Another leftist victory for the coalition of Third World peoples in their relentless drive to conquer us.
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The name of the course was changed from “Western Thought” to “Culture, Ideas, and Values.” The Senate voted to drop “Western” from the course description as “inappropriate,” “anachronistic,” “provincial,” and “because of its symbolic significance.”
Class discussion (in each quarter of the academic year) is to include “substantial attention to” issues of class, race, and gender.”
The Stanford Senate’s action was not an educational but a political decision.
In Secretary Bennett’s words, “A great university was brought low by the very forces which modern universities come into being to oppose—ignorance, irrationality and intimidation.”
True to form in answering Secretary Bennett was Stanford University President Donald Kennedy, who has appeared feeble of mind and character in previous radical campaigns. They include the so-far unsuccessful attempt
to divorce Stanford from the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; and the successful campaign to prevent the Reagan presidential library from locating at Stanford (which would also have put the University
in electronic contact with all presidential libraries around the country).
President Kennedy, who had welcomed the change as “a significant improvement,” appeared bothered chiefly by Bennett’s charge that the University had been “intimidated.” Actually, the disgraceful behavior of the
faculty and administration would be less disheartening if it could be explained by intimidation. The other explanations—ignorance and irrationality—are far more destructive of a university than cowardice.
DARTMOUTH, CCNY
If Stanford were the exception, we doubt that Secretary Bennett would have bothered to denounce it. One termite is not going to bring down your house. One rotting university is not going to bring down Western civilization. But when you see one termite, you can be sure there are more.
The Stanford disease permeates our university system.
Dartmouth recently made headlines for its prosecution and persecution of students who dared to publish a criticism of a rubbishy course of a black professor. That episode was only the latest in a series of punitive
strikes at students who challenge Dartmouth’s ultra-left faculty and administration.
At The City College of New York, another of our many festering institutions, fascinating examples of rot have transpired. College President Bernard W. Harleston wrote the Department of English last November 10 complaining about a line in its newspaper advertisement of a scholarship to study English literature— “ONLY THE BEST NEED APPLY.”
Wrote President Harleston, “For a variety of reasons, I find this statement inappropriate, insensitive, and inconsistent with the policies of the City College of New York. I do not want to see such a formulation within any future ads from City.”
“Insensitive” to whom, we wonder. Mediocrities and incompetents?
“Inconsistent” with what policies? To encourage and support mediocrities and incompetents?
The answer, we fear, is that the ingrained racism of
black President Harleston leads him to believe that black students cannot be “the best,” so scholarships for “the best” are insensitive to blacks.
This kind of insult to blacks and to education is now orthodox college policy.
The education produced by the Harlestons of this country was described by a courageous student who attended a course in the Black Studies program and reported on it in a City College student newspaper, THE CAMPUS, on April 15.
The professor, in the limited time available between his frequent absences and the ten-to-twenty minutes left by his late arrivals, told the class about the biological inferiority of whites and how the space shuttle’s blowing up was probably the best thing to happen to Amer-
ica in a long time because the space program needs something to slow it down before white people start spreading their filth throughout the universe.
“What do you think we should do about the white people?” asked a student during a particularly virulent attack by the professor on the “white value system.”
“If I had my way,” said the professor, “I’d wipe them off the face of the earth.”
And so it goes in higher education.
Hey, hey, ho, hum, wait till you see the culture to come.