VDare, which is an anti immigration website disliked by many including the SPLC, claims that the large number of non english speaking economics students meant that the subject of economics had to be come more mathematical and less descriptive to accomodate the fact that the people communicating could not speak the same language.
I personally would add that as they expanded the number of undergraduates they needed to create an easily graded curriculum, that stressed mathematics not writing.
http://vdare.com/rubenstein/090727_nd.htm
February 17 - 1600 - Giordano Bruno is burnt alive by the catholic church. Aquinas : "much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death."
Rooster:Right, so that means they made it more mathematical instead of just curving their grades.
So are we in agreement then? I mean, that was pretty much what the article was arguing.
Rooster:Oh, and you are the first person to ever go to college. Congratulations, nice gown!
I don't even know how to respond to that. And you're the first to not go?
Stephen Forde: Rooster:Right, so that means they made it more mathematical instead of just curving their grades. So are we in agreement then? I mean, that was pretty much what the article was arguing. Rooster:Oh, and you are the first person to ever go to college. Congratulations, nice gown! I don't even know how to respond to that. And you're the first to not go?
What, the article was claiming that immigrants caused more grade curving? I think you've gone off track here.
Did you think everyone on here was in high school?
liberty student:VDare is ok with immigration if you are a white western-european immigrant. If you are non-white you are definitely out of luck.
So what? Ethnicity matters. On a thread last week you said that whites should be concerned about racism against them. And when some ppl are you whine about it?
liberty student:these folks are very pro-state
Some of them are, some of them aren't. Peter Brimelow is a hard core libertarian. (not an anarchist though) He spoke @ the Private Property and Freedom Society's third annual conference.
Rooster: Stephen Forde: Rooster:Right, so that means they made it more mathematical instead of just curving their grades. So are we in agreement then? I mean, that was pretty much what the article was arguing.
Stephen Forde: Rooster:Right, so that means they made it more mathematical instead of just curving their grades. So are we in agreement then? I mean, that was pretty much what the article was arguing.
Rooster:What, the article was claiming that immigrants caused more grade curving?
Look at the continuity. The article was arguing that the increase in immigrant students was at least partly responsible for the shift toward a more math based curriculum. This is what you said. I agreed. Then you thought I was arguing something else.
Rooster:Did you think everyone on here was in high school?
Well, if you did go to university, then you must have had a different experience then I did. I think over half the students are international students @ UOIT.
Stephen Forde:So what? Ethnicity matters.
Not to me. I don't think supporting government immigration policies (for or against) is consistent libertarianism. Or at least, I don't believe so after yesterday.
Stephen Forde:On a thread last week you said that whites should be concerned about racism against them. And when some ppl are you whine about it?
I said that if whites are going to be concerned about racism, it would make sense for them to be concerned first with racism against whites, rather than racism against non-whites, which they would not have any conception of.
Stephen Forde:Some of them are, some of them aren't. Peter Brimelow is a hard core libertarian. (not an anarchist though)
It is not possible to be hardcore (from my perspective) if you aren't an anarchist. A hardcore minarchist is still pro-state.
Stephen Forde: Look at the continuity. The article was arguing that the increase in immigrant students was at least partly responsible for the shift toward a more math based curriculum. This is what you said. I agreed. Then you thought I was arguing something else.
Actually my statement was meant to be sarcastic, my fault for being ambiguous.
Lots of immigrants and lots of math doesn't mean that immigrants caused math.
Rooster:Lots of immigrants and lots of math doesn't mean that immigrants caused math.
However, lots of immigrants, lots of math, and animal spirits = soaring deficits!