Thomas Lifson:
“…Lack of respect for juries can be very, very costly. The landmark jury verdict awarding $11 million (with the possibility of triple damages to come) to members of the Gibson Family, owners of a 5-generation bakery boycotted and slandered by students with the encouragement of a College official, is looking to be as much about social class as it is about the excesses social justice warriors (SJWs). I write this, not to castigate the local folk who made up the jury and sympathized with the “townies” attacked by the “gowns” of Oberlin, but rather in recognition of what William A. Jacobson of Legal Insurrection, who owns this story, pointed out about Oberlin’s response to the verdict. It appears that Oberlin, a relatively wealthy and elite college, is so arrogant – full of hubris as Clarice Feldman pointed out yesterday – that it forgot (or never knew?) The First Law of Holes: “If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.”…
…The entire higher education industry is on the edge of an apocalypse. Prices have been jacked up to unsustainable levels, in large part to fund an unproductive bureaucracy, much of it devoted to “diversity,” just as a demographic decline in the age cohort eligible for college is upon them. The broader public observes the excesses on campuses from Berkeley to Oberlin, and realizes the contempt with which denizens of the ivory tower regards them. I have a hard time believing that the alumni of Oberlin College are going to open their wallets to finance the costs of this fiasco, nor do I foresee state legislatures or the federal government expanding their aid to higher education in the face of its excesses and contempt…”
Background that I have been following, but have not posted.
Catering to the PC mob is going to cost Oberlin College big bucks