1. GRISLY IMAGES. There was some unplanned excitement at Irvine Valley College today. An anti-abortion group—calling itself the “Survivors of the Abortion Holocaust”—set up two large displays and handed out literature in front of IVC’s Student Services Center.
One of the displays featured a very large and extremely grisly picture of an alleged aborted fetus. It was horribly mangled, with a single eye situated amongst the torn flesh. For those who exited the Student Services Center, the image was impossible to miss. Other pictures on display were also grisly or otherwise disturbing, though they were smaller.
From a distance, I noticed some commotion over there early in the afternoon, but then I had to go to class. After class, at about 2:00, I wandered over to SSC. Two young people stood by the displays, but, by then, almost no one was around.
I spoke with the pleasant girl who stood by the large grisly photo of the shredded fetus. She handed me some literature—a tabloid-style publication called "Stop the Madness." I asked her about the commotion. She didn’t think it amounted to “commotion,” she said. True, she acknowledged, at least one student felt the need to yell or scream her displeasure with the displays."What did she say?"
"You know. —Choice.'"
“Did lots of students look at the displays?”
“Yeah, lots.”
Evidently, our students survived the encounter with the images. Everything seemed utterly normal.
Normaller, even.
2. RAGHU MATHUR, SCHEDULER OF COURSES. I’m told—by several people who oughta know—that Chancellor Mathur is now personally determining the course offerings for ATEP in the Fall.
In the long run, ATEP will likely house some fancy Voc-Ed Whizzbangery—perhaps some video studios, and various high-tech manufacturing facilities or whatnot. In the meantime, though, a small portion of the campus has temporary buildings in which a range of classes will be offered. Essentially, it’s a “satellite campus.”
Some draft of the Fall course offerings had already been produced by various schools and departments. Or at least I think Schools and departments came up with it. The Chancellor wouldn’t write it, would he?
Well, whatever the draft’s origins, Raghu now feels that he can change it.
I kept asking, “Isn’t that kinda, um, micromanagy?
“Well, yeah,” said everybody. “So what else is new?”
19 comments:
Back in the late 60s early 70s there was a movement called ZPG, Zero Population Growth. Primarily found on college and university campuses, these doom and gloom prognosticators went around predicting the end of humanity because of uncontrolled population growth. As we all know now it was nothing but bullshit. Can you say, global warming?
I hate those anti-abortion people trying to shove their crap down our throats!
8:44 - you're an idiot
I don't get it. Are there mothers out there who abort because they're concerned about over-population? Really?
The biggest problem I have with the anti-abortion crowd is that their pictures are always of middle-to-late term fetuses, and yet most abortions are early, before the fetus achieves mental states
An Kalifornia educated idiot, 9:40, thank you very much!
;)
Liar. Education would have taught you "an" is only used before vowels, or vowel like sounds as to avoid a repititon in vowels you'd create with "a".
example:
a ass
an ass.
you are an ass.
speaking of asses, the same thing happened on saddleback's campus about a month ago. a friend and i grabbed some lunch and sat down right in front of them munching way.. if i remember correctly i was eating chicken wings.
Try having an intelligent discussion with these people. It's rather futile. Their modus operandi is usually to revoke anything you are saying, thus making it look as if their point is correct. When in reality they should be offering up some ideas of their own.
/rant.
You're right, 8:44, there is no problem with the billions of people on the planet, creating massive pollution and consuming resources at an alarming rate. No sirree.
There are also no global weather changes due to the human contribution of gasses pumped into the atmosphere. None at all.
Feels good being an ostrich, doesn't it? Or wherever your head happens to be.
There is no air to breathe anyway.....pull the cord and let me sleep
Thank you, Chunk, for NOT putting down the anti-abortion protesters, as people so love to do. I don't share their views, but I have to say that I don't know any moral protest group that gets so meanly maligned these--except for maybe animal activists. I will always admire their courage, though I do think they are terribly misguided on the overpopulation topic, of course.
Rant, rave, doom, and gloom. Man, is every egg sucking liberal this negative? My friend told me about this blog and how cool it is, but I have to tell you, it is damn depressing. Is there anything in your lives that make you smile besides calling people names?
5:53
Calling people names? You mean names like "egg sucking liberal"?
We make every effort to welcome people to this blog, and we don't erase their comments, no matter what view they take.
But, sometimes, I do wish that there were an IQ requirement.
Chunk, you are laughable in your self-imposed superiority.
5:50am -- Pathetic. Signing on to a blog you seem to loathe in the wee hours, just to lamely insult Chunk.
How is being aware of burgeoning problems "doom and gloom"? Pay attention and we can improve the
planet for future generations.
"Oh look, dad, the house is on fire."
"Don't be so gloomy, son."
Thanks, Aunt Bee, for being a better person than I, who thinks that these people are real nut jobs who play fast and loose with the truth about abortions. Their use of late term pictures, done after a pregnancy has gone horribly wrong, is a disgusting ploy to manipulate vulnerable women.
The best way to improve the planet is to rid it of liberals.
The global warming crowd's and Chairman Bore's "An Inconvenient Truth," is a foofaraw of pseudo-science, exaggerations, and errors, that is now being peddled to innocent schoolchildren worldwide. ZPG under a new wraper. Nothing but BULL!
Overcrowding? The current population could not fill up the state of Texas.
And global warming? it is not happening, just another ignorant statement from liberals. Oh by the way former vice president gore's home is creating tons of carbon waste that is eating away our precious ozone. republicans rule - liberals drool
We appear to have an unhappy little troll polluting the blog. No one could really be that stupid.
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