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Zion's Classes at Duke this Semester

Sexual Pleasures of the Modern World
History of Hip-Hop
The Theater Today
Copy of Writing 101: The Disney Version

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The facade of duke being some sort academics bastion died a long time ago. Their athletes are no more academia than any other school in the country. Just frauds with puffed out chests and danglers at ESPN and every major "journalist" promoting their hypocrisy.
The giant fraud that is coach K has been propped up for years by these spineless reporters and such as the last honest coach in America. I have zero respect for him or them. Honesty and integrity are not traits that he nor they possess. They are liars who depend upon the ignorance of those that listen to them.
I never ever want to hear some of the durham frauds get on here and spew this fantasy of their players being in "school". I may get banned if they do.
 
Say it ain't so. But, these parents want their sons to go to Duke because it is such a premier academic facility. I can see why they wouldn't want to send them to UK with such classes as English 101, American History, along with a science and math course. I mean who would want to waste your time with those, when you could study the history of hip hop, and Disney movies? What hypocrisy.
duke, their school, their whole thing is the epitome of hypocrisy. It is nauseating.
 
2 comments , Dont forget in the absurdity of this ( if true !!!) that someone is paying a tool , I mean a teacher big bucks to deliver this shit , and students are paying a fortune to take it .. think about it .. those 4 classes , if they are 2-4 hour classes would hit full time at 14-15-16 hours and paying 25-30K to take those 4 classes .. the entire thing is a SCAM

Lastly should my long list of sins somehow trump my belief in the savior , Jesus Christ , and I get sent to hell , Im sure at some point I'll have to set thru " history of hip hop" 101
 
I’m pretty convinced higher ed is the next economic bubble to burst. Costs have risen at such an inexplicable rate to such an astronomical level.....there’s no longer any real correlation between how much you’re paying and the value of what you’re getting. It can’t continue. Normally when an asset bubble bursts - stocks, real estate, whatever - what happens is kind of obvious. This isn’t that kind of market, so I’m not sure exactly what it will look like. But it can’t go on.
 
I'm going to start now and get another degree. Why? To go into debt for a 100k+ and have this type of educational opportunity. Heck any professor who would even agree to teach a class like that should be fired on the spot. (I won't state anymore but if you want to catch a thief, go to the nearest college that has classes anything near that type.) That is thievery of the worst type. Just hit the student in the head with a brick instead and take his and his parents wallets...
 
I went to WKU as well. I remember getting pumped to take "Astro-bunny" because I was looking forward to at least one easy class. Unfortunately, I drew the head of the dept teaching it who was out to dispel that rumor. Ended up with a C in the class that required 40 pages a night of reading and tests that had physics/calculus questions on it related to astronomy calculations. Yeah, times have changed.

LOL!

Sounds like something that would happen to me.
 
I went to WKU as well. I remember getting pumped to take "Astro-bunny" because I was looking forward to at least one easy class. Unfortunately, I drew the head of the dept teaching it who was out to dispel that rumor. Ended up with a C in the class that required 40 pages a night of reading and tests that had physics/calculus questions on it related to astronomy calculations. Yeah, times have changed.

One of the funniest things that happen to me at WKU was walking into my Biology class. The first day the professor proclaimed that the source of all the problems in the world was... wait for it...

Walt Disney.

No crap.

I dropped the class immediately and took a different professor for Biology. He laughed when I told him who's class I transferred in from. Apparently that was pretty normal practice every semester.
 
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I legit thought these were made up titles to mock him (eg history of hip hop). Don’t get me wrong I think it would be a fun class (I took history of jazz as an elective At UK and really liked it. However if your whole load is like that, seems like a waste of time.
 
Hey I took a music history class. History of Rock and Roll. :fistbump:

I taught that a few years in HS as an elective. They wouldn't let the kids have a study hall class, so it was essentially the study hall class for the college bound kids so they had time to do their AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP Chemistry homework.

It also gave me an excuse to play cool music and put Beatles and Led Zeppelin posters on my wall.

I taught that first semester and the History of Sports the second semester.

It was a blast!
 
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The funniest part of all of this is the fact that coach K is selling kids & their parents on the superiority of a Duke education.

This is why it’s a load of crap.

No serious employer is going to accept a Duke basketball players degree at face value like a regular student. It’s just not going to happen. I don’t know why the degree part is bought so hard and why it’s not already debunked by others on the trail.
 
One of the funniest things that happen to me at WKU was walking into my Biology class. The first day the professor proclaimed that the source of all the problems in the world was... wait for it...

Walt Disney.

No crap.

I dropped the class immediately and took a different professor for Biology. He laughed when I told him who's class I transferred in from. Apparently that was pretty normal practice every semester.

He’s right. Disney will own everything in the end and set the table for all of us.

It’s actually happening.

They are too big. And I’m a staunch capitalist.
 
Does anyone know if Duke offers Lifetime scholarship to their basketball players? Like UK?
 
Freshman and sophomore level classes in college are a cakewalk anyway. Which is why I always get a kick out of comments about all our guys who “hate school.” No longer than they’re here school is a cakewalk. You don’t get into the relevant meat of your college courses until you get into your major/graduate level courses. Which none of these guys ever do. So why do we pretend to give a shit about what level 100 or 200 level classes they take? None of it matters.

Dunno man. Junior and senior year is all about what your major is. To me it was much easier than the basics from freshman to sophomore year.
 
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The athletes are no more intelligent or academic minded than any other kid in the country. It's been a fraud and fake narrative all along.

This.

I was a TA this year and I can assure you most undergrads are there for the piece of paper.

And this is a new trend that even the Ivy Leagues are facing. The idea of going to school for an education is gone.
 
One day, folks will realize college is the biggest scam in history

It only matters because society has said it matters, but now college degrees are like old high school diplomas - everyone is getting one and watering down the white collar labor force.

Blue collar jobs pay more and require less initial debt to access. I'm hoping the next trend leads to the gradual abandonment of the philosophical emphasis and placed more emphasis on skilled labor.
 
There is nothing wrong with any of those courses on an individual basis (assuming they are legit and done well). The problem would be taking only those kind of courses. I wonder to what extent one and done players around the country take only fun elective type classes? Is there no NCAA requirement about taking core classes?

And, I don’t see how any of this is some kind of commentary on the value of college in general. Good luck to those of you who think that going to college is worthless.
 
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It only matters because society has said it matters, but now college degrees are like old high school diplomas - everyone is getting one and watering down the white collar labor force.

Blue collar jobs pay more and require less initial debt to access. I'm hoping the next trend leads to the gradual abandonment of the philosophical emphasis and placed more emphasis on skilled labor.

We’re still not there yet. For real, in places other than major cities, watching people navigate without a college diploma is very sad. It’s a very hard life.
 
One of the funniest things that happen to me at WKU was walking into my Biology class. The first day the professor proclaimed that the source of all the problems in the world was... wait for it...

Walt Disney.

No crap.

I dropped the class immediately and took a different professor for Biology. He laughed when I told him who's class I transferred in from. Apparently that was pretty normal practice every semester.

LOL!

Is that you, Dr. Jenkins?
 
It only matters because society has said it matters, but now college degrees are like old high school diplomas - everyone is getting one and watering down the white collar labor force.

Blue collar jobs pay more and require less initial debt to access. I'm hoping the next trend leads to the gradual abandonment of the philosophical emphasis and placed more emphasis on skilled labor.

It's sad as a HS teacher to watch the decline of higher education.

It's scary as a parent of a 7 year old (who has been adamant since he was 3 years old that he was going to be a Paleontologist) to watch it.
 
It's sad as a HS teacher to watch the decline of higher education.

It's scary as a parent of a 7 year old (who has been adamant since he was 3 years old that he was going to be a Paleontologist) to watch it.

The indoctrination is real.

As a TA this year, I saw it first hand. The gospel of Karl Marx.
 
How do you know he’s a good kid? He took money to play college basketball, takes phony classes, and yet all you all can say is how good a kid he is.

I said he seems like a good kid, because he’s never given me reason think otherwise and I’m not a judgy jackass.
 
There is nothing wrong with any of those courses on an individual basis (assuming they are legit and done well). The problem would be taking only those kind of courses. I wonder to what extent one and done players around the country take only fun elective type classes? Is there no NCAA requirement about taking core classes?

And, I don’t see how any of this is some kind of commentary on the value of college in general. Good luck to those of you who think that going to college is worthless.

Few would likely claim college is worthless. It serves a utility in that a degree helps access jobs that require special knowledge in a particular field.

That being noted, college also features the reality of a system that offers mostly self-enforcement of one-sided education, and the intersectionality discourse, aligned with neo-Marxism, is dominating higher education.

It's a real threat, too. Some of the people on this board haven't been in school for a while, so they may not know how bad it is but I'm just finishing up coursework as a grad student/TA and there is no doubt in my mind that the left has hijacked higher education. Some estimates put the left/right professor ratio at 21/1.

And we aren't just talking liberals vs. conservatives here. We're talking leftist activists (Marxists, postmodernists, Foucaultian disciples, etc.) vs. liberals/conservatives.

Higher education doesn't even come close to featuring an actual balanced discourse anymore. You can make a case for its utility, but you can't make a case for a balanced intellectual education.

Those days are done.
 
There is nothing wrong with any of those courses on an individual basis (assuming they are legit and done well). The problem would be taking only those kind of courses. I wonder to what extent one and done players around the country take only fun elective type classes? Is there no NCAA requirement about taking core classes?

And, I don’t see how any of this is some kind of commentary on the value of college in general. Good luck to those of you who think that going to college is worthless.

It's not "worthless", it is "worth less" than it use to be.

The degrees cost more and the market is flooded with college graduates.

The return on your investment isn't what it use to be when it comes to college degrees.
 
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