Friday, May 23, 2008
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In the "Glad it's not ME" category:
Furman graduation uproar.
Yikes. More rancor than a Hatfield-McCoy wedding.
Now, I have little sympathy with those who are planning to boycott. As little as I would enjoy the occasion, it really doesn't fall into the "evils not to be borne" column for me.
I don't think anyone is covering the really important question, though.
Will the Secret Service be allowing people to bring their knitting?? If not, I might have to reconsider my position.
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Comments (5)
So let me get this right. In academia you teach to "think critically and respect other people's views" by protesting and boycotting when one of those "other people" is coming there and may express his view??
On the other hand, suggesting that faculty ought to be forced to attend the ceremony is a tad heavy-handed, no?
I bet knitting needles *are* banned in the presidential presence, LOL.
Yes, Daylily, I think the student response is over the top. I can understand the frustration that motivated it, but I don't think forcing the errant faculty to attend is going to happen. (Nor should it.)
Nothing like the good professor's hypocrisy of "respecting other people's views."
There is an old saying, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. As a teacher, I would want to go just so I could make sure I was using the right ammunition while I was poisoning (I mean shaping) young minds. As a student, I would want to go to see if the propaganda (oops, world views) my teachers were spewing held water. I think we have given too much of an audience to acting out, and not enough to what's right.