Woody Allen once said that “80 percent of success is showing up.” Yesterday, Columbia University established its academic corollary: 80 percent of defeat is not showing up. In a disgraceful decision that deprived students of one of the most memorable moments of their lives, the university yielded to protesters who have occupied parts of the campus and buildings. Instead, graduates will be allowed to go to small-scale graduations.
It is a profile of cowardice that will stain the record of Columbia for years to come.
Notably, the graduation is ordinarily held on the space where students set up an encampment, but that space was finally cleared by police last week. It did not matter.
Columbia stated that “holding a large commencement ceremony on our campus presented security concerns that unfortunately proved insurmountable…Like our students, we are deeply disappointed with this outcome.”
“Insurmountable?” It is your campus. These are your students. Hold the damn commencement.
Columbia said the security advisers identified “too many variables” for holding the commencement and that adding security would only trigger the protesters.
So the solution, once again, is to do precisely what the protesters wanted.
Schools like University of Southern California said late last month that it was canceling its main commencement ceremony, citing similar security concerns.
Protesters disrupted the commencement at University of Michigan this weekend. However, Michigan did not yield. They handled the disruption and held their ground. They held their commencement.
The decision by Columbia is consistent with how administrators have approached disruptive protests for years. While some of us have called upon schools to suspend or to expel students preventing others from speaking on campus, universities have yielded over and over again. Indeed, citing security concerns became an easy way for schools to cancel conservative speakers while professing neutrality on the content of their views.
Faculty have not only encouraged but participated in such cancel campaigns.
Even classes have been stopped by protesters at places like Northwestern without any repercussions for the students. Northwestern (my alma mater) is the ultimate example of administrators picking the path of least resistance in the face of radicalized students. Recently, seven out of 11 members of the “President’s Advisory Committee on Preventing Antisemitism and Hate” resigned in protest.
Under the controversial agreement, the school will admit five Palestinian students each year, support two Palestinian faculty members annually, create special housing for Muslim students, and add students to Committees to review purchases from Israeli businesses.
Columbia has been consistently ranked at the very bottom of schools for free speech due to its intolerance for opposing viewpoints and failure to protect a diversity of opinions on campus.
Even the dean of its leading journalism school has warned against the “weaponization of free speech.” One of Columbia’s centers publicly complained when Justice Brett Kavanaugh was allowed to speak on campus.
When Columbia finally drew the line at protesters damaging and taking over buildings, the response from many students and faculty was outrage.
After Hamilton Hall was cleared by police, the editors of Columbia Law Review asked for the cancelation of exams because they were emotionally compromised. The editors wrote that the clearing of the unauthorized encampment constituted traumatic “violence” that left them “irrevocably shaken” and “unable to focus.” They were joined by editors of five other law journals, including the Columbia Human Rights Law Review & A Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual.
They portrayed the trauma as the appearance of counter protesters and police on campus, accusing a “white supremacist, neo-fascist hate group” of “storming” campus. The Columbia students told the university that “many are unwell at this time and cannot study or concentrate while their peers are being hauled to jail.”
Columbia then faced threats of protests at the commencement, so it solved the problem by doing what the protesters were demanding. Of course, it did not solve the problem. Columbia is the problem. It is an example of how administrators have yielded control over their campuses to the loudest and most aggressive elements in their community.
Higher education is not supposed to be an academic version of the Hunger Games where the last person standing wins in a contest of attrition.
It is perhaps only appropriate that Columbia’s final lesson for graduates should be a continuation of years of yielding to the demands of those who dictate what can be said or done on campus.
Many of these students were denied commencement ceremonies four years ago. They worked to get into Columbia and many of their families had to make huge sacrifices to allow them to study at the university. As protests ramped up, they found themselves barred from campus and told again to take remote classes. A Jewish professor’s access card was deactivated because his presence on campus was viewed as too inflammatory for the protesters.
When they are finally ready to celebrate that moment, they have been told, again, that commencement is cancelled. However, this is not due to a pandemic but protesters. They will have to go to smaller graduations that are less objectionable to the radical elements of the student body.
Henry David Thoreau once said “The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.” It has the same effect on higher education. There was a clear path open to Columbia. Hold the commencement and hold any disrupters accountable. In choosing to yield, President Nemat “Minouche” Shafik has abandoned not just these graduates but the integrity of Columbia.
Warn, then expell five students (not suspend – EXPELL). Non students, find the serious laws broken, jail for 2 years minimum. All will end.
Immediately make universities disburse at least half of their endowments and take away their 501c3 Status and deny federal funds for any university or
Correctimundo.
Excellent idea. When the money starts going away, people think differently.
Earlier tonight, a buddy and I were out walking our dogs. We live near DePaul in Lincoln Park.
So while near campus my buddy says hey, lets cut thru the tent city.
While walking thru, all I saw was a bunch of stoner types hanging out as if they’ve been at a party.
No serious protesters, maybe one or two standing around.
Its like its a big party and these people are clueless on the region, history or current politics.
More rebels without a clue.
-G
I think the President of Columnia is AFRAID. She doesn’t handle conflict well, just shrinking from confrontation.
A sorry example for the students of leadership.
Her University is losing credibility day by day, and I’m pretty sure alumni will show their disapproval by withholding donations.
She’s in on it you clueless hooter.
I think the president of Columbia is not afraid. She is supportive. She is from Egypt and her family is muslim.
It must be nice having all of this campus chaos to write about. It makes it easy to ignore Merrick Garland and the DOJ.
In other news from the REAL world (not to be confused with College World or Paid Protester World), the DOJ’s Florida case against Trump just came to a screeching halt:
ORDER SETTING SECOND SET OF PRE-TRIAL DEADLINES/HEARINGS
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67490069/530/united-states-v-trump/
This, of course, is occurring in the immediate wake of the revelation that the DOJ tampered with evidence and lied about it to the judge.
Of interest (to me) is mention in the new Order that there will be a hearing held on June 21 concerning former Attorney General Ed Meese’s amicus argument that Special Counsel Smith was unlawfully appointed and funded, for several reasons not the least of which is that Senate confirmation for such a post is required, whereas Attorney General Garland merely took it upon himself to hire Smith for the job, thereby cutting both Senate approval and presidential appointment out of the process.
She will probably rule in favor of the Meese argument and end the Jack Smith plague,
That’s my guess, too. I don’t think the democrat-controlled Senate can get away with retroactively holding hearings and confirming Smith at this point, but I’m sure they’ve thought about it.
Garland CAN and should have appointed as SC someone who has already been appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate. Lateral moves are constitutional.
Absolutely Cannon should order Smith removed. But that merely briefly stalls the case while Garland does what he should have in the first place and appoints someone who has already been appointed by the president to another position and confirmed by the senate.
Trying to get Smith properly appointed will not happen before the election. The Senate has very little time to do its normal business before shifting to the 2024 election, and Democrats are not going to waste time on a brutal confirmation hearing for Smith.
While that is the correct decision – and there is a massive amount of caselaw on this. I do not think she will.
Further even if she did – it would not end this.
If she removed Smith – Garland could, appoint any current US Attorney as Acting SC, It would delay the case a bit, but not kill it.
In the meantime if he wanted to Biden could appoint Smith as a US Attorney, go throught he senate fight to confirm him, and then Garland could re-appoint him as SC.
As I noted before – doing this right is not all that hard.
Doing it wrong does not kill the case, it just causes delays.
Ironic that those prosecuting Trump for supposedly mishandling classified documents have owned being guilty of the same thing. And since they’ve now rendered it useless for evidentiary purposes for the defense, it should all be thrown to the wolves. If, that is, it’s not dismissed entirely as an illegitimate prosecution due to Smith’s ineligibility for the role of Special Counsel.
The Mueller appointment had the same problems.
This mess was trivially avoidable.
All garland needed to do was to appoint someone who has ALREADY been appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate, such as ANY US Attorney. Weis as an example is a legitimate SC – he was a US Attorney – appointed by Trump and raised to SC by Garland.
It is not like following the rules is all that difficult.
I would absolutely love to see SC Smith removed by Judge Cannon – but unfortunately I do not expect it.
Cannon is working this favorable to Trump. But she is doing so – NOT by ruling following the constitution as she should, but by ujsing the errors and botched mess that Smith and Garland have made of this to hold hearings and delay.
This is a version of what MacAfee has been doing in GA. He did NOT remove Willis as he really should have. But he made it easy for the GA Appeals court to do so. And he effectively delayed the Trial pretty much forever at this point.
Cannon is doing the same – if she actually follows the constitution – Smith will appeal and demand Cannon’s removal , and the 11th cir ct of appeals may well grant that. She has a hostile appealate court that is not following the constitution, and if she were removed – even improperly who knows what would happen while Trump appealed whatever issue resulted in her removal up to the supreme court.
What she is doing now is making Smith dot his eyes and cross his t’s, also known as due process.
As an example Trump filed a motion to make lots of material public. Smith blew it off, and ranted and raved without citing law in his reply.
So Cannon granted the motion. Smith moved to reconsider citing actual law this time, and Cannon modified her order blocking the release of SOME material.
She is doing an excellent job of ofrcing Smith to do the job correctly. And because he does not do so the first time, Smith causes significant delays.
I would further note that even though Cannon has not and I do not think will throw out the case – atleast not until after the election.
She is allowing Trump to produce more and more evidence of government malfeasance in handling this case.
Constitutionally – she should have killed the whole case long ago. But I do nto think she is going to.
Just give Trump a string of little victories between now and the election.
It’s got to be a pretty high piss off factor for those who spent years studying, sacrificing, working and paying hundreds of thousands for a degree only to have their
glorious moment of acknowledgment of those efforts suddenly taken away.
Kind of like winning an Olympic gold and then finding out the ceremony is canceled.
The only thing that might possibly be worse is knowing you are now the holder of a degree that instantly brands you as a graduate of a unhinged hate filled racist institution that produces lunatics. And if hired, you will probably pull the same sh!t in the corporate world you pulled in school…and it won’t matter if it’s true or not.
Generally speaking, I think people who excel at what they do usually do it for the enjoyment of the doing, which is the real prize. Doing is the real reward. People that do whatever they do looking for recognition, acclaim, or money are usually second rate, at best.
People that do whatever they do looking for recognition, acclaim, or money are usually
second rate, at best.
Like the Noble Peace Prize Obama got. Must agree with you. Oh, and you may want to drop a Note to Dr Jill. She has to remind people she’s a Doctor, because commoners dont know how great she is unless she gets the honorific
People do things for many reasons – often concurrently.
Regardless, even if the left wing nuts getting degrees in advanced underwater basket weaving still should have their commencemtn and the public recognition of their accomplishment.
Just as during the Vietnam War protests, people will eventually mellow-out their comprehension of the experience, indeed even their remembrance of the experience, in the years to come.
For now it’s important to recognize that a large-scale graduation @ Columbia can’t happen
People protested the vietnam war in the 60’s and 70’s. Protestors naively wanted peace.
They did NOT want the Viet Cong and NVA to overrun the country.
I do not recall anyone protesting FOR the NVA or VC. I do not recally anyone protesting FOR the geneocide of the South Vietnamese.
You can have participated in protests against the Vietnam war and grow up most proud of your role, but possibly recognizing that you were a little bit naive.
But no one protesting the vietnam war was protesting FOR terrorism, FOR Genocide, FOR immorality.
No this is not going to age well.
The handling by most universities and shows an outrage of the.lack of backbone to properly deal with unacceptable this unacceptable behavior. I hoper you will join with Alan Durrschewitz in seeking a better outcome.
Upstate – in re the below, I read something recently (can’t remember where) that shed some light on the current situation. So, in the years leading up to WWII and even up through Pearl Harbor, Great Britain was the leader of the free world, in the sense that it was on the front lines against the forces of darkness and it had moral clarity. At that time the forces of darkness threatening Western Civilization were Nazism and Fascism. After Pearl Harbor and through the end of the Cold War, it was the US. At that time the enemy of civilization was global Communism.
But, who is the leader of the free world now? It is not the US. We have caved and lack moral clarity. So, who? It is Israel. Israel is on the front lines in the war against global Jihad. Global Jihad is the new incarnation of Nazisim, Fascism, and Global Communism.
@Oldman
The interesting thing is that Israel isn’t standing alone.
Consider the 300 drones and rockets out of Iran directly attacking Israel. 99% failed to hit a target.
Israel didn’t defend themselves against it alone.
And there are rumors about the future of Gaza after Israel clears out HAMAS from Rafa.
Again its not just Israel and its going to be interesting to see if the rumors are true. (Sorry I’m not going to say what I’ve been hearing.)
Lets just say the Middle East will welcome Trump back w open arms. (Well mostly. Iran, not so much.)
Brandon has done a lot of damage that continues the damage Obama did.
As I walk past DePaul here in Chicago… I want to toss a couple of CS canisters into the compound.
Granted I don’t have any… but you know the feeling.
I blame the students, their parents and the education system for not teaching world history, or critical thinking.
Then I blame that ticky tocky thing. Should be banned and market forces will come up with a replacement.
And yes you’re correct.
We’re watching Arab Nazis in action.
Maybe Brandon should talk w Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon as to why we shouldn’t take in any refugees. 😉
-G
Gumby, as you know, the Arab Nazis you mentioned were allies of Nazi Germany and wanted to participate in the genocide of Jews. Biden and the Democrats are supporting a new Nazi (fascist) machine that wages war to obtain their ends.
In important ways Israel is an anachronistic 20th Century relic.
Gads, you just can’t sustain a country in the 21st Century that has a de facto apartheid r’ship w/ a second-class-citizen population in a ‘neighboring’ country
We need to see two sovereign states, neither holding dominance over the other.
For instance, Jordan sits next to Israel & commands its own affairs.
The same should hold for Palestine next to Israel
Poor Anon.
You clearly don’t understand the terms you use.
There is no Apartheid.
Hamas controlled Gaza since Israel unilaterally left in 2005.
So all of the horrors in Gaza are due to Hamas.
Israel had wanted a two state solution. Interestingly enough… Jordan was supposed to be the one Arab State and Israel the Jewish state. But no the ‘Palestinian Arabs’ didn’t want to be Jordanians.
You have no clue about the region and the history.
The truth is that everyone wants the Palestinians gone. No more Hamas, Fatah, PA, Hezbollah, insert your terrorist group here. Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Israel all want them gone. There’s more, but I doubt you could comprehend the proxy war of Iran and their involvement.
There will be no Palestine until the ‘Palestinian Arabs’ recognize Israel.
BTW, there are over 2 million Israeli Arab citizens. There is no apartheid in Israel.
-G
G – what you said is true, and it only scratches the surface of how Israel is the opposite of an apartheid state. What the other guy said is ignorant drivel that has little connection to reality.
-omfk
The West Bank was part of Jordan until 1967. When Israel won that war, Jordan refused peace (and a return of the West Bank). Eventually, in the 1990’s Jordan signed a peace treaty but did not want the West Bank back. Similar situation for Gaza and Egypt.
Left wing nuts like to throw words arround disconnected from their meaning.
A signficant portion of the citizens of Israel are Palestinian. They have full rights of citizenship.
They control a significant portion of the Knesset. They govern portions of israel.
The people of the West Bank and Gaza are those that fled during the 1948 war and/or fought against Israel.
They do not live in Israel. They live in the West Bank and Gaza. They have had numerous oportunities to form their own nation in the West Bank and Gaza. They have done pretty much everything possible to thwart that.
These people do not want to govern the teriritory they have, They want to destroy israel and rule “from the river to the sea”.
There is no Israeli apartheid. There is no Israeli colonialism.
Israel want to govern itself including the Palestinian people in Israel.
And it wants not to have to constantly fight wars with its neighbors – including the West Bank and Gaza.
Those are the rights of any nation.
It is likely after this war is over, that Israel will excercise a heavier hand over Gaza – not because it wants to, but because the Gazan’s have given it no choice.
As Golda Meir said long ago. If the palestinians put down their weapons tomorow – there would be peace.
If the Israeli’s put down their weapons tomorow there would be genocide.
Mark Twain: “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
It’s hilarious that the MORONS thar camp out in this comment section all day every day continue to take the bait and not only read but actually respond to all of the silly bait that Dennis tosses out like chum to attract idiot-fish.
The average IQ displayed here has dropped at least 30 points in the last 6 years, to where Turleyville is in the running for the DUMBEST place on Earth.
Exclusive: Columbia Custodian Trapped by ‘Angry Mob’ Speaks Out
https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-columbia-custodian-trapped
Aren’t they precious?
One Third Of Stanford Students OK With Violence To Shut Down Speech; Report
https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/judge-duncan-shoutdown-what-stanford-students-think
Upstate – that it was law students doing the heckling is particularly egregious. Where I went to law school, a person would have been expelled for such behavior, as it is the antithesis of how lawyers are supposed to represent their clients’ interests. I went to one of the few non-ultra-liberal law schools in the country, and the faculty and administration made it clear to us that interfering with anyone’s speech, including that left-wingers, would not be tolerated. People took those admonitions seriously and it made for a peaceful, civil environment conducive to learning.
omfk:
“Where I went to law school, a person would have been expelled for such behavior, as it is the antithesis of how lawyers are supposed to represent their clients’ interests. ”
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To quote one of my favorite Con Law professors on the same topic: “You have a constitutional righ to be an a-hole; you just don’t have the right to be an a-hole with a law license.” Sage words there, Prof. Leedes.
Meanwhile, in Israel, which faces greater threats every day, commencement ceremonies are going forward as usual.
Israel could take a knee, but a century of Fatah, Hamas and sympathetic protesters informed them that is not a viable choice.
@ n.n
10/7 showed them that they can’t stop until Hamas is eradicated.
The interesting thing. There’s a video of an IDF soldier calling out to some Palestinians to leave the area in Rafa.
They instead tell the IDF soldier to F himself. (I’m paraphrasing)
This is like the Nazi civilians in Berlin choosing to stay and die rather than flee.
For anyone who has sympathy for these people, don’t.
They are Hamas. Even though they are civilians they are supporters and willing to die for their cause like good little Arab Nazis.
And yes. Hamas/Hezbollah/Fatah/PA/etc … are all offshoots from the PLO which is an offshoot from the Arab Nazis who fought along side w Hitler’s SS in Europe. (You can google that if you want…)
-G
Also–Amalak.
OldManFromKS,
That is one significant difference between Israel and the US.
If there is some kind of terror attack, they shoot the perp, clean up the mess and carry on as if it never happened publicly. Not giving the terrorist any kind of limelight or acknowledgement.
In the US, if the perp is not killed, we hold a trial. They laugh at us in court. We put up mini-shrines. We will even go as far as leveling a perfectly good building for . . . reasons. We talk about it for days or weeks and have memorial every year.
The same way that garbage physicians peddle painkillers instead of cures, many universities peddle diplomas instead of education.
There’s nothing new about this. It’s been happening for decades, perhaps centuries, although some universities — and more-particularly certain areas of study — have perfected the scam more than others.
What’s alarming is that Professor Turley’s objection appears to be that the suckers that purchased over-priced diplomas as tokens of their inferior educations are being deprived of the big Animal House party at the end of the HOAX that they’ve willingly subjected themselves to in exchange for the fake promise of a more-lucrative salary.
There was once the famous expression about drugs that “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.” That now applies to college education at many of these Silly Schools and the ridiculous ripoff expense associated therewith.
Universities like Columbia have demonstrated a number of things about their administrations.
They are fundamentally weak and incompetent and unable to perform their fundamental functions, control their employees, protect their students, or respond to Marxist insurrections. I might add that they are also not worth the tuition they charge, but that is so evident as to be unnecessary to state.
They have also destroyed they reputation, and failed in their financial responsibilities. This will become clear as financial gifts continue to dry up.
Unfortunately, many of these “prestigious” schools have become so wealthy that they are now basically self-endowed in addition to the ridiculous admission expenses forked over by kids with wealthy parents.
“They are fundamentally weak and incompetent and unable to perform their fundamental functions, control their employees, protect their students, or respond to Marxist insurrections.”
– John A Busch
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Are you out of your ——- mind?
“Universities like Columbia” ARE Marxist!
When communists such as Nancy Pelosi and comrades say, “Our Democracy,” they mean the democracy of the Communist Manifesto—they have extirpated the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the United States of America, and the [rational restricted-vote] republic that Ben Franklin gave the newly minted Americans.
Take a quick look around.
Do you see any Central Planning, Control of the Means of Production (unconstitutional regulation), Redistribution of Wealth, and Social Engineering?
Have you noticed the presence of Karl Marx’s motto, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs?”
Have you never felt the “Democracy” of the “dictatorship of the proletariat?”
American universities disparage and deprecate American exceptionalism, actual Americans, and American fundamental law, while they brainwash, propagandize, and indoctrinate students against freedom and self-reliance and immerse them in communism.
You can thank impulsive and “Crazy Abe” Lincoln for opening the flood gates and throwing the baby out with the bathwater—the Constitution out with reprehensible slavery—for which Karl Marx congratulated and commended him by writing “that it fell to Abraham Lincoln…to lead his country through…the RECONSTRUCTION OF A SOCIAL WORLD.” [B]
Americans suffer in the Marxist “SOCIAL WORLD” that Lincoln “RECONSTRUCTED.”
The shocking realization for a lot of American normies, post 7 October, is the degree to which Zionist interests govern goings-on on our college/university campuses.
Jonathan: DJT has a scheduling problem. Justice Merchan approved DJT’s request to attend his son’s high school graduation on May 17. But guess what? Yesterday, the Minnesotal Republican Party announced DJT will be the headliner for their annual Lincoln Reagan annual dinner in St. Paul–scheduled also for May 17. Woops! Logistically, there is no problem. Barron’s graduation starts at 10:00 am.
Will Todd Blanche ask Justice Merchan to allow his client to attend both events? Unlikely. Because Merchan will probably tell Blanche: “I have granted your client permission to only attend his son’s graduation. Political campaigning the same day is not included. Take it or leave it!”
Dennis quit gloating over this petty lawfare by the kangaroo court judge, your bitter sick attitude towards the First Amendment rights of the former President is disgusting
Dennis does not support the Constitution and Bill of Rights, Dennis supports gross corruption and the communist American government.
Dennis still waiting on the crime that elevated misdemeanor bookkeeping entry to a felony.
You claim federal election law. But the criminal law assigns exclusive jurisdiction to the DOJ. The civil law is the exclusive jurisdiction of the FEC.
State NY election law only covers those running for Stated or local office.
The accounting charge has blown up in the prosecutions face. The bookkeepers taking direction from the Accounts that were informed by their software and his experience dictated paying an invoice from a lawyer, is legal expense. DJT did not hide anything trained staff made the decisions.
Now you dont even have a bookkeeping error.
Come on Dennis, you whined conservative don’t want to talk the law. Lets talk.
So awful, Dennis–a bookkeeping error
You talk about this like Judge (not Justice) Merchan is deciding conditions of parole and not a simple scheduling issue. Whether you like it or not, in our system of justice defendants are innocent until found guilty. Even Donald Trump.
That pesky burden of proof can be such an annoyance. Suck it up, buttercup.
Will Dennis’s mom do his laundry again this week?
I appreciate the comments from the person who was at Kent State during the riots. Although I was only eleven at the time, I can still feel the trauma of them. Realizing that our own government used actual bullets that killed four students and injured others was a terrible shock.
Years later when my daughter was in Basic Training, the Kent State riots were used as an example of what not to do. We talked about it after she came home and was surprised that I would remember the riots.
What can we learn from the demonstrations at the campuses ongoing today? First lesson is that not everyone will be satisfied with the decisions that will be made going forward. My vote would be to allow the students to have their graduation ceremony. After all, they have earned this. They did not ask for the war nor did they ask for the demonstrations. Let them have their moment crossing the stage once their named is called so they will be able to receive their hard-earned diploma. They have looked forward to this moment for the last four years. It is shameful to deny the students this honor because of a few.
“They did not ask for the war nor did they ask for the demonstrations.”
When one goes to the circus, one should expect there to be clowns. Nobody forced them to attend Silly Schools and Clown Colleges. Instead of being given diplomas, they xhoulc be squirted in the face with seltzer and then kicked in the seat of their pants. Otherwise, they will manage to FAIL to learn any lesson from their mistakes concerning paying WAY too much for the privilege of attending the WRONG colleges.
Poor decisions come with consequences.
Trump wears a rat pelt on his head because he thinks it makes him look like blonde Elvis. Only he’s a wannabe and the pelt is thinning such that it no longer covers his bald spots.
My grandmother used to vote for the most handsome candidate.
You are free to vote as you please.
“the people are nothing but a great beast…
I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value.”
– Alexander Hamilton
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“The true reason (says Blackstone) of requiring any qualification, with regard to property in voters, is to exclude such persons, as are in so mean a situation, that they are esteemed to have no will of their own.”
“If it were probable that every man would give his vote freely, and without influence of any kind, then, upon the true theory and genuine principles of liberty, every member of the community, however poor, should have a vote… But since that can hardly be expected, in persons of indigent fortunes, or such as are under the immediate dominion of others, all popular states have been obliged to establish certain qualifications, whereby, some who are suspected to have no will of their own, are excluded from voting; in order to set other individuals, whose wills may be supposed independent, more thoroughly upon a level with each other.”
– Alexander Hamilton, The Farmer Refuted, 1775
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“[We gave you] a [restricted-vote] republic, if you can keep it.”
– Ben Franklin, 1787
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Turnout was 11.6% in 1789.
Voter qualifications were generally male, European, 21, 50 lbs. Sterling/50 acres as set, or restricted, by States.
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Article I, Section 2
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Among the benefits that non-rioting students have lost… class hours, a safe environment, freedom of speech, and now — graduation ! Perhaps they should sue for a tuition refund.
Buyer beware. They knew, or SHOULD have known, what sort of silly-schools they were attending before they forked over mom & dad’s tuition bucks.
This wasn’t the first or even 50th time that many of these “higher” education institutions have made national news for all the wrong reasons. Each diploma should be dispensed while stamping a big red S — for “SUCKER” — on the forehead of each student — indelible so as to give fair warning to potential employers.
“Many of these students were denied commencement ceremonies four years ago. They worked to get into Columbia and many of their families had to make huge sacrifices to allow them to study at the university. As protests ramped up, they found themselves barred from campus and told again to take remote classes.”
LOL — Thus the wisdom of the old saying, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on ME.”
I can only laugh at morons who picked the WRONG schools for the WRONG reasons. It’s not as if the MORONS didn’t have sufficient warning that these institutions had long ago rotted from the top down, like week-old fish. Most of these hotbeds of radical dimwittedness were already well-known commodities when it comes to placing “social justice” above quality education.
Pardon my French, but Boo f*cking Hoo for all the spoiled babies that picked the wrong universities to attend for all the wrong reasons. There are literally THOUSANDS of accredited universities in America that don’t make the nightly news on a regular basis due to being infested with social justice warriors — in both the student body AND faculty.
But the mind-numbed morons with not an ounce of common sense freely chose to attend intellectual wastelands like Columbia or UCLA. And now I’m expected to shed a tear because their commencement PARTiES won’t be idyllic?
I repeat: Boo f*cking Hoo.