Strassel on Protests in College Campuses: This Is Indulgence that You Don’t Have to Work on Your Grades, ‘We’re Winners if We Take Part for Participation Awards’

RUSH EXCERPT:
STRASSEL: "Oh, absolutely, Paul. This goes back decades. And the word here is indulgence. Indulgence to the children’s wildest ideas, that it’s okay to shout down speakers and protest the idea that some people come. Ing you don’t really doctor have to work that hard on your grades because we’re all winners if we just take part and get participation if awards. Grade inflation. Again, indulgence by different faculty members as Dan was talking about, many of whom, with by the way, are out there taking part in these protests right now and giving these students a aid and comfort in the belief that a if they’re actually hauled up for discipline because these faculty members sit on disciplinary boards that nothing will happen to them. There’s a lack of grown-ups on campus, and this has been going on for way too long. And I remember when we had this discussion a couple months bang about the Ivy League add a morers and whether or not they’d made statements that were appropriate enough attacking what happened in Israel. But we said at the time if you do not actually have fundamental change, it’s not good enough to have some people step down and issue a statement. You have to have root and Branch reform at these places."