Rice University Offers ‘Afrochemistry’ Class Detailing ‘Inequities in Chemistry’

American Greatness ^ | 11 Jan, 2024 | Eric Lendrum

[Carriage Hill]

Give him a copy of this article... maybe he’ll further revise his Top Picks.

[PLMerite]

“Rice University”

White Rice or Brown Rice?

[Sequoyah101]

Best comment of this thread yet.

[cgbg]

Dr. Johnson needs an AI plagiarism body cavity search.

[dontsteponsnake]

Literally what?

[ro_dreaming]

While not an alumnus, I did work there for a dozen years.

Rice also just hired/promoted its first black university president.

The university also removed the statue to the founder (William Marsh Rice) from the academic quad, and disinterred his remains, due to his “racist” past during the US Civil War in which he made the money that ended up founding the university (after he was murdered by his butler!).

[ro_dreaming]

Surprisingly, Rice athletes graduate in the 95%+ range.

And not just in underwater basket weaving, but real actual degrees.

[pfflier]

“Students will apply chemical tools and analysis to understand Black life in the U.S

We will benefit from their understanding of a kinder gentler meth?

[Brooklyn Attitude]

“Race is not an issue until someone decides to make it an issue.
So of course they do just that.”

If you hire enough diversity you need to have something for them to teach. Hence the rise of Grievance courses that teach victimhood instead of anything useful. I wonder if it counts as a “science” course toward their degree.

My daughter is a faculty member in a science dept at a prestigious university on the Left coast. The school has an agreement with a historically Black college to take interns over the summer to get experience and credit. Two labs in her dept were pressured to take these interns. They both were unable to be complete the most rudimentary tasks without assistance even after being shown how to do them multiple times. Even weighing out materials to make solutions was beyond them. They ended up just hanging out in the lab or cafeteria with their phones and then at the end of the internship had the nerve to ask for recommendations.

[Jane Long]

Ping!

[bgill]

The class has no final exam.

Yep, right there tells it all.

[EVO X]

I suspect Rices’s standards aren’t the same as 40 years ago or even 10 years ago..

[spearmint17]

It’s a troubling sign for the future when people find it hard to tell the difference between parody and reality.

[dfwgator]

People pay $55K tuition per year for this?

[Rockingham]

Google Percy Julian, a successful and brilliant black chemist who in the 50s and 60s was one of the pioneers of the synthesis of steroid hormones, an innovation that has saved many lives. I know this from personal experience. I take a steroid hormone every day to remedy what would otherwise be a fatal adrenal insufficiency.

[scrabblehack]

https://courses.rice.edu/courses/courses/!SWKSCAT.cat?p_action=COURSE&p_term=202420&p_crn=25669

[Uncle Miltie]

Science be raciss!

[maddog55]

The insanity at these institutions has to be from some sort of infectious disease targeting the brains of liberals and dissolves all rational thought.

[EVO X]

Thanks for the leg work...

[ro_dreaming]

When I was hired, it was harder to get a job than it was to be accepted to the student rolls.

Around 13.5% of the student applications were accepted, whereas about 8% of the employee applicants were actually hired.

But, that was almost 20 years ago.

They’ve added two new residences, and increased the freshman class by at least 1,500 since that time.