tuna at April 25, 2025 02:57 PM (lJ0H4)

92 I'm givin' her all she's got Cap'n!

Posted by: Scotty at April 25, 2025 02:57 PM (v0R5T)

93

WHY YOU
NO CALL
ANYMORE
SPOCK

Posted by: The Horta at April 25, 2025 02:58 PM (jc0TO)

94 Every single K-12 and college I’m familiar with has padded their staff with useless administrators. It is the biggest sinkhole of money in the educational process. It also adds almost zero value to education outcomes which is allegedly the mission schools are meant to be pursuing. Why local school boards and those who run these colleges allow this to continue to the detriment of students is beyond reason.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 02:58 PM (AaEou)

95 So, Yale is in favor of DOGE now?
Posted by: Darrell Harris

There is actually an opportunity, if played right, to cause massive conflict in education over money between the line workers and the administrators.

Administrators in schools whether universities or K12 are increasingly divorced from any reality of classroom teachers. Yet, they get paid more and more while teacher salaries (and that of professors) have stagnated since the 70's in real terms) in most states.

If these were publicly traded corporations, they would have been gutted of administrator bloat years ago but with them controlling the budgets, they push the cuts inevitably downwards onto the professors or teachers leaving themselves unscathed. Lot of buried anger and hatred there to be exploited by the right politicians.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)

96 "I'm givin' her all she's got Cap'n!"

Showin her my O face.

Posted by: eleven at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (0HaGk)

97 I got off the Bush train when he mentioned Religion of Peace and his later comments about his amnesty program crashing and burning was due to racism on the right.

If I had not though John F'n Kerry was far worse in 2004, I would not have voted for Jorge Arbusto for reelection.
Posted by: whig
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Smart man. I so clung to the hope that he was a man and a Christian; that he had a sincere plan that would take time to execute but when he did it would complete the circle.
Well, he was completing a circle but it wasn't a conservative one.
_Brak

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (MJMyx)

98 to accomplish Eisgruber's stated goal of increasing "by 50 percent the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty members from underrepresented groups over the next five years."
_________________

Golden retrievers are an under-represented group. When are they going to start hiring them?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (YqDXo)

99 >> I would also consider that someone like GWB was of the ruling class and his concerns were creating democracies in the Middle East which was a fantasy never likely to actually happen.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:41 PM (ctrM5)

And selling a bag of tainted goods which got thousands of my brothers, friends and neighbors killed. Fuck him.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (AaEou)

100 We have a 2 - 7 bench.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (7On0Y)

101 I got off the Bush train when he mentioned Religion of Peace
_________________

I gave the benefit of the doubt, and presumed he said that to keep the Muslim-infested countries on board, and to prevent his military action from becoming a religious war.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (YqDXo)

102 And selling a bag of tainted goods which got thousands of my brothers, friends and neighbors killed. Fuck him.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (AaEou)

Oh no! Were they drafted?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

103 to accomplish Eisgruber's stated goal of increasing "by 50 percent the number of tenured or tenure-track faculty members from underrepresented groups over the next five years."

So, conservatives, libertarians, and Republican-donating?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (0sNs1)

104 >>> On Truth Social on Thursday, Trump dug in on Harvard again calling the university "a Liberal mess" and "a threat to Democracy."

Like the capital "L".
Would have preferred he just identified them as "degenerate fascist thugs". Maybe throw in an occasional 'sexual' as a prefix to 'degenerate', but I think that is the default for any degenerate.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 03:02 PM (/lPRQ)

105 The ones that survive the process benefit but the only way to raise the whole disadvantaged group up would be to water down standards.

Posted by: whig

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They benefit in salary, but a lot of that is DEI and affirmative action hiring.

When most people see a minority candidate from any school, including UCLA or Harvard, they wonder if they are competent.
This applies to all professions and anyone in business understands this. Black Harvard Doctor? I'll pass. Lawyer, accountant? Pass.

You never know if any minority is qualified because so many incompetents were helped along. This is a shame and a tragedy. This harms the qualified minorities the most -- their unqualified brethren get good paying jobs to make the annual report photos look diverse, but everyone considers them suspect.

Not-accidentally, it helps the white elite class the most.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:02 PM (Zhfc2)

106 WHY YOU
NO CALL
ANYMORE
SPOCK
Posted by: The Horta
......

It's not pon farr yet.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:03 PM (v0R5T)

107 Why local school boards and those who run these colleges allow this to continue to the detriment of students is beyond reason.
Posted by: Marcus T
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Easy, School board members are part time, get goodies from trips, etc. and get their egos stroked by smart administrators. Most have no training in running a business (not a corporate drone here), accounting, finance, etc. Often, they are retired educators themselves. So poor oversight until something bad happens then a change at the top sweeps nothing below and the cycle continues.

The looting is far worse in the big city districts because a lot of money, declining student enrollment, and easy to hide looting the system when you have a disengaged electorate.

Colleges have something similar plus the idiocies of Big Sports attached to them. NIL is likely to end that as in order to pay money sport players vast sums, they will gut and cut every non revenue sport they can to try to make ends meet.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)

108 >> Oh no! Were they drafted?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

Well, no. But fuck you very much.

People who signed up or were already serving aren’t the problem. It’s the people who lied to them about the reason for the mission. We pursued the mission because that’s what we signed up to do. Douchebag.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:04 PM (AaEou)

109 How could the Klingons develop space-faring technology in a warrior culture?
Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven

A benevolent race of aliens visited their planet seeking trade and they murdered them and stole their ship.
Posted by: toby928

* looks at Chinese aircraft carriers *

Guess Klingons were better at reverse-engineering.

Posted by: mikeski at April 25, 2025 03:04 PM (DgGvY)

110
Like the capital "L".
Would have preferred he just identified them as "degenerate fascist thugs". Maybe throw in an occasional 'sexual' as a prefix to 'degenerate', but I think that is the default for any degenerate.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher
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That's inflammatory. He doesn't say things to enrage people he says things to get their attention. If it enrages them then they are calling themselves out. _ all the better

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:05 PM (MJMyx)

111 100 We have a 2 - 7 bench.
____

Last week when 5th circuit was about to rule on the TdA deportation issue, and Roberts and the other 6 said hold up, SCOTUS is going to rule on this issue instead, proper procedure be damned, I had the impression that they would have published their ruling by now. I was wrong. I wonder how long they are going to hold out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 03:05 PM (Dv3i1)

112 Constitutional Crisis 1!!1 (tm)

Posted by: runner at April 25, 2025 03:05 PM (g47mK)

113 If these were publicly traded corporations, they would have been gutted of administrator bloat years ago but with them controlling the budgets, they push the cuts inevitably downwards onto the professors or teachers leaving themselves unscathed. Lot of buried anger and hatred there to be exploited by the right politicians.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)
_______________

Truth. You just haven't lived until you - as a tenured faculty member in STEM - get a finger-wagging lecture from a jumped-up former secretary (!) now in administration.

I disabused her rather cogently of her misapprehension of our relative statuses.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (YqDXo)

114 He's ordering federal accreditors, the bureaucrats who certify higher ed institutions as legit and eligible for federal funds and loan guarantees for students, to start requiring schools allow free speech and prioritize actual merit

Fascism!!!!!

Posted by: NPR talking head at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (TbWk/)

115 Well, no. But fuck you very much.

People who signed up or were already serving aren’t the problem. It’s the people who lied to them about the reason for the mission. We pursued the mission because that’s what we signed up to do. Douchebag.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:04 PM (AaEou)

They volunteered to spread gay communism to the Middle East and got their shit pushed in. Losers cry, winners win.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (/dDa4)

116 >>> Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin Admits Democrats Are ‘Weak and Woke’ — Urges Party to ‘F**king Retake The Flag’ With ‘Alpha Energy’
===

I just wanted post something with the unfortunate name "Slotkin" in it.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (/lPRQ)

117 Nerd Klingons?
Posted by: eleven

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Alexander, son of Worf at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (0sNs1)

118 I hope this works but tje Cultural Marxists Seminaries will fight it tooth and nail,

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (ypFCm)

119 >> Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:03 PM (ctrM5)

People on these local boards need to be kept in check by parents. As their taxes go up each year to pay for this garbage a lot of them never question the allocation of resources. They just write it off as part of the cost of the ride. Meanwhile their kids are getting shortchanged because teachers are not being hired and they’re being asked to do things like double as ESL resources.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (AaEou)

120 Losers cry, winners win.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM

Winners go home with the prom queen.

Posted by: John Mason at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (0sNs1)

121 106 WHY YOU
NO CALL
ANYMORE
SPOCK
Posted by: The Horta
......

It's not pon farr yet.
___

SPOCK NO
HEAR OF
EROXON?

Posted by: Horta at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (Dv3i1)

122 And selling a bag of tainted goods which got thousands of my brothers, friends and neighbors killed. Fuck him.
Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:00 PM (AaEou)

Oh no! Were they drafted?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

Wow. That was really fucking shitty of you.

Posted by: A new low at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (TbWk/)

123 One thing I like about this Trump presidency is he is attacking from so many different angles.

Shrub would try some half-assed thing and when it failed throw up his hands and stop trying.

Posted by: 18-1 at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (t0Rmr)

124 108 >> Oh no! Were they drafted?

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

When you voluntarily sign up to fight Jew wars and kill people for money and then wind up getting killed, it's hard to feel bad for you.

Posted by: It is What It Is at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (RihOl)

125 >> Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM (/dDa4)

Look, you prove It here every day you’re an asshole, always stirring shit and making jackass comments. Give it a rest. Go doink the cat in the ass or something.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (AaEou)

126 Truth. You just haven't lived until you - as a tenured faculty member in STEM - get a finger-wagging lecture from a jumped-up former secretary (!) now in administration.

I disabused her rather cogently of her misapprehension of our relative statuses.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM

No covalent bonding for you!

Posted by: Former Secretary, now in Administration at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (0sNs1)

127 You never know if any minority is qualified because so many incompetents were helped along. This is a shame and a tragedy. This harms the qualified minorities the most -- their unqualified brethren get good paying jobs to make the annual report photos look diverse, but everyone considers them suspect.

Not-accidentally, it helps the white elite class the most.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
======
A lot of the answer depends on exactly what question you ask. I took the question to be whether it benefits disadvantaged minorities and yes it does as far as future earnings prospects. Sucks for the dropouts.

If you are discussing society wide, then probably not worth it from a cost benefit analysis given mismatch theory which is why Scotus finally acted in the Harvard and NC case to end it.

Much of it was created by Nixon and LBJ in part to prevent a return of the disastrous riots gutting a lot of American cities in the late 60's. So the idea was pay a Danegeld in order to prevent minority black leaders from going full on Commie insurgency.

Give them a stake in society sort of thing. But once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane peaceably.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (ctrM5)

128 When most people see a minority candidate from any school, including UCLA or Harvard, they wonder if they are competent.
This applies to all professions and anyone in business understands this. Black Harvard Doctor? I'll pass. Lawyer, accountant? Pass.

You never know if any minority is qualified because so many incompetents were helped along.
_______________

Leave Neil deGrasse Tyson out of this. One glance at his publication list makes clear he was an affirmative action grad student whose entire subsequent career is attributable to melanin - nothing more.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (YqDXo)

129 "Underrepresented minorities"? Are you kidding me?

If "underrepresented minority" is their criteria for who gets preferential treatment now, then that necessarily must mean that WHITE MEN should get preferential treatment, since after 50 years of racist "affirmative action" policies, they are the ones underrepreented as compared to how many would have been hired if everything was merit-based.

So yeah, let's bring it on. "Underrepresented." You got it.

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (pMi6S)

Asians have it even worse. They're at the top of the merit scale, but the east coast schools are so racist they just outright claim that asians aren't "well-rounded" and have bad personalities so they can trash their applications.

The primary interest of these institutions is selling access to old money elites, not training new generations of the best and brightest.

Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (aqZN1)

130 Shit's getting pretty fucking nasty on this thread.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (PSEDc)

131 If these were publicly traded corporations, they would have been gutted of administrator bloat years ago but with them controlling the budgets, they push the cuts inevitably downwards onto the professors or teachers leaving themselves unscathed. Lot of buried anger and hatred there to be exploited by the right politicians.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:59 PM (ctrM5)

Completely agreed. Simply do to these unis what was done to Trump University. Turnabout is fair play.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (7C+9h)

132 Posted by: It is What It Is at April 25, 2025 03:08 PM (RihOl)

Whoa. I'm calling in an airstrike from the COBs.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (YqDXo)

133 I like to think of it as a criminal to prison pipeline.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (smB1O)

134 Link to NPR. NPR: conflict of interest much?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (QSrLX)

135 >>> "At Princeton, it's totally common knowledge that there are favored groups and disfavored groups," one professor said. "And the disfavored groups are whites, Jews, males," and others commonly disliked by the Left.

What about the Irish?
It's still OK to hatethe Irish, right?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (/lPRQ)

136 116 Wanting to "retake the flag" what a Slotkin.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (wBaIH)

137 Truth. You just haven't lived until you - as a tenured faculty member in STEM - get a finger-wagging lecture from a jumped-up former secretary (!) now in administration.

I disabused her rather cogently of her misapprehension of our relative statuses.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:06 PM

No covalent bonding for you!

Posted by: Former Secretary, now in Administration at April 25, 2025 03:09 PM (0sNs1)
_______________

Yeah, I ionized her ass. Made it into a plasma.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (YqDXo)

138 Thread getting nasty. As "Captain Obvious" says in the tech thread (But not about nasty threads. I think it's just a statement about leaving for work): Byeeeee.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (42Vb+)

139 Oh no! Were they drafted?
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at April 25, 2025 03:01 PM (/dDa4)

I think your dog died.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 03:12 PM (D7oie)

140 SPOCK NO
HEAR OF
EROXON?
Posted by: Horta
......

I'm sure Bones can fix him up.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:13 PM (v0R5T)

141 Babylon Bee, Paper of Record.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Debunks 12 Popular Song Lyrics

Federal Judge Travels Back In Time To Overturn Trump’s Birth

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 03:13 PM (VNX3d)

142 2020 was stolen. How do you eggheads like Trump now? More Chardonnay?

Posted by: Deplorable Minion at April 25, 2025 03:13 PM (QSrLX)

143 "At Princeton, it's totally common knowledge that there are favored groups and disfavored groups," one professor said. "And the disfavored groups are whites, Jews, males," and others commonly disliked by the Left.
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Someone should alert the "just noticing" guys.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 25, 2025 03:14 PM (RIvkX)

144 The new Predator: Badlands trailer features a super soy feminized predator. Looks like it's starting to trend.

SO CRINGE

Posted by: Max Power at April 25, 2025 03:14 PM (q177U)

145 People on these local boards need to be kept in check by parents. As their taxes go up each year to pay for this garbage a lot of them never question the allocation of resources. They just write it off as part of the cost of the ride. Meanwhile their kids are getting shortchanged because teachers are not being hired and they’re being asked to do things like double as ESL resources.
Posted by: Marcus T

Part of it is we have a weird connection since desegregation in that real estate prices are strongly correlated with the better schools. So leaving out those who have their kids in private schools, those parents in public schools pay outsized property tax amounts (due to property values) to get their kids in good schools. They rarely rock the boat. Plus most of those school elections and bond issues are held at inconvenient off cycle elections where you are lucky to get 10 percent of the registered voters to turn out. A large proportion of those voters are teachers, staff, and administrators or family members thereof.

So nothing changes until there is a scandal causing changes at the top with little change in administration.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:15 PM (ctrM5)

146 Shit's getting pretty fucking nasty on this thread.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at April 25, 2025 03:10 PM (PSEDc)

shit stirring makes it stink.

Posted by: Kindltot at April 25, 2025 03:15 PM (D7oie)

147 Trump is fighting but the only answer by the Leftists I'd Lawfare

Posted by: Skip at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (ypFCm)

148 >>>Shrub would try some half-assed thing and when it failed throw up his hands and stop trying.
Posted by: 18-1
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That was by design. It was bait to keep us in line.
Oh, yes, he's got a plan, he's trying, he's got great opposition but he's hard at it, look at him with the troops on Thanksgiving, stick with him he'll make it. It was all deepstate crap.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (MJMyx)

149 People on these local boards need to be kept in check by parents. As their taxes go up each year to pay for this garbage a lot of them never question the allocation of resources. They just write it off as part of the cost of the ride. Meanwhile their kids are getting shortchanged because teachers are not being hired and they’re being asked to do things like double as ESL resources.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:07 PM (AaEou)
_________________

I wanted to go to the mat with our local HS that featured an incompetent DEI English teacher (who taught exclusively Maya Angelou, and who had a life-size cardboard cutout of our dusky Lord and Master, and who produced laughably wrong vocabulary lists), but the lovely Mrs Guevara wouldn't have it, for fear of reprisals on our kids.

I reluctantly agreed, to keep the peace on the home front.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

150 Yeah, I ionized her ass. Made it into a plasma.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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You are my hero. You set your phasers to kill

Had a similar pleasant discussion with a business manager over some stupid people soft travel issue involving 15-20 dollars in amount.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (ctrM5)

151 A lefty acquaintance chose a minority dentist and got exactly what she deserved....but still didn't get the lesson.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:17 PM (v5PRz)

152 >> I reluctantly agreed, to keep the peace on the home front.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

I believe that’s called wisely choosing your battles.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:18 PM (Jm2uO)

153 I like to think of it as a criminal to prison pipeline.

Posted by: Crotalus Atrox at April 25, 2025 03:11 PM (smB1O)
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It's the little malefactor to felon pipeline.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:19 PM (YqDXo)

154 Did anyone actually have the courage to raise his hand and say "ya know, maybe we should stop treating white people like lepers".
Posted by: Archimedes at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM (s8j++)

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Comments like that would cause the “common sense man makes boss angry and gets thrown out the window” meme.

Posted by: Cray Cray at April 25, 2025 03:19 PM (gsgWV)

155 More Chardonnay?
Posted by: Deplorable Minion

ITS FUNNY BECAUSE WINE MOMS SIT AROUND DURING THE DAY DRINKING CHARDONNAY, EATING BON-BONS AND BITCHING ABOUT THEIR HUSBANDS AND TRUMP

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBURGER at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (v0R5T)

156 I believe that’s called wisely choosing your battles.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:18 PM (Jm2uO)
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Thank you. Part of me thought I was wussing out, but the other part thought the same thing.

Also, imagine if she were right, and our kids paid the price for me going to the mat. /shudder

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (YqDXo)

157 I was gonna say it was early for scogg to be daydrinking but it is after 3 eastern time.

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (jc0TO)

158 Part of it is we have a weird connection since desegregation in that real estate prices are strongly correlated with the better schools. ...
...They rarely rock the boat.
...whig
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Actual good schools, the parents don't have to rock the boat to get administration's attention. They have the money, their word (a phone call) is a heavy hand.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (MJMyx)

159
I wanted to go to the mat with our local HS that featured an incompetent DEI English teacher (who taught exclusively Maya Angelou, and who had a life-size cardboard cutout of our dusky Lord and Master, and who produced laughably wrong vocabulary lists), but the lovely Mrs Guevara wouldn't have it, for fear of reprisals on our kids.

I reluctantly agreed, to keep the peace on the home front.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (YqDXo)

She was probably right. Your kids would have had targets on their backs for the entire remainder of their time at that high school, and there wouldn't have been a thing you could do about it.

Posted by: They'll hurt your kids to hurt you at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (TbWk/)

160 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (v5PRz)

161 >> Also, imagine if she were right, and our kids paid the price for me going to the mat. /shudder
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:20 PM (YqDXo)

I’ve often found that succeeding in the face of such obstacles is always very satisfying. More satisfying than going for the very tempting throat punch and the ephemeral pleasure that comes with it.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (Jm2uO)

162 Thank you. Part of me thought I was wussing out, but the other part thought the same thing.

Should've listened to that first part.

You did wuss out. Cuck.

Posted by: It is What It Is at April 25, 2025 03:23 PM (RihOl)

163 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.
Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM

Did he still have the murder weapon when he was apprehended?

Posted by: toby928 at April 25, 2025 03:23 PM (jc0TO)

164 150 Yeah, I ionized her ass. Made it into a plasma.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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You are my hero. You set your phasers to kill

Had a similar pleasant discussion with a business manager over some stupid people soft travel issue involving 15-20 dollars in amount.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:16 PM (ctrM5)
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Yeah, I was pissed. I believe she's still in therapy.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:23 PM (YqDXo)

165 I’ve often found that succeeding in the face of such obstacles is always very satisfying. More satisfying than going for the very tempting throat punch and the ephemeral pleasure that comes with it.
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Ahh, the getting ahead vs getting even dilemma.

Posted by: Pudinhead at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (pZ64F)

166 Princeton is pretty much in crisis right now; faculties are agitated, and funding is tight for the first time ever. This is a school so wealthy departments can have in-house yoga and massage for staff members, and "vacation" days are so flexible that staff really do not distinguish between work days and vacation days. So money troubles are unknown, until now. Princeton just told a big chunk of bonds to raise cash, with rumors being Eisgruber expects legal costs in fighting the Trump administration to be large. Princeton is as smug a socialist utopia as you could possibly find, so trouble is completely foreign.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (YjkhO)

167 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM
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Well, if I die on a hill for you, how can I continue to fight for you?

- Useless Republicans everywhere

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (V3F+L)

168 Actual good schools, the parents don't have to rock the boat to get administration's attention. They have the money, their word (a phone call) is a heavy hand.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (MJMyx)

The flip side is that usually the richest two or three couples with kids at the school run the show. And this can and does fuck other people over at times.

Posted by: If you don't put Brayden back in class we pull our donations at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (TbWk/)

169 So the radical plan that Trump came up with is to make higher education actually have to follow the law.

Brilliant.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 25, 2025 03:25 PM (e5NfL)

170 This is very relevant to me because our Faculty Senate was discussing some of these things yesterday at their meeting.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel

Faculty Senate is another way of saying "Parliament of Dunces".

Posted by: Undereducated, and Glad Of It at April 25, 2025 03:25 PM (G5+As)

171 She was probably right. Your kids would have had targets on their backs for the entire remainder of their time at that high school, and there wouldn't have been a thing you could do about it.

Posted by: They'll hurt your kids to hurt you at April 25, 2025 03:21 PM (TbWk/)
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Yeah, that was the dispositive factor in my decision. Imagine watching your kids suffer for something YOU did, and that had no consequences for you, but only for them.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (YqDXo)

172 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.
Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM

One pleads not guilty to assure a matter goes to trial. Now, it does raise a question whether any plea agreement negotiations have taken place and what those looked like.

Posted by: Mario is ashamed at April 25, 2025 03:26 PM (TbWk/)

173 When you voluntarily sign up to fight Jew wars and kill people for money and then wind up getting killed, it's hard to feel bad for you.
Posted by: It is What It Is

These leftist professional trolls get training in how to imitate what they think a "right-winger" is like--but the curriculum is so out of date they end up imitating their own side, since it is now the Left -- not paleo-neo-Nazis -- who want to stop fighting "Jewish wars" (i..e Israel defending itself and US military strength).

Go toi the back of the class!

Posted by: zombie at April 25, 2025 03:27 PM (pMi6S)

174 Christopher L. Eisgruber looks exactly like I thought he would look like. I bet he was shoved into a locker or two.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at April 25, 2025 03:28 PM (VofaG)

175 Faculty Senate is another way of saying "Parliament of Dunces".
Posted by: Undereducated, and Glad Of It at April 25, 2025 03:25 PM (G5+As)
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I'll say.

Posted by: John Kennedy Toole at April 25, 2025 03:28 PM (RIvkX)

176 I’ve often found that succeeding in the face of such obstacles is always very satisfying. More satisfying than going for the very tempting throat punch and the ephemeral pleasure that comes with it.

Posted by: Marcus T at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (Jm2uO)
________________

Both kids received academic merit scholarships to college, so there's that.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (YqDXo)

177 Actual good schools, the parents don't have to rock the boat to get administration's attention. They have the money, their word (a phone call) is a heavy hand.
Posted by: Braenyard
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Large enough school district, they don't give a shit about individual parents. Actual knowledge on the ground. And that is despite the fact that much of the time it was a happy hunting ground for the GOP and had schools rated at the top of the state pecking order in academics for public schools.

Parents can and do help control smaller districts and I have seen mixed results in medium sized from my observed experience.

But, where I live has a lot of corporate transients that come to a place, live a few years, watch their property values increase and then they are gone to another suburbia school district. Transients rarely get involved in school district politics because a) no time to do it due to transit and business demands, and b) they figure they will move on in a few years to somewhere else.

See the same dynamic in local politics as well which has a negative effect on corralling county and city commissions as well.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (ctrM5)

178 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.
Posted by: Vivi
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Wasn't me!

Posted by: Luigi at April 25, 2025 03:29 PM (5hfjS)

179 163. Yes he had the gun and a DIY silencer among other bits of evidence. Send him to the Supermax in Colorado.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (v5PRz)

180
Princeton just told a big chunk of bonds to raise cash

I tell my bonds to grow, man grow!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (63Dwl)

181 Much of it was created by Nixon and LBJ in part to prevent a return of the disastrous riots gutting a lot of American cities in the late 60's. So the idea was pay a Danegeld in order to prevent minority black leaders from going full on Commie insurgency.

Give them a stake in society sort of thing. But once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane peaceably.

Posted by: whig

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This is all very true, but when do we wake up and understand that they do not want a stake in society, they want payback for fever dreams of an imagined world where they were kings and invented everything and built the country. Also for being the only race that was enslaved ever.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (Zhfc2)

182 Cornell, on the other hand, has never been particularly wealthy. But has raised a lot of money in recent years somehow, and recently we found out that a lot of that money came from the federal government. It's President, Mike Kotlikoff, is a dedicated DEI supporter, anti-conservative, anti-free speech, pro-antisemitic faculty, and as sneaky as all get out. The board is exactly the same way, dominated by a board chair as slimy as you can imagine.

Cornell is trying to hide, and let Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take the heat. I pray Trump can spare a few minutes for Cornell.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (tNwfv)

183 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM (v5PRz)

Did you honestly expect him not to want the longest possible trial? Clearly the guy wants to inflate his ego by keeping his name in the headlines and take advantage of the opportunity to enshrine himself as a martyr for the left.

Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (aqZN1)

184 Princeton just told a big chunk of bonds to raise cash

I tell my bonds to grow, man grow!
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at April 25, 2025 03:30 PM (63Dwl)
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"sold"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (tNwfv)

185 NOOD NYT

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (VNX3d)

186 175 Faculty Senate is another way of saying "Parliament of Dunces".
Posted by: Undereducated, and Glad Of It
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It is actually clever, the administration largely ignores the faculty senate until they throw a temper tantrum, then they get talked down by some senior member aka provost, VP etc.
Administration also uses the Faculty Senate to address trial balloons for new policies and such which results in make work for everyone--surveys, focus groups, time in dept. meetings to go over line by line some statement or new policy.

I stayed out of that Faculty Senate gig preferring to work with student groups over a talk fest with no power. Bad enough to serve on tenure and promotions committee or hiring committees which I did frequently.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (ctrM5)

187 OT but Luigi is pleading not guilty for a premeditated cold blooded assassination that was caught on camera in the act.. wtaf.

Posted by: Vivi at April 25, 2025 03:22 PM

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He'll claim self-defense and the NYC jury will acquit as well as recommend that he be awarded $100 billion for false arrest, pain, and suffering in a civil trial -- as well as be paid seven figures for an anchor job at MSLSD.

Posted by: ShainS at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (6O/Zk)

188 167 One of the cool things about Trump using all these tools is that it just shows how absolutely fucking useless Republicans have been for the last at least 20 years. We've had all these mechanisms to fight the left and they insisted on using none of them.
Posted by: joe, living dangerously at April 25, 2025 02:29 PM
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Well, if I die on a hill for you, how can I continue to fight for you?

- Useless Republicans everywhere

Posted by: Darth Randall at April 25, 2025 03:24 PM (V3F+L)

As Patton said:

“No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.”

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (wtvvX)

189 Christopher L. Eisgruber looks exactly like I thought he would look like. I bet he was shoved into a locker or two.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
......

and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

190 Senator Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, says Democrats need to adopt “the g*ddamn Alpha energy”.

Here I am, Elissa. Follow me!

Posted by: David Hogg, Harvard graduate at April 25, 2025 03:34 PM (0sNs1)

191 189 Christopher L. Eisgruber looks exactly like I thought he would look like. I bet he was shoved into a locker or two.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
......

and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.

Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)

Ivy kink, man.

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2025 03:35 PM (wtvvX)

192 If Scogg never existed some of you would have to invent him.

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felson at April 25, 2025 03:36 PM (FlZMV)

193 Asians have it even worse.

Posted by: Sjg

I was friends with Vietnamese girl who was a Berkeley double major who fully supported affirmative action. She argued that without it, the school would be all Asian. (liker her!)

So you see, once someone makes it, they want everyone else on the ladder to be incompetent and unqualified and AA is the best way to ensure that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (Zhfc2)

194 But once you pay the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane peaceably.

Send the Dane to Ben Had's kitchen table, and geld the Dane.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (0sNs1)

195 This is all very true, but when do we wake up and understand that they do not want a stake in society, they want payback for fever dreams of an imagined world where they were kings and invented everything and built the country. Also for being the only race that was enslaved ever.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (Zhfc2)
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I believe the phrase is "We wuz kangs!" So ... everybody was king? Then nobody was king, dumb asses.

Regarding invention, how come the invention well has dried up so dramatically since *cough* when they invented everything?

And as for "building the country," how come they didn't build squat in Africa? Only two possibilities: 1) they needed the honkies to organize them and force them to build, and 2) the claim is bullshit.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (YqDXo)

196 This is all very true, but when do we wake up and understand that they do not want a stake in society, they want payback for fever dreams of an imagined world where they were kings and invented everything and built the country. Also for being the only race that was enslaved ever.
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)
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Grievances rarely get resolved especially when you keep poking at the wound--see Euroland for example. But, one of the major factors hurting the black community is family breakdown. Blacks, before desegregation had about the same level of marriage and marriage length by statistics.

The center of the black community was black owned businessmen, lawyers, doctors, teachers, and civil servant workers like postmen. So they were the standard to be measured by in that community and the youths in that community had to play by the rules by and large.

No marriage with kids is a recipe for trouble with kids.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (ctrM5)

197 and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM

Perhaps more of a pegger than a beater?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at April 25, 2025 03:38 PM (0sNs1)

198
and his wife Lori Martin looks like she beats him.
Posted by: wth at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (v0R5T)
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she's a tough cookie.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:39 PM (tNwfv)

199 190 Senator Elissa Slotkin, the former CIA analyst turned battleground senator, says Democrats need to adopt “the g*ddamn Alpha energy”.

Here I am, Elissa. Follow me!
Posted by: David Hogg

The Macron syndrome. Older mommy and fey kid married.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:40 PM (ctrM5)

200 I stayed out of that Faculty Senate gig preferring to work with student groups over a talk fest with no power. Bad enough to serve on tenure and promotions committee or hiring committees which I did frequently.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:33 PM (ctrM5)
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Faculty Senate is the superannuated version of Student Council in HS, and equally powerless. A time filler for humanities types.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:40 PM (YqDXo)

201 Send the Dane to Ben Had's kitchen table, and geld the Dane.
Posted by: Duncanthrax
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Gelded Dane sounds like a rock group.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:41 PM (ctrM5)

202 Faculty Senate is the superannuated version of Student Council in HS, and equally powerless. A time filler for humanities types.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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No objection from me. I found college level and university level committees dreadfully boring but yet required for 'service'.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (ctrM5)

203 How Trump has time in his day to fix every evil is a complete mystery to me. God bless the man.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (tNwfv)

204 Look Fat, I was too young for Vietnam and too old for the Gulf War. The wife and I both tried to get into the fight after 9/11.
Disparaginging any war fighter that in essence was defending your ability to run your mouth is beyond the pale.

Posted by: Elrond Hubbard at April 25, 2025 03:46 PM (09exb)

205 No objection from me. I found college level and university level committees dreadfully boring but yet required for 'service'.

Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 03:43 PM (ctrM5)
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Sometime I'll have to tell the story of my time on the Research and Senior Awards committee. You'll like this story.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at April 25, 2025 03:48 PM (YqDXo)

206 I was friends with Vietnamese girl who was a Berkeley double major who fully supported affirmative action. She argued that without it, the school would be all Asian. (liker her!)

So you see, once someone makes it, they want everyone else on the ladder to be incompetent and unqualified and AA is the best way to ensure that.

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at April 25, 2025 03:37 PM (Zhfc2)

The UCs became plurality asian precisely because California banned affirmative action. STEM courses were even more lopsided in my experience, probably forming a majority.

Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:51 PM (aqZN1)

207 Have the lowered standards for certain minorities, in the name of DEI, actually resulted in an improvement in the lives of the minorities? I'm curious if there are actual bona fide studies on the question.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at April 25, 2025 02:35 PM (Dv3i1)

The ones who get the cushy admin jobs, yes. Students, no.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 03:58 PM (n7h9X)

208 eform is going to have to occur at the state level. Federales only account for about 10 percent or so of school funding and even that will decline if Trump wins his budget fights.

Constitutionally, education falls under the police powers reserved to the states under the 10th. As long as they do not discriminate (which the federales can punish), then fed power is limited to carrot and stick in certain areas like disabled or Title I students. Plus school lunch money.
Posted by: whig at April 25, 2025 02:38 PM (ctrM5)

I don't think that 10 percent number is right. When I was at uni, all of the grants in the department that I ever heard of were Federal. Maybe grants for construction and operating were state, but at a premium stem university Federal Grants were vital.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 04:01 PM (n7h9X)

209 Cornell is trying to hide, and let Harvard, Yale, and Princeton take the heat. I pray Trump can spare a few minutes for Cornell.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 25, 2025 03:31 PM (tNwfv)

The smart way to do that is to give in. There may be ways to slow roll the reforms required, but if Cornell is clever they may be able to make friends by publicly giving in.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (n7h9X)

210 "Is you is, or is you ain't, my constituency?"

Posted by: Homer Stokes at April 25, 2025 04:06 PM (LPS7w)

211 Did you honestly expect him not to want the longest possible trial? Clearly the guy wants to inflate his ego by keeping his name in the headlines and take advantage of the opportunity to enshrine himself as a martyr for the left.
Posted by: Sjg at April 25, 2025 03:32 PM (aqZN1)

best way to quash that is to change venue and no cameras. Dude's a terrorist, he doesn't deserve a platform.

Posted by: Oldcat at April 25, 2025 04:08 PM (n7h9X)

212 Hated these institutions back when they went anti American. Glad they finally went anti Israel so Americans would act. If only Americans cared as much for America as they do Israel. Imagine that.

Posted by: Goucho180 at April 26, 2025 12:52 AM (xOo4o)

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