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  • The Fabulous Frohnmayers

    05/30/2006 7:14:29 AM PDT · by JSedreporter · 1 replies · 191+ views
    Accuracy in Academia ^ | May 26, 2006 | Malcolm A. Kline
    University of Oregon president Dave Frohnmayer has run afoul of evangelical Christians over his failure to take disciplinary action against a school newspaper for running sketches that depicted Jesus Christ in homosexual acts. Perhaps he is taking a cue from his brother’s controversial tenure as head of the National Endowment for the Arts. John Frohnmayer, who served the first President Bush as head of the NEA from 1989 to 1992, now teaches at Oregon State University. The brothers are a rarity in academia; they are Republicans. But if they typify the respondents in national polls, then Democrats dominate the Grand...
  • Meet the Newest Member of the Faculty -- The Weather Underground is on her resume. Prison, too.

    12/03/2004 6:10:32 AM PST · by OESY · 8 replies · 1,023+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | December 3, 2004 | ROGER KIMBALL
    At Hamilton College... you can take... "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change."... Its teacher is Susan Rosenberg, formerly of the Weather Underground. ...Its self-described revolutionaries, mostly middle-class, dedicated themselves to supporting radical black causes and tearing apart American society in the 1970s and early 1980s. In 1970, they blew up a townhouse when a bomb detonated prematurely and killed a few of their troops. Kathy Boudin, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and other high-profile members of the group spent the next decade or so running from the police and, some of them, continuing to pursue careers in criminal violence.... So why...