{"id":8879,"date":"2015-12-19T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=8879"},"modified":"2015-12-16T20:11:31","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T04:11:31","slug":"how-the-public-can-boycott-campus-fascism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/how-the-public-can-boycott-campus-fascism\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Public Can Boycott Campus Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"blog_author\">By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online<\/div>\n<div class=\"print_text\">\n<p>How is one to address the ethical implosion on campus, from pampered student bullies to timid professors to invertebrate presidents? We forget that the campus is a contradiction in terms. American higher education fears the consequences of its own ideology\u2014from its exploitation of part-time Ph.D. faculty to the scam of hiking the rate of tuition increases above the rate of inflation and pegging it to guaranteed student loans, which\u00a0it knows its customers cannot pay back.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>More to the point, things won\u2019t change until alumni, donors, and the public cease to support financially those campuses that refuse to protect freedoms as enshrined in the Bill of Rights and that empower rather than discipline student lawbreakers.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of athletic teams threatening to strike and not play, the public should preempt them and simply not attend their games or watch them on television.<\/p>\n<p>In justifying the boycott, the public can cite perhaps football and basketball programs\u2019 lack of diversity and proportional ethnic, gender, and racial representation; their propensity statistically to be cited for campus sexual violence at a higher rate than true of the campus in general; and the dire need to address the disparate impact of their recruitment and scholarship policies\u2014as well as their privileged immunity from the rules about class attendance, exams, and grading that apply to the rest of the student body.<\/p>\n<p>If the public tuned out big-time university football and basketball, and donors stopped supporting politically corrupt administrators and curricula, things would gradually improve. Subsidizing opportunistic fascism is a bad idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online How is one to address the ethical implosion on campus, from pampered student bullies to timid professors to invertebrate presidents? We forget that the campus is a contradiction in terms. American higher education fears the consequences of its own ideology\u2014from its exploitation of part-time Ph.D. faculty to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[844,977,146,78,79,11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-2jd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7533,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-troubling-plight-of-the-modern-university\/","url_meta":{"origin":8879,"position":0},"title":"The Troubling Plight of the Modern University","author":"victorhanson","date":"June 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today\u2019s campus is more reactionary than the objects of its frequent vituperation. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ National Review Online Employment rates for college graduates are dismal. 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