{"id":649,"date":"2008-05-26T11:51:37","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T17:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2008-05-26T11:53:51","modified_gmt":"2008-05-26T17:53:51","slug":"649","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"CU Boulder: &#8220;Come Pretend With Us!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Fish blogs in the New York Times, <a href=\"https:\/\/fish.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/05\/25\/more-colorado-follies\/?th&amp;emc=th\" target=\"_blank\">More Colorado Follies<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve just returned from New Zealand and find that in my absence the University of Colorado \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the same one that earlier this year appointed as its president a Republican fund-raiser with a B.A. in mining and no academic experience \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has gifted me again, this time with the announcement of plans to raise money for a Chair in Conservative Thought and Policy.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The best quote from his piece is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;[G.P. Peterson, the chancellor of the Boulder campus] acknowledged that the professor of conservative thought didn&#8217;t have to be an actual conservative, and pointed out that many teachers of French \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aren&#8217;t necessarily French.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Of course the analogy doesn&#8217;t work: you don&#8217;t get to choose your country of origin; you do get to choose your political beliefs.)&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So I wonder, does a professor of woman studies actually need to be a woman to be credible? Can a white professor of black studies lecture from an authentic positon? G.P. Peterson, chancellor, CU Boulder, must believe so. Because, you know, many teachers of woodworking aren&#8217;t actually made of wood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Fish blogs in the New York Times, More Colorado Follies: &#8220;I&#8217;ve just returned from New Zealand and find that in my absence the University of Colorado \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the same one that earlier this year appointed as its president a Republican fund-raiser with a B.A. in mining and no academic experience \u00e2\u20ac\u201c has gifted me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblog.javazen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}