America’s Colleges and Universities Should Be Fully Investigated
The University of Texas Tower on June 10, 2017. (Photo by Lynn Woolley for WBDaily.
Our system of higher education is broken. Face it, America, we need an overhaul—and fast!
But first, we need a deep dive into what’s wrong.
Three things jump to mind. First, the free speech problem on college campuses where speech must conform to left-wing orthodoxy. Second is the racism problem, best exemplified by so-called pro-Palestinian protests that have recently plagued Ivy League schools and other universities. Third is the ongoing student loan scam where graduates with often-worthless degrees start their careers $100,000 or more in debt.
Who should investigate?
Perhaps the Department of Justice, the FBI, or select committees in the House and Senate. Perhaps all three, and let’s add the Mainstream Media which ought to do its job and expose what colleges have become.
AUDIO: Random Samplings of a Logical Mind
The free speech problem on college campuses.
Back in 2004, two men threw pies at columnist Ann Coulter at the University of Arizona. In 2017, protests against conservative speaker Milo Yiannopoulos led to more than $100,000 dollars in damages. It’s become sad that young snowflakes at most large universities cannot bear to hear opinions that go against their indoctrination. This led to “safe spaces” where students can go and do something—perhaps squeeze stress balls made of foam, pet emotional support dogs, or read old Karl Marx speeches.
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Video: Ann Coulter dodges a pie.
In the Coulter case, the right-wing provocateur was doing her usual thing in a speech that no one was forced to attend, when a couple of left-wing nutcases stormed the stage. Here’s an account by Jennifer Amsler in the October 22, 2002 edition of the Arizona Daily Wildcat:
Conservative author bashes Kerry, Democrats at packed Centennial: Two men ran up on stage last night and threw pies at conservative author Ann Coulter while she spoke in Centennial Hall. Coulter was speaking to a full house, answering questions from the audience when the men approached the stage. Lucina Kress, a junior majoring in Spanish, said she and others ran out of Centennial Hall to chase the two men. Soaking wet from last night’s rain, Kress said as a member of the UA College Republicans, she wanted to do her part to capture the men who disrupted Coulter’s speech. “They could have combated her with words, but instead resorted to physical violence,” Kress said.
It’s typical. And often, it’s worse than throwing pies. Here’s CNN’s account of the Yiannopoulos riot at Berkeley from February 2, 2017:
Black-clad protesters wearing masks threw commercial-grade fireworks and rocks at police. Some even hurled Molotov cocktails that ignited fires. They also smashed windows of the student union center on the Berkeley campus where the Yiannopoulos event was to be held. At least six people were injured. Some were attacked by the agitators – who are a part of an anarchist group known as the “Black Bloc” that has been causing problems in Oakland for years…
Video: Here’s an ABC News account of the Yiannopoulos riots.
Of course, the Berkeley campus is among the worst with the so-called “Free Speech Movement” leading to a confrontation with Gov. Ronald Reagan. This is from Wikipedia:
With the participation of thousands of students, the Free Speech Movement was the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s. Students insisted that the university administration lift the ban of on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students’ right to free speech and academic freedom. The Free Speech Movement was influenced by the New Left, and was also related to the Civil Rights Movement and the Anti-Vietnam War Movement.
Then, there’s the “faculty senates,” that raise hell whenever something of a conservative nature is planned on a college campus. These organizations, such as the one at the University of Texas at Austin, often attack the University president if he/she steps out of line and goes against left-wing thought. Imagine – a conservative think tank called the Civitas Institute at UT? How dare they? The Texas Legislature has looked into this, and good for them.
The campus racism problem.
Colleges claim to oppose racism, but then get involved in all kinds of “diversity” nonsense in which whites are labeled as “oppressors” and others as “oppressed,” except for maybe Asians, who make good grades and therefore can’t be nice people. It’ always been laughable that so many colleges have non-discriminatory statements posted on hall bulletin boards and on websites, but then openly and proudly use race in admissions and virtually everything else.
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Racism on campus seems to have hit a peak with the recent spate of protests in opposition to Israel, and seemingly in favor of the terrorist group Hamas. Campus protesters, in their fervor to support “Palestine,” conveniently forgot all about the murderous and disgusting attacks on October 7, 2023 in which 1,195 people were brutally murdered and hostages taken. When Israel defended itself, colleges erupted in protests – some violent – as college presidents pretended nothing was wrong. Some of them were called to testify before Congressional committees, where they spoke and acted like the left-wing fools they are.
Video: NBC News coverage of the pro-Palestinian riots on Ivy League campuses.
Meanwhile, Jewish students on many campuses live in fear that they will be harmed or killed, because they are Jewish. For too long, this has been okay on college campuses. It must stop, and this may mean that a large number of professors ought to be fired for cause.
Video: FOX News reports on the backlash against Ivy League colleges.
Video: CBS News breaks in when Harvard President Claudine Gay resigns.
The student loan scam.
A few years ago, no one could imagine graduating from college with tuition debt so staggering that some graduates will spend much of their lives trying to pay it off. This is beyond ridiculous. In fact, it’s fraud, and it ought to be prosecuted. Here’s how it happened:
With illegal aliens brought in to do most of our menial labor, colleges saw the opportunity to proclaim that a college degree is a must to have a good life. No college degree, they tell us, and you can’t find a good-paying job in America today. Rush Limbaugh and Michael Dell are just two examples of the ignorance of that viewpoint, but it served its purpose. All parents want their children to go to college and earn that degree. The indoctrination of Americans into believing that a college degree is the end-all is just step one.
Step two is creating an unlimited money source to flow though parents and students and into the hand of greedy colleges that are already rich from endowments and which spend millions of dollars on football and basketball coaches. President Obama helped with that by nationalizing student loans. Suddenly, the money source was flowing like water from a fire hydrant. Just sign here, and don’t worry about a thing. The government will take care of it, and your wonderful new degree will pay it all off in no time. Bullshit.
Let’s stipulate that certain degrees pay off better than others. A really smart personal injury lawyer is likely worth abut $30,000,000 by mid-career. A heart surgeon is a good position to pay off loans from medical school, successful engineers and researchers – all these kinds of degrees are often quite lucrative. But not all degrees are created equally.
Paying tuition for a degree in camp management, black studies, feminist studies, PE, English literature, and so on are not likely to yield huge incomes necessary to pay back a college loan debt of $100,000 to $200,000 dollars. And what about students that take out the loans and never finished college? They leave with no degree and huge debt.
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In pains me to say this, but President Joe Biden was right to be concerned about this. In typical Biden fashion, he went about it wrong, but he had a point. What parent will not sign those nasty “Parent Plus” loans when the college explains that unless you sign, your sons and daughters will have no lives? Biden ought to have placed the blame where it belongs – on colleges for the fraud, and on government for making it easy to perpetrate the fraud. Instead, Biden simply tried to forgive the debt and he failed.
Students and parents saddled with this debt are called deadbeats. Why? Because they fell for the scheme that you MUST have a college degree no matter what the cost? This is sad, and Trump is wrong on this issue because no one has sat down with him to correctly explain it. Now student debt is coming due and people who are already working two jobs to pay off the debt are subject to having their wages garnished. This will finish them off.
Not the lawyers and doctors and such. But the people with more ordinary degrees that don’t make the same bucks. How can someone buy a starter house that might cost half a million dollars and at the same time, make the car payment and deal with the student loans? Not possible. Student loans are about to create a new class of poverty unless President Trump and the Congress wake up and do the right thing.
And what is the right thing? That’s an interesting thought, and it’s why we need a deep-dive investigation. The economist Steve Moore who appears on FOX News and on the Cardle and Woolley Show in Austin writes this in his daily newsletter, dated April 25, 2025, about Donald Trump’s fight with Harvard:
But the real financial scandal exposed here is that a university with a $50 billion+ tax-free endowment receives billions of dollars a year of taxpayer money. Why? This is Robin Hood in reverse: tax the poor and give to the ultra-rich. Harvard doesn’t need financial help. While the university amasses one of the most bountiful treasure chests on the planet, it continues to raise tuition way above the inflation rate. What a scam.
t’s encouraging to see a major nationally known economist like Steve Moore calling out Harvard and the University of Texas, my alma mater, which has the second-highest endowment. I have been using the word “scam” to describe college tuition and the stuent loan mess for several years. Now, Steve Moore is using the word. To be blunt: The colleges and the government created the student loan mess and they ought to fix it.
Let the investigations begin.
Our colleges and universities are bastions of left-wing, often Marxist ideology, that suppress conservative thought, allow open racism on campus, and operate a fraudulent scheme of tuition and money-grubbing. If I’m wrong, show me. Five institutions ought to be conducting serious investigations into these issues: the United States House of Representatives, the United States Senate, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Mainstream Media.
Too many people in power including the current Vice President, eight members of the Supreme Court, and too many members of Congress love their Ivy League degrees. So, I’m not holding my breath.
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