In terms of campuses, I have been thinking about the professor at the Texas medical school. My second daughter finished her second year of med school this spring. Medical school is very intense, and the schools work hard to build connections and community among the students, along with faculty, to help them get through it. The first year student that reported on her professor was certainly free to complain, but there are likely to be consequences. What fellow student or faculty wants to work with someone that will report them? Med schools are majority women, and women of this age group are overwhelmingly on the left. The next three years of her education will be a lesson in consequences. Shaming isn't inherently good, think The Scarlett Letter, but it's not inherently bad either, it can be guardrails for our selfish and worst selvesTrump, the polls and pundits tell us, is leading the field for the GOP nomination. But in the general election, that’s like having a connection to Dan Patrick. You may be able to pull some strings, intimidate a few people, but in the end, there’s a much larger community than you control that decides.
That lecture was required. The adjunct professor is widely admired and respected. One student called her public official Mom to complain about politics. Nobody else did.
Donald Trump is that whiny kid. Joe Biden is the professor. There is no chancellor, no Lite Guv, to intervene. In the end, not enough people want to be friends with the whiny kid.
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