Obamalings Roosting at Dartmouth College

I have followed PowerLine writers during our American twenty first century years which have created the Marxist Obamaling college generations. The Obama presidency is simply the result of know-nothings in education, the arrival of hysterical feminists and racists as a replacement for learning and search for truth. Crying is much easier than thinking…..particularly if it is institutionalized as it has become in Obamaland America.

Learning as a cultural value has been absent in these ‘abroad’ institutions ever since the collapse of American female intellectuality since the nation’s lefty sex and religious revolution of the 1960s and 1970s. Hysteria is in.

I am guessing the principals at PowerLine have attended Dartmouth. They are not happy with the Obamalized administration….and perhaps, in general, the wussy faculty.

Like president Obama, today’s ‘heads’ of American universities glow proudly under the tyrants halo of deceit, of the phony.

Students learn what they observe, feel…..and perform eventually as they do in the following article at PowerLine, regarding Dartmouth College today:

DARTMOUTH’S CHICKENS COME HOME TO ROOST _ IN THE PRESIDENT’S OFFICE

“The Dartmouth students known as “Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students” have followed through on their threat to take “physical action” if the College’s administrators don’t reply to their demands. Their physical action consists of occupying the office of Phil Hanlon, Dartmouth’s president.

The demands of these activists are so absurd that when I first reported on them some very intelligent people told me that this was a hoax. Here are some of the demands:

Incorporate into each department at least one queer studies class.

Commit multi-millions of dollars to increase faculty and staff of color in all departments, and create a “professor of color” lecture series.

Require ALL professors to be trained in “cultural competency” and the “importance of social justice in their day to day work.”

Ask faculty to use preferred gender pronouns. Allow body and gender self-determination.

Provide gender-neutral housing to all students. Provide gender-specific and gender-neutral bathrooms in every building on campus.

Provide free legal assistance and financial aid for undocumented students to “better understand each of their unique legal statuses.”

Require that every Dartmouth student be taught and made aware that the land they reside on is Abenaki homeland.

All male-female checkboxes should be replaced with write-in boxes to make forms, surveys, and applications more inclusive for trans, two-spirit, agender, gender-nonconforming and genderqueer folks campus-wide.

But even ridiculous demands deserve an answer. “Are you crazy?” would be a good response. A simple “no” would suffice.

Instead, President Hanlon has served up condescending mush. To that extent, the resort to “physical action” is, perhaps, understandable.

But here’s my question? Are “Concerned Asian, Black, Latin@, Native, Undocumented, Queer, and Differently-Abled students” making demands like this and backing them up by occupying offices at other elite and semi-elite colleges?

After all, every college sits on land where Indians once roamed. Surely no college includes a “queer studies” course in every department (Queer Physics?). And virtually every college is admitting minority students who, prior to admission, have not demonstrated the ability to compete academically with regular admittees and thus are likely to become alienated after matriculating (if not before).

So again, is what’s going on at Dartmouth — absurd demands followed up by physical coercion — occurring at other colleges? Or have decades of muddled thinking, misguided attempts at accommodation, and lack of adult supervision by Dartmouth administrators and faculty produced students whose infantile radicalism and/or sense of empowerment produces demands and physical action that exceed the level to be found at most comparable colleges?

JOHN adds: I confess that I was among those who thought the “Concerned…students’” demands were a clever parody of juvenile campus leftism. Alas, they were for real–some things just can’t be parodied.”