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Leftists the world over are in tears and hysterics over Donald Trump’s historic victory on Tuesday, but nowhere are they more desolate and depressed these days than on America’s college and university campuses. Students are at an age when passions run high, and as our institutions of higher learning are now little more than indoctrination centers for Antifa, it’s understandable that the mood on campus these days is more than a little dark.
College and university administrators and professors, however, are only making matters worse by pandering to the students’ ridiculous grief, and even encouraging it, rather than reminding them that life is tough and they just have to get on with it. This is largely, of course, because those far-left administrators and professors are just as immature as their students.
The Washington Free Beacon reported Friday that “after Donald Trump’s historic reelection sent despair rippling across college campuses, grieving professors at America’s top universities canceled classes, rescheduled exams, and promised to forgive poor grades. Schools offered students milk, cookies, puzzles, Legos, and ‘destress sessions.’”
Milk and cookies? Puzzles? Legos? Are we talking about universities here, or about kindergarten? Given the academic level of these woke institutions today, it’s essentially the same thing, and even the most elite universities are engaging in this silly grandstanding.
One Columbia University professor wrote to her students: “I hope you are hanging in there. I have been think [sic] of you over the last few days. [If] you don’t feel up for class, absences today will be excused.” A Barnard prof wrote in a similar vein: “In recognition of the increased stressed [sic] some of you might be feeling because of the election results, I will offer to replace your midterm Exam 2 grade with your Final Exam grade if better.”
Another professor canceled class because “it feels a bit tone-deaf to deliver” a “lecture on modern polling methods and their blind spots” at this time of yet another reminder of polling’s blind spots. She added a compassionate note: “Be good to yourselves, check in on your friends.”
Oh, brother. It wasn’t always this way. When I was a sophomore at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the fall of 1980, there were two days, just a few weeks apart, when the entire campus was deathly quiet, and everyone was walking around looking shell-shocked. I lived in Chapel Hill for seven years (four for undergraduate, one working, and two for a master’s degree) and never saw the campus as gloomy and sad as it was on those two days. The first was the day after the assassination of John Lennon, and the second was the day after the election of Ronald Reagan to be president of the United States.
Yet despite the universal grief over Reagan’s election, the university didn’t postpone midterms or cancel classes, much less hand out milk and cookies and Legos. In those days, the universities were already far-left, although not as totally and crazily Marxist as they are now, but they were still trying to maintain their image as institutions where all ideas could be discussed and debated freely. They also (for the most part) treated students as adults. Anyone who suggested that the students should be allowed to sit around in pajamas and color as if they were six-year-olds because Ronald Reagan had won the presidency would have been laughed out of the room.
Now, the world is different. Even Harvard (Harvard!) joined in the madness. An economics (economics!) lecturer, comrade Maxim Boycko, wrote: “As we recover from the eventful election night and process the implications of Trump’s victory, please know that class will proceed as usual today, except that classroom quizzes will not be for credit. Feel free to take time off if needed.”
Physics (physics!) prof Jennifer E. Hoffman wrote: “Many in our community are sleep-deprived, again grieving for glass ceilings that weren’t shattered, fearful for the future, or embarrassed to face our international colleagues. I stress-baked several pans of lemon bars to share.” What the heck are “stress-baked” lemon bars? Can they possibly be anything but nauseating, as nauseating as all this leftist pandering?
Most embarrassing of all, “at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, one of the nation’s top schools for diplomats and policymakers, students spent Wednesday playing with Legos, coloring, drinking milk, eating cookies, and meditating.” Just imagine when these childish leftist clowns are out setting national policy and trying to face down Xi’s boys, who aren’t sitting around coloring right now.
Meanwhile, for all their professed compassion, none of these universities has any program to aid and comfort the most marginalized and vilified group on their campus: the College Republicans, Young America’s Foundation and other patriotic groups. They’re happy this week, but just imagine what they have to endure from day to day on our elite campuses, and no one is stress-baking any lemon bars for them.
So much the better. They’ll come out of college tough and battle-hardened, ready to face down their wimpy, fragile, pajama-clad leftist former classmates in the national political arena. It will be fun to watch.
Obviously these children aren’t ready for life’s coming hard knocks. I don’t feel sorry for the guy that hires such snowflakes. He’ll be in the lurch when a cloudy day sends them home to momma.
I’m really proud of my retired U.S. Marine son. The above will never experience the manliness of the ‘band of brothers’………sad for them.
College Republicans should join with Hillel Chapters and quickly organize campus victory parades. They should arm themselves with slingshots and keep plenty of rocks in their pockets…..in case the over privileged libs ugly things up.
So she cooked some Lemon Bars. I though women had given up slaving over hot stoves.
I could eat a lemon bar right about now. I’m not sure if I’d want one baked by a feminist perfessor, though.
You wouldn’t.
Even if she hadn’t actually poisoned it, it would make you sick because of the poisonous attitude baked into it by this leftard idiot.
My late Grandma made Pineapple Drop Cookies those were good
To bad but it looks like our Major Institutes for Brainwashing/Indoctrination are having a big problem and I hope Soros, Gates and Schwabe are pounding their Brains out against the wall
The answer to your question is “kindergarten”.
Universities aren’t geared to equip students for adulthood.
Cosseted professors value indoctrination over discipline.
Hence, students are steered toward the loftier goals of fierce entitlement, perpetual resentment, rejection of responsibility, and stagnant immaturity.
(Students/dupes strap on a six figure debt for useless “studies” classes, then throw tantrums demanding that someone else pay it.)
I’ve forgotten how many college grads couldn’t name what century the Civil War was fought in, or who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
On the other hand, they all knew Thomas Jefferson owned slaves.
Back in the day they were called safe spaces. I guess that is not enough anymore. Milk and cookies, Puzzles, Legos. So bring on the safe spaces
These idiot wimp professors are the ones pushing this crap. They sound like the ones who graduated from Safe Space University.
This is the end product of our society allowing the simple people to infiltrate leadership positions. Drugs for mentally “Challenged ” women began the downfall in the 60’s. The lust for money at the institutions eliminated the high bars for entry and graduation. Jobs were created fro help absorb the graduates who had been cheated out of their money.
The degrees are worthless and the results are the DEI programs we suffer today. Half the people are below average. Get it? As society deteriorates to their level, everyone loses.
WE ALL KNOW that when you give in to Cry-Baby Temper-Tantrums, they then learn that in order to get their way, they just throw another Cry-Baby Temper-Tantrum! What will trigger the next, then the next, then the next…. that the University must give in to or else they’ll burn it down and get away with it!
During the Pro-Hamas rallies in the spring, here at UNM, their mobs set up them camp and one night the mob took over the Student Union building. At 2am, the State Police removed them, arrested sixteen, and they caused $40,000 in damages. Now the ACLU is suing UNM and the Police for “police brutality.” During the summer, they went to trial and represented by Ahmad Assed who organized a protest at UNM about ten years ago, IN SUPPORT OF HAMAS, A FIRST. He is now the President of the Islamic Center of NM and ’80s UNM classmate with JOSEPH MASSAD, the radical professor at Columbia. ALL CASES WERE DISMISSED, UNM SUB DIRECTOR DIDN’T EVEN FILE A POLICE REPORT! (She did the same when a mob destroyed walls, pulled fire alarms, held the audience hostage, and my meeting with her, “We took care of it internally!” THEY’RE PART OF IT!)
THEY’RE PLANNING ON TORCHING CITIES on J6 and on J20… “to save our Democracy!”
“WE, THE PEOPLE” need to block them, stand in front of every downtown business and near UNM. THE RULE OF LAW OR MOB RULE?
I asked my local bakery for a dozen stress-baked lemon bars. They were puzzled.
Of course “they joined in the madness” – they have been subsidized, not to say ‘bought’ by Golf States for decades! As to cancelling classes, the less students listen to these subversive teachers, the better.
Wow. If I didn’t know better, I’d think Spencer was talking about spoiled crying children who didn’t get the candy they thought was coming to them. Is it time to call the wambulance?
This doesn’t surprise me at all. Nothing has changed since I graduated from college in 1980. The non-STEM majors were the same way back them. They always seemed to have time to got to rallies and protests and parties. STEM majors never had time for that stuff. Our “free time” was spent studying.
Personally, In my experience most of the people I knew in college in non-STEM majors had average IQs at best.
Legos….really?
At college?
Why not just give them those dolls so they can point out where ‘Orange Man Bad’ hurt them?
Better yet: Why not give them all a Moochelle Obama doll (a hairless Sasquatch) and a box of Skilltes and send them home to their mommies ?
I am familiar with stress-baked bars or anything baked with stress. This is done when one is in a highly upset state, preferably blaming all other people and having a drastic disastrous view of the future with no personal ability to contribute, just a perpetual stance as a victim. Baked with this mindset on board, people may miss certain important details of the written recipe and for various other reasons also — such as everything is Mr. Trump’s fault, the bars are indeed not tasty or attractive. In fact, some are not edible at all.
Dunk your Oreos into the Milk