Still DREAMing of Entitlements

Accuracy in Academia ^ | January 11, 2011 | Malcolm A. Kline

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Although the U. S. Senate voted down the federal government’s latest attempt to expand government entitlements, academics remain just as adamantly for it.

On December 18, 2010, as we reported, the U. S. Senate voted down the Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act. Last week, the radical caucus of the Modern Language Association (MLA) voted for it, as our correspondent on the scene at their Los Angeles confab—Allie Duzett—discovered.

“Whereas the U. S. Senate voted down the ‘Dream Act,’ which would have granted undocumented students in high schools legal status by attending college, thus depriving them of paths to citizenship and tuition assistance,” the resolution reads. “Be it resolved that the MLA support the efforts of undocumented students seeking paths to legal status.”

The resolution was introduced by Barbara Foley, an old favorite of Accuracy in Academia. “The head of the MLA’s Red Caucus, Foley teaches American Literature as well as ‘the occasional course in Marxist theory’ at Rutgers,” Bethany Stotts wrote in a dispatch from the MLA in 2009, so beware if her Am Lit course shows up in a roster of Western Civilization courses.