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Title: Enrollment down, dorms closing at Univ. of Missouri; Is this the price of political correctness?
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The Blaze
URL Source: http://www.theblaze.com/podcasts/en ... rice-of-political-correctness/
Published: Sep 4, 2017
Author: Doc Thompson
Post Date: 2017-09-04 18:40:14 by Tooconservative
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Views: 1812
Comments: 2
Melissa Click, an assistant professor who taught in the school’s communication department, was fired in February 2016 several months after after she was caught on video yelling at a student journalist who was trying to cover a protest. Her cries for “muscle” to help remove the student from the event became a symbol for political correctness running amuck. Last week on “The Morning Blaze with Doc Thompson,” Doc Thompson and the guys talked about the university’s decline following the protests. Enrollment is down by 2,000 students, and Mizzou is starting the school year with the smallest incoming class since 1999. Seven dorms have been closed, and the university has announced up to 100 layoffs, with around 300 more layoffs expected in the near future. “Most people do not want the political correctness,” Doc said. A Wall Street Journal op-ed from earlier this month outlined the problems plaguing Mizzou since then. The piece opens with an anecdote about a longtime Missouri fan who attended dozens of athletic events each year but has since pledged to stop donating to the school. “It’s obvious people are speaking with their dollars,” Kal Elsebai said. In July, the New York Times reported that budget cuts have even left the school’s library “begging for books.”
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The University of Missouri is home to perhaps the most infamous example of student “safe space” protests, a 2015 incident where a professor was captured on video harassing a student journalist. Now, the school is facing a substantial drop in enrollment, fewer attendees at football games, closing dorms and alumni who don’t want to support Mizzou anymore.
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#1. To: Tooconservative (#0)
Crush the school out of existence. They made a choice, as have many faced with the pressure of the situation. The only way to make that choice HARDER for institutions - for the institutions to not simply give in - is for the price of giving in to be the death of the institution because the OTHER side kills it. Most university administrators will not vote themselves out of a job over political correctness. Mizzou did what they did, and stood firm. And now they have to pay the consequences by the systematic death of their program. Similarly, Koepernick (spelling) doesn't need to be a quarterback. He exercised his speech, and now others are exercising their rights, as to whom they hire, whom they want to watch. The only way to make most people listen to anything is to take their property and money away from them. Then they listen hard. They hate and fear, but they listen and calculate, instead of just giving the other side what they want.
I think a few are doing that. At some point, a university system will get rescued by the state's legislature. They'll move in and fire the lot if they have to. Universities simply aren't allowed to fail like a private college does. They want the specialty schools too much, like the medical college, the law college, the veterinary college, etc.
#2. To: Vicomte13 (#1)
Most university administrators will not vote themselves out of a job over political correctness.
Mizzou did what they did, and stood firm. And now they have to pay the consequences by the systematic death of their program.
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