{"id":2050,"date":"2017-02-15T20:44:16","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/?p=2050"},"modified":"2017-02-15T20:44:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:44:16","slug":"pepperdine-president-caves-students-instead-educating-kids-complexity-historical-figures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/markmeckler\/2017\/02\/pepperdine-president-caves-students-instead-educating-kids-complexity-historical-figures\/","title":{"rendered":"Pepperdine president caves to students instead of educating kids about the complexity of historical figures"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 518px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/521007689\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 114.671815% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/521007689?et=t4Igls4GQtpyrBxb92ofEA&amp;viewMoreLink=off&amp;sig=2WFaGiHUoWVX5uWFc0yCBWRh0qBnN21zJcmUpTMA06o=\" width=\"518\" height=\"594\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s a newsflash: \u00a0people are not 100% good or 100% evil. \u00a0That\u2019s true of President Obama, President Trump, and President Jefferson. \u00a0It\u2019s also true of you, me, and the person next door. \u00a0Heck, it\u2019s also true of the apostles of Christ. \u00a0(Remember Peter? \u00a0Judas?) \u00a0What a mixed bag!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Human nature being what is it, that means aggrieved students can be deeply offended by any\u00a0person\u2019s wrongdoings. \u00a0Or, more accurately, pretend to be deeply offended. \u00a0Such is the case on college campuses everywhere as students complain, complain, complain about everything. \u00a0(Seriously: do they ever go to class?) Perhaps only long enough to find out about our racist forefathers.) \u00a0This happened at Yale recently, when they renamed a building which bore the name of slaveholding former Vice President John C. Calhoun . \u00a0It happened at\u00a0Princeton when students claimed to be \u201ctriggered\u201d by a\u00a0painting of Woodrow Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>And now it happened at Pepperdine, as melodramatic students wore\u00a0black ribbons and held hands around the statue of Christopher Columbus.<\/p>\n<p>So did president Andrew K. Benton set them straight, explaining about how history is complicated and messy\u2026 \u00a0just like modern life is? \u00a0Did he talk to them about the nature of evil? \u00a0About the nature of goodness? \u00a0Did he explain how we can\u2019t erase what happened? \u00a0Or pretend it didn\u2019t? \u00a0Did he talk about learning from our mistakes?<\/p>\n<p>No, he caved to the students\u2019 demands:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, for many, including those within our campus community, stories of conquest and the art associated therewith are painful reminders of loss and human tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note to parents thinking of spending the big bucks to send their kids to Pepperdine. \u00a0It\u2019s now a university that values the avoidance of \u201closs\u201d and \u201chuman tragedy\u201d over an education.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, President Benton, does tuition cover a pacifier and blankie too?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pepperdine officially is not worth the tuition money.  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