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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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8. I stopped supporting my old college when the "retirements" began

Reply to romanic (Original post)

Sat Aug 6, 2016, 11:28 PM

Aug 2016

Excellent faculty "retiring" and being replaced by young purveyors of trendy nonsense along with a construction spree of unneeded and mostly empty buildings turned me off.

There was also an organized boycott because of some Israel nonsense and previously because of the firing of a professor over what was obviously a false allegation.

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College Students Protest, Alumni’s Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink [View all] romanic Aug 2016 OP

A lot of these alumni are from a time when Blacks and Women "knew their place". redstatebluegirl Aug 2016 #1

As far as the schools go, they better get this straightened out or they are in for a yeoman6987 Aug 2016 #9

Aw. I know I'm not donating to my college because (a) I gave when I went there and (b) they are Brickbat Aug 2016 #2

How are the fucking up sexual assault investigations? Vattel Aug 2016 #3

It's not following its own policies. Brickbat Aug 2016 #5

Specifcally which policies? Vattel Aug 2016 #12

Baylor? n/t Buckeye_Democrat Aug 2016 #4

No point in guessing... Brickbat Aug 2016 #6

Maybe give some money to public institutions who educate far more people... DemocraticWing Aug 2016 #7

I stopped supporting my old college when the "retirements" began Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2016 #8

Chicken or egg? loyalsister Aug 2016 #10

What an odd headline. Photographer Aug 2016 #11

This website is also a business, one that requests no more than 4 paragraphs cited alcibiades_mystery Aug 2016 #13