The exclusive story is here (in case you missed it amidst all the hoopla of the UW being named the Sexiest Campus by the Daily Beast).
Did Althouse blog the latter? I missed it but can't believe she would too -- she's always blogging about ratings.
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It can't be that sexy if all they ever do is take photos of dogs. Just sayn'
Madison? Eh. Having a BAC three nights a week that is 2X the legal limit for drunk driving makes everyone look sexy.
In the middle of the day, not so much.
The professional colleges - engineering, business, medicine, sciences, mathematics, etc. are all very good and attract very bright kids who work their butts off. But the humanities and education students - unfocused drunks burning through their loans and parents' money on the way to working in coffee shops.
Wisconsin invented beer goggles. You can google it. Also, it was a Wisconsin Senator, John J. Blaine, who proposed a constitutional amendment for the repeal of prohibition link which became the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition. I read somewhere that the Wisconsin Student Union was the very first in the nation to begin serving beer.
..after the repeal.
Virtually all the colleges in the sun belt are sexier.
TOP is BEGGING for a long thread of comments. Gay marriage couldn't even do it. Maybe LSL dry humpin' a dog photo?
She mostly likes blogging about her ratings, false or true.
"Caring about arbitrary rankings" made me laugh out loud so thank you.
UW Madison makes their TAs undergo indoctrination on diversity training.
Typical commie fascists.
"At the “diversity” training yesterday, though, even this fig leaf of apoliticism was discarded. In an utterly unprofessional way, the overriding presumption of the session was that the people whom the History Department has chosen to employ as teaching assistants are probably racists. In true “diversity” style, the language in which the presentation was couched was marbled with words like “inclusive”, “respect”, and “justice”. But the tone was unmistakably accusatory and radical. Our facilitator spoke openly of politicizing her classrooms in order to right (take revenge for?) past wrongs. We opened the session with chapter-and-verse quotes from diversity theorists who rehearsed the same tired “power and privilege” cant that so dominates seminar readings and official university hand-wringing over unmet race quotas. Indeed, one mild-mannered Korean woman yesterday felt compelled to insist that she wasn’t a racist. I never imagined that she was, but the atmosphere of the meeting had been so poisoned that even we traditional quarries of the diversity Furies were forced to share our collective guilt with those from continents far across the wine-dark sea.
...we learned things like, “As white infants we were fed a pabulum of racist propaganda,” “…there was no escaping the daily racist propaganda,” and, perhaps most even-handed of all, “Racism continues in the name of all white people.” Perhaps the Korean woman did not read carefully enough to realize that only white people (all of them, in fact) are racist. Nevertheless, in a manner stunningly redolent of “self-criticism” during the Cultural Revolution in communist China, the implication of the entire session was that everyone was suspect, and everyone had some explaining to do.
At the end of yesterday’s diversity “re-education,” we were told that our next session would include a presentation on “Trans Students”. At that coming session, according to the handout we were given, we will learn how to let students ‘choose their own pronouns’, how to correct other students who mistakenly use the wrong pronouns, and how to ask people which pronouns they prefer (“I use the pronouns he/him/his. I want to make sure I address you correctly. What pronouns do you use?”). Also on the agenda for next week are “important trans struggles, as well as those of the intersexed and other gender-variant communities,” “stand[ing] up to the rules of gender,” and a very helpful glossary of related terms and acronyms, to wit: “Trans”: for those who “identify along the gender-variant spectrum,” and “Genderqueer”: “for those who consider their gender outside the binary gender system”. I hasten to reiterate that I am quoting from diversity handouts; I am not making any of this up."
In my day at UW-Madison, diversity training consisted of noticing breast size differences under layers of clothing. If a young woman was particularly skilled at this, she could surprise, astonish, and enchant a young male in warmer months.
Evi L. Bloggerlady said...
"She mostly likes blogging about her ratings, false or true."
It's true. And her ratings are a mere fraction of what they were before you left and began rehabbing over here after your feelings got hurt. Was it something she said? Well, anyway, get well soon, Evil Bloggerlady (clever moniker). Everyone misses you SO much.
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