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University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation
#7576678 - 10/30/07 01:17 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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NEWARK, Del., October 30, 2007—The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.
“The University of Delaware’s residence life education program is a grave intrusion into students’ private beliefs,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. “The university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own. At a public university like Delaware, this is both unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
http://thefire.org/index.php/article/8555.html
The university’s views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to “sustainability” door decorations. Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”
"Reverse Racism": A term created and used by white people to deny their white privilege... In the U.S., there is no such thing as "reverse racism."
UNIVERSITY of Delaware http://www.udel.edu/reslife/students/wholenewworld.htm
http://www.thefire.org/pdfs/3d0208922083e5d59664be8371ab5f0f.pdf
"Have you ever heard a well-meaning white person say, "I'm not a member of any race except the human race"? What she usually means by this statement is that she doesn't want to perpetuate racial categories by acknowledging that she is white. This is an evasion of responsibility for her participation in a system based on supremacy for white people."
What the Fuck have Universities become........
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: lonestar2004]
#7576813 - 10/30/07 01:51 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I hope this hits CNN
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: BrAiN]
#7576840 - 10/30/07 01:57 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Delaware
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Although UD receives public funding for being a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant and urban-grant state-supported research institution, it is also privately chartered.
As I suspected, it's a private university, and thus not accountable to the taxpayers except for those research programs mentioned. Thus, while this news is fucked up, it's ultimately no worse than the indoctrination students receive at Bible colleges like Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: lonestar2004]
#7576857 - 10/30/07 02:00 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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wowie zowie
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: lonestar2004]
#7576998 - 10/30/07 02:30 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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lonestar2004 said: NEWARK, Del., October 30, 2007—The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.
I read the material from University of Delaware, and some of the above statements are innacurate. Students are required to take part in discussion groups, but at no point are they required to "adopt" or "re-learn" ideas. They aren't forced, graded, or coerced to accept any ideas about racism or diversity that they don't want to.
While I read the pdf file provided by some Dr. Shakti Butler and I disagree whole heartedly with all his conclusions, there is nothing unconstitutional or even un-academic about presenting written material to students at a university and allowing them to come to their own conclusions about it. That is the way schools work. You are assigned readings and are then expected to express an understanding of them, but aren't required to agree with them.
On top of that, as someone pointed out, as a private university this argument is meaningless. I will take the conservative approach on this one and say that as a private business they can do whatever the fuck they want to.
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The University of Delaware’s residence life education program is a grave intrusion into students’ private beliefs,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. “The university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own.
There is no evidence that the students are forced into accepting any values in the links provided...none...simply instructions for splitting students into discussion groups and a list of definitions of terms with some background history for them to talk about. Until someone digs up some evidence that students are coerced into agreeing with Dr. Shakti I will assume that Greg Lukianoff is making this up.
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: Silversoul]
#7577012 - 10/30/07 02:33 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Silversoul said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Delaware
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Although UD receives public funding for being a land-grant, sea-grant, space-grant and urban-grant state-supported research institution, it is also privately chartered.
As I suspected, it's a private university, and thus not accountable to the taxpayers except for those research programs mentioned. Thus, while this news is fucked up, it's ultimately no worse than the indoctrination students receive at Bible colleges like Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.
So basically our Tax Dollars go to pay the salaries of those who write this fucking moonbat crap, but we cant say shit about it?
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: lonestar2004]
#7577023 - 10/30/07 02:35 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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The tax dollars go towards the research it mentions. That's it. Also, gluke bastid's rebuttal above.
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: Silversoul]
#7577098 - 10/30/07 02:54 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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OK my fault i always thought that University of ______ meant it was a Public University. (not Private)
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: gluke bastid]
#7577114 - 10/30/07 02:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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This IS fucked up but as long as its a private school (no tax dollars) then its none of my business.
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: lonestar2004]
#7577192 - 10/30/07 03:12 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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Who is this group called FIRE? (Foundation for Individual Rights)
The mission of FIRE is to defend and sustain individual rights at America's colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, legal equality, due process, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of individual liberty and dignity. FIRE's core mission is to protect the unprotected and to educate the public and communities of concerned Americans about the threats to these rights on our campuses and about the means to preserve them.
http://thefire.org/index.php/article/8555.html
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: lonestar2004]
#7577976 - 10/30/07 06:42 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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I remember my first day in college, my adviser saying something like, "Welcome to xyz. The next four years will be spent unlearning the last eighteen years of your life. If you decide to continue into graduate school, the four years after that will be spent learning something new."
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Re: University of Delaware Requires Students to Undergo Ideological Reeducation [Re: Seuss]
#7584780 - 11/01/07 05:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago) |
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Good news! All white people are not racist!
The school that required residence programs to “educate” residents that white people are by definition racist, while people of color can’t possibly be racist will be stoped! (They’ll just re-tool it, re-name it and re-start it under a different scheme...............
"Upon the recommendation of Vice President for Student Life Michael Gilbert and Director of Residence Life Kathleen Kerr, I have directed that the program be stopped immediately. No further activities under the current framework will be conducted.
Vice President Gilbert will work with the University Faculty Senate and others to determine the proper means by which residence life programs may support the intellectual, cultural and ethical development of our students.
Patrick Harker President
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/nov/letter110107.html
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