Trump University

We can’t hide from the world’s views just because we disagree with them and that’s all we’re doing when we create these safe spaces. If you can’t handle prejudice, discrimination, and hurtful words don’t go to college. Just stop, stay home. Universities shouldn’t have to shelter anyone, that’s not their purpose. Their purpose is to provide you with the proper education you’re paying for. Not to take that money and provide a safe space for those who want it. If we keep this up soon enough the…

nation. As a new election was nearing, both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders took the same stance as Barack Obama, but after the two democrats lost the election, Americans have to wait and see where Donald Trump will go with the idea. In the debates previous to his election of President, Donald Trump proposed to make college more…

Truman State University sponsors a college prep program known as Upward Bound whose goal is to prepare first-generation college-bound high school students for college is facing potential cutbacks in funding. Upward bound is one of three TRIO programs federally funded programs that were designed to help lower income first generation college students with their journey to college. “We are very much at the mercy of what happens in Washington DC” said Sarah Hass, Program Director. In Trumps, Skinny…

athletic scholarships annually to more than 150,000 student athletes (“Recruiting Fact Sheet,” 2016). Yet, sports administrators argue that paying for athlete’s college tuition simply is not enough as the athletes publicity is producing revenue for universities and the NCAA (Breslow, 2013). While controversy throughout this pivotal topic is understandable, college athletes should not receive additional financial help because education leads to money, payment plans would be a disaster, and…

students as customers, the proliferation of faux “universities,” grade inflation, and the power reversal” (B3). The author believes schools try too hard to make their campus feel like home and a place full of “experiences”. As a result, education is no longer a top priority for neither the student nor the school, and numerous students simply sign up for college without thought as to what the future may require of them. The uprising of inflated universities has created a pride in students. Not…

protestors to be coddled is because they are the students of the campus, better known as the consumers. Students are the ones who pay to keep the campus running and demanded to be heard. In David Ochoa’s article “Having the Wrong Opinion” in the University Times he explains that students took advantage of their right to being coddled since they are the ones who President Covino had to satisfy, since they in a way they are ones who provided this school with its reputation and income. This article…

“Misconception No. 2: College graduates are finding it harder to get good jobs with liberal arts degrees” (228). Ungar reports “A 2009 survey for the Association of American Colleges and Universities actually found that more than three-quarters of our nation 's’ employers recommend that collegebound students pursue a “liberal education”” (628). According to the chart on Unemployment Rates by Degree and Experience Level, 17.8 percent of recent…

This paper serves to explore the reality of prejudice and discrimination on a university campus, and figure out what institutional factors are contributing to any lack of inclusion and unwillingness to accept diversity that may exist at UD. Specifically, in an institution that is both inherently proficient in and actively fighting for prejudicial change, I aim to exploit truth from expectation and perception. Is the University of Dayton a paradigm cure for racial divisiveness? Is it effectively…

Eddie S. Glaude, writer of “The Real ‘Special Snowflakes’ on Campus Free-Speech Debates”, tackles a well-argued question asked by liberals and conservatives. Do students who are attending college universities have the right to protest on campus? Right off the bat, Glaude categorizes conservatives as those who are against freedom of speech. This is the first small yet obvious piece of bias- bagging on conservatives. By placing them in this category, students now look at all conservatives as…

of growing up in some of the world’s richest families. It consisted of Johnson interviewing his friends and peers such as Georgina Bloomberg, Stephanie Ercklentz, Christina Floyd, Juliet Hartford, Josiah Cheston Hornblower, S.I. Newhouse IV, Ivanka Trump, Benjamin Luke Weil, Cody Franchetti, and lastly, Carlo Von Zeitschel. Though all of these people were featured in the film I will only discuss five out of the eleven. Of the elven I will discuss Jamie Johnson, Luke Weil, S.I. Newhouse IV, Cody…