If Mort Divine ruled the world

I don't even know what a real army one was like, mine was such a joke. Head DS got fired around 5 week point, 2nd in command was FOB hispanic who no one could understand when he spoke and I think we only had 1 more DS the rest of the cycle
 
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Notice you never see any serious economic analyses surrounding handout programs. Usually you just get some appeal to "our wealth". "We're the richest country in the world" etc etc. Then when there are economic analyses (like to support upping minimum wage), you get hacks doing it.
 
I find it amusing that on one hand many Americans will tell you that they will shoot anybody who tries to oppress them or strip them of their freedom and then on the other hand you have the ethno-nationalists saying they want to forcefully remove non-whites from America.

I would love to see someone try to remove Walter E. Williams from America without being shot.
 
I'm not trying to distract from the story, but are we really using the Daily Mail for information now?

When stuff like this involves universities, I'd check Inside Higher Ed (or the Chronicle of Higher Ed if you can access it). Here's part of Inside's short take:

IHE said:
Reginald Robinson’s full question about a client who fell asleep during a wax and later alleged improper touching is rather graphic, with references to a “landing strip,” hairlessness from “belly button to buttocks" and more. Still, some free speech and academic freedom advocates are calling Howard’s response excessive: mandatory sensitivity training for Robinson, prior administrative review of his future test questions, classroom observation and a warning that any further violations of the university’s sexual harassment policies may result in termination.
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It sounds to me as though the university is overreacting to the situation, but also that the professor composed a pretty dumb question. Honestly, sometimes I don't know what goes through some people's heads. Maybe the professor just thought he was being funny; but in some cases, it's better to be boring, especially on an exam. The irony here is that the question itself appears to have been about sexual harassment (i.e. "improper touching")!

It's easy to ask this kind of question without resorting to the colloquialisms that Robinson did, which not only are unnecessary but can also be embarrassing. Full disclosure, when I was a freshman in college I didn't know what a "landing strip" was.
 
Oh it's definitely fact, my point is that the Daily Mail is already preparing its readers to despise the students who complained from the outset--that's just its agenda, pure and simple. But I think the language in the exam question deserves some attention too. That is, it was clearly a stupidly worded question.

Legality is specific, I get that; but the exam question reads like a parody of what you'd find on a typical law exam. The entire thing could have been avoided if the professor simply had the foresight to stop and think "maybe this is a bit much..."

Are the students and/or university overreacting? Yeah, maybe so; but the prof deserves a little bit of a criticism here, even if it's only a head-shake and "What the hell were you thinking would happen, dude?"
 
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