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What the Hell are Colleges Teaching?

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What the Hell are Colleges Teaching?

http://media.www.dailycollegian.com/media/storage/paper874/news/2007/05/14/EditorialOpinion/An.Open.Letter.To.The.Chancellor-2902769.shtml
from JoeUser Forums

Based upon some examples, not time management or personal responsibility.  From UMass, we get this petulant tripe:

This Andrew Card fiasco is really beginning to get on my nerves. I've had to spend the last couple of weeks attending meetings and rallies, as well as signing petitions to try to convince you that your decision (rather, your recommendation to the Board of Trustees) to award a prominent war criminal an honorary degree was "wrong." I have schoolwork to do, I have a new baby son I should be spending time with, but instead I have to waste my time making a public case that you - as an intelligent and supposedly moral man - have made a very bad mistake in giving an honorary degree to a very bad man.

Schoolwork (that must not be the reason for going to college), and a new baby (bet he never heard of abstinence either).

Neglecting both for what?  To protest the War? No.

Feed the Hungry? No

Cloth the poor? No.

For what?  To object to some bozo getting a piece of paper that means squat.

Great set or priorities, eh?

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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
In fact I'm all in favour of public figures being attacked with pies. By making our public figures ridiculous we make them human. A tyrant can never exist where the people think their leaders worthy of ridicule rather than fear.


Thank you for illustrating a point I would like to make. It isn't fear that is required...it is respect and decorum. Throwing pies at public officials because they have differing points of view is not acceptable no matter which side of the political aisle you are from.

I'd be happier if the Michael Moores and (insert other leftist American of your choice here) were also hit with pies, but conservatives seem to have a foolish tendency to get angry rather than to go for practical jokes, so that doesn't seem to happen much (can anyone even name a funny right-wing satire?)


Pie in the face slapstick is funny if you are a Stooge. Conservatives who are angry might be considered justified considering what Doc was asking to begin with. What are Colleges teaching...slapstick 101? And in this instance I use "pie throwing" to indicate any of the outrageous practices that are ALLOWED on campus in relation to speakers and honorees who were invited by the college to be there. Not only do I consider the quoted young'un to be wasting his time...but also a pretty solid chunk of change on an education that is doing him no durn good.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top

Pie in the face slapstick is funny if you are a Stooge.

It all goes to time and place.  Wearing swim fins is appropriate and fine for a day at the beach, or in a 3 Stooges movie, but hardly the place at a formal dinner or even an evening at the theater.

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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
Reminds me of the hand-on-thigh story. Appropriate sometimes, not appropriate at other times.

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Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top

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