Category: Cal Poly

Cal Poly and their foibles

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Who can and can NOT recruit on College Campuses

 

“This message has been sent to the email address provided by your
 organization.”

Non Comrads need not apply

This was the operational sentence from an email sent by  Greenpeace. What makes this fascinating is the degree of difficulty any outside organization has in distributing material via email or any other method on the campus of American Universities, in this case, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.  Here is a copy of one recent email.

What makes “Greenpeace” so special? Why do emails from this organization and other left-of-center groups apparently have free reign in our public educational systems? So much for the free exchange of ideas.

What is troubling is not so much that Greenpeace has the ability to use our public institutions for their own purposes… but others — by their absence — apparently do not.

Roger Freberg

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Which University to Attend? Which to Avoid?

Hero of the Oppressed

 

Selecting the university to attend now-a-days is a function of many factors:  academic reputation, social experience and the ever present “which is best for my career”? However, many students enter their university experience only to find themselves marginalized and the subject of unwanted administrative and faculty harassment. This is something every parent… and student should consider. Are you really getting what you are paying for?

In a few days , the premier of  “Indoctrinate U”  will appear in Washington, D.C. and I only wish I could attend… but I will in spirit.

Here’s one short review on the prequel:

“For those who haven’t been on college campuses recently, Maloney’s documentary is eye opening.”
– American Enterprise, On Brainwashing 201

“Non-left academics are harassed for their political views. Students who show a conservative bent are threatened… Campuses are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas where issues stand and fall on their merits. Brainwashing 201 [the short-form precursor to Indoctrinate U] demonstrates effectively that this is now far from the case.”

SoOOooo…

“Mark your calendars for the evening of Friday, September 28th, when
Indoctrinate U will make its public debut at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.

Tickets are now on sale for the event,
which is organized by
the
American Film Renaissance.

Tickets are also available
for the after-party to take place across
the street at 600 Restaurant in the
infamous Watergate Hotel.”

Good Luck, Evan!

Roger Freberg

PS. Part of what’s wrong with many universities today is many have forgotten about their true mission and who they serve. Was it Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in which Evan Maloney was told by some University sycophant that he had not been ‘granted an audience’ with ‘allegedly’ the aging Cal Poly President &  “Sheldon Awardee”  Warren Baker? 

 

 

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Greg Lukianoff’s Free Speech!

Some of my friends are even...er... liberals

Yep, this ol’ boy does like those liberals every once in a while. Especially, anyone who practices what he preaches. Greg Lukianoff is one of those thoughtful, sincere individuals that you can’t help but like.

I first ran into Greg at  theFire.Org.  This is an organization that supports folks who have had their free speech trampled on at any of the major universities in our great country. TheFire.Org has found itself representing many folks including conservative students, faculty and organizations that found them in the liberal cross hairs. He has said that trends change and he’d hate to see the guns turning into the faces of liberals as time rolls on. Greg is into ‘fairness’… what a concept!

I guess, I admire Greg… however, I don’t feel the same about saving folks like Ward Churchill.

So, whether you are conservative or liberal, Greg’s Blog is worth a look.  CHECK IT OUT!

Roger Freberg

 

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Laura Freberg’s Wonderful Psychology Blog

Laura's site is a big hit!

My wife Laura’s web site has been around in one form or another since 1995 and has evolved from something her students could use to a site that encompasses: her text book, current issues in Psychology, student participation and development and areas of personal interest… like family, hobbies, her psychology library and a few favorite wonderful recipes.

Although we are somewhat outside of the academic calendar,  Laura’s site  has continued to demonstrate wide interest around the world. The map above shows some of the many hits — grouped in frequency– just over the past 3 days.

Congratulations, Laura.

Roger Freberg

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“Snakes in Suits”… are everywhere!

Snakes in Suits... are in education, tooFor a long time, many people have followed the corporate disasters of “Eron” and the many ‘lapses in judgment’ in the corporate arena and wondered — not always silently — why these folks weren’t behind bars?

Publisher’s Weekly offers a candid review of the effort… and here is an excerpt:

“Psychopaths are described as incapable of empathy, guilt, or loyalty to anyone but themselves; still, spotting a psychopath isn’t easy. Babiak, an industrial and organizational psychologist, and Hare (Without Conscience), creator of the standard tool for diagnosing psychopathology, present a study of the psychopath in the corporate landscape. A common description of psychopathology states that subjects “know the words but not the music;” Babiak and Hare state that “a clever psychopath can present such a well-rounded picture of a perfect job candidate that even seasoned interviewers” can be fooled.”

 You can purchase a copy rather inexpensively on  Amazon.com.

Personally, I have noticed that psychopaths tend to be attracted to money, power and the control over other lives to benefit themselves. This covers a lot of ground — an in my humble opinion — the corporate environs are not the only hallowed halls that are infected with self serving psychopaths. One only has to look into academia itself… following the university president who takes his entire staff on a holiday cruise to the Mediterranean and there is much much more… but then I am sure that would be a subject of another book.

worth reading,

 Roger Freberg

PS. other interesting books on related topics : the Sociopath next door, Psychopath: emotion and the brain; Emotional Vampires