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Great column.

And, disgusting as this senate meeting was, in some ways you can't blame the students. They are pathetically ignorant. They have been educated to think this way all their lives, and they probably haven't the foggiest notion what the war was about. It's doubtful that they've been taught anything much about it or anything else in history--world history OR American history.

It's a marvel that so many kids manage to figure out that their teachers are miseducating them, and come out the other end of this sorry process with some sanity and common sense.

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It wasn't always this way. There was a famous incident in the early days of the university where the ASUW (the organization that now controls the student senate) protested a gift from a morally corrupt Seattle businessman. As a result the ASUW was kicked off campus for several years. Eventually the ASUW built the strength to sack the school president.

UW used to be a very conservative school. It is my hope that in time it will become more balanced. The biggest problem with this university (and others like it in the country) is that the less useful studies, where liberalism flourishes, have gained such prominence. Is it really that important to give programs like women's studies and drama the same prominence as electrical engineering and physics? It would probably make a lot of sense to cut many of these useless programs (generally in the humanities) and enlarge the harder ones (usually in science and engineering). Who wants to hire someone with a degree in women's studies anyways?