Yes, the Jesuits then in Latin America. But in North America they are as conservative as Bush.
Gene On Feb 20, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Until the Pope appointed a new head (I forget the date now), the Jesuits > were virtually part of the Latin-American Revolutionary Forces. I presume > they have been tamed by now. > > Carol > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Devine > Sent: Monday, February 20, 2012 1:43 PM > To: Progressive Economics > Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Leftist scholar John Coatsworth named Columbia provost > > MICHAEL YATES wrote: >>> Why would a leftist scholar want to be Provost of any university? >>> Provosts do a lot of dirty work. > > that's usually true. But at LMU, we once had a provost with little > responsibility. The President -- a Jesuit, natch -- had to throw a lot > of cocktail parties with potential donors. He decided that he needed a > substitute wife to act as hostess. So they appointed a nun to the job. > > Nowadays, the provost is like the prime minister and the president is > like the king (but still the major fund-raiser). As a possible sign of > the times, he's not a Jesuit. He's not even Catholic! Yay! > -- > Jim Devine / "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to > be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But > in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
