Coddled Little Campus Princes And Princesses Present Their List Of Demands to U of Maryland
There's little that reflects an obscene level of overprivilege as going to college and -- iinstead of studying -- focusing on demanding everything short of foot rubs and hourly cloth diaper service from the administration.

That's what (as the WaPo headline puts it) "minority students" at the University of Maryland are doing. They've issued 64 demands, including a demand for prayer rooms in every major building and shuttles to a Muslim center.

My suspicion -- in this case and others? Well, getting back to the opening line of this post, ask yourself what sort of person has the incredible opportunity of going to college in America in 2017 and puts their time into activism instead of learning?

Sure, it's a way to have unearned power over others -- if they can push administrations into meeting their demands.

Also, through their activism they can feel they are doing something -- something important, for a cause -- which means they have good reason to ignore their school work.

And maybe there's a reason for doing that -- such as the practice on many campuses of "diversity" admissions: admitting students who might be qualified for a lesser school but who are prioritized and admitted at a school they'd otherwise be nixed from simply because of the color of their skin or their background.

Law prof Gail Heriot goes into detail at at Heritage about how "race-preferential admissions policies hurt minority students" and actually make for "fewer African-American scientists, physicians, and engineers and likely fewer lawyers and college professors." (The whole piece is worth reading -- especially the part about Justice Mosk and the Bakke case.)

About the latest coalition of brats acting up on campus, Valerie Strauss story in the WaPo:

A coalition of 25 student organizations representing eight minority communities at the University of Maryland has presented a list of 64 demands to the administration. They include increased mental-health support and scholarships for marginalized students, as well as prayer rooms in every "major" building and shuttle service for Muslim students to a Muslim center.

The coalition, called ProtectUMD, sent a letter with the demands to officials at the University of Maryland at College Park in late November and met with a group of them at President Wallace D. Loh's request, according to the Diamondback, the school's major independent student newspaper. The Diamondback recently published a special project explaining each specific demand as it relates to students, which you can see here. (A full list of the demands is below.)

...Among the 64 demands (which you can see in full below):

• Required diversity training for Greek organizations and groups recognized by the Student Government Association.

• An immediate response to hate speech or actions from university officials, including a consequence for the perpetrators.

• Penalties for groups that screen movies that "perpetuate false narratives and stereotypes" of Muslims.

• Acknowledgment during every campus event that "this is indigenous land," along with efforts to "officially recognize the tribe or nation whose land upon which the University of Maryland is built."

• One room in each major building designated for prayer.

• A full-time undocumented-student coordinator to advocate for, advise, represent and protect undocumented and "DACAmented students." (DACA is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, which shields some undocumented immigrants from deportation.)

• A declaration of the College Park campus "as a sanctuary campus for undocumented and DACAmented students and their families."

• Converting the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies Program into a department in order to provide curricular autonomy.

• University System of Maryland divestment from Maryland Correctional Enterprises, the prison industry arm of Maryland's Division of Corrections, as well as "student divestment from businesses and companies invested in MCE and the prison industrial complex."

• Shuttle service for students on the College Park campus to the Diyanet Center of America in Lanham for "Muslim students to have access to a place of worship and participate in the many activities that the center hosts."

So, forced speech, forced indoctrination, and special privileges for Muslim students? Got it.

Some of the others include: "The University employ more professors of color in all university departments."

So, we're going to be hiring people on the basis of their skin color rather than their merit. And outside of providing a few "of color"-ful faces to liven the place up, how is that fair to the students?

Also, how insulting to professors who are black who are smart, insightful, hard-working, and great at what they do -- and how awful that people must wonder whether they got where they are because somebody shoved a far more qualified Asian kid off of the college admissions ledge.

More: "Make free legal advice available for students participating in activism who face slander or other dishonest claims while exercising their rights to protest and free speech."

Oopsy! They forgot that they removed free speech in their other demands. Oh, right -- that's probably just the removal of free speech for Jews who support Israel and people who voted for Trump.