Sounds like it’s time to call in Larry the Liquidator (Other People’s Money reference). BU is clearly an obsolete and failing institution since it can’t avoid systemic and institutional racism in one of the most woke places in the world. So, break it up, sell off the assets and shut it down — and wish all the non-STEM faculty Good Luck in a market saturated with Studies Majors looking for a handout or paycheck. Maybe they can learn to code.

...how likely is it that they will be in positions of power at some point?

What do you mean "at some point?"

Watch how quickly the university backs down to their demands and tell who's got the power here.

"I just have to wonder: How much of this generation is made of delusional perpetual children and how likely is it that they will be in positions of power at some point?" ~Amy

"The signers, mostly faculty, ..." ~Carnahan

They are already in power. They are the teachers.

This is crazy. My kid returned to her campus weeks ago. After an initial spike in cases, the numbers have gone down. We actually thought, at one point, that she would be coming home, but the situation has stabilized and school is going on. Most of the classes are online, but clubs can now meet and we think football will start soon. I think the kids will be okay.

This is crazy. My kid returned to her campus weeks ago. After an initial spike in cases, the numbers have gone down. We actually thought, at one point, that she would be coming home, but the situation has stabilized and school is going on. Most of the classes are online, but clubs can now meet and we think football will start soon. I think the kids will be okay.

The critical-theory-obsessed are already in power anywhere elites are in charge, and they have been for some years now. The biggest mistake that we have made as a society in the past few decades is ceding all power in the education system to those who teach and promulgate critical theory and political correctness. It's going to be damn hard to strip it out from the rest of society at this point.
It may be that the most beneficial thing to come out of the Trump admin is that he is calling attention to the problem and directing some action against it. We just have to pray that enough people will see the danger and that the Emperor has no clothes.

Um... elites are in charge everywhere... someone in charge is elite by definition...

Colleges had better be careful what they claim about racism. Look what happened when Princeton sent out a letter to the entire university stating how racist it was:

https://reason.com/2020/09/17/department-of-education-to-investigate-racism-at-princeton-university/

Remember this when the same people cry rivers when the general public has had enough and demands an end to funding of higher ed. That will be due to the general public's anti-intellectualism, not the actions of the academy.

Paraphrase: You can tell a BU man, but you can't tell him much.

Any university competent enough to deserve to stay accredited will by now have already told the critical race theorists they're delusional, and to bleep off.

Maybe they can learn to code.

Transcode. Or is it Transphobe? I get confused.

Anyone they see in a position of authority like a college are assumed to have infinite resources. They think they can demand that the college take on testing of the whole community (by the way, there is no such thing as a "community" in a modern city but commies keep talking about it as if it is real). In the case of BU the commuting students could be spread out over a huge area. Test it all? In another case last year students demanded all sorts of new faculty posts and amenities, completely missing that they themselves would be paying for it.
I guess Freud was right about projecting, because these faculty sure are projecting their paranoia onto the school.

"Are you all fucking high?"

If the blunt fits, hit it.

> Are you all fucking high?

Yeah, there comes a point where sane people can't pretend there's any coherence happening with this stuff.

Like this.

Yes, this task must fall on BU because it's not like Boston otherwise has any good medical facilities.

Having known, and been taught by Dr. Robert Brown when he was a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, long before he became President of BU, I can only imagine the tremendous effort it takes for him not to burst out laughing/crying at the stupidity and ignorance of the faculty and students at his institution.
God bless you, Bob. I don't know how you can endure this nonsense, which runs against every bit of common sense you used to impart to your students. Hopefully you are nearing retirement, and can safely ridicule this movement.

Don't forget, BU is the same institution that graduated Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cum laude with a degree in economics.