At 13:20 your undershirt disappears. I had to stop the video and rewind it several times to figure out why. Here's my list of possible reasons: 1) You were abducted by aliens and returned sans shirt 2) A temporal distortion switched you with the SJW version of you, from an alternate reality. (I will be watching future videos closely to see if it's the real you.) 3) One of your cats grabbed a loose thread from your shirt and ran off at supersonic speed. 4) You took a quick break to visit your harem, carelessly forgetting to replace your shirt. 5) A butterfly in Asia flapped its wings and your shirt blew off. 6) The shirt returned to its own dimension. 7) You realized that you had been wearing the shirt for 3 days and decided to wash it. 8) The shirt was borrowed and the owner dropped by to retrieve it. 9) You flexed your pectoral muscles and the shirt disintegrated. 10) You took a quick break to practice your Magic Mike pole dancing routine and flung your shirt across the room. 11) An oppressed student from Evergreen demanded that you remove your shirt because it's a symbol of white privilege. 12) You were hot and removed your shirt. I'm pretty sure one of these reasons is correct. P.S. Don't correct my grammar and sentence structure. It's just a KZfaq comment. Thanks. P.P.S I realize that sentence structure IS grammar. I mentioned it for emphasis, so please forgive the redundancy.

Dear Math Prof, Latisha deserves a passing grade. She has had a difficult life. Even though her answer for 2 + 2 was 5 it is a 20% improvement over 6 that she answered in the 1st semester. Do the equitable thing, or expect a mob. Dean

The message to employers is that if you hire a minority from Evergreen that you may be getting a defective product.

She wants it so bad, she should take the additional quarter. ...but then she does not graduade with her classmates and friends and she wants to... wtf! Evergreen daycare or what?

As a high school teacher, I face this shit every term. Last term, I had a student that I failed because he didn't come to class and didn't hand in most assignments passed by another teacher, after the term had ended, because he did a few worksheets for this other teacher. The principal was totally down with it. Also, I was never even consulted and this was all done behind my back.Disgusting.

Why does it matter, Evergreen degrees are no longer taken seriously by anyone taking attention.

Just replace degrees with participation trophies.

she was out protesting. she didn't have time for such bourgeois patriarchal things as classes and tests. why can't you SEE that?! you are disrespecting her lived existence.

Your costing Evergreen millions of dollars Benny. When you Google Evergreen State your the 1st thing that pops up

I have a STEM degree. I was the valedictorian. I work in healthcare. Do you want me working on you or do you want "student" working on you?

Education is going down in the shitter...I’m so sorry your degree is from there. I used to watch your coverage out of curiosity, then I was merely being amused. Now I’m just really concerned. For the current students. For those who have graduated. For those that know nothing about what’s going on there and will apply to go there. Thanks for the continued dedication.

Does Evergreen just hand out participation diplomas?

I didn’t think the evergreen saga could get more ridiculous and terrifying. It’s everything right wing people say colleges have become in a nutshell.

Did you say that the Dean's name was Macavity? What might T.S. Elliot say about him? Ah, Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, For he's a fiend in progressive shape, a monster of depravity. He's the bafflement of Evergreen, the Collegiate's despair: For when they reach the scene of crime - Macavity's not there!

Science definitely had a therapeutic effect on me. Losing myself in concentration during labs and while coding made my anxieties feel so insignificant.

So you've got some juvenile adult who wants a 'note' to suggest she has a depth of knowledge which she lacks, and just wants you to to sign off. So you do this, and she uses the 'note' to pursue her first job, and the boss wakes up a month into her employment to find that she really lacks the knowledge level to do the job. If he fires her....she accuses him of racism. So he moves her to a job that has no advancement, and no access/need to the knowledge she pretends to have. Years pass, and she eventually tries to get another job, and the deep hole that she dug...proves her job value is worthless. And then what? Blame the college, like 100,000 new graduates from across the nation do each year?

Evergreen is a laughingstock, and should be treated as such. A degree from there might as well be the equivalent of your six-year-old drawing a picture in crayon.

"... she will also not gratuate with her friends. It is important to her ...!" I feel sorry for every person who hires one of those spoiled brats.

I was a student at Evergreen. I’m also a lifelong local resident and a minority. I was always a terrible student in high school and went there to study art and writing... which I could have done without spending so much (but it’s one of the cheapest schools for in-state tuition). I ran into problems with my own life that kept me away from attending classs and I accept that in the end I’m responsible for my own results. I never appealed for credit I knew I didn’t earn. Evergreen attracts destructive people. But it also attracts a variety of people who come from everywhere around the country who want to just learn. Evergreen has had a lot of resources for artists, filmmakers, lab and computer techs, and a large library. It is a good school that has had some very fair judging professors who did not give people a free pass. But I’ve had some of professors who are a part of the “Equity Canoe” and I’m surprised when I hear stuff about them because they would be warm and welcoming to me when I dealt with them, but they come off as different people. I also never attended a Day of Absence event unless a professor made our class do it for credit.

The stem professor sounds like she's biased against students who get answers on questions wrong, don't turn in work, and who turn in shoddy or incorrect work. This can be easily proved if you look at the grades given to students who get more questions wrong, don't do work etc. They just want her to be equitable and give credit to students, regardless if they have learned the material or not.

Ten credits to Evergreens house Slytherin

If Evergreen had a medical course to turn out doctors, using equity based advancement how qualified would that make say a brain surgeon who graduated from Evergreen. If so we'd end up with "Dr. Nick" types from the Simpsons. Will any degrees granted by Evergreen be recognised in the professional world?

Equity Minded Teaching. You're either melan-in or you're melan-out

I feel really sad for the REAL science students...they should go elsewhere...YOU SHOULD do the work...to...get the points....

Asking way too much of the teachers. Asking an introverted science nerd teacher to be a therapist to an entitled sjw is not going to end well.

This may well go down in history as the cat video with the longest intro ever.

I usually have some long response, but all I can say is that this entire thing is infuriating. They are effectively attempting to discredit the universities credentials for equality of outcome. Ridiculous.

The problem with us Asian is we never complain, we never demand special treatment, we just bust our ass and work.

Knowledge without comprehension. Information without understanding. Awareness without intellect. Education without learning. Student without studying. Received without earning. Is without being.

The reply should have been "Dear David, this is science. Either the student understands the concepts or they don't." David has just disqualified himself from academia, in my opinion. How did he become a dean?

The staffing agency I work at doesn't give much weight to degrees anymore. We have tests we give potential candidates to see what level their knowledge of the industry is at. We had to start doing that because we were sending too many incompetent degree holders to sites that just screw up everything. It allowed us to measure candidates far more accurately and we're now one of the largest suppliers of temps in the US. You don't have to worry about your degree not being worth anything, because that's already reality.

It seems the fair thing to do for potential employers of this student is to add a footnote to her degree explaining this episode of fairness in her academic preparation for employment. This would be fair to the other students who earned the credits by actually performing to a standard. As you mentioned how does a employer know if the graduate they interview for a job actually knows the material or was given special privilege. Evergreen has become the intercity highschool of colleges, just let everybody pass, keep them moving through. Just another slice in the death of a thousand cuts for evergreen's reputation and future viability.

This dean is bending over backwards to legitimize the cargo cult. Also, if this girl is quiet ,unassuming and less vocal than other students, what gives her the nerve to gather up a mob and pound down the door of a college administrator to demand grades she didn't earn? Does that sound like something a quiet, unassuming person does?

I love when there is part 2’s, cant wait for this one!!

You used a green screen to produce a blue screen behind you. Genius! Also, it is ok to say black. Descriptive terms are not racist.

Benjamin's bedtime stories are beginning to get scary.

This argument that she would have done better if she wasn't so busy and "emotionally exhausted", and furthermore saying that she voluntarily took on these extra tasks as a point in favor of passing her is kinda absurd. Perhaps one of the most important things being honed and tested in an education is one's ability to manage their time and prioritize their work. If signing up for clubs and protesting earns you a passing grade, then everyone would just do that. Well... I guess that's exactly what happened at Evergreen. That faculty at a university don't understand this kinda proves how garbage Evergreen is. Maybe it is the case that it's up to the teachers to micromanage their students and tell them how to organize their time, but passing her certainly won't have this effect. The easiest way to force students to learn these skills is to fail them when they don't exhibit these skills. It's pretty simple, really. I just really bugs me that anybody would see it as legitimate that a student can commit themselves to all sorts of extra curricular nonsense and then use that as an excuse for their subpar schoolwork, not just to themselves and maybe to their parents, but an excuse that actually merits them demanding a passing grade. It's something I even saw a lot of in my education, and even then many teachers would take that bullshit seriously. Totally ignoring the fact that arguably one of the major underlying reasons to have an assortment of extra curricular activities is to allow high performing students to challenge themselves when it comes to time management and prioritization. To undermine that idea and actually teach students that the activities they *feel* like spending their time on are more valuable and more relating to their overall performance than the coursework itself is antithetical to effective education. That is not only *not* something that would help these students in a career, but it's an expectation that will harm them severely when it comes to job performance. But who are we kidding? Evergreen students by and large will become public servants - bureaucrats, equity officers, redundant case worker type jobs - jobs where actual productivity and competence are liabilities and where advancing in that space has everything to do with one's ability to bully, whine and arbitrarily wield power. They are being trained for a certain type of job - the kind of cushy, vastly overpaid and underworked jobs that actively drain resources away from the economy themselves while simultaneously hindering the productive sectors of the economy from creating prosperity. USSR 2.0 here we come.

I see a big, very big, class action lawsuit coming to the school in the near future by non protected class thinking people. You're doing an awesome job keeping us updated. Thanks.

I was actually sympathetic most of the way until it got to the identity excuse, and then it all turned to poison

"Bastard of Science" Interesting parapraxis. Lol

This is better than Wikileaks!....EquiLeaks

I got a BS back in college and it took me 5 years, because SHOCK, life happens. Things don't go as planned. It taught me so much about how I wasn't the be all end all special snowflake I thought I was, and that the world will leave you behind if you dont keep up. And was a large part of me growing up. The balls on this student to even think that just because she was stressed she could go to someone and propose this! It shows that she honestly believes that she is a victim in every aspect of her life. It's too hot, the weather has always had it out for me! I wrecked my car into a tree, arborial discrimination against me! This does her such a disservice. When will she learn that sometimes she is the problem, and that she needs to better herself!? Instead of her needing to be a dynamic and better person, the world needs to find a way to fit her into it. Otherwise it's more proof that she is being victimized. I am legitimately worried about what our country, and other parts of the world, will be like in 10-15 years... these children are not going to get the chance to become adults when the world thinks it's its responsibility to fix everything they fuck up for them. And lets be honest, It's not even mostly this girls fault, whether shes 18-21 she's a frickin child still. It's the "adults" around her that refuse to take off the kid gloves and teach her about life. This guy should be fired for promoting destructive solutions. In the end this will be so much worse for this girl than if they just make her take summer semester courses, or repeat the course the next quarter.

Excited for part 2.

Honestly Benjamin, I found that what Evergreen did and the Dean did was an embarrassment. I can't believe that they are willing to pressure my own current Integrated Natural Science faculties in order to give her the upper division science she needs in order to pass. I found that I have no problem giving her tutoring and all of that, but doing so in order for her to take the certification is just plain messed up. I am Southeast Asian, have darker color than many students in my program, and yet I did very well. I personally perservere through the course and managed to make it through with full credit for Integrated Natural Science without complaining. I wonder what makes her think that she is above the law? I personally still think that I have yet to see Evergreen up their standards and their tutoring in order to help students like myself get through the degree because I am seeking to get my naturopathic medical degree and what Evergreen did will not go well with all of my graduate schools. If Evergreen continues down this route, then I am afraid that I have to either transfer or take the consortium partners in order to finish strong. Don't make me do this Evergreen!!

Education based on equity is setting up this student for failure in the real world. When she can't hold a job or even find one, she will be mad not at herself and her own deficiencies, but rather at the perceived unfair and biased society she has to work in. Good job dean. Did you get some of your ideas from the movie "Idiocracy"?

It's not kindness to let someone keep persuing study they are not competent at. When they get a job in their field they will be weeded out quickly with all that time and money wasted as well as emotional distress.

I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that I don't think they are really preparing kids for a competitive job market. I mean,just maybe.

I'm not sure how it is that I have such a high level of appreciation for someone who makes me hate the world so much 😛.

What a F'N insult to minorities and women?!

Good work Benjamin, really well done. Thanks for first of all going to the trouble of getting the facts related to this story and then presenting them to us in a straight forward logical manner with a little of your wit and humor thrown in. You do this stuff well and have been great at documenting what is really going on at Evergreen which is why I watch and am still interested.

When I was in Grade school I realized how to manipulate the school system. I used to do shitty on purpose for the first term, then I would try a little bit the second term. By the last term I would try my hardest and even though I did terrible they used to pass me because I improved so much...lol. This system failed miserably when I needed to know shit in high school.

And honestly, if I were to be an entrepreneur scientist that has to hire a scientist from Evergreen, I would deny their resume right off the bat if they cannot deal with their own emotions. I think it is time that these scientist from Evergreen needs to go babysit and just sit in the back of the Asian people rather than to tell the community of people what to do. This is just fucked up. I rather hire someone that came out of Harvey Mudd, MIT, or Caltech to do my job.

I’m exited for part 2

Bastard of Science 😁 please put it on a tshirt

What a crock of shit, someone needs a free pess because of undefined reasons, so a dean writes a letter to someone, that they state that they know are busy and threaten the person with wasting more time to "discuss" something that is not worthy of anyones tme.

Good luck to Evergreen in retaining their certification to teach science. He has just ruined the reputation of his college and all the graduates too. If true score are fraudulently altered to suit the individual, the value of the course as evidence of future competency, has just been nullified

Its a Blackelors degree.

This make s me angry! I never got special treatment to help with my poor grades situation in my Lesbian Studies class, as a disadvantaged straight white male! Disclaimer* *But I'm not racist and not homophobic

It is not uncommon that schools, under pressure from affluent parents, change grades due to "gifts" the parents have made to said schools. In that case, the students are typically just going home to "run" daddy's business(sitting in an office and picking their noses before going to the gym, lunch etc aka Tommy Boy). In this case, one hopes that these grads are never given jobs where they have access to anything that can harm themselves or their fellow beings. One hopes. The other day I watched a construction crew member picking up a six pack for lunch before returning to work on high steel. I used to watch construction crews smoke the special stuff before going back to hard wire a building...Evergreen is a very small puddle in a sea of retardation.

Give her a pilots license while you're at it.

Won't graduate with her friends?! Are they joined at the hip? Are they 6-year olds? Ben, re academics as therapy, check out the book _The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education_ by Kathryn Ecclestone and Dennis Hayes as well as the videos and writings of Spiked editor Brendan O'Neill. Therapeutic education is a recurring complaint of his. You ought to invite him to do an interview on your channel.

In other news, an Evergreen College graduate (with upper division credit!) becomes a neurosurgeon. Headline: 'Oops' uttered during neurosurgery; patient now a chicken.

what a disgrace for the students who are not gifted and get there by determination, perseverance and struggle. they earn their degrees, grow as individuals, make better citizens and become more independent. why are they less important than the ones throwing the tantrums. if you are not good enough then try something else

The dean is taking affirmative action to its logical conclusion: why just apply lower standards to entering an institution? You can apply the same criteria to exiting (graduating at) an institution.

Then she looks for a job in that field, gets fired for being incompetent, sues for discrimination, everything falls apart. What a great future Evergreen is building. Fun fact: molecules are compounds composed of a finite pattern of atoms connected by covalent bonds. That is to say: carbon and iron are elements, not molecules.

Where is the majestic timestamp? You have betrayed my fragile trust.

love the teal background!

Remember when I asked about the university system needing to be destroyed before rebuilding?? Well nevermind.. this answers that question👍..

Best Patreon plug I've ever seen. I never got so close.

For the first time I feel sorry for the employers that will unknowingly hire these special individuals based on the trust the employer has in the integrity of their degrees. Once hired and trained, they’ll see all the concessions they’ll have to make for the employee, and spend lots of time/money brainstorming and tip-toeing around how to fire these people without being sued.

Meanwhile, I worked my butt off at Evergreen for my credits in history.

"Miss me with that meritocracy/ that degree is owed to me/ I'm not dumb or lazy/ it's the white-cis- patriarchy/ now: I'm ready to do the surgery."

Some of the arguments do make sense, especially the part about past tests being used as gauge for current knowledge, which they no longer reflect. The correct way would be to re-test everything at the end of the course. That would also give the students who only learn for a test and forget soon after a score that reflects their lack of knowledge. The flaw in his argument is to apply it to only one student and not improve the system for everyone.

in high schools around here, that email boils down to one prevailing sentiment: please can we not just get "student" OUT of here?

When you said (at 30:04) "'seems' is not 'is'," I was reminded of the lines from Wallace Stevens' poem _The_ _Emperor_ _Of_ _Ice_ _Cream_ : _Let_ _be_ _be_ _finale_ _of_ _seem_ _the_ _only_ _emperor_ _is_ _the_ _emperor_ _of_ _ice_ _cream_

As I heard you reading that letter I was recognizing the exact same circular logic around equity that I, as a high-school teacher in Europe, have been trained into by my Continuing Professional Development center/Ministry of Education. So in my teaching of Chemistry and Physics, I have to take into account the emotional aspects of the learners and adjust the teaching style to match every single one. Having you read that out loud made me feel stupid, but it was a wake up call. Sadly, I don't see any way to reverse things this far into it.

Great video. Bit disappointed you weren't underwater or in outer space or something for it.

i passed an evergreen grad on the sidewalk a few days ago.....his nicely framed diploma was hanging prominently on the side of his shopping cart containing all of his belongings while clutching a hand lettered sign pleading:" I WILL WORK FOR FOOD AND AN EQUITABLE SAFE SPACE"..... ;o)

Oh you so witty Benji !!!!!😁🤣😎

This seems to imply that this class was nothing but tests. Like was there no homework or class activities?

Honestly your videos are giving me perspective on a situation happening in my family (my parents are the staff and my sister is the SJW students). Exactly the same power dynamics, tactics, etc. Your vids have also inspired me to push back against some SJW type policies emerging at work. Thanks for keeping us updated and for your brilliant analysis.

Did anyone else catch when Ben said"good" instead of "well"? Or maybe that was just my imagination... Great video, Grim topic. Thanks! 😎

I read somewhere that Evergreens acceptance rate is inthe high 90%'s. That says it all. Most of the students shouldn't be anywhere near a degree course.

University is easy if you do a minimal amount of consistent (ie not eleventh hour) work. The standard at USA universities is actually PATHETIC, compared with almost any other country. If a student cannot even achieve a minimum standard, they: A) Are as lazy as duck. B) Should try something else if they are not academically inclined

Bottom line: it’s the students responsibility to learn the material regardless of their circumstances.

This happened when I was in college decades ago. A dept head was handing science and engineering degrees to people that were complete failures. Now we wonder why bridges collapse.

"Instead of teaching all students the same, with a notion of 'fairness' " OH, you mean like REAL equality.

I want to hear more from Science Bee. I think cat was stung by said Science Bee.

Thank you for making me happy I didn't go to Evergreen. I remember being intrigued by their brochure as an 18 year old. Today no-one will take their degrees seriously. It's tragic. Good you still have a sense of humor about it all. Even the leftists here in Europe don't seem this crazy. Maybe in Sweden.

Okay get in the submarine we're watching Benny late as fuck

Getting a degree from Evergreen is probably bad for your career. And hiring a graduate from Evergreen is probably bad for your business. Better to avoid both.

Around 26:00 "Can I trust the degree from this place?" Of course it can be trusted Benjamin! If I was an employer I would look at the person with the STEM degree (but only those) from Evergreen and ask: "Is this person a straight white cis male?" If it is then I would hire him on the spot. You see, with such pressures and active discrimination against them and STILL get a degree this candidate must be made of steel. He must be far better than those pampered WASP scions of the Ivy Leagues. SJW's have just made Evergreen STEM degrees in the hands of Straight White CIS Males worth their weight in gold. Everybody else of course would be shown the door. And rightly so! Oh the irony!

My favorite thing about this is that he starts by being very cautious like he's avoiding offending anyone, then I skip to the end and he's making fun of everyone and it's hilarious XD

No need to cheat on a test, when you can protest for a passing grade

Printing degrees with no merit does not give the recipient anything of any value. It amounts to grade inflation where you will soon need several PHD's to amount what a B.A. in English Lit used to be worth. Soon they will be carrying their multiple degrees around held together with rubber bands.

Why don't they just give them all the diplomas in advance and get it over with?

All I can think of in reply to the email is: "I don't have enough time or crayons to explain this to you."

As an outsider it seems to me that a degree from Evergreen state university on a job application is a big red sign saying “DO NOT EMPLOY”

Wow! How long did the dean spend on writing this letter? How many holes of golf could he have played instead?

How can a test motivate someone to study if a failing score carries no consequence?