Yale
University is a prestigious institution. It was founded in 1701. It is
supposedly a citadel of higher learning. It is the third oldest such
institution in the country and one of only nine Colonial Colleges chartered
before the American Revolution. Students (and/or their parents) pay more than
$55,000 a year for the privilege of receiving an allegedly elite Ivy
League education.
And
now, if studying and social justice warring get too stressful for the young
Elis, they have two new outlets to help them “chill out,” courtesy of the
school’s Chaplain’s Office. The “Cookies
& Coloring Study Break” takes place weekly in a location called
“Breathing Space.” The event’s description encourages students to “take an hour
to put down your phone, color (don’t worry there’s no judging your artistic
ability), have a freshly baked cookie, and great conversation.” Put down
your phone? I thought the kiddies were seeking relief from the rigors of
studying. I have previously reported on the trend of colleges providing coloring
books to their young scholars, but it’s nice to know there will be “no
judging.” (In point of fact, nothing and no one gets judged on college campuses
anymore, except for conservatives, Christians and straight white males). It is
also good to hear that it won’t be just garden-variety, day or two old cookies
that the kids will be offered, but freshly baked ones. Warm, gooey
cookies are much more soothing and affirming. Mass-produced cookies can
actually be marginalizing and non-inclusive.
What’s
more, when temperatures warm this coming spring, students will have access to
an inflatable “Bouncy Castle.” Yale says the Bouncy
Castle will help address students’ “anxiety relief needs,” and urges them
to “Bring a friend and bounce out your stress.”
Universities
around the country—and The West in general-- are becoming sad jokes, nothing
more than indoctrination centers and infantilization zones. Many also offer
therapy animals, Play-Doh, and “cry closets” replete with stuffed animals for
their snowflakes’ solace, which shouldn’t be necessary given the fact that many
schools now have waived book fines and let their students choose
their own grades.
Yale
was founded by Puritan clergymen, who established the college as an institution
to train and educate future ministers. They would be stunned to see what it has
now become.
Not so
long ago, college age kids fought in the American Revolution, the Civil War,
World War I, World War II, the Korean War and in Viet Nam. They dealt with the
Great Depression and the Cold War without coming unglued. Some still enroll in
the military today. None of them had or have the luxury of running to a “Safe
Space” to color… and eat freshly baked cookies… or to relieve their stress in a
gaily colored bouncy house. Yet they accomplished more than the current crop of
college kids, coddled and catered to, will have a prayer of accomplishing, because
colleges now choose to pander to their students’ feelings rather than minister
to their education.
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