In January, history professor David Weale of Canada's University of Prince Edward Island offered B-minus grades to any students in his overcrowded class if they would just go away, and 20 of the 95 accepted. (However, the administration found out, and Professor Weale, who had retired last year but returned to teach that one course, re-retired.)
He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired Armies and cashiering most
Kings and Senates and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of printing. – Sartor Resartus.
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"a mode of thinking that people engage in when they are deeply involved in a cohesive in-group, when the members' strivings for unanimity override their motivation to realistically appraise alternative courses of action." A crucial facet of the groupthink phenomenon is that it is a Pathology, and that any group so organized it is dysfunctional. Generally speaking, the members of any group suffering from this pathology will not only disregard advice contrary to their views, they cannot even comprehend it.
Republished here: Letter from the Society for Academic Freedom and Scholarship to H. Wade MacLachlan, President of the University of Prince Edward Island; Response from MacLauchlan to SAFS; Letter to the National Post concerning the SAFS - MacLauchlan
If the University was smart — and could muster a sense of humour — it could have effectively handled this situation by admitting that David’s concerns are real, laughing off “the 70% deal” as a publicity stunt, and promising to work to address the situation. As it is, the administration comes across as a group of dour prigs, obsessed with an artificial “excellence” construct that is appealing only to passionless technocrats.
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Faculty at the University of Prince Edward Island have expressed concern over the erosion of free speech on campus, following the confiscation last month of the student newspaper that had reprinted the notorious Danish cartoons. The Post ran several lette
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On February 19, The Telegraph published an article by Alasdair Palmer entitled â ENGLAND: The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state.â If you click on the link, you wonâ t find the article. Instead, youâ ll be trea
On February 19, The Telegraph published an article by Alasdair Palmer entitled â ENGLAND: The day is coming when British Muslims form a state within a state.â If you click on the link, you wonâ t find the article. Instead, youâ ll be trea
It's not just course content that's under assault from the politically correct. The University of Prince Edward Island, among others, actually confiscated student newspapers that printed the Danish cartoons. How can they pretend to teach students to de