http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2007/may07/07-05-09.html that is some hardcore crap they teach at public universities. If I were a citizen of VA I wouldn't like my tax dollars going to fund such garbage.
Phyllis Schlafly is a American conservative activist who is anti feminism. It looks like Va Tech's English Department is infested with radical feminists. A good book which discusses the changes in America's higher education system influenced by left wing politcal forces is The Closing of the American Mind, by Allan Bloom.
=============== Good points,Dude of Life; we learned lots of King James Version ,elizabethton English, in our OLD public school English class. =========================================== Also read in a news report, he studied a class ,VA Tech's about horror movies, and Investors Business Daily noted [paraphrase]they had a staff which was clearly opposed to NRA policies & JPFO[Jews for Possession of Firearms Ownership]. ============================== In other words a perfect storm of stupid choices, all of which have consequences.
Those classes sound a hell of a lot more interesting than any English class I've taken. I'd probably get in a lot of arguments with the instructors, but at least it wouldn't be boring. Anyway, I utterly fail to see the connection between nutty postmodern leftism and murderous violence that Schafley seems to think doesn't even bear explanation. While there may be a violent wing at the extremes of leftist philosophy, it hardly seems well represented in the Virginia Tech course catalog - even the parts that this article cherrypicked and took out of context to make them look as bad as possible. A tempest in a teacup. Martin