Posted on 01/05/2009 10:11:44 AM PST by bs9021
Academia Nuts Outed
by: Malcolm A. Kline, January 05, 2009
With three semesters gone, the list of dubious academic achievements of 2008 is a long one but we will try to whittle it down to:
Lionizing Weather Underground terrorist Bill Ayers, himself a tenured professor on, among other outlets, the website supportbillayers.org;
Demanding a federal bailout by the U. S. Congress, the outgoing Bush Administration, the incoming Obama government or any combination of the above while sitting on billion-dollar endowments;
Insisting on academic freedom for professors while their students fail to answer basic historical questions;
Denying political biases while using class time to get out the vote for Barack Obama;
Annual productions of The Vagina Monologues that claim to elevate women while reducing them to body parts;
Playing the Race Card while still failing to attract black students, leading to, concurrently, an explosion in courses on racial studies and increasingly urgent pleas to boost minority enrollment;
Birthing plots to bankrupt the nation financially, politically and culturallyfrom federal bailouts to UN programs and treaties to laws that grant homosexuals the same privileges that married couples enjoy;
Pushing for nationalized health care despite the well-documented failure of same;
Maintaining the fiction of global warming in the face of plummeting temperatures; and
Turning prime academic real estate over to radical Islamic groups under the guise of tolerance....
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreportonline.net ...
How long before we have Crystal Night?
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