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From: jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow)
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Subject: Re: Accuracy in Academia
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Date: Mon, 22-Sep-86 12:03:10 EDT
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In article <525@meccts.UUCP> mvs@meccts.UUCP (Michael V. Stein) writes:
>In article <668@midas.UUCP> jeffw@midas.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) writes:
>
>>>These were the only assignments given by the TA during the quarter.
>>>Approximately 30% of class time was spent discussing the events in
>>>Nicaragua.  We did not cover Da Vinci, the Hapsburgs, New World Explo-
>>>ration, Rise of Spain, the Protestant Reformation, or anything else.
>
>>So? I don't see any inaccuracy or disinformation there. Or are you now
>>going to complain about teachers who don't present the subject matter you
>>expect as well? 
>
>Excellent point!  It is indeed a sick idea that a course catalog should 
>represent the content of a college course. [and a lot more blathering]

Excellent point! I guess it's time to call in that champion watchdog group,
"Accuracy in Course Catalogs". :-) I'm glad to see you understand there
was no problem with "disinformation" in the class itself.

>>Sounds to me like the TA, having encountered any number of
>>classes of bored students, merely tried to liven things up by relating events
>>in that period to events in this. 
>
>Absolutely.  Marxist predictions about the collapse of capitalism etc, 
>have been found to be so incredibly accurate that Marxist class 
>analysis is truely the only methodology useable for the study of history.

And of course, a TA who suggests that the role of the state in modern Marxist
countries may be compared to the Church in the Middle Ages must necessarily
be expounding a Marxist line!????!????  In fact, there was nothing in the
discussion subjects that indicated the TA favored Marxist analysis - perhaps
your verbose overreaction indicates a certain phobia in that direction?
Or did you perhaps fail to comprehend the original article? Must have been
all that Marxist disinformation you recieved in English classes, I guess.

					having a good time,
					Jeff Winslow