Profs Respond to BUCC Lecture

In the most recent issue of The Bucknellian one of Bucknell's fabulously ignorant professors: Michael Drexler, rebuts BUCC speaker Ward Connerly. Drexler, who once wrote in the paper that the BUCC supported an end to speech codes becuase we want to promote racism, took over two weeks to respond to Connerly's fantastically successful speech.

To counter Connerly's assertion that government has no business classifying and judging people based on their race, Drexler responds with:

Last week, Ward Connerly argued that affirmative action is "big Government" imposing its will against the interests and principles of democracy. But in Michigan, where a version of Connerly's anti-affirmative action initiative is on the ballot for November, polls reveal a different public perception.

When asked whether they favored banning affirmative action policy, which is the language actually in the ballot initiative, 47 percent would vote "no" and only 44 percent "yes."

Gold star Professor Drexler! With keen insight like that, the left is sure to retake the reins of power in no time!

-Dominic!

Jeans Day

Today marked another "Jeans Day." For those who don't know, Jeans Day is an annual event where the gay rights community declares that everyone wearing jeans supports their cause. Still no clue how students wearing what they wear every other day of the year means they support gay rights, but I give them an A for effort!

BUCC on the Radio

I made a guest appearance on Bucknell's own radio show, "Showering with Friends" last night. The segment was scheduled to last 45 minutes, but after a special appearance by the president of Bucknell's "Feminist" Majority and an irrational ranting call from Annie Oakley, the head of the Sex Worker's Art Show (a troupe of prostitutes the "Feminist" Majority invited to Bucknell to do strip teases and "celebrate whore culture"), I ended up in the studio for the full two hours that the show airs.

Some highlights include:
Being told that a large African American man rapping about "Ho Ass N*ggers" (including Harriet Tubman and Kirby Puckett) while rubbing lotion on "himself" had an intellectual message.
Being told that I was an "anti-feminist" because I thought women should be seen as more than sex objects.
A caller telling me that I should be pro-choice because abortions lead to a drop in crime.
Being yelled at because in trying to calm Annie Oakley down during one of her tirades I called her "Annie" instead of Miss Oakley. Prostitutes are ladies too!
Being told by Annie that married women are in far greater danger of abuse than prostitutes.

It was by far the oddest Tuesday night of my life.

-Dominic!

Williams and the Focus Year Lecture Series

For several months the BUCC has been highlighting the staggering bias of the Office of Academic Affairs' and International Relations Department's Focus Year Lecture Series entitled "Global Capitalism, Global Empire."

The lecture series, manditory for many IR students, has been a complete farce thus far. Intended to encourage students to "think critically" the series has been a series of tin foil hat wearing loons. There have been speeches predicting capitalism's impending collapse, the Bush administration using the war in Afghanistan to promote an economic agenda that redistributes wealth from the working class to the leisure class, and a speech by the very objective editor of the Socialist Register.

Unfortunately the fourth (and final) speech in the series by Cynthia Enloe has been cancelled. Cynthia, a Women's Studies professor at Clark University, was going to enlighten the campus about the role of women in the "new empire."

I for one can't wait to see if the International Relations Department will take the BUCC up on it's offer to make an upcoming speech by Dr. Walter Williams (hosted by the BUCC) on Free Markets and Free Trade, and official replacement for the Enloe talk.