God, it’s not even Tuesday in Chicago yet.... This is really hot off the press....
“At Columbia University, its president, Lee Bollinger, picked up kudos for courage for having Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speak on campus.
It would “impoverish public debate” to exclude controversial speakers like Ahmadinejad, Bollinger said.
But apparently it did not “impoverish public debate” to have a representative of the Minuteman organization disrupted and shouted down with impunity at this same Columbia University earlier this year. The “courageous” Bollinger did nothing to punish those students who used storm trooper tactics to silence a point of view they did not like. “
Always “johhny on the spot” Sowell. He doesn’t necessarily say anything different than many FReepers, but he has an uncanny knack for “cutting to the chase”
Sowell nails another one.
8 posts...........pretty damn sad.........
Bump.
Thompson, Hunter, Romney, anybody?????
Anyone who has the brains to hire him, has not only my vote, but also my donation.
bttt
Sadly, Columbia University is not unique in either its double standards or its double talk. A Harvard ...
DUKELAX ping.
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.
Thanks for posting Dr. Sowell’s article.
Crystal Gayle Mangum BUMP! /sarcasm