Thursday, November 18, 2004

 
Gee, D'ya Think He Voted For Bush?

The Mpls.St.Paul [Red]StarTribune carried this headline for Doug Grow's puff-piece on Professor Garry Hesser of Augsburg College:
"Extra! Read all about it: Humble prof is No. 1!"

The humble one "had been named the No. 1 prof in Minnesota by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching the Council for Advancement and Support Education (CASE)." Grow apparently advocates the humbling of Hesser's students before the crackheads, whores, welfare junkies, illegal immigrants, terrorists, and activists of the "community": "A sociology student shouldn't study the people in a neighborhood, Hesser believes, the student 'should become partners with those people.'"
C'mon Hesser, Get a "Case" -get "tough"-send those pampered students out into the f'ing fields-barefoot-in January to pick "snow peas." And wear a humbling dunce cap while denouncing yourself. Better yet: donate all your organs -now-to feed the starving.
Grow goes on to gush: "He's one of those people who seems to go through life enthused by all he sees....He's thrilled that he and his wife were able to raise their family in a home five blocks from campus. Excited by diversity[lotsa' Bush for Prez lawn signs, no doubt]that surrounds him. 'If you draw a circle with a one-mile radius around this campus[Augsburg College, St. Paul, Minnesota], you'll be in area where half of all the Somalis who have immigrated to this country live,' he said, his voice filled with wonder."
Given reports of 5 or 10 years or so ago that something like 400 Somalis attended former Governor Jesse[Jim Janos]Ventura's former high school[mine, as well], one wonders if something like the other wonderful half lives in Minneapolis...
As blogged earlier, even us anti-communists have had *some* sympathy for the commies of old and their hangerons, but one suspects that the Chicoms got a lot better press from Hesser than he ever gave to the West given the following description of one his talks: "Chinese Urbanization Policies and Population Controls: So, What Would You Do?
Garry Hesser, Augsburg College
A discussion on Chinese urbanization and the societal context of controlling population growth, the challenges faced by the Chinese government and alternatives to the policies being pursued."


*from an old television ad years ago featuring a snow-covered Minnesota field.