Media Statement For immediate release Thursday, 25
September, 2003
Ogilvy: Lunatics loose on campus
United
Future education spokesman Bernie Ogilvy today joined ACT's
Stephen Franks in condemning the Labour Government's move to
have all university research proposals examined through a
Maori lens.
"If our academic institutions are determined
to become third-rate laughing stocks, then they're well on
the path with this sort of loopy, politically correct
thinking.
"And Stephen Franks is dead right: this is
nothing more and nothing less than academic cowardice from
institutions, lecturers and students who have just rolled
over with barely a murmur of discontent.
"If New Zealand
actually wants to deliver a knowledge economy and not just
talk about it; if it actually intends to be a country where
people have the guts to face up to things honestly and with
intellectual rigour, then it should start here.
"There is
no place for this cloying anti-intellectual drivel
masquerading as cultural sensitivity in our institutions of
higher learning if we actually want them to be that," he
said.
"This is the latest Labour ideological attempt at
social engineering. It's a foot-in-the-door piece of
stupidity that needs to be stamped on now."
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