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2015’s 13 most ridiculous protests on college campuses

Link here.

Read it all and weep. I would also suggest that if you need to choose a university for your child, you should cross off Swarthmore University, the University of New Hampshire, Idaho State University, College of the Canyons (in Los Angeles), Western University (in London), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Harvard University, Brandeis University, the University of California-Los Angeles, Kansas University, North Carolina University, Scripps College (in California), the University of Pittsburgh, the University of Washington, the University of Ottawa (in Canada), the University of Georgia, Quinnipiac University, and the University of California-Merced.

Most of these are government colleges, which also means that as voters we should also be demanding that their government funding should cease, now, immediately, without any negotiation. They are not only failing to educate their students, the academics who run these colleges are actually teaching them very stupid and bad ideas. They should be forced to find some real work where they will be no longer be able to do society this harm.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 

The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

2 comments

  • hondo

    Sorry Bob – disagree. Believe we should let it play out and use the opportunity as a teachable moment. This is clearly a new variation on the Red Guard/Cultural Revolution. It will turn hostile and violent, and target the faculty/Admin/staff and fellow students – regardless of their political persuasions. They will eat their own.
    Many students will suspend their education or transfer – taking their tuition with them – even demanding refunds (in court if necessary), many Alumni orgs will cut back or pull plug. This will truly hurt leftist Academia more than the gov’t – which they want to fight and rail against anyway.
    If Swarthmore University (or any other) found itself unable to function for a semester or two (or three), the sun will still rise in the east.
    I want to see this play out.

  • Phill O

    Hey, it is nice for youto recognise the disease in the University of Ottawa; but good luck trying to get the current administration to cut funding. Funding will probably increase now.

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