Oberlin Students: We Demand We be Paid Wages to Protest; We Demand That Any Grades Lower Than C's Be Deleted; We Demand That In Lieu of Tests, We Just Sit Down With the Professor and Rap With Him About the Subject Matter

The snowflakes just keep getting more Special.

They're also dropping out of Oberlin College, which might be the only savvy decision they've ever made since applying to Oberlin College.

Oberlin College's activist community is ready to call it quits. Progressive students are dropping out of college, citing academic and emotional difficulties stemming from their mental health problems and overall disgust with the toxic culture on campus.

That's according to a fascinating piece for The New Yorker by Nathan Heller, who interviewed a number of exhausted activists at Oberlin. They perceive that other students, faculty members, and the administration are completely against them, and have made it impossible for them to live on campus. Some are dropping out.

Of course, some of these students probably feel unsupported because their impractical demands were not realized. Two examples: activist students not only wanted to abolish all grades below a 'C,' they also thought faculty members should proactively offer them alternatives to taking a written, in-class midterm exam. Here is the testimony of Megan Bautista, who identifies as an Afro-Latinx student:

..."Students felt really unsupported in their endeavors to engage with the world outside Oberlin," she told me.

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The students Heller interviewed seem to think they're not at college to be educated: they are at college to educate everyone else.

You have so much to teach us, Young Idiots.

posted by Ace at 06:50 PM

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