On Wednesday, the day after the election, most of us are going to roll out of bed, have our breakfast, and get on with our day—no matter which presidential candidate wins. But students at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy — where diplomats and policymakers are molded—have another option: They can play with Legos. Seriously.
In an email to McCourt students, Jaclyn Clevenger, the school’s director of student engagement, introduced the school’s post-election “Self-Care Suite.”
“In recognition of these stressful times,” she wrote, “all McCourt community members are welcome to gather. . . in the 3rd floor Commons to take a much needed break, joining us for mindfulness activities and snacks throughout the day.”
Here’s the agenda (and no, you can’t make this up):
10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.: Tea, Cocoa, and Self-Care
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.: Legos Station
12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.: Healthy Treats and Healthy Habits
1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.: Coloring and Mindfulness Exercises
2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.: Milk and Cookies
4:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m.: Legos and Coloring
5:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m.: Snacks and Self-Guided Meditation
I wanted to ask Clevenger why college and graduate students needed milk and cookies to recover from their stress—and how being coddled in college might someday affect American diplomacy—but she didn’t respond to my calls or emails.
From the Free Press
That’s so gay.
That’s the idea!
We can all be happy and gay
What a bunch of babies.
Hahaha my college I got to see Reagan’s first term.
Got me a diploma signed by Ronnie Ray-Gun. Esteemed more highly than the other one signed by Moonbeam.
She probably gets paid $150k a year to offer things like this to the immature college students at Georgetown.
This is just too silly to digest. The stock market is up today after the election so celebrate.
No puppies because they killed Peanut the Squirrel.
Justice NOW for Peanut the Squirrel.
No Justice – NO Peace!!!!
And no damn LEGOs either.
The church, or at least the Jesuit part of it, seems to have entered an infantile phase– not just here but with Luce and in general the relative lack of concern over sins of the flesh replaced by focus on open borders, minority and LGBTQ rights. Cookies and milk? How about a meaningful discussion on that leftist ideology rejected by the majority of Americans? How about some meaningful soul searching about the Jesuit weltanschauung these students live in and imbibe? How about meeting to pray for Mr. Trump and Mr. Vance, and prayer for cooperation between both sides of the political spectrum where cooperation is possible?
These students should pray a Rosary for the success of the Trump, Vance administration. And that Trump leads America back to God. In God We Trust. God Bless America. Make America Great Again.
Don’t the Jesuits at LMU have similar bleeding-heart concern for their bewildered students undergoing acute Kamala-Defeat-Syndrome?
Oh my! Orange man bad. Dictator in power. Sky falling. I cannot go to class.
Some act as if the sun will still rise and one can simply get up and go to work or school. Don’t they realize everything is political?
Who will pay for my abortion and sex change?
Like Taylor Swift, I might flee the country.
Gavin, save us!
May I please have some more cocoa and another line of coke?
(Or at least a joint?)
It has been rumored that FDR and his entourage received just such treatment at Georgetown just before they left for the Yalta Conference.
What a pathetic group these students and Instructors are. They are supposed to be adults?
The place should be immediately shuttered and the whole group turned out on to the street.
Then they can learn how to cope with stress.
Good morning, Freshmen. Welcome to Georgetown University. You’ve got a lot to accomplish here; so let’s get going!
Lie down on the ground. Assume the fetal position. Start whimpering!
You’re off to a great start!
The retired teacher would ask: how many students took advantage of these (um) activities? If only a few dozen, I wouldn’t be particularly worried. Sometimes student activities leadership is a bit odd.
These students need to be put to work, for Catholic and Christian evangelization– especially on issues such as Pro Life, Christian Marriage and Family, and pre-marital chastity, to start off with. The poor, helpless unborn children were blessed in three states, where voters rejected amendments to enshrine the ‘right to kill” (abortion) into their State Constitutions– Florida, South Dakota, and Nebraska. But the poor, helpless unborn children did not win their God-given right to life– by unreliable, ignorant, evil popular vote– in seven other states: New York, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado. That is shameful! Such huge moral issues as abortion– child murder– should never, never, never be “decided” by an ignorant, unreliable, Godless populace, with a popular vote. Traditional Christian Marriage and Motherhood, and the sacredness of all human life, from the moment of conception until natural death, must be unquestionable– firmly established and legally protected, in our country — as it used to be, when I was young. Ignorant, immoral San Francisco voters also passed Prop O by 82%, in early election results, shamefully enshrining and protecting “reproductive rights” to abortion and contraception in SF– “Sin City By The Bay”– and establishing a city fund for these Satanic evils, with the intent to deliberately hinder and harm the good Pro Life work for God, of their “enemy” — pregnancy centers. Only GOD has so-called “reproductive rights!” Ignorant, immoral California voters also passed Prop. 3, enshrining gay “rights” to legally contract gay “marriages,” against the Divine Will of God. There are about 12 million Catholics in California, and the entire population of California is 30% Catholic. Our Church, and all the other churches, had better get busy, and catechize Californians, and establish strong, authentic Christian– as well as Catholic– religious beliefs, morality, and good, lifelong religious practice, among Californians, for Jesus Christ.
I think you’re under the misapprehension that Georgetown is a Catholic school. It’s not: it’s Jesuit.
Sadly, are there any Jesuit schools (at least in the US) that are still Catholic?
Saint Ignatius, pray for us.
To not Catholic and Jesuit Education Survivor: Keep praying! The Jesuits are servants of Satan, not God.
I am so relieved that Kamala Harris was rejected by voters as U.S. President. It makes me sick that Cardinal Cupich offered the Invocation at the Democratic Convention last summer. Did hypocrite Cdl. Cupich try to save the 25 innocent unborn children killed– for free– at the mobile Planned Parenthood clinic at the Convention? Did he scold Harris and Walz, and the the demonic Democrats for their Baby Killing agenda, and having an Abortion clinic, killing unborn children for free, at their Convention? Did he warn all Catholics that they must not receive Communion, and must repent of sin, if they support abortion– and that any Catholic procuring or assisting in an abortion at that Convention, would be excommunicated? So glad that this useless, clerical waste, born March 19, 1949, is retiring this year– when the Pope accepts his resignation letter, as he is now age 75.
“…when the Pope accepts his resignation letter, as he is now age 75.” Pope Francis is not required to accept this mandatory letter of resignation. Cupich is the pope’s spokesman over here–why wouldn’t Pope Francis keep him on a little longer?
For anyone interested, here is a petition started by a Catholic group of young people, to end the Drag Queen Story Hour program at Multnomah County Library, in Portland, OR:
https://tfpstudentaction.org/petitions/protest-lgbt-rainbow-storytime
Did Cardinal James Martin attend?
Curious– thanks! What a laugh “Cardinal James Martin” is. An LGBT fool of the phony papal court.
Curious– did the Jesuit pope and his buddy, Jesuit Fr. James Martin, read their LGBT books together, and pretend to be “good Jesuit Catholics?”
“Mindfulness activities”? What they need is a boot camp in self-awareness and thoughtful reflection.
More appropriate for the “Navel Academy.”
Well, the end is in sight, for Cdl. Cupich… it is only a matter of time. Just signed a petition asking the Multnomah County Public Library in Portland, OR, to end their Drag Queen Story Hour program, hosted by Drag Queen, Poison Waters. Makes you sick! This should be strictly illegal! Here is a video:
https://youtu.be/8oCJzDYFCIA?si=Hh-_V7JlhU1xFYBA
If anyone clicks on the link, and watches the entire Drag Queen, Poison Waters, conducting the sick Drag Queen Story Hour at the Multnomah County Library in Portland, OR– you will see that the Drag Queen is actually indoctrinating the children in gender ideology, also reading a couple of very twisted, deviant, sick children’s picture books, with stories all about little boys who insist that they are little girls, and insist on wearing dresses. A horrific, twisted disaster– for poor, helpless little children! Our nation needs to make stern laws against this! The brainless, liberal crackpot librarian who introduced Poison Waters in the video, is also obviously a twisted, sick, immoral woman, with no common sense, and no sense of respect nor responsibility, in her job with children. I called this library, and explained to the librarian who answered the phone, that their Drag Queen Story Hour should be illegal– it is a horrible thing, extremely deviant, wrong, and sick, and a terrible danger, morally and psychologically, to young children, who are being wrongly indoctrinated into Transgenderism– gender dysphoria, a serious mental illness– a horrific confusion and rejection of biologically natural male and female normalcy. Because of that, I stated that the Portland library system should be defunded and closed. It is a great danger to the public. The librarian, a man, who answered the phone, politely took down my complaint, noting that the public has a right to express their views. He said he would give my complaint to the head librarian.
“Navel academy”!
Mr. Scott, you’ve just earned your pay for the week :)
With my generation, navels were gazed. The current generation has shifted their regard a few chakras south of the navel. In any case, graduates of this institution, and similar institutions, should be placed on a provisional Do Not Hire list.
For those who did not get the joke, “navel” is different from “naval”. You definitely got it, Tom Byrne.
These people should have to go help fight the fires in Southern California and other areas. Now that is REAL stress.
Yes! They should all go help fight the fires in Southern California! Oh, that made me so sad! The holidays are coming, and many people have lost their homes. Oh, what a tragedy! 800 firefighters are fighting the Mountain Fire in Ventura County, and last night, at 6pm, the National Weather Service issued a Red Flag Warning, for 25 million people facing extreme, life-threatening fire disasters, in Southern California, and the greater SF Bay area. Many Southern California schools were closed, due to the big, dangerous fire. Many prayers for this terrible fire to be put out, for people to receive much-needed help, and for this horrific tragedy to end.
A tangential story from https://www.foxnews.com/media/psychiatrist-says-essential-liberals-set-boundaries-trump-voting-loved-ones-during-holidays
“‘It’s completely fine to not be around [Trump voters] and to tell them why,’ Yale University chief psychiatry resident Dr. Amanda Calhoun told MSNBC” Amanda, where did you get your psychiatry degree? Cutting ties with relatives that voted for President-elect Donald Trump is detrimental to personal growth in every way imaginable. You, my poor doctor, want to keep them infantile. Should you not encourage your snowflakes to seek for understanding why their relatives (correctly) voted for Trump? Is not getting along with those of differing viewpoints what maturity is all about?
Lots of psychiatrists are “quack” doctors practicing “quack” medicine and teaching “quack” courses and awarding “quack” degrees in “quack” liberal universities. Ever since the Father of Modern Psychology, Sigmund Sex-Obsessed Freud, invented his ‘soft’ science– with man’s presumed animalistic, primitive “urges” as the core of Life– totally rejecting God and Christian teachings about Life. None of the ancient Greeks, nor any other great men of history, would have ever agreed with Freud. All the mothers of Europe must have been revolted, reading Freud’s perverted stages of child development. Looks like the Yale University psychiatry chief resident, Dr. Amanda Calhoun, is having a temper tantrum because her Democrat liberal candidate lost the election. Not old enough for her position– she regressed, and had a toddler-age meltdown.
The infantile, leftist takeover of American higher education is appalling.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/11/11/virginia-professors-infantilize-students-and-selves-over-trump-win/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=ODI0LU1IVC0zMDQAAAGWwUIdZ_AeAwmOFYsyfb8O3Q_Yw_fHNnBdlCXf8kJi8PeekPKdDXBkN_kdhKg93Ns176PBBxinmkgpbPG602rwe1sRyNJEX-R0tFILSwva8e1ujXY
Maybe if one has no faith, family or friends, politics becomes one’s religion and a political loss is a devastating, debilitating mental health crisis.