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Governor Shapiro’s Revolution at the
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Posted By: 4250Luis, 8/28/2025 3:55:42 AM

We often think of American universities as either public or private. Public universities are those that are effectively owned by a governmental entity, almost always a state. Private universities, at least the respectable ones, are nonprofit corporations, controlled by trustees who appoint a president as chief executive officer to run the university. We imagine that the president is responsible to the trustees, the trustees are responsible to nobody but themselves, and the university’s faculty has academic freedom and, as long as it avoids a few live wires, is accountable to nobody. Students, meanwhile, are treated as customers and temporary residents,

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Strike3 8/28/2025 8:14:19 AM (No. 1996496)
A lot of wishful thinking here. The product of most of today's universities is not nearly as high quality as it was a few decades ago. The education absorbed, when measured against the price paid, is sorely lacking. The student body is largely made up of mushheads, thereby making it easy for outside influencers and agitators to take control of them for political purposes. Foreign students are favored over domestic, because they are more reliable in paying their tuition. The characteristic which makes a good student, namely raw intelligence and emotional maturity, is the missing piece, pushed to the back burner to make room for less important goals, like equity and social adjustment.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Subsuburban 8/28/2025 8:36:29 AM (No. 1996500)
But this is the same Shapiro whose government is the lead plaintiff in the continuing litigation agains the Little Sisters of The Poor, seeking to force them to give abortofacients to employees against their religious scruples. So anti-semitism bad; pro-abortion good. Sorry, that's a moral contradiction that just doesn't square.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: seamusm 8/28/2025 8:52:38 AM (No. 1996510)
Pretty boy Governor Newsom might rule our most populous state but Shapiro is already demonstrating that he will be a much more formidable candidate for the Oval Office in '28.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: J. Arthur Brown 8/28/2025 10:56:15 AM (No. 1996567)
It's great that Governor Shapiro and Senator Fetterman dissent from the Democrats craziness on Israel but they support every other item on the Party's crackpot agenda.
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