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2024-02-06 -Great Cultural Revolution

Oregon University Eliminates Failing Grades

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Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-02-06 02:31|| || Front Page|| [32 views ] Top

#1 "We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!"

Posted by Classer 2024-02-06 04:59|| 2024-02-06 04:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Looks like I went to the wrong college in the wrong era.

Posted by Super Hose 2024-02-06 05:45|| 2024-02-06 05:45|| Front Page Top

#3
#1 "We have to protect our phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!"
Posted by: Classer 2024-02-06 04:59

"I didn't get a harrumph outta that guy!"

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-02-06 06:34|| 2024-02-06 06:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Now they're admitting their credentialing is nothing more than a scam for indenturing young people into debt to pad their bottom line.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-02-06 07:31|| 2024-02-06 07:31|| Front Page Top

#5 No need to test and evaluate learning. Learning has not been the goal for quite some time.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-02-06 08:03|| 2024-02-06 08:03|| Front Page Top

#6 Meanwhile, at Dartmouth

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-06 09:02|| 2024-02-06 09:02|| Front Page Top

#7 Can't flunk 'em out. Gotta keep that sweet money rolling in.

Posted by DarthVader 2024-02-06 09:05|| 2024-02-06 09:05|| Front Page Top

#8 They should just close.

Posted by Crusader 2024-02-06 10:01|| 2024-02-06 10:01|| Front Page Top

#9 MikeKozlowski in May of 2010 I harrumphed the Govenor of Tennessee in a tavern in Rogersville, Tennessee.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-02-06 11:29|| 2024-02-06 11:29|| Front Page Top

#10 I would advise young people these days to go into plumbing. When you need a plumber, you really need a plumber and you will gladly pay to get the problem fixed.

Posted by Abu Laptop (same as Abu Uluque but on a different computer.) 2024-02-06 12:03|| 2024-02-06 12:03|| Front Page Top

#11 It's never going to be possible for some guy on a help desk in India to plunge your toilet or fix your wiring.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-02-06 12:08|| 2024-02-06 12:08|| Front Page Top

#12 Brown University tried something like this back in the late 60s. The grad schools were having none of it, and Brown retreated.

Of course, maybe a lot of the "students" at Western Oregon aren't planning on grad school.

Posted by Tom 2024-02-06 12:22|| 2024-02-06 12:22|| Front Page Top

#13 Essentially making the point that there is very little distinction between a Western Oregon UniversityDiploma and Charmin toilet paper, except that the undergrad tuition alone would finance several lifetimes of the latter!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-06 12:27|| 2024-02-06 12:27|| Front Page Top

#14 Dean Whipple: "Honorees, please don't squeeze the degrees!"

Snark O'The Day

Posted by Angaviger Glins1359 2024-02-06 13:46|| 2024-02-06 13:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Govt should only support those going to trade schools and signing that they will repay out of future wages. limit ? 12k?

Posted by irish rage boy 2024-02-06 14:17|| www.weemfg.com 2024-02-06 14:17|| Front Page Top

#16 Everytime I see Equity, I see Harrison Bergeron.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-02-06 15:14|| 2024-02-06 15:14|| Front Page Top

#17 I nominate #14 for snark of the day.

Posted by Glereter Glusosing6351 2024-02-06 16:03|| 2024-02-06 16:03|| Front Page Top

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