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January 30, 2008
Tomorrow Is Mandatory Kool-Aid Day at CU
Posted by Dave Blount at January 30, 2008 7:31 AM
As forewarned, tomorrow the University of Colorado will indulge in an entire day of total saturation in the global warming hoax. Entitled "CU Focus the Nation," the 60s-style teach-in will subject students to wall-to-wall propaganda intended to instill the irrational belief that the climate change crisis is anything but a farce.
The event has been endorsed by Chancellor Bud Peterson and the Boulder Faculty Assembly. Even Governor Bill Critter will be on hand. The goal is to see to it that "a student cannot get through the day (January 31st) without somehow encountering the topic of climate change."
To accomplish this, the Kool-Aid wholesalers want to "engage at least fifty campus educators." Fortunately, "Faculty do not have to be climate change experts to participate." Events include a long list of brainwashing sessions pushing the radical environmentalist agenda. Focus the Nation lists specific policy actions it wants rammed through.
But what's this? A memo Chancellor Bud sent out to all Boulder campus staff reminds them they are there to teach, not indoctrinate:
IN GENERAL, UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEES MAY NOT:
• Engage in any activity during working hours designed to urge electors to vote for or against any campaign issues, which include campaigns for public office, state-wide campaign issues or referred measures, and local campaign issues or levies.
• Employees wishing to participate in a campaign activity should take personal leave.
Roger Pielke, Jr., director of CU's Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, is so confused:
Focus the Nation is unadulterated political advocacy. But my campus forbids me to use my official time, paid for by taxpayers, to advocate for particular campaign issues. But global warming is so important. But my Chancellor forbids me to engage in political advocacy as part of my job. But my Chancellor is the keynote speaker for our Focus the Nation activities. But my job is to teach not indoctrinate. But I actually agree with many of the proposed policies. But it is not my job to use my platform as a professor to tell students what to think; I am supposed to teach them how to think and come to their own conclusions. But if I don't go along I'll be castigated as one of those bad guys, like a Holocaust denier or slave owner. But doing the right thing is so obvious.
Thank goodness I am on sabbatical.
No need for confusion: Political activism is forbidden, except when it's moonbatty, in which case it is mandatory.
Hat tip: Slapstick Politics.
