Word: ethnical
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the staff is on the mark in opposing the creation of an ethnic studies department, it endorses a flawed argument. By embracing the view that academic departments should be created for the purpose of righting political wrongs, it adopts the vocabulary and philosophy of ethnic studies proponents. University departments should not become vehicles for political activism, their role ought to be to deliberatively explore spheres of thought without any underlying ideological motivation...
Indeed, the arguments the staff uses in its opinion exhibit the extent to which the logic expounded by ethnic studies supporters has seeped into and inevitably infected thinking inside academia...
...Making ethnic studies a department is the only way to ensure that the University will tenure professors who are interested in teaching ethnic studies. Merely tenuring professors in disciplines like government, history and sociology will not ensure that those professors teach courses relating to the study of ethnicity in America...
...wonder how Knowles determines that demand. About 200 people attended a panel debating the merits of ethnic studies on April 10, and more than 100 people rallied in favor of ethnic studies outside University Hall a week later, showing that many students do want courses in ethnic studies. Will Knowles wait until students go on hunger strikes and hold sit-ins in his office before acknowledging that there is a demand for courses on ethnicity...
...addition, it is deplorable that HUPD spends time breaking up student events and parties when it could be devoting its energies to crime prevention. HUPD is quick to disperse armies of security officers when there is a midday wedding in the Memorial Church or an ethnic studies protest in the Yard; but when students need to walk home by themselves at 3 a.m., there is rarely a police officer to be found...