[Cicero]

Ah. Yes. I hadn't heard about that summer program, but it doesn't entirely surprise me.

NYU is awash with LGBT and other gender-bending stuff. But if you sign up for a course on that sort of swill, you deserve what you get.

Probably the source of this is my colleage Carolyn Dinshaw. Here's a link to her sex and gender institute, which is worth a look:

http://www.ncrw.org/digest/nyu.htm

Here's just one of their upcoming items:

Tuesday, March 4, 2003, 12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
CREATING A QUEER VISION OF ISLAM Rusmir Music (Draper Program, NYU) and Faisal Alam (Founder & Director, Al-Fatiha) A presentation on the complex relationship of Islam and homosexuality, the history of the queer Muslim movement, and issues facing Muslims who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender (LGBT). Co-sponsored by the Office of Student Activities, NYU.

[doug from upland]

That event must have been just lovely.

[jwalburg]

This announcement might cause some interest if posted on the site that the Jersey Coptic Christian family man used to post on.

[AmishDude]

Yeah, mix Islam and gay issues and see what you get, NYU. Just for security purposes, keep it away from me.

The problem with this nonsense is that it satisfies a made-up "diversity requirement" which exists for the purposes of employing more of these professors and bumping up the number of minorites and women. Furthermore, they bring more students to them by having average grades somewhere between an A and an A+.