Resolved, That Women's Studies is Not a Legitimate Academic Discipline" (Yale to Explode Monday)

Yale Political Union Website ^

[Euro-American Scum]

I competed in a casual 100yd "highpower" match today, with about 50 others. Judging on looks alone, we'd have a large group of partisans capable of really accurate fire from that crew, if the womym ever got uppity. We even had several women in the group.

Roger that. I shoot at a private range not far from where I work. We've got a number of conservachicks who pack some serious heat. All I can say is I would hate to get in their gunsights.

Good fighters if it ever came down to it.

[nickcarraway]

I studied women in college, but I never took women's studies...

Thanks. I needed a sign idea.

No problem, I'd like to see that sign. Some people might be a little angry, though.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

He was spotted by another early morning jogger who followed him and apparently became a witness for the prosecution after the doctor was charged with arson. Oh the self-rightious hue and cry by campus leftists after that incident!

Don't you just hate it when someone tells two-thirds of a good story, then leaves out the conclusion?

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Sounds like Dr. Sommers is going to one of the speakers at one of the debates conducted by the Yale Political Union. The good conservatives of the Party of the Right at the Union usually supply student debaters, and one or two outside celebrity speakers are brought in to take part. Then the members of the Union vote by leaving the hall, which of two exits they take shows how they are voting.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

"The failure to purge the Clintonistas from positions of power in the government will guarantee that Bush is a one-term president."

These people can't be re-assigned to non-damaging positions until their policy making superiors are confirmed by the Senate. So it all comes down to Daschle in the end, once again.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

There are a fair number of right-wing gay guys, especially among libertarians.

Andrew Sullivan is a good example.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

Preparation for a specific job is not the main purpose of a college education.

Not for a liberal arts degree. The classical Greeks and Romans originated the concept, meaning an education to prepare someone to be a free man, able to think for themselves. 'Liberal' coming from Latin 'liber' for 'free'.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

You forgot that we are talking about the type of women with looks that can't even be improved with 100 power beer goggles.

I get the impression that Insensitive Guy comes from the 'paper bag' school of improving inconvenient female appearances.

[Revolting cat!]

Great news. Now let's tackle the other "studies" (name them at own risk you fascist racists!)

[3catsanadog]

Who is Iris???

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

It is my understanding that the President has done everything in his reasonable Copnstitutional power to remove these people, but since they can only be reassigned by their subcabinet official superiors, and since Daschle won't let their replacements be confirmed, the Clinton assignees still are in office.

[ppaul]

YALE DAILY NEWS

GUEST COLUMN | WAYNE HSIEH

Leftist professors blinded by ideology in terrorism debate

As a Yale College graduate in the Class of 2000 and a second-year graduate student in history at the University of Virginia, I have found the undergraduate response to our current crisis heartening. Many undergraduates have vocally supported the war effort in these pages, and I have heard that a solid, if silent, majority of the College realizes that terrorism must be crushed.

But I am dismayed by the faculty's reaction, a reaction that reflects the makeup of America's academic elite. For the last 30 years, the far left has dominated academic life in American universities, especially in the humanities. Conservatives too frequently portray the academic left as being more monolithically malignant than it truly is, but the hegemony of the left has had a deleterious affect on our universities.

And these elites have now started to lecture Americans about the evils of their country and the legitimate grievances of murderous terrorists.

Professors Donald Kagan and Steven Smith have, in these very pages, rebutted these sorts of arguments with more ability than I could ever muster, and I have nothing to add to their cogent arguments.

Instead, I hope to address those undergraduates who already recognize the merit of those arguments and who may be considering academia as a profession. Those undergraduates may feel the need to respond to their country's call, to recognize that patriotism is not a sin, and to realize that love of country is nothing to be ashamed of.

I am sure that many well-educated academics will laugh and snicker at that statement. I say to them:

Laugh all you want. Marx and Foucault may be your heroes, but I prefer older, nobler and more beautiful allegiances. Abraham Lincoln once remarked that Henry Clay "loved his country partly because it was his own country, but mostly because it was a free country." To love America is to love its noblest ideals, not some abstract political entity.

My parents brought me to this country as an infant when our native Taiwan was still ruled by an authoritarian one-party regime. They built a reasonably comfortable life here while their native land prospered and democratized under the protection of the American government.

America has its flaws, but it is easy to forget that this country has been a force for good in the world more often than not. Look at postwar Europe and Japan, at South Korea and Taiwan, at the sad record of totalitarianism in the 20th century, and tell me that America has only been a force for ill.

For those who agree with me, I want to say this:

Please, if the scholar's life fits you, enter the academy and oppose the leftists who disdain America, who fail to realize the privilege of dissent that they can only have in a society such as ours, and who advocate a policy of appeasement to terror in the name of scholarly sophistication. Raise your voice in opposition to the tenured elites who control the terms of scholarly debate.

Be willing to defy the scholarly dogmas of our day. Test our academic culture's commitment to true dissent. This is our task, our duty -- to make sure that someone will stand up for America in her universities.

Our universities are important. They educate many of our future citizens and serve as the guardians of our nation's culture and history. We cannot abandon them to our opponents.

Always remember that good scholarship rises above politics and take heart in this when you feel isolated and exposed. The most intelligent of your ideological foes will respect your work if it shows merit. Remember to do the same with their work and simply ignore all the rest who reject reason. But most importantly, always keep faith in both your convictions and your country.

Link to article HERE

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There's still hope for America, and for Yale.

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[3catsanadog]

Most definitely read Sommers' books. I've read "Who Stole Feminism?" but not the one about the boys. WSF was excellent and she articulated very well what I've suspected about feminism.

Not to change the thread subject, but I also recommend "Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences," by Judith Reisman. His studies were questionable and probably would constitute a criminal act, yet the sexual revolution enthusiasts used them to push for immoral sexual activities in this country. This book will shock you, I guarantee it.

You can get both at Amazon.

[SpookBrat]

Howdy chicklet!! How ya been? I've heard of Kinsey: Crimes and Consequences. I've got a pile of books to read, but I don't see any reason why I can't add a few more.

[3catsanadog]

I am so glad I'm taking up nursing. We don't have time to deal with "studies." We are too focused on taking care of patients.

[Lancey Howard]

...they can only be reassigned by their subcabinet official superiors...

Yes, I have heard this before and my reply is the same - - these rodents should be "reassigned" to a basement somewhere. It would be far better to leave their postions vacant than to have them staffed with mischief-makers. There must be an effort to at least minimize the damage they can do until a way can be found to dump them or chase them away.

[Faith]

Christina Hoff Sommers, an authority on the myths and dangers of feminism has been invited to speak at Yale Monday night. The rest of the article highlights some of her accomplishments. Discussion is focusing on a particular incident in which she was shamefully shouted down by a particular liberal professor and the HHS. (The announcement of Sommers' lecture appears next to her photo.) The thread title is an editorial comment.

[WriteOn]

BWAHAHAHAHAHA. Daddy why am I a loser? You're a victim son.

[WriteOn]

Someone related to Osiris?

[3catsanadog]

Been just fine, thank you! Now where do I know you from?!?