… It’s drinking-up time at the American university, and although we know all conditioned things are impermanent, a lot of people seem really, really pissed about it.
Yes, yes, only one football program has actually shut down.
As for fraternities [aka eat or be eaten clubs, dahling]: Like vampires, they cannot truly be killed. Fraternities can be suspended while crews hose down the vomit, but they almost always come back to haze again, until once again they are suspended, etc.
Even when a school or a national organization officially shutters them, fraternities live on as rogue operations just off campus.
Fraternities will never authentically be threatened with extinction. They are too important to the nation. The behaviors and attitudes you learn at a fraternity are structural to the leadership of America’s elite financial organizations. Fraternities are not about college; they are about Goldman Sachs.
And on law schools… How has it come to this? Can we actually be about to witness the shuttering of some of them?
Probably.
It’s all about the tragic confluence of the we’ll accredit your Aunt Tillie’s ass ABA, the ne touche pas my salary and course load law professioriate, and a collapsed job market.
In response to the collapsed job market, the ABA continues to accredit new schools.
I know you think that this cannot possibly be true, but it is. Every ten seconds the ABA accredits a new American law school.
Well, not every ten seconds. But frequently.
November 7th, 2016 at 9:12AM
Robert Spencer has a good piece published at Human Events today that is related to the subject matter addressed in this piece. Not sure which is a more depressing read, but read them we must if we want to be grounded in reality.