Posted on 12/17/2005 9:29:53 AM PST by aculeus
It shouldn’t have taken a threatened law suit and being held up to nationwide public scorn but Washington State University officials have stopped paying student hecklers who shout down speakers with whom they disagree.
Unfortunately, the stench remains strong at Washington State University of a Stalinist suppression of political views that deviate from the politically correct academic liberal orthodoxy.
Regular readers of this space will recall from this July column that the controversy began when it was learned university administrators were paying students to heckle the production of a controversial play by a student author.
Student playwright Chris Lee warned attendees before his production was staged on campus that it would likely “offend everybody” and indeed some Mormon students who paid their own way to see the play silently protested its content.
But 40 other students repeatedly shouted “I am offended” and did everything in their power to shut down the production, including threatening performers on stage with physical harm. These protesting students were all Black, as is Lee.
It was not merely that the Black students insisted on disrupting the production that set them apart from others like the Mormons in the audience who found Lee’s play disturbing. Guess who paid for the hecklers’ tickets? Washington State University’s very own Office of Campus Involvement, headed by Raul Sanchez. The same office helped organize the heckling. Lane Rawlins, the school’s president, even praised and defended the hecklers.
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Thankfully, I'm not a WSU grad. I am, unfortunately, an involuntary financial supporter of WSU.
In San Francisco there is a private library called the Mechanics Institute. It is the oldest library on the West Coast, started in 1855. It burned down in the 1906 SF earthquake but was quickly rebuilt and restocked. There are a few old books on the shelves dating back to 1906 but none before. What struck me is how politically correct all the books that remain are. Any book containing a single sentence counter to modern leftism has sadly disappeared. That is the majority of old books.
And I think UC Santa Cruz is a surfer school. Not known for anything.
Actually, you might want to read up on it a little before saying that...
e.g.: http://graddiv.ucsc.edu/research/
It doesn't say much. All they do is space research? Do you think it is a good school? I just think as far as UC schools go, I never heard that it excelled in anything. I went to UCSB, which has Nobel prize winners as faculty.
I suppose all schools can be good. I can't imagine paying $40K a year to go there! I'd rather go somewhere else.
bttt
...LOL! ...It's true, sadly, all true.
Sounds like a real classy play, though.
No!!! I went to UCSB (Santa Barbara). SoCal, lots of right wing conservatives from Orange County!
http://www.ucsb.edu/
http://www.ucsb.edu/nobel/index.shtml
Savvy communistic directed ploy to say the least.
LOL! What memories.
Yeah, Angela Davis is about as far left as you can go!!! So why would anyone send their kids to UC Santa Cruz!!!
Maybe that is the only one still accepting students. LOL! I'd rather buy a degree at City U.
Famous Faculty, you said...? Oh yeah, THEY have those there...
"Famous Faculty, you said...? Oh yeah, THEY have those at UCSC too..."
Don't ya know...You're supposed to hear what I meant..., not necessarily what I said. LOL.
LOL! ;)
There is more to this one than just the initial story. Open the main article and read down to the part about "disposition standards"
Some rather interesting additional tactics being applied to grading standards.
http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7879
Angela grew up in a very respectable black middle class home in Birmingham.She has always lived comfortably.
Yet you are right-the irony of her very bourgois lifestyle strikes me as outrageous as Tom Hayden's ten million dollar divorce settlement from Jane Fonda!
America,where the commies are richer than the businessmen!
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