If I were a student at the University of North Dakota, I would leave and go elsewhere. On a broader scale, what is happening at the University of North Dakota sheds light on the darker side of American higher education whose history and foundation unfortunately has been built on money from unethical sources. Did not the so call robber barons contribute vast funds of money to the growth of the American universities in the late 19th centuries from the fortunes they made in the era of monopoly capitalism? Where did Hitler get all of his ideas about race? Too many of our elite universities have this darker side to them and it's time the modern students challenges this and sets its course differently. It's time the American university stop prostituting itself and fulfill its true mission in life which is the enlightenment of the American people and the search for truth.

-- Maria Rosa, school teacher, Buffalo Board of Education (posted 3/7, 12:10 p.m., U.S. Eastern time)

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