VDH Takes on Higher Ed
Gentle reader, one of my favorite professors to read has just written an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal.
Check out Victor Davis Hanson's take on campus silliness, tagged, more than accurately enough, "Academentia." (If it were me, I would have called it "Acadamia Nuts," though I wonder, do enough people out there enjoy macadamia nuts to get the joke?)
Hanson argues that university presidents have more or less lost their collective marbles. He's not wrong! And how do I know that Hanson's hit a raw nerd-nerve? Various Nerd Lords on my campus hate his guts and some have actually told me so. This tells me that Hanson's stuff is worth a read to see what the fuss is about!
Be sure to scroll down for a very interesting few paragraphs on the demographics of Asian-American students at Berkeley, caught up in identity politics and the mess that is "campus diversity."
Here's my advice for fellow campus nerds and nerdettes: Never concern yourself with what's going on in the Administration Building. Never get involved in campus politics and in-fighting. And finally, never for a moment think that the denizens of the Administration Building actually care if you succeed or fail or if you learn anything of lasting value. You have to take your education and your academic welfare into your own hands.