The Disgraceful Universities

[PoliticalChic]

The military strategist Carl von Clausewitz wrote that the most effective way to defeat an enemy is to strike at his “center of gravity, the main source of his strength. Our democracy’s “center of gravity” was the education our colleges and universities provided. Colleges and universities no longer teach the American history that would have served as the tocsin, and prepared our best and brightest to defend our American traditions.


Read about the Klingenstein Report: "... the report demonstrates how Bowdoin has become an intellectual monoculture dedicated above all to identity politics.... The school's ideological pillars would likely be familiar to anyone who has paid attention to American higher education lately. There's the obsession with race, class, gender and sexuality as the essential forces of history and markers of political identity. ... there are the paeans to "global citizenship," or loving all countries except one's own." David Feith: The Golf Shot Heard Round the Academic World - WSJ.com





1. "Bowdoin College.... One of the most liberal colleges in the country has been exposed for its incredible animus toward conservatism,...

2. In 2010, Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin College, went golfing with investor and philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein. Their conversation included talk of “diversity,” and Mills later quoted Klingenstein anonymously in his convocation address to Bowdoin's freshman class.

a. Mills claimed that the philanthropist had stated "I would never support Bowdoin—you are a ridiculous liberal school that brings all the wrong students to campus for all the wrong reasons." Mills added that the man criticized Bowdoin’s "misplaced and misguided diversity efforts,"...





3. Klingenstein got wind of the remarks and responded in the Claremont Review of Books: "He didn't like my views, so he turned me into a backswing interrupting, Bowdoin-hating boor who wants to return to the segregated days of Jim Crow... I explained my disapproval of 'diversity' as it generally has been implemented on college campuses: too much celebration of racial and ethnic difference," and not enough “celebration of our common American identity."

4. Klingenstein called Mills out for insinuating that he was a racist, as Mills had said:
We are, in the main, a place of liberal political persuasion... we must be willing to entertain diverse perspectives throughout our community... Diversity of ideas at all levels of the college is crucial for our credibility and for our educational mission.

5. ... Klingenstein called Mills’ bluff. He commissioned researchers to ascertain exactly how serious Bowdoin was about intellectual diversity, rigorous academics, and civic identity. The researchers studied Bowdoin from its founding in 1794, with particular emphasis on the last 45 years. This week, the voluminous report was released.





6. The report states that Bowdoin is centered on race, class, gender, and sexuality as the bases for history, the focus on “sustainability" (code for the evils of capitalism), and the praise of "global citizenship."

7. Bowdoin has "no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation." There is no requirement for history majors to take even one course in American history. There is no class available in the history department about American political, military, diplomatic, or intellectual history. There are, however, classes in that department revolving around race, class, gender, and sexuality.

8. The freshman seminar required of all students? Try one of these: "Sexual Life of Colonialism," "Affirmative Action and U.S. Society," "Fictions of Freedom," "Racism," "Queer Gardens," and "Modern Western Prostitutes."





9. "...four or five out of approximately 182 full-time faculty members might be described as politically conservative."

10. Guess what percentage of faculty donations went to Barack Obama in 2012? You guessed it: 100 percent."
Study Exposes Bowdoin College as Completely Intolerant of Conservatism





" In publishing these and other gems, Mr. Klingenstein and the National Association of Scholars hope to encourage alumni and trustees to push aggressively for reforms." WSJ, Op.Cit.


The disgrace of higher education: they have given up education in exchange for politicization.

What can they produce but Janissaries of the Left.

 

[bucs90]

And Bob Jones University, one of Americas most conservative colleges, banned interracial dating all the way up to the 2000's. And Liberty University, a large ultra-conservative school, bans holding hands, televisions in rooms of all non-senior students, and drinking....anywhere, not just on campus, but anywhere in the world, by it's students.

See? There are crazy assholes everywhere.

 

[bodecea]

Don't like Bowdoin...don't go there. It's a very prestigious PRIVATE school....Joshua Chamberlain was a professor there before he became a hero in the battle of Gettysburg.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Don't go to that college.

Another comical conservative attack on free enterprise.

 

[Spoonman]

remember when you used to go to college to get an education instead of an indoctrination?

 

[NYcarbineer]

7. Bowdoin has "no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation." There is no requirement for history majors to take even one course in American history. There is no class available in the history department about American political, military, diplomatic, or intellectual history. There are, however, classes in that department revolving around race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Bowdoin lists 55 American history courses. If you want to prove that none of them deal with politics, the military, diplomacy, or intellectualism, feel free.

Otherwise, stop lying.

 

[NYcarbineer]

Why not let Barry Mills own words respond to this nonsense?

As for the charge that we don’t offer history courses dealing with political, intellectual, diplomatic or military history, a look at our course catalogue would set things straight. It is a charge that is obviously incorrect, since among the courses offered this year alone are:

History 140: War and Society

History 139: The Civil War Era

History 231: Colonial America and the Atlantic World

History 232: History of the American West

History 233: American Society in the New Nation, 1763-1840

History 226: The City as American History

History 238: Reconstruction

Beyond these, our government and legal studies department offers important courses on the American presidency, Congress, the U.S. Constitution, and other areas in the fields of American government and political theory. As our community knows, government is currently—and has long been—the most popular major at Bowdoin, and it is nearly impossible for these students to graduate from Bowdoin without having read the Federalist Papers at least once.

Barry Mills: Setting the Record Straight « Bowdoin Daily Sun

 

[Mad Scientist]

7. Bowdoin has "no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation." There is no requirement for history majors to take even one course in American history. There is no class available in the history department about American political, military, diplomatic, or intellectual history. There are, however, classes in that department revolving around race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Bowdoin lists 55 American history courses. If you want to prove that none of them deal with politics, the military, diplomacy, or intellectualism, feel free. Otherwise, stop lying.

55 American History Courses?
Spring 2013 (Bowdoin - History)

 

[there4eyeM]

7. Bowdoin has "no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation." There is no requirement for history majors to take even one course in American history. There is no class available in the history department about American political, military, diplomatic, or intellectual history. There are, however, classes in that department revolving around race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Bowdoin lists 55 American history courses. If you want to prove that none of them deal with politics, the military, diplomacy, or intellectualism, feel free.

Otherwise, stop lying.

Ooops!

It has always been a respected school, but it is small and difficult to accept as representative of, well, anything other than Bowdoin.

 

[Katzndogz]

A professor at USC instructs his class in election fraud.

http://www.campusreform.org/blog/?ID=4702

In a 15 min. video secretly captured by USC student Tyler Talgo, political science Professor Darry Sragow also appears to endorse the illegal suppression of Republican votes.

“You lose their information on the election in the mail,” he suggested when a student asked him how to keep Republicans from voting. “I mean there is lots of ways to do it [SIC].”

A teaching assistant (TA), who also appeared to work for the university, then seemed to suggest Black Panthers could be placed at polling stations to intimidate Republican voters.

Rather than rebuking the TA, Sragow appeared to confirm the suggestion.

“Yeah, yeah,” he said. “You can do that.”

 

[aplcr0331]

Indoctrinate U - Our Education. Their Politics.

 

[bendog]

no worries.

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-liberal-arts-colleges

 

[NYcarbineer]

7. Bowdoin has "no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation." There is no requirement for history majors to take even one course in American history. There is no class available in the history department about American political, military, diplomatic, or intellectual history. There are, however, classes in that department revolving around race, class, gender, and sexuality.

.

Bowdoin lists 55 American history courses. If you want to prove that none of them deal with politics, the military, diplomacy, or intellectualism, feel free. Otherwise, stop lying.

55 American History Courses?
Spring 2013 (Bowdoin - History)

Course by Field of Study (Bowdoin - History)

 

[bendog]

Bowdoin lists 55 American history courses. If you want to prove that none of them deal with politics, the military, diplomacy, or intellectualism, feel free. Otherwise, stop lying.

55 American History Courses?
Spring 2013 (Bowdoin - History)

Course by Field of Study (Bowdoin - History)

SEXUAL LIFE IN COLONIAL AMERICA! Mon Dieu!

 

[editec]

I cannot help but laugh at the distorted perception some people have about the study of history.

I cannot help but wonder if these people ever went to college.


How the hell can someone take offence because some course in history covers some aspect of history that they personally don't approve of (or probably understand, either)?

For instance...the complaint that focusing ones attention on BLACK history is somehow going to destroy history, or pervert the minds of those who study it suggests to me that these detractors don't even begin to understand the field of history.

Basically I think the boards KNOW-NOTHINGS are just whining out of complete ignorance about the entire point of the study of history.

I suspect that I could, without too much difficulty create a valuable and high informative history course about say the HISTORY OF THE POTATO.

Now to the uninitiated, such a course would seem absurd.

But to an historian, such an approach to the study of this single aspect of history could be highly informative as that course would be studying how the introduction of that single plant to the world effected the HISTORY of the our world.

Incidently, I didn't choose that subject at random.

The impact that the introduction of this tubar had on world events is a rather HUGE one.

It can rather easily be argued that sans the potato the early industrial revolution might have taken a VERY different course than it took.

And THAT is the nature of the study of history, folks.

Everything is a valid issue or event worthy of study by history.

Wqant to know why?

Because everything is connected to everything else IN HISTORY.

Sometimes the connections are obvious, sometimes they're convoluted and indirect.

But the whole point of studying history is to see those connections to better understand how things work.

 

[NYcarbineer]

55 American History Courses?
Spring 2013 (Bowdoin - History)

Course by Field of Study (Bowdoin - History)

SEXUAL LIFE IN COLONIAL AMERICA! Mon Dieu!

Interestingly (perhaps) Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote The Scarlett Letter, was a Bowdoin graduate,

which of course was fiction, and of course had to be fiction, because, if you believe conservatives,

no one had extra-marital sex in America before 1932.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. Bowdoin has "no curricular requirements that center on the American founding or the history of the nation." There is no requirement for history majors to take even one course in American history. There is no class available in the history department about American political, military, diplomatic, or intellectual history. There are, however, classes in that department revolving around race, class, gender, and sexuality.

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Bowdoin lists 55 American history courses. If you want to prove that none of them deal with politics, the military, diplomacy, or intellectualism, feel free.

Otherwise, stop lying.

I've seen time and again, to understand what Leftists do, simply watch what they accuse others of doing.

You, of course, are a case in point.

 

[Katzndogz]

Of course people had extra marital sex before 1932. The social penalties were just much much harsher. They were harsh enough to limit the incidence of extra marital sex. The lesson of the Scarlet Letter wasn't that Hester Prynne had to wear a scarlet letter, it was the ostracism she faced because she had the affair.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Course by Field of Study (Bowdoin - History)

SEXUAL LIFE IN COLONIAL AMERICA! Mon Dieu!

Interestingly (perhaps) Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote The Scarlett Letter, was a Bowdoin graduate,

which of course was fiction, and of course had to be fiction, because, if you believe conservatives,

no one had extra-marital sex in America before 1932.

Wow...the OP must really have stung you, as you felt the need to make things up to blur reality.

I love doing that.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Don't like Bowdoin...don't go there. It's a very prestigious PRIVATE school....Joshua Chamberlain was a professor there before he became a hero in the battle of Gettysburg.

“…The fate of the modern university and the fate of Western civilization are inextricably intertwined.”
Brigette Berger, “Multiculturalism and the Modern University,” from ‘The Politics of Political Correctness,’ in the Partisan Review (1993) pp. 516, 519