{"id":2493,"date":"2007-10-12T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2007-10-12T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2493"},"modified":"2007-10-13T10:03:33","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T15:03:33","slug":"grant-f-smith-these-are-stifling-times-at-college-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2493","title":{"rendered":"Grant F. Smith: These are stifling times at college campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\">During my years at Minnesota universities, we argued &#8212; and listened &#8212; and we were better for it. Now, inhibition rules the day.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><strong>Grant F. Smith, Star Tribune, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/562\/story\/1479297.html\">12 October 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The other morning I removed my Masters in International Management degree from the office wall and carefully pulled it out of the frame. I held it in my hands and considered a chaotic journey of discovery during a campus era that has now come to an abrupt end.  Born in the Minneapolis suburbs, I did not have to travel far for an exciting education. The University of Minnesota was a thrilling place to learn in the mid-1980s.<\/p>\n<p>Most stimulating for me were the perpetual classroom and campus debates. My first day in a philosophy class titled &#8220;Life of the Mind&#8221; opened with a pitched verbal battle between a proud semisocialistic professor and a rabidly free-market freshman. Their verbal sparring over the course&#8217;s reading list benefited me greatly and set the tone for what was in store for me on campus.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, I had no idea what the term &#8220;political correctness&#8221; meant, or what the possible tradeoffs were between the quest for individual wealth and social welfare. It was all new, heady and contentious stuff.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/562\/story\/1479297.html\">Read the article<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During my years at Minnesota universities, we argued &#8212; and listened &#8212; and we were better for it. Now, inhibition rules the day. Grant F. Smith, Star Tribune, 12 October 2007 The other morning I removed my Masters in International &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2493\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,63,5],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aipac","tag-censorship","tag-politically-correct","tag-the-israel-lobby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Ed","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}