James gets an IM from his maybe-on-a-break maybe-ex-girlfriend, hilarity ensues

███████: James, it's been a while since we've talked, I just want to tell you Goodbye since I'm goign to Italy

James: Are you Kidding me ███████?! Goodbye?! How could you??????? You're not leaving for another two months, and I'm going to Europe also!!! And that's after Christmas vacation... and you just got cheated on!!! I never cheated on you, ever! How could you say this.

[...]

███████: [...] I'm not a cold-hearted bitch [...]
 

James: So cruel... so so cruel. You IM me tonight to make you feel better about yourself, "I'm not a cold-hearted bitch?" you ask. You remove youself from my facebook wall, you tell me you won't talk to me because "you're going to Europe." You don't even talk to me now!! Do you realize how much you've hurt me? You can't say anything nice! You expect me to make you feel better about yourself and reasure you?! I just saw on on your profile you were fucked over by Jason S████████. He played you like a piano. YOu left me for a fucking scumbag who cheats on you and fucks other girls, and your poor little heart is broken. Your broke the heart of a caring, charismatic, sensitive loyal boyfriend for a fucking scumbag. Now your dirtied up. How does it feel ███████? I think I'm worth more than that, in fact I know I am, and I'm know other girls know I am as well. So no, I don't want to be friends with you, until you look into my eyes and give me the most sincere apology of your life. Until then, leave me alone.

NJO: Reconstructed from this post.

November Issue

The November issue of The Centurion is out now! Look for it at the usual distribution sites around campus, or you can read the pdf version online at www.rucenturion.com once it’s been posted.

In our Feature section this issue we discussed corruption at Rutgers, ranging from Jon Corzine not being fined for violating sign ordinances to the apparent campaign to kick the Greek organizations off campus.

We also have a run down of what went on at Rutgers over the past month, as well as the usual coverage of important national topics.

We want to hear YOUR opinion on the issue. Leave your comments here!

Originally posted at The Centurion at Rutgers at centurionjournal.blogspot.com.

We know Intellectuals Hate Capitalism. But Why?

JAMES O'KEEFE

How ironic is it that the hatred of capitalism is disproportionately composed of proletariat theorist professors who make over 100,000 dollars a year. Ironic also is the doctrince of socialism is an intellectual phenomenon, not a working class one, derived from these professor who reside in the top income bracket.

When the Federalist Papers were written, the property owners were the most educated. This is no longer the case. An entrepreneur has a practical intelligence, whereas the professor has a theoretical one and often distances himself away from the free market.

But why such capitalist loathing? Ludwig von Mises proposed the intellectuals are resentful of the few who make more money than they do; namely investment bankers, corporate lawyers, etc. Others say they intellectuals feel undervalued in a system which rewards for talent, individual initiative and personal merit, not intelligence.

Robert Nozick proposed the intellectuals derive their hate from their tensions in elementary school with other children. This is a theory we'll explore at another time. As Nozick says, intellectuals will likely have the last word, a form poetic justice that is anything but ironic.

NJO: Originally printed in the November 2005 issue of The Centurion.

Illiteracy Count: 8

1. How ironic is it...    (If the sentence is a statement, it should be "it is". If it's a question, it should have a question mark.)
2. doctrince
3. Ironic also is...    (The whole sentence is quite the fucking omnishambles, but perhaps some small vestige of life could have been restored to its abortion-like form by injecting "the fact that" after the first three words.)
4. these professor who
5. von Mises proposed the intellectuals    (Replace "the" with "that")
6. Others say they intellectuals    ("They intellectuals"? Is he from fucking Fife all of a sudden?)
7. Nozick proposed the intellectuals    (Replace "the" with "that")
8. a form poetic justice

The New Core Curriculum

JAMES O'KEEFE

ISI books, a division of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, recently sent us a copy of their 2006 masterpiece “Choosing the Right College,” which rates the best 134 colleges from a classically conservative perspective, emphasizing the core curriculum and the college experience.

Wouldn’t you know it, Rutgers University made the list (after all, our philosophy department alone was ranked number one by the Philosophical Gourmet Report). Despite a less-than stellar review of residence life, (frankly, we deserve it), our academics received great praise. ISI also published a list of classics that could compose a core curriculum (which the administrators have been removing from the list of requirements since the 1960s).

Contemporary “postmodern” (and often Marxist) dogma attacks the achievements of those who authored the classics because they were privileged and powerful white males. However, such ad hominem attacks against the character and socialization of such individuals ignores the superiority of their objective insights and their achievements.

Another of the points contributing author Mark Henrie emphasizes in his introduction is that students are losing the opportunity to gain a broad understanding of the laws that govern human nature and human understanding. The decline of classical education is a modern tragedy.

Bill J. Bennett of the Heritage Foundation pointed out that, upon graduating, only 14 percent of students know that James Madison wrote the United States Constitution, one of many statistics indicating a pathetic lack of civic knowledge and responsibility perpetuated by strange agendas of “multiculturalism” and “diversity.” Most electives do not focus on anything of substantive historical value,

Timely axioms like “god and man,” “virtue and vice,” “heroism and cowardice,” “tyranny and freedom,” and “truth and untruth” are replaced with electives concerning racial, ethnic, sexual and non-literary themes. The focus of the humanities is now underdog appeasement, e.g. encouraging the use of Ebonics.

Though the classics are no longer required of students, we encourages students to register for classes in western civilization and philosophy - you may just learn something.

NJO: Originally printed in the November 2005 issue of The Centurion at Rutgers.

Letters to the Centurion: men galore

In your October 2005 issue you listed three all-male colleges which you claimed to be the only ones in the US, but there’s at least one more: Deep Springs College in California.
    According to their site, “In accordance with the Deed of Trust, Deep Springs is an all-male college.”
Best,
Alex Kasavin

Alex is right. There are a whopping four all-men’s colleges in the country. Plus, Deep Springs school admits 10 - 15 students, hardly comparable to the tens of thousands of women enrolled in all women’s colleges.

    There is a serious advantage to a single sex education for men, especially since much "classical" literature has been de-emphasized by feminist influence due to the postmodern notion that a narrative
sexual identity is relevant and/or necessary in answering life's great questions. Sure, social injustice was committed against women in the time of Socrates, Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, and Hamilton, but the principles which brought women's suffrage came about because of a better understanding of these great Western philosophers, not in spite of them.

    To this day, there is value and understanding in these works that is lacking in contemporary authors. The links between the United States Constitution and Plato's De Enima as just as significant as the links between John Locke and the Declaration of Independence. Intelligent interpretation of classical thinkers has established the freest, most prosperous modern society in the world.

    The abandonment of the core curriculum in higher education has been a surreptitious, radical demand stemming from the 1960s to censor superior insight because the authors of such wisdom weren't underdogs. Such ignorance will only lead to tyranny by denying how we attained our freedoms; no matter what the feminist majority says.

As Pope Benedict XVI said, "Truth cannot be decided by a majority vote."

NJO: Originally printed in the November 2005 issue of The Centurion at Rutgers. The editor's reply is unsigned but I would infer that it is probably by James O'Keefe through the details and the writing style.