Friday, October 07, 2005

DePaul's DeBeverly DeHillibillies

It seems, according to Max Flack, that hillbilly mentality can help explain the madness going on at DePaul University. Wait, no, Uncle Jed, Granny and Jethro had more common sense that Dean Susanne Dumbleton and University President Dennis Holtschneider.

Maybe they were hillbillies, but the Clampett clan wasn't stupid.

Of Dean Susanne Dumbleton, who was in charge of the School of New Learning at DePaul, where suspended professor Thomas Klocek taught.

Everyone remembers how broken-hearted poor Jethro Bodine was when he came home from his first day in the 6th grade at Oxford Grammar. It was bad enough to be called a hillbilly and a redneck but when the school linguists accused Granny Clampett of wearing combat boots that was going too far. So what if Granny wore boots like the ones Clint Eastwood wore in Korea, they didn’t have to say so. And they wrecked Jethro’s Three Stooges lunch bucket by repeatedly slamming their heads against it. They also went bobbing for fresh seafood in Jethro’s crawdad bucket; dented that too. Jethro was disconsolate for days. It was months before the school authorities could get up the nerve to let Jethro back in school.

Dr. Susanne Dumbleton would never have tolerated such foolishness. She would have leapt to Jethro’s side in an instant. Susanne is dean of the School of New Learning at DePaul University, the home of the famous Blue Demon basketball team, and when she heard what Professor Thomas Klocek did to those poor Palestinian kids at a Student’s Activities Fair last September, she blew her stack. She went after that rascal like a chicken after a June bug, like Big Brother after Winston Smith, like Uncle Joe after a kulak That kind of thing had to be nipped in the bud. DePaul’s PC Code had to be upheld. And there was no time to waste—no time for such silly nonsense as a hearing. And Klocek didn’t get one; he was, forthwith, suspended with pay.

And what heinous PC crime did Klocek commit? It seems that a student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), had set up a table at the Activities Fair. They were dispensing literature calling for divestment from Israel and an end to apartheid and repression. Apartheid and repression are bad. Everyone will agree with that. It’s what happened to Jethro at Oxford Grammar. He was being oppressed and apartheid. But the SJP doesn’t give a hang about people like Jethro or the many victims of apartheid and oppression suffering under the yoke of their co-religionists in the Gaza Strip, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. They were after Ariel Sharon and his running dog, George W. Bush.


And of DePaul President Dennis Holtshschneider?

Max Flack writes:

The Rev. Dennis Holtschneider, DePaul’s eleventh president and an ardent supporter of neo-Nazi Holocaust denier, Norman Finklestein, was so upset he just had to put pen to paper. Holtschneider wrote a letter to the Denver Rocky Mountain News. “Klocek acted in a belligerent and menacing manner toward students who were passing out literature,” he wrote. “He (Klocek) raised his voice, threw pamphlets at students, pointed his finger in their faces…DePaul offered to give Klocek a spring quarter assignment if he met with the students to apologize…He refused.”

Jethro also refused to apologize. Three Stooges lunch buckets are almost as rare as anatomically correct Shirley Temple dolls though not as highly prized. Should Klocek have apologized to DePaul’s teacher’s pets? No. No one should apologize for protesting the distribution of hate literature. Klocek denies shouting, throwing paper or making obscene gestures. He denies calling anybody a little Eichmann. And without a hearing no one will ever know. Maybe Holtschneider couldn’t find enough kangaroos on short notice.

Obviously, Mohammed and his pals were not accustomed to a non-Muslim addressing them in a non-deferential tone. The spineless bowing and scraping, the supine acceptance of Islam as a religion of peace and tolerance, the abject surrender to the most trivial and frivolous demands of groups like SJP by hundreds of university administrators just like Dumbleton and Holtschneider have given Muslim students the wrong impression of Yankee Doodle and G.I. Joe. The Cump Shermans and Alvin Yorks preserve freedom by winning wars in the face of incredible adversity; the Dumbletons and Holtschneiders lead disastrous retreats into slavery and dhimmitude. They are Internationalists, Europeans, not Americans.

Maybe Uncle Jed should have sent Jethro to DePaul instead of to Oxford Grammar—there’s not much difference in the intellectual atmosphere and the kids would be more Jethro’s size. Naw—sooner or later Granny would hear about those nasty Blue Demons and would descend on the campus with a hickory switch. Eventually, she would get to the source of the problem—Dumbleton and Holtschneider.


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