Sunday, March 2, 2008

I'm Sure Everything Will Be Fine....


UC Berkeley seeks partnership with Saudi school

A campus faculty leader said some professors in Berkeley's mechanical engineering department -- which would provide consultation to the Saudi school -- had "huge" concerns about the agreement, particularly about academic freedom and gender and religious discrimination.

Come on, guys, have a little faith; it's not like they're a bunch of Republicans.
But it remains to be seen whether women and others will indeed be allowed to be equal partners in the new venture. The New York Times reported in October that Israelis would not be allowed to collaborate with KAUST.

Oops, spoke too soon.

When you have a host country that practices this
and a university that tolerates, if not encourages, that (NSFW)why wouldn't they be able to sort those minor cultural differences out just fine? Everybody appreciates diversity and tolerance (except those redneck, backwoods, neo-fascist American right-wingers).

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