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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: CG6468 on September 01, 2011, 09:21:50 PM
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Berkeley offers college credit to ‘fight the new Jim Crow’
Berkeley offers college credit to ‘fight the new Jim Crow’
Published: 5:14 PM 08/30/2011 | Updated: 12:41 AM 08/31/2011
By C.J. Ciaramella
Back in the day, if students wanted easy credits, they signed up for underwater basket-weaving. Now they just need a political cause.
The University of California, Berkeley is offering students college credit to work for an expressly political organization fighting for affirmative action and immigrant rights.
This semester, the African Studies department at Berkeley is offering a two-credit class called “Fighting to Learn, Learning to Fight: Building the Movement for Public Education and Equality.â€
The class is sponsored by BAMN — The Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrants Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary — and advertises itself to students who want “to increase underrepresented minority enrollment, restore affirmative action and overturn Prop. 209 and pass CA DREAM Act 131 and a UC-Wide DREAM Act.â€
Continuing Saga of Stupidity in Berkeley (http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/30/berkeley-offers-college-credit-to-fight-the-new-jim-crow/)
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Good Grief, why expect a change in Berkeley at this point????
30+ years ago I lived near Berkeley and for lack of entertainment would take the kids down town and sit outside with a picknick lunch and watch the going on's.
Pure theater, interesting students, interesting causes, made me just a bit jealous that they all seemed to be living a fun life, all that freedom to do some outrageous things.
Here I was just a bit older then the kids and my life involved changing diapers and the ever present life style of a homemaker and mother.
Shocking, quite shocking to me at the time. I may have well lived on a different Planet from them,
not much has really changed since then.
Even living in a small town the University of New Hampshire now has to grapple with not so much the students but the Tenured professors that get into big trouble for everything from sexual expouser cases to child abuse charges. No matter how hard the school administration tries to fire the Professors, the Teachers Union steps in and makes it almost impossible to do so.
When we put our children's brains into the hands of higher education, we take a risk, best to send them to a 2 year trade school with one years work under their belt or the military then they can handle the college education much better then a "Fresh Fish" of 17-18 away from home for the first time.
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Are they going to hang out naked in the trees again? Seems like everything Bezerkley protests/demonstrates for envolves some form of nudity. ...and the students/professors/others that should shower in longjohns are the very ones that get naked. So, there is no redeeming value.
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after the media, academia is our biggest enemy, followed by government. so if your fired up and willing to stand up to our government, you should be taking the fight to media and academia even more.