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- From: landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu (Steven E. Landsburg)
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- Subject: Re: Minimum standards for math "competency"
- Keywords: math competency education university college standards
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.162755.9636@galileo.cc.rochester.edu>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 16:27:55 GMT
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- In article <By6E16.JFx.2@cs.cmu.edu> jmount+@CS.CMU.EDU (John Mount) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov23.140653.13522@scott.skidmore.edu>, pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
- >|> Perhaps you haven't visited a technical university lately. I recall
- >|> professors complaining that most of their students are oriental, and
- >|> where are the American kids? I'm not sure about the statement above,
- >
- >I trying to imply you said the above (I even left a bit of your "I'm not
- >sure about that"). But I think this kind of racist crud is intolerable-
- >a good number of the Asian students ARE American kids.
- >
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- I applaud the denunciation of the racist crud. But it doesn't go far
- enough. So what if they AREN'T American kids?
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- Steven E. Landsburg
- landsbur@troi.cc.rochester.edu
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