LIB,MR BEARS said:TexasScientist said:Oldbear83 said:BaylorHistory said:
Personally believe in the UChicago model that they expressed in 2014 (and have had for >100 years) when there were people that were upset that it was allowing people on campus that would remove their "safe space" experience.Quote:
Education should not be intended to make people comfortable, it is meant to make them think. Universities should be expected to provide the conditions within which hard thought, and therefore strong disagreement, independent judgment, and the questioning of stubborn assumptions, can flourish in an environment of the greatest freedom."
Obviously, Baylor as a private institution can do what they want, but Chicago's method seems to be the point of an institute of higher learning existing.
I'd suggest that Baylor 1836-1986 set a good example for how the university should treat requests from special-interest groups. Some align with the traditional values, some oppose them, and the school should act according to that alignment.
Yeah, like alignment back in the good old days when Jesse Jackson was invited to speak at Chapel.
Nothing wrong with that.
JJJr spoke of justice which is also spoken of frequently in scripture.
Justice aligns well with Baylor's stated mission.
I attended that lecture in the 70's as a BU student. The Jesse Jackson of those days is not at all comparable to the Jesse Jackson of subsequent decades, after he sadly discovered how lucrative being a race bating shakedown artist could be. Both Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump would have probably agreed with the speech he gave back then.