1.) 30% of Harvard's admissions are preferred legacy students. Harvard has 23K students. That's thousands of kids born on second or third who may never have had to deal with adversity. What part of the process of getting to Harvard for them would you point to as generating better morals?
Yes, good point. But are we extrapolating all students from the actions of a few?
It's part of a bigger conversation about the morals coming out of our top universities. "Greed is good" was the main lesson when I went to college, and I'm glad the world has expanded, but it still seems like we can't look to our institutes of higher learning for clarity on this or really any issue of the day.
I just saw a video at UCLA with hundreds of protesters calling for a new intefada and chanting from the river to the sea. I didn't see any counter protest so it may not be all or even a majority, but it was more than a few.
Why?
1.) 30% of Harvard's admissions are preferred legacy students. Harvard has 23K students. That's thousands of kids born on second or third who may never have had to deal with adversity. What part of the process of getting to Harvard for them would you point to as generating better morals?
2.) Ted Cruz.
Yes, good point. But are we extrapolating all students from the actions of a few?
It's part of a bigger conversation about the morals coming out of our top universities. "Greed is good" was the main lesson when I went to college, and I'm glad the world has expanded, but it still seems like we can't look to our institutes of higher learning for clarity on this or really any issue of the day.
That sounds a lot like what my parents said about my generation... but we were into peace, love and groovy, not baby-killing terrorists.
I just saw a video at UCLA with hundreds of protesters calling for a new intefada and chanting from the river to the sea. I didn't see any counter protest so it may not be all or even a majority, but it was more than a few.
If this is the yardstick, one can always find a few fools to broad brush a whole community, no matter what.
What official actions and policies have they got the Left to adopt?
LitтАЩs a big country!