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Alumni Rising

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James A. Bacon
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If you’re heartsick at how your alma mater is turning into an incubator of intolerance and hate, you are not powerless. You can organize and push back just as the alumni of The University of Virginia, Washington & Lee University, the Virginia Military Institute, and James Madison University are doing. This eight-minute video produced by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA) — in which yours truly plays a brief role — describes the rise of the alumni movement across the United States.

Local alumni groups have banded together in the Alumni Free Speech Alliance to share tactics and strategies. AFSA provides resources, checklists, and mentors to help you launch an alumni group at your alma mater. No need to reinvent the wheel.

You can ignore the culture wars, but the culture wars won’t ignore you. The social justice warriors in our institutions of higher education have declared their intention to fundamentally transform every institution in our society. You can sit by, do nothing, and find American society unrecognizable 20 years from now, or you can get off your butt. Visit the AFSA website now. — JAB

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27 responses to “Alumni Rising”

  1. Nancy Naive Avatar
    Nancy Naive

    But, they’re still going to vote for Trump.

    Youse guys are dead set on losing.

    1. Mark O Flaherty Avatar
      Mark O Flaherty

      Actually that’s a no but am pretty sure for whom I am not going to vote.

      1. Nancy Naive Avatar
        Nancy Naive

        When it’s one from column A or one from column B, you’ll “hold your nose”.

        1. LarrytheG Avatar
          LarrytheG

          correct and totally true.

        2. Lefty665 Avatar
          Lefty665

          Column C until we get a 3rd party with some sense. The Repubs and Dems are both disgusting. No one with any self respect could vote for Clinton, Trump or Biden.

          1. mbnick Avatar
            mbnick

            All 3rd Parties, who can never raise enough money to win, do is divert GOP votes and hand elections to Democrats.

    2. mbnick Avatar
      mbnick

      No! We want to vote for more crime, inflation, taxes, debt, indoctrinations, Fentanyl deaths and millions of new taxpayer dependents from Biden’s no borders.

    3. mbnick Avatar
      mbnick

      No, we want to vote for more crime, inflation, taxes, debt, CRT stuff, Fentanyl deaths and millions of new taxpayer dependents on Biden’s no borders.

  2. Eric the half a troll Avatar
    Eric the half a troll

    “…the alumni of The University of Virginia, Washington & Lee University, the Virginia Military Institute, and supposedly James Madison University are doing.”

    Fixed it…

  3. Lefty665 Avatar
    Lefty665

    I am sad at several lame happenings at my alma mater VCU recently. AFSA site is interesting.

  4. LesGabriel Avatar
    LesGabriel

    Virginia is doing well, having 4 of the 16 members nationwide.

    1. VaNavVet Avatar
      VaNavVet

      Soon alternate alumni groups will be standing up in opposition to what they see as this new threat to their beloved institutions.

      1. LesGabriel Avatar
        LesGabriel

        DO YOU MEAN FOR OR AGAINST FREE SPEECH?

        1. VaNavVet Avatar
          VaNavVet

          Hard to say as some may review these new groups as an attempt at conservative indoctrination.

  5. LarrytheG Avatar
    LarrytheG

    re: ” If you’re heartsick at how your alma mater is turning into an incubator of intolerance and hate, ”

    This is pure opinion… JAB’s “free speech” but it’s simply not the truth as most folks know and see it.

    For as long as I can remember, prospective speakers have been heckled and shouted down at many Colleges.

    It’s not a new thing.

    It’s not something to be proud of, I admit but in terms of characterizing it as “intolerance and hate”, that’s purely opinion of some, not all by a long shot.

    In the end, people who are opposed to a speaker also have an equal right to speak , they are not required to keep quiet and listen.

    What exactly should a University president do if a speaker is heckled or shouted down?

    Do what? arrest the students and put them on probation or some such? Give them demerits? expel them? What should be done with them?

    1. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      Just post the names and pics so in ten years they are still looking for jobs….Only an idiot HR director is letting fascist disruptors onto the payroll.

    2. Stephen Haner Avatar
      Stephen Haner

      Just post the names and pics so in ten years they are still looking for jobs….Only an idiot HR director is letting fascist disruptors onto the payroll.

      1. VaNavVet Avatar
        VaNavVet

        Invoking the Nazi’s when talking about the right to assemble and protest. OMG

        1. Stephen Haner Avatar
          Stephen Haner

          Another person who forgets the Nazi’s were….wait for it…socialists! A worker’s party! Fascism is not an ideology, but a set of tactics, and the Left has the tactics down.

        2. Stephen Haner Avatar
          Stephen Haner

          Another person who forgets the Nazi’s were….wait for it…socialists! A worker’s party! Fascism is not an ideology, but a set of tactics, and the Left has the tactics down.

          1. VaNavVet Avatar
            VaNavVet

            The Nazi’s were evil and more like communists. Trump populists are the “new” self-proclaimed worker’s party. This set of tactics has been mastered by both sides.

          2. Matt Adams Avatar
            Matt Adams

            Communism is a subset of socialism, it’s scary when people try to discuss things they aren’t qualified. Almost as scary when they feign a “joke” for distributing statements they’ve made.

            PS: FDR was a populist and a “workers party” kinda guy, but don’t let history get in your way or trying to manipulate facts.

      2. LarrytheG Avatar
        LarrytheG

        post the names of the hecklers on the college website?

        😉

        that’s funny!

    3. LesGabriel Avatar
      LesGabriel

      They should be removed from the event so that those who came to listen (and learn from) the speaker can do so. The punishment should be determined based on the rules of the University and the seriousness of the violation. In any case, punishments and consequences should be even-handed and not based on the biases of the administration.
      “In the end, people who are opposed to a speaker also have an equal right to speak , they are not required to keep quiet and listen.” Those who wish to voice an alternative opinion have the options of passing out flyers or organizing their own event.

  6. LarrytheG Avatar
    LarrytheG

    Not just on College Campuses:

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/fca0a60a742bd206969dec014ae35b030f029bc9dc15ba1796dee74b46863542.jpg

  7. Dick Hall-Sizemore Avatar
    Dick Hall-Sizemore

    What is happening in higher education is nothing new. Every alumni generation laments that the generation coming after them is ruining the institution. I am sure that my father thought my generation (the baby boomers) were making William and Mary and society “unrecognizable” 20 years after he graduated.

    1. Nancy Naive Avatar
      Nancy Naive

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wCXr_6wgns

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