Posted on 10/01/2007 9:20:54 PM PDT by jazusamo
Heres another link to Front Page ; pretty good website.
Thank you!
bttt
Sadly, Columbia University is not unique in either its double standards or its double talk. A Harvard ...
Yes, he certainly does get to the heart of the matter, even when he isn't saying anything we didn't know. In this article he does make a nice comparison between the treatment of the president of Iran and the treatment of the Minutemen, and between Columbia and Duke.There is no indication that the Times itself is going to apologize for joining the lynch mob in the Duke "rape" case -- as it did in the Tawana Brawley "rape" case before, and as it will probably do again if and when the same kind of issue arises again.Yes, and between the full-throated NYT coverage of the latest "Twanna Brawley" incident at Duke, and the whispered NYT aside noting Brodhead's "apology" for not doing what he could not have done, saying nothing of his actual, active malfeasance.
I'm not sure I've seen that all tied together in one place. And certainly not with that neat a bow.
Shudder. None of us is safe while Congress is in session. And The New York Times is even worse - it is always in session.
Yes, he certainly does get to the heart of the matter, even when he isn't saying anything we didn't know. In this article he does make a nice comparison between the treatment of the president of Iran and the treatment of the Minutemen, and between Columbia and Duke.There is no indication that the Times itself is going to apologize for joining the lynch mob in the Duke "rape" case -- as it did in the Tawana Brawley "rape" case before, and as it will probably do again if and when the same kind of issue arises again.Yes, and between the full-throated NYT coverage of the latest "Twanna Brawley" incident at Duke, and the whispered NYT aside noting Brodhead's "apology" for not doing what he could not have done, saying nothing of his actual, active malfeasance.
I'm not sure I've seen that all tied together in one place. And certainly not with that neat a bow.
Shudder. None of us is safe while Congress is in session. And The New York Times is even worse - it is always in session.
BTTT
“Youre not the first to bring that up and its an excellent idea. If I were a candidate Id be trying to sign him up.”
Sowell is not known for suffering fools gladly, and most of the candidates are fools. His past experience has made him extremely wary of requests for support, so he may have been asked, and declined the invitation.
I’ll note it was posted after midnight, for those on the East Coast.
Also, there isn’t a lot to say. He’s completely spot on, there’s not much to argue.
DUKELAX ping.
Congressman Billybob
Sure its THE issue. It is the fundamental issue. It is the basic duty of a teacher, of a school, of a college to support its students. It is called "In Loco Parentis", a doctrine that in great folly has been re-defined, scoffed at and forgottten, as "Universities" become great feed lots, impersonal factories, no place more selfish and dehumanizing.
The students should have been given more than just the presumption of innocence, they should have been supported the way a parent supports an accused child.
Because there has developed a heartlessness in the academic class, a greediness, a sense of lifetime tenured entitlement -- even for professors who speaking from extremely coddled, protected tenured pensionated turrets fire off broadsides about free markets and libertarian economic philosophies. Because the sentence prior was left incomplete, I must begin a new one.
The end of the last one starts here: because of that heartlessness and abandonment of basic duty the College -- now more grandly titled "The University" -- becomes a Duke. Becomes a. Columbia.
A Duke. A Columbia. A waste and a wasting.
Because professors with so called ideals are themselves afraid to walk-the-walk and not just talk the talk talk talk, the greedy and lazy -- the selfish and miserable have taken over.
Another OUTSTANDING article by Thomas Sowell. Thanks for the ping.
Thanks for posting Dr. Sowell’s article.
Crystal Gayle Mangum BUMP! /sarcasm
BTTT
Yes, and to compound the tragedy, those in that majority chastise the truly good people in the halls of higher learning to insure they maintain their perverted control.
The issue was never his failure to "support" the students or their families. Universities are not equipped to determine guilt or innocence. That is why trials are held in courts instead of on campus. It was none of the university's business to "support" either the students or those who were accusing the students.Sure its THE issue. It is the fundamental issue. It is the basic duty of a teacher, of a school, of a college to support its students. It is called "In Loco Parentis", a doctrine that in great folly has been re-defined, scoffed at and forgottten, as "Universities" become great feed lots, impersonal factories, no place more selfish and dehumanizing.
Hmmmm . . .I think you have caught Professor Sowell on that one. Congratulations; that is no mean feat.
In critiquing Brodhead's "apology, I thought "Would it actually have killed him to have said at the outset something as positive as, 'While of course having an open mind about any possibility, Duke of course hopes that none of its students are guilty of this, or any other, crime.'?" And the answer to that question, I'm afraid, is "Yes." Because that would not have been politically correct, it would only have reflected what the parents of the students must hope is the mission of the University.
“There are few political philosophers in the nation’s history who are more clear-sighted, more honest. and more on point than Dr. Thomas Sowell. Not just in our time. Ever in our history.”
No argument here!
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