By Professor Doom
The administrative
takeover of higher education has done no good for many reasons. Most of those
reasons involve the sheer greed of so many administrators, plundering school
after school in an endless quest for wealth and power. This sort of activity bankrupts
schools, an obvious problem.
A more subtle
problem is the takeover of higher education by the Left, in particular the
Social Justice Warrior, and the associated ideology that comes with it. One
aspect of this ideology I have only touched upon slightly is the belief that
only “the right kind” of people can actually do certain things, the wrong kind
of people are just too fundamentally inferior. Much as certain rappers can use
“the n word” freely while most other people would find their lives destroyed
for doing so, the SJW has shut out wide swaths of the so-called deplorable people.
It’s been made
clear to me that my pallid skin tone, or my y chromosome, have put a hard limit
on how far I can go in higher education…my contribution to higher education, at
least within the system, will be forever limited, unless I want to “identify”
myself as female or a protected minority.
I’m hardly alone,
I suspect many voters started to realize the system is stacked against them for
reasons that make no sense and are starting to fight back, at least in the
voting booth. On campus, we are many years away from effective resistance.
“Walk a Mile In
Her Shoes” is a rape-awareness program that raises money. The gimmick is you
donate based upon how well the (male) volunteer walks in high heels. The money
is then donated to relevant institutions. Ok, I grant this isn’t the most
serious thing, but the cause is good and I see no harm in this. They’ve been around for years, no major
scandals, and I’ve certainly seen (even been involved with) worse charity
events.
A fraternity at
University of Arizona decided they’d do the event. Hey, fraternities are
supposed to do good things in between parties, I begrudgingly concede this
qualifies. Harmless enough, right? Not so fast, says the SJW commissar:
The hypocrisy of
the SJW is always breathtaking no matter how many times I see it. Can you
imagine the shrieks of horror if a campus had a “University Men’s Center”? Is there a single campus
on the planet with such a center?
So, this
incredibly sexist center apparently has the power to prevent a fraternity from
raising money for (presumably) women. Ok, that’s a little inaccurate, but this
sexist group was allowed to exert pressure to shut down the event:
How nuts is it
that a fraternity can’t hold an anti-violence towards women event? Other
organizations can, but a fraternity? Nope. You can bet a few years from now,
the fact that fraternities don’t hold these types of events will be used to
show that fraternities “support” violence towards women.
All the news
pieces on this event cancellation cover the outrage but I dare to raise
questions nobody else will:
Why must we have
Women’s Centers? If they are truly necessary (I don’t think so), why don’t we
also have Men’s Centers (we don’t need those either)?
Strangely enough,
the Women’s Resource Center (WRC) at this university does have a subservient
Men’s program, and the sub-director there is allowed to speak on this topic.
Sort of:
The WRC’s Men’s Programming Director, Jamie
Utt, was supposed to speak about sexual assault at an event sponsored by AEPi
as a part of the philanthropy, and set to be attended by members of every
fraternity and sorority on campus. Initially, for reasons I cannot fathom, Utt,
who works for the University of Arizona and was speaking to U of A students,
was charging $250 to do what was literally already the job he’s paid to do.
After Kaplan’s exchange with Millay, however, Utt upped his fee to $1000,
because the people who run the WRC might actually be awful human beings.
--let that
sink in: this guy’s title is Women’s
Resource Center Men’s Programming Director, and do note the title, even if we
remove “Women’s Resource Center,” is twice as long as the administrator’s name.
Thus this is a position that can be closed with no impact to the institution.
Gosh, I wish I could get $1,000 bonus speaking fees to do the job I already
do…why is it a puzzle how tuition keeps rising, again?
Again, this is
breathtaking. Philanthropically raising awareness of this issue is banned, but
the Men’s Programming Director can do so. And this guy, in addition to what is
doubtless a big salary, actually charges to do what little his job entails.
Apparently,
in an attempt to keep the event from being cancelled, Kaplan reached out to
Johanna Sofield — with whom Kaplan is somewhat close and who runs the Long
Beach Christmas Angel, where Kaplan also volunteers — to contact Millay and
help convince her that she was wrong to essentially force the event to be
cancelled. Apparently, once they started speaking Millay told Sofield that she
is “sick of getting calls from white men, those dads of white privileged kids”
and that white men have no concept of what sexual assault means. All this
according to the email we received.
Now, I grant that
the little details above are just hearsay from the internet, but it’s all a
distraction. The reason college tuition is going higher and higher and higher
is because our campuses are loaded down with useless fiefdoms, like the WRC,
each desperate to gain power and influence, and all willing to sacrifice
everything, even the supposed purpose of the fiefdom, just to gain…MOAR.
How much more of
this madness can higher education take?
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