Tackling Diversity?
* Tackling Diversity
Barnard’s biannual Town Hall and the Allies Series, a six-week long
discussion on race and class privilege, drew students from all
corners of the Columbia campus Tuesday night to address issues of
inclusion and diversity, which were made more...
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/22/442100016a60b
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Perhaps we need to focus some attention on these issues at Brooklyn College, too. Our faculty Multicultural Action Committee used to take on such things a decade or more ago, but I have not heard of such of late.
I was startled by the publication in one of our student papers a few weeks ago of the offensive cartoons that have stirred such distress in the Muslim community generally. We had a lively discussion in one of my classes on this issue which I think was useful for us to begin to clarify the deeply emotional schisms that are threatening world peace now with culture wars, here, there and elsewhere. Needless to say we are living in a most dangerous world, as 9/11 taught us here in NYC. And it looks as if we are in the process of watching a global power shift as India and China move into positions of economic as well as military power and the traditionally dominant West (Europe and the U.S.) are facing being down graded as wannabe empire builders or dominant economic forces. The U.S. is now being challenged around the world -- by Russia, Iran, North Korea - but nearer at home by the South American and14 Caribbean nations. It may be a difficult adjustment to make as our economy falters and the competition for vital resources mounts. Russia has just concluded a deal to direct two natural gas lines to China, may negotiate an oil pipe line there as well -- and showed what it could do several months back when it turned off the natural gas to the Ukraine and and some other major European countries by extension.
This is no time to insult anyone as we seek to calm things down and reestablish the rule of law and respect for human rights!
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"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
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Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
Barnard’s biannual Town Hall and the Allies Series, a six-week long
discussion on race and class privilege, drew students from all
corners of the Columbia campus Tuesday night to address issues of
inclusion and diversity, which were made more...
http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/22/442100016a60b
...............................................
Perhaps we need to focus some attention on these issues at Brooklyn College, too. Our faculty Multicultural Action Committee used to take on such things a decade or more ago, but I have not heard of such of late.
I was startled by the publication in one of our student papers a few weeks ago of the offensive cartoons that have stirred such distress in the Muslim community generally. We had a lively discussion in one of my classes on this issue which I think was useful for us to begin to clarify the deeply emotional schisms that are threatening world peace now with culture wars, here, there and elsewhere. Needless to say we are living in a most dangerous world, as 9/11 taught us here in NYC. And it looks as if we are in the process of watching a global power shift as India and China move into positions of economic as well as military power and the traditionally dominant West (Europe and the U.S.) are facing being down graded as wannabe empire builders or dominant economic forces. The U.S. is now being challenged around the world -- by Russia, Iran, North Korea - but nearer at home by the South American and14 Caribbean nations. It may be a difficult adjustment to make as our economy falters and the competition for vital resources mounts. Russia has just concluded a deal to direct two natural gas lines to China, may negotiate an oil pipe line there as well -- and showed what it could do several months back when it turned off the natural gas to the Ukraine and and some other major European countries by extension.
This is no time to insult anyone as we seek to calm things down and reestablish the rule of law and respect for human rights!
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort
to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StudentConcerns
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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