Editor,
Finally, the University community has stepped into the 21st century and is now serving as a brave new model for other academic institutions across the country to imitate.
I am referring to the brand-new, exciting standard for academic engagement that we’re pioneering here on campus.
Irrational discourse encourages us all to scream at those we disagree with, hurl scurrilous, stupid epithets at one another, and bludgeon those we disagree with as we eject them from public meeting halls and classes.
Pioneered by Rush Limbaugh, the Nonie Darwish talk and the Daily Lobo online discussion trolls, these exciting new discourse guidelines will now be followed, not only for campus presentations, but in all our classrooms.
Unreasonable and insane foaming at the mouth, hair pulling, personal ad hominem attacks will not only be tolerated, but will now be given magna cum laude status, and the dumber and more hateful, the better.
It’s a heck of a lot more exciting to verbally and physically truncheon one another with our skateboards than to listen to boring lectures that force us to think … ugh. As everyone on campus admits, UNM never has been much of a place to engage the intellect, and today’s University is certainly no exception.
This letter is in no way to be taken as satire, but is an honest and forthright endorsement of the brave and wonderful example we are setting here at our beloved University.
James Burbank
UNM faculty
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