My bride of 41 years is celebrating her 61st birthday! Happy Birthday sweetheart!
Laura is a “veteran” of sorts… Mother of three beautiful daughters, Professor of Psychology, advisor to many – including the Semper Fi Club at Cal Poly. Laura is receiving “advanced training” at Quantico earlier this summer.
Although it would be fitting to serve her MRE’s on her birthday… She will have to endure Beef Tornado, wine and her requested Pumpkin Spice cake covered in an Amarula cream cheese frosting!
CLICK on the above feed to read about Cal Poly on the Google feed I received!
Like so many, I have some ‘google alerts’ set up to send me news items for a few subjects that I have an interest… it is but one feed. I never expected to see a negative news story about certain subjects… one of them was Cal Poly. Google always appeared to show only sanitized versions of this university. You can only imagine my surprise in seeing the above article on my feed!
Oh, my blog never shows up on the Cal Poly feed… but that is another story.
Part one of a two part series on the results of a study of political discrimination at Cal Poly and 3 other CSU Campuses based on the Inbar Lammers study.
Click on the picture to read the article on Cal Coast News
I think it was Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev who said something about “placing a porcupine in someone’s pants.” If you haven’t tried it, it is such great fun! That is, fun for you , but not for them!
Bringing Ann Coulter into the heartland of radical academia is just like that. Although I am not sure that Osama Bin Laden ever spoke at Cal Poly (at least officially), I do remember seeing a disturbingly high number of pictures of him there.
"Gosh, it's very hard to put the genie back into the bottle!"
Cal Poly State University is about to select a new President and there are three candidates. (for reference, here’s what Lou Dobbs of CNN said about the last president)
Actually, the truth is in the details, a select committee from a variety of interests outside of the purview of much of the university and the community did the selection and whittled the short list down to three people of which little is publicly known of them. Searching the candidates for on-line information gives little insight.
However, one of the issues that has plagued the university warranting national attention has been it’s treatment of students. In my opinion, Free speech and other first amendment violations are among the most egregious.
Baring any clarifying statements of the candidates, it might be safe to look at the F.I.R.E. rankings ( Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) of the universities whence the candidates come. This might not be an accurate reflection of any of the candidatel’s personal attitudes, but it does give an insight into their campus climate.
Here are the three universities and their rankings and links to their stories:
At a minimum, I think these three candidates need a few more questions about what kind of climate they intend to foster for the students and faculty at Cal Poly. However, it sounds to me like 30 years of more of the same.
PS. if you are curious about the picture above, click on the picture and read about some of the past controversies
