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Just thought we’d bring to your attention two of the latest places Columbia has made the news:
A new film waxing indignant about censorship and anti-semitism, conveniently collapsing all of Columbia into the MEALAC department…
And former Sen. Mike Gravel’s excellent adventure, via cab, to his former stomping grounts.
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@haha excellent work, #25!
@bollinger blows the free speech horn all the time. sure, i agree left-wing students don’t enjoy unlimited free speech either. i’m not making a partisan argument. rather, columbia, and in particular bollinger says he is all about free speech, while silencing it on both the right and the left.
@i think that you’re right. There is just more left-wing speech than right-wing speech on campus. It doesn’t necessarily mean that right-wing speech is silenced per se, just that less people want to express it. By no means are our humanities professors 50-50 in the left wing-right wing divide, though, and we all know that.
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@no, i believe it was filmed by the David Project too. it just interviewed students.
@was the david project done by students? i thought the point that it was outside agitators.
are students allowed to film on campus? better check your policies again.
@McFister It was done by students funded by outside agitators.
@while columbia is private property, bollinger makes a number of claims about promoting free speech. this whole regulation of content is truly upsetting. bollinger should be ashamed of himself for such actions.
granted the movie is rather stupid, but if this was a student project, what would be the response?
@uhh nothing, because students are allowed to film on campus? just a thought.
@there was a student project. The David Project’s Columbia Unbecoming, to be exact, in 2002-2003. It resulted in a widescale school investigation and the temporary removal of several of the Middle Eastern studies professors implicated in the movie.
What were you trying to say, again?
@Floygin Yeah, you missed the David Project. I banish you back to the internets, troll. Sometimes being the Devil’s Advocate is lame.
@Why are right-wingers always bitching about free speech when a private entity like a university takes an action like this? Aren’t those people supposed to understand the concept of private property?
@because universities such as columbia trumpet themselves as bastions of free speech. if they aren’t about that, that’s fine, but then, at least we know the truth.
@... LOL
@Exactly where is that trumpet being blown? It’s not as though left-wing students enjoy some sort of unlimited free speech on campus–FAR from it.
@hang on Surely by showing that some people didn’t know that the quote was from a CU professor, they prove that indoctrination does not take place at Columbia, that Dabashi’s opinions (if they are as quoted) have not reached students. The ones who did attribute it to a professor seemed to disagree with the sentiment in the quote, which would prove that students are not swayed by the opinions of professors. So what the film really shows is that when a CU professor has an extreme opinion about something, some don’t hear about it, and others don’t agree with it, which is the opposite of indoctrination.
@nooo... that makes…. sense! how dare you utter such things!
Dabashi is a roly-poly dude with a hot wife and a baby. And somehow not reminiscent of Hitler and Bin Laden. *eye roll*
@rjt “Columbia Quiz” was cut from the movie. From the website:
“We decided to drop the scene because it didn’t fit closely enough with the central argument of the film. We were concerned that it would muddle our message.”
At least he realized the exact same thing you just did. I have no idea, however, why he is showing the clip anywhere.
@from the website “Far from functioning as bastions of serious thought and reasoned debate, Maloney found, campuses today operate as mental processing plants, doing more to tell students what to say and think than to teach them to think for themselves.”
UMM, if you can’t lay the foundation to prepare yourself to teach yourself how to think yourself by the time you get to college, you’ve got bigger problems to worry about
@damn! all this stifling of free speech! i went to the physics department and told them that gravity was a liberal, leftist construct and they told me to leave! INDOCTRINATION! THEY ONLY WANT YOU TO HEAR ONE POINT OF VIEW
@I like to think that most of the liberal arts junkies will end up as nutty as Gravel in the years to come.
@the dabashi quote is also wrong (surprise).
@oh jeez... homeboy appears to fancy himself as a conservative michael moore…
http://brain-terminal.com/posts/category/politics/
i bet his movie is pretty entertaining, and also deeply meaningful if you assume that the average college is comprised of nonthinking sheep…
@Citizen Welcome to private property, dumbasses. I’m pretty sure Columbia could sue to have the video taken down too, if this were significant enough to warrant the trouble.
@Yes, thanks Google Alerts. You’ve given Bwog its new peak of wittiness.