Voluntary, Not Mandatory, Indoctrination

Campus Report ^ | April 17, 2008 | Bethany Stotts

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Voluntary, Not Mandatory, Indoctrination

by: Bethany Stotts, April 17, 2008

The University of Delaware is considering a revival of its controversial residence life program, confirming Accuracy in Academia’s suspicions that President Patrick Harker’s halt to the program was a result of the media coverage rather than remorse over the curriculum content.

Indeed, President Harker argued in his letter to the community that he was upset “that the actual purpose [of the program] is not being fulfilled,” but that he still promotes residence life programs which “support the intellectual, cultural and ethical development of our students.”

President Harker later referred the issue to the Faculty Senate for review.

In March, the Student Life Committee of the Faculty Senate recommended some key changes for reissued program. According to the Wilmington News-Journal, these include:

• “Use the term ‘Residence Life program’ instead of ‘curriculum’;”

• “Make it clear that participation in all Residence Life programs is voluntary;”

• “Revise learning outcomes, goals, and implementation related to Residence Life, while continuing to provide learning opportunities related to study habits, personal development, citizenship, community, sustainability, and diversity.” (emphasis added);

• The “opportunity” for annual reviews by the Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate President Alan Fox, a Philosophy professor at UD, explained to AIA what the emphasis on “citizenship” activities meant. “By citizenship I mean those activities which stress strategies for living in complex societies, programs centered around presidential campaigns and the need to participate in the mechanisms of democracy, etc. A full list will be available once the program is posted on the web for senators to examine, which should be soon,” he writes.

He also explained the timetable surrounding the program’s relaunch....

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President Patrick Harker=fascist

[MuttTheHoople]

I have one major complaint about the protesting against protesting this indoctrination...what are the parents doing to raise good kids who could subvert this sort of brainwashing?

I'm giving my kids a good, fundamental grounding in Christianity as well as conservative political thought. I know that, if they should choose to go to some Leftist college, they'll be able to hold their own against the brainwashing going on.

We talk about our kids getting brainwashed like they're helpless wimps. Give them the proper grounding needed, and believe me, you can actually have fun subverting those old '60's dinosaurs. Oh well, conservative groups gotta get money somehow....(sigh)

[ccmay]

Use the term ‘Residence Life program’ instead of ‘curriculum’

If you recall, the term they were actually using was 'treatment', as applied to dissidents in Soviet psychiatric hospitals.

Let's not let these devils have a moment's peace if they try to sneak their Orwellian brainwashing back onto the campus.

-ccm