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	<title>Comments on: Campus Roundup: Mandatory Reading of Sexually-Explicit Graphic Novel</title>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That would match my perception of the more mundane comic book, I having attained a degree of maturity after the graphic novel came to be, and therefore having had only a cursory look into them.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That would match my perception of the more mundane comic book, I having attained a degree of maturity after the graphic novel came to be, and therefore having had only a cursory look into them.</p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Citadel, once upon a time, they assigned new cadets the novel The Caine Mutiny for them to read in the summer before they started there, in order to create a common experience.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the Citadel, once upon a time, they assigned new cadets the novel The Caine Mutiny for them to read in the summer before they started there, in order to create a common experience.</p>
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		<title>By: Rocky Mountain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve looked at some at book stores and libraries and while there are some that are clever most seem depressingly exactly alike in their pursuit of the not-too-obvious ironic and more obviously nihilistic.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve looked at some at book stores and libraries and while there are some that are clever most seem depressingly exactly alike in their pursuit of the not-too-obvious ironic and more obviously nihilistic.</p>
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		<title>By: Rocky Mountain</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rocky Mountain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An excellent choice for people who want to view graphic images of lesbian sex.  If one wanted a &#039;common experience&#039; don&#039;t you believe (I guess not) there are literally thousands of better reading choices.  Even something mildly p.c. like Frederick Douglas&#039; autobiography would be a far better choice.  But no, it doesn&#039;t have the sex and its actually reading as opposed to giggling over some obscene pictures.  And yes, I do believe in obscenity (of the sexual type).  If you want &quot;A family with a twisted dynamic&quot; , read Philip Roth&#039;s &quot;American Pastoral&quot; which may or may not be left wing (I still don&#039;t know) but at least is genuinely thought-provoking and extremely well done novel. And BTW, the &quot;...twisted dynamic&quot; theme is rife in almost all fiction, even Dickens, so its not something that your generation has just discovered.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An excellent choice for people who want to view graphic images of lesbian sex.  If one wanted a &#8216;common experience&#8217; don&#8217;t you believe (I guess not) there are literally thousands of better reading choices.  Even something mildly p.c. like Frederick Douglas&#8217; autobiography would be a far better choice.  But no, it doesn&#8217;t have the sex and its actually reading as opposed to giggling over some obscene pictures.  And yes, I do believe in obscenity (of the sexual type).  If you want &#8220;A family with a twisted dynamic&#8221; , read Philip Roth&#8217;s &#8220;American Pastoral&#8221; which may or may not be left wing (I still don&#8217;t know) but at least is genuinely thought-provoking and extremely well done novel. And BTW, the &#8220;&#8230;twisted dynamic&#8221; theme is rife in almost all fiction, even Dickens, so its not something that your generation has just discovered.</p>
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		<title>By: Brigid</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brigid]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The graphic novel Fun Home is not mandatory reading at The College of Charleston; it&#039;s a book that the school recommends all freshmen read to create a common experience. Nobody has to read it and there&#039;s no penalty for not reading it. And despite the tenor of the article here, it&#039;s an excellent choice. It&#039;s a serious work of literature that is well regarded by critics and made a number of best-of-the-year lists when it was published. I have read it. There are a few panels that show sexual activity, but honestly, I think there are more panels that depict people discussing interior decor. it&#039;s a thought-provoking memoir about a family with a twisted dynamic, and it raises a lot of issues that 18-year-olds would find relevant and interesting.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The graphic novel Fun Home is not mandatory reading at The College of Charleston; it&#8217;s a book that the school recommends all freshmen read to create a common experience. Nobody has to read it and there&#8217;s no penalty for not reading it. And despite the tenor of the article here, it&#8217;s an excellent choice. It&#8217;s a serious work of literature that is well regarded by critics and made a number of best-of-the-year lists when it was published. I have read it. There are a few panels that show sexual activity, but honestly, I think there are more panels that depict people discussing interior decor. it&#8217;s a thought-provoking memoir about a family with a twisted dynamic, and it raises a lot of issues that 18-year-olds would find relevant and interesting.</p>
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		<title>By: b spinello</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[b spinello]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seems to me there exists plenty of opportunity for a talented lawyer to advertise for and find students who owe thousands in loans, having been oversold the worth of their education by their schools.  Individual law suites followed by class action cases against individual schools whose catologues, administrators, etc. presented a distorted picture of what they were selling, and it&#039;s worth.  The schools will be sued to provide payback on a percentage of outstanding loans.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Seems to me there exists plenty of opportunity for a talented lawyer to advertise for and find students who owe thousands in loans, having been oversold the worth of their education by their schools.  Individual law suites followed by class action cases against individual schools whose catologues, administrators, etc. presented a distorted picture of what they were selling, and it&#8217;s worth.  The schools will be sued to provide payback on a percentage of outstanding loans.</p>
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		<title>By: Clare Spark</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clare Spark]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 15:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote about the turn to activist scholars in the humanities here: http://clarespark.com/2013/05/06/the-new-left-activist-scholars/. The New Left was notoriously promiscuous and nothing in this article should surprise us. &quot;The New Left activist scholars.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wrote about the turn to activist scholars in the humanities here: <a href="http://clarespark.com/2013/05/06/the-new-left-activist-scholars/" rel="nofollow">http://clarespark.com/2013/05/06/the-new-left-activist-scholars/</a>. The New Left was notoriously promiscuous and nothing in this article should surprise us. &#8220;The New Left activist scholars.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Jeff Ludwig</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jeff Ludwig]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COMMENT ABOUT THE MITCH DANIELS ARTICLE:

Mitch Daniels is right on target.  When I first arrived at a high school in NYC 18 years ago (I&#039;m not there now), the U.S. History teachers met to coordinate about the coming term. Most of the teachers said how they photocopied large sections from Howard Zinn&#039;s Peoples&#039; History of the U.S.  I told them that Zinn was a self-avowed communist, and that the book was replete with errors.  Further his concept of &quot;people&quot; systematically excluded all kinds of &quot;people&quot; in the U.S.  They scoffed venomously at my assertions. One colleague said to me in a hostile tone, &quot;What do you know anyway?  Have you ever published anything?&quot;  
     There are so many articles out there critiquing Zinn&#039;s book that anyone can find on the Internet.  Yes, it is a best seller, but it&#039;s not history; it&#039;s propaganda.  Further, it presents and advocates for a worldview that is utterly offensive to any fair-minded person.  It is anti-educational insofar as it is not balanced.  The fact that it is a best seller is a sign of how far down the road of self-destruction we have gone as a culture. Zinn and his communism may have a right to exist, but like the Muslim Brotherhood the communists in our midst are all for freedom of speech until they are in a position to ban books, ban speakers, and suppress other ways of thinking.  I&#039;m not saying the Zinn book should be removed from reading lists, but public officials who are right-minded like Mitch Daniels as well as others would do well to denounce the book publicly even if it is permitted. 
        By the way, a week after I had this confrontation with the communist teachers in my department, one of them came up to me and said, &quot;Communism is over in the Soviet Union, but it&#039;s alive and well in this high school.&quot;  I will never forget that statement, and will write here that that teacher is, in my opinion, a disgrace to the teaching profession and doing a disservice to the students. Fortunately, many many students in the school objected to the biases and distortions of the lefties and mocked them behind their backs, but sadly I&#039;m afraid that many young people were influenced by them to walk on the wrong path.]]></description>
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<p>Mitch Daniels is right on target.  When I first arrived at a high school in NYC 18 years ago (I&#8217;m not there now), the U.S. History teachers met to coordinate about the coming term. Most of the teachers said how they photocopied large sections from Howard Zinn&#8217;s Peoples&#8217; History of the U.S.  I told them that Zinn was a self-avowed communist, and that the book was replete with errors.  Further his concept of &#8220;people&#8221; systematically excluded all kinds of &#8220;people&#8221; in the U.S.  They scoffed venomously at my assertions. One colleague said to me in a hostile tone, &#8220;What do you know anyway?  Have you ever published anything?&#8221;<br />
     There are so many articles out there critiquing Zinn&#8217;s book that anyone can find on the Internet.  Yes, it is a best seller, but it&#8217;s not history; it&#8217;s propaganda.  Further, it presents and advocates for a worldview that is utterly offensive to any fair-minded person.  It is anti-educational insofar as it is not balanced.  The fact that it is a best seller is a sign of how far down the road of self-destruction we have gone as a culture. Zinn and his communism may have a right to exist, but like the Muslim Brotherhood the communists in our midst are all for freedom of speech until they are in a position to ban books, ban speakers, and suppress other ways of thinking.  I&#8217;m not saying the Zinn book should be removed from reading lists, but public officials who are right-minded like Mitch Daniels as well as others would do well to denounce the book publicly even if it is permitted.<br />
        By the way, a week after I had this confrontation with the communist teachers in my department, one of them came up to me and said, &#8220;Communism is over in the Soviet Union, but it&#8217;s alive and well in this high school.&#8221;  I will never forget that statement, and will write here that that teacher is, in my opinion, a disgrace to the teaching profession and doing a disservice to the students. Fortunately, many many students in the school objected to the biases and distortions of the lefties and mocked them behind their backs, but sadly I&#8217;m afraid that many young people were influenced by them to walk on the wrong path.</p>
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		<title>By: tagalog</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[tagalog]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 14:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is it about a graphic novel that makes it worthy of college-level study?

Isn&#039;t the term &quot;graphic novel&quot; another label for &quot;comic book?&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is it about a graphic novel that makes it worthy of college-level study?</p>
<p>Isn&#8217;t the term &#8220;graphic novel&#8221; another label for &#8220;comic book?&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Sheik Yerbouti</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sheik Yerbouti]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 12:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is interesting the way they use discrimination to fight discrimination.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is interesting the way they use discrimination to fight discrimination.</p>
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