Posted on 08/17/2008 11:16:24 PM PDT by BlackVeil
In 2003, administrators at Stanford University's Electrical Engineering Department were startled when a group of foreign students aced the notoriously difficult Ph.D. entrance exam, getting some of the highest scores ever. That the whiz kids weren't American wasn't odd; students from Asia and elsewhere excel in U.S. programs. The surprising thing, say Stanford administrators, is that the majority came from one country and one school: Sharif University of Science and Technology in Iran. Stanford has become a favorite destination of Sharif grads. Bruce A. Wooley, a former chair of the Electrical Engineering Department, has said that's because Sharif now has one of the best undergraduate electrical-engineering programs in the world. That's no small praise given its competition: MIT, Caltech and Stanford in the United States, Tsinghua in China and Cambridge in Britain. Sharif's reputation highlights how while Iran makes headlines for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's incendiary remarks and its nuclear showdown with the United States, Iranian students are developing an international reputation as science superstars. Stanford's administrators aren't the only ones to notice. ...
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Sharif University of Science and Technology in Iran...sure is a shame that the mullahs are going to feed them to the guns.
I’ve known a few Iranian immigrants, and none of them were stupid.
The problem with Iran has never been the people. It has always been with the religious establishment. The Iranians I’ve met (in the US, in Europe and in Africa) have always been quite intelligent and hardworking (and the women beautiful). It is only the religious elite (as well as some political nutjobs like Ahmadenijad) who mess things up for them. Left to their own devices the Iranian people would actually be quite far ahead.
Why are we letting them come study in the US?
We can only hope that these kids are sick of the religious control freaks that run Iran. Most young people are, from what I hear.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina — On Friday afternoon, an act of terrorism at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill left students and faculty in disbelief, wondering why a former student would ram an SUV into a crowded group of students. Many of them extended their disbelief to include a willful denial that the attack was an act of terrorism at all.
Mohammad Reza Taheri-azar, a 22-year-old Iranian native who graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill in December, rented a Jeep Cherokee Laredo from a local rent-a-car dealership and launched his attack at a popular gathering place for students known as "the Pit," located near the student union and campus libraries. Nine people were injured — none seriously — in Taheri-azar's rampage. On Monday, he made his first appearance in Orange County District Court, where prosecutors read out the 18 charges levied against him, including nine counts of attempted murder.
If we weren’t so ‘politically correct’, we’d know these people’s intentions before they ever set foot here.
Like I said, we can only hope...
When MGD was in Engineering School he had a professor that told them - I'm going to tell you where I'm from and how I got here. He then proceeded to write "IRAN" on the board.
lol I’ll bet he did!
Not every Iranian is rubbing his hands in glee wondering what new way he or she can come up with that can kill Americans. The religious cabal and its political sucklers are actually far more afraid of the Iranian youth and working classes than they are of the US military.
Exactly. I can’t figure out why we haven’t been fomenting an insurgency for freedom there, countering their insurgency in Iraq.
We don’t need to. The younger population (under 30) is already vastly pro-Western-reform. The ruling mullahs “invalidate” about 1000 political cadidates every election cycle to make sure that the hard-liners keep their majority. However, everyone knows that can’t last forever... which is exactly why Admenijad and the mullahs are acting so fervently for nukes right now... because they know they do not have much time, and that their wish to have Iran strike a major blow against Israel and the Great Satan (the US) will not be possible in another generation.
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