Meanwhile at The Citadel

[Bubbaweave]

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This!

[white quacker]

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At a gas pump in Mount P.

[reeltight]

That’s hilarious

[Elcid_Fowler]

That’s funny!

[Rabbitman09]

Yes, they’re pissed off and somewhat demoralized by it. TACs trying to keep the retention up and appease Poluso and others.

Now I always thought the SEALS were straight up badasses but after seeing Polouso in action at the Citadel, my view about the mystique of them is changing.

[Dawhoo]

The Citadel remains not only the best value education in the state but it is also the overall best education in the state by the metrics that matter (percent with job within 1 year graduation, mid career salary, average debt, etc). The traditions of the school are very much imbedded in the reason for this... in a way that anyone who hasn't been there couldn't understand. I don't think keeping the confederate flag in the chapel is one of these important traditions, however company continuity and mess is.

I can understand why but I have been very frustrated Price losing sight of this.

On a side note Rabbitman has been trolling y'all for years and has done a damn good job. I would love to tell some great stories but I have sworn to his anonymity.

[wskinner]

the everybody gets a trophy generation

You mean the “everybody gets a trophy” generation’s parents.

It’s baby boomer generation that’s to blame for the decline of this country, not that it really matters, because the damage is done, but the people making all of these policies and the ones in power, aren’t millennials.

[buckpro]

My son is a sophomore and has been there since 8/1 as part of Cadre. Knobs were allowed to keep their phones and computers during hell week. You should have seen and heard the gnashing of teeth and wailing from the parents that their little Johnny or Suzy were being mistreated, etc... leadership is worried that because of the lack of discipline of this years knobs that they won’t be able to train the knobs coming in next year. Can’t push them hard or get in their ass and of course social distancing and all. Comes from Jenkins Hall.

It all started when every knob was sat down on the quad and told they’d be charged with an honor violation if they did turn in anyone hazing.

[Rabbitman09]

You mean the “everybody gets a trophy” generation’s parents.

It’s baby boomer generation that’s to blame for the decline of this country, not that it really matters, because the damage is done, but the people making all of these policies and the ones in power, aren’t millennials.

Ding ding ding....we have a winner!

[Bubbaweave]

It all started when every knob was sat down on the quad and told they’d be charged with an honor violation if they did turn in anyone hazing.

“didn’t”.
Yes, I know of at least 2 knobs that spent most of last year “under investigation” because they were suspected of being hazed and didn’t report it. Did you know that having blitzed brass can be construed as being hazed? Because you WANT to learn the “old school way”, you can be deemed as being hazed and not reporting it.
It’s become the pussification and demasculation of our country; particularly our young men.

[jwilliams]

I still sport my GLS.

[JABIII]

From Fitsnews...

South Carolina governor Henry McMaster is considering appointing the recently ousted chairman of The Citadel’s board of visitors to a different seat on this governing panel – a move that would likely exacerbate the government-run military college’s current accreditation issues.

The governor’s contemplated appointment (reappointment?) of colonel Fred Price would also surely start a war with certain members of the S.C. General Assembly … including a freshman state senator who was instrumental in Price’s ouster.

According to our sources, though, McMaster wants to put Price back on this 14-member board as his appointee early next year … a decision that could come as soon as February.

As we reported back in September, Price abruptly resigned his chairmanship of the Citadel board – and removed himself from consideration for another term as a board member – under pressure from first-term GOP senator Stephen Goldfinch of Murrells Inlet, S.C.

Goldfinch was upset with Price over the latter’s support for reforms aimed at reducing hazing on the campus of the taxpayer-funded institution of higher learning. Specifically, the 37-year-old lawmaker believes the Citadel should preserve its long-standing tradition of keeping cadets with their companies during the entirety of their four years at the school.

Price (and others) want to move cadets into new companies after their freshman (or “knob”) year on campus – a so-called “sophomore shuffle” that is opposed by a majority of the school’s alumni.

Hazing has been an issue for years at the Citadel – and efforts to limit it have been part of a broader culture change on campus in recent years.

When Price resigned his chairmanship and pledged not to seek another term on the board earlier this fall, it was hailed as a victory for Goldfinch – although as we predicted would happen, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) has opened an inquiry into his political meddling.

SACS, incidentally, is the same entity which investigated the undue influence exerted by McMaster during the selection of Robert L. Caslen as president of The University of South Carolina last summer.

Ultimately, the organization declined to sanction the school as a result of McMaster’s political meddling.

Seven of the Citadel’s fourteen board members are elected by lawmakers. Three are elected by the school’s alumni. McMaster appoints one board member, and he also serves on the board in an ex officio capacity along with S.C. superintendent of education Molly Spearman and S.C. adjutant general Van McCarty.

The ex-officio members serve for the duration of their appointments. Other board members serve six-year terms.

McMaster’s current appointee to the Citadel board – former state lawmaker Greg Delleney – is among the candidates seeking the legislative seat that Price will be vacating on December 31, 2020.

Delleney and four other candidates are expected to be screened by a legislative panel in January 2021. Lawmakers would likely vote on Price’s replacement sometime the following month.

Assuming Delleney wins this vote of his former colleagues – and he is reportedly the “clear favorite” for the position – he would vacate his gubernatorial seat, giving McMaster the option of appointing Price to replace him.

Will he?

McMaster’s political capital is obviously running exceedingly low at the moment – meaning he should probably seek to limit the number of new enemies he makes in the coming legislative session.

Hell, even his own lieutenant governor is reportedly scheming against him …

Does that seem like the time to pick a legislative fight?

There are also questions over Price’s status as the “victim” in this ongoing higher education power struggle.

According to our sources, Price’s support for the “sophomore shuffle” was indeed poorly received by Citadel alumni – but the real reason for the campaign to oust him was his alleged dishonesty during the legislative screening process.

“His own actions led to his demise, and his current courting of (McMaster) is further proof that’s he all about himself,” one of Price’s critics told us, accusing the former board chairman of supplying “deceitful answers” to lawmakers during his initial screening earlier this year.

Do we care who McMaster ultimately appoints to fill this seat? No …

And do we have an opinion regarding the “sophomore shuffle?” Again, no …

As we stated in our original treatment of this saga, “we do not care how the Citadel chooses to structure its classes” – nor do we have any real interest in who serves (or does not serve) on its board.

Our goal is simple: To continue making the case for the immediate and permanent privatization of higher education in the Palmetto State … and beyond.

“It is imperative government at all levels confine itself to core functions moving forward,” we noted back in September. “And higher education is simply not a core function of government … particularly not the way it is done in South Carolina.”

These political shenanigans only further underscore our point …

-FITSNews

https://www.fitsnews.com/2020/11/30/...gle-continues/

[jwilliams]

Sophomore shuffle is the most idiotic idea in decades. Freakin idiot