"The question is, and mind you in Kansas, How could someone with that attitude ever become chairman of the Department of Religious Studies?"
Every time I think I have a handle on how bad things are at US universities, something happens to show me that I don't know the half of it.
> Every time I think I have a handle on how bad things
> are at US universities, something happens to show me
> that I don't know the half of it.
Some of the KU Schools are at least honestly admitting
that they run scholastic cesspools:
http://www.journalism.ku.edu/school/msnvalues.shtml
Explains what happened to "what, when, where, who ...",
objectivity, fact-checking, grammar, etc., leaving
only "why", and that (usually "Bush's fault") is
now determined prior to the event.