A father and son, Keith and Ryan Beedie, who are the biggest industrial-property owners in British Columbia, have given Simon Fraser University $22-million (Canadian), which the university says is the largest gift in its history. It has renamed its business school the Beedie School of Business and will use the money as an endowment to support students, professorships, and research chairs. Ryan Beedie, the first in his family to get a university degree, graduated from Simon Fraser in 1991. Although his 84-year-old father never finished high school, he always emphasized the value of education to his son, according to the family history. The business dean, Daniel Shapiro, said the gift would help make the school a leader in innovation and entrepreneurship, sustainability, and Asia-Pacific-business studies.
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livefreeordie2 - March 22, 2012 at 9:08 am
Lawrence Summers was run out of Harvard on a rail for mentioning – not supporting, just
mentioning – that genetic difference between men and women might account for female under-representation in some scientific fields.
A decade or so before that, Charles Murray was excoriated as a racist simply for publishing
research about genetic influences on racial differences with regard to intelligence, despite the fact that he clearly said environmental factors were probably more significant.
When it comes to Global warming, more research is unnecessary and anyone who disagrees
is a “denier” – a clear attempt to make anyone who disagrees seem as foolish as someone who claims the holocaust didn’t happen.
And yet here we have allegedly intelligent people arguing that post-partum abortion is actually a pretty good idea and other allegedly intelligent people supporting this as legitimate scientific inquiry. It’s not legitimate to even ask questions about potential genetic differences between races or sexes, but we really do need to have a cultural discussion about the benefits of killing
babies?
Who are these people? Well, I’ll tell you. These are the same types of people that used Jews for experiment in Nazi Germany and for the same reason. What is that reason? It supports the viewpoint of those “in charge of” the culture. In the ’30s and ’40s, Jews were made out to be vermin that should be exterminated. Experimenting on them was no different than using lab rats. In the US over the last nearly 40 years, liberals have been busy selling the notion that abortion is a good thing and a woman’s “right.” Anything that furthers that notion is good and anything that argues against it is immediately labeled misogynistic.
Allow young girls to get abortions without even notifying the parents? Good. Putting even the most minor cautions and restrictions in place? Bad. So. . . if liberals can merely start the discussion that killing babies is the moral thing to do, then who the hell will be worrying about abortion?
You know? I completely, totally, and utterly support free speech. But only the most depraved and morally degenerate person could ever think that this type of “scientific inquiry” is something that has any benefit and in which we should engage.