Is hate inevitable?Is resistance the secret of joy?
When the college president replies, "yes yes lots of times with lots of girls," should a proffie silently
pity the man, or defiantly and loudly shout that the earth is not flat, that it revolves around the sun, that black people are human, that atoms don't really look like plum pudding, and so on?
Is there a place for truth in higher education? And where are the boundaries drawn?
https://onenewsnow.com/education/2017/04/19/final-exams-are-next-weekunless-you-hate-trump
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2017/05/08/black-grad-students-harvard-hold-own-commencement-ceremony/6tGHbUjyz8vLvDNVZwzidL/story.html
https://heatst.com/culture-wars/students-refuse-to-take-exams-after-photo-of-classmate-wearing-blackface-resurfaces/
http://www.hrc.org/resources/lavender-graduation
https://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/08/university-grants-black-students-extension-on-final-exams-because-of-alleged-racist-incident/
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/17/u-illinois-calls-james-watson-lecture-over-his-racist-comments
I'd like to believe that I have more of the answers now than I did when I was half my age, but that's really not clear to me. What's true and right? It's tough out there.
ReplyDeleteI find I have fewer answers now than I did when I was half my age...
ReplyDelete...wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then...
DeleteTime to listen to some Bob Seger.
Maybe once I get grades in I'll have some answers (or at least time to read the articles)? Probably not, but I may need to believe that to get through the next 24-48 hours.
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