Comments on: Yo Rick

By: Nord

Nord — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 16:18:36 +0000

Not Berkeley:
http://catalog.berkeley.edu/undergrad/requirements.html

“American History and Institutions Requirements

The American History and Institutions (AH&I) requirements are based on the principle that a U.S. resident graduated from an American university should have an understanding of the history and governmental institutions of the United States. These requirements may be met as follows:

I. Ways to Satisfy the American History and Institutions Requirements Before Entering at Berkeley:

By fulfilling the portion of the â€œaâ€ subject requirement for admission that consists of one year of U.S. history or one-half year of U.S. history and one-half year of U.S. government in high school with a grade of C or better. ”

I’d have to check it you can graduate from California secondary schools without a year of US History, but I certainly think most american high school students would meet that requirement at Berkeley…

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 14:46:20 +0000

Unfortunately for Santorum, even your interpretation is not the case. Most UC history departments require students to take a US history course, and all UC undergraduates are required to take at least one class in American history or governance.

By: J. Otto Pohl

J. Otto Pohl — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:27:48 +0000

I think fairness that Santorum meant to say it was possible to graduate from a number of UC schools with a BA and not take any US history. That is quite different from there being no US history courses. But, there is a good argument for making US history mandatory for graduating from an institution of higher learning in the US.

I live in Africa and there are at least in Ghana no Lesbian African Marxist Muslims. Of those groups the only one besides obviously Africans that exist in any numbers are Muslims. Marxism unlike in Europe, Asia or even the US has very few followers in Africa and this has been an historical pattern for a long time. Other than South Africa there were no communist parties of any note on the continent in the 1930s. There was as far as I can tell never either a Communist Party of the Gold Coast or Communist Party of Ghana. The first country to go communist in Africa was Ethiopia in 1974. After that there was Angola and Mozambique in 1975. But, compare that to Asia where communists came to power in the USSR (Central Asia and Far East), China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Afghanistan and South Yemen. Likewise while there are lots of communists in the 20th century in Europe there are not many in Africa.

By: Chris Smith

Chris Smith — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 02:51:35 +0000

Rick Santorum is a lying, arrogant, god-drunk, sanctimonious little sh*thead, and he will never, ever, ever sit in the White House.

By: jfruh

jfruh — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:26:17 +0000

Well, but surely they teach it in an un-American way, undermining their students’ inborn patriotism with leftist lies. That might as well not be American history, once they’re done with it!

When I was an undergraduate history major at Cornell, I had the interesting/terrifying experience of being cornered at a party by a friend’s father, who was a trustee at the school and a mid-level Bush I administration official. He was outraged that the distribution requirements in the history department required you to take at least one class that wasn’t U.S. history and one class that covered a period before 1800, but not vice versa (i.e., you could take all non-U.S. pre-1800 classes if you wanted). Since I was in the process of doing exactly what outraged him so much, I tried to answer as a little as possible. In my memory, he’s gesticulating with a highball glass, though I may have made that part up.