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Richard Bennett — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 18:39:16 -0000

Kids ought to learn right from wrong from their parents; I pity the poor fool who turns to a burnt-out hippie for moral guidance.

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Bob — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 15:39:02 -0000

My worry is not about the students purely following the PC line given to them, but that they aren't learning any true right and wrong. Men and women are different. Men are falling behind women in many areas becuase American culture has immasculated them for the past 30 years. The liberal experiment has ended and it failed. I am a recovering liberal. I thought that idealism could win the day. Boy was I wrong! The 1960's are the greatest curse on America since the lack of faithfulness at Jamestown. Covenant people, it is all about the covenant. Read Winthrop! If we return then there may be hope again.

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Portia Stanke — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 13:15:19 -0000

The faculty at Harvard may be increasingly PC, but the student body is becoming increasingly business-oriented. It's essentially aging leftist fossils teaching the next generation of i-bankers, doctors, and lawyers, most of whom are liberal in name only and couldn't care less about politics outside of economic issues.

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PacRim Jim — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 05:48:08 -0000

Harvard has degenerated from a university I wanted to attend to a university I'm glad I didn't attend. The halls are alive with the sound of PC.

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Richard Bennett — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:57:50 -0000

I find this part of the quote on the Babangida book telling, yusifu: "It is intended ... as a corrective to standardized journalistic and political science clichés about the nature of autocracy and corruption in Africa..."

I believe he intends to say Babangida wasn't such a bad guy, all in all, and this belief is reinforced by the fact that the co-author is a former member of the Babangida junta.

Voodoo may be many things, Mr. Wallace, but science isn't one of them.

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William Wallace — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:53:29 -0000

C'mon. I'm even more anti-PC and pro Summers than most of you, but you lessen your effect by sniping at the anthropologist for studying Voodoo. Hell's Bells, that's like sneering at a biologist for studying fleas (which once cost a colleague of mine one quarter's research leave).

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yusifu — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 22:07:50 -0000

Umm, the quote from Prof. Matory hardly reads as an apology for President Babangida. Trying to understand the dynamics of Babangida's dictatorship in a culturally sensitive way is a long way away from apologizing for it. Matory's book on cross-dressing Yoruba priests is one of the best pieces of Africanist anthropology in recent years, and it's not clear to me what's wrong with his being on the editorial board of GLQ. I don't get what makes him an "admirer of matriarchy," but is that any worse than being an admirer of patriarchy, which is what President Summers's apologists seems to be?

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Harvard MBA '84 — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 16:43:30 -0000

Sometimes, Harvard makes me puke...

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Ron G. — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:22:33 -0000

"I disagree with what you say but I'll defend to death your right to say it" Harvard faculty version.... "I disagree with what you have to say AND I'll destroy you"

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Harvard student — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 07:27:44 -0000

Having spent a little time with Randy Matory (as he's known on campus), I've seen him flare up in fits of rage at Western abuses while expressing at best passing disapproval of non-Western atrocities. While an intellectual freak like any other Harvard professor, his strange bursts of passions reveal a moral compass that is totally off.

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GaijinBiker — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:54:57 -0000

Actually, Harvard has no problem with sexism by members of its faculty... as long as it's the right kind of sexism, of course.

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TJIC from TJICistan — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 02:21:28 -0000

The absolute funniest comment I read about Harvard, Matory, voodoo, and Summers is

here.

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Robert Koslover — Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:23:07 -0000

Has anyone noticed the ironic lesson in this? Mr. Summers tried to appease his fanatic faculty, rather than fight them. And he lost. That's no surprise to conservatives. Lesson to the left: Appeasement doesn't work! If these very same professors, let alone their partners in the left-wing media, ever really learned that lesson, they would soon cease being pacifists, now wouldn't they? Their own actions just proved (albeit, in a different arena) that their own arguments are bunk!

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G. Hamid — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:15:25 -0000

Let Me Get This Straight

The Colorado University at Boulder faculty have expressed their support for Ward Churchill, who lied about being a Native American, called all but the janitors killed on 9/11 "little Eichmanns", claimed other's artwork as his own, and plagiarized the writing of fellow academics.

The Harvard University faculty have expressed no confidence in Lawrence Summers, who said that women might not have as great an aptitude for science and math as men.

So let me get this straight, people actually pay money to attend these asylums?

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Lubo Motl — Tue, 15 Mar 2005 22:06:29 -0000

Very useful information, thanks. I will quote you on my physics blog, if you allow. ;-) All the best, Lubos