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I need to see video of collee kids playing with play doh and coloring books or it didnt happen. I highly doubt it, injust do. Now using the election as an excuse to get high and/or drunk.......i can see that

 

The Reason College Students Are Using Coloring Books

 

The recent antics at the nation’s universities have led people to expect almost anything from academia. There are safe spaces that resemble adult playpens where students can shield themselves from “microaggressions.” There are trigger warnings to help students protect their politically-correct sensitivities from free speech. And now… there are college student coloring books.

 

That’s right. College coloring books with colored pencils or felt pens are now the rage as administrators scramble to find ways to help students de-stress. Ironically, students who break all the rules at campus protests find solace in staying within the lines. The old-fashioned coloring book, perhaps one of the few undigitized things left, is going viral. Students, who try to pass themselves off as twenty-one-year-olds to drink alcohol, are eager to assume the role of five-year-olds when it is time to bring out the crayons.

This is not a marketing fad like the adult coloring book rage. Rather, official university policy is fueling the student coloring experience. These are not isolated colleges but campuses nationwide, including Ivy League schools. While there is yet to appear a Coloring 101 course, university employees are the ones handing out the coloring books and holding “coloring events” on campus.

American University, for example, provided coloring sheets on campus, explaining on its Facebook page how coloring “can help with a number of emotional and mental health issues.” The Facebook page of University of California San Diego reported on “De-Stress Coloring Nights” before finals last semester with all materials provided. In 2015, Brown University offered coloring books (and Play-Doh) in all its “safe space” rooms. The University of Missouri handed out an official Mizzou Coloring Book at its student union. The University of Nebraska-Omaha organizes regular DeStress Fests at the university library with large turnouts. All of this is done in the name of therapy.

However, college officials have got it wrong in offering this therapy. The purpose of university education is not meant to be therapeutic but formative. The university should concerned with the pursuit of truth, and not the stressful acquiring of knowledge and facts for future careers and debt repayment.

The university is meant to form character in students and prepare them for adulthood and family life. Students should be exposed to a philosophy of education in which they are taught to confront reality and overcome obstacles they will find when they live in the real world. The university should be a place of culture where the classic insights of the great thinkers of the past can benefit the present. College should mark a farewell to childhood and childish things. It should be the exhilarating embrace of independence and adult responsibilities.

Instead, many modern universities have adopted a philosophy in which the college coloring book is but a sad sign of the times. It is the fruit of a Hollywood culture that resists the natural need to grow up and assume responsibility. Many students aim to live forever-young lives of frenetic intemperance, in which they are encouraged to desire everything, instantly, and effortlessly. They defer major decisions about what they are to do with their lives, and see college as a mere extension of their adolescence… or perhaps now a regression to kindergarten. When young people fail to live up to the responsibilities proper to their age group, they will indeed become stressed. Hence, the recourse to the therapeutic coloring books.

However, the coloring book issue is also symptomatic of a university system that has lost touch with its purpose.

The chief object of the university should be the teaching of truth and its applications to life. Modern universities have strayed from this great mission largely because so many believe there is no truth. Indeed, truth has become whatever one believes it to be at the moment. Values are whatever one happens to value, and a person is whatever he/she/it self-identifies as.

In short: Everything is fluid, constructed, and subjective. In modern academia, there is no objective truth or any applications of that truth. There are only isolated experiences disconnected from truth. Students are immersed in what Notre Dame Professor Brad Gregory has called “the kingdom of whatever.” The university has gone from the search for eternal truth to the pursuit of personal experiences, from the consideration of forever to the acceptance of “whatever.”

When education becomes “whatever,” it works against its purposes of character formation and the teaching of truth. It will naturally frustrate and cause anxiety. Instead of finding a divinely-ordered universe bristling with variety and purpose, students are presented a sterile, godless universe devoid of meaning. Is it any wonder that they are offered fantasy-filled coloring books in which they might color their own “whatever” worlds?

Of course, the descent from classics to coloring books appears absurd to most people with common sense. It seems like a bad dream in need of a rude awakening. But it is not a dream. It is happening. The tragedy is that students will find out all too soon that the only way to deal with life’s vicissitudes is to confront reality not to color it away.

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This article was republished with permission from the Imaginative Conservative.

http://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/reason-college-students-are-using-coloring-books

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Sweeping generalizations about colleges, college students, and millennials. Great stuff.

 

 

You know what would happen if someone in one of my engineering courses asked for a coloring book or to delay an exam because of the election? They'd get laughed out of the building.

 

Not to mention, Michigan (rightfully) cancelled their play doh thing.

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Sweeping generalizations about colleges, college students, and millennials. Great stuff.

 

 

You know what would happen if someone in one of my engineering courses asked for a coloring book or to delay an exam because of the election? They'd get laughed out of the building.

 

Not to mention, Michigan (rightfully) cancelled their play doh thing.

 

There is too much of this being reported nationwide to brush it off as being isolated incidents.

 

Also look at all the students protesting a legitimate election in a democracy. What are they wanting to accomplish? A do-over? It doesn't work that way. And for all the hand wringing and sky is falling drama coming out of the left with Trump's election in four years he will be evaluated on his record and there will be another vote.

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There is too much of this being reported nationwide to brush it off as being isolated incidents.

 

Also look at all the students protesting a legitimate election in a democracy. What are they wanting to accomplish? A do-over? It doesn't work that way. And for all the hand wringing and sky is falling drama coming out of the left with Trump's election in four years he will be evaluated on his record and there will be another vote.

The "news" sources you frequent actively look for this stuff to constantly being it up. It makes it look much worse than it is without ever giving time to the counterpoint. You think liberal media made Trump look worse than he is, right? Same principle.

 

 

And again, the guy you voted for called for protests when Obama was elected in 2008. Just for some perspective

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Between you, me, ed, cysko, osiris, basically everyone else under 40 that could maybe called millennials, is anyone actually anything close to an arts major? Like, English lit, languages, humanities, anything like that?

I took 3 credits of humanities at Michigan. That's it.

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We needed 16 credits of HU/SS, at least 6 humanities and at least 3 at 300 level or higher.

 

AP credits covered most of it, luckily. It allowed me to work one winter semester for Honda

Did you have to take a foreign language? I forgot I had to take 3 German courses. In hindsight, I wish I had taken spanish. Would help me to understand all of the illegals who have taken over this country due to Obamao.

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Gah!!! Keep forgetting woodys a wolverine. Fucking michigan. Usually nothing ever good comes out of there. No good bushwhackers, cept woody ofc

Exactly, I doubt Woody would know what to do when confronted by a bush.

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Did you have to take a foreign language? I forgot I had to take 3 German courses. In hindsight, I wish I had taken spanish. Would help me to understand all of the illegals who have taken over this country due to Obamao.

Closest I got was philosophy of cognitive science, that is, the morals of artificial intelligence etc.

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Did you have to take a foreign language? I forgot I had to take 3 German courses. In hindsight, I wish I had taken spanish. Would help me to understand all of the illegals who have taken over this country due to Obamao.

I believe Michigan had a 2-3 years of foreign language requirement (or strong recommendation, I forget which).

 

I took Spanish from 8th-10th grade. I was signed up for Spanish IV and then I learned I didn't need it. Dropped that shit and took AP Comp Sci instead.

 

I took the placement test for Spanish at Michigan thinking I could get some credit. I didn't remember near enough. When I got to the listening portion I knew I was boned haha

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The "news" sources you frequent actively look for this stuff to constantly being it up. It makes it look much worse than it is without ever giving time to the counterpoint. You think liberal media made Trump look worse than he is, right? Same principle.

 

 

And again, the guy you voted for called for protests when Obama was elected in 2008. Just for some perspective

 

The guy I voted for was not the guy I voted for in the primary but he was running against Hillary Clinton so it was an easy call. Trump also didn't like the electoral college either but now I think he kind of likes it. :D

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The GOP has to give up the social conservative Bible thumping ideas. People will grow up to be more fiscally conservative, but they won't be more socially conservative.

 

Trump is a good step, as long as nobody talks about Pence.

Agreed. They've got to step off gay marriage and that sort of thing. Has to happen. They don't have to soften their stance on Abortion, in my opinion, but they need to let sex education, birth control and family planning become widespread. You can't have your cake and eat it too. You can't suppress all those things and then condemn abortion too.

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The guy I voted for was not the guy I voted for in the primary but he was running against Hillary Clinton so it was an easy call. Trump also didn't like the electoral college either but now I think he kind of likes it. :D

I don't know. It worked for him this time out but I don't know if he likes the system any more than most people that don't understand what the ramifications of pure democracy do. I've yet to get a sense that Donald Trump is particularly intelligent and understands a great deal of nuance. If he were a tool he'd definitely be a sledgehammer and not a surgeon's scalpel.

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I don't know. It worked for him this time out but I don't know if he likes the system any more than most people that don't understand what the ramifications of pure democracy do. I've yet to get a sense that Donald Trump is particularly intelligent and understands a great deal of nuance. If he were a tool he'd definitely be a sledgehammer and not a surgeon's scalpel.

Trump’s flip-flop on the electoral college: From ‘disaster’ to ‘genius’

First, let’s look at Trump’s position in 2012, when it appeared that Mitt Romney might win the popular vote but lose the electoral college.

 

“He [Obama] lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country!” (Nov. 6)

“The phoney [sic] electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!” (Nov. 6)

“More votes equals a loss…revolution!” (Nov. 7)

 

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided!

11:29 PM - 6 Nov 2012

 

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.

 

Yet on Tuesday, Trump tweeted:

 

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

The Electoral College is actually genius in that it brings all states, including the smaller ones, into play. Campaigning is much different!

8:40 AM - 15 Nov 2016

 

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

If the election were based on total popular vote I would have campaigned in N.Y. Florida and California and won even bigger and more easily

8:34 AM - 15 Nov 2016

 

When Trump thought President Obama had won the electoral college while losing the popular vote, Trump thought the electoral college was a “disaster for a democracy.”

 

Now that he himself won the electoral college with narrow wins in three states, while losing the popular vote, Trump thinks it’s a “genius” system.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2016/11/15/trumps-flip-flop-on-the-electoral-college-from-disaster-to-genius/

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