Quote from: lightning on April 30, 2024, 01:50:13 PMI've attended two of them. Both were pleasant and entertaining. It certainly was not a waste of time. The first one that I attended was more like a traditional reunion, in that social media had not taken over yet as the primary medium for staying connected with people from high school. I caught up with people that I had not heard from in years. I maintained contact with them via social media. I was not an early adopter of social media, but after the reunion event, I went all in.
The organizers for the second more recent reunion that I attended were brilliant, in that they acknowledged how social had media replaced a lot of what high school reunions were used for, so the reunion event was shorter, much less formal, and a lot cheaper. I even brought SO Lightning. Folks were friendly. Any enmity or anxieties from the old days did not re-surface.
I'll be honest. Returning to a high school reunion as a tenured full professor at a widely recognized university with recognized D1 athletics, was an ego boost, when re-connecting with the "cool" kids and my clique of "smart" kids, both of whom peaked & had their best years of their life in high school . . . . .
There, I said it. Hate me.
QuoteNothing more amusing than seeing a student whiter than an albino in a snowstorm wearing a kaffiyeh. Once upon a time, these same students would have said that was cultural appropriation.
That said, the real idiots are the faculty who have chosen to join this and are astonished to find themselves tackled to the ground and led away in zip cuffs. PhD =/= all that bright it seems.
Quote from: jimbogumbo on Today at 12:10:29 PMI confess that I am more than a bit amazed at these posts.
There has been, imo, a nightmarish response across the nation, encouraged by conservative media and politicians, and abetted by spineless liberals and administrators. There simply was no need at a great many campuses for this series of escalations by institutional forces. None.
Quote from: spork on May 01, 2024, 01:37:57 PMSent to me by a parent of a current Columbia undergrad:
https://twitter.com/elicalebon/status/1785560131100618798?s=49&t=RRIS-Y6CCLizLM83-jthEA
The key sentence, in my opinion, is "You don't see this in lower tier schools from kids of lower socio-economic standing because they aren't plagued with the guilt of privilege that they're seeking to launder through Middle East role plays of feigned suffering."