484 UNC Faculty Petition To Delay Classes

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Led by the notorious incompetent and bullshitter, Jay Smith.*

Some faculty here are getting nervous, too. 

Of course they could be right.

But my lead hypothesis is: faculty tend to be the kind of people who are abnormally--and perhaps irrationally--risk-averse. They're mostly lefties, for one thing. Many are women. Few have been in the military. Few have started small businesses...

In short, we're not exactly talking about Delta Force here.

On the bright side, the longer you delay classes in the humanities, qualitative social "sciences," and grievance studies, the better off students are. Many of those classes just make students dumber. 

Maybe we should get scientists back in the classrooms but let the humanists et al. go on leave...possibly, y'know, for good...

Jay Smith is the guy who failed to do his job when he was in charge of a periodic review of the AfAm studies department at Carolina. If he'd done his job, he'd have found that AfAm was running bullshit classes. Later, when it came out that many athletes were taking the classes, he tried to pin it on the sports programs. Despite the fact that the evidence clearly indicates that they didn't know what was going on--and were not supposed to know. They were doing their job and respecting the wall between academics and athletics.