Letter to the editor
Alumni scholarship and the non-minority student
Gabe Koshinsky
Issue date: 4/23/09 Section: Opinion
As the time for graduation comes along, it won't be long before graduating seniors are barraged with requests for Alumni Donations. Certainly, given the years of lacking investment in ancient dormitories, Battelle Hall, and various other areas these donations are desperately needed. However, before Alumni consider giving money I believe they should question the values of this institution and judge accordingly.
Why should Alumni give money to an institution who has hired professors who do not attend graduation on the sole basis of protesting the Army ROTC color guard? This very notion brings me to question the patriotism of professors this University has decided to hire. After all, what proud American would want to keep an individual employed who lacks all respect for those who serve G-d and Country?
Secondly, why should Alumni give money to a Christian institution which doesn't even take the time to do a 9-11 Ceremony for the Americans who were savagely murdered by Islamic extremists? On that note, our institution cancels class on Martin Luther King Jr. Day yet it makes no attempt to recognize the brave and diverse groups of American Veterans who made Martin Luther King Jr. day possible. Shameful, just shameful.
Furthermore, what Alumni who love their country want to donate to an institution that has classes such as "Cultural Pluralism" which in my experience was devoted solely on identifying how white people have destroyed the world. Perhaps this is my "white guilt" from the equivalent of the communist manifesto I had to purchase for $35.00 [also known as Race, Class & Gender by Paula Rothenberg] we had to purchase. Is it no surprise retention is so horrible!
As I recall I learned nothing of cultural diversity relating to various religions, and ethnic groups or concepts related to Anthropology. My personal view of American Society is that it is beautiful in the very fact it is not just black and white. Believe it or not, not all white people are the same just like not all Hispanics or Asians are the same. More over, why isn't Gay culture included. Their culture is completely excluded. That seems discriminatory for a University so obsessed with focusing on that very issue.
Why should Alumni give money to an institution who has hired professors who do not attend graduation on the sole basis of protesting the Army ROTC color guard? This very notion brings me to question the patriotism of professors this University has decided to hire. After all, what proud American would want to keep an individual employed who lacks all respect for those who serve G-d and Country?
Secondly, why should Alumni give money to a Christian institution which doesn't even take the time to do a 9-11 Ceremony for the Americans who were savagely murdered by Islamic extremists? On that note, our institution cancels class on Martin Luther King Jr. Day yet it makes no attempt to recognize the brave and diverse groups of American Veterans who made Martin Luther King Jr. day possible. Shameful, just shameful.
Furthermore, what Alumni who love their country want to donate to an institution that has classes such as "Cultural Pluralism" which in my experience was devoted solely on identifying how white people have destroyed the world. Perhaps this is my "white guilt" from the equivalent of the communist manifesto I had to purchase for $35.00 [also known as Race, Class & Gender by Paula Rothenberg] we had to purchase. Is it no surprise retention is so horrible!
As I recall I learned nothing of cultural diversity relating to various religions, and ethnic groups or concepts related to Anthropology. My personal view of American Society is that it is beautiful in the very fact it is not just black and white. Believe it or not, not all white people are the same just like not all Hispanics or Asians are the same. More over, why isn't Gay culture included. Their culture is completely excluded. That seems discriminatory for a University so obsessed with focusing on that very issue.
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