The picture of the group, specifically the "guy" on the left is really all you need to know about the situation.
"In America we don't worship government, we worship God." - President Donald J. Trump
Quote: (09-11-2014 02:22 PM)Phoenix Wrote:Only a handful learn anything useful like STEM fields, etc.
Out of interest, do people 'study things' in colleges in the US?
I was of the opinion that a college/university is where you go after school to learn specific valuable things which you will then use as part of a career.
It seems that they are more about people getting worked up about bullshit. Doesn't seem a valuable way to spend your time and money to me.
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According to the rules of her performance art piece, Sulkowicz is not allowed to ask for help to carry the mattress, though she can accept help if someone offers it to her.
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"As students, I like the fact that we can step up and share the weight with her—that she doesn't have to do this all alone," Bridgette Tolbert, CC '18, said.
Quote: (09-11-2014 05:22 PM)Andy_B Wrote:
These are some of the responses to it from the "feministing" Facebook page. This is fucking unreal. All these impressionable young women have been taught to take anything a rape accuser says as necessarily true automatically. It's almost unbelievable to witness, like something out of the dark ages.
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Quote: (09-12-2014 12:21 AM)Feisbook Control Wrote:
I'll say it again: Someone needs to take the piss out of these idiots and start carrying around another mattress. They could go one of two ways. The serious route would be to get ten big jocks to help one other jock out with his "burden". Make sure to take it to the busiest buildings/thoroughfares on campus such that it becomes a safety risk for evacuation from fires, etc. Escalate the whole thing so that eventually, no one is allowed to carry a mattress around.
The non-serious route would be to make it very playful. Take photos of it at keg parties and so on. Have free vodka shots for any passerby who would take photos with it. Turn the whole thing into a giant, mobile party.
What's wrong with the youth of today? Haven't they seen Animal House?
Quote: (09-12-2014 12:21 AM)Feisbook Control Wrote:
What's wrong with the youth of today? Haven't they seen Animal House?
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What's wrong with the youth of today? Haven't they seen Animal House?
Quote: (09-12-2014 01:11 AM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Quote: (09-12-2014 12:21 AM)Feisbook Control Wrote:
What's wrong with the youth of today? Haven't they seen Animal House?
Millennials strike me as the first generation that holds the same values as their parents instead of rebelling against them.
It could be what happens when single or dominating mothers try to be friends to their children rather than their parents: no generation gap.
Quote: (09-12-2014 01:11 AM)AnonymousBosch Wrote:
Quote: (09-12-2014 12:21 AM)Feisbook Control Wrote:
What's wrong with the youth of today? Haven't they seen Animal House?
Millennials strike me as the first generation that holds the same values as their parents instead of rebelling against them.
It could be what happens when single or dominating mothers try to be friends to their children rather than their parents: no generation gap.
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AMY GOODMAN: I want to go to another story from Friday’s speak-out at Columbia. A woman named Jen read this story, which was submitted anonymously.
JEN: "This May, my boyfriend severely beat me in my dorm room. He punched me, choked me against my wall, threw me on the ground and pinned my neck to the floor with his foot. He threatened to kill me. A month before that, in a similar incident, he threw me down and threatened to rape me. That night in May, he hurt me so badly that I couldn’t move my neck or shoulders for days. Someone on my floor heard me screaming and reported it to my RA.
“Once Columbia had enough information, they issued a mutual no-contact order to both me and him. We broke it. I was completely alone and isolated and felt like I still needed him. I still loved him and just wanted the assault to go away. The penalty for breaking a no-contact order, whether complainant or respondent, is the same and can include suspension. The man who threatened to rape and kill me is protected under this policy, because he knows that I can’t give Columbia the information that they need to expel him without him turning me in for breaking the no-contact order. He will take me down with him if I pursue the case.
"It is completely unfair that Columbia holds abusers and their victims to the same punitive measures, when basic knowledge of cycles of abuse shows that victims often feel trapped and isolated, and therefore stay with the people who attack them."
AMY GOODMAN: One of the people who spoke out on Friday. Zoe, your response? And can you talk specifically about these no-contact orders?
ZOE RIDOLFI-STARR: So, in this case, the no-contact order, and in a many cases at Columbia, is just one example of the kinds of policies that place a really undue burden on the shoulders of the survivor, who is trying to, you know, just move forward with their lives, whether or not they choose to report. They’re trying to heal. They’re trying to move on. They’re trying to find peace and find ways to be happy again. In this case, you know, it prevents her from even reporting and from seeking help. This is a person who submitted an anonymous story, who actually stayed afterwards at the rally to speak to me and was desperate for help. So we’ve started working with her to try to explain what that process is like, how other students have tried to navigate this concern about the no-contact directive before, particularly in domestic violence cases. You know, there’s a very clear and well-documented cycle of abuse, where abusers manipulate victims and survivors, and people do end up speaking to their perpetrators again. That’s well known for anyone who’s been trained, even as I was just as an intern at a domestic violence agency a year ago, to understand; however, Columbia somehow can’t understand that, and their policies reflect their clear lack of sensitivity and training on these issues.