BZonesIII

http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/11/15/111511-news-girl-suicide-1-3/

Seems like the principal, teachers, kids, and her mom are all fuckin’ dumbasses…

SMH

http://www.smh.com.au/world/anger-at-greed-goes-global-protests-boil-around-the-world-20111016-1lr4h.html

Fighting against nuclear power…lol.

Support the community-loving banks haha. I didn’t know such institutions existed. See your comrade that runs your favorite bank? See the family vagina? See the small blob that just popped out of it? It’ll fuck you up the ass the second your comrade turns around.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/chinas-princelings-break-their-silence-20111016-1lrkh.html

China’s political scene is at a very interesting developing stage right now. I’m curious to see how everything will play out with all of the changes in the upper ranks. The princelings make it even better; there’s certainly still no lack of hate for them.

On a lighter note, isn’t SMH a perfect name for a newspaper?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/09/27/race-bake-sale-california.html

Tricky subject to tackle here. Obviously the bake sale was organized in a very one dimensional manner (i.e. prices based on race), but the message still got through.

I think it’s time for more well-prepared, rigorous studies on the effects of affirmative action and subsequent meta-analyses. If it does benefit society in some way, then great! Keep it going. If not, then we should obviously get rid of it. (My gut feeling says that it does.) There’s no reason to get rid of something that’s beneficial and there’s no reason to keep something that’s detrimental.

Honestly, which high achieving students cannot get into a college at all? Rejected from Harvard because of affirmative action? Go to the other Ivy League college you got into; go to the other top tier university; go to your state flagship. Your life doesn’t go down the drain because you don’t have a better alumni network. The only reason you’d be fucked is if 1) you don’t try in school, 2) you have absolutely terrible social skills, and/or 3) you’re just really dumb and didn’t deserve your acceptances in the first place. High school students, parents, and even college students have this misplaced conception that the college is what makes the student. Sorry, but I don’t think I’ll ever believe that bar the rarest circumstances. Yes, as a future Williams graduate I will receive opportunities that many others will not. Maybe I’m the one whose stubborn and ignorant, but I think the student who tries, actually tries, at UMD can get as far as I can.

Get your heads out of the gutter and just do what you have to do. A degree from an accredited institution will go far if you play your cards right; a person without a degree and with some brains will as well. There are a ton of students enrolled in college who should not be there. There are a multitude of reasons: not utilizing one’s abilities to the fullest, training for a profession that does not require a degree, not qualified enough for the rigorousness of the institution, etc.

If anything, I think colleges should make admissions records public to a certain degree. Unbiased admissions will not work out; these people think that colleges can just plug in all the test scores into a program and let it do its thing; they may even believe that admissions essays can be given objective scores, or that they’re completely useless.

So leave admission criteria alone if it’s performing just fine. Raise the standards that you expect from your students/peers/colleagues/university. Oh, and try giving less weight to hooks, especially athletic performance. I’m not hating on athletes with scholarships or anything, but capitalism is invading our education system to a large degree. The only reason they’ll invest 40k per year per athlete is because they can make millions off of them. Athletic ability is a commodity in college as well. Corporations are making millions off of everyone, from prisoners to athletes, and your economics professor is probably teaching you how splendid the free market, the government, and the banks are. America has more farms than it did decades past.

Smh. Just going to end it here.