4/25/2008

How the sex-obsessed culture damages girls

Interview With Carol Platt Liebau About Her Book, Prude: How the Sex-Obsessed Culture Damages Girls (and America, Too!) at Rightwing News.

10/16/2007

Advice to College Students: Don’t major in English

Filed under: Education , General @ 5:00 am
“Progressive” education now means English majors no longer study Shakespeare or consider the great thinkers and writers of the past. What a shame….what a shame that people think they’re actually getting an “education”; what they’re really getting is ‘indoctrination’ to a worldview that is radically opposed to American thought and values.
clipped from www.townhall.com

The bad news is that Shakespeare has disappeared from required courses in English departments at more than three-fourths of the top 25 U.S. universities, but the good news is that only 1.6 percent of America’s 19 million undergraduates major in English, according to Department of Education figures.
When I visit college campuses, students for years have been telling me that the English departments are the most radicalized of all departments, more so than sociology, psychology, anthropology, or even women’s studies.

Many undergraduate courses focus on extremely specialized subjects of interest only to the professor who is trying to “publish or perish,” but of virtually no value to students. Examples are: “Beast Culture: Animals, Identity, and Western Literature” at the University of Pennsylvania; and “Food and Literature” at Swarthmore College.
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9/8/2007

The Worst School in America

By David Horowitz and Jacob Laksin - FrontPageMagazine

Nestled in a redwood glade on cliffs above the Pacific Ocean, the University of California at Santa Cruz is one of the most picturesque campuses in America. Its 15,000 students attend classes in 62 majors at 10 colleges, in an environment that would seem an ideal locale for the contemplative life. In the hard sciences, it can be said that Santa Cruz handsomely fulfills its academic expectations.

Its physics program is ranked among the best in the country, while its Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, which houses the Lick Observatory, is a world class scientific institution. But inside the classrooms of its liberal arts division something besides the life of the mind is being nourished. In these environs, UC Santa Cruz is beyond any doubt the most radical university in the United States, its curricula anything but academic.

How to make a revolution is a seminar for credit

8/31/2007

Random throat slashing at the University of Colorado

Injured student

BOULDER, Colo. — A Boulder policeman who arrived a few seconds after a freshman’s throat was slashed is relieved the stabbing at the University of Colorado didn’t turn out worse.

Master Officer John Smith said he heard screaming and saw students running away. He ran to help and faced what would be one of the more stressful situations of his three-decade career.

“It evolved very rapidly and I thought it worked out real well,” said Smith.

A Boulder County sheriff’s deputy, Stuart Holt, already had a gun pointed at the suspected attacker, Kenton Astin.

Smith told Holt he was next to him and started to prepare to use his Taser gun.

By his count, it’s been eight or nine years since he was issued the less-lethal weapon and he was about to use it for the first time.

He said the suspect dropped the knife, but kept moving toward him, punching numbers into a cell phone, threatening to detonate something, counting down toward one.

And, he was rambling.

“‘I’m the creator. I’m … something along those lines. It’s the end of the world. Columbine,’” Smith said, describing what Astin was saying.

Smith deployed the Taser but it didn’t stop the suspect in his tracks.

“It distracted him enough that we were able to then close on him and take him to the ground. So it was effective,” said Smith.

Several others helped the two officers get control and handcuff Astin.

Officer Uses Taser For 1st Time In Career

5/19/2007

Indoctrinate U

Here is the trailer for the new film. Brought to you by Evan Coyne Maloney and On the Fence Films.

I’m beginning to feel a certain kind of intolerance toward my views in school, so I can really relate to what this film has to say. The problem will be, of course, how I’m going to handle it, and how will I be able to suffer through it?

They’ve already told me to shut up about it….

Speech codes. Censorship. Sensitivity training. Political conformity and rehabilitation. Intolerance. Hostility to religion. Violations of freedom of speech and conscience. Kangaroo courts. We usually associate such things with the repressive regimes of North Korea, China, Cuba, and the former Soviet Union. But instead, this assault on free thought is taking place all over America–right now–on our nation’s campuses.

Also a short article about the film at Newsbusters, here.

You should also check out other films by On the Fence Films…they have a few about National Health Care that are also mindblowers.

4/29/2007

teaching for social justice

Filed under: Education , General @ 5:39 pm

Interesting that this is at the top at Frontpage and that website seems to be having this mysterious problem…
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Noted writer and critic of modern education Sol Stern has authored a new pamphlet on the leftist assault on our public schools: Teaching for “Social Justice.” To read it in its entirety, Click Here. To order copies of this pamphlet, call Stephanie at the David Horowitz Freedom Center at 1-800-752-6562.

Until the site comes up,if you call Stephanie, mention people are having trouble accessing the Frontpage Magazine site. I have a feeling they are fully aware and are working to repair whatever damage has been done…I’m accessing more of it now than before.

2/12/2007

The Case Against Darwin

Filed under: Education , Environmentalism , General @ 2:05 am

Here is more, from
The Case Against Darwin, Why the Evidence Should be Examined
by James Perloff.

Evidence From Genetics

Evidence from Origins Science

Evidence in Biochemistry

Evidence from Taxonomy

The Microevolution argument

Evidence from Molecular Biology

That is pretty conclusive, on the antiquated myth of evolution which should be abolished from text books as a laughable farce.

1/28/2007

John’s ethics lawsuit

Filed under: Education , General @ 8:20 am

John Bambeneck, the owner and prioprietor of Part Time Pundit, filed a lawsuit with the State of Illinois over Ethics. For background, see this. And here’s the weird thing about this mess: the reason he filed it was because he was very familiar with the content and finished the test before the time period that was designated by the test nazis. So even though he answered the questions correctly, he ‘failed’ because he wasn’t slow as molasses taking the test. Apparently it’s those who struggle with the questions over ethics and take their time through the test and make the time requirement in addition to answering the questions correctly, who are the ones who pass it.