“[He] had the heart to tell me I wasn’t a student,” Pfefferle said. “This means that my classification is still in limbo and is currently being decided by the administration. I have been accepted, I paid for my housing, I have my roommates, I even have a complete class schedule. If that doesn’t make me a student, what does?”
Some Marquette administrators also asked Pfefferle a series of questions meant to judge her morals, she said.
Why go there?
It’s obviously a Marxist nuthouse.
+++ Stan My very first thought, why the hell would anyone ant to go there?
For the “enriching experience”, of course. I’m so old that when I was an undergrad, one went to university to actually get an education.
Madness!
How do you live ‘unenriched’? /s
But, she is getting an education of sorts, though maybe not the way she expected.
“What did we learn about commies today, children?”
I blame the pancake syrup bottle, the oatmeal package, and some statues.
Those items have taken control of liberal brains.
If she is intelligent she might get an education on how not to live her life.
I went to UC Berkeley … and while I was a little more “compassionately” liberal in those days … I was pretty much the exact opposite of the prototypical Berkeley Student. But I didn’t advertise it. I kept my conservative candle under a bushel. I parroted everything my indoctrinators we’re trying to “convert” me to.
I feel somewhat cowardly for playing the stealth game. I actually quite admire this young lady for letting it all hang out. And IMHO that administrator who interrogated her should be fired and lose his pension. Fascists.
UCLA wasn’t any better. Angela Davis was an assistant professor one year while I was there.
I was actually naturalized April of my senior year. So all this time they considered me a foreign student. It was okay, I was invited to a lot of free parties at estates on Sunset.
I wasn’t brave, really, just oblivious. I wrote letters to the Daily Bruin under my own name. Some of my adversaries looked up my file, which was out in the open in Kirchoff Hall, found out I was a physics major, and said I shouldn’t say anything about politics. I don’t think I knew a single conservative there, the best you can say is many of them were apolitical.
UCI, where I got my doctorate, wasn’t any better. I mostly went to the pub right off campus to drink my dinner, and got to know a lot of SDS members there. In fact, I was invited to the wedding of two of them. The reception was held at the girl’s parents’ place on Balboa island. Yeah, she was playing at being a revolutionary.
We had a weekly Monday morning research group meeting with my advisor. One day all he wanted to talk about was Tom Bradley losing his first run at being mayor to Sam Yorty. He said that the racists won. I retorted that when 45% of one race voted for the candidate of the other race, whereas 90 some percent of that other race voted for their own, one would think the racism was elsewhere. I have to give it to him my politics never affected our relationship. I was involved with the Newman Club, the Catholic students organization. And it bothered all the white liberals that the only two conservatives in the Club were a Latino and an Asian, both immigrants no less.
Wow! You’re lucky you didn’t die with Cinque in a hail of bullets and incineration at SLA HQ!! Did you ever meet Patty Hearst at one of your revolutionary garden parties? Power to the People, right on!
Ohhh … you said SDS … not SLA. You hung out with the “intellectual wing” of the Revolution. The Bill Ayers types, who are all respectable now, and collect giant Professor pensions. Hahaha ha ha
PS … did you see my answer to your EPL kneeling question?
Yeah, they were mostly students, and most of the students are graduate students, but all in the “humanities.”
As to what you said about the kneeling by the EPL, yes, it is sort of a rationalization, but having rekindled my love for Liverpool, I agree it is difficult for me to let go.
I agree that Spain seems to sign less blacks than the other major leagues. However, the face of Barca’s future is black: 17 year old Ansu Fati, who is already on the varsity, and a naturalized Spaniard to boot. They also have Dembele. But I can see fans of other Spanish clubs making racist remarks. But I cannot understand racist taunts by English fans against blacks on other English clubs. It isn’t as though there is a club with no blacks, and most of them are stars, especially the strikers. The brightest stars on my Liverpool team are black: Virgil, Alexander-Arnold, Salah, Mane. (I don’t know if I call Salah “black”, he’s a relatively fair skinned Egyptian). Wijnaldum and Gomez also start. There are three Brazilians, they are in the next tier of stars, and they would be considered Latinos in this country. There are only two whites in the starting lineup. There surely is no racism on the Liverpool club.
I really cannot therefore take the racist taunts by English fans seriously. To me, the English fans like to taunt, and that’s just one of the things they can taunt with. And there are plenty of reasons why opposing fans would want to taunt Sterling, in particular. They just don’t stop at the politically correct boundary. But is it any worse than, say, taunting Shaqiri for being short? I for one vehemently don’t think so Hah.
Anyway, none of those people is deprived. They are doing very well in England. And if English clubs pretend they are supporting BLM, it means they tacitly believe the U.S. is a racist country, which I, seriously, vehemently deny. But the EPL is there, not here, and it can howl in the wind all it wants to, it doesn’t concern me. It’s like I won’t stop going to the doctors because I disagree with the AMA management.
P.S. Pulisic got his eighth goal yesterday, and it took a great save to deny him another. Yes, I believe he is safely in the Chelsea starting lineup. Chelsea just passed Leicester for third, and in all likelihood will be playing in the CL next season. He may be the first American to do it with an English club. (I believe some did it with Germany.)
Christian has come out of the break like a house afire! Prior to the break, he showed flashes of brilliance … but seemed to have fallen out of favor with Lampard … or his injuries had limited his game. I believe it’s more than that. I believe Lampard set him free(er) to be a play-maker. I know how much Lampard loves Mason Mount (a little Brit bias) … and Mount is a superb player … but I would prefer seeing Pulisic playing more central. In that spot … I believe he could be a legitimate Hazard clone. The only argument for keeping Mount in the withdrawn striker position (as I call it) is that he is probably a scrappier and more effective defender in that position. Sorry … I still fancy myself a soccer coach.
I agree to a large degree that the Brits naturally love to give stick to their opponents … as well as to their own mates. I would definitely harass Sterling for having a woman’s hips that make him run like a little girl. Yet, in this day and age … I’d be called a “racist” (and worst … a misogynist) for doing so. I’m sorry, but we’ve come way too far afield from Jackie Robinson’s thick skin, who bore-up in the face of pretty horrific taunts. But he did. And just like when a kid in the playground doesn’t let the bullies under their skin … the taunting stops.
Have you seen the recent Asian racism getting airtime in our divisive-narrative Press (spurred on from camera phones). The Silicon Valley exec. shouting at an Asian family at a Spa/Restaurant in Carmel? I almost get the impression the Press is going out of its way to separate Asians from Trump. I assume large numbers of Asians quietly support Trump … because they tend to be successful and logical (oops … I’m stereotyping!). I suspect ALL of these “racist” tirades start with some common variety RUDE behavior by one or both of the parties involved. But then the racial stereotypes come spilling out of someone’s mouth. I may have once said something about an Asian woman’s lack of driving skill. So sue me. I shouldn’t say that, eh? … that’s now declared to be a “hate crime”.
Agree on Pulisic, but I think Chelsea are working it out. Mane and Salah get their share of assists playing on the wing. Of course, when the outside defenders come forward, Liverpool play more like the really old 5 men line, and they drop back to as you call it “withdrawn striker”.
I guess I just don’t like City for many reasons. I don’t like the ownership. I don’t like the manager. And I don’t like many of the players. They have a surfeit of “pure” strikers, i.e. whenever they get the ball they look to shoot, Aguero, Sterling, Jesus. The three cannot comprise the frontline. But the biggest offender is Sterling. That is why he couldn’t play for Liverpool, and why Mahrez plays, but he is not as good as Sane, who will be back next season. And that’s why deBruyne is so valuable for them.
You cannot compare at all what Jackie Robinson suffered through to the purely verbal abuse with no bite for black EPL players. Coach Wooden recruited black players from the get go, but he had a way to handle segregated hotels in the South. He just didn’t play there. But the Dodgers couldn’t give Robinson that same protection.
I had always been proud that the Chinese Americans, unique among minorities, voted Republican. The first Asian U.S. Senator, Hiram Fong, was a Republican. But all of that changed when immigrants started coming from Mainland China, as well as “Taiwanese” speaking immigrants from Taiwan, who came with a minority complex. In any case, success and logic are no guarantee, or else Jews won’t still be voting en masse for the Democrats. But let me tell you, almost all the prejudice I have experienced personally came from the left. From the blacks and Latinos, I really do believe much of it was due to sheer envy. But the whites showed they were really racist at heart. They are fine as long as a minority member accept their paternalism, but heaven forbid you should speak to them as an equal. Too often instead of arguing on point, out of nowhere they would ask me “where did you come from” (no not L.A. I mean before that) or “how long have you been here”. On the other hand, I got along so well with conservatives that I was actually invited to join the John Birch Society, which I declined. But the fact I was asked sure destroyed a lot of stereotypes.
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maybe she wants to get a job in seattle
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As a post-secondary educator, let me give free, well thought-out advice to the future president of Northwestern North America: defund academia, defund public schools, teach all children a trade.
Sorry I can’t wait for Reader Tips tonight…an instant classic:
https://twitter.com/resitstrump/status/1280817068640808968?s=21
You do have to fight back and destroy the (SAFE) breeding grounds of the Cockroaches
The crazies have been occupying whole cities and they are Trained in/by Communist Universities… What would prevent a Group payback of occupying the University Admin Office & not allowing Classes… Harvard, USC, Etc in 2020+…. Until they fired all the Foreign Agent Professors & expelled ANTIFA/BLM violent students….AK47’s send a message…
That is better than getting a bunch of idiots killed in a Riot mode
….Nowday, “Catholic University” is an oxymoron
My guess is that Marquette will admit this girl.
Applying such a blatant political litmus test would have severe consequences for their reputation. They may as well put up a big sign saying “Conservative thought unwelcome”, which would make many parents think twice before paying tuition so their little darlings can attend. This is particularly serious given that a lot of universities are going to be struggling over the next few years, especially private institutions who don’t have the tax payer to fall back on. Marquette can’t afford to polarize anyone.
So is it acceptable for conservatives to riot and burn down institutions that don’t capitulate to conservative values?