We all want the same things in life: Trouble comes; we all want them on our 
terms. I often exercise my bias by just ignoring this or that. Might that be 
the case at the Temple University? And then again, I often exercise that 
same bias by developing outrageous attacks on human events to suit my own 
perception of how things should be.

For example: I proclaim synchronized swimming as a non-Olympic sport. What 
idiot let it into the arena? It’s splendid entertainment. But it’s not a 
Olympic sport. Why? Because you can’t judge a “wet smile” objectively.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Heinegg" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 8:45 AM
Subject: Textbooks


> When my wife went back to Temple University to complete her college 
> degree, she was the only student in her History class who knew enough 
> about the Vietnam War to discuss it in class. Apparently, the state 
> textbook commissions find the subject distasteful. In a senior class on 
> History which included History majors, she was the only one who knew about 
> My Lai, any of the famous photos from the war, or even that we lost--  
> because she had read the newspapers of the time.
> Paul
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