1999, A Graduation to Remember (Evergreen State College - the ones blocking military shipments)

academic dot evergreen dot edu ^ | orig 1999 | Peter Bohmer

[doug from upland]

I kid you not. The quad on campus is called RED SQUARE.

Perhaps Evergreen's most famous graduate.

[doug from upland]

PING

[dynachrome]

Ah, rachel, we hardly knew ye. And sure as hell didn’t want to know you better!

[Lancer_N3502A]

According to my liberal sister, TESC is considered the white trash of liberal arts colleges.

[mthom]

When I read Atlas Shrugged I often cringed a bit when Rand described the left the way she did. Describing them as loving death, hating the mind, wanting to negate existence. I thought she saw their motivations clearly but that she exaggerated. As time goes by Im beginning to think she underplayed it a bit.

[MacDorcha]

Why do ALL Liberal Arts teachers look like they idolize Richard Simmons?

[Lancer_N3502A]

Lack of chlorine in their gene puddle.

[Thunder 6]

This guy is a professor? He writes like a star-crossed high school kid...

Regards,

[Bishop_Malachi]

What is the Dean’s house called?...the Kremlin?

[doug from upland]

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/dennisprager/dp20030325.shtml
Dennis Prager (archive)
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March 25, 2003

Who killed Rachel Corrie?

Rachel Corrie, the Olympia, Wash., college student killed trying to protect a Palestinian house — a house, remember, not even a human being — against an Israeli bulldozer, will probably not merit a footnote in history books. That’s too bad, because her life and death, the way she has been portrayed in some media, and the reactions of her college are powerful examples of an America with many morally confused individuals.

A Seattle Times columnist described her as a martyr. Her hometown paper, The Olympian, published numerous pictures of a sweet-looking woman from childhood on. It omitted the one photo of Rachel Corrie that USA Today, to its credit, published — Corrie screaming anti-American invective while burning an American flag in Gaza.

Anyone with a heart must extend the deepest condolences to Rachel Corrie’s parents. But anyone with a conscience must regard Rachel Corrie’s activities with contempt. One hopes that it is not asking too much of people to entertain simultaneously two conflicting emotions — grief for the parents and contempt for the daughter.

Rachel Corrie chose to side with a society that breeds some of the cruelest murderers of innocent people in the world. Rachel Corrie gave her life trying to protect people whose declared aim is to annihilate another country. In the name of saving children’s lives, Rachel Corrie chose to defend a society that teaches its young children to blow themselves up and which deliberately targets children for death. And Rachel Corrie went to America’s enemies to burn her country’s flag.

She was one of the many fools our colleges annually produce. Evergreen State College is reputed to excel in such production. Is anyone aware of a single student or faculty member who repudiated her activities?

We are told repeatedly that Rachel was idealistic — as if that matters. Virtually every person who commits great evil — the Nazi, the Communist, the Islamic terrorist — is idealistic. Idealism is morally neutral. It is good only when directed to good ends. But in young people, idealism is at least as likely to lead to bad as to good because few young people are wise — and idealism without wisdom is very dangerous.

We are told ad nauseam that Rachel Corrie was a “peace activist.” So let it be said once and for all that most of these people are moral frauds. Why? Because “peace activists” routinely protest only against peaceful countries. Has there been one Evergreen State or other “peace activist” in Sudan during its Islamic government’s slaughter and enslavement of millions of blacks? Are there any “peace activists” in Tibet to protect its unique culture from being eradicated by the Communist Chinese? Did you notice any “peace activists” trying to save the millions of North Koreans dying at the hands of their lunatic government? Of course not. Rachel Corrie and other “peace activists” only target peace-loving Israel and America.

Why do they do so?

Here is one answer.

The world is filled with evil, and young idealists like Rachel Corrie don’t like it. Which is lovely. But they don’t confront real evil because they know they will get hurt. That’s one reason there are no “peace activists” or “human shields” confronting Islamic terror, North Korean totalitarianism, or Chinese Communist despotism.

So, what’s an idealist to do if she refuses to confront real evil but wants to feel good about herself? Ironically, confront those who fight real evil. That’s why Rachel Corrie and the millions marching to protect Saddam Hussein’s Iraq have never uttered a peep against Palestinian terror, Iraqi totalitarianism, or North Korean gulags. Instead, they focus their animosity at the countries that confront these evils — the United States and Israel.

So, Olympia, grieve for Rachel Corrie’s parents, but spare us the hagiography. Rachel Corrie died fighting for the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian group dedicated, in its own words, to “armed struggle” against Israel. She ended up being a useful idiot for, and one more victim of, Palestinian terror.

[t2buckeye]

I would disagree...my high school students write BETTER than he does! He is a disgrace.

[Keith Brown]

I live in Olympia and it’s worse than any of you can imagine...

Check this article about one of their finest.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=74BD5102-BC84-4A7C-AC15-7F7750408F8F

[saganite]

She saw it firsthand in Soviet Russia. I never doubted her.

[doug from upland]

I am likely to be living in the area at the end of next year. Maybe together we can give them some grief.

[MplsSteve]

When I graduated from the Univ of Minnesota in May of ‘03, it was a huge event for me - considering I was about 15 years old than the average graduate.

Our commencement speaker was Judge Thomas Buergenthal of the International Court of Justice. Although not as controversial as Mumia, I still grimaced while listening to his speech. I remained seated while many of the mush-filled minds stood up and applauded at the end of his speech.

I told myself “I’ll say something to him if I have to shake his hand or accept my diploma from him”. Thankfully, it didn’t come to that.

But if someone as controversial as Mumia had given the commencement speech at my graduation, you can rest assured I’d have walked out.

[mo]

I wonder HOW MUCH federal aid we the people give Evergreen College annually...and why are we still doing so?!!!

[dynachrome]

50th anniversary of Starnesville from “Atlas Shrugged”

[doug from upland]

These foolish parents raised a naive foolish daughter. Oh, how sweet. They have a nice certificate from a murdering swine who is roasting in hell. They should be suing the school for filling her head with crap.

Just for fun, JOIN THE MOCKING SING-ALONG OF ARAFAT ON YOUTUBE

[Paleo Conservative]

Fry Mumia!

[GOP Poet]

I went there so I am not going to comment on that. However most of the kids that go there are children of very wealthy east coast parents. Some of those kids go out and live in the woods instead of dorms. In my experience the only college kids that find poverty and living in trees attractive is the very rich.

I being from a poor family received a merit based scholarship to attend Evergreen and was grateful for any college education, especially that offered more individual attention and freedom. I was an older student though and went into college with two successful businesses behind me and with a clarity that a college education is a benefit professionally.

The radical BS coming out of this school is what ultimately solidified my dedication to conservative ideals and living them. I am a happily married woman today that has taken my husband's name and a great success in all areas of my life. I live everything these people rail against and I have never been happier :-). Life is good.