Remind me not to hire any hyphenated-studies majors.
Matter of fact, remind me not to hire any liberal arts majors period.
28 Replies to “The African American Studies Program that Wasn’t”
Look at it dis way, Andy. I is still da broker. but YOU is da brokee.
Necklace the racist for noticing.
No mention of puppy mills for Muslim engineering degrees?
Who cares?
Anyone can be President and a Nobel Peace Prize winner in the 21st century, just ask them.
Western civilization has turned into the funeral pyre of paracitic destroyers that so many predicted decades ago.
This can only end in a complete wipeout of what exists today, and it will a some future point.
This isn’t a liberal arts issue. It’s a college sports issue. Avoid graduates who were part of the football, basketball or other high profile sports program.
Football will be the death of America.
Hockey players, on the other hand, are such a cerebral bunch.
(Don’t yell at me! I love hockey. Just couldn’t resist.)
What I get here is that Negroes are special and must be pushed through with empty heads. We all know this now …. and we will not hire Negros because they didn’t really go to school.
This distortion in education of minorities is at all levels. That is why life is getting worse for those people. But our left wing compassionado knows what’s best for everyone.
Education, progressive style.
Yes. Way back in the 70’s an NFL player admitted he was barely literate,even though he had his precious 4-year university degree. It was on “60 Minutes”, don’t remember who the fellow was, but the story died very quickly.
I’ll bet that some day Canadians will wake up to the shocking fact that “Native Studies” degrees are worth about the same as the Afro-American studies degrees.
Yes yes! It’s all the fault of sports programs….
OR it’s the fault of the existence of worthless programs invented to accommodate affirmative action.
Replace OR with AND, you will be correct.
After working for 28 years at a university, I’ve watched it happen.
Remind you not to hire a liberal arts major? I might as well remind you not to shoot a passenger pigeon. The liberal arts aren’t taught any more, I’m afraid.
when I had to hire some one, any thing past grade 12 and the application went to file 13. I hated to have to deprogram some educated idiot, and then trane them for the job for which they were hired
If you set the bar for academics and morality low enough, you’ll see the depths to which people will plumb.
Why do deliberately divisive and useless studies still exist in universities, anyway?
The liberal arts are foundational for our liberal democracies.
That they are no longer taught or have been subsumed under psuedo-studies of zero academic merit is, as Aron Clarey notes, a case of commercial (and academic) fraud.
Cleaning house in North American Universities would save a lot of money and renew our liberal democracies.
” Remind me not to hire any hyphenated-studies majors.”
Sound advice.
Also, it is wise to apply that rule to people with hyphenated last names.
A quick look at the candidate’s names in the 2011 federal election shows;
Green Party >>> 13 hyphen people
NDP >>> 8
Libs >>> 4
Cons >>> 4
The farther left you go, the more likely you are to run into a meddling know-it-all.
@Gord Tulk: “This isn’t a liberal arts issue. It’s a college sports issue.”
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Absolutely. College sports have become college financial bonanzas such that they will do most anything to keep a winning team and the cash rolling in. Can you say Penn State?
These athletes at NC were absolutely “casualties” necessary to keep the cash flowing. The athletic department and the University prospered while they were left with a worthless degree.
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@ Larry: “The liberal arts are foundational for our liberal democracies.
That they are no longer taught or have been subsumed under psuedo-studies of zero academic merit is, as Aron Clarey notes, a case of commercial (and academic) fraud.”
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The traditional liberal arts, (history, philosophy, languages, art, music, etc) are/were western civilization oriented. These were the foundations for our (liberal???) democracies.
What has happened to the liberal arts is not just hyphenated but actually changed. Academia under the name of “diversity” has de-emphasized western civilization culture and attendant western values.
@ Don Morris: Perhaps you’re thinking of Dexter Manley. He also played in the CFL. Here is brief Wiki bio:
Dexter Keith Manley, nicknamed the “Secretary of Defense”[1] (born February 2, 1959) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Phoenix Cardinals, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an eleven-year career from 1981 to 1991. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Shreveport Pirates. Manley played college football at Oklahoma State University. After his career in the United States ended, he revealed that he was functionally illiterate, despite having studied at Oklahoma State University for four years.
So now we know why Obama’s record is sealed and we can not take a look at anything he wrote while attending University.
The sign language interpretor at Mandella’s funeral was fake, like pretty much everything is fake with that demographic group including their university degrees.
Obama’s social number in itself is a problem.
places that did not exist the year he was born are named on his birth certificate…
is it cultural? is it in their genes?
they are the demographic with the highest crime rate everywhere they live be it the USA or South Africa.
they are the demographic that is the most likely to commit various types of frauds from voting to fake University degrees
Is it cultural? is it in their genes?
all I know is that they do the same things no matter if they are in Chicago or South Africa.
“Is it cultural? is it in their genes?
all [sic] I know is that they do the same things no matter if they are in Chicago or South Africa.”
Oh dear.
Er, Kate, perhaps you might want to check in on your blog a little more these days.
With commentators like “Canadian Friend” bloviating about, SDA obviously doesn’t need enemies.
Hey, don’t think Canada doesn’t have a version. See our own future PM and Nobel Prize winning accomplished name.
“The university, of course, vehemently denies that anything resembling the latter scenario is true.”
No worries. I’m sure UNC will appoint an internal panel of senior administrators and tenured faculty to “thoroughly” investigate.
One can easily predict the outcome.
“places that did not exist the year he was born are named on his birth certificate…”
Lucky for us, we can ask the person who prepared the birth certificate…… … whadda ya mean she’s dead?
Re: my last post. Looked up a bit on it. While the colony was known as British East Africa, Kenya was a common name used for the part know, at independence, as Kenya. For much time previous to independence the postage stamps said Kenya Uganda Tanganyika.
The part about the name change of the hospital in 1978 reflected on his 1961 birth certificate is odd. I suspect his birth was not actually registered in Hawaii until after 1978. My father was born in the U.S. and never did have a birth certificate, just a Canadian Citizenship Certificate that accepted the birthdate from a bapismal certificate. Other relatives registered their birth when approaching retirement to have proof of age. Whether he was born in Hawaii, I suspect he used his Kenyan birth certificate until he was getting serious about politics.
If I wasn’t so old, I might enjoy the reboot.
And da’ foo’ never played football.
I have viewed a number of posts on the subject of President Obama’s birth certificate on an American conservative website.
I believe that he was born in Hawaii. There have been a number of self styled forensic experts pointing out discrepancies on the official copy of that hospital record.
I know that his mother, with all the advantages of a middle class American girl, utterly rejected her culture and country. Just a theory of mine, but 20% of births in Hawaii in the 1960’s were by midwife. If Stanley Ann did not register him at the time, eventually he would have a problem.
The Dystel-Acton agency acted for Barack Obama, as a young aspiring author. Their pamphlet indicated he was born in Kenya. He got a massive advance payment for his writing the book.
Explained as just an error by a minor employee. Apparently the State of Hawaii were most generous in giving a certificate of birth, if a delayed registration. Numbers of persons certainly took advantage of this.
Sadly, the now President of the United States had little scruples in much of his path to power. Or those behind him, prove he was not his own man in certain matters.
Look at it dis way, Andy. I is still da broker. but YOU is da brokee.
Necklace the racist for noticing.
No mention of puppy mills for Muslim engineering degrees?
Who cares?
Anyone can be President and a Nobel Peace Prize winner in the 21st century, just ask them.
Western civilization has turned into the funeral pyre of paracitic destroyers that so many predicted decades ago.
This can only end in a complete wipeout of what exists today, and it will a some future point.
This isn’t a liberal arts issue. It’s a college sports issue. Avoid graduates who were part of the football, basketball or other high profile sports program.
Football will be the death of America.
Hockey players, on the other hand, are such a cerebral bunch.
(Don’t yell at me! I love hockey. Just couldn’t resist.)
What I get here is that Negroes are special and must be pushed through with empty heads. We all know this now …. and we will not hire Negros because they didn’t really go to school.
This distortion in education of minorities is at all levels. That is why life is getting worse for those people. But our left wing compassionado knows what’s best for everyone.
Education, progressive style.
Yes. Way back in the 70’s an NFL player admitted he was barely literate,even though he had his precious 4-year university degree. It was on “60 Minutes”, don’t remember who the fellow was, but the story died very quickly.
I’ll bet that some day Canadians will wake up to the shocking fact that “Native Studies” degrees are worth about the same as the Afro-American studies degrees.
Yes yes! It’s all the fault of sports programs….
OR it’s the fault of the existence of worthless programs invented to accommodate affirmative action.
Replace OR with AND, you will be correct.
After working for 28 years at a university, I’ve watched it happen.
Remind you not to hire a liberal arts major? I might as well remind you not to shoot a passenger pigeon. The liberal arts aren’t taught any more, I’m afraid.
when I had to hire some one, any thing past grade 12 and the application went to file 13. I hated to have to deprogram some educated idiot, and then trane them for the job for which they were hired
If you set the bar for academics and morality low enough, you’ll see the depths to which people will plumb.
Why do deliberately divisive and useless studies still exist in universities, anyway?
The liberal arts are foundational for our liberal democracies.
That they are no longer taught or have been subsumed under psuedo-studies of zero academic merit is, as Aron Clarey notes, a case of commercial (and academic) fraud.
Cleaning house in North American Universities would save a lot of money and renew our liberal democracies.
” Remind me not to hire any hyphenated-studies majors.”
Sound advice.
Also, it is wise to apply that rule to people with hyphenated last names.
A quick look at the candidate’s names in the 2011 federal election shows;
Green Party >>> 13 hyphen people
NDP >>> 8
Libs >>> 4
Cons >>> 4
The farther left you go, the more likely you are to run into a meddling know-it-all.
@Gord Tulk: “This isn’t a liberal arts issue. It’s a college sports issue.”
——-
Absolutely. College sports have become college financial bonanzas such that they will do most anything to keep a winning team and the cash rolling in. Can you say Penn State?
These athletes at NC were absolutely “casualties” necessary to keep the cash flowing. The athletic department and the University prospered while they were left with a worthless degree.
——————-
@ Larry: “The liberal arts are foundational for our liberal democracies.
That they are no longer taught or have been subsumed under psuedo-studies of zero academic merit is, as Aron Clarey notes, a case of commercial (and academic) fraud.”
———————
The traditional liberal arts, (history, philosophy, languages, art, music, etc) are/were western civilization oriented. These were the foundations for our (liberal???) democracies.
What has happened to the liberal arts is not just hyphenated but actually changed. Academia under the name of “diversity” has de-emphasized western civilization culture and attendant western values.
@ Don Morris: Perhaps you’re thinking of Dexter Manley. He also played in the CFL. Here is brief Wiki bio:
Dexter Keith Manley, nicknamed the “Secretary of Defense”[1] (born February 2, 1959) is a former American football defensive end in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins, Phoenix Cardinals, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in an eleven-year career from 1981 to 1991. He also played in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Rough Riders and the Shreveport Pirates. Manley played college football at Oklahoma State University. After his career in the United States ended, he revealed that he was functionally illiterate, despite having studied at Oklahoma State University for four years.
So now we know why Obama’s record is sealed and we can not take a look at anything he wrote while attending University.
The sign language interpretor at Mandella’s funeral was fake, like pretty much everything is fake with that demographic group including their university degrees.
Obama’s social number in itself is a problem.
places that did not exist the year he was born are named on his birth certificate…
is it cultural? is it in their genes?
they are the demographic with the highest crime rate everywhere they live be it the USA or South Africa.
they are the demographic that is the most likely to commit various types of frauds from voting to fake University degrees
Is it cultural? is it in their genes?
all I know is that they do the same things no matter if they are in Chicago or South Africa.
“Is it cultural? is it in their genes?
all [sic] I know is that they do the same things no matter if they are in Chicago or South Africa.”
Oh dear.
Er, Kate, perhaps you might want to check in on your blog a little more these days.
With commentators like “Canadian Friend” bloviating about, SDA obviously doesn’t need enemies.
Hey, don’t think Canada doesn’t have a version. See our own future PM and Nobel Prize winning accomplished name.
“The university, of course, vehemently denies that anything resembling the latter scenario is true.”
No worries. I’m sure UNC will appoint an internal panel of senior administrators and tenured faculty to “thoroughly” investigate.
One can easily predict the outcome.
“places that did not exist the year he was born are named on his birth certificate…”
Lucky for us, we can ask the person who prepared the birth certificate…… … whadda ya mean she’s dead?
Re: my last post. Looked up a bit on it. While the colony was known as British East Africa, Kenya was a common name used for the part know, at independence, as Kenya. For much time previous to independence the postage stamps said Kenya Uganda Tanganyika.
The part about the name change of the hospital in 1978 reflected on his 1961 birth certificate is odd. I suspect his birth was not actually registered in Hawaii until after 1978. My father was born in the U.S. and never did have a birth certificate, just a Canadian Citizenship Certificate that accepted the birthdate from a bapismal certificate. Other relatives registered their birth when approaching retirement to have proof of age. Whether he was born in Hawaii, I suspect he used his Kenyan birth certificate until he was getting serious about politics.
If I wasn’t so old, I might enjoy the reboot.
And da’ foo’ never played football.
I have viewed a number of posts on the subject of President Obama’s birth certificate on an American conservative website.
I believe that he was born in Hawaii. There have been a number of self styled forensic experts pointing out discrepancies on the official copy of that hospital record.
I know that his mother, with all the advantages of a middle class American girl, utterly rejected her culture and country. Just a theory of mine, but 20% of births in Hawaii in the 1960’s were by midwife. If Stanley Ann did not register him at the time, eventually he would have a problem.
The Dystel-Acton agency acted for Barack Obama, as a young aspiring author. Their pamphlet indicated he was born in Kenya. He got a massive advance payment for his writing the book.
Explained as just an error by a minor employee. Apparently the State of Hawaii were most generous in giving a certificate of birth, if a delayed registration. Numbers of persons certainly took advantage of this.
Sadly, the now President of the United States had little scruples in much of his path to power. Or those behind him, prove he was not his own man in certain matters.