Someone needs to do the world a favor and shoot that idiot, before we're all left paying for him the rest of our lives.

"larger systems"? I'm guessing that means he's black, and his family blames whatever incarceration/poverty they're experiencing on the whiteys racism?

I've said before that in another two decades there are going to be 20-30 million like him, and they are all going to have to be institutionalized. If the government is bankrupt, which it likely will be, what then?

Fred Reed used to have an observation - maybe only 10% of Americans are fit for something other than farm or factory work.

This is the result of the Clinton-era idea that he could buy the youth vote and also control employment by pushing the credential society - tell everyone they should go to college, have loose credit (or so it looked) for student loans (that then become lifetime indentures), and then scare every company through the HR department into thinking that the college degree requirement is the only hiring requirement that isn't illegally discriminatory.

You remember the old line from Michigan - a college degree from a directional school isn't worth what a high school diploma from Cass Tech was before 1967.

The person who's dealing with all of these things that keep him from studying and getting a degree should be able to find employment. It's amazing how many of those issues clear up with a couple years of solid employment. He can get a degree if he wants to after that. His life will have perspective....

... Except that same government that wants to indenture him to student loan debt is also importing competition that underbids him for those entry-level jobs at the rate of 1/2 to 1% of the population per year.

The slave masters did not stop their practices, they just went into government.

If I'm paying for college for my girls and find out that either of them are wasting their time (and my money) engaging in this protest culture bullshit, I will have their asses shipped back home to bag groceries at HEB (or help Daddy run the steel business) before they know what's happened.

Same.

I read that story last night, alternately laughing and cringing.

This was amazing:

More than thirteen hundred students signed a petition calling for the college to eliminate any grade lower than a C for the semester, but to no avail. “Students felt really unsupported in their endeavors to engage with the world outside Oberlin,” she told me.

As an employer, I should find this more disheartening than I do — but I only have to hire one or two young people per year, not 100 or 200. The parents of this generation are doing a lot of the pre-screening for me, and for that I thank you.

These whining snowflakes don't need white people or anyone else to marginalize them, they're doing a fantastic job marginalizing themselves.

Absolutely amazing article.

College seniors not able to converse via proper sentence structure, not able to recognize that whining and insulting others does not solve their 'problem', and upset that their college world does not evolve around them.

Damn. I just wanted to get my degree so I could get a job and support my wife and eagerly awaited son.

They want none of the above as long as they can be an activist as they define it.

They don't even want to take their valuable education back to their poor downtrodden neighborhoods to try and improve things for others. It's all about them.

HR will not even hire them (I hope).

It’s just a massive catastrophe,” Eosphoros reported of the microaggressions he encountered even in his work-study life. “You get your supervisor monologuing about how everyone is just here for ‘pocket money,’ and you’re sitting there going, ‘You cancelled the shift on Sunday, and, because of that, I can’t pay my rent.’ ” He feels that he’s been drawn into a theatre of tokenism. “It’s always disappointing to be proof of concept for other people,” he told me.

It's like a Mike Judge comedy writing itself.

If you cannot provide what I need in the format I need it you are of no value to me. Being able to give me the designs of an MRI in epic poem is worthless. Learn how to format your output.

Throughout history, humans have been interacting with the multiverse via ultrasonic energy. We are at a crossroads of learning and yearning.

Yeah, tell him that and charge him some extra fees. He'll eat it up.

When I was in college, about 16 years or so ago, I actually had a circumstance that was in the official list of acceptable excuses for skipping an exam or having a late paper. The list had maybe 3-4 things on it including things like death of a family member and hospitalization.

The trick was for most of them you had to get permission first. Problem was, my professor was Orthodox and celebrating Passover when my relative died - I couldn't contact him. A grad student was set to proctor and didn't have the authority to ok my skipping the exam. So.... I went for what little I could, got back at 3AM the day of the test, studied until 6, took a nap, then took the test at 9. Then I emailed the professor, knowing he wouldn't get for a few more days.

In short, I handled it as best I could (ok, if I hadn't also had the flu maybe I would have thought to contact the department chair or something). But I sucked it up.

I find it unimaginable that kids want to be granted extensions and make-ups for engaging in protests, etc.

But, I suppose it was inevitable that the students would realize they are the "customer" and the colleges want the money, so "the customer is always right" mentality comes into play.

It's basically paying for a really expensive piece of paper at this point. The degrees are almost worthless.

But, I suppose it was inevitable that the students would realize they are the "customer" and the colleges want the money, so "the customer is always right" mentality comes into play.

No, the parents are the customer -- but many of today's parents are so childwhipped they go along with this farce.

Jordyn and Madisyn didn't show up at orientation as tabula rasa; they had a lifetime of entitlement that got them here.

I took a final with a trash can between my knees once at UT, to puke in. Made an A on it, too. Fuck these pathetic whimpy losers. Fuck them so much. Oooo, it just makes me more and more mad. And MY jon evaluation is now based not on "did I save your life and provide top notch medical care", but rather on what these fucking entitled asshats put on their satisfaction survey after discharge.

"I find it unimaginable that kids want to be granted extensions and make-ups for engaging in protests, etc."

They've been trained for this. The dean of their college among many other administrators have granted them these privileges. Which is why I say they are pawns of the administration. If I had asked for any of these special privileges the laughter from the faculty would be heard on the moon. But not getting these privileges causes these students shock and outrage. They almost always are granted these special rights. So I can only conclude they are part of the administration they supposedly are protesting against.

The bit about customers is a smokescreen. Ask any of the conservative students if they have the option of an oral midterm. This is more of that 'some are more equal than others' business.

An updated version of Mao's Red Guards.

No wonder they are supporting a $15/hour minimum wage. They are going to need it.

I went to college in the early nineties.

I was studying overnight for a 9 AM exam. Decided I needed a little sleep beforehand. I overslept.

I ran to the class just as the professor was packing up to leave. Begged to take the exam.

No dice. He said that one grade gets dropped so I should be fine. The previous grade was the one I wanted dropped.

I studied my butt off for the final (it was weighted higher) and pulled an A- for the semester.

I was dreaming about benzene rings and buckyballs for months after that.

Of course the parents are the customers. They want what they are paying for - a nice diploma and no headaches. But the incentives on them are to go against the college. They have already paid a good sum for something. If they pull funding from Junior, he'll just end up at home or something. If they complain to the college, Junior might get a "pass" of some variety because the college has something to loose in pissing off the customer... and not as much (direct cost) to loose in making things easier for the students.

Perhaps this is now reaching a tipping point where some are questioning if the degrees are worth anything and they will in time be less valuable and thus the demand might dry up a bit. It might take another decade or so, but the bad behavior will come back to bite the schools in the ass.

So, no, it's not the student (usually) who is the client, but close enough.

"Perhaps this is now reaching a tipping point where some are questioning if the degrees are worth anything and they will in time be less valuable and thus the demand might dry up a bit. "

That's already happened. Some decades ago, people with humanities degrees were sought after by businesses as managers, directors, and customer reps. All positions where the broad knowledge and language skills, conferred by a humanities education, had value. It's no longer true because post-modern humanities education no longer teaches those things. Humanities schools now denigrate the very subject that they purport to teach: the Queen's English is mocked, and the Western literature is discarded as "colonial", "reactionary", etc. Needless to say, business now avoids humanities majors like the plague.

You know where they get jobs? Government. A lot of them are skilled at office politics and excel in worming their way into government organizations where seniority and popularity matter more than skill or accomplishment or customer satisfaction. Accumulating authority while avoiding accountability is the name of the game.