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How Not to Get an Education in the US
How Not to Get an Education in the US
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INDOCTRINATE YOU
A Documentary by Evan Coyne Maloney
By marion d s dreyfus
Not my favorite screening duty, documentaries. I regularly view and judge several hundred in the course of film festival judging, and many, while important and often necessary, are grim. But my jurying of a new doc, screened for the first time at the Directors Guild of America theatre, and generously hosted by the Manhattan Institute, was not only clever and welcome, but also quite often laugh-out-loud funny. If a documentary on the wholly-owned left-wing dominance of higher education can conceivably be funny.
Evan Coyne Maloney, the filmmaker, is the progeny of two hippies of the 60s love-and-flower generation. They must have done something right, since he is affable, persistent, smart, easy-going, sarcastic with a cherubic smile, and always, scrupulously polite. Maloney and his cameraman visit college campuses around the country, from the royals of Harvard, Yale and Princeton, to the more rural or less notorious college campuses in flyover precincts.
Maloney’s goal: How neutral are teaching faculties at our nation’s expensive and highly regarded (at least until this film and Ben Stein’s forthcoming exposé of a similar nature, “EXPELLED,” become de rigueur viewing) colleges?
Whatever he attempted to question, whether on the absence of men’s studies or resource centers (grim-faced females in Che Guevara-plastered offices stare stolidly at him, not ‘getting his question’), the attacking of Republican students for posting inoffensive flyers (lawsuits that invariably and ignominiously spell loss of thousands for the colleges foolish enough to pursue such groundless suits), the location of the diversity office to ensure diversity of opinion (huh??), or the ratio of left-liberal professors to conservative (the smallest ratio of Marxist-leaning ‘liberals’ to conservatives was 7 to 1; the highest was 134 left-wing teachers to 12, conservative), to how alternative papers on campus are received (entire press-runs are routinely stolen, in hundred-weight batches, as soon as they hit the stands), he is stonewalled, thwarted and…threatened with arrest.
His cheerful and polite requests are met with flinty official agita. The response? Invariably the same: When the camera duo shows up, there is instantaneous recourse to campus or muni police. Not a single administrator attempts to answer his polite requests. The relevant parties quail and cringe from the camera, repeatedly demand he turn the camera off, and seek the nearest escape.
The packed house I viewed the film with laughed as the film proceeded, anticipating the response of yet another administrator who denies he or she is in charge. Maloney sits in anterooms all day, while colleagues of the designated official deny the job, schedule or existence of the person he has come to interview. We laughed throughout, though the topic is sober, and actually kind of frightening.
Brave students in each campus confide that they end up mum in classes, lest they forfeit grades or become the butt of verbal attacks. Contrarily, conservative students with complaints are rarely helped, abuse against them is ignored, their problems somehow lost or forgotten. Verbal abuse and vicious calumny against one hip Sikh student, for instance, amount to death threats—never acted on. Students responsible are never disciplined.
Toe the line or be ostracized, attacked, ridiculed. Pro-choice, only. Pro-gay marriage, only. Pro-affirmative action, only. Professors who are ‘liberal’ (in the new sense of illiberal and lockstep mindset), quash adverse opinion and keep a watchful eye out for those not like them. Teachers who are conservative say nothing, so as not to out themselves. “If I admitted I was a conservative,” one Stamford Professor of Biology says with a rueful laugh, “I would lose my job.”
The way her students ‘know’ she is a non-majoritarian non-radical (shhh) right of center professional?
“It's not what I'd say in class, because all I did was teach biology, as I was hired to do. It’s that I never start every class with a harangue on how Bush and co. are bad. Or how Iraq is a mistake. Or how white America is evil.” For the radical teachers, no matter what the course content, every class includes a discussion on RGE: race, gender and ethnicity. Even decorating. Even math.
A shocking episode is that of Republican Steve Hinkle, a student subject to unremitting attack for posting a flyer announcing a presentation by [black] conservative C. Mason Weaver, author of It's OK to Leave the Plantation, in a Cal Polytech student center. That groundless lawsuit set the taxpayers back $40,000—and Hinkle won on every count.
The lesson, a familiar one to those who follow the issue, is that the people who run the universities are not willing or able, perhaps, to defend in public what they teach in private. They can’t take the heat when the camera is turned in their direction. Affronted and furious, they want the meticulously diffident Maloney carted away. Charges of ‘racist,’ ‘fascist’ and ‘nazi’ are regularly hurled at those who politely differ from the mainstream teacher-led doctrinaire brainwash.
Indoctrinate U undercuts the usual reaction to complaints about campus repression: These are no recycled anti-PC tall tales. No way. Maloney shows that censorship, lack of choice, forced views and indoctrination run both coasts, public to private higher-ed launchpads, rarefied elite ivies to the West Coast’s Foothill College.
Indoctrinate U. is on sale as a DVDm, available from the Indoctrinate U web
Question for the Day??
Question for the Day??
I signed up for some Eon Groups..
I want to leave some now?
Can someone send me a Private message
on how to do that??
Thanks!!
I signed up for some Eon Groups..
I want to leave some now?
Can someone send me a Private message
on how to do that??
Thanks!!
Cindy McCain
Cindy McCain
Bet you would have never guessed this one! No matter your
politics. The media will never tell of this, so pass it on.
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal on Cindy
McCain, John's wife. All I ever saw was this attractive woman
standing beside John. I was surprised how talented and
involved with world problems she is. This is a summary of the
article. She graduated from Southern Cal and was a
special-needs teacher. After her Dad died she became involved
with his beer distributing firm and is now the chairwoman.
Sales have doubled since she has taken over from her father.
They have a marriage prenuptial agreement, her assets remain
separate. She is involved around the world clearing land mines
- travels to these countries on a detonation team and service
on their board. They have a 19 year old serving in Iraq,
another son in the Naval Academy, a daughter recently
graduated from Columbia Univ., an adopted daughter in high
school, and a son who is the finance guy at the beer firm.
Raised kids in Phoenix, Az rather than Washington DC.(better
atmosphere) He commuted. In 1991, Mrs. McCain came across a
girl in an orphanage in Bangladesh. Mother Teresa implored
Mrs. McCain to take the baby with severe cleft palate. She
did so without first telling her husband. The couple adopted
the girl who has had a dozen operations to repair her cleft
palate and other medical problems. They have a Family
Foundation for children's causes.
She's active with 'Halo Trust' - to clear land mines, provide
water and food in war ravaged and developing countries. She
will join an overseas mission of 'Operation Smile', a charity
for corrective surgery on children's faces. She has had two
back surgeries and became addicted to pain killers. She talks
openly about it which she says is part of the recovery
process. I'm surprised the media is so quiet about her
attributes. She sounds more capable than Hillary or Obama. We
would really get two for the price of one. A person with
business and international experience. John did work for the
firm for awhile when he left the Navy. She, however, has the
real business experience. Very interesting.
Bet you would have never guessed this one! No matter your
politics. The media will never tell of this, so pass it on.
There was an article in the Wall Street Journal on Cindy
McCain, John's wife. All I ever saw was this attractive woman
standing beside John. I was surprised how talented and
involved with world problems she is. This is a summary of the
article. She graduated from Southern Cal and was a
special-needs teacher. After her Dad died she became involved
with his beer distributing firm and is now the chairwoman.
Sales have doubled since she has taken over from her father.
They have a marriage prenuptial agreement, her assets remain
separate. She is involved around the world clearing land mines
- travels to these countries on a detonation team and service
on their board. They have a 19 year old serving in Iraq,
another son in the Naval Academy, a daughter recently
graduated from Columbia Univ., an adopted daughter in high
school, and a son who is the finance guy at the beer firm.
Raised kids in Phoenix, Az rather than Washington DC.(better
atmosphere) He commuted. In 1991, Mrs. McCain came across a
girl in an orphanage in Bangladesh. Mother Teresa implored
Mrs. McCain to take the baby with severe cleft palate. She
did so without first telling her husband. The couple adopted
the girl who has had a dozen operations to repair her cleft
palate and other medical problems. They have a Family
Foundation for children's causes.
She's active with 'Halo Trust' - to clear land mines, provide
water and food in war ravaged and developing countries. She
will join an overseas mission of 'Operation Smile', a charity
for corrective surgery on children's faces. She has had two
back surgeries and became addicted to pain killers. She talks
openly about it which she says is part of the recovery
process. I'm surprised the media is so quiet about her
attributes. She sounds more capable than Hillary or Obama. We
would really get two for the price of one. A person with
business and international experience. John did work for the
firm for awhile when he left the Navy. She, however, has the
real business experience. Very interesting.
Coaching as a way of life
Whant to know a bit about how coaching is a part of my life and what it benefits me? write here and I will tell you!
Life Coaching Group Ending
Hello to anyone who happens by....I haven't seen any activity here so am ending this group and will check in at other interesting ones. coachsue
PHONE NETWORKING TONIGHT AT 8:30 PM (EDT)!
Hi Virtual-osos and other EONS career folks,
Tonight you get a chance to "meet" on the phone. It's not live in the true sense, but just hearing voices is such a pleasure.
Plus, you get a chance to share your business/career needs and issues with me and Wendy Spiegel who manages the "Careers for Boomers and 50 Plus" group, along with lots of other EONS members.
I just learned I can publicize my phone codes, so here is how you can find us at 8:30 p.m. (EDT):
Dial: 641-715-3840
Access Code: 529588
Talk soon!
AmyZ
Tonight you get a chance to "meet" on the phone. It's not live in the true sense, but just hearing voices is such a pleasure.
Plus, you get a chance to share your business/career needs and issues with me and Wendy Spiegel who manages the "Careers for Boomers and 50 Plus" group, along with lots of other EONS members.
I just learned I can publicize my phone codes, so here is how you can find us at 8:30 p.m. (EDT):
Dial: 641-715-3840
Access Code: 529588
Talk soon!
AmyZ
Now for you other folks....
I just posted a message mostly to those people out there who might want to become a life coach, or some other type of coach, since there are many types. I personally am a life and small business coach. But I'd like to also open up the conversation here for those of you who would like to know just what coaching is and how it can benefit you. One of my personal goals as a coach is to help people understand what coaching is all about.
Is coaching the same as counseling? No way. Counseling generally is aimed toward people who have emotional issues of some sort or who may need medications, or just have problems to work through. And counselling mostly focuses on your past. Coaching on the other hand, focuses mostly on your present and future. Where are you right now, where do you want to go and how can you get there? What are your goals? As a coach, if I am coaching with you and sense that you have some emotional or past issues that haven't been dealt with, I may ask you to see a counselor to work through those issues, so that you can move forward with coaching. Coaching helps you to build a bridge between where you are now and where you want your life to be.
Now, having said all that, where DO you want your life to be? I will open up this conversation by asking you some questions: how is your job going right now? Content? Not happy? What? What is your home life like? How would you like it to be? Are you happy with yourself? What's missing? Are you stuck in a rut of some sort? Why? How might you get unstuck? Do you have waaayyy too much clutter in your house? What can you do about that? Can't figure out your life's purpose, why you're here? What do you spend your time and energy on, or maybe more importantly daydream about? Does that give you any hints?
THIS is what coaching is about, it asks you to look truthfully at 'what is' in your life and whether that's how you really want it to be, and then thru conversations with your coach, discover within yourself how you can change things for the better.
OK, I've opened up some topics for communication here, and will check in sometime later this week to see who's talking. And, I especially want to hear from you if some of the above has got you thinking and you've begun to make a change in your own life! I will celebrate with you!
Is coaching the same as counseling? No way. Counseling generally is aimed toward people who have emotional issues of some sort or who may need medications, or just have problems to work through. And counselling mostly focuses on your past. Coaching on the other hand, focuses mostly on your present and future. Where are you right now, where do you want to go and how can you get there? What are your goals? As a coach, if I am coaching with you and sense that you have some emotional or past issues that haven't been dealt with, I may ask you to see a counselor to work through those issues, so that you can move forward with coaching. Coaching helps you to build a bridge between where you are now and where you want your life to be.
Now, having said all that, where DO you want your life to be? I will open up this conversation by asking you some questions: how is your job going right now? Content? Not happy? What? What is your home life like? How would you like it to be? Are you happy with yourself? What's missing? Are you stuck in a rut of some sort? Why? How might you get unstuck? Do you have waaayyy too much clutter in your house? What can you do about that? Can't figure out your life's purpose, why you're here? What do you spend your time and energy on, or maybe more importantly daydream about? Does that give you any hints?
THIS is what coaching is about, it asks you to look truthfully at 'what is' in your life and whether that's how you really want it to be, and then thru conversations with your coach, discover within yourself how you can change things for the better.
OK, I've opened up some topics for communication here, and will check in sometime later this week to see who's talking. And, I especially want to hear from you if some of the above has got you thinking and you've begun to make a change in your own life! I will celebrate with you!
On Becoming A Life (or other) Coach
Hello to any old members still out there, and to any new ones. Don't see much activity here, and that may be because I haven't kept up with you very well. But I still think coaching is a worthwhile subject of conversation and will post new information here from time to time. I want to do that because, while coaching is my life's passion and purpose, I think many people still don't know what it is or how it can benefit them. And the other reason I want to do this is because some of you are wondering how to become a coach, how to market your coaching, how to get started with coaching. I have much to share with you if you are interested, either about what coaching is or about how to become a coach. I am loving my life, both because I'm a coach who can help other people and because coaching has benefited me personally.
If you're thinking about becoming a coach, start by looking up the coaching schools and getting information about what they offer. I went to Coach U - www.coachu.com or ww.coachinc.com -and did their two-year program. Also look at www.coachfederation.org to learn about the standards of the coaching industry as a whole. If you're a new coach trying to market yourself, you can find tons of business marketing tips online via a Google search.
In a new coaching practice, as with any other business, you'll have issues come up around fear of failure, fear of success, procrastination, not having the "proper" credentials, etc. But the bottom line is to "just get out there and do it." People need you and what you have to offer them, you'll get your experience and credentials as you go along, just start now. Charge your clients what you feel is fair to both you and them, and don't forget to save a space in your practice for those few clients who can't pay right now. You can ask them for referrals or work out a payment plan that will fit them. The important thing is that there are people who need you right now.
If you're thinking about becoming a coach, start by looking up the coaching schools and getting information about what they offer. I went to Coach U - www.coachu.com or ww.coachinc.com -and did their two-year program. Also look at www.coachfederation.org to learn about the standards of the coaching industry as a whole. If you're a new coach trying to market yourself, you can find tons of business marketing tips online via a Google search.
In a new coaching practice, as with any other business, you'll have issues come up around fear of failure, fear of success, procrastination, not having the "proper" credentials, etc. But the bottom line is to "just get out there and do it." People need you and what you have to offer them, you'll get your experience and credentials as you go along, just start now. Charge your clients what you feel is fair to both you and them, and don't forget to save a space in your practice for those few clients who can't pay right now. You can ask them for referrals or work out a payment plan that will fit them. The important thing is that there are people who need you right now.
Dismayed by advertising here
Hello, I haven't been to Eons for awhile and I apologize for my absence! I started this life and small business coaching group maybe a year or so ago, and didn't get much response and wandered away for awhile. I've checked back in here & there but not very often and I apologize for any messages I've missed regarding coaching and will put up some information here soon regarding that for those of you who may be interested in doing coaching for a living.
However, in checking in tonight, I'm dismayed by the advertising-type information I'm seeing here, as this is not what I intended at all for this group. This is not a place for advertising. Coach Sue
However, in checking in tonight, I'm dismayed by the advertising-type information I'm seeing here, as this is not what I intended at all for this group. This is not a place for advertising. Coach Sue
RE: New Member
Hi, everyone. I have just discovered this website and it's great! I have my Masters degree in counseling and have done a lot of research into becoming a certified coach. I am mostly concerned about the idea of "marketing a business". Any feedback would be great. Thanks
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