Whatever.
I’m not a woman either, but that doesn’t prevent me from discussing issues of history, because many of Iowa’s milestones as an institution have been in being the first to allow women admission to major colleges and programs, and that’s the history I linked in my original post above. And here again if any of the very sensitive posters here are brave enough to scroll through it.
diversity.uiowa.edu
i’m talking about history and the radically different history between two institutions, because it’s very difficult to find an institution of higher education that is less distinguished, let’s just say, in the areas mentioned than the University of Alabama, and it would be very difficult to call many if not most current Alabama fans a tolerant or forward thinking group of people, although I am absolutely sure that they would claim the opposite, and call themselves the bestest ever. Again, whatever.
I wouldn’t have brought this stuff up at all had the choices not come down to Alabama and Iowa. It’s important that we all know our history and we don’t deny it or prevent school kids or potential students at the University from knowing it and basing their decisions upon it.
Telling people basically to shut up about history is what is done in authoritarian societies, and I just hope you’re not trying that here, even though our ill educated and ill qualified governor and a bunch of ideologues in her party are trying to white wash history and censor the teaching of it in our classrooms.
That doesn’t mean that we have to act that way at one of the preeminent universities in the United States, the University of Iowa, Or on forums about student athletes and the sports they play at this university. Some People need to show just a little spine and a little more integrity.