Richard Vedder on a ratio of note:

I recently read in the Wall Street Journal that Stanford University had more administrative staff and faculty than it did students. Specifically, there were 15,750 administrators, 2,288 faculty members, and 16,937 students. The paid help of 18,038 (administrators plus faculty) outnumbered the customers (students) by 1,101. […]
Patrick Dunkley, Vice Provost for Institutional Equity, Access and Community, has a “Director for Positive Sexuality” who “aims to transform the cultural conversation to more fundamentally level-up on both the challenges and possibilities of sexuality” — whatever “fundamentally level-up” means. This sounds like expensive gobbledygook to me. And why do universities even have “sexuality” administrators, especially in a school that has 46 history professors, none of whom teaches a basic survey course in Western Civilisation?

Ah, but once you’ve conjured into being an Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative, for instance, someone – most likely several someones – will have to run it, or at least sit around in a designated office while waiting to be paid.

Robert J Morris on race and medicine:

There is a growing belief in medical academia that identifying the race of the patient or prescribing race-specific treatments may lead to “systemic racism” on the part of healthcare professionals… In the past, race was used in presentations precisely because it was helpful to the patient. Now, any mention of race in a case presentation is strongly discouraged in medical education… This is not simply an abstract point about political correctness — the exclusion of race as a variable when determining patient susceptibility and treatments may leave medical practitioners unable to provide black patients with optimal care.

And the ladies at Reduxx once again visit the world of the unwell:

Kara Lynne, the now-ex community manager of [games distributor] Limited Run, was reportedly fired following complaints from a trans activist on Twitter who had dissected Lynne’s social media history. Jonathan “Jessica” Blank, a trans-identified male better known in the My Little Pony fan community as Purple Tinker, published a Twitter thread on January 6 accusing Lynne of “transphobia” and tagging Limited Run Games in an apparent effort to have her penalised.

The so-called infractions Blank levelled against Lynne included that she had been following popular conservative social media account Libs of TikTok, and had posted a tweet expressing opposition to self-identification laws in 2016. Other alleged examples of transphobia included that Lynne had expressed support for the upcoming Hogwarts Legacy video game.

If you think the above sounds a little unhinged, do read on. It turns out that Mr Blank – a self-styled “bully” who declares his own “monstrous and indiscriminate anger” – has a history of, shall we say, questionable behaviour, on many fronts, including an enthusiasm for the prospect of children being exposed to pornography. But hey, pride.

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