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September 29, 2003"WORLD ENDS, WOMEN AND MINORITIES HARDEST HIT" AWARDThis week's Horsefeathers' handwringer award goes to the historian Blanche Wiesen Cook. Speaking before an audience in Wellfleet, People's Republic of Massachussetts, she said: "We have this president that calls for 'all war, all the time,' nukes included..". "I call him George War Bush." She lamented that, at the City University of New York, where she teaches history and women's studies, the regular budget has been cut in half over the last 15 years, forcing the university to eliminate half its full-time faculty. "Here we are in the year 2003, with a war against public education and against public higher education," she said. "All over this country, public schools are closing."... Read the rest of this tale of horror here. Posted at 05:21 PM by
 
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HEY YOU MISSED THE BEST PART!!!
***Cook, an acclaimed historian, feminist author and civil libertarian, argues that "bipartisan silence" has allowed an Orwellian erosion of civil liberties and a dismantling of basic public services such as schools and libraries.
"This is the meanest moment in U.S. history since slavery," she said.
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She has got to be kidding or maybe high on something !? Wait, she was cold sober! Maybe she could have used a few drams....
SOUNDS LIKE A SMALL MINDED PUFFED UP AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BRAT. VERY WEAK THESIS STATEMENT. D minus in my AP class.
You call THIS a scholar... if she represents PEAK scholarship then maybe we are closer to the fall of the Empire than I imagine.
Read Ian Pear's DREAM OF SCIPIO..she can sign up to teach the Philosopher's class
..but then I forgot without Affirmative Action SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN ADMITTED
....Yep, keep yelping about the Yahoos. the Yahoos read you and say RECALL DAVIS..CUT THE COLLEGES
..DRAFT THEM ALL INTO THE INFANTRY OR CCC AND PUT THEM TO WORK!!! 'STRRRUTH ye get paid for that????
WHAT A LOAD OF POMPOUS NON-PRRRRODUCERRRRS!
Posted by: Ricardo Munror on September 29, 2003 11:20 PMAccording to people such as Cook, the government should just about pay for everything. It is frightening how our universities are infected by people who would be better off teaching at the old Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow. People who if it were not for the skewered world of academia, would be just about unemployable.
Posted by: Joel on September 30, 2003 11:51 AM"People who if it were not for the skewered world of academia, would be just about unemployable."
Yes, there exists a new priestly class of parasites and non-prodrucers and some are in the colleges in "fluff courses". Of course I would gladly take a pay boost for less work.
If I were King I would pass two laws:
1) No one could teach at University without three years teaching experience in High School
Posted by: Ricardo Munro on September 30, 2003 10:25 PM2) No one could be an administrator with out seven years classroom teaching experience
3) all adminstrators should be required to substitute teach at least twice a year or risk termination or cancellation of their teaching certificate. I believe in the Head Master tradition.
Odd how an ecological niche adapted specifically to venom-filled collectivists has formed right in the heart of our universities, isn't it?
But wait! The university environment:
-- exists specifically to provide "scholars" with a non-competitive environment;
-- is governed entirely by those selfsame "scholars";
-- floats on oceans of tax money, whether in the form of tuition assistance to students or federal grants to "researchers";
-- is largely protected from the consequences of its actions by the above factors and by a climate of judicial opinion that regards it as "private" despite the above factors, and therefore not subject to such trivial matters as the libel laws or the First Amendment.
Gee, suddenly that niche seems a lot less mysterious.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on October 1, 2003 04:22 AMOh I wish I could see this. Anyhow it was intresting to read about it here! Thank ya!
Posted by: Barbara on October 1, 2003 06:29 AMThe truth is outhere
Posted by: Taylor Fern on December 10, 2003 11:27 PMA little nothing goes a long, long way.
Posted by: Lashutka Michael on December 21, 2003 01:49 AM