[spokeshave]

Ha...make them all take gender/woman's/feminist/trans-gender/LBGT/hermaphrodite/studies.

[allendale]

Interesting and appropriate policy from a liberal campus. Somewhat unexpected. Wonder who initiated the policy and why?

[alloysteel]

Question: How are these “students” from Iran gaining access to college campuses in the territory once known as “the United States of America”?

Is there a back door to obtaining visas to come to this territory that does not involve going through an embassy? I had thought the US no longer maintained an embassy in Iran.

Maybe with open borders visas are no longer necessary. Wish I could visit a country like that, but there is only one, and I am already there.

[boycott]

Why do they have to come over here anyway? We really don’t want them. And can’t those knuckle-dragging Neanderthals build their own schools?

[vette6387]

But UMass has a new Masters Program in the Manufacture and Deployment of IEDs and Suicide Belts.

[familyop]

Well, it’s about time. Good policy from one university out of many so far.

[Reverend Saltine]

Wow, where is CAIR when you need them??? I mean here’s a hate crime and Islamophobia, and Muslimophobia, and nuclearophobia and Iraniophobia all rolled into one extremist right wing homophobic, Sarah Palin PACKAGE!!!!

[VTenigma]

U Mass has a science program? Who knew? Unless you call Wymons lesbian carpet studies science.

[June2]

I was in engineering school in the early 80’s. Many Iranians in attendance even though the Iranian Hostage crisis was still fresh in our memories.
In one class, a fellow in front of me dropped his books and out came a picture of the Ayotolla Khomeni (sp?). He quickly picked it up.

A year or so later, I’m a TA for a large class. Several students (Iranian) are obviously cheating during a test and I bring it to the attention of the professor. He thanks me but ignores the cheating.

[bert]

does umass have engineering degrees?

[ladyrustic]

Follow the money: The only reason I can imagine that uber liberal UMass would do such a thing is that there is a funding source that hinges on it. Maybe some defense department contracts are at risk because of the presence of Iranians in the engineering department, or something like that.

[SunkenCiv]

UMass Amherst Reverses Decision to Ban Iranian Students
http://freebeacon.com/issues/umass-amherst-reverses-decision-to-ban-iranian-students/

[taildragger]

In the late 70's the hot set up was to go to STCC ( Springfield Technical Community College In Springfield MA ) and Transfer to UMass to save $, start in Pre-Engineering @ STCC. Many engineering students did it. Including the Iranian ones at STCC, they had a boat load of them. One day during the Iranian hostage Crisis, they decided to protest the US and go from STCC down State Street in a protest in the middle of the Street. That went over like a loud fart in church, and it made national news if my memory is correct.

BTW, the seem to have some sort of high end physics and "experimental" program...

hmmm.... What Obama connections are tied to UMass?...

http://www.physics.umass.edu/

http://www.physics.umass.edu/