Campus Crazies - Kiddies at U. Missouri, Yale, etc. having difficult time adjusting to adulthood.

[maxparrish]

The resignation of the University of Missouri president is a reminder of the increasingly frequent number of outbreaks of madness sweeping higher education. But whereas prior periods of campus unrest usually had (but not always) a pretext of concern over major issues (e.g. the Vietnam War, the Draft, Civil Rights Movement, etc.) many of today's semi-adults are beset by a muddy anxiety verging on mental collapse.

And it's not easy to penetrate their glossolalia-like protest, the screed of hysterical code words lacking connection and meaning to normal reality. Their wallowing in gibberish over imaginary "systematic oppression" caused by the rumor of a swastika made of feces is more than enough to send a public university of 35,000 into a tailspin. And my goodness, a racial slur from a drunk causes the herd to stampede in fear, more than sufficient to bring it into total dysfunction.

The debate over the real causes of the mass of mental disorders ranges from their life-time of exposure to guilt-mongering grievance memes to a generation of narcissists raised on latch key "soft love".

Whatever the cause, the current generation loves the infantilization; the tantrum, live-at-home till 35, anxiety ridden generation. And the prior X generation administration (children of baby boomers) are at a loss on how to respond to their children.

Amusing, curious, and sad.

 

[laughing dog]

I'm confused here. Under what disorder does your OP fall?

 

[Trausti]

https://twitter.com/hashtag/nationaloffendacollegestudentday?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

 

[dismal]

On the plus side, they should be well trained to come to political discussion forums and tell people what they should and shouldn't say.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

The resignation of the University of Missouri president is a reminder of the increasingly frequent number of outbreaks of madness sweeping higher education. But whereas prior periods of campus unrest usually had (but not always) a pretext of concern over major issues (e.g. the Vietnam War, the Draft, Civil Rights Movement, etc.) many of today's semi-adults are beset by a muddy anxiety verging on mental collapse.

What other outbreaks of madness are you referring to?

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On the plus side, they should be well trained to come to political discussion forums and tell people what they should and shouldn't say.

Don't say that.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

It seems rather they are not adjusting to continuing widespread racism. And some people seem to not getting this. Your rant is rather lacking in gravitas I am afraid. This has been a good wake-up call for our nation's colleges.

 

[maxparrish]

I'm confused here. Under what disorder does your OP fall?

Of that I am unsure. However, given their disorder it looks to be an outbreak of some form of mass hysteria (collective obsessional behavior) which wiki says "refers to collective delusions of threats to society that spread rapidly through rumors and fear.[1]"

The rumor of spreading racism has induced fits and seizures - bouts of screaming and crying. One fellow tried to starve himself to death, and my goodness, a visiting professor attacked a media person (calling for mob action against the poor fellow). Hopefully someone gives them a 5150 evaluation, and a personality inventory test, to see check for over-the-top neuroticism.

I believe one of their demands was for increased access to mental health treatment - an excellent idea, imo.

 

[laughing dog]

I'm confused here. Under what disorder does your OP fall?

Of that I am unsure. However, given their disorder it looks to be an outbreak of some form of mass hysteria (collective obsessional behavior_, which wiki says "refers to collective delusions of threats to society that spread rapidly through rumors and fear.[1]"

The rumor of spreading racism has induced fits and seizures - bouts of screaming and crying. One fellow tried to starve himself to death, my goodness. Hopefully someone gives them a personality inventory test, to see if they have higher scores for neuroticism.

I believe one of their demands was for increased access to mental health treatment - an excellent idea, imo.

But clearly there is also an outbreak of mass hysteria in the conservative loonisphere over these types of protests as well. There are plenty of over the top tweets, posts and threads about it - and not just at this site but many others as well.

 

[maxparrish]

It seems rather they are not adjusting to continuing widespread racism. And some people seem to not getting this. Your rant is rather lacking in gravitas I am afraid. This has been a good wake-up call for our nation's colleges.

Does it seem so? Why don't you tell about "continuing widespread racism" at U of M...to establish your "gravitas"?

 

[maxparrish]

Of that I am unsure. However, given their disorder it looks to be an outbreak of some form of mass hysteria (collective obsessional behavior_, which wiki says "refers to collective delusions of threats to society that spread rapidly through rumors and fear.[1]"

The rumor of spreading racism has induced fits and seizures - bouts of screaming and crying. One fellow tried to starve himself to death, my goodness. Hopefully someone gives them a personality inventory test, to see if they have higher scores for neuroticism.

I believe one of their demands was for increased access to mental health treatment - an excellent idea, imo.

But clearly there is also an outbreak of mass hysteria in the conservative loonisphere over these types of protests as well. There are plenty of over the top tweets, posts and threads about it - and not just at this site but many others as well.

You mean, because it is abhorrent behavior by left of center students and cowed administrations at the nation's universities, we should ignore it? I see.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

But clearly there is also an outbreak of mass hysteria in the conservative loonisphere over these types of protests as well. There are plenty of over the top tweets, posts and threads about it - and not just at this site but many others as well.

You mean, because it is abhorrent behavior by left of center students and cowed administrations at the nation's universities, we should ignore it? I see.

Interesting. You must be unfamiliar with modern higher education.

 

[maxparrish]

WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/bonfire-of-the-academy-1447200535

By bonfire of the academy we mean a conflict of values about the idea of a university that now threatens to undermine or destroy universities as a place of learning. ...

In the 1960s—at Cornell, Columbia, Berkeley and elsewhere—the self-described Student Left occupied buildings with what they often called “non-negotiable” demands. In the decades since, the academy—its leaders and faculties—by and large has accommodated many of those demands regarding appropriate academic subjects, admissions policies and what has become the aggressive and non-tolerant politics of identity and grievance.

This political trajectory arrived at its logical end this week at Missouri with the abrupt resignation of the school’s president, quickly followed by its number two official. The kids deposed them, as their liberal elders applauded either out of solidarity or cowardice.

The cause of President Tim Wolfe’s resignation is said to be his failure to address several racially charged incidents on campus and the threat by its Division One football team to boycott this weekend’s game unless he stepped down.

The university’s campus, in Columbia, is not far from Ferguson, Mo. Among the charges against President Wolfe was that his response to the shooting of Michael Brown was inadequate, which is to say, he did not sufficiently take the side of the protesters or rioters. Since Ferguson, the left-wing Black Lives Matter group has come to prominence and intimidated even presidential candidates. This has been accompanied by successive claims of racial grievance against public and private institutions.

In the United States, by now the instinct of the overwhelming majority of people is to address such complaints in good faith, investigate them and remediate where necessary. Only the tiniest minority would wish to see racial grievances bleed indefinitely. Yet the kids assert that America is irredeemably racist.

Behind the headlines was also a festering dispute between the school administration and graduate students over cutbacks to their health-care coverage. Student Jonathan Butler listed among the reasons for his hunger strike that “graduate students [were] being robbed of their health insurance.”

Less noted in the news coverage is that an August posting on the website of the university’s division of graduate studies explains in detail that the health-insurance cutbacks are the explicit result of the Affordable Care Act. ObamaCare’s regulations forbid employers, such as universities, from paying for their grad students’ health insurance. Another case of progressives eating their own.

So now the University of Missouri and its 35,000 students are leaderless. We can assume that the students who brought Missouri to this pass do not have a clue what comes next—unless one of them would like to step into the presidency and give it a fling. It would serve the faculty right, though not the tens of thousands of other students who want an education.

What was evident at the University of Missouri, and in last weekend’s confrontation over free speech at Yale, is that political dialogue on universities is disintegrating to the level of 1968, when many schools became places of physical and intellectual chaos.

Clearly the university needs to find a modern S.I. Hayakawa or Dr. Phil.

 

[Nice Squirrel]

paywall opinion piece

Clearly the university needs to find a modern S.I. Hayakawa or Dr. Phil.

I give up Max. What is your point? That institutional racism doesn't exist?

 

[laughing dog]

But clearly there is also an outbreak of mass hysteria in the conservative loonisphere over these types of protests as well. There are plenty of over the top tweets, posts and threads about it - and not just at this site but many others as well.

You mean, because it is abhorrent behavior by left of center students and cowed administrations at the nation's universities, we should ignore it? I see.

"We"? People are free to engage in hyperbolic ravings about any behavior. The magnitude and plentitude of over-the-top and delusional reactions by so many people make it an example of mass hysteria. Certainly as massive and hysterical as the behavior they allegedly find "abhorrent".

BTW, Mizzou was leaderless before Wolfe's resignation.

 

[arkirk]

https://twitter.com/hashtag/nationaloffendacollegestudentday?f=tweets&vertical=default&src=hash

If all twitter is nothing but a bunch of racist twits, then perhaps it is not worth fooling with. Tweeting does not lessen your level of racism.

 

[Derec]

You mean, because it is abhorrent behavior by left of center students and cowed administrations at the nation's universities, we should ignore it? I see.

Interesting. You must be unfamiliar with modern higher education.

You mean like this?

(from another thread)

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It seems rather they are not adjusting to continuing widespread racism. And some people seem to not getting this. Your rant is rather lacking in gravitas I am afraid. This has been a good wake-up call for our nation's colleges.

Or rather that there is no "widespread racism" and thus one has to overreact to so-called "microaggressions".

 

[Nice Squirrel]

No reason to be paranoid with these college kids and their pranks.


http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/a...lice-arrest-man-over-threat-on-yik-yak/106570

The University of Missouri’s police department on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of making a terrorist threat on Yik Yak amid an upheaval over racism on the campus. The Columbia Missourian, citing the police, reports that the man, who was found more than 90 miles way, in Rolla, Mo., is a white student at the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

 

[Derec]

No reason to be paranoid with these college kids and their pranks.

Note that this YikYak threat happened after the protest/resignation (under duress) of the university president, and is thus not one of the alleged (but very scantily documented) incidents whose alleged non-investigation by the university administration precipitated these protests.
I have yet to see any evidence for these incidents or for administration inaction.

By the way, nobody says that there aren't assholes (including racist assholes) out there, on both sides.

 

[maxparrish]

Clearly the university needs to find a modern S.I. Hayakawa or Dr. Phil.

I give up Max. What is your point? That institutional racism doesn't exist?

Nooooo, my point(s) include, but are not limited to: the recent troubles at the U. of M. is as comedic as it is daffy; the protestors, including those on the football team, are being childish - demanding to be coddled and protected from the real or imagined hurtful speech of a microscopic number of students (perhaps one?).

Moreover, this was an example of how PC mentality has reduced many would-be adults into children who whine over the insufficiency of their pampering and mothering. And while Wolfe had few options, the only right way for Wolfe to respond would have been to stand on his hind legs and let them fire him. But nope, he grovelled and ask for forgiveness for ignoring the protesters at the homecoming parade: “I am sorry, and my apology is long overdue.”

Then when the moron tried to engage protesters at another event, they screeched at him that he was blaming blacks for their own oppression. (yada, yada).

S.I. Hayakawa showed that the only way to deal with unreasonable "non-negotiable" demands is to take the fight to them. Instead, the clowns (Regents and Board) pander to a bunch of hysterical children short on reason and reality.

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You mean, because it is abhorrent behavior by left of center students and cowed administrations at the nation's universities, we should ignore it? I see.

"We"? People are free to engage in hyperbolic ravings about any behavior. The magnitude and plentitude of over-the-top and delusional reactions by so many people make it an example of mass hysteria. Certainly as massive and hysterical as the behavior they allegedly find "abhorrent".

BTW, Mizzou was leaderless before Wolfe's resignation.

I take that as a yes.

 

[laughing dog]

I take that as a yes.

Of course you do. Please continue to demonstrate that my observation is spot on.