Better luck next time, keeds:
Following the model set at several law schools, students at Oberlin College are pleading for leniency during final exams and the final grading period this fall semester in light of the grand jury decisions in the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases and the shooting of Tamir Rice.
And, to be fair to the squalling brats, why wouldn't they give this tribute to slothful entitlement "the old college try" after their counterparts at Columbia University successfully pulled it off? Remember what I always say about life being a function on incentives; one freebie will always breed a herd of copycats.
A petition has been circling around the school community President Marvin Krislov to suspend the standard grading system because students of color, especially black students, are at risk of failing.
Which is their own damn fault and nobody else's. But it's not as if Oberlin didn't make any concessions to this foolishness:
The Oberlin administration has already offered “more flexible considerations” in granting emergency incomplete requests for students struggling academically thanks to recent events, the Review reported, but students have criticized them for not doing more.
Give the vermin an inch, they'll take a mile. Especially when the sucker they're skinning already has a reputation for gullibility:
Student groups believe that since Oberlin has always been progressive on race issues — the college graduated its first Black student nineteen years before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued — that they should be extra sensitive to the plight of students of color at this time.
A "plight" of their own making, having utterly nothing to do with anything that happened in Ferguson, Missouri, or Staten Island, New York. And Oberlin President Marvin Krislov finally said, "mevyap!"
And still the whiny children wouldn't give up:
Since the school as a whole wasn’t “doing enough,” students started turning to their professors to grant exemptions and leniency on a class by class basis.
You'll note that I am not quoting these agitative petitions. That is for the sake of my blood pressure. If you want to read them, follow the link above.
To their credit, the Oberlin profs also held the line....
....and that earned them and the Oberlin administration the inevitable, obligatory, ritualistic denunciation we've come to know and tiresomely loathe:
Kurzer-Zlotnick went on to compare the Eric Garner and Michael Brown cases to Newtown and accused the president of not caring because it wasn’t white people who died.
<sigh> If I were a professor at Oberlin, this tedious bleating would be making the patches on my elbows itch.
After the professor denied her request, she and other student launched a campaign to shame the professor and Oberlin administration for not doing more.
Megan Bautista, a senior at Oberlin, told the Review that this lack of action by the administration adds to the systemic racism people of color have to deal with.
Students are working on a list of demands beyond exam exemptions to present to the administration now. These include “instituting weighted referenda for students of color, creating central spaces for deans to meet with students on a weekly basis, and giving students the power to hire and fire the position of the Dean of Students,” the student paper said.
“People are really sensing that this is necessary,” said Bautista. “The administration would be insane to leave this up to the professors.”
No, my dear, the administration would be insane to turn over the running of their college to mewling infants like you. Now sit down, shut up, grow up, and get back to work. If you want that worthless basket-weaving degree, that is.
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