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1 minute ago, royiv said:

This is at least his second incarnation since asking for the nuke from orbit request. @King George was one that got crowd-sourced after spreading a bunch of trash info on the flood thread in July.

Did Dr Beeper get banned or did he request that one to be erased as well?

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Saw something about profs leaving schools in the south in record numbers. This should speed up the exit of people from UT. Also - when will they start using the tower bell for Christian hymns?

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26 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Did Dr Beeper get banned or did he request that one to be erased as well?

What about the @porterhouse account?  I think that one got erased too.  He and lobo (RIP) probably have the records for most deleted accounts.

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Everything is a fucking shakedown to him. "Better access" to funding. Kiss the ring and daddy will let you set on his lap and give you a few dollars. Fucking disgusting. What a joke of an educational system we're going to have. International reputation for academic excellence? Ehhh, if God King says it's ok to teach, we'll teach it enthusiastically, otherwise, what is "knowledge" anyways. Smart people don't like him, so smart is actually dumb and education is gay. 

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I have 2lb test and quik detailer to remove stickers and pookie to replace the holes in my wall where my diploma sits. If this happens I will burn it in the stairwell of Jester West

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Posted
13 minutes ago, tokamak said:

One silver lining here is that aggy is going to be so mad that we got offered the chance to lick boots first.

Trump said they had to get rid of those fruity male "cheerleaders" and aggy said no

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2 hours ago, Cruz in Aledo said:

I think the admin is specifically talking about escaped CR inmates coming into DT and being mean. 

Odd negative response. I’m not sure your sarcasm meters are appropriately calibrated gentlemen. Carry on I suppose. 

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13 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Trump said they had to get rid of those fruity male "cheerleaders" and aggy said no

You think they would have learned when that shit cost them their baseball coach. 

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Posted (edited)
17 hours ago, Reese Bennett said:

The schools are being asked to ban the use of race or sex in hiring and admissions; freeze tuition for five years; cap international undergrad enrollment at 15%; require that applicants take the SAT or a similar test; and stop "grade inflation." They will be required to share all known information about foreign students. It also obligates them to abolish departments that “purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas.”

I like all of those ideas. The last sounds legally dubious, as any law requires some sort of objective basis that is not strictly political. Nothing outside of the last part sounds controversial.

Banning using race in hiring etc.? Sure, ban racism. If you are opposed to race neutrality, you are a racist. I hate racism. It is illogical, immoral, and illegal according to the supreme court.

Freeze tuition? Why not. The goal is to reduce administrative bloat.

Grade inflation? We should have full disclosure regarding grades but we don't. I was in some intro 500 person class and the TA wrote 2.7 in big letters on the chalkboard and said "this is the class GPA". Wheat and chaff and all that. There's definitely been grade inflation, the Ivy's championed it mostly so they could get money from rich people.

SAT - whatever, it's redundant, because of course you cannot assess potential without a standardized test. Harvard abolished this, realized they were admitting idiots, then reintroduced it. G is a thing.

The international student thing is a national security issue. Firstly, they are guests and entitled to no privacy whatsoever. Second, we need to know if a Chinese or Russian national is studying cutting edge nuclear physics, doing advanced AI work, or learning bomb design in an engineering department. 

There is a serious crisis in higher education. This is an attempt to move things in the right direction, mostly via practical measures.  

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24 minutes ago, Thetexashammer said:

There is a serious crisis in higher education

Could you be more specific? Because there are certainly issues with higher education, but I'm not sure anything that is being pushed is going to positively impact any outcomes.

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Anyone care to tag Sid Miller on this? 
Fucking hypocrite magahat wearer and all.  Piece of shit is probably on another Jesus quest on the taxpayer dollar. 

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2 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

I like all of those ideas. The last sounds legally dubious, as any law requires some sort of objective basis that is not strictly political. Nothing outside of the last part sounds controversial.

Banning using race in hiring etc.? Sure, ban racism. If you are opposed to race neutrality, you are a racist. I hate racism. It is illogical, immoral, and illegal according to the supreme court.

Freeze tuition? Why not. The goal is to reduce administrative bloat.

Grade inflation? We should have full disclosure regarding grades but we don't. I was in some intro 500 person class and the TA wrote 2.7 in big letters on the chalkboard and said "this is the class GPA". Wheat and chaff and all that. There's definitely been grade inflation, the Ivy's championed it mostly so they could get money from rich people.

SAT - whatever, it's redundant, because of course you cannot assess potential without a standardized test. Harvard abolished this, realized they were admitting idiots, then reintroduced it. G is a thing.

The international student thing is a national security issue. Firstly, they are guests and entitled to no privacy whatsoever. Second, we need to know if a Chinese or Russian national is studying cutting edge nuclear physics, doing advanced AI work, or learning bomb design in an engineering department. 

There is a serious crisis in higher education. This is an attempt to move things in the right direction, mostly via practical measures.  

If there are specific international students that pose legitimate national security concerns, it really seems we could and should find a better way to address that than a blanket numbers cap in exchange for vaguely-defined “preferential treatment” in research funding. 

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13 minutes ago, tokamak said:

If there are specific international students that pose legitimate national security concerns, it really seems we could and should find a better way to address that than a blanket numbers cap in exchange for vaguely-defined “preferential treatment” in research funding. 

 

 

chinese and northern european countries ...

 

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3 hours ago, Thetexashammer said:

I like all of those ideas. The last sounds legally dubious, as any law requires some sort of objective basis that is not strictly political. Nothing outside of the last part sounds controversial.

Banning using race in hiring etc.? Sure, ban racism. If you are opposed to race neutrality, you are a racist. I hate racism. It is illogical, immoral, and illegal according to the supreme court.

Freeze tuition? Why not. The goal is to reduce administrative bloat.

Grade inflation? We should have full disclosure regarding grades but we don't. I was in some intro 500 person class and the TA wrote 2.7 in big letters on the chalkboard and said "this is the class GPA". Wheat and chaff and all that. There's definitely been grade inflation, the Ivy's championed it mostly so they could get money from rich people.

SAT - whatever, it's redundant, because of course you cannot assess potential without a standardized test. Harvard abolished this, realized they were admitting idiots, then reintroduced it. G is a thing.

The international student thing is a national security issue. Firstly, they are guests and entitled to no privacy whatsoever. Second, we need to know if a Chinese or Russian national is studying cutting edge nuclear physics, doing advanced AI work, or learning bomb design in an engineering department. 

There is a serious crisis in higher education. This is an attempt to move things in the right direction, mostly via practical measures.  

My, you have quite the active imagination. 

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Posted
14 hours ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

The valedictorian in my son's graduating class was one of those uber-nerds with all A's, perfect score on the SAT, National Merit Scholar, accepted to every university known to man blah blah blah.  She picked Arizona for god only knows what reason.

I mean, I can almost understand if it was a dude that wanted to go get his freak on without going full regard at ASU.  But this was your typical suburban Indian girl.

 

Tucson is a great city, and UA has a great vibe imo. 

 

 

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Everything trump touches dies, including our University. I’m quickly getting to the point where I don’t care about the University or football anymore

Right there with you.
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What I find fascinating is that this great "crisis" in higher ed is almost entirely made up.  For real.  To get an accurate picture, measure things RELATIVELY.

Yep, academia has more hippie-dippie leftist types in it.....just like it did in the 60s, 70s, 80s, etc.  FFS, it was a discussion and a real thing when I was on campus, back in the days of popped collars and sorority girls wearing wind shorts.  Is it materially greater/worse, than it was before?  Nope.  Higher education typically leads to more nuanced, moderated thinking.   Sorry, conservatives, that's just the way it be.  Kind of like traveling makes it much less likely that you'll be a xenophobic bigot.

Foreign students?  Same deal.

DEI and affirmative action?  Well, first....the venom for "DEI" is utterly insane bullshit.  DEI efforts do not grant admission preferences.  Instead, they do things like increase recruiting at historically underrepresented high schools and communities, offer college readiness/prep to students in those schools, and provide resources for them when the get here because they have fewer such resources than students from college-educated families.  Sorry, guys, but the reality is that the American legacy of racial discrimination has a LONG tail when it comes to education, success, and family wealth.  We locked black people out of home ownership/owning homes in valuable neighborhoods for generations, so their ability to build equity wealth that passed on was sharply limited, and that takes generations to fix.  And no, the students at Westlake and Alamo Heights don't need to be recruited, don't need to be offered college readiness assistance.  Honestly, I think that UT's top 10% (or top 5% or whatever it is these days) does a decent job of getting a diverse student body, but the kid who is top 5% at Shit Hole High still needs to know what UT has to offer, and may need some help navigating UT once he gets here, because he's the first kid in his family to go to college.

"Merit-based" but "ignore that some people are born on 3rd base while others have to sneak into the stadium" is a shitty approach to building an educated population.  And I say this as a college-prep educated kid, son of a college grad with kids who were raised by people with 5 degrees between them.  Cool, my kids had every advantage, and they will find success.  But we're also helping a refugee, first-gen American with few resources navigate the college process now, and it's a very different game.  If America in the next generation is going to prosper, that kid needs to get the full benefits of higher ed as well.  We should all be in favor of that.

Tuition?  Now THAT is a worthwhile conversation.  Relatively speaking (I really like the metric of "how many hours a week would you have to work to pay your tuition, room, and board?"), it's gone way up.  Real action needs to be taken, some of it shouldn't be pleasant (e.g., free flow of student loan dollars had a "pump up the money supply, you inflate prices to match" effect).

But this shit?  It's thought control bullshit, and that's their open goal.  Stop pretending it's anything but that.

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