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Schools compete for thousands of Saudi students
Associated Press AP ^ | August 20 | GARANCE BURKE

Posted on 08/20/2006 5:09:36 PM PDT by PghBaldy

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To: La Enchiladita

Please remove me from your ping list. Thank You.


41 posted on 08/20/2006 7:56:14 PM PDT by rock58seg (A minority of Republican RINO's are making a lot of Republicans look like fools.)
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To: PghBaldy
Back when I was teaching in engineering school I had a number of students from Saudi and Kuwait.

How'd they do?

About how you would expect an 19 year-old to do when all his expenses are paid for by someone else ... they generally slept in and could have phoned in their few accomplishments.

42 posted on 08/20/2006 7:59:44 PM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: rock58seg

No problem. It's only been 3 or more months since I pinged this list ... LOL. You're off the list.



43 posted on 08/20/2006 8:07:43 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Make your choice and save your tears....AM YISRAEL CHAI!)
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To: PghBaldy

The Saudis have a shortage of airline pilots, informed sources report. Gotta train 'em here!.


44 posted on 08/20/2006 8:10:21 PM PDT by Revolting cat! ("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
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To: Cloverfarm
Why don't we show the Saudis how to build their own colleges in their own country?

After all, we taught them how to find and drill the oil.

45 posted on 08/20/2006 8:19:15 PM PDT by Tamar1973 (Don't argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference.)
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To: Will_Zurmacht

Just wait until these young men start dating your American coeds.

Young men from the Middle East have very different ideas as to how to treat women.

Get prepared for some very sad stories. But don't worry about the young ME men getting arrested. They'll be on a plane and heading home before the police report gets filed.

Don't believe me? Talk to university administrators and police in Boston where there are thousands of these guys.


46 posted on 08/20/2006 8:20:39 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: dfwgator
Mark my words, the next big terrorist attack will occur on college campuses.

Yeh..and mix in the leftist professors anti-american cabal and you have a tinderbox for fostering terrorism. Did these students attend madrasas schools in Saudi?

47 posted on 08/20/2006 8:22:43 PM PDT by tflabo (Take authority that's ours)
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To: Last Dakotan

When I taught on university-level business courses, my Saudi students, and my Arab Muslim students in general, cared exactly NOTHING about learning anything except possibly conversational, American-style English. To the best of my knowledge, they just pooped away their days except for spending time acquiring large amounts of consumer goods. They did very poorly yet felt entitled to good grades for no reason at all. Other Muslim students in my classes such as Pakistanis and Bosnian Muslims were often quite good students and cared about learning.


48 posted on 08/20/2006 8:50:58 PM PDT by Irene Adler
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To: ladyjane

Being female myself, that remark chills me. However, since I go to the nearby community college, I feel pretty safe.


49 posted on 08/20/2006 8:53:37 PM PDT by Niuhuru
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To: dfwgator

and football games...


50 posted on 08/20/2006 8:54:12 PM PDT by sit-rep (http://trulineint.com/latestposts.asp)
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To: PghBaldy
One of my friends in college was a Kuwaiti exchange student. He was a cool guy and down-to-earth. You probably wouldn't know he wasn't American unless he told you.

But then again, he was Muslim in name only. He broke pretty much every Islamic rule and made fun of the radical Islamists.
51 posted on 08/20/2006 9:05:42 PM PDT by varyouga (I no longer fear death. I only fear the day when the DUmmies take over.)
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To: Niuhuru

As long as you're not dating them or hanging out with them you're fine.

Just remember, in their country women are not out and about. Women do not get into cars or have coffee with men unless it is with one of their relatives. Women who engage in those behaviors are fair game.


52 posted on 08/20/2006 9:07:42 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: tkathy
Any girls in this?

As many as number of churches open in Saudi Arabia

53 posted on 08/20/2006 9:16:34 PM PDT by A. Pole (" There is no other god but Free Market, and Adam Smith is his prophet ! Bazaar Akbar! ")
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To: stm
Am I reading this wrong? "The Kingdom" had no universities prior to 1957?

Not wrong at all. Within living memory, the Saudis were poor ignorant savage tribesmen living in tents and herding camels. Then the Arab American Oil company came along and found they were sitting on oceans of oil. Now they are rich ignorant savage tribesmen living in palaces and beheading Christians.

-ccm

54 posted on 08/20/2006 9:18:21 PM PDT by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order)
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To: ikka

every spot taken by a foreign student, will be one less American educated. THANK YOU VERY MUCH...

turning America into a third world nation


55 posted on 08/20/2006 9:28:03 PM PDT by television is just wrong (our sympathies are misguided with illegal aliens...)
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To: Dumpster Baby

"If no one else got it, I did. Thanks for a good line! :o)"

I got it too. Still chuckling. Very clever.


56 posted on 08/20/2006 9:39:55 PM PDT by flaglady47
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To: PghBaldy

How many of these colleges are land grant colleges? Are all qualified American students enrolled first?


57 posted on 08/20/2006 10:45:35 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: stm

You read it right. And it is only home to 25,000 students. So we're educating 15,000 of them here. Brilliant!

Le Sorbonne and Oxford: founded in the 12th-century

Harvard: founded in 1636.

King Saud University: founded in 1957. First university in Saudi Arabia.


58 posted on 08/20/2006 11:56:29 PM PDT by CheyennePress
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To: La Enchiladita

Like we don't have enough problems! More burden on security, 15,000 potential on campus jihad recruiters, selling out America to foreigners. We have enough that don't belong here now, what about our kids, what about protecting American culture! FGS, how much does the WH think they can pile on the back of American citizens.


59 posted on 08/21/2006 2:15:10 AM PDT by SeaBiscuit (God Bless America and All who protect and preserve this Great Nation.)
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To: tkathy
Any girls in this? Or are they at home, illiterate, being beaten up??? Yes and more...they're also getting their clitoris's surgically removed. A Sweet Sweet religion that Islam.
60 posted on 08/21/2006 4:13:18 AM PDT by Vaquero ("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
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