Xavier University has announced the launch of its latest indoctrination program, according to a tip received through Young America’s Foundation’s Campus Bias Tip Line. The Catholic, Jesuit institution’s new year-long “Eco Grief” series will feature everything from poetry workshops to musical performances, all designed to terrify impressionable college students into believing that the world is coming to an imminent end unless they fully buy into the Left’s climate alarmism agenda.
This week, students and faculty participated in an “Eco Grief poetry workshop” led by climate alarmism poet Tess Taylor. Next week, they’ll read their poems about the planet’s supposed impending doom in the center of campus. In October, the university will put on a concert, “Lamentation of the Creatures: an Eco Grief Concert;” and throughout the semester, the university will encourage students to write “prose, prayers, contemplations, and visual art” to advance the Left’s agenda.
While Xavier dedicates its time and resources to petrifying its students with “eco grief,” many of those same students are likely worried about real-life concerns—like the state of the economy and their future job market. Yet, their university seems more focused on getting them to write poems about their spoon-fed and manufactured “grief” than preparing them for life after graduation.
This entire situation mirrors the leftist lunacy that YAF uncovered last semester at the University of Colorado-Boulder, where a professor was so riddled with “climate anxiety” that she coped by pretending to be a butterfly going through metamorphosis in front of her students.
Instead of hosting events that promote entrepreneurship and free enterprise, Xavier chooses to wallow in “ecological despair.” It’s telling that the university hasn’t invited any conservative speakers to campus or worked with organizations like YAF’s Center for Entrepreneurship and Free Enterprise, which would actually equip students with the tools they need to succeed in the real world.
Of course, it would be infinitely more valuable for students to have the opportunities to hear from advocates of economic freedom and common sense like YAF’s Alex Epstein, Ann McElhinney, Yeonmi Park, and Daniel Di Martino, as opposed to those who suggest the adoption of socialist policies in order to somehow change the weather.
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