Evergreen State College is melting down faster than Mizzou.
The whole thing began when racist social justice activists wanted white people to leave the campus. Bret Weinstein, a respected biology professor, refused. So he was harassed, abused and threatened. When campus police attempted to intervene, the same protesters threw an even bigger racist tantrums. George Bridges, who has been running Evergreen into the ground, apologized to the racist thugs.
It didn't stop them from cursing and insulting him.
Many members of the faculty accused Weinstein of racism for not accepting racial segregation and joined the demand of racist social justice students that he be fired. The college was shut down by apparent threats which led to thugs armed with baseball bats"patrolling" the campus. This can't be too reassuring considering that Weinstein had been told that the police can't protect him on campus.
"Some members of this group have been observed carrying batons and/or bats. Carrying bats is causing many to feel unsafe and intimidated. The bats must be put away immediately in order to protect all involved. Non-students participating in this activity are advised to leave campus."
An official at Evergreen State College sent a memo to students Sunday asking an apparent group of campus vigilantes who have taken to patrolling the grounds armed with bats or batons to end the practice, according to an email forwarded to The College Fix.
Into this trainwreck come two bills to privatize Evergreen State.
Sen. Phil Fortunato, R-Auburn, has introduced Senate Bill 5946, which would phase out state funding for The Evergreen State College and ultimately sell the institution.
Fortunato said the controversy over the request for a white professor to leave campus that has embroiled Evergreen in a national media frenzy, reveals a dysfunctional state institution incapable of keeping order or protecting free speech.
“What I see is an institution dedicated to indoctrinating kids into being perpetual victims,” explained Fortunato. “We saw videos of students disrupting classrooms, bullying administration, blocking police and intimidating those around them, and the response from the college president was to thank them for it. It is unbelievable.
“When this bill passes, they can still feed each other all the Marxist nonsense they want, they just won’t be able to do it with money from my constituents unless my constituents choose to donate to it – which I doubt.”
The legislation would transition Evergreen into a private institution and would seek to sell college assets at fair market value. A stipulation to the sale would be that the buyer would have to run the college as a four-year institution of higher education.
Fortunato’s bill is a companion to HB 2221, sponsored by Rep. Matt Manweller, R-Ellensburg.
The illiterate crybullies are not taking it well.
There is proposed legislation that seeks to privatize The Evergreen State College which would remove all public funding towards their University. This action has potential to be harmful in regards to the funding sources and would have a negative impact on the student demographic which has high financial needs.
That statement comes from the Washington Student Association. At least it's less illiterate than the racist ravings in Evergreen's deranged Cooper Point Journal.
Meanwhile Mark Musser at American Thinker describes his own experience at Evergreen.
Evergreen professors do not grade students, but they do give them lengthy teacher evaluations. The students are also required to write their own evaluations of themselves. While everyone pretty much passes under such lax standards, one does have the freedom to put in as much work as he or she wishes. Most coast through the college. Tests are rare. Yet Evergreen students do a tremendous amount of reading and writing that must also be collectively articulated and discussed with the professor and other students in what they call seminars.
Evergreen education is based on holism. All credits are holistically integrated into one course. For example, as an Evergreen graduate with a Bachelor of Arts (1985-89), I took a 32-credit course my freshman year entitled "Political Ecology" that was two quarters long. While it was largely a nonstop attack on Christianity and capitalism for helping precipitate the ecological crisis of modern times, all of the credits were divided among ecological studies, agricultural studies, Native American studies, geography, evolutionary biology, and creative writing, among other credits.
If Evergreen were to vanish, our system of higher education would only be improved by its disappearance.