Oregon State University Forces In-Coming Freshmen To Receive "Social Justice" Indocrination

   And I agree with Soave: this is, in a sense, worse than classroom bias by professors. For one thing, it targets kids who are basically still high school students. For another, at least students tend to be in critical-thinking mode in the classroom. What you expect in orientation is just the uncontroversial basics. It's a way of slipping in the brainwashing when their shields are down. Soave says that this is on the administration...but IMO it's largely attributable to the legions of non-administrative functionaries that who fill the ever-expanding number of offices and centers and suchlike at contemporary universities. For example, we have an "office of sustainability," complete with a staff that seems composed mostly of SJ types with women's studies degrees and so forth. They also seem to be involved with pushing some strange program that has something to do with developing "sustainable selves", and they have recently held workshops that belong on Tumblr, not at a university--e.g. (and I'm not making this up) one about identity politics and Disney movies...
   Also, no professors really have much of an idea what goes on in orientation. God knows what goes on in ours...
   Somebody needs to get a hold of this orientation stuff and make it public. There's some chance, of course, that it won't be too crazy...though there's still a matter of principle, I'd say.