From John Leo:

"Hundreds of pages, without exception, are about how to indoctrinate students," school of education professor Jan Blits told the campus student paper, the Review. "What's surprising is how open they are about it." Blits acquired the papers from the residence life program by simply asking for them. Kathleen Kerr, the director of residential life for the university "was so proud of the program she just handed them over," he said. Blits, head of the university's chapter of the National Association of Scholars, and another professor at the school of education, Linda Gottfredson, have been cooperating with FIRE to get the story out. Gottfredson said: "Residential Life has the whole person and they try to change beliefs - the heart and soul of a person - which is exactly what totalitarian institutions do. This is a national issue and FIRE is not finished."

Yes, of course they're proud of the program. They're just upset that anyone else sees anything wrong with it. After all, why should they have any shame in teaching students "correct" thoughts? Isn't that their job as educators?

Such self righteousness is how totalitarians get to be totalitarians.

Can the parents really be unaware of what their children are being taught? I doubt it. Here's a scary thought--do most of the parents approve of the program? Do they think its "normal" for the average college experience?

I'd be yanking my kid and my money out of that school so fast, their hypocritical heads would spin. But that's just me.

I like this sentence:

"Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society."

This is demonstrably true. The University of Delaware Residential Life program is part of society. It has a system. And it is oppressive.

If I went through the program I would agree with this statement wholeheartedly.

Yours,
Wince

I suspect that many parents view their own college years through rose-colored glasses, and don't think twice about little Johnny or Jane to their alma mater, imagining it to be unchanged from what it was a generation ago.

I'm a U of D graduate myself, and I was stunned to find that kind of nonsense going on at my old school.

Now, if only President Harker has the balls to keep the program shut down and eventually abolished.....

Gah, I really should proofread my posts more closely......

"... about SENDING little Johnny or...."

You know... this has me wondering, why is it always the leftists who beat the drums until someone who made some idiotic and supposedly right-wing comment is cajoled into resigning.

Someone, maybe several someone's, clearly need to lose their jobs over this... it is so far over the line it's not even funny.(except if you imagine the student body as a sort of ersatz Hogan's Heroes operating under the radar of RA Schultz.)

Or as a friend of mine once said to me under somewhat different circumstances, "The line is just a dot to you, isn't it?"

I'm firmly in favor of a program that ensures that as many college students as possible are p___ed off at the left.