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Students remove Shakespeare portrait in English dept., aiming for inclusivity
– Students remove Shakespeare portrait in English dept., aiming for inclusivity:
Penn English professor and Department Chair Jed Esty was surprised to find a large portrait of William Shakespeare waiting in his office.
A group of students removed the iconic portrait from the walls of Fisher- Bennett Hall and delivered it to Esty’s office after an English Department town hall meeting discussing the election, which took place on Thursday December 1. They replaced it with a photo of Audre Lorde, a black female writer.
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H/t reader kevin a.
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Conservative Students “Violently Threatened” At Lutheran College: “If You Voted For Trump, You Better Be Fucking Scared”
Divide et impera!
– Conservative students say they have been ‘violently threatened’ at Lutheran college:
Four in five students at St. Olaf College, a Lutheran liberal arts school, voted for the Clinton/Kaine ticket in 2016, while Trump/Pence drew 1 in 10 and Johnson/Weld 1 in 20.
But it’s not only that feeling of marginalization that has led conservative students to stay in the closet at the Minnesota school known for its music program, according to student newspaper Manitou Messenger:
Of the 12 students interviewed by the Manitou Messenger, several have been violently threatened because of their political beliefs, and almost all of them feel as though they can’t speak up about politics on campus – in class, online or with their friends. …
On the night of the election, a student in the Pause threatened to beat up [College Republicans President Emily] Schaller, calling her a “f***ing moron.” Over the next couple of days, she overheard multiple students threaten to hurt the next conservative or Republican they saw. Vice President of St. Olaf College Republicans Kathryn Hinderaker ’19 had a similar experience.
“I think one of the hardest things was, the second day, I went into Buntrock and someone yelled from the bottom, ‘if you voted for Trump, you better be f***ing scared.’ Everyone clapped and applauded,” Hinderaker said. “Obviously, it didn’t feel super safe.”
Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama Protections On Student Loans
– Trump Administration Rolls Back Obama Protections On Student Loans:
Just days after reports emerged that student loan defaults are soaring, which is undoubtedly due to some combination of, among other things, poor job prospects for the millions of snowflakes who graduate each year with their $200,000 educations in anthropology and the moral hazard created by liberal politicians constantly calling for student debts to be ‘forgiven’ (a.k.a. forcefully jammed down the throats of taxpayers), the Trump administration has revoked rules put in place by Obama that barred student debt collectors from charging penalty fees on past-due loans.
Originating from the Department of Justice, the “Dear Colleague” letter (full letter included at end of post) says that Obama’s unilateral rules implemented in 2015 could have “benefited from public input”…but what good is being King if you can’t unilaterally force new laws on the masses? Per the Washington Post:
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H/t reader squodgy:
“And so it ends.
This could go pear shaped if parents guaranteed the loans.”
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San Francisco Becomes First City To Offer Free College For All – “Even Facebook Founder’s Kids”
– San Francisco Becomes First City To Offer Free College For All – “Even Facebook Founder’s Kids”:
“Even the children of the founders of Facebook” will now receive free community college education in San Francisco, Supervisor Jane Kim proudly commented as city leaders agreed to become the first city in the nation to offer its citizenry this ‘basic human right’.
As SFGate.com reports, City College of San Francisco will be free of charge to all city residents under a deal announced Monday by Mayor Ed Lee and Supervisor Jane Kim that college trustees hope will lead to an enrollment jolt and more state funding for the school.
America’s Problem with Student Loans Is Much Bigger Than Anybody Realized
– America’s Problem with Student Loans Is Much Bigger Than Anybody Realized:
The Department of Education recently released a memo admitting that repayment rates on student loans have been grossly exaggerated. Data from 99.8% of schools across the country has been manipulated to cover up growing problems with the $1.3 trillion in outstanding student loans. New calculations show that more than half of all borrowers from 1,000 different institutions have defaulted on or not paid back a single dollar of their loans over the last seven years.
Read moreAmerica’s Problem with Student Loans Is Much Bigger Than Anybody Realized
University of Chicago Tells Millennials to Suck It Up, “We Do Not Condone ‘Safe Spaces'”
– University of Chicago Tells Millennials to Suck It Up, “We Do Not Condone ‘Safe Spaces'”:
In a refreshing and stark contrast to other universities that have seemingly tripped over themselves to accommodate every silly request from America’s pampered Millennials in their never ending quest for “safe spaces,” the University of Chicago has sent the incoming class of 2020 a letter making very clear that they will find no “safe spaces” in their intellectual journey at Chicago. The full letter is presented below but here are a couple of the best comments for your reading pleasure:
You will find that we expect members of our community to be engaged in rigorous debate, discussion, and even disagreement. At times this may challenge you and even cause discomfort.
Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so-called “trigger warnings,” we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual “safe spaces” where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own.
Just when we thought all hope had been lost, an establishment of higher learning finally steps up to interject some rational thoughts into the public discourse surrounding freedom of expression.
.@UChicago does not:
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???? condone “safe spaces” pic.twitter.com/DH7IVfYZ4U— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) August 25, 2016
The letter also directs students to a note it had previously written on freedom of expression…
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Why Seven Million Student Loan Defaulters Are In A Standoff With Uncle Sam
– Why Seven Million Student Loan Defaulters Are In A Standoff With Uncle Sam:
As the 2016 election cycle heats up, we suspect the debate over student loan forgiveness will become an ever bigger issue with the Hillary camp looking to woo young voters that aren’t quite as “enthusiastic” about her Presidency as they were about Obama’s. We also suspect that students, helpless “victims” of predatory lenders looking to give them $200,000 to pursue their dreams of becoming anthropologists while consuming copious amount of free beer at frat parties, will grow increasingly vocal in asking why the Nanny State would have given them so much money to pursue non-existent “careers”.
To put the student loan issue into perspective, there is roughly $1.3 trillion of student loans outstanding to 43mm Americans, an average balance of $30k per student. Roughly 16% of borrowers are currently in long-term default with outstanding balances totaling $125 billion, or an average balance of $18k per student.
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Things Are Thriving In The “Modern Hooker Economy”
– Things Are Thriving In The “Modern Hooker Economy”:
Last year we exposed the growing trend among thousands of British students who were funding their college experience through “Sugar Daddy” websites, where “arrangements” were made to allow students to pay off student loans and other living expenses.It turns out that US students are now following this crafty debt repayment plan in the new “modern hooker economy.“
Meet Candice Kashani, recent graduate of Villanova University School of Law who despite a scholarship faced tuition and expenses of nearly $50,000. Candice was able to graduate this spring debt-free – with the help of several sugar daddies of course.
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What Student Loans Are Used For: Vacations, iPads, Kegs, Entertainment
– What Student Loans Are Used For: Vacations, iPads, Kegs, Entertainment:
“Checks were celebrated across the campus as almost like a bonus for being a college kid. [Students] would go directly to the bank to cash it. I bought electronics for my dorm room and drinks were on me for a month or two. In an abstract way, I knew I would have to pay it back. But you don’t have a timeline in your mind about what that was going to look like. I just knew it would happen later.”
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And So It Begins: Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans
– It Begins: Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans:
Joining the ranks of “broke lawyers” who can cancel their student debt, “Americans with disabilities have a right to student loan relief,” now according to Ted Mitchell, the undersecretary of education, said in a statement. Almost 400,000 student loan borrowers will now have an easier path to a debt bailout as Obama primes the populist voting pump just in time for the elections.
On top of “the student loan bubble’s dirty little secret,” here is another round of student debt relief…as MarketWatch reports,
The Department of Education will send letters to 387,000 people they’ve identified as being eligible for a total and permanent disability discharge, a designation that allows federal student loan borrowers who can’t work because of a disability to have their loans forgiven. The borrowers identified by the Department won’t have to go through the typical application process for receiving a disability discharge, which requires sending in documented proof of their disability. Instead, the borrower will simply have to sign and return the completed application enclosed in the letter.
Read moreAnd So It Begins: Obama Forgives Student Debt Of 400,000 Americans
Emory Students “Scared, In Pain” After Safe-Space Violated By Word “Trump” Written In Chalk
You can’t make this stuff up!
– Emory Students “Scared, In Pain” After Safe-Space Violated By Word “Trump” Written In Chalk:
Seriously!!
The Daily Mail reports, the president of Emory University has spoken to demonstrators who said they were frightened after someone wrote ‘Trump 2016’ in chalk around campus.
Students at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000 claim their ‘safe space’ was violated when the messages appeared on sidewalks and buildings.
Jim Wagner, president of the Atlanta university, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the messages as intimidation, and they voiced ‘genuine concern and pain’ as a result.
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US Marshals Forcefully Arrest Man Over $1,500 in Student Loan Debt
“Then I get a lecture (from the judge) about the United States and stealing from the government,“ he recounted. He was ordered to pay $5,700, including interest, for the original $1,500 loan. If he does not pay by March 1, he will be arrested again. He is also ordered to pay for the cost of his own arrest.
– US Marshals Forcefully Arrest Man Over $1,500 in Student Loan Debt:
Houston, Texas — A Houston man was arrested last Thursday over outstanding federal student loan debt left over from nearly three decades ago. Though he owed only $1,500, seven U.S. Marshals wearing combat gear and wielding automatic weapons aggressively arrested him — and authorities have said they will serve many more arrest warrants for outstanding educational bills in the near future.
“They grabbed me, they threw me down,“ 48-year-old Paul Aker told the New York Daily News on Tuesday.“Local PD is just standing there.“
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Meanwhile In Greece: The Price Of A Prostitute Drops To “€2 For Half An Hour”
Flashback:
“Money soon became worthless. We returned to an exchange. For a tin can of tushonka (think Soviet spam), you could have a woman. (It is hard to speak of it, but it is true.) Most of the women who sold themselves were desperate mothers.”
– Meanwhile In Greece, The Price Of A Prostitute Drops To €4 Per Hour:
Six years of crippling financial crisis have sent Greek students to the streets. However, not for anti-austerity protests but for sex. They allegedly “sell it very cheap,” for the price of “a cheese pie or a sandwich,” thus “offering the lowest prices of the industry across the Continent.”
“Some women just do it for a cheese pie or a sandwich they need to eat because they are hungry,” Gregory Lazos, professor of sociology at Panteion University in Athens told The Times and spoke about the results of a study he conducted.
Lazos conducted the study among 400 women working on the streets. The study has lasted 3 years. Many of these women were students.
They sell sex for a piece of bread – so to say – “in order to eat or cover basic needs and extra expenses as they have no money,” The Times and Lazos on The Times claim.
“80% of prostitutes in Greece are Greek women aged 17 to 20”.
The price for sex has dramatically decreased from €50 euro for 60 minutes down to “€2 for half an hour.“
Read moreMeanwhile In Greece: The Price Of A Prostitute Drops To “€2 For Half An Hour”
Not a Safe Space – Canadian University Suspends Yoga Class After Students Become Offended
– Not a Safe Space – Canadian University Suspends Yoga Class After Students Become Offended:
Young kids going to college are precisely that: Young kids going to college. Administrators are the ones who are supposed to be responsible for protecting free speech and upholding the U.S. Constitution within their spheres of influence, not pandering to hypersensitive students accustomed to always getting their way by merely shouting “racist” at whoever they happen to disagree with that week. Where are the adults in the room?
– From the post: Speechless – UCLA Engages in Absurd, Anti-Intellectual and Dangerous Attack on Campus Free Speech
Apparently yoga is no longer a safe space.
When I first saw this headline I dismissed it, thinking it had to be a joke. Unfortunately, the joke’s on us.
The Telegraph reports:
A free yoga class has been suspended at a Canadian university over fears the practice could be seen as ‘cultural appropriation’, it has been claimed.
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VIDEO: Million Student March leader fails Economics 101… can’t explain how nation might pay for all student tuition and debt… economic illiteracy on exhibit
In what has to be the most entertaining yet instructive video of the year, Neil Cavuto interviews Keely Mullen, the national organizer for the Million Student March, about how she thinks the nation should pay for the free tuition and nationwide bailout of all student debt currently being demanded by hordes of racist, crazed student mobs all across America.
Her pathetic, bumbling attempts at answering this fundamental question of “who pays for all this?” tells you everything you need to know about today’s idiotic college students:
Prostitution In The UK – “Sex Work and Students’ Debt” – University Fees Doubles Prostitution
– University Fees In Britain Doubles Prostitution:
The total number of prostitutes in the United Kingdom is not known and is difficult to assess, but authorities and NGOs estimated in 2009 that approximately 100,000 persons in the country were engaged in prostitution. According to data from the Office for National Statistics, prostitution contributed £5.3 billion to the UK economy in 2009.
Speechless – UCLA Engages in Absurd, Anti-Intellectual and Dangerous Attack on Campus Free Speech
– Speechless – UCLA Engages in Absurd, Anti-Intellectual and Dangerous Attack on Campus Free Speech:
One of the most dangerous trends in America today is occurring on college campuses. These are the places I grew up viewing as laboratories for free speech, youthful energy and resistance to the status quo.
Unfortunately, what they’re turning into are anti-intellectual wastelands in which America’s supposedly “best and brightest” are being transformed into unthinking, mentally shackled, emotionally stunted automatons. The only thing being produced on college campuses these days seem to be frightened, thoughtless worker-bees, conditioned to shut-up and instinctively worship authority. Rather than teaching kids to think critically, administrators have created an environment where kids aren’t encouraged to think at all.
7 Million People Haven’t Made A Single Student Loan Payment In At Least A Year
– 7 Million People Haven’t Made A Single Student Loan Payment In At Least A Year (ZeroHedge, Aug 22, 2015):
Perhaps it’s all the talk about across-the-board debt forgiveness or maybe the total amount of outstanding student debt has simply grown so large ($1.3 trillion) that even those with no conception of how much money that actually is realize that it’s simply never going to paid back so there’s no point worrying about, but whatever the case, the general level of concern regarding America’s student debt bubble doesn’t seem to be at all commensurate with the size of the problem.
And it’s not just the sheer size of the debt pile that’s worrisome. There’s also the knock-on effects, such as delayed household formation and the attendant downward pressure on the homeownership rate, and of course hyperinflation in the rental market.
Read more7 Million People Haven’t Made A Single Student Loan Payment In At Least A Year
To The Class Of 2015 – You Chumps!
– To The Class Of 2015 – You Chumps! (Bonner & Partners, May 11, 2015)
Obama Administration Improperly Denies Student Loan Debt Relief
– Obama Administration Improperly Denies Student Loan Debt Relief (Huffington Post, May 8, 2015):
Federal law allows students who were defrauded by their colleges into taking out federal student loans to have their debts forgiven. The Obama administration has said repeatedly it will ensure aggrieved borrowers get this form of relief, a commitment that Education Undersecretary Ted Mitchell reiterated this week following the bankruptcy filing of troubled for-profit school operator Corinthian Colleges Inc.
But that’s not helping Yvette Colon of New York.
Colon, a 53-year-old East Harlem resident, says she is stuck with a worthless credential that’s saddled her with more than $51,000 in federal and private student loans. She attended Sanford-Brown Institute in Manhattan, a for-profit trade school owned by Career Education Corp., from 2006 to 2008, hoping to become a cardiac sonographer.
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