tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31167152.post6447143602065701942..comments2023-08-06T02:52:08.542-05:00Comments on Bayous and Beyond: Come On, Come On, Emmanuel . . .Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31167152.post-26660063482897624442007-04-25T12:32:00.000-05:002007-04-25T12:32:00.000-05:00oba, oba, oba. do you really think after four yea...oba, oba, oba. do you really think after four years at a new england liberal arts college in the early 1990s that any comparable institution really has an "educational" mission that is its primary focus anymore ? come on now, the only educating (or should i say "indoctrinating" ?) that goes on in places like that nowadays is to produce new members of the Democrat Party (as our current president likes to reference it). students attending such schools are taught first and foremost to not offend anyone under any circumstances whatsoever (which in itself stifles discussion), second to defer their intellect to anyone on a soapbox (which stifles learning), third to give a soapbox to anyone who looks like they might not otherwise be able to secure one (which does nothing to prepare anyone for the realities of life outside of an ivory tower), and fourth that they aren't communists or socialists but that republicans are the next worst thing thereto (god bless).<BR/><BR/>the end result is a place like tiny Williams College being subjected to a hunger strike because it's not the bastion of Latio Studies that it should be. i'm still waiting for some up and coming history major to go on his own hunger strike because there aren't enough Medieval History classes being offered. on that day, i'll fly back to New York City, put on a dress, and personally campaign for Hillary For President in the middle of Broadway.<BR/><BR/>so there you have it - your mission if you choose to accept it. find me such an aspiring history major, present to me the news article covering his poor plight (the student needs to either pass out from lack of nourishment after at least 14 days or secure a tenure position in the History Dept for a Medievalist professor), and line up the camera crews in Times Square ! <BR/><BR/> - chadwin, who is still held back in life because he was not able to learn enough about the Middle Ages in college...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com