The price of racism at the University of Missouri

[philosslayer]

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

[Buzz Clik]

1. 5% drop in undergrad applicants; 19% drop in grad apps.

[philosslayer]

2. Yep

What did administrators think would happen when they decided to ignore the hatred on their campus? Now they have found out.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. Wow

[TipTok]

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.

[pintobean]

7. It's a hell of a way to prepare people for adult life.

Really, it's no surprise that parents don't want to send their kids there.

[LanternWaste]

17. I used to call safe-spaces bullshit too. And just like you, I never offered evidence

I used to call safe-spaces bullshit too. And just like you, I never offered evidence to support my bumper-sticker allegations.

Though our methods reek of trolling and causing trouble for its own sake, we know how to rationalize our actions as something other than what they are while cowering behind mere implication.

[TipTok]

23. Do you repeat your subject lines...

... To give the appearance of more substance in your responses?

[romanic]

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.

[LittleBlue]

5. +1

I would never attend a school that hires professors who threaten students with violence.

[Iris]

6. that was one adjunct instructor and she's been fired n/t

[TipTok]

9. Don't forget an administration bending over backwards...

... For a bunch of whiny babies.

No thanks...

[Marr]

16. Yeah, that's pretty much what they're known as to prospective students.

That "1950" group has made the campus into a joke. It's the place people think of when the issue of hyper-delicate, special snowflakes and PC competitive victimhood is raised.

The student who claimed the Dean 'ran into him with his car' was particularly pathetic. He ran in front of this car that was inching away from the 1950 crowd pressing all over it, was nudged by the bumper, then claimed the Dean had tried to run him over.

[Ford_Prefect]

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

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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 Columbia 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.

[pstokely]

13. there's also an overall decline of new high school graduates in the Midwest

but they've had record enrollment the past few years

[Ford_Prefect]

14. The anticipated loss of incoming students is mostly in the graduate category, rather than undergrad.

The loss of incoming students is not the cause of reduced funding. It is the other way around.

[pstokely]

21. it seems to be undergrad enrollment from out of state that will decline the most

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only a slight decline for in state undergrads

[linuxman]

12. LOL. Saw that coming.

Now they'll have all the room they need for safe spaces!

[JustAnotherGen]

15. Another Article

http://www.abc17news.com/news/mizzou-fall-enrollment-down-since-last-year/37297852
From January 6th of this year

Here's a breakdown of what demographics saw decreases in applications:
•High ability (ACT of 30 or higher) decreased by 7.7%

•African American applications decreased by 78 from last year, a 19% decrease

•Hispanic applications down by 1

•Transfer students decreased by 94 applications since last year

•International applications decreased by 6

•Graduate applications decreased by 19% and decreased 552 compared to 2 years ago

•Non-Missouri resident applications decreased by 948 and non-resident deposits dropped by 25% since last year

•Illinois applications have decreased by 7%, and deposits decreased by 31%


Missouri resident applications increased by 21, but deposits have decreased by almost 10%.

[philosslayer]

18. The word is out....

The Mizzou campus is a hotbed of racist activity.

[pstokely]

20. no more than any other, the media made gave 15 minutes of fame to fringe group

the same media pumping up Drumpf, are you a member of CS1950?

[grossproffit]

22. Results of Jury

On Fri Mar 11, 2016, 07:48 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

The word is out....
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=7674839

REASON FOR ALERT

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate.

ALERTER'S COMMENTS

Racism exists to a certain degree on every college campus

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE
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[pstokely]

19. lots of competition for a decreasing number of high school graduates in the Mdwest

nt