REVIEWING THE INTERCHANGE REPORT. Doxagora finds my roller coaster story, also catches the brass at the New York Times crying with their mouths full. Samantha at The Torch has a spot-on observation on Oregon's cultural competency initiative.

[Oregon's] President Frohnmayer said that “to me [cultural competency] means that we are able to effectively reach all of the students who have demonstrated their competence to be in the university but for whom, because of cultural background, traditional techniques of teaching may not be as effective as others” (emphasis added). If you cut through the politically correct newspeak in that quote and think about what Frohnmayer seems actually to be saying, his comment is ridiculous and patronizing. It is bad enough that this patronizing attitude prevails at American colleges and universities; the fact that the University of Oregon now wants to coerce its professors into sharing this attitude is unconscionable.

There's more on my mind about developments at Oregon and elsewhere around the academy, but that's for the weekend.