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Re: (Fwd) APC News Wire
When one reads a story such as this, particularly from the Washington
Times, one has good reason to have a healthy suspicion that it may not be
true.
Sue Hovey
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> From: Amy VanHoover <hine9441@uidaho.edu>
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: (Fwd) APC News Wire
> Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 6:56 PM
>
> I thought this was interesting. Hope nobody gets offended-
> Amy VanHoover
> *************************************************
> WHEN THE INMATES RUN THE ASYLUM
>
>
>
> Just when you think that examples of hysterical
> levels of political correctness on college campuses
> couldn’t get more ridiculous, along comes another.
>
> The Washington Times reported Monday that Arizona
> State University has fired Professor Jared Sakren,
> the head of their acting program, for using a
> "classical" approach to teaching Shakespeare.
>
> The ASU Theatre Department wanted Sakren to either
> change the ending of the plays or "reinterpret" the
> texts if he insisted on including "offensive, sexist
> and Eurocentric" selections such as Shakespeare,
> Aeschylus, Chekhov and Ibsen.
>
> Well, the feminists who were upset can rest easy now
> because Sakren is gone (although the lawsuit he’s
> filed against the school and some faculty members
> may still loom). And no one will have to be
> subjected to the offensive original versions of
> William Shakespeare’s plays. Instead, the theater
> department is enlightening the campus with "Betty
> the Yeti: An Eco-Fable." According to the Times,
> it’s a "story of a logger who has sex with a
> sasquatch and is transformed into an
> environmentalist." And what’s the relevance of this
> play? Some suspect it may be the true life story of
> Al Gore!
>
> ACTION TO TAKE: (1) Call Bonnie Eckard, ASU Theatre
> Department "Chair" (and quite possibly one of the
> offended feminists): 602-965-5359. Tell her you’re
> sick and tired of colleges indoctrinating our kids
> with this type of radical revolutionary nonsense and
> insist that common sense and classic literature be
> returned to curriculums.
>
> Amy VanHoover
> http://www.uidaho.edu/~hine9441
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