Posted on 02/23/2006 7:30:24 AM PST by Born Conservative
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What has happened to my Alma Mater?
Funny, I didn't see any mention of this letter in my PSU Alumni magazine. Great post--I love Mike Adams.
I'm not sure I can tolerate tolerance much longer. It's too hard to know what to tolerate.
Were those policies authord by Trey Parker and Matt Stone?
BTW, Is PSU still holding the "C**T Festival" up there in Happy Valley?
I've thought this for a long time. US universities have become a fall back position for the radical left - where all the 60's idealists decided to park their useless rears and enjoy a nice cushy jobs, free from the realities of the working world.
These types of professors have killed the learning process right at the root - critical thinking. They consistently have the left bent conclusion they want to arrive at and then gather up data around them to support their conclusion. They vehemently oppose other potential ideas even if they may have been arrived at through unbiased observation and testing. They aren't teaching students how to learn, instead they are force-feeding ideas from one particular viewpoint. They are complete and utter failures at teaching and equipping our youth with critical thinking skills, which has done this country a great disservice.
What these types of professors don't seem to grasp is that Academia is not the real world, it's a vacuum where idealistic scenarios can exist on paper and chalkboards. Their students won't have the same luxury of remaining there in that vacuum and collecting a salary. They'll be heading out to the real world, complete with it's survival of the fittest, uber-competitive pressures. A place where idealistic theories break down and yield to practical and realistic solutions that work. There's the way we'd like the world to be, and there's the way it is - to confuse the two when trying to achieve results is committing to failure.
The University of Michigan Code from the late 1980's turned me from a foaming-at-the-mouth-neo-marxist-liberal to the uber-conservative I am today!
Conservatives are created everyday because of these codes.
What's the chance of the word 'uber' showing up in the same thead?
Maybe Conservatives are Nazi's at heart???
(just kiddin')
Actual quote byDr. Kathleen Dixon, the Director of Women's Studies, Bowling Green State University
Double-uber, or uber-duece?
So many of these univ presidents are such reprehensible a$$holes.
Another Nittany Lion here. Penn State used to be a relatively conservative, or at least non-radical, school not that many years ago. It's so disheartening that any political news I hear from Happy Valley these days is standard leftist political correctness. I am writing to Spanier to express my displeasure, and to connect that displeasure with future contributions to the University. Fortunately, much of the student body at Penn State appears to remain relatively normal. Must be the Paterno influence.
You are missing the point. The collegiate types want their charges to get out into the competitive world, experience it, then start The Revolution when they find out the real world is not anything like what they learned about in college.
...it's too bad the paper wasn't saying it about muslims...
Reminds me of:
"But you can't hold a whole fraternity responsible for the behavior of a few sick, perverted individuals.
If you do, shouldn't we blame the whole fraternity system?
And if the whole fraternity system is guilty, then isn't this an indictment of our educational institutions in general?
I put it to you, Greg. Isn't this an indictment of our entire American society?
Well, you can do what you want to us, but we won't sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America!"
My son is a freshman up there this year. He said there are still quite a number of conservatives at the school. A lot of this year's freshmen were H.S. freshmen on 9/11 and have very pro-Bush, pro-WOT views.
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