Comments on: American Universities Reject British Boycott http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/08/13/american-universities-reject-british-boycott/ The Truth Will Set You Free- John 8:32 Sun, 07 Sep 2008 09:24:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: tieki rae http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/08/13/american-universities-reject-british-boycott/#comment-734 tieki rae Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:46:47 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/08/13/american-universities-reject-british-boycott/#comment-734 Kevin - I completely agree that it is a good sign Columbia is rejecting the boycott. Actually, I think the author of a super ridiculous, pro-Palestinian book that I had to read last year is a professor there. By the way, anytime you reference Bucky Katt and Cornell being conservative in one comment, you automatically get kudos from me. :) In my heart, Cornell will always be the "fair and balanced", "50% Republican, 50% Democrat" institution presented to me by the admissions staff. Oh, ignorance truly is bliss. Although, in all fairness to the endangered species that is Cornell conservatism, the business school and econ department are pretty conservative... not bad, 2 out of a billion departments... Kevin - I completely agree that it is a good sign Columbia is rejecting the boycott. Actually, I think the author of a super ridiculous, pro-Palestinian book that I had to read last year is a professor there. By the way, anytime you reference Bucky Katt and Cornell being conservative in one comment, you automatically get kudos from me. :) In my heart, Cornell will always be the “fair and balanced”, “50% Republican, 50% Democrat” institution presented to me by the admissions staff. Oh, ignorance truly is bliss. Although, in all fairness to the endangered species that is Cornell conservatism, the business school and econ department are pretty conservative… not bad, 2 out of a billion departments…

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]]> By: Kevin http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/08/13/american-universities-reject-british-boycott/#comment-726 Kevin Wed, 15 Aug 2007 19:08:59 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/08/13/american-universities-reject-british-boycott/#comment-726 If even Columbia is opposing it, then this is a very good sign indeed. Columbia University is the hippiest of hippie that hippieland has to offer. My friend's Dad is a professor there (well, Barnard College, actually), and if you put him next to a Grateful Dead type hippie, the GD guy would appear to be wearing a suit and tie in comparison to the ultra-hippieness that is a Columbia professor. My point is really just that if uber-liberal Columbia won't bow to this racist boycott, no college in America will. But any chance to disparage a hippie... I'm taking it. Hehe, I feel like Bucky Katt now :) Interesting side story... to me anyway. My best-friend <i>did</i> end up going to Columbia, and stayed liberal as heck the whole time he was there. But then he went for an MBA at Cornell, and came back a conservative! He still spouts the liberal rhetoric, but you can tell he no longer believes it. He HATES it when I mention to him that Cornell fixed him, so guess what I do often?:) Hah. Sorry for running on so long. If even Columbia is opposing it, then this is a very good sign indeed. Columbia University is the hippiest of hippie that hippieland has to offer. My friend’s Dad is a professor there (well, Barnard College, actually), and if you put him next to a Grateful Dead type hippie, the GD guy would appear to be wearing a suit and tie in comparison to the ultra-hippieness that is a Columbia professor.

My point is really just that if uber-liberal Columbia won’t bow to this racist boycott, no college in America will. But any chance to disparage a hippie… I’m taking it.

Hehe, I feel like Bucky Katt now :)

Interesting side story… to me anyway. My best-friend did end up going to Columbia, and stayed liberal as heck the whole time he was there. But then he went for an MBA at Cornell, and came back a conservative! He still spouts the liberal rhetoric, but you can tell he no longer believes it. He HATES it when I mention to him that Cornell fixed him, so guess what I do often?:)

Hah. Sorry for running on so long.

]]> By: wytammic http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/08/13/american-universities-reject-british-boycott/#comment-718 wytammic Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:53:27 +0000 http://conservablogs.com/haemet/2007/08/13/american-universities-reject-british-boycott/#comment-718 <blockquote>Doesn’t this imply that all of these universities are opposed to the boycott? </blockquote> Let's hope so!!

Doesn’t this imply that all of these universities are opposed to the boycott?

Let’s hope so!!

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