Disciplinary procedures on college campuses
Here are a few remarks about campus disciplinary procedures, to follow commentary on events at Reed and Middlebury.
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Fox in the chicken coop, and more
I like to write, but no writer likes a blank page or a blank screen. It’s not a good way to get started, though with blog posts it’s hard to avoid.
Lawless governments and boring tweets do not deserve our notice
Meantime, given the taxes the feds collect, we ought to expect more interesting entertainment from them. When you pay $150 to see a Broadway show, they try to give you your money’s worth. We ought to hold the feds to a higher standard.
Seven posts from @sgreffenius
I’m not a cybersecurity expert, but I can’t be the only person who has an uncomfortable feeling about today’s reports about how Russian hackers stole data from Yahoo.
Ed Asner narrates Architects and Engineers film on demolition of World Trade Center 7
Related thoughts The Jeffersonian‘s regular readers know I’ve written a lot about 9/11 here. Some of my arguments on the …
Responses to Steve King’s idea that the west cannot rebuild its civilization “with someone else’s babies”
There’s always room for more of everything in a country that has barely gotten started.
Speech enforcers at Reed College and Middlebury College
What is the alternative? To go the way of Middlebury College, an institution that used to stand for academic integrity.
President Patton’s response to the riot at Middlebury College on March 2, 2017
The college may yet come up with a plan to punish members of the mob who attacked Professor Stanger. It looks doubtful to me right now.
Boys Don’t Cry: civil treatment of campus guests
A likely result of such an admonishment is that people on campus become ultra-careful about who they invite to speak.
Relationship between elites and democratic decision making
If we had recognized these villains’ hidden purposes a little earlier – if we had not let them turn their so-called expertise into a powerful Big Brother state of tyranny – we might have saved our democracy. Instead we let elites trade on their knowledge.
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