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Friday, April 15, 2005
LOVE POWER, THE POWER OF A LITTLE FLOWER Peace Studies, at least at one American university, appears to be making a bid for respectability. As part of a curricular review, Georgetown University will not renew the contract of Colman McCarthy, a retired writer for the Washington Post whose narcotized classrooms, where everyone gets an A and reading and writing are forms of institutional coercion, are notoriously popular. UD saw McCarthy in action once. His self-preening made her want to pummel him. JUNKED ADJUNCT runs the headline in The Georgetown Voice (UD thinks JUNCTD ADJUNCT or DEFUNCT ADJUNCT would be better), which notes that “Outraged students are now organizing and circulating petitions.” The Hoya newspaper remarks that “McCarthy has … been criticized for not having tests and allowing students to grade themselves.” “If our demands for Professor McCarthy’s full reinstatement are not met,” one protest leader is quoted as saying, “we will undertake armed resistance.” No, no, UD made that last thing up… |