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Oberlin College has to fork over $44 mill to family bakery

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by hondo, Jun 13, 2019.

  1. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Reminded me of the Duke lacrosse case, where the administration sided with outraged community groups and a few dozen left-of-left (then left of that) faculty members, ignoring all relevant facts.
     
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  2. britwrit

    britwrit Well-Known Member

    I just found the Oberlin Review article that sparked that. It was a little more nuanced. Basically, students were complaining that they were getting nearly inedible food, which was labeled as traditional cuisine.


    I kinda agree. With the tuition Oberlin is charging, I'd want sandwiches that taste like they're straight from a Hanoi street vendor.

    CDS Appropriates Asian Dishes, Students Say
     
  3. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    [Wilford Brimley voice] IN MY DAY, the big excitement each week was Chicken Burger Day. Our university dining hall was buffet, all you can eat. I think I put back eight chicken burgers one dinner.

    Pizza Day would have been a treat, except they just put all the week's leftovers on pizza crust. Corn and broccoli pizza? MY STARS.

    These monsters are spoiled, is what I'm saying.
     
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  4. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    Ohio caps it at three times the judgment.

    Otherwise? I think it could have been, gosh, north of $100 million. The jury may have tried to shut the school down.

    Which, on some level, I don’t agree in penalizing educational institutions like that for something like this. Oberlin erred, but its leadership wasn’t the architect of this bit of fabulism. Post-Missouri, school leaders are rightfully fearful of what happened there. Without that kid filming Melissa Click, it’s hard to say how much worse it might have been.
     
  5. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

    Diabeetus.
     
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  6. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Size of that settlement, that's what the cafeteria's offerings maybe reduced to.
     
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  7. Pilot

    Pilot Well-Known Member

    I've had a cheeseburger in Vietnam and it was shit, so I guess that's just the way it goes.

    My college cafeteria used to do a special theme night every so often, almost always based on another country's cuisine. All the staff would get dressed up. There'd be a "special" menu, special stuff on the side, special drinks. It was usually pretty bad, but I appreciated the effort. That's the last place I'd look to for authentic anything.
     
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  8. OscarMadison

    OscarMadison Well-Known Member

    It's a funny thing people will try to run artisans and artists out of business because they're offended by a product name or design. They're "woke" but they do absolutely nothing to help entire communities who lack food, water, and other basic things.

    This lefty loathes SJWs.
     
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  9. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    Eddie Murphy's Welfare Burger clears its throat.
     
  10. DanielSimpsonDay

    DanielSimpsonDay Well-Known Member

    Better than McDonald's?!
     
  11. Twirling Time

    Twirling Time Well-Known Member

    With Red Kool-Aid. And you punctuated.
     
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  12. fossywriter8

    fossywriter8 Well-Known Member

    At one point, the college's attorney tried to say that the family bakery, which had been around since the 1880s, was worth less than the cost of one semester at Oberlin.
     
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