Four-year degree in Marxism
When the college administration posts a notice on campus to “report hate crimes” the idea, it would seem, is to take the focus off the college administration as being the culprit in one of the slickest crimes that slowly progressed throughout America over the past several decades (“Reports of Rape are Increasing on College Campuses — And That’s Good News,” May 14-20, 2015). Decades ago the great books approach to education introduced college students to the thoughts and world view of great thinkers such as Aristotle, Cicero, C.S. Lewis and Chesterton. Slowly over the years, this once-traditional approach to education was bullied out of existence and replaced with the current godless, materialist world-view approach to “education” which provides miles of knowledge with little depth and no wisdom.
Students who do not conform to the accepted views of the prevailing campus group-think are marginalized while the majority of students (empty and desperate to be liked and accepted) will allow themselves to be charmed by any expression uttered by their Marxist professors.
In addition to being intellectually and financially screwed, life within these cloistered habitats can easily leave an indelible scar on a student’s character. Many young, wholesome, excitement-loving individuals who entered a four-year college graduated as obedient, predictable, run-of-the mill, tetchy creatures of their Marxist habitat who exhibit a finely tuned and highly pitched critical spirit. Sad.
Great music, difficult DJ
Editor’s Note: This comment was left on the Advocate’s website under “Martian in the Mix: Long-time WMUA radio host comes crashing down to Earth” where a lively debate over a host’s ouster is still going strong. Join the conversation at www.valleyadvocate.com.
I will give Max Shea much credit for his commitment to that aspect of WMUA’s mission, to provide a voice for non-traditional types of music and art forms, but my praise to him stops there. Max was downright difficult to deal with and consistently aligned himself with a small faction of others who seemed to always have it in for someone. I am shocked to hear that almost 20 years after I first set foot in WMUA these ridiculous shenanigans are still going on. As for Glenn — Glenn Siegel was the advisor, the glue that keeps it all together. With students coming and going year after year, Glenn was a steady source of knowledge and experience to rely on to get things done. He did a fantastic job.
Next year in Holyoke!
How disappointing to read “Selling Crafts, and Holyoke: Alchemy Artisan Fair seeks to bring the people back to downtown” (May 7-13, 2015) after the fact! I am a newcomer to both the Valley in general, and more recently to Holyoke in particular. As a new homeowner in Holyoke, I am always looking and learning about what my new city has to offer. The Alchemy Artisan Fair is exactly the sort of thing I’m interested in. Not only would I have gone to the fair, I would have brought friends from Northampton as well as old friends from the Boston area. And we would have spent money. What a disappointment to have missed it. Oh well, I’ll have to try to remember to watch for it next year.
