http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/ar...TICLE_ID=58426
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The University of Delaware subjects students in its residence halls to a shocking program of ideological reeducation that is referred to in the university’s own materials as a “treatment” for students’ incorrect attitudes and beliefs. The Orwellian program requires the approximately 7,000 students in Delaware’s residence halls to adopt highly specific university-approved views on issues ranging from politics to race, sexuality, sociology, moral philosophy, and environmentalism. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) is calling for the total dismantling of the program, which is a flagrant violation of students’ rights to freedom of conscience and freedom from compelled speech.
“The University of Delaware’s residence life education program is a grave intrusion into students’ private beliefs,” FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. “The university has decided that it is not enough to expose its students to the values it considers important; instead, it must coerce its students into accepting those values as their own. At a public university like Delaware, this is both unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
The university’s views are forced on students through a comprehensive manipulation of the residence hall environment, from mandatory training sessions to “sustainability” door decorations. Students living in the university’s eight housing complexes are required to attend training sessions, floor meetings, and one-on-one meetings with their Resident Assistants (RAs). The RAs who facilitate these meetings have received their own intensive training from the university, including a “diversity facilitation training” session at which RAs were taught, among other things, that “[a] racist is one who is both privileged and socialized on the basis of race by a white supremacist (racist) system. The term applies to all white people (i.e., people of European descent) living in the United States, regardless of class, gender, religion, culture or sexuality.”
The university suggests that at one-on-one sessions with students, RAs should ask intrusive personal questions such as “When did you discover your sexual identity?” Students who express discomfort with this type of questioning often meet with disapproval from their RAs, who write reports on these one-on-one sessions and deliver these reports to their superiors. One student identified in a write-up as an RA’s “worst” one-on-one session was a young woman who stated that she was tired of having “diversity shoved down her throat.”
According to the program’s materials, the goal of the residence life education program is for students in the university’s residence halls to achieve certain “competencies” that the university has decreed its students must develop in order to achieve the overall educational goal of “citizenship.” These competencies include: “Students will recognize that systemic oppression exists in our society,” “Students will recognize the benefits of dismantling systems of oppression,” and “Students will be able to utilize their knowledge of sustainability to change their daily habits and consumer mentality.”
At various points in the program, students are also pressured or even required to take actions that outwardly indicate their agreement with the university’s ideology, regardless of their personal beliefs. Such actions include displaying specific door decorations, committing to reduce their ecological footprint by at least 20%, taking action by advocating for an “oppressed” social group, and taking action by advocating for a “sustainable world.”
In the Office of Residence Life’s internal materials, these programs are described using the harrowing language of ideological reeducation. In documents relating to the assessment of student learning, for example, the residence hall lesson plans are referred to as “treatments.”
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Of course, this is World News Daily, and according to some, anything they report is a lie. (Never mind that such thinking is a fallacy.)
But wait: Here's someone else reporting it, and she has updates:
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/31...hool-responds/
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What’s wrong with the University of Delaware? Update: The school responds
By Michelle Malkin • October 31, 2007 04:05 PM
Residential life on elite college campuses has been infected with political correctness for decades. Ethnic segregation in dorms and at graduation. Mixed bathrooms. “Safe spaces” protecting sexual minorities from hearing any criticism of their lifestyles. I lived through it in the ’90s, but it has gotten progressively worse. What’s reportedly going now on at the University of Delaware takes the cake. Those who dissent from left-wing orthodoxies now must submit to “treatment.”
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Another right wing nut job--can't be believed. But here are a couple of the documents involved (before they disappear, while the university furiously covers its ass)
It's a wonderful thing that "white culture" can be described in sweeping generalizations, such as "perpetuating the ideology that people of color are morally and mentally inferior to white people." I wonder when some enterprising young scientist will undertake a biological study to assess which gene that attitude resides on, since it applies to 100% of whites.
Until then, Al and Jesse can continue to bloviate about anyone who makes a generalization about blacks or black culture.
Most of us recognize racism when we see it. Some of us don't recognize it when it's directed at whites. It is impossible to miss at the University of Delaware, and a Don Imus-like solution should be imposed immediately.
In the meantime, every student at the University of Delaware, and every parent who pays tuition there, should tell the administration to shove this program up their collective ass.
When did college students become such docile sheep?