AT: I wish I had thought of this gambit to get out of taking an exam when I was in college. I guess I’m not blessed with an active enough imagination.
Students at Berkeley are protesting a midterm exam being given by a noted professor and an expert in his field. They demand a take-home exam instead of an in-class test and say the professor is unworthy of giving any test because he’s not Mexican.
Professor Harley Shaiken, a recognized expert on labor issues, refused the request of a take-home exam but offered to talk to the protesters outside class.
He was rebuffed. more
My impulse is to toss off another “gotta build a bigger bunker” snarky remark.
What we all should do is continue to love and educate our children, grandchildren, and any others within our orbit. Inculcate them with reason and a love of country and inoculate them against this double-digit IQ way of viewing the world. It’s coming to a time where there isn’t a lot of in-between. And all I ever really wanted was to be left alone to live my life.
Zero -> flunk course -> F in permanent transcript. Problem solved. Lesson learned.
Would it help if he wore a sombrero?
Early into my Berkeley undergrad experience an afternoon protest was planned to complain about the increase in student fees. A classmate brought it up to the professor, as the time of the protest conflicted with our lab time. The professor gave a great reply. He said that they will have to make a choice of the protest or the lab, but that there would be no free pass for missing the lab. There are consequences for every choice you make.
Of course the consequences for these students, obvious to us but not to them, lie in their future employability.
Truth to power means their talking points repeatedly and loudly to drown out reason and don’t get trapped where your talking points, truths, can be dissected and debated.
Berkeley better get their radicals under control or they risk losing their prestige. Impressionable young students will fall in line.
If he is unqualified on racial appropriation grounds to give a test, then all the African students need to sit outside on the ground and pound out the answers to the questions on hollow logs that they make themselves.
Hey guys it’s Spanish not Mexican , how the fuck did you get int’o Berkeley in the first place ???
What is the name of the class? Mexican History? Mexican Cultural Anthropology? Spanish?
These children all need to be kicked out of school until they can prove they’re serious about getting an education. And if I saw a resume from someone with a degree in any kind of “studies,” I’d shitcan it.
“…or they risk losing their prestige.”
Europe already declared they lost it about a month ago.
In my day college students studied, what more is there to college except what you came for, assuming it was an education or an Mrs. degree.
In other words, some stupid affirmative action cases in class know they’re too stupid to pass the test; so they inject this “diversity” issue bullshit in order to manipulate the spineless administration into giving them passing grades without having to learn the subject materiel.
Believe me. Every legitimate student in that class knows this is exactly what these beaner pieces of shit are doing.
I had a professor in the late ’70’s who had been a professor since the ’60’s. He said that during the Viet Nam War there was always protests during finals week so that the exams would be canceled.
College protesting is used as a resume in dem politics.
Labor issue and Mexican?!? NON-SEQUITUR ALERT!
BUT:
Mexican Labor issue?!? That’s RAAAACISSST!
Crazy world we live in, eh?!?
Racist white professor finally gets served the racism he fed his students.
“Wait! No no no! Not ME, -other white people! I’m on your side!”
The last sentence in that article gave me pause. These snowflakes get an “F” in life skills.
RadioMattM, that was quite common for professors to not give out failing grades to male students during the late 60’s and early 70’s so that these students wouldn’t flunk out and get drafted to go fight in the Vietnam war. Even at Eastern Wash. State College (now EWU) some professors were very lenient towards failing students, I remember hearing quite a few cases of this when I first attended EWSC in 1971.