DUmp monkiez misses point. MISSOU enrollment down.

[dutch508]

philosslayer (1,876 posts) http://www.democraticunderground.com/10027673041

The price of racism at the University of Missouri

Projects are that the University of Missouri will face a $32M budget shortfall, and 1500 fewer applicants due to the unrest on campus in past months. This is a huge drop in applicants for a University of this size.

Apparently students are being scared off by the horrible racial incidents that continue to take place at Mizzou. And who can really blame them?

http://www.abc17news.com/news/columbia-business-leaders-react-to-mu-enrollment-projection/38434834

Is that the reason enrollment is down? Really?

Buzz Clik (35,009 posts)
1. 5% drop in undergrad applicants; 19% drop in grad apps.

TipTok (1,009 posts)
3. I wouldn't want my kid to go there... Where groups like 1950 support the actions of that professor who assaulted a student reporter or make a list of demands, many of which are illegal on their face.

The whole thing reeks of safe space bullshit.

^This is why enrollment is down.

romanic (1,847 posts)
4. I would put the blame on the 1950 group, and the other safe space student activist crybabies for creating an environment where any other student could be harrassed by eager professors or have the police called on them for having a different opinion.

Ford_Prefect (1,122 posts)

11. The legislature is the culprit for slashing the funding. The actual drop in students is far lower.

You may have a point about how students feel about campus racism but your "facts" deviate from the story you reference.

There is divided opinion in Colombia about the economic effect of lowered applications, if you read the entire piece attendance is not down by 1500 but by approximately 150. The projected numbers and shortfall are based in the Legislature's pogroms.

The Republican dominated legislature is working to dismantle the Public University system and Mizzou in particular through huge cuts in spending and have used any available excuse to do so. While there are indeed significant racial issues on campus your remarks do little to shed useful light on them or the response to them.

There is another price paid here and it is not due to campus racism but rather lazy journalism.

Why would the Republican legislature try to dismantle the public university system?

 

[VelvetElvis]

Actually, I agree that the trouble at Mizzou is all because of rampant racism.

The thing is, the real racists involved are the very ones who claim they are being victimized by systemic racism.

[Mr Mannn]

Why would anyone seek out a school where whites are hated, any word or action (no matter how innocent) can be called racist, and any opinion (other than approved official liberal propaganda) is ruthlessly censored.

liberals are breeding worms for their future tyrant state.

[thundley4]

Ford_Prefect (1,122 posts)

11. The legislature is the culprit for slashing the funding. The actual drop in students is far lower.

Yes they cut funding, but that is not included in their projected shortfall.

[67 Rover]

Is that the reason enrollment is down? Really?

^This is why enrollment is down.

Why would the Republican legislature try to dismantle the public university system?

 

Because as you know there is a finite amount of money in the world and this will allow banksters and the 1% to horde more or something. 

[Karin]

Apparently students are being scared off by the horrible racial incidents that continue to take place at Mizzou

Like what?  That admin bends over backwards to accommodate the special snowflakes.  Some of the DUmmies got it. 

[SVPete]

Until the hundreds of potential and upper-class students who went elsewhere are polled, it isn't actually known why they went elsewhere. That said, the DU-folks' spin is implausible. Du-folk need to be ready to decry the racism of the students who didn't want to attend the race-baiters' "paradise" (and hope few of those who went elsewhere were blacks).

[jukin]

The black racist MU caused this. They also caused the expected but not yet enacted cuts to MU budget. Actions have consequences.

If I had been in charge, if the football team didn't take the field all of them would have their free rides revoked. The staff and faculty that supported this illegal action would have pink slips.