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...scene talking is not a new Broadway spectacle, but rather a small one-woman drama playing at the less-than-noteworthy Minetta Lane Theatre. But what the play, “My Name is Rachel Corrie,” lacks in excitement, it more than makes up for in na??ve, political agitprop...
Many idealistic students brought to Israel by ISM, including Rachel Corrie, could be described as na??ve pawns of Palestinian extremists looking to garner sympathy from the Western media. This sentiment was probably best expressed by a Hamas activist, who said of Corrie: “Her death serves me more than it served her. Going in front of the tanks was heroic. Her death will bring more attention than the other 2,000 martyrs...
...Babel trots out favorite lefty stereotypes, from Third World victims to ugly Americans (and, to be fair, other ugly Westerners). The Moroccan kid who uses a bus for target practice comes off as a poor na??f--if he were American, Hollywood would probably treat him as an example of our sick, gun-crazy society. The American couple are the kind of self-absorbed Yanks who jet off to a poor country to be "alone" among thousands of peasants, guarded and distanced from their surroundings, taking their Cokes without ice so as not to drink the water...
When it comes to their research and scholarship, professors have, and should continue to have, complete freedom. But professors do not deserve this absolute autonomy when it comes to teaching. Burgard is na??ve to think that faculty self-governance in the area of teaching is equivalent to faculty self-evaluation. It is hard to gauge the actual level of faculty self-evaluation at the College, be it faculty members’ evaluating their own courses or each others’. More importantly, there is a tremendous difference between a professor’s and a student?...
...profession. In discussing the recent controversy over the Danish newspapers that published a series of cartoons featuring caricatures of the prophet Muhammad, he says, “The whole incident was littered with irresponsibility, from the cartoonists to the editors to the European press. The cartoonists were at best na??ve and at worst stupid...