Johns Hopkins bans Chik fil A

[cooltigger21 0]

It would promote homophobia or some such something. Universities are supposed to be a place where the vigorous debate of competing ideas take place. You're supposed vto hear things that might "offend" you. These days they are creating safe zones where you don't have to listen to protect the tender sensibilities of these brats. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/417305/johns-hopkins-chick-fil-ban-and-coming-gay-marriage-witch-hunt-andrew-guernsey

[TigerTale 357]

Chik-Fil-A had no plans to put a restaurant there. Why is the SGA even bothering with this issue? Maybe they feel the need to be relevant or heard or make the "news"? Instead they look paranoid and petty.

[AUUSN 823]

https://johnshopkins.collegiatelink.net/organizations?SearchValue=Religious%20and%20Spiritual&SearchType=Category&CurrentPage=1&SelectedCategoryId=1818

[aubfaninga 16]

https://johnshopkins.collegiatelink.net/organizations?SearchValue=Religious%20and%20Spiritual&SearchType=Category&CurrentPage=1&SelectedCategoryId=1818

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[cooltigger21 0]

It is how colleges act now. USC took down some pro life banners that had initially been approved. We get safe zones and demands that conservative speakers not be invited. They are supposed to be the place for free speech. They are anything but anymore. They're indoctrination centers now.

[AUUSN 823]

Would this University allow a free choice banner to be hung...

http://www.liberty.edu/spirituallife/index.cfm?PID=2586

[AURex 1,984]

Students have a choice. The ones who want to eat a Chik-fil-A can travel off campus to eat at one. Isn't that the same argument as -- no abortion clinics around here. If a woman wants an abortion, she can travel 500 miles to the closest clinic to get one?

[cptau 169]

If they want to be high and mighty they should ban products made in Communist China where there is a lack of civil liberties. No more PCs and smartphones made in China used or sold on campus.

Then there is Johns Hopkins' dealings with Saudi Arabia where civil rights are not so great either.

Saudi money given to the university to fund academics...

http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/5046

The monies donated to universities by Saudi Arabia reflect these broad interests, she said: of the 3,000 colleges and universities in the United States, Saudi money goes to fund two chairs in medicine at Johns Hopkins University; one at Harvard Law School; four in Islamic studies, also at Harvard; a director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies at the University of Arkansas, a rotating position (the current holder specializes in Islamic architecture); a poverty action lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's department of economics that funds a professorship, two fellowships, and a research and teaching fund; a two-year post-doctoral research position at University of California, Berkeley; and a chair of Islamic Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara.

Selling healthcare to the Saudi owned oil company....

http://www.arabnews.com/news/517726

http://international.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2014/01/27/our-newest-partnership-and-why-its-special/

They also take money from the United Arab Eremites

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/Major_Gift_to_Johns_Hopkins_Medicine_Honors_UAE_Sheikh_Zayed_Bin_Sultan_Al_Nahyan

The also get the most US government money. $609 million from the DoD.

http://247wallst.com/special-report/2013/04/25/universities-getting-the-most-government-money/3/

1. Johns Hopkins University

> Total federal R&D grant money: $1.88 billion

> Pct. R&D spending from government: 87.8%

> 2012 endowment: $2.59 billion

No college received more money from the federal government than Johns Hopkins University, which raked in nearly $1.9 billion in 2011. Unlike the other universities on this list, money from HHS did not constitute the majority of funding. More than $609 million came from the Department of Defense, while more than $202 million came from NASA. The reason for this is that one division of the university, the Applied Physics Laboratory, employs thousands of engineers and scientists primarily in support of defense programs. The university also has managed to rake in billions from fundraising as well. Billionaire New York mayor Michael Bloomberg pledged $350 million to the university to expand research for issues such as global health and, as part of the total pledge, will provide $100 million for need-based scholarships for undergraduate students as well. He is the first person to give more than $1 billion to a single university over a lifetime.

[Proud Tiger 4,261]

To my knowledge Liberty doesn't get federal funds. JH gets a ton.

[cooltigger21 0]

My main issue isn't with this particular incident or Johns Hopkins University. This is just one symptom of a larger problem in academia. These universities that are supposed to be the bastions of free speech and the free exchange of ideas have instead become closed societies that want to insulate these brats from "triggers" and micro aggression, what ever that is. They create these little safe zones so that they can go and not be offended by some pro life person or something similar.

[DKW 86 7,411]

Academia in the US is dead on so many campuses.

[AUFAN78 3,890]

Academia in the US is dead on so many campuses.

[DKW 86 7,411]

Academia in the US is dead on so many campuses.

Brother, we dont have academics on many campuses anymore.

We have mind numbed twitterheads that think taking a picture asking for the return of the girls kidnapped by boko haram actually did anything worth talking about.

We have a large segment of campus dwellers obsessed with Jersey Shore, The Bachelor, The Bachelorette, and the Kardashians.

We have protesters so dumb that when asked why they left class from an Ivy League School cannot give a considered opinion on why they are at the OWS Protest.