Apparently academia is no longer satisfied with marinating students in a politically correct on-campus environment. Now they're being sent to the reeducation camps.

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John Leo has further thoughts:

The indoctrination program pushes students to accept the university's ideas on politics, race, sex, sociology, moral philosophy and environmentalism. The training is run by Kathleen Kerr, director of residential life, who reportedly considers it a "cutting-edge" program that can be exported to other universities around the country. Residential assistants usually provide services to residents and have light duties, such as settling squabbles among students. Kerr and her program are more ambitious. She has been quoted as saying that the job of RAs is to educate the whole human being with a "curricular approach to residential education." In this curricular approach, students are required to report their thoughts and opinions. One professor says: "You have to confess what you believe to the RA." The RAs write reports to their superiors on student progress in cooperating with the "treatment."

The basic question about the program is how did they think they could ever get away with this?

Good question. But maybe, given the history of the past thirty years or so, it's not really surprising that they thought they could. And the depressing thing is that they still may.

The deeper follow-on question is: where are the parents, who are paying the bills for these atrocities against the Enlightenment? Maybe if the word gets out, they'll show up...

Wow, check out this secondary link. The attached document (some sort of training manual) is the source for these crazy quotes. I don't know squat about brainwashing techniques, but the complete undermining of anything resembling an authority on racism (even the Archie Bunker Show) would seem to be useful as an initial technique.

Serious Question: Are Muslim students obliged to accept these policies?

Serious Answer: don't be silly

All the more reason I'm glad I attended the U of D twenty-odd years ago-- a good school, even if it's now riddled with PC loons.

I fired off an e-mail to President Harker. It may not do any good, but it can't hurt, either.

Green=Red. EastAisa Doubleplusgood. Eurasia and Oceania Doubleplus ungood. Dismantle oppression. Big Brother will be watching to make sure you do.

I wondered when something like this would surface. After all, Primary and Secondary education have been the subject of social engineering for decades. This is probably a natural progression of that process.

So, given that the university does not understand the Constitution how can we expect anyone else to?

Back in the relatively dark ages when I was an undergraduate, universities were places where tolerance was almost a mandatory entrance qualification because you would see and hear all sorts of things, many of them very different from one's original background. All protected of course.

A university is many things; an academic environment, a social environment and a work environment but above all else it is a melting pot of ideas and maybe a crucible in which some ideas are really challenged until the truth of the matter drops out.

This university makes the service academies look really tolerant, and mostly they are, but their students are usually more career focussed than in a normal university.

Everyone involved in this sorry mess should be fired and the university should issue an unreserved public apology to all the students etc caught up in this nonsense.

What's the opposite of diversity? University.

First: I don't know if Mr.Minchau's riddle is original, but it is Excellent.
Second: I think a Muslim student would make an excellent test case, and that he/she do so entirely tongue-in-cheek as a feint. I really want that University to squirm.

Craig, I wish that I could take credit for that riddle, but I first read it on smalldeadanimals. I don't know if Kate first came up with it, but she uses it quite often when pointing out some stupidity on campus.