TikTok Tarot card reader accuses professor of the U of Idaho murders. Professor sues:
And for a Tarot card palate cleanse:
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Thank you, John. I wasn’t sure where to start researching, so this is very helpful.
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I guess Shiva Ayyadurai is worried about losing his status as nuttiest MIT alum. to Sam Brinton.
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Here is the article in The Harvard Crimson, “Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down”.
What happened between 1963 and 1967?
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Uh the people who would kick the door in on the facade that was our republic took power over the governing institutions and began their march.
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In Pittsburgh, we have never had this problem. It has long been customary to address groups as “YINZ” (= you ones). Since the state of uninterrupted, self-righteous indignation has become the official state religion of the US, it seems likely someone will demand it be changed to YINX.
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Isn’t this how the whole thing took off in Europe three years ago?
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Travis Corcoran has just posted a brilliant diagnosis of the madness now loose in Western societies.
Note that even in countries which had no equivalent of the GI Bill, after World War II there was a vast expansion of the “higher education” racket and promotion of the “everybody should go to college” policy goal in many of them, for example the “plate glass universities” in the United Kingdom, which accelerated further with the “post-1992 universities” springing up like mushrooms.
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Similarly to the UK trend, the past 50 years have seen many US colleges rebranded as universities. Traditionally, many states had separate “University of ___” and state college systems. Many of the latter have been rebranded. It seems their main doctoral degree programs are education and other soft subjects.
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