The Underrated Gift of Sanity

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015 The Underrated Gift of Sanity

Permit me these examples three.

 

First, the closing of the all-women's college, Sweet Briar. Sweet Briar last month announced that it would be closing this year. This was greeted with screams and vitriol, claims dreams have been destroyed, and repleted with threats of lawsuits and protests from current day students, as well as alumni and professorial staff.

 

Never mind the mathematical reality that the liberal arts bubble is bursting.

Never mind they have 1 employee per 5 students.

And never mind this college runs horse stables, indicating insane financial mismanagement and mathematical ineptitude.

 

Reality doesn't matter to those affected by Sweet Briar's closing. All that matters is what they were told, believed, and wanted. And thus these two irreconcilable forces result in grief, anger, confusion, frustration, and stress.

http://captaincapitalism.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-underrated-gift-of-sanity.html

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Anger and Activism Greet Plan to Shut Sweet Briar College

By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

 

MARCH 22, 2015

 

SWEET BRIAR, Va. — Here at bucolic Sweet Briar College, equestrians awaken at dawn and trek to the stables to ride on 18 miles of trails through wooded countryside, fields and dells. Women study on the boathouse dock at sunset, as geese squawk over a lake. Pearls are still in fashion, and men must have escorts. Students call it “the pink bubble.”

 

Now, all of a sudden, the bubble has burst.

 

The abrupt decision this month by the Sweet Briar board to close the 114-year-old women’s liberal arts school at the end of this term “as a result of insurmountable financial challenges” — with no advance warning to students, parents, alumnae or professors —

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/23/education/sweet-briars-imminent-closing-stirs-small-uprising-in-a-college-idyll.html