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Skriven 2007-02-08 18:19:15 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av VERN HUMPHREY (1:123/140)
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VERN HUMPHREY -> ED HULETT wrote:
 EH>> The Washington state legislature voted to give resident aliens
(regardless o
 EH>> being a legal resident or not) reduced tuitions in the many state
institutes
 EH>> higher learning. Our idiot governor called it astep forward in embracing
tru
 EH>> diversity. Whatever that meant.

 VH> Ah, yes -- diversity.  Diversity in everything but thought.

Of course.

Here's something from Today's Opinion Journal's Best of the Web:


 VH> A Move for Real Diversity
 VH> Bloomberg columnist Andy Ferguson spots what he calls a "trendlette":

 VH>     Most recently it's been percolating in Missouri, where Representative
Jane Cunningham introduced a
 VH>     bill that will surely unnerve many of her state's higher education
bureaucrats.

 VH>     Cunningham's bill is aimed straight at the ideological orthodoxy that
holds sway on U.S. college
 VH>     campuses. It would require that Missouri's state-funded colleges and
universities announce each year
 VH>     what they have done institutionally "to ensure and promote
intellectual diversity and academic freedom."
 VH>     A bill similar to Cunningham's has also been introduced in Virginia.

 VH>     In 2005, the state legislature in Pennsylvania established a special
committee to investigate academic
 VH>     freedom and intellectual diversity on its campuses. The committee is
requiring Pennsylvania's public
 VH>     colleges and universities to report by November 2008 on what concrete
steps they've taken to ensure
 VH>     "student rights" with respect to intellectual diversity.

 VH>     And the South Dakota Board of Regents, responding to a similar move by
its state legislature, now requires
 VH>     that an a [sic] so-called Academic Freedom Statement be included in
all course syllabuses, informing
 VH>     students that only academic performance, and not their political
opinions, will serve as a basis for their
 VH>     grades.

 VH> Opponents predictably call this an assault on academic freedom. But such
efforts would not be necessary if
 VH> professors lived up to the responsibilities that academic freedom entails.
Those are outlined in the American
 VH> Association of University Professors' 1940 Statement on Academic Freedom.
Some excerpts:

 VH>     Teachers are entitled to freedom in the classroom in discussing their
subject, but they should be careful
 VH>     not to introduce into their teaching controversial matter which has no
relation to their subject. . . .

 VH>     College and university teachers are citizens, members of a learned
profession, and officers of an
 VH>     educational institution. When they speak or write as citizens, they
should be free from institutional
 VH>     censorship or discipline, but their special position in the community
imposes special obligations. As
 VH>     scholars and educational officers, they should remember that the
public may judge their profession and
 VH>     their institution by their utterances. Hence they should at all times
be accurate, should exercise
 VH>     appropriate restraint, should show respect for the opinions of others,
and should make every effort to
 VH>     indicate that they are not speaking for the institution.

 VH> We're not entirely comfortable with the idea of politicians telling
universities how to conduct their
 VH> business. But it's also clear that self-regulation has failed, so maybe a
little interference from outside
 VH> is in order.

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 VH>>>>> But now they can do things to get social security that would get an
 VH>>>>> American citizen thrown in jail.

 EH>>>> At that point they should be sent back to Mexico instead of signed up
 VH>>> for SS

 VH>>> But they won't -- Social Security will be syphoned into Mexico.

 EH>> Yep, and the recipient will also be working under the table.

 VH> Yes -- Social Security will become the mainstay of Mexico's economy.

Mexico is corrupt from the top down.

Ed

-- 
"But the safety of the people of America against dangers from
foreign force depends not only on their forbearing to give
just causes of war to other nations, but also on their placing
and continuing themselves in such a situation as not to invite
hostility or insult; for it need not be observed that there are
pretended as well as just causes of war."

-- John Jay (Federalist No. 4)


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