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(CBS4) BOSTON -- Images of anti-American protests around the globe fill our living rooms almost every night. At Boston University students are filling classrooms trying to better understand how the Muslim world sees us. "There are 1.4 billion Muslims in the world," said Husain Haggani, a professor at Boston University. B.U. is one of many schools across the country offering courses to help everyone better understand each other. It has one of the largest programs in the nation. What are his students here to learn? "Trying to figure out what are the reasons why others hate us. Why does Osama...

Ruth Malhotra’s involvement in the College Republicans attracted attention from Georgia Tech where she is an International Relations and Public Policy major, when the CRs held a protest of The Vagina Monologues. The students had a sign with quotes from the Eve Ensler play [being shown on campus], and were ordered to white-out some of the quotes by university officials. When the CRs attempted to hold a diversity bake sale to call attention to Georgia Tech’s affirmative action policies they were shut down by campus police. Malhotra offered these recollections while speaking on a panel with other dissident students at...

I can only post the title. For the article, click here:'Peace' teacher's firing upheld.

For months, 17-year-old Andrew Saraf had been troubled by stories he was hearing about a Peace Studies course offered at his Bethesda high school. Last Saturday, he decided to act. He sat down at his computer and typed out his thoughts on why the course should be banned . "I know I'm not the first to bring this up but why has there been no concerted effort to remove Peace Studies from among the B-CC courses?" he wrote in his post to the school's group e-mail list. "The 'class' is headed by an individual with a political agenda, who wants...

ITHACA -- The Office of the Provost at Ithaca College and the Peace Studies Program at Cornell University will hold the 2003 Annual Conference of the Regional Peace Studies Consortium from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 18, at Ithaca College. The focus of the conference is "Dimensions of Human Security: Lessons from Africa and Beyond." Registration is required for the event. Registration and the opening session will be held at Textor Hall.

“Beyond Patriotism” – Ronald Glossop to Speak at MU (Announcement Sponsored by Peace Studies Program) Ronald Glossop, Prof. Emeritus of Philosophical Studies at SIU-Edwardsville and VP of the National World Federalist Association will make a presentation “Beyond Patriotism” on Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 8:00 pm in Neff Hall Auditorium on the MU campus.

After the terrorist attacks and consequent military action in Afghanistan and Iraq, Peace Studies programs are thriving on over 250 colleges and universities across America. Advocates of these programs say they prepare students to think critically on the meaning and justification of conflict and peace. Many Peace Studies programs, such as Antioch College's, admit that Peace Studies' mission is to develop activists for their cause. Antioch's description of the Peace Studies concentration states that they seek to "prepare students for positive social change related to peace and security." Hal Culbertson, associate director of Peace Studies at the University of Notre...

Just this month, the long-shot Democratic Party presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich proposed a new cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the federal government: the Department of Peace.  Forty-six other Democrats (and exactly zero Republicans) agreed to co-sponsor his proposal, which would create a 'Secretary of Peace,' charged with preventing both domestic and foreign violence through enlightened social policies.  This department would operate in conjunction with and get its ideas from a government-run Peace Academy, set up to offer four-year 'peace studies' degrees.  The department would also provide grants for peace studies departments in universities throughout America, and encourage peace...

Editor, the Tribune: So the University of Missouri has a "peace studies" program, which uses university resources to encourage students to protest against their country and even to skip their taxpayer-funded classes to do it. Is this the same university that constantly whines that the people of Missouri are too miserly in their support for "higher" education? One wonders how many other asinine programs, departments and classes we are funding. Evidently, MU has no respect or appreciation for the sacrifices made by hard-working Missourians on its behalf. But it does explain the large number of anti-American letters to the Tribune...