Long After Protests, Students Shun University of Missouri

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It was a moment of triumph for protesting students. But it has been a disaster for the university. And they are not alone. The universities forgot that it's parents who sign the checks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/university-of-missouri-enrollment-protests-fallout.html?mcubz=3

This next link refers to Jason Riley, a Wall Street Journal opinion columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow. Mr. Riley is a black man with the audacity to be a conservative and was uninvited from a speaking engagement at Virginia Tech. last year.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434834/jason-rileys-virginia-tech-speaking-invitation-rescinded

Universities have consistently underestimated the power of a furious public. While at the same time, overestimated the power of student activists, who have only as much influence as administrators give them. Can't the same be said of these two opposing fringe groups antifa and neonazi? The more the frenzy is stoked the more they are emboldened and the greater their ranks will become.

I live about 30 miles from MU and the enrollment has been in local news for some time - it indeed is an issue.
http://krcgtv.com/news/local/mizzou-ann ... -from-2016

^^^
Your states problems are compounding:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/18/i-hope-trump-is-assassinated-a-missouri-lawmakers-facebook-comment-leads-to-calls-for-her-resignation/?utm_term=.3299355c323c

Yep. I posted about that on my Google Plus a few days back.
I saw yesterday where she finally apologized.
Gimme a minute to go find the post and I'll quote myself here.

Aug 18, 2017
Oh this is such an entertaining state to inhabit.
Political insanity - a coming pandemic bigger than bird flu?
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics ... 55572.html

Considered going here since I'm majoring in journalism and live in the state, but decided not to. Looks like a good decision.

...You appear to be calling the violent Antifas as equal to their counterprotestors in the Charlottesville rally and elsewhere.
The neos are, to name only one of their positions, people who carry Nazi flags while chanting anti-Jewisg slogans, this is one of the main things that they stand for. That is one of the main things they are about.
The protestors against them have been some violent A-holes. They are not what the entire movement is about.







rapnel"]It was a moment of triumph for protesting students. But it has been a disaster for the university. And they are not alone. The universities forgot that it's parents who sign the checks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/us/university-of-missouri-enrollment-protests-fallout.html?mcubz=3

This next link refers to Jason Riley, a Wall Street Journal opinion columnist and Manhattan Institute senior fellow. Mr. Riley is a black man with the audacity to be a conservative and was uninvited from a speaking engagement at Virginia Tech. last year.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434834/jason-rileys-virginia-tech-speaking-invitation-rescinded

Universities have consistently underestimated the power of a furious public. While at the same time, overestimated the power of student activists, who have only as much influence as administrators give them. Can't the same be said of these two opposing fringe groups antifa and neonazi? The more the frenzy is stoked the more they are emboldened and the greater their ranks will become.[/quote]

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" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
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...You appear to be suggesting " The streets are crawling with violent Antifas!". They're not.







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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...Orson Welles said that Martians were attacking New Jersey but he thought he was just making a radio play! . It's up to YOU to prove that there are Antifas uner the demiitasse (The closest approximation to " Reds under the bed " I can come up with at coming up to 6 A.M. after a Diet Coke-fueled night of posting .), me bucko!







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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

One group categorizes people by race, the other by class. Not much difference there, both concepts are equally dangerous. While the media, whose only priority is selling advertising, is fanning the flames and counting the profit.

My point: If diversity were not a sham, we would welcome rather than condemn views that challenge our own.

...Hm, any backing up of the " Antifars running wild in the streets EVERYWHERE! " springboard still conspicuous by its abscence! Well done!







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...Orson Welles said that Martians were attacking New Jersey but he thought he was just making a radio play! . It's up to YOU to prove that there are Antifas uner the demiitasse (The closest approximation to " Reds under the bed " I can come up with at coming up to 6 A.M. after a Diet Coke-fueled night of posting .), me bucko!

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

...My scan of the NYT lead article mentions that a perception by African=Americans that the university has too many black persons-unfriendly students and has not enough black students was a secondary, anyway, reason for the decline.
You didn't mention that. That's not exactly a " would be cited by Fox News "-type reason. (Yes, some black persons are conservatives - Often, perhaps, more personally/socially conservative but economically - and in their opinion of/relationship with the white power structure - more to the left. however, that's probably not what you mean when you say " conservative ", so...) Apparently some sort of (Perceived at?? Well, I'm just reported that it was perceived as such.) racism incident was a spark for the protests - which I agree, displayed some of the absurd PC-ness - , too.