There is a precedent for presidents. Interns are a type of student, no?
Posted on 08/23/2006 8:37:40 AM PDT by georgiarat
August 23, 2006 Clemson University (S.C.) freshmen must participate in discussion of a controversial book but won't be punished if personal feelings keep them from reading it, Clemson President Barker said in a campus letter.
"If any of our students feel so strongly about the book that they cannot complete it, that is their decision, and we should not respond in a punitive way," Barker said in a letter to faculty and staff Tuesday.
"However, we should expect them to complete the assignment, which includes attending the discussion and submitting an essay to their Electronic Portfolio online explaining their views on the assignment."
The summer reading assignment selected by faculty--"Truth and Beauty: A Friendship" by Ann Patchett--generated controversy because of some sexual content.
Columbia lawyer Ken Wingate, who is on the state Commission of Higher Education, wrote a letter to Barker objecting to the book.
"Over the top graphic sexual discussions" in the book are "inappropriate for shoving down (students') throats," Wingate told The Greenville News last week. He was traveling and unavailable to respond to Barker's letter Wednesday.
Jan Murdoch, dean of undergraduate studies and chair of the reading selection committee, said faculty members thought the book would stimulate insightful discussion.
Im in a Western Civilization course at UMSL this semester. I have always thought dates were A.D and B.C. Not anymore its CE (common era) and BCE (Before common era). What happened to Anno Domini and Before Christ?? Liberal Academia happened..
I remember one time there was an essay question that required a 3 paragraph answer. I just typed 3 paragraphs of meaningless drivel, complete with real long sentences and everything. Got an A on that paper ( I do not believe anyone even read it, just saw all the long sentences, and counted 3 paragraphs )....maybe if every student with a meaningless assignement like this one just did what I did.........
I died for beauty but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room.
He questioned softly why I failed? "For beauty," I replied. "And I for truth, the two are one; We brethren are," he said.
And so, as kinsmen met a night, We talked between the rooms, Until the moss had reached our lips, And covered up our names.
What they really meant.
There is a precedent for presidents. Interns are a type of student, no?
Typical liberal insanity.....
What defines the start of the "Common Era"? Uhhhhhhh......Christ's birth?
wonder why they couldn't find a book that provides for intellectual stimulation without the sex?
(here comes the answer, folks:)
Because to liberals sexual stimulation trumps everything else.
I mean, what other adult wants to talk about sex with a captive audience of youngsters?
My college did a similar thing a couple of years ago using a book by Barbara Ehrenreich about low wage workers. Naturally, there was no conservative book to counter what old Babs wrote.
I had a discussion about this with the assoc. dean of the faculty and he suggested that any discussion of the Ehrenreich book would be balanced. I asked him: "Are you suggesting that 50% of the faculty voted for George W. Bush in the last election?" His response: Silence.
I think it exceedingly ironic that many liberal arts institutions around the nation are kept alive by very generous donations from many conservative folks.
Too often faculty members forget that the college exists for the students - not for them. No students, no college.
Of course it is ok to force homosexual material down the throats of grade school students...
CE and BCE have been in use since I was in college, which was 1986-90.
Um, no. Interns are workers who usually don't get paid.
Christian Era
Before Christian Era.
I will be writing all of my papers with AD and BC. Screw liberal academia..
I went to Ann Patchett's website and read the excerpt from this book, "Truth and Beauty." I don't know whether it's obscene, or whether it promotes some sort of homosexual agenda, or whether it's just a dull book, but I do know that the brief excerpt contains at least six grammatical errors. Perhaps the professor intended to initiate "a lively debate" on grammar. If so, that "debate" is sorely needed. Don't even get me started on the difference between "it's" and "its."
what is the content about? Since the story is not disclosing it, is it some how another homosexual agenda book?
Brave New World has sex but that is not reviled.
1984 has sex but that is not reviled.
In college, back in the 70's, I turned in a essay from a National Lampoon article and got an A. It was garbage. That proved to me that no one ever reads that junk. Some assistant undergrad student just looks at them and if they looks okay, then you have a A..........
"The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive." --Thomas Sowell
Every time someone uses BCE -just remind them that BCE = Before the CHRISTIAN Era.
and CE = CHRISTIAN Era.
That will get their pinko panties in a knot up their .....
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