Cabron!!

[Solid]

A lot of the IVs don't have ROTC... maybe the recognize the subversive potential of such an organization?

Solid

[DunbarFC]

At NDD's favorite school Harvard, you can take ROTC classes but you have to go over to MIT to do so

[Solid]

I know- Harvard takes issue with the Military's 'anti-homosexul and bi-sexual' regulations...

Apparently most of them were forced off of campus by angry and, of course, misinformed students during the Viet Nam war. "Yes! Protest the military, not the government itself, because, of course, the military MADE themselves go to war"... Obvious reflection of the fact that G.P.A's mean zip.

Solid

[SOGvet]

http://www.massachusetts.edu/?fuseac....9&item_ID=176

Ah, the power of the internet - that and I'm sure the UMass Prez didn't want to have to go toe-to-toe with Bill O'Reilly over Senor Gonzales's comments - which is exactly where it was going.

RIP, Ranger Tillman

[The Reaper]

Originally posted by DunbarFC
At NDD's favorite school Harvard, you can take ROTC classes but you have to go over to MIT to do so

At the risk of endangering my blue collar roots, years ago, I had an approved application to MIT, prior to the interview phase.

I got the MIT Catalog in the mail, and right there among the Student Activities section was Students for a Democratic Society (if you don't know what that is/was, do some Googling).

I thought about it, called up, canceled my interview, and told them I had selected another school.

Scary to think that they are the conservative ones now, though I am sure that MIT gets a large part of their money through Government funded research.

TR

[NousDefionsDoc]

I've got the ADVON handled. 8 years.

Protracted War Strategy.

[Gonzo]

Articles like this no longer make me angry - perhaps I have gone past anger. It frustrates me that we continue to have Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines making sacrifices for the greater good of the people of our country, and so many of them take the military for granted . They assume it will always be there - and it will, because our military will never let our country down.

[Ghostrider]

Here's my UMASS story. Did my grad work and worked there from '90-93......This happened during the Gulf War.


I remember walking into class one day and my buddy saying "Where the heck have you been...I've been arguing with the lesbian coalition about why we should be over there." I told him: "Jimmy my boy you should have known better than argue without back-up." His response: "Yeah, I know but they were so annoying and ignorant."; )

Amherst is also the place where some dude lit himself on fire in protest of the war. I pretty much thought it was a good idea since he removed himself from contributing to the gene pool.....yeah, that statement didn't go over too well either.

btw, his website does include his e-mail addresses.

rene@student.umass.edu or renegonzalez7@hotmail.com

It is sad that our universities and professors are allowed to be such liberal bedwetters without any real repercussions. After my four years at UNC chapel hill I was completely turned off from upper level education, at least at that university. A professor of anthropology actually added multiple choice questions to the end of an exam addressing the war in Iraq. The questions followed the form of, "the war in Iraq is wrong because a), b), c)....etc." These questions actually counted towards the grade on the exam. The only thing said about the biased and irresponsible actions of the professor were found in the Republican newsletter that comes out 4 times a year and is often taken of the news stands by campus liberals before they can be circulated. Where do you begin to reform a school that is this far gone? And don't forget this is the same school that made a book on the Koran mandatory reading for incoming freshmen my senior year 02'.

SO

[Solid]

All good reasons why we should infiltrate tenured academia and acquire their liberal powers!
Ten years down the line:

Mrs. Defions' Philosophy Test:

Liberals are wrong because:
A) They wet the bed.
B) They use circular arguments
C) They smell bad
D) Because they are!

Conscription is good because:
A) It's sneaky
B) It's good for The People
C) Liberals disapprove
D) It'll make a man/woman out of you

(Test scene montage backgrounded by Cadence from The Yard: "Fighting Soldiers from the sky...")

Solid

Edited because SF uses telekenesis to float around campus.

[The Reaper]

Originally posted by Solid
(Test scene montage backgrounded by marching and Cadence from outside: "Fighting Soldiers from the sky...")

Solid

Solid:

The one thing that SF guys don't do is march.

TR

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by The Reaper
Solid:

The one thing that SF guys don't do is march.

TR

Funny, that's the same thing we say about tankers.

On topic, the scary part of "higher" learning is that some of the profs have no actual real world experience regarding what they are teaching. This is especially the case with profs who go from undergraduate to graduate directly to PhD programs with little or no exposure to working in their fields outside of the university setting.

Another true story.....first week of class and the prof is discussing delayed onset muscle soreness. She explains that after initial soreness occurs 48-72 hours after doing an unfamiliar exercise, it will go away and no further soreness will occur. Now this being the first week, I'm thinking do I really want to challenge that statement? Of course, I did, by explaining based on my years of experience (competition power-lifting) that her statement was incorrect. Her response was a genuinely curious: "Really? I did not know that.".......the scary part is she is a tenured professor who is very well known and holds several chairs in the field!

[DunbarFC]

Originally posted by Ghostrider
.....the scary part is she is a tenured professor who is very well known and holds several chairs in the field!

Exercise science ? Rail thin ? Always talks about how she is a dancer etc ?

We could go on for days about UMASS. Don't forget Smith, Amherst, Mt Helloyoke...........

Happy Valley indeed !

[Ghostrider]

Originally posted by DunbarFC
Exercise science ? Rail thin ? Always talks about how she is a dancer etc ?

We could go on for days about UMASS. Don't forget Smith, Amherst, Mt Helloyoke...........

Happy Valley indeed !

BINGO! Initials were P.C.? Were you in the Ex Sci program DFC? Or did you take classes taught by her? I was there starting '89.....maybe our paths have crossed.

[Solid]

Ghost Rider: Let's see, the last time we met...
Dunbar: Was U Mass.
Ghost Rider: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the students marched on campus.
Dunbar: Not an easy day to forget?
Ghost Rider: No.
Dunbar: I remember every detail. The students wore tie-dye, you wore blue.



I think too much emphasis is put on 'experience' in many of these fields. While those teaching the sciences SHOULD have experience, many say that those teaching politics etc should also have real-world experience in their field. I disagree. While it can help to bring insight, it can also corrupt and [further] bias their viewpoint.

JMO,

Solid