… when reading a story that begins “College students demand …” Use search function. Same thing with “Police violence common …” Or “Veteran kills …”
The headline: ‘Oberlin College Students Demand Black Students Be Exempt From Failing Because of Ferguson And Garner Protests.’
OK. How many students demand? Around 1,300 signed a petition saying President Marvin Krislov should “suspend the standard grading system because students of color, especially black students, are at risk of failing.”
What is Oberlin enrollment? Around 2,900.
Here is where the thing gets good: “I would really like to see the normal grading system suspended for this semester and replaced with a no-fail mercy period.” What kind of demand is “I would really like to see …”? For that matter, how good are the teachers who let students get by with “I would really like to see”? Really? Oh, absolutely.
And: “Basically, no student especially black students and students of color should be failing a class this semester.” “Basically”? I need a John Stossel moment … Give me a f’n break.
The whole thing is here: http://weaselzippers.us/208277-oberlin-college-students-demand-black-students-be-exempt-from-failing-so-they-can-process-whats-happening-in-ferguson-garner/
Link at weaselzippers and maggiesfarm.
Showing posts with label Oberlin College. Show all posts
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Thursday, June 28, 2012
While searching for 1916 Atlantic Battleplane
‘SEEKS TO BOMBARD
CITY WITH TEAR GAS’
‘Would Convince Public of
Humanity and Efficiency
Of Gas Warfare’
‘Report Only 2 Percent of Gas
Casualties During World
War Resulted Fatally’
“State College, Pa. (Jul. 6) – AP – Bombardment of some city of 10,000 population with tear gas as a means of convincing the public of the humanity and effectiveness of gas warfare, was suggested tonight by Dr. Harry N. Holmes, professor of chemistry at Oberlin College, Ohio, in an address before the Institute of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
“Dr. Holmes declared that gas warfare, though brutal like all warfare is really less brutal than other forms of fighting.
“As proof that the general feeling that gas warfare is ‘devilish, brutal and should be abolished,’ is erroneous Dr. Holmes said that the Surgeon General of the United States reports that in the American army during the World War, 24% of all the casualties caused from wounds and other agencies than gas died, while only 2 percent of the gas casualties resulted fatally.”
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19270707&id=isMgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g2kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5639,366791
CITY WITH TEAR GAS’
‘Would Convince Public of
Humanity and Efficiency
Of Gas Warfare’
‘Report Only 2 Percent of Gas
Casualties During World
War Resulted Fatally’
“State College, Pa. (Jul. 6) – AP – Bombardment of some city of 10,000 population with tear gas as a means of convincing the public of the humanity and effectiveness of gas warfare, was suggested tonight by Dr. Harry N. Holmes, professor of chemistry at Oberlin College, Ohio, in an address before the Institute of Chemistry of the American Chemical Society.
“Dr. Holmes declared that gas warfare, though brutal like all warfare is really less brutal than other forms of fighting.
“As proof that the general feeling that gas warfare is ‘devilish, brutal and should be abolished,’ is erroneous Dr. Holmes said that the Surgeon General of the United States reports that in the American army during the World War, 24% of all the casualties caused from wounds and other agencies than gas died, while only 2 percent of the gas casualties resulted fatally.”
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1928&dat=19270707&id=isMgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=g2kFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5639,366791
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