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Wednesday, December 13, 2006
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Update: Warfare at Washington State John Streamas, a professor of ethnic studies at WSU, is a confused and sputtering sort of person, all high revolutionary dudgeon, a legend in his own mind. His syllabi are meandering messes. Although he cannot write or think clearly, he teaches graduate students. Streamas and his department represent part of the larger ethnic studies fiasco in America. (America's attention was drawn to the problem by the University of Colorado's Ward Churchill.) Streamas gets really angry when he sees Republicans; he screamed at a WSU student who's a Republican and who was at a campus Republican anti-immigration rally that he was a "white shit-bag." Here is an explanatory voice message that Streamas left for university investigators: "This is a racist university. Many of our students say that WSU stands for White Supremacist University. (The students put up a fence symbolizing the need to control the movement of people across the country's borders.) The university investigation has concluded, and today officials announced what we already knew: Streamas is "immature, intellectually unsophisticated and thoughtless." They're reprimanding him, but not firing him. Nor should he be fired for having the qualities listed. Ethnic studies at WSU seeks them out in its hires. |