Student activists at Brown University are complaining of emotional stress and poor grades after months of protesting, and blame the school for insisting that they complete their coursework.
“There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes, and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” an undergraduate student going by the pseudonym “David” told The Brown Daily Herald Thursday. “My grades dropped dramatically. My health completely changed. I lost weight. I’m on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills right now. Counselors called me. I had deans calling me to make sure I was okay.”
Other students reported similar problems, describing maladies ranging from emotional distraction to panic attacks that they say caused them to skip assignments, miss class, and generally lose focus on keeping their grades up.
David and other students began demonstrating on campus in October to protest two opinion columns published in the Daily Herald that some students deemed racist because they defended the celebration of Columbus Day. Black and Asian student groups reacted by demanding that the paper not only retract and apologize for the op-eds, but also develop a plan for increasing the diversity of its staff, subject to approval by the activists.
Following an almost-immediate capitulation by the newspaper’s editorial board, and incensed by University President Christina Paxson’s attempt to stake out a middle ground on the matter, the protesters proceeded to direct their unspent energies on the university as a whole, issuing an ultimatum in November calling for affirmative action hiring policies, mandatory diversity training, and apologies for Brown’s historical ties to the slave trade.
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=7308
>>24327
KEKANADURA
me and my friends were talking about this on acid the other day, you go to fucking brown, its one of the top unis in the country and you have the fucking nerve to complain about how hard you have it, and now you're complaining that you can't complain enough? fucking hell just nuke the ivy leagues
>>24327
Activists with health-insurance and paid sick leave....
“My grades dropped dramatically. My health completely changed. I lost weight. I’m on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills right now. Counselors called me. I had deans calling me to make sure I was okay.”
How fucking weak is this guys conviction?
Did you know Brown is one of the easiest universities to get an A at? Their grade inflation and quality of instruction is deplorable. 2/3 of all grades given are A's
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/grade-inflation-colleges-with-the-easiest-and-hardest-grades/
They are already gifted an above 3.0 GPA, what more do they want?
>>24355
I've always been confused with the American GPA system. What's it out of?
Oz fag here, 4 is a pass and 7 is the max GPA...... Just want to understand the other side of the fence.
>>24362
If you get all A's you have a 4.0
B = 3.0
C= 2.0
D= 1.0
F < 2.0
Your classes are by credit hours. For example
Chemistry = 3 hrs B
Chem lab = 1 hr B
Composition =3 hr A
Statistics = 3 hr C
World History = 3 hrs B
Elective= 2 hrs A
https://cws.auburn.edu/provost/gpacalc/calculator
Plug it in, and this hypothetical student's GPA is 3.21
A student has only one duty: to study. The rest are hobby/passion/curiosity/pastime/exploration/whatever none of which are mandatory therefore they're choice. Once can't complain to others for his/her choices. Those choices are given to make you learn to be smarter as real life is never about one task to tackle with. It's not an either-or. It's about trade-offs.
I bet there would be massive suicide meme if the university's name was White university.
Ah yes I've seen this before, I believe doctors refer to this as "Getting Trigger'd"
>>24327
lol
>Justice Gaines, an undergraduate student who uses the pronouns xe, xem and xyr, even recounted suffering from what xe describes as “a panic attack” related to xyr emotions over the Daily Herald op-eds, adding that xe “couldn’t go to class for several days” following the episode.
>Liliana Sampedro, one of the students who compiled the diversity ultimatum, argued that refusal to grant such accommodations “has systemic effects on students of color,” who she said may sometimes feel obligated to prioritize their activist work over their studies.
>“I remember emailing the professor and begging her to put things off another week … I hadn’t eaten. I hadn’t slept. I was exhausted, physically and emotionally,” Sampedro recalled. The professor nonetheless insisted that she submit a previously-assigned research presentation on time, which she claims forced her to stay up late to finish the project after having already spent hours working on the list of demands.
>>24379
holy shit took me like a good 10 seconds (any amount of time is too much) to figure how how the word "xyr" was being used in this context.
The entitlement from this kid is just ridiculous. I mean I've asked for extensions on things for being sick and shit before, but god damn, I was never this big a bitch about it
I think these people have drastically misunderstood what a university is supposed to be.
The downfall of Brown University has begun.
Won't be long before there's no beacons of morals, values and education left, all soiled for the sake of "social progress".
Fuck this gay earth.
No worries. Instead of degrees just give these little treasures Outstanding Protester certificates and graduate the little fuckers. They will get a sense of accomplishment, stress relief and can use them to stay warm when they're moved in under the nearest bridge.
>>24383
my eschatological sides are in orbit
>>24382
they are establishments made to progressively complain about anything and everything
>>24327
>Brown students complain homework is interfering with their activism
shouldn't matter what color the students are ;_;
>reads article
oh
>>24445
I think you have drastically misunderstood what an establishment is supposed to be.
>>24327
>demanding that the paper not only retract and apologize for the op-eds
I thought papers aren't responsible for those...?
The fundamental difference between a university and vocational school is like that of a juggler and catcher.
Do not opt for high tier white-collar career when you're fit for blue-collar work only.
>>24503
>radical left wing protestors at Brown
>implying blue collar background
Lmao what? Excuse me? The blue collar students would be throwing beer cans at these upper middle class parasite children of parasites. And they would find the time to do so after their homework.
"Activists" are the worst people on the planet. Protesting doesn't take any effort, it doesn't mean you're right, and its just a tantrum. Get back to work you lazy fuckers.
>>24327
Somebody needs to invent a new academic system where the focus is on academic studies. Let these people do whatever the fuck it is they think they're supposed to be doing, and make an entire new system that has none of this bullshit.
I would even volunteer to help accomplish this, it's fucking ridiculous what they're doing to education.
>>24327
>brown students
ohhhh Brown, the university
>>24503
>>24510
he's right, you know. they are the children of white collars, that aren't fit to do any work as either white nor blue collar.
They will live their lives off the current zeitgeist, getting money from donations and activism, or from useless positions as "diversity teachers" in faculties.
This in a ever increasing demographic of people basically making a living of bitching.
I hereby coin the term Pink collar """ worker"""
>>24518
>In the United States, a pink-collar worker performs jobs in the service industry. In contrast, blue-collar workers are working-class people who perform skilled or unskilled manual labor, and white-collar workers typically perform professional, managerial, or administrative work in an office environment.
Taken from google search pink collar worker.
Maybe Yellow collar or brown collar...
Sodom and Gomorrah
>>24503
>Blue collar is beneath white collar!
How are those student loans, idiot?
You graduated 4 years ago, why don't you have a job, yet?
>He fell for the white collar meme
>>24327
As someone who decided long ago to never pursue a university degree, I find all this incredibly hilarious. As long as it's not in my house I will continue to laugh as social justice becomes a parody of itself.
>>24525
Guzunheit.
>>24381
I don't understand how it is used here. Pray tell.
>>24355
I saw a video recently about Chinese universities giving passing grades to all students to save face. I assume the same thing is happening to Brown.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYGNB3cABUU
>>24327
nah
I've fought depression at university. I've had panic attacks that make it hard to go to class. And you know what? I deservedly failed those classes. Buck the fuck up and accept consequences for your choices.
>>24569
This. I took a class in community college and the teacher humiliated me in front of the class the 3rd day in. Call me a bitch, but I just stopped going and obviously failed. Never once would I have considered demanding a passing grade or even a tuition refund because muh feelings. What the fucking fuck.
>>24653
Did she pull your pants down or something?
>>24546
Basically like he/him/his type thing
I'm not too far out of college (~3 years) and I don't remember any of this kind of shit. Can a couple of years really be this big of a difference?
Maybe it's because I went to a 90% stem university, but I can't think of a single time I saw anything like these cum stains while I was there.
Jesus Christ, they have lost their fucking minds.
>brown students
>activism work
>>24705
Coming from a former Ptown resident, I can tell you Brown students really are just kind of stupid & lame :/ The average URI student is more compotent/well spoken, yet somehow Brown is elite? Also not that it matters to this discussion (homework) but no joke the weirdest parties i've ever been to were Brown parties. If you're elite enough to go to Brown you'd be wise to go to RISD instead. Just my 2c.
>>24364
Thanks anon. That makes a lot of sense.
>>24445
Sure glad I don't go to one of those.
My university requires I be sponsored by an academic society, publish a paper to a reputable and internationally recognised journal and that I contribute to the world's understanding of my chosen subject before I get a degree.
International uni baby. Top 50.
........ I haven't had a day off in years...... Fuck.
>>24653
Why didn't you just drop it? This would actually be grounds for at least having the fail removed. You're a little bitch.
>>24587
>inferior complexities
kek
>>24336
It's the same at Yale.
They should all be expelled and kicked to the curb, Ivy League students (who have their daddies and mommies pay for the ride, sure there are some hardworking scholarship students in there as well) are literally the most priviledged group of people existant on this planet and have been from the moment they were born into their rich legacy.
>>24383
To be fair, Brown has always been the salcktivist-meme-university of all the Ivy Leagues.
>>24336
As a former Brown student, the majority of people who went there complained nonstop and spent more time and energy on protesting than it would have taken to do their work.
>>24725
t. URI scum
>muh Boston
>>24758
>top 50
>50
Lmao
>>24327
It wasn't just the brown students you fuck, white students are having the same problem. RTFA.
>>24705
It makes a huge difference.
I'm a senior about to graduate. This semester I'm taking my final mandatory general education course that I need to graduate.
Most of the people in the class are freshman. They are shockingly different from the freshmen when I started.
A good 20% of the class (120-ish person lecture) looks like a tumblr stereotype. I've seen people raise their hand to say something in lecture, and preface their question or comment or whatever by saying their preferred pronouns like it's fucking relevant.
Also the class is taught by a new professor and it's predictably white people are terrible 101.
what a bunch of snnowflakes "Hold up. you telling me that school is about studying not for protesting? Thats racist"
I hope they all fucking suicide.
These fuckwits have ruined the education system.
Luckily they haven't went near online education and independent education with meetups and swapmeets and so on.
They are too fucking stupid for stuff like that.
The fact that these cunts aren't summarily chucked out for their intellectual cannibalism is one reason why higher education shouldn't be left at the hands of the market. You simply do not throw out your customers.
Higher education also shouldn't be a rite of passage. Stop offering Bollocks Studies degrees.
>>24870
Thos guy gets it.
But from your syntax i assume youre not American.
The goal of every lawyer and politician here in the US is to commodify EVERYTHING.
>>24327
So basically
>Students should be able to shirk class and classwork with no consequence to their grades
>Opposing view points should not be allowed
>White teachers need to be fired and affirmative action needs to be instated
is my reading comprehension up to par or am I misinterpreting the situation
>>24327
>apologies for Brown’s historical ties to the slave trade.
Whaaaat the fuck does this have to do with anything? How is it relevant, I don't get it.
>>24866
Conversely, this was a shift in the education system that changed the people coming out of it. The education system ruined them; they didn't ruin it.
Wait so students from Brown University are just called' brown students'?
Why would anyone willingly go there?
>>24327
>“There are people breaking down, dropping out of classes, and failing classes because of the activism work they are taking on,” an undergraduate student going by the pseudonym “David” told The Brown Daily Herald Thursday. “My grades dropped dramatically. My health completely changed. I lost weight. I’m on antidepressants and anti-anxiety pills right now. Counselors called me. I had deans calling me to make sure I was okay.”
Damn man, I did a couple tours in Iraq to pay for my shitty state university, but I'm glad I'm not in this kid's shoes. Sounds like these poor kids are really having a tough go of things now days. Can you believe that my university didn't even require us to do student activism? Talk about getting off light, I was damn lucky.
>>24327
these people will not survive job hunting unless they already had connections.
If you guys think this generation is bad, I'm currently a High School Senior and the generation under me is x10 worse.. holy crap we are all doomed. They make these poor crybabies look like medal of honor winners.
>>24327
>affirmative action hiring policies, mandatory diversity training, and apologies for Brown’s historical ties to the slave trade.
Last time I checked, as in I was there this weekend, Brown has done all of those things repeatedly over the years.
>>25047
>If you guys think this generation is bad, I'm currently a High School Senior and the generation under me is x10 worse.
Can you elaborate? I'm curious because they're not yet as visible as the current one.
Thank fucking god that I went to state school - everyone was too fucking poor to care are this stupid perceived bullshit and worked really hard to get into school if you didn't do your work you got called out. If you protested, everyone ignored your crybaby bullshit. You didn't have minorities that didn't have the grades to get into the school and scream about how white people are oppressing them meanwhile AA is fucking over whites and asians who actually worked their fucking asses off to get into school.
>>24327
More black history being made as we speak.
