Repugs are trying to take over International Studies Programs

[JCMach1]

This just popped-up on my radar screen after reading an article in the local (ME) newspaper. There is an attempt afoot to ideologically control international studies programs. I guess the repugs decided that since they couldn't kill the State Department, they would insure a future where only right-wingers need apply.

Here is an excerpt for a Salon article on the same issue:

Osama University?
Neoconservative critics have long charged Middle Eastern studies departments with anti-American bias. Now they've enlisted Congress in their crusade.

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By Michelle Goldberg

Nov. 6, 2003 | On Oct. 21, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill that could require university international studies departments to show more support for American foreign policy or risk their federal funding. Its approval followed hearings this summer in which members of Congress listened to testimony about the pernicious influence of the late Edward Said in Middle Eastern studies departments, described as enclaves of debased anti-Americanism. Stanley Kurtz, a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, a right-wing think tank, testified, "Title VI-funded programs in Middle Eastern Studies (and other area studies) tend to purvey extreme and one-sided criticisms of American foreign policy." Evidently, the House agreed and decided to intervene.

Emboldened by its dominance of Washington, the right is trying to enlist government on its side in the campus culture wars. "Since they are the mainstream in Washington think tanks and the right-wing corridors of Congress, they figure, 'Let's translate that political capital to education,'" says Rashid Khalidi, who was recently appointed to the Edward Said Chair of Arab studies at Columbia University...
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2003/11/06/middle_east/index_np.html

[JCMach1]

1. one kick-- the clock thingy (problem)

has knocked this down a bit

:kick:

[Devil Dog Dem]

2. Unreal.

THeir shamelessness knows no bounds.