[ZeitgeistSurfer]

Our adversaries/competitors like China won't be cowed or controlled by PC nonsense as they build their own powerful academic instutions in the sciences and engineering. They will have no problem nurturing their top talent to push past the US who will increasingly have the lead weights of affirmative action and diversity dragging us down. Just another nail in our coffin.

[vetvetdoug]

We have a national holiday for a man that plagiarized a significant portion of his doctoral thesis from Boston College. Any white man would have been stripped of his pH.D. but instead affirmative action has given this man a street named after him in every city in the country and a National Park Monument named for him. Larry Summers would had been left alone had he said some disparaging remarks about those Americans killed 9-11-2001 or attacked President Bush in any way. He still has a chance to come out against Bush, the Republicans and men and save his butt from the Lesbos against Americans.

[guitfiddlist]

Our adversaries/competitors like China won't be cowed or controlled by PC nonsense as they build their own powerful academic instutions in the sciences and engineering. They will have no problem nurturing their top talent to push past the US who will increasingly have the lead weights of affirmative action and diversity dragging us down. Just another nail in our coffin.

when I went to MIT, only about a quarter of the students were women, and now they are up to half. don't remember any fainting professors like Hopkins in the sciences, the female professors were sort of tough and scary as I remember them, and not many. (the humanities professors were a different type.)

Yep. China is hell-bent on technological and economic advancement, and has no time for pig-ignorant PC, even though PC originally came straight from the Little Red Book. Not to say that women are squelched here, at least in Shanghai. Quite the contrary - talent is pushed for being talent, male or female. I've taught business courses containing many female doctors and scientists - and didn't see any signs of put-downs or discrimination, from what I could see. But the men greatly outnumber the women.

Granted I'm in Shanghai - where women have historically have had a lot of power - everybody agrees on this here - men and women - but the idea that talent is used from wherever, seems to be the overriding philosophy in the rapidly advancing technical and commercial sectors of China.

Sad to say that MIT has fallen for the PC crap lately. When I graduated many years ago, MIT seemed to have a much more merit-based philosophy - take the best no matter who and where from (although don't get me started on the BSU). Now, they've fallen prey to social(ist) engineering in their admissions policies. Maybe this MIT-Wellesley exchange thing corrupted the thinking there. However, I do have to admit...I took most of my humanities requirements at Wellesley. :^) -- Course XVI,'81

[Tax-chick]

Interesting point. I read an article recently that mentioned that the number of foreign graduate students in the sciences and engineering is declining. They're getting so they don't need our universities anymore.