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Over the weekend, I published a column by North Idaho College student Connor DeVries/Sentinel, who was miffed that too many of his instructors used class time to discuss their personal politics. Quoth Connor: “I used to think that art classes and political science classes were two distinct things. This semester showed me the error in my thinking. So many instructors spend their lecture time expounding their personal political philosophies that I’m beginning to think that a designated political science class just isn’t necessary” Full column here.
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Cabbage Boy on December 14 at 10:56 a.m.
It is so stupid, they shouldn’t even have to have a policy on it.
nic on December 14 at 11:30 a.m.
Depends on the class. Conner’s complaint was about a political discussion duning an anthropology. I think the topic Conner objected to fit within the realm of origin, behavior, and development of humans.
I sense some hyperbole in Conner’s critical analysis of college life. The above quote alludes to the fact that politics was the subject of an art class. But the specifics of Conner’s complain shows that the material he objected to was more relevant to the nature of the class. Just like the Katrina failure would have been an appropriate topic dunring philosophy, ethics, poli sci, and enginerring classes among others.