a letter to the editor in Time Magazine

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In the current issue of Time in response to an articule about tactices of conservative student activists on college campuses:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040920-695855-2,00.html

I am originally from Iran, and I always thought that one of the reasons my country went downhill was that, before the revolution, the majority of Iranians were virtually illiterate and easily manipulated. I thought education would allow people to reason for themselves and be less susceptible to opportunistic movements. To read that students in some of the U.S.'s best universities support gay bashing and opposition to affirmative action and abortion rights completely shatters that illusion.
MEY KHALILI
Ithaca, N.Y.

Comments

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I'll give two out of three - I think that affirmative action needs a serious re-examination. I am currently not in favor of it at all, due to the things I see happening where I work, however realizing that my experience is not the end all be all, I say re-examination instead of ending it.