Monday, May 24, 2004
Total. Leadership. Failure.
I'm not talking about Abu Ghraib. I'm talking about the utter failure of UC Berkeley officials to insist on a modicum of academic discipline and maturity on the part of their students.
A lively debate over Palestine is fine. There's certainly plenty of room for it. But UC officials have clearly created an environment in which dissenting voices are intimidated and in which students and speakers are routinely threatened and even assaulted, and allowed it to fester.
How can a university claim excellence and yet have a critical mass of students so stupid?
And how can our academics stand for an environment with such lax standards of intellectual discipline?
And California taxpayers are feeding a professor who is teaching the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as something other than the grand slander it has long been demonstrated to be?
The governor should be asking for some resignations. If tenure becomes a problem, then their chairs should simply be defunded en masse, and we should start again from scratch.
Democrats--here's your Sister Souljah moment for the 21st century.
Want to win back the Presidency? Start by pissing off the Berkeley Islamonuts. It will cost you nothing in California. It will pay off huge dividends in Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, New Hampshire, and West Virginia. You know--all those states you lost in 2000 but should have won?
Don't get all nuanced on me, now. There's the ball. Hit it.
Splash, out
Jason
Thanks to Instapundit for finding the link.
A lively debate over Palestine is fine. There's certainly plenty of room for it. But UC officials have clearly created an environment in which dissenting voices are intimidated and in which students and speakers are routinely threatened and even assaulted, and allowed it to fester.
How can a university claim excellence and yet have a critical mass of students so stupid?
And how can our academics stand for an environment with such lax standards of intellectual discipline?
And California taxpayers are feeding a professor who is teaching the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" as something other than the grand slander it has long been demonstrated to be?
The governor should be asking for some resignations. If tenure becomes a problem, then their chairs should simply be defunded en masse, and we should start again from scratch.
Democrats--here's your Sister Souljah moment for the 21st century.
Want to win back the Presidency? Start by pissing off the Berkeley Islamonuts. It will cost you nothing in California. It will pay off huge dividends in Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas, New Hampshire, and West Virginia. You know--all those states you lost in 2000 but should have won?
Don't get all nuanced on me, now. There's the ball. Hit it.
Splash, out
Jason
Thanks to Instapundit for finding the link.
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