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How is that ignorance or stupidity? A large proportion of antisemites are Arabs.</p>
<p>The organization is NOT Columbia Republican Alumni , but Columbia Conservative Alumni -- there is a difference. A lot of conservatives support Israel, hence that a page on antisemitism is relevant and appropriate for their web page.</p>
<p>Further, the organization does not promote silencing or harassment of people who voice opinions contrary to their own, unlike their more left-leaning counterparts. I fail to see the "gross stupidity" you speak of.</p>
<p>Q: Who said the following quote regarding Israeli Jews: "The way they talk, the way they walk, the way they handle objects, the way they greet each other, the way they look at the world. There is an endemic prevarication to this machinery, a vulgarity of character that is bone-deep and structural to the skeletal vertebrae of its culture."</p>
<p>A. Adolf Hilter
B. Osama bin Laden
C. a Columbia professor</p>
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<p>I've learned enough to know by now that the obvious answer is C; specifically, Professor Hamid Dabashi, Chair of the Middle East department at Columbia.</p>
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<p>I wholly disagree with that, and I'm not nitpicking at all. If groups of Columbia students "have time" to harass people with whom they disagree, why wouldn't individual students "have time" to do that? And since when do college students not "have time" to do things?</p>
<p>On a number occasions, I've seen individual students harass other students based on their views. Some people are simply intolerant. This isn't a widespread problem by any means, but Columbia has a lot of people with deeply-held beliefs and it's my experience that a small minority of such people take their beliefs beyond intelligent debate.</p>
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"The better question is how a republican could manage to get through the admission screening process."</p>
<p>do you have ANY real basis for this at all?
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<p>This is correct. The adcoms' job is to read applications, do recruiting events, hold information sessions, etc. They're not professors with an agenda to push.</p>
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I've learned enough to know by now that the obvious answer is C; specifically, Professor Hamid Dabashi, Chair of the Middle East department at Columbia.
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<p>Is that idiot De Genova who made the "one million mogadishus" comment still there?</p>
<p>At least Edward Said kicked the bucket with his good friend Arafat.</p>
<p>I'd still be careful about movies like "Indoctrinate U" because they can be very propagandistic. So there are probably true things but their perspective is just as little impartial as those they are complaining about.</p>
<p>Well, haven't seen the movie, don't no what exactly is going on at Columbia concerning this matter, just mentioning it.</p>
<p>Well, when I applied (I got accepted ED) I focused a large part of my app on my social and economic conservatism- I figured that if they are looking for diversity, conservatives are what they most lack. So here I am, and I am looking forward to warding off those commies at Columbia (just kidding, all you reactionary folks). It will be interesting, though.</p>
<p>All kidding aside, if Columbia is trying to change one aspect of its students' attitudes, it's to give them an open mind about a wide variety of subjects. New York helps with that but it's the student atmosphere that really pushes it.</p>
<p>"if Columbia is trying to change one aspect of its students' attitudes, it's to give them an open mind about a wide variety of subjects"</p>
<p>I've found this to be marginally true, but professors' attitude's hardly change and those inevitably influence students'. what is changing is the pre-professional and practical nature of the student body (becoming more pre-law, pre-med, pre-wall street oriented). Seas is definitely trying to do this (gateway lab, financial engineering major, entrepreneurship minor, econ-OR joint major, applied math and physics allowing business and econ electives, applied physics having a medical physics focus area, more CS minors, requiring an intro CS class.)</p>
<p>CC too is realizing what an asset a good econ dept is, and is creating / strengthening econ-something else joint majors. econ-philosophy, econ-math, econ-OR, econ-poli sci, even if these aren't new, they are at any rate gaining greater enrollment, because they sell well, and students realize that they can make more money off an interdisciplinary major. Frontiers of science though close to meaningless, was instituted to give people a practial, modern and relevant understanding of science, it is a divergence from the classical core education.</p>
<p>I think all these changes actually attract more practical students who are less intensely idealistic, and more in generall politically moderate.</p>
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"if Columbia is trying to change one aspect of its students' attitudes, it's to give them an open mind about a wide variety of subjects"</p>
<p>I've found this to be marginally true, but professors' attitude's hardly change and those inevitably influence students'.
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<p>Yup, Columbia as an institution can only do so much to "try to change" student attitudes. They have little control over what individual faculty members do because of tenure, academic freedom, etc.</p>