It's fitting that this development - the hiring of Weather Underground terrorist Kathy Boudin as adjunct faculty at Columbia University - comes at an interesting time for me. Tonight is the point in the semester in my rock & roll history class at our local IU campus at which I talk about the New Left and the student radical movement. The fact that one event I'll be telling the students about - the 1968 takeover of Columbia's administrative offices - occurred at that very university is rich in irony, obviously. But, with the election of the MEC, a product of Chicago's cesspool of radical socialist organizations, as president, the opportunity to make some connections to the present has been increasing for me over the last few years. Now I have a chance to really open some eyes.
As I've said before, my main reason for taking on my own adjunct-lecturer gig is that the state of Indiana would pay someone to do it and chances are that anyone else they hired would present material such as tonight's far differently and more destructively than I do.
Teach your children to be intellectually curious and to think for themselves and it does not matter what college they attend. For that matter, if they are equipped with these qualities they can self-motivate and take open courseware for free. Oh, teach them that it's not what you know but who you know that really counts as far as getting jobs and garnering a good income.
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