Aznar will be adjunct professor in Georgetown

EL MUNDO ^ | 2004/04/05

[Dubya's fan]

Spanish President Aznar will be auxiliar proffesor in Georgetown about European policies and Transatlantic relations. He received the Golden Medal of Georgetown in January. His courses will be held two times every six months.

[sarasota]

Is this for real??

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[leadpenny]

I hope C-SPAN will cover his lectures. Seems ready made.

[Dubya's fan]

He will be auxiliar proffesor the next course since the next fall

[The G Man]

[Dubya's fan]

"I'm looking forward to this opportunity in the Georgetown University. It will be a privilege to me joining the staff of this internationally important institution in the areas of international relations and political studies", Aznar said in a communicate of the University.

[StriperSniper]

Smart move, why be there when the socialist turns the country over to the Jihadi.

[Bismarck]

Not only has Aznar conducted an appropiate foreign policy, he also masterminded Spain's economic recovery.

[Dubya's fan]

Yes

[Hibernius Druid]

Are the Jesuits offering such teaching appointments to conservatives?

[bogdanPolska12]

Dubya post original link to article. I know is in Spanish, but moderators would like to see link source. And also would help others.

Gracias Amigo
Bogdan

[Unam Sanctam]

Curiouser and curiouser, and to think Georgetown is hiring a Catholic as well -- remember how Cardinal Arinze was greeted at Georgetown for daring to speaking up for the Church's teaching on homosexuality.

[republicanwizard]

Pienso de Aznar como el heroe moderno de Espana! Un nuevo El Cid!

[republicanwizard]

Decimos que es un chiste?

[SuziQ]

Not only has Aznar conducted an appropiate foreign policy, he also masterminded Spain's economic recovery.

At least those students will be taught by someone who has acutally DONE the work rather than just read books and done research about it.

[Hibernius Druid]

Hope springs eternal, eh what?

[rhombus]

Good idea to get out of Spain now that the Socialists have handed it back to Islamofascists.

[usflagwaver]

I want to know when he will join the lecture circuit. I want to support these brave statesmen. If anything happens to Tony Blair, I hope he comes here too.

[livius]

Yes, it's for real. It's all over the Spanish press.

Good news! Good for Georgetown! The university's foreign affairs program is rightly well known, and this will certainly be a plus.

[republicanwizard]

Hope Springs Eternal in the Human Breast
Man never is, but always to be blest.

Alexander Pope

[John Jorsett]

Dubya post original link to article. I know is in Spanish, but moderators would like to see link source. And also would help others.

Original Article

Google Translation

[bogdanPolska12]

Aznar será el próximo curso profesor asociado en Georgetown

MADRID.- El presidente del Gobierno en funciones, José María Aznar, será durante el próximo curso profesor asociado de la Universidad de Georgetown, según han anunciado fuentes de la Presidencia del Gobierno.
Aznar se incorporará el próximo otoño e impartirá seminarios sobre política europea contemporánea y relaciones trasatlánticas, según ha precisado el centro universitario.
Los cursos tendrán lugar dos veces por semestre y estarán destinados a estudiantes y licenciados del Centro Mortara de Estudios Internacionales de la Universidad, el Centro BMW de Estudios Alemanes y Europeos y el Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos. Además, liderará coloquios públicos sobre asuntos que preocupan al mundo contemporáneo, precisa el centro.
"Espero con impaciencia esta oportunidad en la Universidad de Georgetown. Será un privilegio para mi unirme al profesorado de esta institución de talla mundial en los campos de relaciones internacionales y estudios políticos", declaró Aznar, según un comunicado difundido por la universidad.
El presidente de la institución, John J. DeGioa, subrayó que la presencia de Aznar como profesor en el campus "realzará el trabajo" de alumnos y profesores "de manera inestimable". "Tener a un ex jefe de Gobierno tan distinguido en nuestra comunidad refuerza la tradición de Georgetown de compromiso intelectual en asuntos mundiales cruciales", añadió.
En su comunicado, se refiere a Aznar como un "exitoso abogado e inspector de Hacienda", elegido presidente del Gobierno en 1996 y reelegido "abrumadoramente" en 2000. Durante su mandato, añade, desempeñó un "papel central en dar forma a la moderna alianza económica, comercial y de seguridad que es la Unión Europea".
Agrega que durante los ocho años que dirigió el Gobierno la economía española "disfrutó del periodo de crecimiento más largo de su historia reciente", con la creación de cuatro millones de puestos de trabajo. Aznar, continúa, "afrontó cuestiones significativas de autonomía regional" y aceptó el nombramiento de un enviado para Oriente Próximo -en referencia a Miguel Angel Moratinos, ex enviado de la UE en la región y próximo ministro de Exteriores-.
El todavía presidente recibió el pasado 14 de enero la medalla de esta universidad, en reconocimiento a su trabajo en favor de las relaciones entre España y Estados Unidos.

Gracias – translation here in English

Aznar will be the next course professor associated in Georgetown MADRID. - The president of the Government in functions, Jose Maria Aznar, will be on next course associated professor of the University of Georgetown, according to announcement made by Presidency of the Government.
Aznar will get up the next autumn and will distribute seminaries on contemporary European policy and transatlantic relations, according to the university center.
The courses will take place by semester twice and will be destined for students and lawyers of the Mortara Center of International Studies of the University, Center BMW of Studies European Germans and the Latin American Training center.
In addition, it will lead colloquies public on subjects that worry to the contemporary world, which focus on needs of their center. "I wait for this with impatience. Opportunity at the University of Georgetown is amazing and great.
It will be my privilege to unite me to the teaching staff of this great institution of world-wide stature in the fields of international relations and political studies”
I hope that helps.

Bogdan.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

I'm glad to hear this. He will be an asset to Georgetown.

[vooch]

Are the Jesuits offering such teaching appointments to conservatives?

been doing so at GU for decades...........

GU has been a stronghold of conservative values for a very long time. Sure there are a few commies there, but the overwhelming majority of Profs & Students are seriously conservative

Circa 1978-79 a large group of Leftie & Iranian Pro-Kohmeni (sp ?) protesters approached the Univeristy gates from the outside chanting the usual anti-US slogans. They apparently wanted the undergrads to welcome them onto campus and join them in a massive anti-US/CIA/etc protest.

About 200 students, who were otherwise hanging out on the lawn, walked up to the gates barring the protesters entrance and started singing "God Bless America".

The protesters were stunned (I'll never forget the looks on their pathetic faces). They shut up and walked away totaled humbled, never to be seen again.

That spirit is alive and well at GU today.

[Hibernius Druid]

That's good to hear. Guess they make more room for conservatives in their political science department than they do in theology (or should I say "religious studies"?).

[vooch]

still called Theology and the Jebbies at GU didn't spout any muddleheaded Liberation nonsense, although they did preach thoughtful retrospection. One of the Berrigan bros came and gave a speech and the Jebbies always put Ceasar Chavez up when he came into DC.......but the intro courses used what are considered horribly conservative thinkers: Teilhard D'Chardin(sp?), Reinhold Niehbur (sp?), and Ortega Y Gassat.

Some Profs at the time were Jan Karski (google him for a compelling story of a Polish Freedom fighter), Jeane Kirkpatrick (Regan's UN Ambassador who made Thatcher look like a wuss), and a WWII Col. (whose name is best left unsaid) who came into class the day the US Embassy was seized in Teheran muttering under his breath something about camel jockeys & making Eye-ran one big glass parking lot.

[cyncooper]

Ping!

[Hibernius Druid]

Guess I've been taking Theological Studies as representative of Jeuits in general. Some far-out articles in their flagship theological journal, to which I've subscribed for over twenty years.

[solo gringo]

President Aznar is a great addition to Georgetown.He has a lot to offer.We welcome him to America and wish him the best.

[vooch]

suspect the heirs to the Berrigans, etc run the magazine

[useless]

Students will have lots of fun. Aznar's English is barely good enough for kindergarden