**Majoring in Cowardice
By: Bill O'Reilly / October 22, 2023
The ignorant anti-Israel displays on many college campuses are
all driven by one thing: fear.
College administrators are afraid of radical left students and
faculty, so they allow them to run wild. What else explains the
mealy-mouthed statements issued by Penn, Harvard, UCLA, NYU, and
many others? It is shocking.
When a terrorist group murders more than a thousand civilians,
there should be universal condemnation. There are not two sides to
the story. Murder is murder. Hostage-taking is terrorism.
You expect some foolish, callous behavior from immature stu-
dents but not from administrators and faculty who are supposed to be
guiding them to productive and positive lives. But in today's cancel
culture, the students hold power and can get people fired. The shout
-downs of conservative speakers, the kangaroo courts dealing with
allegations, and the acceptance of destructive leftist demonstra-
tions are all indicators of colleges out of control.
Here's a vivid example. Marist College is a small institution
on the banks of the Hudson River about 90 miles north of New York
City. The school was built by the Catholic Marist brothers, whose
collective vision was a place where children of working-class
parents could achieve a college degree.
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I graduated from Marist with a BA in history. It was a great
place; I made lifelong friends and went on to earn Master's Degrees
from Boston University and Harvard.
But the Marist College I attended is gone, replaced by a woke,
leftwing campus where if you don't toe the liberal line, you had
better watch out.
The president of Marist is Dr. Kevin Weinman, who was hired
away from the ultra-liberal Amherst College in Massachusetts. Marist
selection committee members praised his emphasis on diversity,
equity, and inclusion in statements following his taking the job.
Soon after the Hamas murders, Dr. Weinman issued a statement
that said he was "grappling" with the attack.
Grappling? What kind of weasel word is that? Grappling with
what? Hamas has killed thousands of innocent people over the years.
Does Dr. Weinman not know that? He should have clearly repudiated
Hamas. He did not.
This is insulting to every Marist student and graduate.
Grapple with that.
Developing honest and courageous leaders is the mandate of
all higher learning institutions. But what we have now is a bunch
of politically correct cowards in charge of many schools.
Enough.
Higher education in America is in line for a total overhaul.
The woke faculty members will never wake up. They need some ac-
countability, and that can only be done by alumni donors.
Don't give them a dime.**
Since Bill wrote this piece, 4 leaders of major universities
were interviewed by Congress and they openly denied their obvious
promotion of antisemitism and greed.
They lied about the practices at Harvard, Penn, and MIT and
that they apparently acted as though were unaware of how bad the
situation has become.
All three are being encouraged to resign as well as they are
millions of dollars from donors.
It is time to clean up the nations educators, especially the
ones who are ripping off the donors and making no effort to make
a positive effort to teach the students exactly what they are
being paid to teach.
Educating seems to be the last thing they are there for.
I fear that the future of America is being destroyed with so
many lies.
Conservatively,
John
Conservativelyjohn.com 