Comments on: Could a president “end” political correctness on campus?

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 04:37:27 +0000

One good start would be to stop Government backed student loans. That would prevent people like “trigglypuff” (google her!) from going to Amherst on the Taxpayer’s dime (or on loans that Hillary says she’s like to be forgiven).

Colleges would have to lower the cost of tuition and compete for students with more practical degrees instead of nonsense “‘Gender Studies” programs.

By: great unknown

great unknown — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 01:55:15 +0000

In reply to Paul McKaskle. Exactly; require due process on campus for all. Plus, remove all immunity at the federal level for administrators.

By: Canvasback

Canvasback — Sun, 23 Oct 2016 01:07:46 +0000

They got into this mess with a series of “Dear Colleague” letters. All he’s gotta do is send out a memo that says “Never mind.”

By: Paul McKaskle

Paul McKaskle — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 19:45:43 +0000

I suppose he could stop the over reach of Title IX casting due process to the winds on campuses. Indeed, I suppose under the theory of Title IX he could affirmatively insist on due process for males in campus adjudications.

By: R. Alazar

R. Alazar — Sat, 22 Oct 2016 16:52:34 +0000

This might do a lot of the work: a sustained enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, entailing the end of all “affirmative action” admissions, hiring, or promotions involving racial or sexual preference, which is to say all of it, and all “holistic” admissions/hiring/promotions used to smuggle in racial or sexual preference, which is to say all of it.

(That would be, en passant, the end of the college admissions essay.)

In general, college admissions officials hold too much arbitrary power to determine who shall be among the rulers and who among the ruled. This will reduce some of the worst abuses of it.

George Will has long used the Civil Rights Act of 1964 as a superlative example of statecraft as soulcraft (as in his book of that title): you can sometimes legislate morality, more or less. The enforcement I suggest might well have moral effects.