Re: Is my CS instructor nuts?

Gerry Quinn wrote:
In article <1150207525.592639.256340@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, spinoza1111@xxxxxxxxx says..

"Zionism" is a World Religion issue: this
is obvious, indeed as obvious as the proposition that in order to teach
applications programming, you have to have an application to program.

It appears, however, that the person charged with deciding the latter on behalf of Roosevelt University felt that it was not so. Perhaps he wishes to employ an adjunct who will debate the merits of jihad;

.... in which case they'd pretty much need to cover Zionism anyway, since
the current jihad seems *fairly* closely related to Zionism.

it seems more likely, though, that he feels a more anodyne curriculum will better serve the university's interests.

Now you start getting into two issues. The first is who is supposed to
decide the question of what will be taught. The second is whether the
person who does have this authority makes a stupid decision that. I'm
not familiar with the details of this situation, but there is something
to be said for the idea of objecting when the administration gets too
restrictive about what can and can't be discussed; it sort of goes against
the spirit of having a university for the administration to exercise too
much authority in these areas, even if it is their authority to exercise.

- Logan
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