Higher Education in America
A good sample of higher education in America is Michigan State
University in Lansing, Michigan. "Twenty-five were injured as the mob
set fire to cars, bicycles, and trees. Ten persons were injured and
four arrested in Kalamazoo, seventy-five police officers used tear gas
to disperse a crowd of three thousand students."
This took place Saturday, the week of October 16, 1989, and was
reported by the Detroit News. "Three thousand revelers gathered
together and started a fire that consumed bicycles, couches and
trees." The meeting was simply a typical student body affair, an all-
night drunk. We read "at least two thirds of America's twelve million
college students are under 21 years old, yet nearly 95% have tried
alcohol and 42% are heavy drinkers....'lf you survey all college
presidents, I think you will find that they will identify the abuse of
alcohol as their number one problem on campus,' said Ed Hammon,
President of Ford Hays University in Hays, Kansas.... MSU's forty-two
thousand students made Playboy magazine's 1987 honorable mention list
of the top booze bash colleges in the country....Early Sunday, city
work crews used a bulldozer to clear the debris from some streets,
power lines ripped down when brawling students toppled, cast iron
street poles also had to be repaired. 523 fights and assaults have
been reported this year, many alcohol related, police say."
These NEA intellectuals connected with the New Age Movement, Gay Lib,
and Women's Lib are the same bunch that have a heart attack every time
a street preacher shows up on the campus. This is the bunch that goes
into a spasm about a Bible showing up in the classroom or a preacher
standing on a stump and telling them they are going to hell if they
don't repent. This is the bunch. Let us examine their cultural image
and their intellectual attainments. "Students drank in smaller groups
bahind closed doors. At Wonders Hall a handful of young men slipped a
keg of beer up to the fifth floor, past a bumper sticker on a bulletin
board reading "A lot of teenagers are dying for a drink." The keg was
dry before midnight. Two kegs also flowed in the women's dorm of Case
Hall. On Virginia Street near the campus George Krutemen, 22, a
senior criminal justice major, estimated that he had poured about
three hundred shots of tequila Friday night at an off campus party.
On Grand River Ave., members of Sigma Ki Fraternity, perched from
their porch roof, feet dangling, watched the parade of passerbys as a
group of young women walked by chanting 'tastes great, less filling,'
mimicking the Miller Lite Beer commerical.
"The MSU pep band, dressed in green letter jackets, moved from bar to
bar on Grand River Ave., trumpeting the school fight song. `People
were swinging from the trees, this one guy was swinging side to side
and he almost pulled the tree down on top of him. They were all just
partying and tearing balconies down. They got couches and were
throwing them into the fire, whatever was close.'"
Sounds perfectly normal to me. My creed is "Back to the Bible or back
to the jungle." What can be more appropriate for an American
university than a bunch of sex maniacs on crack and pot dancing around
a fire, half-dressed, burning furniture? I can't think of anything
more appropriate. If you are dumb enough to pay tuition for that kind
of a kid, you deserve just the kind of kid you have.
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