Posted on 01/06/2007 10:46:32 AM PST by freespirited
True -- but here in Kalifornicate, even the sciences are coming under attack by the woolly heads.
I spent a lot of time in the 80's, visiting colleges within a large radius of Silicon Valley - attempting to hire engineering graduates and business majors.. The range of lunacy was shocking....
In Kalifornicate, in the 80's -- by far the most seriously afflicted were Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz...
The most rational and encouraging Kalifornicate schools were Caltech Pasadena and Loyola Marymount University. Out of state - I hired heavily out of Brigham Young, Northwestern and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
I'm pleased to observe - that many of my personal hires went on to join the most senior ranks of management within the company I hired them into - or companies that lured them away over time... The names of these companies, would be known by EVERYONE in the forum..
Science is NOT immune from tinkering --- witness the Global Warming "science" and the "scientists" like Algore and the Hollywood actors who now claim expertise in the earth sciences....
Semper Fi
The MSM must accept a lot of the blame for this outrage. It has seldom been reported that, when the "victim" was found incoherent and passed out in the car, the police took her in and were going to send her to a treatment program. Her only escape from the treatment center was to cry rape.
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You are mistaken about this. Those that get on the Global Warming band wagon are those that get the headlines and grants. The media chooses not to give air time to the real scientists. A friend of mine (MIT meteorologist graduate) recently returned from a seminar of meteorologists and the overwhelming consensus was that we have had a very minor warming this century that is in line with past climate variations. They did not support the theory of runaway CO2 induced global warming.
Let the Blame Game begin. This is going to be funny to watch!
River Rat, see my post 24. There is some sanity left.
Unfortunately, in many cases students have no choice but take some courses such as these, as they are requirements for any degree and all of the faculty members are stark raving leftist moonbats. In those cases, the student has a choice to make - keep his/her mouth shut, regurgitate the left wing propaganda and get out with the easy A, or challenge the professor and resign himself/herself to a lower grade, or even a failing grade.
Maybe he took the class because some girl was taking it. I've done that. Homework can be fun.
It's amazing the stuff people can manage to get paid for.
If there were some way objectively to measure outcomes, probably many less know schools provide better instruction than the Ivies etc. The students at the Ivies probably have more natural talent and they certainly profit by mingling with other talented, well-connected kids. But the best students at many other colleges certainly can compete with most Ivy School graduates. Still, the old school tie means a lot.
That happened to my son in his first year Political Science class; despite being warned by me in advance to keep his thoughts to himself, he evidently had enough the day the professor spend the entire period telling these students just how to apply for aid since they were all so poor and had no income, never mind their parents were footing the bill!
F.
She's been a visiting professor for TEN YEARS.
What does that tell you?
...only now are they coming out in support of the students? Only now that it won't cost them anything?
If I was one of the players I'd tell these a$$hole$ to stick it - where were you 9 months ago WHEN I NEEDED YOU?
Global warning science is about on the same level as astrology. Act the premise, and a whole complex of theories can be constructed.
Good point. In the best of all capitalist worlds, people will purchase the superior product. Remember that in Adam Smith's time the students paid their professors directly, with no administrative middleman in between.
"Kim Curtis, a *visiting* [contracted-not a permanent staff member signs a petition] associate professor who specializes in *political and feminist theory* [specializes in far-left educational thought/perspectives]
I clicked your link, read the professor's "excuse", and was disgusted. An academic should be ashamed to blame society's ills on innocent men because of their skin color. BTW, calling the black dancer a "hooker" is perpetuating a stereotype, isn't it?
What right did the teacher's have to judge before the trial anyway?
A Google search reveals that this monster supported Bill Clinton's sexual harassment of women (because of all he allegedly did for the womens movement he deserved a pass) AND denounced efforts to blame 9-11 on muslims... that the US government was somehow responsible.
A typical Stalinist moonbat of the worst sort, and a thug in the classroom full of poor students required to take her preposterous mandatory PC courses.
Official photo of this beast from Duke faculty pictures:
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