UT-Off the Rails
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Ole Cowboy
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Worse than off the rails:
"Under the leadership of university president Greg Fenves, UT is being molded into a burnt-orange knock-off of Evergreen State—a showcase for left-wing academic fads. Fenves, a Berkeley alumnus who also taught there, has overseen the removal of “offensive” historical statuary (including one commemorating a former Texas governor, James Stephen Hogg); an expensive legal battle to defend the school’s use of racial preferences in admissions; the expansion of a highly paid diversity bureaucracy (with a staff approaching 100); the denial of due process in UT’s handling of sexual-misconduct claims; the implementationof campus speech codes and the creation of “bias response teams”; and, in 2016, UT’s first international black studies conference, featuring the notorious Communist activist Angela Davis (a former member of the FBI’s most wanted list) as a keynote speaker.
Many UT alumni place greater importance on the success of the school’s sports teams than they do on academic politics, paying scant attention to Fenves’s transformation of their alma mater into a social-justice academy. Despite his aggressive activist agenda, the only significant pushback Fenves has faced thus far was over the university’s “MasculinUT” program, a widely ridiculedcampaign designed to combat “toxic masculinity” on campus. The risible initiative suggested that men suffer when they are told to “act like a man” or are encouraged to be the “breadwinner.” The $330,000-per-year Dean of Students, Soncia Reagins-Lilly, was forced to put the program on hold when national media and radio talk show hosts mocked it."
"Under the leadership of university president Greg Fenves, UT is being molded into a burnt-orange knock-off of Evergreen State—a showcase for left-wing academic fads. Fenves, a Berkeley alumnus who also taught there, has overseen the removal of “offensive” historical statuary (including one commemorating a former Texas governor, James Stephen Hogg); an expensive legal battle to defend the school’s use of racial preferences in admissions; the expansion of a highly paid diversity bureaucracy (with a staff approaching 100); the denial of due process in UT’s handling of sexual-misconduct claims; the implementationof campus speech codes and the creation of “bias response teams”; and, in 2016, UT’s first international black studies conference, featuring the notorious Communist activist Angela Davis (a former member of the FBI’s most wanted list) as a keynote speaker.
Many UT alumni place greater importance on the success of the school’s sports teams than they do on academic politics, paying scant attention to Fenves’s transformation of their alma mater into a social-justice academy. Despite his aggressive activist agenda, the only significant pushback Fenves has faced thus far was over the university’s “MasculinUT” program, a widely ridiculedcampaign designed to combat “toxic masculinity” on campus. The risible initiative suggested that men suffer when they are told to “act like a man” or are encouraged to be the “breadwinner.” The $330,000-per-year Dean of Students, Soncia Reagins-Lilly, was forced to put the program on hold when national media and radio talk show hosts mocked it."
Longhorn1986
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At one time, I was proud to be a TexasEx Life Member. Now, more often than not, I just want to send my diploma & ring back and tell them where they can shove both......
I'm in your boat with you. Still proud of my BSME '85. For engineering schools in Texas at the time, it was Rice, A&M and UT. TTU was getting there. The politics weren't shoved down our throats and the only thing I was interested in was passing my classes, my girlfriend, and the egg roll truck.
It's been a liberal haven for decades. They just get more attention now. I went there for a while when I got out of the Marines. The first month I was there I got to a door about the same time as a female student. I quickened my pace just a bit so I got there first and held the door open for her.
She called me a chauvinist as she walked by leaving me standing with the door stunned. Later there was some protest on campus against grapes for some reason I don't recall.
My little girl turns 30 on her next birthday, and this was all before her.
She called me a chauvinist as she walked by leaving me standing with the door stunned. Later there was some protest on campus against grapes for some reason I don't recall.
My little girl turns 30 on her next birthday, and this was all before her.
Ole Cowboy
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Long story, short:
When I got divorced and had to cough up MY 78 Silver Annv Corvette I ordered for me before I left for Korea. When I came back wife had sold her '79 Corvette I ordered for her right before I left, she divorced me when I returned from Korea and kept my Corvette.
So the day rolls around and we meet at the bank, she gets Corvette, but I had stopped by TxDot and picked up some plates for her, they said: SMUUT! I grad from SMU and she from UT.
When I got divorced and had to cough up MY 78 Silver Annv Corvette I ordered for me before I left for Korea. When I came back wife had sold her '79 Corvette I ordered for her right before I left, she divorced me when I returned from Korea and kept my Corvette.
So the day rolls around and we meet at the bank, she gets Corvette, but I had stopped by TxDot and picked up some plates for her, they said: SMUUT! I grad from SMU and she from UT.
Longhorn1986
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You forgot cheap Shiner Bock pitchers at the Union.
We were there around the same time (B.A. Economics 1986). The only thing the libs were whining about was El Salvador and UT owning Shell stock because Shell had investments in South Africa. I proudly wore my "Reagan/Bush '84" button on my backpack! I just missed "The Academia Waltz", but Steve Dallas was my hero, even if I wasn't a frat boy. I lived for the 3 B's. Hell, I even drove a Buick!
Ole Cowboy
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Texas Tech University. Brandon Waltens reports the Red Raidersrecently hosted a workshop pairing biologically male students with speech language pathologists to help develop “feminine pitch and feminine qualities” in their voices. This is just the latest example of Texas’ public universities becoming a breeding ground for leftist social engineering.
Sometimes I wonder if we aren't far behind. Some of the headlines I see about A&M in The Eagle amaze me. There is definitely a large liberal, snowflake population. Obviously not the whole school yet but I'm sure there are a few professors trying their best.
Wildcat Diva
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Jesus. I’m glad my kid (one anyways) is taking trade classes at community college.
Its true there do seem to be a few snowflakes there but from what I read they number a few hundred and according to some reports feel intimidated by the vast majority of students that don't share their views. Like all "rent a mob" agitators the noise they make is out of proportion to their actual size.
Good to hear, maybe there is hope after all.
Mike Rowe of Dirty Jobs would be proud of you and your son:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/5341187908001/?#sp=show-clips
I went to work for the University of California, Davis campus in 1985 as a Superintendent in the Facilities Department. At that time, Davis and most of the other campuses in the UC system were fairly conservative and focused on their role of educating the top 10% of California's students. Only Berkeley and Santa Cruz were considered liberal with Santa Barbara on the borderline. Over the next 20 years...only two decades... the entire system plunged into the sewer with huge pushes for anything non traditional (homosexuality, communism, socialism, racial division and blurring of gender lines). During this time I rose to be a Director and later a Vice Chancellor and, the higher I got, the dirtier the air became around me. I went from Davis to UC Irvine and then to the DOE National Laboratory at the Lawrence Berkeley site. When I decided to leave in 2006, I could no longer recognize anything that the institution stood for and anyone in executive positions that was not in line with the liberal Sacramento agendas was out. The final straw was being ordered by the CEO to violate federal laws because the University did not have to comply; of course it would have been my signature on the documents so I refused and resigned my position instead. One of the things I remember most was sitting around the executive management table talking about ethics and hearing from the leadership that "ethics did not apply to us" because their mission was "above ethics". In essence, we have seen that played out because these folks really pay no attention to the law and the Constitution because they think they are above it all and that our fathers, grandfathers, and past generations were all stupid for believing, fighting and giving their lives for those things that are just foolishness.
This is how quickly it can all happen...and is happening, all over the nation. Give them 20 years and they will take over everything.
This is how quickly it can all happen...and is happening, all over the nation. Give them 20 years and they will take over everything.
But their pricing themselves out of the market. In 20 years, no one will be able to afford the schools trying to push the agenda.
Kinda like the so called "national news" Once you stop trying to hide behind being neutral with no agenda, folks start to take note and move in another direction.
I think in another 20 years, both the "higher" education system and the TV / print media will be very different than they are today, and not in the way the leftists are hoping for.
That's why some are pushing to hard for "free" college. They have to set it up as an entitlement before the bubble pops.
They're pushing, but the folks who have to pay for the "free" are pushing back. Even left leaning Amazon is pushing back against Seattle. Thinking about having a leftist utopia and actually paying for it appear to be 2 different things. Even for the super rich leftists.
Otherwise we would all have more houses than Bernie Sanders, instead of the other way around.
The Chinese will continue to fill any vacant seats at any U.S. university in order to get their kids residency here. Just look at any of the major college campuses and you will see significant to huge Chinese populations...from Seattle to San
Diego it is huge, the further east you go less so but still significant.
Read the other day where a Chinese developer bought enough land in Tyler to build an entire Chinese community of 5,000 "students" to go to TJC and UT Tyler. Now, 5,000 is about 5% of the entire population of Tyler. Then, you can figure on the majority of them buying houses outside of the compound, paying cash and bring in relatives from the mainland and, within 20 years, Tyler will be 20% Chinese. Just look at what they have done to dozens and dozens of west coast cities. Fortunately, the city of Tyler has had a small amount of common sense prevail and the project is on hold now, but this is how it happens folks.
https://tylerpaper.com/news/local/d...cle_912c119a-0557-11e8-a53c-8b42829a9545.html
Diego it is huge, the further east you go less so but still significant.
Read the other day where a Chinese developer bought enough land in Tyler to build an entire Chinese community of 5,000 "students" to go to TJC and UT Tyler. Now, 5,000 is about 5% of the entire population of Tyler. Then, you can figure on the majority of them buying houses outside of the compound, paying cash and bring in relatives from the mainland and, within 20 years, Tyler will be 20% Chinese. Just look at what they have done to dozens and dozens of west coast cities. Fortunately, the city of Tyler has had a small amount of common sense prevail and the project is on hold now, but this is how it happens folks.
https://tylerpaper.com/news/local/d...cle_912c119a-0557-11e8-a53c-8b42829a9545.html
