Posted on 08/29/2013 10:56:24 AM PDT by fungoking
I read with interest Abigail Fisher's column, "What college can teach you about life and pizza" in your August 21, 2013 issue. I'm all for humorists and their clever work, but humor usually stems from kernels of truth with which a reader can identify.
Therefore, I am compelled to point out a problem with one part of her column. She says in the piece that "you can enroll in a three-credit class, miss every single lecture or discussion and pass with a 93 percent." She goes on to state that the class that can do this for you is "a multicultural hip hop class." I'm not sure if she is referring to my class, but since I teach a class called "Hip Hop: Global Music and Culture," I take her allegation personally. I imagine the students who enrolled in my class last fall and those enrolled this fall will take it personally also. I have never had Ms. Fisher in my class so I'm wondering how she came by these statistics. She may ask any of my students about the attendance policy and the work that they do in this class. Her choice of "a multicultural hip hop class" as an example of an academic waste of time brings to mind several questions: Does she have a problem with the "multicultural" tag? Or is it inconceivable that "hip hop" would be a course at this university? Does she mean to belittle the humanities generally? What is her intention?
By all means, be funny. However, be careful with demeaning the hard work that my students and I do, using cultural expressions like hip hop to understand the history, politics, and experiences of people all over the world. In this class I maintain a strict attendance policy because I want students to engage in class discussions and think critically about the world we live in. Degrading any class, by name, publicly, especially one you have never taken, is unfortunate and irresponsible. Again, I realize that Ms. Fisher's column was meant to be funny, but I seriously question the underlying intent of her flippant allegations. Perhaps, in the future, she might consider enrolling in a humanities course like "multicultural hip hop," miss every class, and see if she can make that 93% she boasted about.
Thank you.
Dr. Stephanie Shonekan, Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Black Studies
Well it makes a difference if it’s Wendys or McDonalds....
I took an ethnomusicology class at the University of Washington in 1967, so it is not something recently made up. Not saying I learned any more in it than reading Nate Hentoff on the back of LP covers.
“What the EFF is that, if not a titular admission of having no real use, purpose or value in our system of higher education?”
That’s right; it is an admission that a segment of our population has no place in our society, and based on the past 50 years, never will.
“This recent trend towards snivelling, whining, race-baiting liars, beginning with that scumbag Black Congressman who fraudulently claimed that he was “spat upon” and called the “N” word back during the Obamacare kerfuffle, has been nothing short of a comedic goldmine.”
As angering as these episodes can become, an increasing number of Americans live their lives as though they don’t even exist anymore (consistently voting to enable to abortion industry them). As for Obama himself, his positions are those of the white masters he represents - see his twisting on the gay marriage issue ofr proof. He’s the smiling kapo escorting his own people to the abortion mills...
Entitlements and AA have made it possible to make a career out of being black.
The name is misandrist at the very least.
I’m thinking this idiot “institute of higher learning” has so definitively gelded the male student population, that these feminazi thugs can get away with it.
White neutered subbies aside, wait till allah’s mudslimz make a debut.
You are going to see feminazis running for the hills. Or donning burkas as fast as they can find them.
Sew the wind, reap the whirlwind.
Talk about denial?!
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“I think it’s hysterically funny!”
Most of us can avoid them, but some of those who can’t are killed by them. Nobody even pretends to care what they want/demand anymore; they have no “skin in the game” and are spectators to foreigners with little education or command of the English language passing them on the socio-economic ladder.
Pie are round. Wendy’s burger are square. Don’t know nothin bout no fish.
“Today’s lessons is the proper use of the word bitch”
Kind of early in the day to be hitting the sauce quite this hard, don't you think? Even for a Irishman...
LOL!
You're way too funny!!
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