Posted on 07/09/2005 11:18:37 AM PDT by nwrep
I am starting a new monthly series on Freerepublic.com titled "Treason on Campus." This will profile a new US Professor each month, and give a description of the classes they teach, their governing philosophy, examples of anti-Americanism, and any other relevant information I can dig up.
This series is intended to inform and educate readers about the socio-political propaganda carried out on American campuses under the guise of education, and help equip them to counter such destructive influences.
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Amanda Byron, Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution
For the first installment in this series, I have chosen Portland State University (Portland, Ore.) Professor Amanda Byron, a faculty member of the "Conflict Resolution Graduate Program" at PSU.
Among the courses she teaches are the following:
Introduction to Conflict Resolution
Enmification: The Art and Consequence of Enemy Making
Facilitation
Restorative Justice
Of these, the curiously titled course "Enmification" deserves some attention. Here is the course description from her website:
Enmification
The Art and Consequence of Enemy Making
Course Description: This one credit course will explore the United States’ fascination with the making of enemies. We will consider the various influences that contribute to a climate of ready hatred, considering the many political, social and economic motivations, as well as their ramifications.
Suggested Reading/Viewing:
Blazemore G. and Schiff, M. (2001). Restorative Community Justice: Repairing Harm and Transforming Communities. Cincinnati OH: Anderson Publishing.
Keen, Sam (1986). Faces of the Enemy: Reflection of the Hostile Imagination. San Francisco: Harper and Row.
Moyers, Bill (2004). Beyond Hate [Television Broadcast]. Washington, DC: PBS.
Reiber, Robert W. (1991). The Psychology of War and Peace: The Image of the Enemy. New York, NY: Plenum Press.
Zehr, H. (2002). The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Intercourse PA: Good Books.
Ms. Byron describes her personal influences and philosophies in an autobiographical section on her website. Excerpts follow:
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Autobiography
Growing up in atheistic household, I am always amused at how spiritually I define myself, and how diverse the spiritual influences of my childhood truly were. My mother is a secular Jew who came to the United States with her family, refugees from Germany during the Holocaust. My father grew up in the Methodist Church in Texas, but was greatly influenced by his Catholic Mother, and self identified as an athiest. My step-father is a practicing Buddhist, with Taoist leanings. I have chosen the Sufi path, on which I have been walking for over a dozen years. The initial lure of this path was the ecumenical nature of it, including practices from all of the world's traditions as an acknowledgement of the unity of all religious and spiritual ideals. I married a fellow Sufi, who grew up in the Unitarian Universalist Church studying Norse Mythology, and who has subsequently become a Muslim. When our son was born a year ago I discovered some of the inescapable bonds to my Judaism, which I am currently exploring.
I have been surprised to find that the story of my mother's life has had the most profound influence on my life, and on who I have become. This is ironic because the story I refer to is not one she tells. As with many refugees, from the Holocaust and from other wars and autrocities, my mother identifies with her successes and accomplishments -- not with the circumstances that victimized her people. I grew up believing that the terms "Jew" and "German" were synonymous (and, ironically in the face of today's cultural climate, that "Christian," "Texan" and "American" were also synonymous). I was taught differently when I was ten years old, babysitting for the Feldmans across the street. Perhaps other Jewish children learn about the Holocaust from their parents, I only know that I did not, which was of great concern to Mrs. Feldman.
I pieced together the story of my mother's adventurous exodus from Germany, and her family's subsequent struggle to learn a new language and culture. The emotions of the story were always downplayed, not wanting to make our history sound desperate or our selves sound like the losers. My grandmother, who was 5 feet tall, told stories of getting into fist fights with SS Soldiers, proving herself to be the victor time and time again. The pictures that were painted always showed my family with chins raised high, too sophisticated and too worldly for the circumstances that they happened upon. And God never found a way into any of these stories.
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As can be expected, Faculty members of the Conflict Resolution Program are activists in their spare time, and promote various leftist radical causes on the campus.
This department also sponsors the annual "War, Peace, and Media Conference", which will be held on July 8-9 this year on the PSU campus. This year's keynote speaker is Medea Benjamin, co-director of the radical anti-war group "Code Pink" . She will also be signing her book "Stop the Next War Now" at this conference.
LOL One shot, one conflict resolved.
Naw! Doesn't have the same ring to it.
Great idea. You should try to get "Treason on Campus" picked up by the press in the towns where these colleges are, as well as somehow getting parents informed.
Please also try to investigate/infiltrate law schools, especially the more prestigious that contain law professors who, as quoted by Judge Robert Bork in his book "The Tempting of America", say that the U.S. Constitution is NOT the law. Of course their students are our current and future judges. Its no wonder why the judiciary and the US Supreme Court are so screwed up. The more dissemination of truth about these guys and their schools, the better. Thanks again and may God bless your efforts.
Put me on the ping list!
Another mohammedan apologist....
That is definitely the autobiography of a nut.
Please put me on your ping list, thanks. Thanks for doing this.
Among the people we, the United States, have mades into enemies, are the Germans, who tried to wipe out this persons maternal line.
In this persons view, because we were "fascinated" with "enmifying" them, she is alive.
You would think she would be grateful, but, no, she doesn't think this way.
We should replace government schools with schools of choice.
And she still believes her mother, after all these years of "growing up"? SS guards were brutal; this is surely a tall tale.
A little confused, aren't we, dear?
I really doubt I would survive long on the college campus of today (as opposed to 30 years ago) if this is any example of what passes for 'education'.
So she's been hanging out with Gi'tmo detainees, has she?
Nobody beat up an SS Soldier and lived to tell the tale. Perhaps what this woman learned from her Grandmother was the Art of Prevarication.
Check out the Young America Foundation and David Horowitz at Front Page Magazine. Both do an excellent job of unmasking the ugly left on our public college campus'.
Have you ever read any anti-American rantings from the Professor Robert Jensen from Austin Texas? Whew, you'd think he'd been lynched by now for spewing so much vitriol in Texas. He's a "journalism" teacher. See why the MSM is so messed up.
"Conflict Resolution Graduate Program"
I don't even know what that means
Yep. Try hiring one of these graduates and see how much work gets done.... really prepares a young person for the real world I imagine....
More from Portland.
Has anyone noticed that all these people are whiners? The only success they have is from crying about their failures as human beings.
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