Diversity proposal roils university (U of Oregon)

Associated Press ^ | 5/27/05 | Julia Silverman

[freespirited]

Just amazing. Our tax dollars pay bureaucrats who propose that students and faculty be evaluated by any criteria *but* academic competence.

[LibFreeOrDie]

Colleges are quickly becoming Soviet/Maoist re-education camps. Even the concept of a 5-year plan is straight out of Soviet central planning.

[freespirited]

Here is the actual plan:

http://vpdiversity.uoregon.edu/diversity_plan_draft.pdf

[Horatio Gates]

Good diversity:

[lilylangtree]

Good grief!

[AlaskaErik]

How about more political diversity? Republicans/conservatives are extremely underepresented on college campuses.

[investigateworld]

I can see this happening very easily. Remember during the last crunch in the state budget, they were hiring recreation directors for the prison and laying off portions of our State Police.

[Dead Dog]

We need to simply cut them off, let them fend for themselves in the private sector.

[Rodney King]

We need to simply cut them off, let them fend for themselves in the private sector.

I agree, although it will such having the streets clutered with ex-professors panhandling.

[sgtbono2002]

Reading-Riting and Rithmetic have been replaced by Racism, Homosexuality and Penis Envy.

How will any of these courses help an engineer from letting a building fall down or a doctor to replace a heart valve.

[mollynme]

administration's diversity staff

Code for tutors for students who wouldn't have been able to to get into the U if not for diversity programs???

[SIDENET]

Gay Studies?

What the hell would the "lab" requirement be?

Never mind.

[GladesGuru]

So the flagship public university campus in Oregon wants a College of Queerdom?

Didn't we hear this one before when a list of 45 Communist goals was read into the Congressional Record? And wasn't one of those goals to make homosexual behavior a part of the academic curriculum?

[bray]

Everyone should check the Homosexual question yes. How are they going to prove you aren't??? My Alma Mater is nuts.

Pray for W and Our Troops

[Dead Dog]

That's fine, then us conservatives can poke them with sharp sticks, and play kick the can with their half consumed bottles of Mad Dog 20/20. :)

Sure beats paying them so much that they can clutter Hendricks Park and SpyGlass and drinking martinis.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

150 people rallied to protest alleged racial discrimination and harassment at the school's highly ranked College of Education.

And we all know what hotbeds of right-wing reactionary thought are colleges of education. I guess anything short of full-blown Maoism is suspect for the leaders of this cultural revolution.

[RetiredArmy]

Academics means nothing to the liberals. It is all about diversity, sex, homosexuals, minorities, lying, cheating, stealing, slandering, malingering, misusing, hating, misleading, plundering. Academics has nothing to do with it. They could give a rats butt if your kid can read or write. They just tell them which leaver to pull to get those free hand outs.

[DeFault User]

I speak jive!

[Bigh4u2]

Why should sexual preference be a 'diversity' subject in any school?

Does that mean heterosexual students can start their own 'diversity' program and get credit for it?

Sexual studies of any kind should not be in school.

Sex between two people has always been and should always be PRIVATE!


I'm really getting tired of the gay crap being thrown in our faces.

[American Quilter]

(gasp) My alma mater!!! I'm so embarrassed.

Not really surprised, though. When I attended in the 70s, the U of O was reknowned as a liberal party school. During my freshman year, some wacko set off a bomb in the Administration building. Fortunately it was at night and no one was hurt. There were anti-ROTC demonstrations every spring.

As an aside, it was also the setting for Faber College in "Animal House" in 1978--our moment of fame!