Re: (Fwd) APC News Wire

[Briana LeClaire <mmsmom1@yahoo.com>]

Not that they need me to come to their defense, but as a longtime
subscriber to the Washington Times National Weekly Edition, the WA
Times is biased, yes.  Liars, absolutely not.  They do this
old-fashioned thing called reporting.  Instead of waiting for the news
to come to them on a listserver, for example.

Briana

Sue Hovey <suehovey@moscow.com> wrote:
>
> 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
> 
> ----------
> > 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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