Posted on 08/21/2007 1:13:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
Kudos to Hank Brown, president of the University of Colorado, and the CU Board of Regents for doing the right thing and firing Ward Churchill.
Unfortunately, what most riled public opinion about Churchill — the patent disdain for America in his reference to 9/11 victims as "little Eichmanns" — isn't confined to one cultural studies professor with a penchant for academic fraud. Rather, his anti-American comments reflect much of the design and purpose of modern academia.
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
DUKE in a single year — has squandered and put to ruin a reputation which took generations to establish..
I’ve seen NO substantive action since the Lacrosse expose of Duke’s crimes of racist pandering and anti Constitutional rights...
Duke’s alumni must be embarrassed...
I’d rather see them get even....
American colleges and universities must be starved of money in order to destroy the treason taking place there.
The propagandists posing as college professors should be working for minimum wage as day laborers. That is all they are really qualified to do.
They would be tossed into the general labor pool if parents would stop handing over all their money to these lunatics.
The ChiComs had a good idea concerning “intellectuals”: ship them all out to the country to work on pig farms to maintain their connection to the people.
An American variant of this might be that of making a requirment for grad students and professors to work at regular jobs, i.e., flipping burgers and working at Walmart.
Becoming? BECOMING?
When in the last 40 or so years have they NOT been, in general, anti-American???
Colleges have been anti-American for a long time:
The Harvard University administration during the 1930s, led by President James Conant, ignored numerous opportunities to take a principled stand against the Hitler regime and the antisemitic outrages it perpetrated, and contributed to Nazi Germany’s efforts to improve its image in the West. The administration’s lack of concern about Nazi antisemitism was shared by many influential Harvard alumni and students.
A faculty panel that supervised a mock trial of Hitler in 1934 ruled that Hitler’s anti-Jewish actions were “irrelevant” to the debate. Nazi leaders were warmly welcomed to the Harvard campus and invited to prestigious social events, as the Harvard administration strove to build friendly relations with thoroughly Nazified universities in Germany.
http://www.wymaninstitute.org/articles/2004-11-harvard.php
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“becoming”???
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It really is a whole 'nuther language, isn't it?
Universities and Colleges were hijacked by KGB agents long ago. I was shocked to see a movie clip on You Tube which ex-KGB agent claiming it brainwashed Americans through educational institutions. Meanwhile, I think its interesting for CIA to do the opposite against the Chinese, Russians, and the Arabs to convert them to pro-Democracy and nock down their corrupted government.
Parents don’t have any choice in the matter. As long as college is required to get most good jobs, and going to a prestigious college is all-but-required to get the best jobs or in to law, business or medical school, parents will have to pay that tuition if they can afford it.
There is every chance that the upper middle class American lifestyle will become available to fewer people over time, as more jobs are exposed to overseas competition. This will further reduce parents’ luxury of attaching ideological conditions to their children’s education. It’s one thing to choose (say) a Baptist college over Vanderbilt when one can argue that life chances are equivalent for their grads, but quite another if the former significantly increases the risk of being trapped in $15/hour no-benefit jobs.
Why Colleges Are Becoming Anti-American...
because the lib/dems with the lib/dem socialist anti-america agenda indoctrinate!!!!
remember....its for the children!!!
They’ve been anti-American for a very long time now. Atleast when I started our in 1990 and I am sure much, much earlier. They are just so without rule or decency now. Disgusting
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Becoming?
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It is possible to make a lot more than $15/hr and to be capable of providing for your own *benefits* in any of the trades: plumbing/electrician, for example. Medical technician jobs, physical therapy, general accounting all pay more than $15/hr and only need a technical education or perhaps a 4 year general college degree.
I am over 60, did not complete college, have had my own business for for over 40 years and today earn a net over at least double, sometimes more, than the quoted $15/hr. Ditto for my husband. Paying your own health insurance is not that onerous if you take a catastrophic policy, have an HSA and don’t run to the doctor for every sniffle. As it is, anyone with severe medical conditions will be dropped by their insurance at renewal time or have the premium raised too high for even a large employer to pay.
I have watched several friends lose their pensions and retirement health benefits just because the company/union can no longer afford the costs or the company goes belly up and the pension is reassigned to a government agency.
It is a myth that an elite university is essential to a decent lifestyle. We have lived on our own, self-employed, for over 40 years. We are 3 1/2 years away from being free and clear on our property ( a very small payment for a construction/remodeling loan), have assets, savings, investments, all of which could be wiped out in a financial downturn, just like that of everyone else, regardless of what sort of degree someone may have. The only real security is the ability to take care of yourself and the real means of production are your own two hands, your brain and your energy.
Parents and children have choices, but they take some creativity and some acceptance of obvious risk rather than ignoring the inherent risk present in working for any boss/corporation or in any profession. Doctors and lawyers can get way over their heads financially, just like anyone else. We have way too many lawyers, as it is and as one MBA once told me, that degree allows someone to run any business, but not necessarily to start one.
Of course, there is always government as the secure employer of last resort. One thing we have noticed in our travels, especially in the developing nations, is that government employees outnumber all others. In exchange for the security, one gives up a lot of personal freedom and integrity. I have relatives in very liberal places who work for city or state governments, but who have absolutely no idea how to perform even the simplest maintenance of their home/car/possessions. Their good health insurance does not necessarily mean good health and while their benefits are contractual, there are always ways for an employer to get around paying everything that was promised.
You can’t be serious. You are endorsing a ChiCom practice that was a mainstay of the Cultural Revolution?
Do you realize that the Chinese college professors were persecuted because they were often less radical, and in fact sometimes downright conservative, compared to the Maoist communists?
By the way, a lot of graduate students have regular jobs. I did when I was a graduate student.
Forcing a heavy-handed program of government decreed indoctrination on them is EXACTLY what the communists would do. Way to go siding with the communist scum, buddy.
Instead, encourage better universities: Thomas Aquinas College, Christendom, Ave Maria University, Patrick Henry, Hillsdale, etc. Insist on Horowitz’ free speach/bill of rights proposals.
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