tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post6699306492811230771..comments2024-03-26T12:23:29.784-04:00Comments on Philosoraptor: Members of Student Government At KU Insufficiently Enthusiastic About "Diversity Ultimatum," Face ImpeachmentWinston Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-67431807555849438762015-11-23T15:57:50.257-05:002015-11-23T15:57:50.257-05:00You can keep on loving college b-ball. Hating the ...You can keep on loving college b-ball. Hating the genuinely evil NCAA system doesn't mean hating sports, just wanting to get the players either paid directly or free to profit off their playing indirectly if b-ball is just supposed to be "enrichment". That's the way it works for every single other activity on campus. If you write a screenplay, invent a chemical process, or paintAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-58331142103043441102015-11-22T12:35:34.999-05:002015-11-22T12:35:34.999-05:00I'm currently too traumatized by the Carolina ...I'm currently too traumatized by the Carolina AFAM/sports scandal to be rational about this stuff.<br /><br />If I could push a button and demote big-time college sports back to a reasonable level--or even get rid of them completely--I'd reluctantly do it. <br /><br />But damn, I do love college hoops...Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-92167749334129222892015-11-19T16:00:57.433-05:002015-11-19T16:00:57.433-05:00Up to a point, it's surreal and slightly amusi...Up to a point, it's surreal and slightly amusing watching the undergraduates doing, well, free labor on behalf of institutions that make college more expensive, undermine the value of their degrees (both educationally and economically), and are largely devoted to making the day to day experience of minority students miserable.<br /><br />For me, it crossed the line from amusement to real Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-56100443045263920092015-11-19T13:57:23.854-05:002015-11-19T13:57:23.854-05:00I KNOW RIGHT???
I thought of your point when I saw...I KNOW RIGHT???<br />I thought of your point when I saw this, and meant to give you a shout-out. <br /><br />I noticed it in some other stuff, too. This is one of those points that, once it's made to you, really opens your eyes...or it's opened mine, anyway. I think that hypothesis is really important. <br /><br />That bureaucracy is also (did I float this idea already) where a lot of Winston Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08780746334199630779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5264937.post-59267748469625958772015-11-19T13:46:13.021-05:002015-11-19T13:46:13.021-05:00Once again, the demands are for a para-faculty job...Once again, the demands are for a para-faculty jobs program! Not for constraint (or, better yet, abolition) of the campus police. Not for tuition reduction, or increases in need-based (or, hell, race-based) financial aid. Not for admission of more minority students. Nope, it's for expansion of an open-ended, mission self-defining security and lifestyle bureaucracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com