Emory University President Jim Wagner Should Resign In Shame ...
I cannot believe any university president would actually offer counseling to those who claimed to be victimized and intimidated by a campaign slogan. How are these students going to make their way in a tough world? Or is it that they are jerking Wagner’s chain for media attention? Is Wagner a man or a mouse?
Emory University president says students are scared and 'in pain' after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk on campus
- President Jim Wagner said students viewed graffiti as intimidating
- Officials arranged a meeting for those offended to address concerns
- University organizations also offered counseling to those affected
- But some commentators have told the students to grow up
- Republican frontrunner won the Georgia primary earlier this month
The president of Emory University has spoken to demonstrators who said they were frightened after someone wrote 'Trump 2016' in chalk around campus. Students at the Atlanta school, which has an enrollment of more than 14,000 claim their 'safe space' was violated when the messages appeared on sidewalks and buildings.
Jim Wagner, president of the Atlanta university, wrote Tuesday that the students viewed the messages as intimidation, and they voiced 'genuine concern and pain' as a result. He acted after student government wrote to him and slammed the university's response, prompting a meeting that led to protests. Now administrators want to track down those responsible for the controversial markings.
Source: Emory University students scared by 'Trump 2016' chalk signs | Daily Mail Online
As they say, here is the rest of the story …
Emory President Jim Wagner may have excellent academic credentials, but he appears to be a progressive socialist democrat – and even worse, associated with former President Jimmy Carter, arguably to most anti-America socialist -- and the worst and most ineffective president in history until Barack Obama.
In 2006, President Carter and Emory President James Wagner founded the Institute for Developing Nations (IDN) to foster stronger ties between Emory faculty and Carter Center programs. Between 2007 and 2010, IDN provided seed funding on a competitive basis to faculty engaged in development related research aligned with principles that shape The Carter Center’s work: valuing local knowledge, working with in-country partners, and applying knowledge to solve problems and build capacity. Although small, the program helped launch pioneering projects that have gone on to leverage more than three million dollars in external funding. IDN also promotes connections between Emory faculty and graduate students and Carter Center programs to help understand and solve complex problems such as the persistence of gender-based violence in post-conflict societies, the role of elections in transitional contexts, and the gap between theory and practice in disease elimination and eradication.
If he was a republican or a conservative, he would have been gone in 2013 and branded as a racist …
In February 2013, President Wagner wrote an essay in the Emory Magazine entitled "As American as... Compromise" in which he used the Three-Fifths Compromise as an example of pragmatic compromise that Emory University should emulate. He wrote, "One instance of constitutional compromise was the agreement to count three-fifths of the slave population for purposes of state representation in Congress... Both sides found a way to temper ideology and continue working toward the highest aspiration they both shared—the aspiration to form a more perfect union. They set their sights higher, not lower, in order to identify their common goal and keep moving toward it." The essay sparked controversy on Emory's campus and attracted national and international media attention and an apology from Wagner. Per the New York Times, Wagner "acknowledged both the nation’s continuing education in race relations and his own." Leslie Harris, an Emory history professor who has worked to address issues of race at the college, countered that “[t]he three-fifths compromise is one of the greatest failed compromises in U.S. history .... Its goal was to keep the union together, but the Civil War broke out anyway.”
Bottom line …
Wagner gets his liberal victimhood credentials honestly. Perhaps he has been hanging out with Jimmy Carter too long and has become a Carterite that is afraid of his shadow. Maybe he should resign and leave educating our youth to someone who will reach back into childhood and teach them about “sticks and stones.”
We are so screwed.
-- steve
“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw
“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”
“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius “A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell “Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar “Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS