Posted on 06/02/2004 9:46:33 PM PDT by kattracks
Heh, welcome to Ithica the next target of the divine wrath.
hee hee...
Some day I am going to shock him...
These were stone age people whose "writing" consisted of pictures on rocks and teepees! You could probably cover the whole subject in half an hour. On the other hand, if you could get 3 units of credit with only 30 minutes of class time....
Are they supposing Degenerates exist, like mathematicians theorize about other dimensions?
I think Queer Theory attempts to answer the question: How does an author write a book with only odd pages...?
I once knew a lesbian writer. She wrote a book without any punctuation except periods. I also knew a gay writer. He wrote a book without any punctuation but colons....
Wow. Everyone is an "expert" in "Marxist deconstructivist lesbian post-modernism and queer theory." If it ever gets to the point where they have mathematics professors who are "experts" in "Marxian critical theory and statistics" or "deconstructivism and prime numbers" or "queer theory and fractions," it will be time to burn the whole institution down and replace it with something relatively healthy like a toxic waste dump.
Well, I am glad that Queer Theory cannot yet be proven to be a law (except in MA.) My college English teacher was a card carrying communist and let everyone know it. He was (hold onto your seats) an East German. Notice I did not say East German immigrant, as he was only here on a visa. To make matters worse I had his class on the same day I had a military science class so I was always in uniform. If that wasn't bad enough he had been forced to serve in the East German army and hated everything to do with the military (except of course for its role in advancing the Revolution!) It was an ugly semester.
Homosexual Agenda Ping - Wow, Ithaca the City of Evil is just wound up like a top, isn't it?
The deluge of sewage won't stop.
Note: Parents and Grandparents, think VERY VERY carefully before you send your younguns off to college or university. You may not recognize them when they return.
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This article is almost beyond belief. You just keeping thinking, This has GOT to be the Onion. But it isn't.
bflr
My M.A. adviser was a lesbian, but it played no part in her academic work. She's a leading expert in Chinese rhetoric (and she's not Chinese or even Asian), and was remarkably tolerant of my outspoken conservatism (we're still friends and have stayed in touch).
If 90% of the state universities in the country were shut down and the enormous revenue savings rebated to the taxpayers, wouldn't that be a good thing? And what if state and federal support for private universities were slashed to the bone? And who would seriously contend that any "dumbing down" whatsoever would be detectable in the population? The football and basketball teams would support themselves and isn't that the best part of any university?
The university is a social and cultural phenomenon which has outlived its usefulness.
Essentially identical to developments in the University of Arizona Department of English Literature, only now it's called the Department of Rhetoric. It seems the graduate courses can no longer support the English or literature definition. (sigh)
Ah, geez! Ya see, that's why I hang around here. For the enlightenment. That's funny, Billy...................FRegards
My oldest daughter is a Cornell grad, but she was a business major and an athlete. For sure my younger kids won't be attending that school.
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