{"id":74223,"date":"2017-08-25T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T14:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74223"},"modified":"2017-08-25T12:28:05","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T16:28:05","slug":"should-veterans-be-banned-from-universities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74223","title":{"rendered":"Should Veterans Be Banned from&#8230;Universities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=74224\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-74224\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uccsletterforweb-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-74224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uccsletterforweb-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uccsletterforweb-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/uccsletterforweb.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>An article from a newsletter for the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS &#8211; outside the Fort Carson gates) Social Justice Collective Weekly is making the rounds on social media. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kktv.com\/content\/news\/Controversial-newsletter-compares-veterans-to-white-supremacists-441704493.html\">KKTV<\/a>, the article, entitled &#8220;Should Veterans Be Banned from UCCS and Other Universities&#8221; written by Terry Steinawitz (according to the media, no one by that name is registered at the school or lives in Colorado), tries painfully to make the case that veterans are a hindrance to the snowflakes&#8217; education;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A four-year, traditional university is supposed to be a place of learning, of understanding, of safety and security. However, there is an element among us who may be frustrating those goals: Veterans.<\/p>\n<p>UCCS is known for its number of veterans who are full and part-time students. But these veterans of much of the school prides themselves on may be hurting the university.<\/p>\n<p>First off, many veterans openly mock the ideas of diversity and safe spaces for vulnerable members of society. This is directly in contradiction to the mission of UCCS. Many veterans utter the mantra that they, &#8220;do not see color&#8221;. But the problem lies in their socialization into the military culture that is that of a white supremacist organization. They have been permanently tainted, and are no long fit for a four-year university.<\/p>\n<p>Second, many students are frightened by the presence of veterans in their classrooms. Veterans usually have an overwhelming presence in the classroom, which can distract other students. This is usually true for vulnerable individual such as LGBTQQI2SAA, who have been known to be the butt of insensitive jokes made by veterans.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, veterans usually are associated with extremists right-wing groups such as the tea party and the NRA. In order to provide a safe place for all students, extremist right-wing groups must be suppressed on campus. This would include their followers: veterans.<\/p>\n<p>That is not to say that veterans should not be allowed an education. Veterans should be allowed to attend trade schools, or maybe even community college. But, in order to protect our academic institutions we must ban veterans from four-year universities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The university claims that the letter is not reflective of their official policy, but that it&#8217;s an expression of free speech.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to get exercised over it, because it must be a hoax. If it&#8217;s not a hoax, it&#8217;s only the opinion of a student with no life experience. He\/She has probably never had to pay a bill, nor had a lasting impression on anyone&#8217;s life. &#8220;Student&#8221; means they&#8217;re still learning, even though they think that it means they know everything.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/www.kktv.com\/templates\/2015_Sub_Video_Share?contentObj=441704493' width='500' height='300' frameborder='0' scrolling='none' style='max-width:100%'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article from a newsletter for the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS &#8211; outside the &hellip; <a title=\"Should Veterans Be Banned from&#8230;Universities\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74223\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Should Veterans Be Banned from&#8230;Universities<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":74224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}