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Posted on 03/12/2011 11:19:08 AM PST by rhema
Critics of CampusReform.org often charge that the "leftist abuses and biases" that it helps students fight back against are imaginary and exist only within the spheres of right-wing extremist imaginations.
The problem with that criticism is that there is often blatent evidence pointing to the contrary.
Take for example the Gustavus Adolphus College (GAC) Gender, Women, and Sexuality (GWS) Studies Department.
You can access Gustavus academic catalog on the Gustavus website gustavus.edu. Click on the academics tab in the upper left and scroll down to the page for the GWS department. When you click on the resources section for the GWS department visitors are provided with a catalog of links.
Although the section titled "what can I do with this major" is yet to be filled out (ironic at all?) below it you'll find access to various feminist organizations.
These links include:
Feminist Majority Foundation
National Organization for Women
National Abortion and Reproduction Rights Action League (NARAL)
Minnesota NARAL
That their directory links to any of these organizations at all might raise the eyebrows of a few individuals, but what should be shocking to all people is the blatant political imbalance and ideological bias of the listed groups.
**Concerned Women for America, the largest grassroots women's organization in America, is not listed on their site.
** Neither Feminists for Life nor the Susan B. Anthony List is listed, while NARAL is a prominently featured link. Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life is nowhere to be found, even though the MN Chapter of NARAL gets prominent coverage as well.
** While Feminist Majority is listed, a person might get the impression that student and campus groups like Network of Enlightened Women or other organizations that could be planted by the Leadership Institute's Campus Leadership Program don't even exist at all.
You'll see in the photos below too that a blog for the POL285 Sex, Power, and Politics Class includes even more links with an equally stunning political and ideological imbalance with links to organizations like the Guttmacher Institute.
This all suggests of course that this department and its courses acts merely to transform students into activists for the causes that the professors believe in.
The cliche criticism of academia is that too often it teaches students "what to think" instead of teaching young people "how to think." Unfortunately, this department at Gustavus Adolphus College is merely an illustration of how that cliche is true.
Want to help break Gustavus' fortress of political orthodoxy? Email or phone the GWS Department Chair and website manager to demand that the resources section of their course catalog be inclusive of diverse viewpoints instead of inclusive and narrow.
Peg O'Connor 507-933-7573. (GWS Contact Person listed on website)
Elizabeth Baer 507-933-7324. (GWS Chair listed on website)
As my hometown is near GAC, I briefly considered attending there. Very briefly.
And Women's Studies is far from the only useless, politically correct major at universities these days. They all have one thing in common -- demonizing straight white males and America's founding principles.
“Although the section titled “what can I do with this [Women’s Studies] major” is yet to be filled out (ironic at all?) below it you’ll find access to various feminist organizations.”
1. ROTFLMAO.
2. You know, there was a time when women would go to college to find a man with a good future. Given that there are now more women than men in college, among other things, this certainly is no longer true: but I, for one, will tell you that if this was the answer to “whatcher major”, I would run, not walk, from even a drop dead 10. Of course, that is assuming that they would actually be interested in a man, which is probably an erroneous assumption.
3. Because I’m not even sure that the most rabid liberal parents would actually PAY for this type of...uhhh...”education”, I assume that either (a.) Women who take these courses are wealthy enough at 18 to pay for this themselves, darned unlikely, or (b.) They are getting government loans, which means, that we are paying for it.
“Women’s Studies.”
Trite, superficial, ideological and certainly NOT scholarly in the traditional and clearly authentic understanding of “academia.”
Yes, I’m a woman.
Yes, I’m an educator.
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>“Women’s Studies.”
...if you’re a teen-aged male, isn’t this called High School?
;)
A friend of mine, who I hadn’t talked to in some time, told him his daughter was attending college (sorry, I don’t which one. When I asked about her major, the answer was women’s studies. I asked him why he was paying for her to go to college to earn a degree that would not enable her to at least feed herself, and he had no answer.
It seems to be that colleges and universities were a place where scientific innovation occurred and there were a plethora of difference ideas. Most of the degrees being conferred these days will not train or prepare most of the attendees to compete in the real world and so we’re stuck with a large of degreed incompetents.
For the record, I hold two Bachelor’s degrees, one of them summa cum laude and an MBA and I do manage to feed myself.
“Although the section titled “what can I do with this [Women’s Studies] major” is yet to be filled out ...”
I’m pretty sure that section can be answered in five words.
...if you’re a teen-aged male, isn’t this called High School?
;)
If you're a doctor, it's gynecology.
Over 40 years ago when I was an undergraduate I noted something new in the course catalogs that were neither social science or history. These were called ‘area’ or ‘regional’ studies. I think Harvard pioneered the concept which consisted of combining an overview of the history of related nations and cultures along with an examination of the religions and social orders of the same. Reischauer and Fairbanks nominally started this with their ‘East Asia’ survey course. The first major outgrowth of this was something called ‘American Studies’ which seemed to really be a combination of social history and sociology. All of these starting out in the 60’s were interesting and the products I saw as an undergraduate seemed scholarly and gave some new perspectives on subjects such as the development of urban elites or the relationship suburbanization to changes in urban structures.
Unfortunately the messianic left in their long march through the institutions soon tumbled to the utility of such amorphous vehicles for their own ends, which was politicizing academia and revolutionizing the larger culture from within.
‘Black Studies’ appeared on the scene and seemed mostly a vehicle for hate spewing, victomology propaganda, and racists rhetoric. I realized just how vicious the potential these urban studies held when in a public forum I stated that changing a few words and most of what I heard from Black Studies could easily have been issued by the ‘national Socialist Student League’ in Germany circa 1938 and was confronted by three Black Studies majors who physically threatened me and yelled ‘Racist M-—— F———’ at me. These programs are nothing but agit prop in disguise and can only produce warped intellects who are both incoherently rageful and programmed to see themselves as victims and America as a hellish place run by and largely populated with profoundly corrupt and evil people. In other words the products of ‘ethnic and gender studies’ are ready made enablers or participants in Islamic jihadism.
To wit:
"You want fries with that?"
Only to the extent of the subsidy on interest rates. Where the real harm from government loans comes is from the fact that it permits students to wallow in majors that have no real chance on the return on investment.
Many -- I'll actually say most -- college students see these loans as "free money" because they're infantilized adolescents, kept perpetually from having to concern themselves with what they're going to do after 5 years of partying, protesting, etc. Were loans private only, without the federal guarantees of repayment, the ratio of productive majors to non-substantive majors would radically alter. Lenders would actually bother asking -- is there a realistic likelihood that your studies will yield a return sufficient to repay these loans in a reasonable amount of time.
Remain single.
I was thinking along the lines of sticking something up a certain part of the anatomy.
“They are getting government loans, which means, that we are paying for it.”
“Only to the extent of the subsidy on interest rates. Where the real harm from government loans comes is from the fact that it permits students to wallow in majors that have no real chance on the return on investment. “
Oh, trust me on this...we will pay for it. Do you think that those loans will remain “un-defaultable”?
Yours is much more subtle, much more polite, and much more clever than mine (which would begin with “stick it ...)
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