3 of the Most F*cked-Up College Campus Stories of the Year!
From the story of Emma Sulkowicz (Columbia University's "Mattress Girl") to attempts to censor viewings of American Sniper at campus theaters to proceedings against feminist professor Laura Kipnis under federal anti-discrimination laws, there has been no shortage of odd and disconcerting controversies at the nation's colleges and universities.
Robby Soave covers the higher education beat for Reason.com and is credited with being one of the first journalists to question the retracted Rolling Stone story about a purported gang rape at the University of Virginia. He also reported extensively on the Sulkowicz case, protests against American Sniper, and how Title IX, a law designed to equalize opportunities for women in educational settings, is being used to chill speech on campus.
He sat down with Nick Gillespie to talk about the state of free speech and ideological orthodoxy on campus today—and to explain why there are reasons to believe political correctness is actually on the run.
About 10 minutes.
Shoot by Todd Krainin and Joshua Swain; edited by Swain.
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I think you can tie this in to the whole idea that college age young adults are now considered "children". When the ACA passed and made Insurance companies continue to cover 26 (!) year olds under their parents insurance because they were still considered "children" it was a commentary on the overall problem.
The age at which you should be considered independent in our society continues to go up, and this shit will only get worse as that trend continues.
Well, we're all living longer, so maybe that's it. I mean, Arwen was 2700 years old, and she was still living with her dad.
My bar mitzvah means nothing according to ACA. Do I have to return the gifts?
Return, no. Surrender to the IRS, probably.
The age will,drop,again soon enough. Right about the time some ahitheads running the show decide they need to conscript some cannon fodder for an overseas adventure.
Operation SomethingSomething Freedom Part Deux: Persian Boogaloo...
I think people make too much of the ACA coverage for 26 year old children.
You are still your parents' child no matter how old you are and to say that insurance has to cover your children up to age 26 doesn't really mean that 26 year olds are not full adults.
That said, the infantilization of college age adults in many areas is pretty disturbing. It should not be the schools business to protect your delicate feelings, but to toughen you up and expose you to your ideas.
Yeah the only problem is that insurance companies are forced to offer it. Some did so willingly before. I know my parent's insurance allowed me to stay on their insurance so long as I was enrolled full-time in school, even through grad school.
It's no different that cell-phone family plans and the like, it's just a group rate.
I carried a wood chipper around campus my senior year. As a protest.
People got it, I think.
lmao
Functional strength, brah.
I read the most fucked up story of the year yesterday (Imma gonna look for it) was about a college girl and guy. He passed out drunk. She (his girlfriends roommate) decided to take advantage of him and gave him a blow job. Long story short, a college tribunal found him guilty of sexual assault and booted him out.
An Amherst College student blacked out, accompanied a fellow student back to her dorm room after drinking in February 2012. While he was blacked out, she performed oral sex on him.
Nearly two years later, she would accuse him of sexual assault. And under Amherst's guilty-until-proven-innocent (and even then, as we'll see, still guilty) hearing standards, the accused student was expelled.
The accused student ? using the pseudonym John Doe ? is suing the college for denying him due process. His lawyer had discovered text messages that prove the accused student did not initiate the encounter and in no way sexually assaulted the accuser. Despite this evidence, the college refused to reopen Doe's case.
http://www.washingtonexaminer......e/2565978#!
So one night in college I woke up to find the girl down the hall doing the bouncy ball on my morning wood and I didn't throw her out. Am I guilty of rape since I didn't get permission for her to do this? Feel free to chip in a comment.
For him, looks like the chips are down. Sometime after the accuser was down.
And I hope Doe winds up walking away with a significant portion of their $2.15 billion endowment.
That Emma sure looks chipper!
I've got two nominations for Nut Punch of the Year just from yesterday.
1) The guy who was raped while unconscious getting kicked out of school for sexual assault was for Nut Punch of the Year.
2) The kid kidnapped and held by the state for 4 months, with his parents facing felony charges, because he was playing in his own damn yard for an hour without a parent there to hold his penis the entire time.
I understand it is pretty hard to keep up with this crap these days.
The Sandra Bland shit's gotta be an honorable mention, at least...
We're spoiled for choice.
You can't buy hair like that. You have to breed for it.
Did they actually put up the full text? If so I can't find it.
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And can I say again here that Jazz Shaw is a cunt? I mean, that's probably a compliment, right?
Upcoming nut punch:
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The University of Missouri-Columbia proposed solution to stopping sexual assault: Ban women from frat parties, ban all alcohol except beer from fraternities, and drug test students who live in frat houses.
Yeah cause nobody has ever gotten shitfaced on beer. Good plan. What a bunch of idiots.
It sounds like the solution is just to ban college.
Sounds like Mizzou needs to be kicked out of the SEC.
Appropriate
"If I understand college administrators correctly, colleges are hotbeds of racism alcoholism and rape that everyone should be able to attend."
FTFH
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Never understood why so many folks were protesting the use of a plastic baby in film.
Apparently a lot of folks were never proper self-respecting Alice Cooper fans.
College: The More You Go - The More You Owe - The Less You Know.
That's the classic "Sophomoric Philosophy":
The more you study,
The more you know,
The more you know,
The more you forget,
The more you forget,
The less you know,
So why study?
The less you study,
The less you know,
The less you know,
The less you forget,
The less you forget,
The more you know,
So why study?
Mommas, don't let your babies grow up to be liberal arts university students... Seriously folks. Major in math, statistics, engineering at some technical institute, get your paper, and get out. Better yet, get an on-line degree and keep your contact with the professor to a minimum. These people are nuts.
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It's a huge pet peeve of mine to "edit" out naughty words by putting an asterisk in the middle, as if the reader will find it less offensive somehow. If you're going to swear, then swear.
Fuck you.
No, F*ck YOU!
No, Fck you
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In 1932/3 my dad with the aid of his football team at Cornell, picked up a shack off of the quad that was put up by the campus Communists. They put on his convertible. . . . . . (?) and took it to a field and burned it. No consequences.
With the commies in it I hope?
Everybody hates Cornell Campus Communists
At the University of Kansas, a student was expelled for allegedly calling his ex-girlfriend a "psycho bitch" on Twitter.
FTFY
It seems everyone, fratboys included, has forgotten why fraternities came into existence.
"College Campus Stories Keep Getting More F*cked Up"
WHOOO HOOOO!!
(raises red platic cup in air, looks around for someone to hi-five)
Reasons NOT to go to college continue to mount. Wait...is the word "mount" triggering?
(sound of whinny)
That whinny is a double whammy.
/Roy Rogers (who used to mount Trigger)
First the whinny, then the poo.
"whinny is a double whammy."
(paws ground twice, nods head vigorously)
Tigger warning!
Frau Blucher?
I've heard that bit a hundred times. And I still laugh. Every. Time.
A South Korean intelligence agent found dead in an apparent suicide left a note denying his team had used spyware to tap the mobile phones and computers of private citizens in the latest scandal involving the spy agency.
I guess it is too much to expect Clapper to do this. We can always dream.
Notes left next to dead bodies = most reliable source of intelligence, ever
Yes Gilmore. But if the intelligence agency killed him, why would they leave a note making it look like he did killed himself out of guilt for spying on the public?
That's just what they want you to think
Since Francisco isn't here:
GOD DAMMIT, LAZY INTERN ALERT
I never go to the site. I had no idea Gawker is not just stupid but affirmatively evil.
The repugnant hit pieces began around 2008, as James Franco was mid-transition from wandering himbo to serious actor, with standout performances in the stoner comedy Pineapple Express and as the gay lover to Sean Penn's Harvey Milk in Milk. Historically, there has been a troubling tendency by the movie-going public and tabloid media to question an actor's sexuality once he's convincingly played a gay character onscreen. Gawker, however, took it one step further: they accused Franco of being a gay rapist.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/a.....itter_page
"Historically, there has been a troubling tendency by the movie-going public and tabloid media to question an actor's sexuality ..."
*Snicker*
Actor. You can stop right there.
I remember when people wondered about Liberace. Now they question whether or not Hillary is a crook.
Also, John, I posted this link before...somewhere.
Here it is again. It is a pretty good rundown of Gawker's history of doing just that sort of thing.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-j.....ker-media/
I see there is more.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-g.....rs-ranked/
"Reckless, cruel sociopathy is what Gawker does. It's what the site is. And owner Nick Denton has done a remarkable job in the decade or so since it has been alive of assembling some of the most morally repugnant human beings on the planet to work for him.
Here are ten of the very worst."
Fucking hell, that twee priss Nolan Hamilton didn't even make the Top Ten?
Eventually someone will just take matters into their own hands and deal with Denton themselves. He is just a loathsome scumbag.
And I don't see how Denton and the editors and the writer should not be under indictment for blackmail over the Geitner story.
Lawson (the guy who wrote the piece claiming Franco was a gay rapist) also admitted recently that it was completely baseless and they knew it at the time.
They are just scum. At some point, they are going to ruin someone's life and the victim is going to go Charlie Hebdo on their sorry asses.
At some point, they are going to ruin someone's life and the victim is going to go Charlie Hebdo on their sorry asses.
Note that Charlie Hebdo won't publish Mohammed cartoons any more.
And my God is Sam Biddle a disgrace to the human race. and don't forget this gem: "Kicking a dog isn't unethical, but it's in our interests as socialized beings to not do it."
Every once in a while you hear about where a pack of pittbulls kills someone. Why can't it happen to Biddle.
Serious question, are gay rapists worse than the straight kind, or better?
I think they are all the same. And it if funny how none of leftist gay rights groups seem to be up in arms bout Gawker. I was under the impression that outing gays was something people who hated gays did.
Your impression is correct.
Doing that to someone is unconscionable. The social and psychological damage you could do to someone could be devastating. There have been countless suicides resulting from that.
Yup. And the assholes at Gawker by constantly doing it are just asking for someone to finally decide they have nothing to lose and put a bullet in a few heads.
"And it if funny how none of leftist gay rights groups seem to be up in arms bout Gawker."
John, they are up in arms about this. The left has been extraordinarily angry at Gawker over this story.
I was under the impression that outing gays was something people who hated gays did.
Actually there was a writer back in the 90s who was openly gay who was kind of famous for outing other gay people. His relationship in the gay community was... strained.
I'm assuming you mean Larry Kramer?
*shrug*
I don't remember what I had for dinner last night. You expect me to remember something from a decade and a half ago?
No, could be. I'm so lazy I'll take your word for it and not google it.
No, but the problem with claiming he was a gay rapist is that we know for a fact that James Franco is not gay. As a result, the fact that they claimed he was a gay rapist was moronic because it could be so easily disproven.
None of this would be so bad if we started to see what Gawker really is: An online National Enquirer, but for the Snapchat generation.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/energ.....lectricity
This looks promising.
Second Law makes it much less so.
Why? There is nothing in the second law that says that the energy necessary to separate the hydrogen atoms must be equal to or greater than the energy produced from using those atoms in a fuel cell.
OMWC seems to think that it is some type of perpetual motion gimmick.
The article is typically thin on details, but it sounds like the energy from oxidizing the fuel is directly captured as electricity rather than being converted to heat which is then used mechanically to drive a shaft for propulsion of a vehicle or generator.
If that is what is happening, then it is merely a much more efficient type of engine.
A few minutes considering the Hess cycle and constraining with 2nd can prove illuminating. There's many potential ways of getting marginal efficiency increases and this may be one. But "may" and "marginal."
Well actually, yes there is.
1. You can only break even.
2. You can only break even at absolute zero.
3. You can never reach absolute zero.
Once you take inefficiencies into account, it will *always* take more energy to crack the hydrogen out than you'll get back as usable energy.
*But*, as an energy *transport* method - cracking hydrogen off of fossil fuels is eminently workable.
*But*, we're not *making* hydrocarbon fuels, just mining them. FF's are just a solar-power storage mechanism anyway and this is just another way to extract that energy.
The key thing though is - can you extract more usable energy this way than with standard combustion methods? Oh, and can you do this at the same or lesser cost?
This sort of tech has been explored for Air Independent Submarine propulsion and mostly been passed on. There are huuuuge problems with getting pure enough hydrogen out to prevent catalyst poisoning. And that's in an application where 'no moving parts' (menaing greatly reduced noise signature) is at least as important as how efficient it can produce power from fuel.
I was expecting a perpetual motion machine.
I was not disappointed.
Pulling the hydrogen atoms from diesel and then using those to run a fuel cell is nor more a perpetual motion machine than any other diesel engine. A perpetual motion machine would not require any fuel. This system takes diesel and converts it to hydrogen and C02 and then uses the hydrogen for energy. The diesel is gone. You need more to keep it running. That is not a perpetual motion machine.
According to that article, it is not just that hydrogen is released. Also the carbon atoms form carbon dioxide molecules which releases energy.
Old Man has the Phd(chem), I just have a BA but I will give it a shot.
When you break those hydrocarbons the products are CO2 and H2O ( and CO because of inefficient combustion). The only way you are going to get those H2s is to take it from the water or keep the water from forming in the first place. That requires the input of more energy than you are going to get from reintroducing those H2s to O2 for combustion.
It is a chemical slight of hand. These guys are just angling for govt subsidies, that is all.
I should add that I have no doubt they will be successful.
That requires the input of more energy than you are going to get from reintroducing those H2s to O2 for combustion.
Except that you don't capture all of the energy that is released from combustion and you are not completely efficient in combusting the material. Some diesel never burns and goes out the tail pipe and some energy from the combustion escapes in the form of heat.
Even if it takes more energy to separate the H2, this process still could be more efficient because it leaves a lower percentage of the diesel unused and captures a higher percentage of the energy produced.
The greatest loss of energy in any engine is from friction. They are attempting to get around that by converting chemical energy into electricity, which is an even more inefficient process.
I will grudgingly admit that it is possible, but I am not going to invest in it. It just has that smell.
John it's simpler, and more efficient to use a solar powered apparatus to produce hydrogen from water through electrolysis, and then store it in a solid metal Hydride. It would not take much hydrogen to power a modern internal combustion engine.
You know what. I wish Mr. Bailey would write articles about this stuff. This is the type of stuff the trolls like Jackass would not be able to comment on.
http://www.pragma-industries.c.....n-storage/
Perish the thought.
If you want to run a car you need to use Hydrides.
* on hydrogen
A pro-development "community group" in our little suburb has notified the City Council that they have arranged for the "unbiased and professional" Urban Land Institute to come to our town (for free!) and help the city to determine the best course for its future. I know that Urban Land Institute is a front for developer interests, but would really appreciate if anyone has some good links that show exactly how biased and developer-friendly they are. You may help save us from high-density redevelopment, thanks!
You want a bunch of ruthless orphan-exploiting capitalists to out them as developer-friendly?
Spread a rumor that they want to put in a Walmart. Problem solved.
Get ahold of a bunch of specimens of some suitably endangered species and plant them around the neighborhood. Problem solved.
IRS Seizing Bank accounts of Innocent Americans:
"With the power of civil forfeiture, the federal government never even had to charge Ken with a crime. Hundreds of innocent Americans have fallen victim to similar seizures by the IRS. Now Ken is leading a new petition effort to regain what was unjustly taken."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/in.....americans/
Does anyone have any Hillary Clinton porn? Just asking.
I am pretty sure the dark nets consider that stuff too sick to allow. That shit can only be had via mail order.
That is the sort of question I would have expected from Crusty Juggler.
There is a reason why even the dark nets kicked him off.
Come on, even Crusty has standards. I assume.
Come on, even Crusty has standards. I assume.
squirrels wholeheartedly disagree
squirrels wholeheartedly disagree
Yeah well, I am bored.
SugarFree and Epi. They're working a trade right now which is why you haven't seen them around much the past few days.
I'm taking bets on who has to eat the cookie.
Just stick your finger down your throat repeatedly while hanging your head over the toilet, you get the same effect.
Enjoy.
Totes aprops:
The BBQ episode of the Cosby Show.
Cosby will always have a special place in my heart. I still remember when I was a kid and we used to listen to him after our parents forced us to settle down and go to bed. The Fat Albert shit, we would be literally falling out of bed laughing.
Clearly you were not the only people he had falling out of bed.
(I was joking, couldn't resist. I am still in denial about all this)
There wasn't anything back then as funny. Next funniest shit I can remember would have either been Carlin or Cheech and Chong.