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This Is Columbia University-the Left’s depraved rule over academia
Frontpagemagazine ^ | April 3, 2013 | David Horowitz

Posted on 04/03/2013 5:28:07 AM PDT by SJackson

What the hiring of convicted killer Kathy Boudin tells us about the Left’s depraved rule over academia.

This article first appeared at National Review Online.

People who ask how it is possible that a convicted killer — a participant in a failed plot to blow up a social dance attended by 18-year-old draftees and their dates; a murderess who abetted the cold-blooded massacre of three law-enforcement officers, including the first African-American on the Nyack police force; a woman whose actions left nine children fatherless and who has shown no genuine remorse for that — should be hired as an adjunct professor at an elite school like Columbia University haven’t been paying attention to what’s happened to our educational system from kindergarten to the university level, which has long been under the academic thumb of a Left that is comfortable supporting Islamic supremacists and anti-American terrorists both at home and abroad. After all, it was at Columbia that, in the wake of 9/11, Professor Nicholas De Genova told 3,000 Columbia protesters against America’s war on terror that he wished for “a million Mogadishus” and that a peaceful world would have no place for America.

The prestige of Columbia derives from its scientific and professional divisions (Social Work and Education excepted), in which traditional standards drawn from the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution and including two sides to controversial questions are still observed. Over the past several decades, the liberal-arts divisions and the aforementioned professional schools have reverted to their religious origins, except that the doctrines being rammed down students’ throats without the benefit of opposing views are Marxist rather than Christian.

Conservatives have been lame in opposing this ominous development. They have abdicated responsibility at the trustee level, they have had little or nothing to say about it at the policy level, and they have been inattentive to it at the political level, despite the fact that 85 percent of college students attend state universities whose curricula and liberal-arts faculties are as monolithic, intellectually deficient, and politically perverse as Columbia’s. For example, a course at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is described in the official catalogue in these exact words: “The goal of this seminar is to learn how to organize a revolution.” The course description goes on to explain that this would be an anti-capitalist revolution. Kathy Boudin would feel right at home there. In fact, her colleagues Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, who organized the terrorist Weather Underground in which Kathy Boudin was a soldier, were not adjunct faculty members like Boudin but full-fledged professors (at Northwestern and the University of Illinois). Ayers, a Columbia graduate, is an iconic figure at Columbia’s Teachers College (a third professional school at Columbia that is an ongoing disgrace) and has edited its series of classroom guides on how to use subjects like Mathematics to teach “social justice” — which, as Ayers understands and articulates it, is indistinguishable from the principles of the Communist gulags that the Cold War disposed of.

But of course it is terribly outré to mention all this, and those of us who do are marginalized not only by the academic profession but by the editorial supporters of political bomb throwers at institutions that function as the arbiters of the intellectual culture — such as the New York Times, which played an active role in securing Boudin’s undeserved release from a federal prison. These are sad times for our country, and the hour is late.


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: billayers; columbia; dohrn; education; indoctrination; kathyboudin; terroristteachers

1 posted on 04/03/2013 5:28:07 AM PDT by SJackson
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To: SJackson

In fairness to Northwestern they should also be credited for employing Arthur Butz, a prominent Holocaust denier for 40 years.


2 posted on 04/03/2013 5:29:23 AM PDT by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: SJackson

Does Columbia University have an elected board of directors or trustees? If so, that’s where the changes need to be made.

Unfortunately races like those are the ones most commonly ignored. We had a chance to put a true tea partier on the University of Michigan board of regents but less than half the Romney voters bothered to vote in that race or the other state level education spots.


3 posted on 04/03/2013 5:33:19 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SJackson

Ping!


4 posted on 04/03/2013 5:33:28 AM PDT by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: SJackson

I thought this piece of detritus was still in prison


5 posted on 04/03/2013 5:37:47 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: SJackson
Kathy Boudin is a spoiled little rich girl who decided she wanted to be a terrorist. She Worked with Ayers and Dohrn in bombing plots and in the killing of innocent people.
she should have been executed for her crimes but she wasn’t.

Ayers and Dorhn and the other terrorists all got academic jobs. All were protected from prosecution.

6 posted on 04/03/2013 5:49:42 AM PDT by detective
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To: SJackson

Columbia aka the Frankfurt School of Behavioralism.Enuff said....


7 posted on 04/03/2013 6:07:53 AM PDT by Thombo2
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To: SJackson

This hiring by Columbia University should be offensive to any decent person. The leftist members of the faculty think they can get away with it because they are “above” us all.


8 posted on 04/03/2013 6:30:03 AM PDT by popdonnelly (The right to self-defense is older than the Constitution.)
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To: SJackson

Birds of a feather flock together.


9 posted on 04/03/2013 6:33:05 AM PDT by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed &water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: SJackson
These academic leftists would have us believe that they hired Ayers, Dorne, Boudin - DESPITE their radical terrorist anti-American activities, and only due to their wonderful academic accomplishments.

That is a lie.

They would be unemployed and unemployable if they were not celebrated ‘counter cultural’ terrorists.

10 posted on 04/03/2013 6:33:12 AM PDT by allmendream (Tea Party did not send GOP to D.C. to negotiate the terms of our surrender to socialism)
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To: SJackson

Take back the schools, and we can take back the country. In the long term, no other objective ought to be more pressing for conservatives.


11 posted on 04/03/2013 6:46:03 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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To: SJackson

How is it that the left managed to hijack academia in the first place? I see nothing at Free Republic but carping about how the press, entertainment media and academia have been taken over by the left and damned little analyses about how this happened. At some point it must be admitted that this constitutes a strategic, if not ultimate, victory for the left. Yes, they kicked our butts in those critical areas and are about to do the same in the economic sphere. How did we manage to lose these battles? Try to man up and formulate your answer free of cliches, evasions and excuses.


12 posted on 04/03/2013 8:03:55 AM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
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To: cripplecreek

Columbia University is private.


13 posted on 04/03/2013 8:07:41 AM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Yollopoliuhqui

You first, sweetie...


14 posted on 04/03/2013 8:10:21 AM PDT by safeasthebanks ("The most rewarding part, was when he gave me my money!" - Dr. Nick)
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To: SJackson

Hey! Columbia University is just a little guy “speaking truth to power” to the elitists at Pacific Coast Bible College! /sarc


15 posted on 04/03/2013 8:12:08 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (Ki-hagoy vehamamlakhah 'asher lo'-ya`avdukh yove'du; vehagoyim charov yecheravu!)
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To: Mr. Lucky
Columbia University is private.

Then I guess the only other option is keep getting the word out that conservative money would be better spent at other schools.
16 posted on 04/03/2013 8:45:27 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Pyro7480; SlowBoat407; cyborg; Rodney King; Piranha; Pitiricus; Seeing More Clearly Now; lancer; ...

Columbia Ping
17 posted on 04/03/2013 10:08:32 AM PDT by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
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12 posted on 4/3/2013 10:03:55 AM by Yollopoliuhqui: “How is it that the left managed to hijack academia in the first place? I see nothing at Free Republic but carping about how the press, entertainment media and academia have been taken over by the left and damned little analyses about how this happened. At some point it must be admitted that this constitutes a strategic, if not ultimate, victory for the left. Yes, they kicked our butts in those critical areas and are about to do the same in the economic sphere. How did we manage to lose these battles? Try to man up and formulate your answer free of cliches, evasions and excuses.”

You are absolutely right.

We can curse the media, academia, Hollywood, and the other major molders of our culture which have been taken over by liberals.

A better solution is to get busy trying to take back what the liberals have stolen by way of cultural influence. That means either creating new colleges, new media, new entertainment venues, new churches, etc., or in the cases where we can retake individual institutions, training young people to go into occupied territory and fight back.

Pacifism and defeatism are both dead wrong.

18 posted on 04/03/2013 11:05:33 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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To: SJackson
University of Massachusetts

School of Education

Department of Student Development (SD)

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Students in social justice education study the inequities that people experience on the basis of their social group memberships, through systems of constraint and advantage reproduced through the social processes of exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence.

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prejudice and discrimination, the dynamics of power and privilege, and interlocking systems of oppression;

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socio-cultural and historical contexts for the Civil Rights Movement and other social liberation movements that found inspiration in it (such as the women's liberation movement, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender rights movements, the disability rights movement, and liberation movements for communities of color);

the interaction of students and families within multicultural schools and communities;

models for designing, delivering and evaluating curriculum-based social justice education;

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19 posted on 04/03/2013 1:27:33 PM PDT by pabianice
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