"The Amherst College Student Handbook explicitly states, “Every student enjoys the right to full participation in the academic and social life of the college, regardless of…political affiliation and belief.” "

Well, this is obviously a "white privilege" POV.

Can I have the cash instead? I don't really want to associate with these uprising people.

..."We want to stress that any action taken by Amherst College to address the demands made will not erase the fact that it exists within a larger system of oppression," ...

"We believe that we will not be free until this larger system is deconstructed."

I think the college should ask "Since your goal is to "deconstruct" the college system why should it appease you"?

So you protest speech you don't like by telling people to shut up?
How did these idiots get into college in the first place?

Hey, Amherst 11, please go die in a fire. See, that's called "free speech." Please feel free to reciprocate in the same manner at your convenience.

A bunch of wanna-be oppressors crying about being oppressed.

Have any of them ever said what aspirations of theirs are being oppressed? As far as I can tell the only thing being denied them is their ability to oppress everyone else to an extent that satisfies them.

I'd really like to hear some examples of the racism and oppression they claim is so pervasive.

..."extensive training for racial and cultural competency."

What the hell is "racial and cultural competency?"

"We want to stress that any action taken by Amherst College to address the demands made will not erase the fact that it exists within a larger system of oppression," ...

"We believe that we will not be free until this larger system is deconstructed."

You mean that "larger system of oppression" that allows spoiled rich kids to attend an elite college at which they will be coddled and their every whim indulged - including, but not limited to, allowing them to disparage the very system that coddles and indulges them?

If they feel they're being oppressed, they could always go to work for a roofing company in Bakersfield, California (100º in the shade) and see what the hard physical labor that they're trying to avoid with a college degree really looks like. Roofing companies aren't generally cited as having an "institutional legacy of white supremacy, colonialism, anti-black racism, anti-Latinx racism, anti-Native American racism, anti-Native/indigenous racism, anti-Asian racism, anti-Middle Eastern racism, heterosexism, cis-sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism, mental health stigma, and classism."

Idiots.

Going further, the students demand the people behind "free speech" fliers be required to go through a disciplinary process as well as "extensive training for racial and cultural competency."

All hail the "progressive" Left - sending political prisoners to the Gulag since 1917.

I'm willing to chip in to send these Amherst students to some place more to their liking.

Say, Cuba, for instance. I'm sure they won't be upset to be under the watchful eye of the DGI and other state security organs. The entire island is a "safe space".

The only thing I want from them in return is that they march to the US Consulate and renounce their US citizenship and become Cuban citizens.

Is that really too much to ask for? and they'll get free health care and free education. What a deal!

All hail the "progressive" Left - sending political prisoners to the Gulag since 1917.

Now, now, that's a re-education camp!

They ARE "wanna-be oppressors" -- that what some don't realize. And they are being allowed to succeed on various campuses.

With apologies to Descartes, the motto of these students is: "I think, therefor I am correct."

Further proof. "Someone is paying or loaning $70K/year to enroll me at Amherst. I must be a whole lot of special."

I have never seen anything like this before:

"MIZZOU CAMPUS ACTIVISTS AND BLACK LIVES MATTER COMPLAIN ABOUT PARIS STEALING THE SPOTLIGHT"

http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/11/14/mizzou-campus-activists-and-black-lives-matter-complain-about-paris-stealing-the-spotlight/

Shame, shame, shame on them.

Maybe we should bring back the draft...and do it Viet Nam style, when virtually no excuses were accepted.

Patrick, that was only true for the last couple of years of the Vietnam War. Through 1969 you could get a deferment if you were in college or graduate school or working in the defense industry. In '70 they ended those deferments and started up a draft lottery. As a 1970 college graduate, I was acutely aware of this.

Maybe we should bring back the draft...and do it Viet Nam style, when virtually no excuses were accepted.

Maybe we should bring back Kent State. Cheaper and quicker.

Amherst? Fuck off. Get your ass to a real gritty school campus where you have to live a thug life just to get to class. Oberlin, or maybe Brown. That shit's real, bitches.

"Maybe we should bring back Kent State."

Idiot.

I don't want you to take this the wrong way, and I mean this in the best way possible, but these protest organizers should be napalmed.

Rex & Patrick, the percentage of young men who were drafted in the Vietnam era was always fairly low.

"From a pool of approximately 27 million, the draft raised 2,215,000 men for military service (in the United States, Vietnam, West Germany, and elsewhere) during the Vietnam era. The draft has also been credited with 'encouraging' many of the 8.7 million 'volunteers' to join rather than risk being drafted."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_States#Vietnam_War)

So the military services only needed a third of the young men, and filled 80% of that need with volunteers. That made it fairly easy to avoid the draft; they had so many men that were unquestionably 1A that many excuses were accepted without question. Two of my friends from high school were classified 4F at their physical just for being too fat; an Army that really needed more troops would have drafted them and enforced extra PE and dieting. (IMO, one of them was too crazy to be trusted with live ammo, possibly gay, and had been raised as a pacifist, but they didn't get to those things because he failed at the scales. The other could have been a good troop with enough exercise to make his muscles and cardiovascular system to match his size.)

But at least weight was something the military measured for themselves. If you could find a doctor willing to write a letter exaggerating your minor physical or mental imperfections, the odds were they'd never check up on it - or so I heard. (I stopped worrying about whether I would be willing to use such dodges after drawing a high the draft lottery number.)

Finally, less than half of the draftees served in Vietnam; Germany and Korea each had American forces about as big as our peak Vietnam force, just standing around in case something happened. Volunteers enlisted for three or more years, allowing time to rotate them around two or three postings; draftees served for only two years, which after training and waiting around for assignments, often left only enough time for one six-month overseas tour. And of course, far less than half the men who served in Vietnam were in combat roles (although "noncombat" troops had to worry about VC/NVA mortars just as much as the grunts, and anyone could wind up in combat when a post was infiltrated. The military really ought to have been prepared for things like the Fort Bragg jihadi ever since 1965.)