Title: academic angst
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Finally, the NY [TIMES] fronts the growing divide on college campuses between peace-loving professors, many of them veterans of the Vietnam era, and their hawkish, right-leaning students. The piece focuses largely
Devine, James wrote:
from MS SLATE's on-line summary of major US newspapers
Finally, the NY [TIMES] fronts the growing divide on college
campuses between peace-loving professors, many of them veterans of
the Vietnam era, and their hawkish, right-leaning students. The
piece focuses largely on
I don't know about the rest of the world, but here in Chico we have some
wonderful activist students, but at the same time, I guess that about
30-40% of my students in my introductory classes accept the Saddam-World
Trade Center connection on some level or another. There is a sort of why
In my case, 375 student elite liberal arts college, the ratio is around
20%. Until I suggested/provoked the students to cancel the classess and
organize a teach-in there was no visible activity on campus --they
seemed a bit paralyzed. There has been always a small group of militant
ones (20
From: Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Devine, James wrote:
from MS SLATE's on-line summary of major US newspapers
Finally, the NY [TIMES] fronts the growing divide on college campuses
between peace-loving professors, many of them veterans of the Vietnam era,
and their hawkish, right-leaning
Michael Perelman wrote:
I guess that about
30-40% of my students in my introductory classes accept the Saddam-World
Trade Center connection on some level or another.
Hey, look on the bright side - that's well below the general population!
Doug
Michael Perelman wrote:
I guess that about
30-40% of my students in my introductory classes accept the Saddam-World
Trade Center connection on some level or another.
Ask them how many Iraqis were among the 9/11 hijackers. Only 17% of
the U.S. pop correctly answers 0.
Doug
e. ahmet tonak wrote:
In my case, 375 student elite liberal arts college, the ratio is around
20%.
That's one hell of a lot larger a percentage than was ever achieved in
the '60s. Clearly today's students are far more activist than were the
students of the '60s.
Carrol
