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.
LIAR!!
This NEVER happened.
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And we are bombarded to save all our lives for our children and grandchildren's college education??????
When I started to college (in 1953)you could work part time at Krogers for a buck an hour and pay all yor fees, books and room & board; and the average professor made about $5000 per year, and really wanted you to learn Chemistry,Geology, English and trig. none seemed to focus on an agenda, except to encourage us to get an education.
Should we continue to pay those that teach our children to hate our nation. God Forbid !!!!! Let's shut then down !!!!!
Unless her grandmother's idea of proving herself to be "the victor" was getting gang-raped by members of the SS-Totenkopf and surviving to "tell" about it...
Ms. Byron may have been taught the art of prevarication by her grandmother, but it seems she's taken it to a whole new level: tergiversation, and hence sedition.
Put me on your ping list! This is great!
Geez... I really feel for the kid. Probably going to be another one of those who are constantly "exploring" themselves and accomplishing little else. Probably end up a professor (and I use the term loosely) just like mommy.
Since it is logical for us to hold certain presuppositions without scientific proof, we can assume that they have minds. And since they have minds, they can't pretend not to know what they, and all rational beings know.
Hang 'em High ~ Bump!
>"Ms. Byron has over ten years of experience working with survivors of torture..."
>So she's been hanging out with Gi'tmo detainees, has she?
Actually, it was NPR listeners and Dan Rather viewers.
Well...one more reason not to contribute to the alumni association of my old alma mater...as if I needed one.
PSU Class of 82
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.
" Are classical majors/programs like engineering, history, and economics still taught at liberal schools? "
Doesn't seem like it does it. My impression is courses offered today are farting in the wind 101, Elephants giving birth to fleas would be like oh so Kewl and Real Friends are Fun like a chapped a$$ in the middle of winter are considered high on the liberal curriculum.
Advanced college degrees in specialized programs are a good indication that someone had plenty of idle time, and somebody elses money.
Funny. That line caught my attention also. One would likely only get into a fist fight with a Waffen-SS officer once.
"Sometimes professors are some of the most ignorant people EVER"
So true! Some of them prefer to remain in the comfy insulated confines of campus life. The real world is much too scary to them. In the real world they would have to face facts.
There are a FEW (and I stress few) Universities out there that are teaching students the RIGHT way.
I attend a small private business school in northern Michigan and the philosophy and focus of our school is concentrated on learning the pro's of small government and free enterprise.
Also almost 80% of our campus reported they were Republican in a poll conducted by a club on campus.
The alienation factor at it again, what a tired shtick. Someone please tell this bimbo to go grow up and stop it with the "woe is me, the oppressed."
First a 5 foot tall woman ain't whipping any man in a fight. Second you fight a Houston cop in 2005 and you will lose, much less fighting an SS officer in NAZI Germany.
This is such a lie that even an idiot liberal should have thought first before telling it.
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