Jew World Order

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Walter E. Williams

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Over the past
10 years, I have written columns variously titled “Academic Cesspools,”
“Academic Dishonesty,” “The Shame of Higher Education,” “Academic
Rot” and “Indoctrination of Our Youth.” Therefore, I was not surprised
by David Feith’s April 5th Wall Street Journal article, “The Golf
Shot Heard Round the Academic World.” In it, Feith tells of a golf
course conversation between Barry Mills, the president of Bowdoin
College, in Brunswick, Maine, and philanthropist Thomas Klingenstein.
Klingenstein voiced disapproval of campus celebration of diversity
and ethnic differences while there’s “not enough celebration of
our common American identity.”

Because Klingenstein
wouldn’t help finance the college’s diversity craze, Mills insinuated,
in remarks to the student body, that Klingenstein is a racist. Mills
also told students: “We must be willing to entertain diverse perspectives
throughout our community. … Diversity of ideas at all levels of
the college is crucial for our credibility and for our educational
mission.”

Klingenstein
decided to check out Mills’ commitment to diverse perspectives by
commissioning the National Association of Scholars to examine Bowdoin’s
intellectual diversity, rigorous academics and civic identity. Its
report – “What Does Bowdoin Teach?” – isn’t pretty. There are “no
curricular requirements that center on the American founding or
the history of the nation.” Even history majors aren’t required
to take a single course in American history. In the history department,
no course is devoted to American political, military, diplomatic
or intellectual history; the only ones available are organized around
some aspect of race, class, gender or sexuality.

Some of the
37 seminars designated for freshmen are “Affirmative Action and
U.S. Society,” “Fictions of Freedom,” “Racism,” “Queer Gardens,”
“Sexual Life of Colonialism” and “Modern Western Prostitutes.” As
for political diversity, the report estimates that “four or five
out of approximately 182 full-time faculty members might be described
as politically conservative.” During the 2012 presidential campaign,
100 percent of faculty donations went to President Barack Obama.
Despite political bias and mediocrity, in 2012, Bowdoin was ranked
sixth among the nation’s liberal arts colleges in U.S. News &
World Report and was ranked 14th on Forbes magazine’s list of
America’s top colleges. That ought to tell us how much faith should
be put in college rankings.

I applaud Klingenstein
for not making a contribution to a college agenda that is so common
today. Wealthy donors are generous but tend to be lazy and uninformed
in their giving. They give large sums of money that winds up supporting
college agendas that are contemptuous of donors’ values, such as
enlightened racism, anti-capitalism and Marxism. A rough rule of
thumb to discover modern-day racism is to search a college’s website
to see whether it has vice presidents or deans of diversity and
diversity programs. If so, keep your money.

Recent
evidence has emerged that some colleges have become bold enough
to hire former terrorists to teach and possibly indoctrinate our
young people. That’s the case with Columbia University in the hiring
of convicted Weather Underground terrorist Kathy Boudin, who spent
22 years in prison for the murder of two policemen and a Brink’s
guard. She now holds a professorship at Columbia’s School of Social
Work. Her Weather Underground comrade William Ayers is a professor
of education on the faculty of the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Unrepentant, in the wake of 9/11, Ayers told us: ”I don’t regret
setting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Bernardine Dohrn, his
wife, is a professor at Northwestern University School of Law. Her
stated mission is to overthrow capitalism. Ayers and Dohrn, as well
as the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are people who hate our nation and
are longtime associates of President Obama’s. That might help in
explaining our president’s vision.

What we see
on college campuses represents a dereliction of duty by boards of
trustees, which bear the ultimate responsibility. Wealthy donors
who care about the fraud of higher education should recognize that
there’s nothing like the sound of pocketbooks snapping shut to open
the closed minds of college administrators.

May
9, 2013

Walter
E. Williams is the John M. Olin distinguished professor of economics
at George Mason University, and a nationally syndicated columnist.
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