It’s personally known to me that the former President of Northwestern is in bed with student loan originators and he would also accept bribes from rich families to enroll students. It’s a sinister place.
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Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
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Uh, Sir or Madam. That's everywhere in America.
But this is the only one that’s personally known to me.
Weirdly enough, Transylvania University has had some of those scandals. It's weird because that particular university doesn't need any extra money. It's tiny, and old. I worked in the admin office my freshman year, and as far as I can tell, they have enough grants and endowments that every single student could go there for "free." The part that makes it doubly weird to me is that the administration middle managers confirmed that if they don't give a student the endowment amounts or grant amounts for that year, they don't get the money. It gets rolled back into the endowment.
Good for them. Learning to defy the powers that be when they try to normalize immoral/unethical beliefs is a mark of becoming a responsible adult; something lacking in University Administrations apparently.
Idk. Look, fuck Israel, and I'm proud of these kids for standing up and saying no. But I also have to be true to my life experiences. Either northwestern caves, and I fucking hope they do (please email ug-admission@northwestern.edu, call 847-491-7271, anything to actively pressure them), or these kids are in for a world of shit. Non-college-educated jobs are fucking dystopian. I went to school in my early 30s, and even if I can argue for better working conditions for ALL workers, Jesus Christ my jobs before going back were in retrospect fucking insanely cruel and demeaning. And I promise you, one day protesting this genocide will be like remote work: Allowed and celebrated in white collar jobs, while a fucking joke elsewhere. I get that we all should be willing to give anything to stand up for what's right. It just always breaks my heart when that cost is borne by kids.
I mean just pragmatically speaking just "watch" the video like every other corporate mandated bs training video (2x on mute in a separate tab) no one is asking these kids to fundraise for Raytheon/thiel/the antichrist
Idk. I'd never tell someone not to stand for good things. I guess my biggest gripe is that we lionize people who do what they should and yet have no support systems for people who pay the price for doing so, and the people doing the right thing are the people with the most future to lose.
I’m sure they can fall back on their masters and bachelors degrees but yeah agreed.
Illinois, in case you were wondering.
You'd think northwestern would be in the northwest, but no. Shows the calibre of education they provide.
I know this is sarcastic, and I love it and I'm sorry the pedantic part of my brain must inform someone that when the school was founded, Illinois was the Northwest part of the United States.
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase
- 1809 Illinois Territory
- 1819 49th parallel agreement
- 1846 Oregon Treaty
- 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- 1848 Oregon Territory
- 1851 Northwestern university founding
The full extent of the contiguous united states was established before the founding of northwestern university. Illinois territory wasn't organized until after the louisiana purchase.
IIRC, it was sorta the NW for states admitted to the Union in 1851.
I didn't name it, I just also wondered this and Googled it in like 2010.
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I guess the term “Midwest” was well established by then. Maybe anything further West was called “The Territories” or something?
The naming of the university was very likely just following accepted naming conventions.
If anything this shows the expansionist nature of the US. And an unwillingness to overhaul conventions (and there’s a lot to unpack there).
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Yeah, it's still a corrupt quagmire here. It's better than it used to be, but that's like saying you've managed to remove two tons of shit from a 20 ton heap.
I hate universities that do this patronising nonsense (which is probably most of them tbh).
Things like this should be taught at school and assumed knowledge at uni. University is (generally) for adults.
Having adults teaching other adults 'how to respect other cultures', 'how not to rape someone', 'how to work in a group', 'how to be ethical', is condescending af.
Yet, look at the US and the divide in thinking. Look at the rise of toxic masculinity and incels. Then you can also look at what schools in much of rural America are doing to promote PragerU or even fighting critical literacy and DEI.
These people are all going to universities with some very fucked up beliefs. Sadly, universities need to cover this shit because people still don’t understand lines.
Regarding this particular training? Yeah, not needed. Israel is a state and Jewish people are worldwide so criticizing Israel’s bullshit is not anti-semitism by any means. Morals seem to be difficult for many despite religions claiming they not only understand them, but exemplify them while doing the opposite in reality.
how not to rape someone’ […] is condescending af
Colleges do that to cover their ass. There is a ton of sexual violence that happens on college campuses, especially fraternities. Clearly some adults do need to be taught not to rape others.
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