Posted on 11/02/2007 4:15:30 AM PDT by Man50D
Great discussion at that link. Thanks.
Reports from U Delaware students, blogged at CHE yesterday One RA was threatened..sounds like the commies at UD are panicking.
1) I am so happy that FIRE blew open this case. I work in the student affairs office and the place went crazy when the letter from FIRE arrived. THe truth is that they created a well intended program, but crossed the line in many ways. Yes until this week the program was mandatory and they have temporarily suspended the mandatory nature of it, but once the attention goes away especially with Parents Weekend arriving they want to look good. Boy can they lie.
2) I have been an RA for the past two years and have not been comfortable with this program. It has gotten out of hand and demanding of students. Yesterday I was approached to be an advocate of the program. Several of my RA friends have been asked to be available for talking with the press. When I declined I was taken aside and told that my future as an RA was in jeopardy as was future a student. I decided to stand-up for myself. I read the university response to FIRE and they seem to want to divert the attention away from the programs flaws and talk about how FIRE make U Del. students look. Well it was U Del. students that had the backbone and insight to bring this issue up to FIRE. Go Hens! FIRE believes in us.
That is a bastard thing for them to do. These kids are RA's because they get free housing. Kids lose a parent in college, things get tight financially, they apply to be an RA. Crapheads threaten to take their housing away from them if they don't lie to protect the indoctrination program.
Would have been even more funny if someone had replaced the marshmallows with Peeps!!
For those that don’t like the evil white males, take a good look at the situation in Zimbabwe, when they drove them out.
Email to Harker: president@udel.edu
President Harker,
Below is a post from a UD RA that appears on The Chronicle of Higher Education blog. This person appears to have been intimated and threatened by administration staff. This is criminal behavior.
If you don’t like the press UD is getting now, wait till this hits the news.
Reviewing the program won’t do. Som one needs to get fired and a good place to start is Kathleen Kerr.
Blogged by Bill
I have been an RA for the past two years and have not been comfortable with this program. It has gotten out of hand and demanding of students. Yesterday I was approached to be an advocate of the program. Several of my RA friends have been asked to be available for talking with the press. When I declined I was taken aside and told that my future as an RA was in jeopardy as was future a student. I decided to stand-up for myself. I read the university response to FIRE and they seem to want to divert the attention away from the programs flaws and talk about how FIRE make U Del. students look. Well it was U Del. students that had the backbone and insight to bring this issue up to FIRE. Go Hens! FIRE believes in us.
Good for you. I think you are right. Threats like that may be criminal. Hope FIRE/O’Reilly/Limbaugh/Delaware state Republican senators and Congressmen know as well . . .
The inverse could have been done to the women with the label potential prostitutes.
Yes, liberals love me ... Yes, Liberals love me... Yes, Liberals love me,
The Commies told me so.
Marc Lamont Hill of Temple University was just on FoxNews. He said he saw nothing wrong with UD`s program and thinks it`s fine for colleges to teach that all whites are racist and to teach that it`s impossible for non-whites to be racist.
“all whites are racist”
Irony is lost on these people.
This is nothing new. When I went to the University of Maryland, the feminist studies department took all the male names out of the phone book and made a display declaring that we were all potential rapists. University never did a damn thing about it.
Did you take the female names out of the phone book and make a display declaring they were all “potential prostitutes?”
I would have.
I would wax poetically of my ancestors and our wonderfully unique culture and customs.
I would describe the joy that is “Haggis.” I would give a detailed description of it’s preparation. Then I would bring one out to share.
Now; anyone who refused to sample must be a “hater” and a “racist.” Right?
Seems that everyone oughta get one marshmallow for being oppressed by the educrats who mandated this nonsense.
That would have been an awesome response...
“Why is it, Teacher, that you believe people of color need to accumulate as much ‘whiteness’ as possible? What message are you sending, teaching them that to have whiteness is good, and to lack it is bad?”
I can just imagine the instructor’s noggin spinning around, while the ‘students of color’ looked at themselves and wondered just why they needed more whiteness!
We should get a mini-marshmallow just for reading about it.
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