Academic Dishonesty

Submitted by Lily Downing (United States), Dec 30, 2002 at 10:54

It is disheartening to read the response from professors who are charged with the responsibility of teaching the best and the brightest. They have the perfect opportunity to point out what true oppression is and to help shape young minds to stand up for those who can not defend themselves. Instead they attack the aspects of our policy that they don't approve of and claim that our imperfect government is the immoral player in the current drama.

Certainly there are many perspectives on government policy which can be discussed and debated, but these intellectual pygmies lower the bar far below any reasonable standard of integrity and relevance

Who educated these professors? Who is responsible for their all-too-visible inability to reason and their immoral perspective on world affairs? Where is an academic authority which could hold them accountable, for their outrageous ignorance and inattention to the facts on the ground?

Lily Downing
New York, NY

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