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These kids have no conviction.
I`ll do somethong, not much but something, as long as it doesnt impinge on me...
 
Accumulator - OK, that "liberal elite" comment was mine. It wasn`t necessarily pejorative, but a grad degree from an Ivy is definitely a ticket to being perceived as elite...whatever that means in the real world. I appreciate your comments about not knowing all the facts, and I was knee jerk reacting with an initial impression not a factual conclusion. There`s merit to poking a little fun at our world, (Ron`s posts tend to be the best examples!). And as someone with an expensive grad degree, I had very few conservative leaning professors and I doubt my personal experience was atypical. While my educational experience was "way back when," I hadn`t ever heard of the need for a "safe space" to shield people from the threat of a conflicting option. An echo chamber just isn`t the real world and it may be very difficult adjustment for grads with this kind of educational experience should they choose to enter the real business world where results matter and the opinions of entry level employees just don`t. Most university level institutions don`t teach a lot of practical skills outside of STEM subjects, and the increasing emphasis on those is huge step in the right direction. Liberal arts undergrad degrees on the other hand prepare students for grad school much more than the workplace.

I read a very interesting book recently, called Generations at Work, which examined the effects of multiple generations interacting in the workforce. Our changing economy has resulted in older workers staying the work force longer, and the values of boomers, Gen X (me), Gen Y, and millennials regarding the workplace is quite different from a macro perspective. I see it everyday, as my office has more millennials than us middle aged guys. Isn`t it every generation`s God given right to criticize those that came before and after it, ha.
 
Why did they need a union to begin with? I suppose the union called the "strike" and they had to show up as a sign of unity. I`ll tell you who in college needs a union...athletes, especially college football players. They make big money for their colleges and get shafted on the income side. Slave labor or at least indentured servitude. I think I`ll have a ham sandwich and join their "hunger strike".
 
rlmccarty2000 said:
Why did they need a union to begin with? I suppose the union called the "strike" and they had to show up as a sign of unity. I`ll tell you who in college needs a union...athletes, especially college football players. They make big money for their colleges and get shafted on the income side. Slave labor or at least indentured servitude. I think I`ll have a ham sandwich and join their "hunger strike".
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It`s Yale
So food is either Pepes Pizza or Luis Lunch.
 
When I was in college all I could afford was Ramen noodles, so it wouldn`t have hurt me to go on a hunger strike. $30k plus a graduate degree from Yale? Wow, sign me up.
 
When you see the very few students that finish vs start grad school, you know its not the easy life being painted on those lines.
I am not optimistic about the future, but am certainly glad the "I am better than you"-"if you don`t agree with me, you are dumb"-years are over.
 
Dudes I don`t even know... When I think of Yale this image comes to mind:

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RMD- I wasn`t picking on *you* regarding that "Liberal Elites" thing...it`s just become a pet peeve of mine over the last few years as I hardly *ever* hear "elite" used in a positive context. You and I are apparently on pretty much the same page here. And, heh heh...if your degree was "way back when" I shudder to think of how *my* timeframe might be described :D

Funny thing is, the faculty wasn`t all-Left Wing when I was in school...it was a semi-crappy state U too. Guess it was shifting a bit by the time I was on faculty but the whole thing was nothing like it appears to be these days.

Eh, I just get riled up about some of this stuff :o And I guess "this stuff" is becoming a pretty broad category, so Note to Self....

lloyddrm said:
When you see the very few students that finish vs start grad school, you know its not the easy life being painted on those lines...
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Good point, and they`re not failing for the same reasons as all those undergrads we`re supposed to gift with free higher education; to get into Grad School in the first place they have to know *something* just to make it that far.
 
I just figured it out...........

I must be on a "hunger strike"...... But I called it a "diet"

I eat when I get hungry.
 
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