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The short answer to this nonsense is to leave this school or transfer at the next semester.  Such actions are depreciating the value of degrees earned at this school.

Where is the tolerance of other views? 

“Moral Philosophy”?  Apparently, there are no moral absolutes and to think or behave otherwise is absolutely immoral.

The bigots responsible for this mind control ought to be institutionalized.

I am not shocked at all! I am only shocked it hasn’t happened sooner and in more schools!

All over this country we are forcing elementary, middle and high school students to be indoctrinated in various liberal beliefs, like Algores global warming nonsense! The liberals have long ago seized almost absolute control over our children through the schools and the damn NEA, this is just one more step in that evil, socialist process.

What will be done about it? Not a damn thing! Oh people will complain and feel upset and even powerless, but they won’t go to the polls and vote for people for the school board that won’t submit to this liberal tyranny and for other elected officials to fight this trend. Why? They will vote their own selfish economic interests, ‘who will give me more of other peoples money without demanding anything from me.’ That trumps morality, tolerance of opposing views and an educational system that is open to a wide range of ideas without demanding conformity and aderence to liberal dogma.

In California they have a political adevertisement sponsored by the California Teachers Association demanding people contact their representatives and ask them not to support legislation to extend the “No Child Left Behind” program, they call it the Bush plan, forgetting that the old alcoholic Ted “I kill my dates” Kennedy actually designed every part of that legislation. Why be against it? CTA says it is unfair to demand teachers make students be able to pass minimum educational standards for advancement. Liberals hate accountability! Well, except making teachers accountable to promote liberal beliefs!

In keeping silent about evil, in burying it deep within us, so that it appears nowhere on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The Gulag Archipelago

Here’s another RA account that goes into more detail.

Lik,

I just read the post to that link. Thanks. The whole thing is appalling.

BUT….I was encouraged that the young person who wrote the article - along with at least some of her friends - was able to see through what was going on and were still able to think for themselves.

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Those kids are being forced to submit to political re-education. Not asked. Not cajoled. Forced.

How dare the University of Delaware force these poor children to not only choose to attend that specific university, but also to live in university housing? I mean, my God! How can the University of Delaware force random kids to live on their dorms, completely against their will? That’s appalling!

Next thing you know, they’ll have dress codes and anti-alcohol and cohabitation policies. The horror!

In other words… the opportunity to live on University of Delaware property is a privilege, not a right. The University is entitled to make reasonable regulations for the students whom they’ve allowed to live there; if students don’t like the standard residence hall regulations (either the “no racism” ones above or the “no beer” type), they can leave, and 100 will be lined up after them to take their place.

davey, stick to telling us how infanticide makes you morally superior, at anything else you are a moron. Well, at that too.

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2hotel9: Care to provide any reasoned argument against my post? I know it’s out of character for you, but… cmon! Give it a shot!

The University is entitled to make reasonable regulations for the students whom they’ve allowed to live there

Twit, the key word in your comment is “reasonable”.  Perhaps you would like to explain how the reeducation of dormatory students is “reasonable”?

One of the most important talents for success in politics is the ability to make utter nonsense sound not only plausible but inspiring. Barack Obama has that talent. We will be lucky if we escape the catastrophes into which other countries have been led by leaders with that same charismatic talent.
-Thomas Sowell

OK. The University can do whatever the fuck they want. Students who don’t like it can get an apartment. Simple enough for you?

No one is being forced to do anything here. If you don’t like the rules in place at the University of Delaware dorm rooms… don’t live in the University of Delaware dorm rooms. Christ, everyone’s playing the victim card.

Dave,

Did you actually bother to read the linked article? It’s pretty extreme when forcing others to see things your way is called “treatment”.

That’s what Kesey decribed in One Flew Over A Cuckoo’s Nest. It shouldn’t happen in a university.

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davey, convine us that infanticide makes you morally superior and perhaps I will take you seriously.

Ah, hell, who am I trying to fool. No one will ever take you seriously. Never mind.

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The University can do whatever the fuck they want.

That is undoubtedly one of your most stupid statements (although you have posted some almost as bad).  The university has the right to specify living conditions of the dorms as part of the lease agreement e.g. no pets,etc but they certainly don’t have a right to indoctrinate the leasees with dogma that has nothing to do with living conditions and is imposed outside the lease agreement.  In that respect, dorms are no different than apartments or other leased spaces.

One of the most important talents for success in politics is the ability to make utter nonsense sound not only plausible but inspiring. Barack Obama has that talent. We will be lucky if we escape the catastrophes into which other countries have been led by leaders with that same charismatic talent.
-Thomas Sowell

Dave is being disingenuous in his defense of the University of Delaware. Freshman, who are the targets of the ‘re-education’ program are REQUIRED to live on campus in a dorm. Indeed, Dave is a perfect example of how such an indoctrination program can be imposed… he sees no problem!

davey claims moral superiority because he advocates killing babies, so consider the source.

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I was also a Resident Assistant for the University of Delaware before I transferred out of state in 2006. FIRE IS JUSTIFIED in its accusations. In regards to previous comments stating that students should just go elsewhere, that is very unfair to in state students since Delaware has a very limited university selection, and out of state tuition is high. 

Here’s what I have to say on this topic:

The Delaware RA hiring process is very slanted towards people who profess the same beliefs as the residence life (Reslife) administration. If your opinions on topics such as diversity, homosexual rights (and more subtly, politics) differ from the university, you are not likely to be hired. Once employed, RAs are put through intensive, mind numbing training for a few weeks during the summer and at least once later in the year.

I personally encountered the “Every person of European decent is privileged and benefits from racism” type remarks, among many others which weren’t so bad yet still controversial and presented as unarguable dogma in which Reslife’s opinion was the only correct opinion. Every week, RAs are put under great pressure by their Hall Directors to “promote diversity” on a constant basis through mandated social interactions, bulletin boards on approved or mandated topics, and mandated programs which residents are told they have to attend. UD’s RAs often aren’t as laid back as ones you may be familiar with due to these reasons.
 
The forced programs while I was an RA were ridiculous and poorly designed, but they did show a trend of becoming more belligerent towards re-educating students into accepting university beliefs.

Often there was a greater emphasis on the re-education programs then actually helping the residents have a successful and enjoyable college career. Usually, only freshmen residents are gullible enough to easily get to attend these programs, but particularly zealous RAs will use various forms of coercion such as disciplinary favoritism. Usually the less-than-zealous RAs are weeded out over the course of the year.

While the messages that UD’s Reslife program espouses are generally positive in my opinion, the staff often goes too far in promoting them, allowing them to be fairly called a form of indoctrination.  This zealousness can have serious negative effects for students.  An example would be the Jewish student who put up a joke Hitler profile on Facebook and was promptly suspended. The student was re-admitted over the next semester when he got a lawyer who pointed out that such an action was a violation of free speech. The university claimed the people offended and who brought the issue to Judicial Affairs were just students, but they were RAs – I know them! Poor taste in humor on a non-university run website should not have been the university’s business, and this is just one example of how Reslife’s dogma can compel overreaction and cause harm – I know of many others, but this post has already goten pretty long.

I also just wanted to ask that Reslife Director Kathleen Kerr be treated with respect in any justifiably outraged correspondence, as she is a really nice lady. Some of the others on the UD Reslife staff are more responsible for things going to far…

(BTW, you can Google my name to find a UDaily article which proves I was an RA at Delaware)

Don Lenker,

Your comment is outstanding and with your permission I would like to post it to the main page as a supplemental article to this one. Please let me know if its all right either here, in the private messages, or at (JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Thanks,

P.

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Sure, you may post my comment and fix any gramatical/spelling errors if you’d like. (I just noticed “goten” and “to” instead of “too” - sorry about that.)

Thanks,
-Dan

HEY! Don’t try to out grammarNazi us. We is all up in properly grammatical stuff. Damnit!

I moved your comment along to those who would appreciate it, copied in full, your name prominent and clearly visible. My wife, an Oglethorpe University Grad is suitably pissed off about this crap. Alumni are the people colleges and universities are terrified of angering. And this shit is angering a great many of them.

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