College Indoctrination (Uh, Orientation) For Resident Advisors
Rachel Cheeseman, a student and former RA at DePauw, and a summer intern at the wonderful campus free speech-defending organization FIRE, writes about her experience at RA orientation:
During the week-long series of RA training events, my fellow RAs and I were lectured repeatedly about white privilege, racism, sexism, and every other "ism." My peers who questioned the information were silenced immediately or heckled for their refusal to accept the dogmatic views of our superiors.We were told that "human" was not a suitable identity, but that instead we were first "black," "white," or "Asian"; "male" or "female"; and, perhaps most alarming of all, "heterosexual" or "queer." We were forced to act like bigots and spout off stereotypes while being told that that was what we were really thinking deep down. I was appalled, and I hadn't even been forced to drag my residents through the same thing ... yet....I was enraged. Not only did this brainwashing program go against DePauw's own promise of freedom of conscience, it promoted an environment where there is a "right" and a "wrong" way of thinking. But more than just telling us what to think, DePauw told us what we should believe deep down. Instead of inspiring students by fostering free and open debate, DePauw was--and still is--indoctrinating its students.
via @AdamKissel
Maybe colleges should stop paying their profs anything more than some honorary stipend for teaching instead of insane salaries. Then all the bums who are sitting in the liberal arts faculties who are incapable of getting a single decent job in the real world would fade away into the supermarket aisles scanning barcodes which is where they really belong instead of using their college positions to enforce their bigotry on the poor students.
Only successful entrepreneurs or those people who are employed in industry and actually turn a profit for their employers should be allowed to teach in colleges. Maybe just physics and math and medicine alone can be taught by full time faculty...but who knows, the libtards might start saying that there aren't enough theorems and principles taught that were developed by gays and women and africans and hence the curriculum should be overhauled.
Redrajesh at July 1, 2011 1:04 AM
If you follow the links, this occured in a DePauw
s "Tunnel of Oppression."
If you google Tunnel of Oppression, you'll find that it is " is a campus grassroots diversity program that originated in 1993 at the Western Illinois University. Using the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles, California as a model... The Tunnel of Oppression is on campuses nationwide. Some of our neighboring universities in Ohio that participate include Kent State University, Ohio State University, Ohio Northern University, University of Cincinnati, John Carroll University, Wright State University, and Ohio University. The wave of oppression awareness is sweeping not only the state of Ohio, but our country as a whole."
Surprising to me, the wikipedia has no articles about the Tunnel of Oppression.
jerry at July 1, 2011 6:52 AM
"Surprising to me, the wikipedia has no articles about the Tunnel of Oppression."
That would have surprised me before Wikipedia deleted its article about Thomas Ball. Not now.
Jim at July 1, 2011 9:11 AM
Brick-and-mortar colleges are already obsolete. There's no longer any reason to actually go away to college to be brain-washed and over-charged for a degree that won't get you a job.
All the professional education I've done since leaving university has been self-study with testing done at contracted test centers. Some people pay extra for test prep and lectures, but it's not really necessary.
Eventually, lectures on any topic will be posted on the Internet, free for all. Degrees and credits will be earned by challenging the exam for a nominal testing fee.
I have no idea what will become of the professorial class. Already in Canada, un-tenured lectures outnumber tenured professors three-to-one, flipping the ratio from a generation ago.
Tyler at July 1, 2011 2:26 PM
How is such a coercion of a subjective view of diverse groups legal in a place of learning?
ValiantBlue at July 1, 2011 7:48 PM
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