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  • Universities can't be run on statistics

    08/29/2006 7:00:24 AM PDT · by Gordongekko909 · 13 replies · 505+ views
    The Maroon ^ | March 19, 2004 | Michael Saliba
    Modern universities have prided themselves on increasing diversity during the past years. Minority enrollments have increased, ethnic and women studies programs have grown, physical plants have been altered to accommodate the physically handicapped, etc. However, intellectual diversity, the kind that matters most in the academic context, including diversity of thought on the most fundamental economic, political and social issues, has actually decreased. Some of the themes that dominate the modern curriculum are: capitalism is inherently unjust, dehumanizing and impoverishing (despite the fact that it has raised almost everyone's living standard, particularly that of the poor, to unprecedented heights and has...
  • Three Cheers for the Syrians (...the ones who just left the National Council of Churches)

    08/22/2005 3:16:34 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 9 replies · 777+ views
    The Weekly Standard ^ | August 29, 2005 | Mark D. Tooley
    LAST MONTH, FOR THE first time in years, a member denomination withdrew from the National Council of Churches (NCC). The spunky, 400,000-member communion is the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, and its decision to quit the reflexively left-wing NCC was based on a unanimous vote of clergy and lay delegates.According to one church spokesman, a recent NCC fundraising letter helped spark the departure. It asked supporters to fight "right-wing attacks" on the controversial church agency. The letter named President Bush, Rush Limbaugh, James Dobson, and the Heritage Foundation as insidious forces that must be opposed."It got to be...