Honors at Highlands: sounds like Manny Aragon. Is he out of jail yet? --- Frank C. Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, Santa Fe, NM 87505
505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 6:09 PM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > Marcus, you seem to miss my point; perhaps just baiting me. > > Honors at Highlands: this was part of a policy, stated publicly at a Board > of Regents meeting, "Highlands exists to provide degrees to Hispanic > students that could never obtain one at any other university. Honors > degrees, curricula, and courses are racist reasons that students from > northern New Mexico cannot succeed at other universities and, as such, > cannot be tolerated at Highlands." > > Posters: woman in question was a 30+ year old grad student (we shared the > same advisor). The posters were in my office for my enjoyment, purchased at > the university bookstore. Meeting was held in my office at her request. > They were prints of Dali work considered "great art." The human figures are > totally androgynous as well as being distorted in typical Dali style. Her > motive for filing the complaint was, she stated in an email a year later, > to discredit me with our advisor who she thought showed a preference for my > work over hers. The HR office, because of their "enlightened liberal > policies" accepted her complaint on its face, no investigation; as the same > policy stated one was not needed because, as a male and academic staff, I > had no defensible position to consider. > > Ranchers: this particular family took 'stewardship' seriously and made > hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of improvements to public land. but > my point is simply that bureaucrats, kowtowing to liberal environmental > lobbyists set policy without regard to any 'facts on the ground' or any > science, simply on liberal philosophy of how things "should be." > > Access: I too am a taxpayer. There are some very nice hot springs on BLM > land near by. They are maintained and upgraded by a volunteer public group > (pretty informal, word of mouth kind of stuff). Being old and feeble, my > access is increasing dependent on the use of an ATV. BLM policy dictates > constant reduction of motorized transport on that land, so it will not be > long before my access is de facto denied. This is a personal example of a > "woke" policy on increasing wilderness designations thereby denying access > to elderly, handicapped, and otherwise marginally abled. > > You asked for examples of liberal actions/policies that caused harm, to me > specifically, but by implication in general. These are tangible examples. > The fact that you agree with the policies and actions does not mitigate the > harm caused. > > davew > > > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, at 4:33 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > > Welfare ranchers, indeed. The rest of us have to constantly modernize > our skills.. But freeloading off the public land and environment that’s > “multigenerational” and must be preserved? Why? > > > > Marcus > > > > *From:* Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Frank Wimberly > *Sent:* Wednesday, September 1, 2021 3:17 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Liberal dilemmas > > > > I owned 40 acres in Torrance County, NM which was adjacent to a national > forest. Ranchers were charged $1.21 per acre per year to use the NF land > for grazing. I could have made $48 per year by charging a little less than > the feds. My property taxes were $40 per year. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021, 1:50 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> wrote: > > Dave wrote: > > < More significant: I have had my curricular materials censured and have > had my job threatened on a number of occasions because it was deemed > inconsistent with liberal values. Ironically, many of these events occurred > when I was teaching at a Catholic university where I could, with impunity, > challenge religious orthodoxy, but not liberal woke snowflake orthodoxy. I > was once censured by the University of Wisconsin HR department because a > female student filed a sexual harassment complaint because I had a meeting > with her in my office where I had three Salvador Dali prints on my wall and > "she was forced to look at breasts the entire meeting." Her complaint was > upheld because neither the content of the Dali prints nor my intent or > rational for having them in my office mattered — only her subjective > feelings. At Highlands I was forbidden to offer Honors courses or any > opportunities to earn extra credit in a class by tackling extra hard > problems (these were software courses) because doing so was racist and > unfair — simply because more non-Hispanic students obtained the extra > credit or the honors designation. > > > So the university had the expectation that before advanced classes could > be offered, there needed to an unbiasing of the candidate pool for those > classes by adequately training everyone (every demographic) that was > potentially feeding in to them? Ok. If the university wants to do this, > or incentivized to do this, it is really just a matter of private/public > strategy. If you don't want to work for a university that has this "fair" > strategy, then don't. As for subjecting young students to strange > imagery, I can see why one would not want to do that. Just as it would > strange for a female professor to dress like a hooker. Organizations can > have dress codes. Don't be a fool, universities are just another kind of > business. You mess with the business, you will have a problem. It would > be better if your department heads were "upstanders" and just said, "Hey > Dave, how is this art helping your students?" > > < Not personal, but a relative: multi-generational ranch with Federal > grazing right. Hundreds of thousands of dollars over the years were spent > enhancing the Federal land, containment ponds for water that reduced > erosion and flash flooding without diminishing runoff contribution to > watershed; planting of native grasses, elimination of deadwood, etc. etc. > End result was the ability to safely and sustainably graze X number of > cattle. About five years ago, BLM issued a new policy dictating the maximum > carrying capacity of Federal lands. The math was based on lowest common > denominator. The policy was, at the behest of preservation groups, written > with the specific intent to minimize and eventually eliminate the use of > public lands for grazing. (Also mining and motorized recreational vehicle > use.) Bottom line, allotment was taken away because it violated the numbers > — not because there was any evidence of actual harm. > > > I'm a taxpayer. Why should I want off road vehicles or cows on federal > land? I don't care about either of those things. This is a weird > entitlement that these folks have in mind. As far as I was concerned the > Bundy principals in Oregon deserved to be met by A-10s. > > Marcs > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ >
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