Posted on 04/25/2010 7:51:36 AM PDT by mattstat
Ezra Cornell, a generous man concerned deeply about his country and its culture, when he created his eponymous university in 1868 said, “I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”
Professors at Cornell (my grad school alma mater and partial source of rent) have stretched old Ezra’s words to the limit. How? The “English department will begin offering a new concentration in cultural studies to English majors. The concentration will allow students to study different mediums and forms of culture, including literature, film, the Internet and music in terms of ‘historical, social, and political contexts’.”
That’s the problem with words, isn’t it? People are apt to interpret them too freely. This is why lawyers give over their lives to writing nauseatingly precise contracts. Failing to specify what “pay in full” means in less than three pages ensures somebody will find a loophole.
Old Ezra—and academia in general—now has to suffer the consequences of failing to be exact in what he meant by “any study.” For Cornell will indeed offer Bachelor’s of Arts in “English” with concentrations in the study of news anchors’ hairdos.
Parse this:
“The field of cultural studies examines how culture makes a difference in how we live, and how differences in how we live make culture,” Prof. Debra Fried, English, said in an e-mail. “If you take an active interest in how any form of culture shapes your response to everyday life, you’re already beginning to think and question as cultural studies invites you to do.”
Hey, cultural studies has issued invitations! It would be...
(Excerpt) Read more at wmbriggs.com ...
Absolutely!! The news readers must look REALLY good when reading the teleprompter to us...lol
At last! what we need to be internationally competitive!
I guess this is something for really stupid rich kids who have to go to the Ivy League because it is expected but who really couldn’t cut it in a real academic program.
The details of which can fill up an entire semester somehow.
This is the kind of thing that’s going to get the Earth destroyed by some advanced alien race that doesn’t want our brand of Stupid inflicted on the universe.
...and the cost: only $50K/year...quite the bargain, don’t you think?
I went back to college at 41 to get a teaching degree. I found most courses completely absurd. I found most professors to be at best morons. I amazed one Education class because I knew 4th grade American history. I was smarted than %99 of everyone I met , students , faculty and administration. It was a joke . I’m sure the same is true of most colleges. People were getting degrees in the most insane subjects.I knew more in high school than most there.
But, this valuable degree will qualify the graduates for careers as hair stylists on news sets. Doesn’t it take a college degree to learn all about that?
Ping!
Sonic109 aren't you the same person who wrote the following
Time for Obama to rite a really really scolding letter to them . Boy will that scare them. Why is the world so stupid as to keep farting around with these guys in Iran? Don’t they even see they someday may die in one of their nuke blast themselves. No sens of self preservation.
Rite? Sens? %99?
A believe Andy of “The Office” went to Cornell. . .
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as per usual, anything with the word Studies in it's name, isn't worth studying, just as anything with the word Science in it's name isn't science...
**Rite? Sens? %99?**
Which tells you how stupid most in Academia are.
And how PETTY you are.
Oh my,
That is ridiculous.
LOL! I’m glad I checked my pings.
And I PETTY? I merely point out the irony of this braggadocio's comments. How he was “smarted” than everyone else in college. That my good man… is being PETTY. How very petty indeed.
THE ONION SHUTS DOWN: “NO MORE SATIRE POSSIBLE”
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Sadly, laz is right......
bangs head on desk....
arth.....
All colleges have this crap!
From an education major who was smarter than 99% of the other education majors?
And people wonder why homeschoolers homeschool....
Somebody has been drinking untreated Cayuga Lake water again.
Fortunately my college was not that way.
You would not believe how other universities are dumbing down their curriculum to provide cover for the inadequacies of the new affirmative action students. Some of the top law schools in the country no longer teach precedent. They no longer even have lectures in the last two years, it is all on the job training with a mentor who oversees the work and the progress of the students. At the University of WA law school, a student cannot get below a B+ for any class. It's better (or should I say worse?) than a pass/fail system.
Sorry, Bill. If you can’t get to the point before the end of the excerpt, I’m not giving your website a hit to find out what it is.
The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.
Next time, for your benefit, I’ll be sure the topic sentence is moved to the first instead of second paragraph. Should save you oodles of time.
Those look like typos to me, rather than misspellings. I think you are making much out of nothing.
How inhumanity of you! LOL
If it isn't science, engineering, business, or applied arts, it probably isn't worth learning. Even then there is no guarentee one isn't wasting their time.
Well the person went back to college to get a “teaching degree”.
You are right, I am expecting too much.
They’ve gone completely off the rails, there are no standards anymore. Better to get rid of it than find what still matters.
Cornell remains in the Ivy League to keep Brown form looking like the group tard.
” ...who writes, “I was ‘smarted’ than %99 ...”
Someone who can’t type! Or possibly can’t see that well. Or suffered a stroke. You don’t know the circumstances of the poster, so the criticism IS petty. And, for all you know, hurtful. The comments expressed are readily understood, but you have to focus on spelling/typing?
My husband has a four-digit IQ and a few degrees from very prestigious universities. He suffered a stroke 2 years ago, following which his typing skill declined and now includes misspellings that wouldn’t have occurred just a few short years ago. Big deal.
Marilyn vos Savant has the highest ever recorded IQ at 230 There is no such thing as a four digit IQ.
Please... this is embarrassing to watch.
I just found it humorous that a man so ‘smart’ would make soooo many mistakes in all his posts.
Actually I made very little out of it. YOU, on the other hand can’t let it go, can you?
Please... for your sake and the lady married to the “4 digit IQ guy”... quit embarrassing yourselves.
The ‘four digit IQ’ line is commonly used to refer to someone exceptionally bright. It’s clear you don’t run in those circles and have to pick on a poster whose spelling/typing you find inferior. If that’s what it takes to make you feel so intelligent and superior, go for it, pathetic as it may be.
For your own edification, it is past time to get out of your parents’ basement and on to the real world.
I can assure you no one with a high IQ says they have a “4 digit IQ”. Not even humorously.
Look madam... the poster BRAGGED how smart he/she while insulting the English language with grammatical errors. What was I to do? So I commented that for someone so bright his writing is atrocious.
True? True.
Yet, I never bragged that I was superior in any way. I merely pointed out the obvious foolhardy way the poster elevated his own stature on so SHAKY a platform.
True? True.
As for living in my parent’s basement I cannot since both are deceased. I do have my own fully furnished basement I could go sit in if that would suit you.
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