Posted on 07/17/2008 11:07:13 AM PDT by bs9021
U-Chis Dishonorable Faculty
by: Deborah Lambert, July 17, 2008
When news surfaced that a research institute was to be established at the University of Chicago in honor of the late Nobel-prize winning economist Milton Friedman, nearly 100 faculty members signed a petition, objecting to any such enterprise that might place a stamp of approval on Professor Friedmans economic theories, according to James Piereson, reporting on the newcriterion.com.
One of the major gripes was that this choice would signal to the outside world that Chicagos faculty lacks intellectual and ideological diversity when in fact it implies that the left leaning faculty . . . are made uncomfortable and fearful by the presence in their midst of competing points of view.
Leading this protest is Divinity School professor Bruce Lincoln, whose interests run to left-wing politics and popular culture. Roger Kimball noted that according to Prof. Lincolns faculty website, he writes on a variety of topics such as Guatemalan curanderismo, Lakota sun dances, Melanesian funerary rituals, Swazi kingship, Marco Polo, professional wrestling, and the theology of George W. Bush....
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Hypocrites all.
University of Chicago should stick to creating high-paying do-nothing jobs for politicians’ spouses.
And, trust me when I tell you that most professors fall into the catagories of poor to mediocre.
I don't know why parents continue to pay for their childrren to become administrative assistants or less upon college graduation.
Besides Chicago still has the Committee on Social Thought and, of course, the econ department, to say nothing of the Great Books program for undergrads.
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