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In its desperate quest to be multicultural, Mizzou adopted another progressive innovation many years back: lowering standards for these select groups. Just about all universities did. As a result, for instance, black Missourians who could have competed successfully at Mizzou were headed to Harvard and Yale. Those who could have competed at a community college or a lesser state college were headed to Mizzou.
Scholars call the phenomenon "academic mismatch." Rather than struggle in science or math classes, many mismatched students have chosen to coast in politically charged programs like black studies or women's and gender studies and act out the ideology in their ample leisure time.
At MU, diversity trumps scholarship, and there is no more impressive testament to the same than the rise (and fall) of 53-year-old Youssif Omar. Last year, the university approved his Ph.D. dissertation and named him managing editor of Artifacts: A Journal of Undergraduate Writing.
One problem, alas, is that Omar cannot write. His is the only dissertation I know of – "Perceptions of Selected Libyan English as a Foreign Language Teachers Regarding Teaching of English in Libya" – whose very title demands a "sic."
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Omar's Mizzou career came to an unfortunate end in late November, when Columbia police arrested him for visiting a local high school and dragging a 14-year-old relative by her hair down the school's front steps. She apparently had offended Youssif by failing to wear her hijab in class. The New York Daily News reported this story and embarrassed the prize-winning J-School daily to run a tiny piece on Omar days later.
The J-School's urge to protect selected minorities – "Hey, I need some muscle over here" – mirrors that of the media at large. In late 2014, the state and national media uncritically accepted the propaganda coming out of Ferguson. When the lies were grudgingly exposed, the protesting students at MU stuck to the more comforting and empowering anti-white, anti-cop narrative. Having Ferguson sort of nearby gave the MU students a proud claim on victimization other campuses couldn't quite match.
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To protest white privilege on campus, grad student Jonathan Butler went on a hunger strike. Butler, whose father made $8.4 million last year as a marketing exec, made the laughable claim to CNN, "I felt unsafe since the moment I stepped on this campus." Coming off a four-game losing streak, the football team may have felt unsafe about continuing to play in the SEC and joined the protest.
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When asked whether the buck stopped with him, [Democratic Governor Jay] Nixon famously replied, "I don't, you know, I'm more, I just will have to say I don't spend a tremendous amount of time personalizing this vis-à-vis me."
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Purdue University president Mitch Daniels was showing how grown-ups deal with petulant students. He told Purdue protestors he would listen to suggestions but not demands and had no interest in negotiating anything.
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/01/obamas_gun_control_lies.html
January 6, 2016
Obama's gun control lies
By Michael Filozof
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