Higher Education In America
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 allnight 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.