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Post by fauxmaha on May 22, 2015 0:03:51 GMT -5
From the Columbia University 2015 graduation program:
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Post by fauxmaha on May 22, 2015 0:16:24 GMT -5
New Rule For American College Students: The likelihood that you are learning something economically useful is inversely proportional to the number of American-born students in your class.
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Post by jdd2 on May 22, 2015 2:54:24 GMT -5
One stat: China has far more "gifted" students than the US has students.
And another: Nobody minds being tested over and over to separate the wheat from the chaff.
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Post by theevan on May 22, 2015 4:45:01 GMT -5
They pay full tuition. Foreign students are an economic boon.
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Post by brucemacneill on May 22, 2015 5:06:57 GMT -5
Guess if you want to learn to lie with statistics, the U.S. is the place to do it.
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Post by millring on May 22, 2015 5:27:19 GMT -5
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Post by Marshall on May 22, 2015 7:24:08 GMT -5
I see a lot of Ding Dongs.
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Post by millring on May 22, 2015 7:39:25 GMT -5
I see a lot of Ding Dongs. I like "Ran Fu"
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Post by brucemacneill on May 22, 2015 7:55:14 GMT -5
No Wang Chung?
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Post by fauxmaha on May 22, 2015 8:35:06 GMT -5
We just better hope that all those Chinese guys like coffee, because all the Philosophy and Women's Studies majors are going to have to sell it to someone.
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Post by fauxmaha on May 22, 2015 8:44:30 GMT -5
And while all those Chinese guys were getting advanced degrees in a demanding subject, Emma Sulkowicz (BA, Visual Arts, Columbia, 2015) was lugging a 50 pound mattress around campus to protest the fact that the school refused to expel the student she falsely accused of raping her. That lugging earned her the Susan B. Anthony Award, The Feminist Majority Foundation's "Ms. Wonder Award", a fawning New York Magazine profile, an invitation to the SOTU address, a review of her "art" in the New York Times that compared her to Jesus, and positive comments from UN Ambassador Samantha Power.
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Post by jdd2 on May 22, 2015 8:51:09 GMT -5
Y'all are missing the best racist slur of them all "Long Wang".
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Post by billhammond on May 22, 2015 8:53:41 GMT -5
And while all those Chinese guys were getting advanced degrees in a demanding subject, Emma Sulkowicz (BA, Visual Arts, Columbia, 2015) was lugging a 50 pound mattress around campus to protest the fact that the school refused to expel the student she falsely accused of raping her. That lugging earned her the Susan B. Anthony Award, The Feminist Majority Foundation's "Ms. Wonder Award", a fawning New York Magazine profile, an invitation to the SOTU address, a review of her "art" in the New York Times that compared her to Jesus, and positive comments from UN Ambassador Samantha Power. Why do you hate women, Jeff?
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Post by millring on May 22, 2015 9:00:15 GMT -5
We've got a young friend, Logan, who Dar met doing agility. He started college at Purdue this past year. I asked him how he liked school and, in that conversation he mentioned that almost the entire engineering school was Asian students. Logan's majoring in forestry. On the other hand, my nephew (Dar's, actually) Max graduated this week. In the past year he earned eagle scout, won the regionals with his golf team, graduated as valedictorian of his class, and was accepted with scholarship to the engineering school of University of Illinois.
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Post by fauxmaha on May 22, 2015 9:31:40 GMT -5
On the other hand, my nephew (Dar's, actually) Max graduated this week. In the past year he earned eagle scout, won the regionals with his golf team, graduated as valedictorian of his class, and was accepted with scholarship to the engineering school of University of Illinois. That's all well and good, but you'd think a promising young man like that could learn some more chords.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2015 18:46:54 GMT -5
And while all those Chinese guys were getting advanced degrees in a demanding subject, Emma Sulkowicz (BA, Visual Arts, Columbia, 2015) was lugging a 50 pound mattress around campus to protest the fact that the school refused to expel the student she falsely accused of raping her. That lugging earned her the Susan B. Anthony Award, The Feminist Majority Foundation's "Ms. Wonder Award", a fawning New York Magazine profile, an invitation to the SOTU address, a review of her "art" in the New York Times that compared her to Jesus, and positive comments from UN Ambassador Samantha Power. I think these paraphrased highlights of The National Review's column on Emma Sulkowicz increase the unlikelihood of me buying any of their over-priced and strangely advertised "down-to-business, no-pussyfooting, got-heft..... doubles as a weapon" coffee cups.
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Post by coachdoc on May 22, 2015 19:52:33 GMT -5
We've got a young friend, Logan, who Dar met doing agility. He started college at Purdue this past year. I asked him how he liked school and, in that conversation he mentioned that almost the entire engineering school was Asian students. Logan's majoring in forestry. On the other hand, my nephew (Dar's, actually) Max graduated this week. In the past year he earned eagle scout, won the regionals with his golf team, graduated as valedictorian of his class, and was accepted with scholarship to the engineering school of University of Illinois. But the poor guy's gotta play a Guild.
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Post by TKennedy on May 23, 2015 16:47:30 GMT -5
I suppose a bunch of Irish or Italian names on a commencement program would have elicited a similar response at some time in the past.
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Post by Doug on May 23, 2015 16:55:59 GMT -5
I suppose a bunch of Irish or Italian names on a commencement program would have elicited a similar response at some time in the past. True but they would be staying here, working here and contributing to the economy. Asia students that get education and go home are going to be competing with our economy.
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Post by fauxmaha on May 23, 2015 17:53:40 GMT -5
I suppose a bunch of Irish or Italian names on a commencement program would have elicited a similar response at some time in the past. I think you missed my central point, which is not so much about the presence of Chinese names on that list as it is about the decadence of American students.
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