Latest Hillsdale College outrage has me in a high state of pissification this morning.

[gibraltar72]

A little background Hillsdale College has been at the forefront of the Covid deniers and scofflaws who denied Governor Whitmers’ orders. They went so far as to bankroll a restaurant that stayed open after health department ordered them closed even after license was pulled. They also as late as November were pushing the crime against humanity aka herd immunity. They have encouraged employees and students to do whatever they want, feel free to go about the town unmasked and just deny it is a problem.

Our local hospital originally announced that we would have to wait for the Moderna vaccine as they had no way to store the Phizer. Suddenly the college volunteered their super cold freezer in their science department. The health department issued their guidelines for ranking how the vaccine would be allotted of course the frontline workers would be first, the common ranking of need. Both my wife and I were on that list but we knew there were others that should be taken care of first.

Mondays are the day that is designated as the day to apply for a slot to get vaccine. Health Department had given 9:00 AM as the time the appointment lines would go live. They suggested getting on page early and refreshing often to be ready when the links went live. At around 9:03 I got through and selected a time. They then had me fill out my personal info. I did that promptly and hit submit. Got a message that slots were all filled. What was supposed to be 500 doses were gone in 5 minutes.

I went to health department website and whipped off an e mail complaining about the hunger games nature of their policy. I suggested people preregister and be notified when there was an opening. I said the person with fastest internet service should not have an advantage and that was definitely not me. I also said that after living here for 70 years I was pretty sure I knew what was happening.

Imagine my surprise when I went to my local FB page where some one had asked if anyone had heard about college vaccinating people not on the list as eligible. Someone immediately dropped a link to a national publication that said hospital got more vaccine than expected because college had storage. They also said that the hospital allowed college to cut the line and get their employees vaccinated even though they weren’t on approved list. I am beyond pissed, most of those people refused to wear masks or social distance. A doctor of mine referred to the college as uncaring and unchecked. This is a case of white college privilege.

[dalton99a]

1. Shitty 'college'

George Roche III became the 11th president of Hillsdale College in 1971. During the Roche years, Hillsdale became nationally known, in part because of its withdrawal from federal and state-assisted loan programs and grants. The US Departments of Health, Education, and Welfare required the college to account for students by race as part of its affirmative action student loan program in the 1970s, but the administration publicly refused. Hillsdale's trustees said it would follow its own non-discrimination policy and that it would, "with the help of God, resist, by all legal means, any encroachments on its independence."[23]:237–39 In 1984, after a decade of litigation, the college withdrew from all federal student loans, replacing government assistance with private contributions.

Roche resigned in late 1999, following his daughter-in-law Lissa Jackson Roche's suicide and her allegations of personal scandal.[6] On October 17, 1999, she said that she had engaged in a 19-year on-and-off sexual affair with him. She fatally shot herself at the Slayton Arboretum on campus with a .38-caliber handgun from her husband's gun cabinet.[30] Married to Roche's son, known as Roche IV, Jackson Roche was employed by Hillsdale as the Managing Editor of Imprimis and Hillsdale College Press.[31][30][32][33] President Roche denied the affair.[30][34] The college's reputation suffered and donations declined markedly.[6]

Larry P. Arnn has served as president of the college since 2000.[35] Under his tenure, the college completed various new buildings, including the John A. Halter Shooting Sports Center and Margot V. Biermann Athletic Center.[36] The college also opened the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship, an off-campus educational center in Washington, D.C.[37]

In 2013, Arnn was criticized for remarks about ethnic minorities he made while testifying before the Michigan legislature against the Common Core curriculum standards. Expressing concern about government interference with educational institutions, he noted having received a letter from the state Department of Education early in his presidency that said his college "violated the standards for diversity." He added, "because we didn't have enough dark ones, I guess, is what they meant." After being criticized for calling minorities "dark ones," Arnn explained that he was referring to "dark faces". He stated: "The State of Michigan sent a group of people down to my campus, with clipboards ... to look at the colors of people's faces and write down what they saw. We don't keep records of that information. What were they looking for besides dark ones?"[38][39]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College

[gibraltar72]

2. Been a project of mine since I was a boy.

delivered papers on the hill saw what hypocrites they are. Nothing I have learned since I was 11 has indicated I was wrong then.

[dutch777]

3. Sue them for false advertising, misrepresenting, endangering lives, whatever an attorney can throw..

...together. And get them cut off from the Health Dept which may tough if they have the only freezer capable of storing the vaccine. I can't believe a local hospital does not have a super cold freezer but seems many communities have that issue as well.

[3catwoman3]

4. I am going to add...

...pissification to my vocabulary.

[gibraltar72]

5. Be my guest.