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2003-12-27 International

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Posted by phil_b 2003-12-27 4:04:29 AM|| || Front Page|| [11137 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Phil, the real problem here is not the left-wing, no nothing, pussilaminous academics but the family, the peers, the friends, the teachers in grade and high school and others that have left that student without any other perspective to measure all this BS against.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2003-12-27 5:25:46 AM|| 2003-12-27 5:25:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 OMIGAWD, PEOPLE! READ!! This isn't Berkeley or Columbia, frcrissake, it's Tel-Aviv f***ing University! Aren't any of the professors Israelis? If 5th-columnists ~~with phony Jewish names~~ are entrenched there it's time to raze the whole educational system starting with Berkeley, etc.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-27 5:58:51 AM|| 2003-12-27 5:58:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Hopefully the IDF takes most of these Yuts in hand after graduation and gives them a good education.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-27 7:41:02 AM|| 2003-12-27 7:41:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry jack, but this sounds like the standard Lefist mantra that no one is responsible for any thing. And if no one is reponsible for anything who takes responsibility for the world we live in? Well I for one am extremely glad people are trying to take responsibility.

Posted by phil_b 2003-12-27 8:28:43 AM|| 2003-12-27 8:28:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 This is a tough call. With high school students, those of minority age, have no de facto responsibility, but when they enter college, they are adults, and they must know there are consequences for what they believe, inasmuch as they believe there are none.

While personal behavior can be traced to parents, political beliefs are shaped by those you are closest to (that can includes parents and family); those who say the things that seems to matter to you.

College teachers seem to have developed this little Marxist world and no one gains entrance unless you hold valid beliefs, just like every communist political organization the world over. I think cleaning out these folks would be a good direction to go. And by cleaning out I don't mean firing squads. I mean reassignment; to janitorial services where they can be closer to the 'people' they profess to love so much.

Oh, and by the way: Were the situation reversed and Berkeley was inundated with rightwingers and anti-idiotarians, the left would be calling for firing squads.

Posted by badanov 2003-12-27 10:30:26 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2003-12-27 10:30:26 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 See like "maD cOw DisEase" it is spreading after breaking out on US campuses. Now you guys know what to believe when suddenly ex security guys come out backing Yossi Beilin or reservists refuse to serve.
They are from the Political Science faculty. Remember too, some months back students started boycotting the classes of lecturers who supported the "reservists" who refused to fly. There are more solid thinking kids on campus than these idiotarians. The unfortunate thing is that they have been brainwashed by the copying of curriculums from Berkely and such places. Don't forget most get their doctorates from the US Ivy League places if not the LSE or Sorbonne. What can one expect?
Just pray for enough blogs to expose this.

Posted by Barry 2003-12-27 12:09:25 PM|| 2003-12-27 12:09:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Shit, you can get a better real world Geo-politico education here at Rantburg than any of those high dollar class rooms. Your right Barry regarding the blogosphere. It's the open mic.

I read more intelligent posts and remarks here than you could get at any top U.

Rantburg U!

Posted by Lucky 2003-12-27 12:18:52 PM|| 2003-12-27 12:18:52 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 For information on staff at the Jaffee Center see: www.tau.ac.il/humanities/faculty/ins/cen_jaf.html

Posted by Tancred 2003-12-27 12:23:03 PM|| 2003-12-27 12:23:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's a fairly clear example of the leftism on campus. My youngest daughter entered the University of Oregon and studied Biology, as part of a Pre-Med curriculum. She is a good student, always put her studies first ever since Middle School. She worked her way up to a 3.8 GPA in a difficult subject area at U of Oregon.

In her Junior year, when it became clear that she would have the grades to get into medical school, we started looking around at how the $150K-250K cost would be met. I found that the US military gives scholarships, full rides, to medical school in return for about 5 years of the young doctor's time when they graduate. They offer up to $50K/yr and a cash stipend of $1200/mo, and a commission as a 2Lt when you enter the program. The Navy, Army and Air Force have the same deal, there are a few differences about residencies, etc but the programs are essentially the same.

Daughter was initially enthused. Even thought she would look good in Navy Whites. She had plenty of family tradition, as my Dad, one uncle and a first cousin were all military doctors. She had a year to wait to sign up for the program, and after our viisit to the Navy recruiter, she couldn't wait to get back to school and tell everyone how Uncle Sammy was going to pay for her expensive medical education.

Well, she told everyone back at school. Her laboratory professors, all a bunch of lefty weasels started to work on her, unbeknownst to me. When it became time to sign up for the program, the Navy sent materials to me and I called her to say I was forwarding them down to the U of O for her.

I was stunned when she told me not to bother, she had decided not to take the scholarship. I asked her what had changed her mind, and she said that she couldn't be part of the illegal Bush war (plans). I told her that as a new doc, she wouldn't be going into combat, but she gave me more of the same lefty antiwar malarkey.

End of the story is, she's going to be $200K in debt when she graduates, and will be broke for the first 6-10 years after she adds MD to her name. She won't be able to live like the well-off doctors she learns from, and she knows it. She has doomed herself to poverty for the first half of her life while she pays off those loans, all because her professors filled her head full of antiwar mush.

If I had names, I would be spending my retirement in prison for felony assault or worse...

Posted by Rivrdog 2003-12-27 6:05:47 PM|| 2003-12-27 6:05:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 dog, condolences. My own seems determined to go without "higher education" and may end up not amounting to much, but at least she hasn't done anything like that to ~~get herself written out of my will~~ disappoint me.

Posted by Glenn (not Reynolds) 2003-12-27 8:22:22 PM|| 2003-12-27 8:22:22 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Don't sweat it too much Rivrdog it's still way early in the game for both of ya.

Posted by Shipman 2003-12-27 8:29:52 PM|| 2003-12-27 8:29:52 PM|| Front Page Top

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