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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Is anyone realy surprized a Marxist is teaching at a college campus?

"He is disingenuous in citing authorities, ..... said Katz, a former police officer who taught criminal justice courses at the college. "That is known, by any standard, as intellectual dishonesty and deceit."

Intellectual dishonesty and deceit; two hallmarks of a Marxist.

Tenure is a longtime, and often controversial, policy in American higher education. Among other functions, it "protects the instructor from termination of employment by an influential person or group for arbitrary reasons," said Dr. Homer "Butch" Hayes, College of the Mainland president.

Huh? Tenure is not the correct answer to arbitrary terminations. This plainly is just BS.

Smith teaches two introductory courses on national and state government and an elective course in political science.

Massive workload there buddy. Whats that, nine hours of instruction.

"In each of the courses, my syllabus sets out certain topics that I cover, and I certainly am honest about putting forth my own views," he said. "But I actively encourage people to question my views -- to express their own different views. "Sometimes, a lot of the best learning is done by debate, discussion and disagreement," he said. "And one hallmark of my classes is that you can get extra credit by arguing with me during class. I think that's a good thing.

I have had professor like him. The only reason they encourage kids to question their views to to reinforce theirs. Not too many 18 year olds will have the intellectual wherewithall to debate this guy. Once when I challenged a left wing professor with a very solid counterpoint, I was ridiculed rather than rebutted. None of the kiddies (I was 42 at the time) in my class thought to question her tactics. She was a marxist as well.

"Do I favor a small group of people going out and getting guns and attacking the government or anybody else? Of course not," he said.

Tranlation; I do favor large groups doing the above. I'm a Marxist after all, right?

"But I believe it has to be done by a vast majority of the people, using a combination of electoral and (other) tactics."

Translation; Other tactics are disinformation, deceit, propaganda, etc.

28 posted on 03/24/2002 3:51:33 AM PST by Fzob
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To: Fzob
Bump!!!
29 posted on 03/24/2002 3:56:30 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: JZoback
Bump
36 posted on 03/24/2002 4:12:35 AM PST by Fzob
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