Don Cherry to receive honorary doctorate from RMC

[The Bread Guy]

Interesting details and questions this writer brings up....

.... One teacher is not the principal villain here. The fault lies with RMC’s leadership for not rallying with a fighting spirit to defend its decision. One hopes that RMC has sufficient battlefield courage to see off the fabrications of a lowly French teacher. It was likely the motion of the faculty board, comprising all the professors and chaired by the principal, which cowed the administration. That poses a rather more disturbing question. Does the faculty board motion accurately express the professoriate at RMC? If so, our future officers are being trained by those significantly out of step with the Canadian people and the rank-and-file members of the armed forces.

It may be that the motion was passed by the perpetually disgruntled at a sleepy meeting that only a few professors attended. But RMC is being evasive about the whole matter, with its public-affairs office unwilling to say what the motion actually was, how many were present at the meeting, whether the principal was present or not, and what the actual vote was. No doubt Dr. Sokolsky is embarrassed by the faculty motion, but he needs to explain more fully what actually happened, if only to assure his own cadets that they are not being taught by people far outside the mainstream of Canadian society ....

 

[Rescue Randy]

Bottom line is that in situations like this, leaders like Lew Mackenzie and Len Birchall instinctively and quickly did what was right, not what was popular (or politically correct).  When the Royal Military College did not immediately react to this situation by doing what was right (ie, reinforcing the nomination and supporting Don Cherry), it raised concerns about the value of the College - if it is not there to set and defend the standard in leadership, morality, and ethics for our future leaders, why does it exist?

 

[Good2Golf]

Interesting details and questions this writer brings up....

...but misinformed.

The Senate is THE approving authority for the proposed honour doctorate.  The Faculty Board can come up with whatever vote it wants, but such a 'decision' is not any kind of a decision that binds the Senate to alter its original decision.

The salient points are that: a) the Sentate approved and intended to grant the degree, notwithstanding a non-binding 'decision' by Faculty Board that may or may not have actually represented the 'academic proletariat'; and b) it was indeed Catherine Lord's open letter in the Kingston Whig Standard making dramatic, unsubstantiated accusations that incited a media-accelerated informal campaign to reverse the RMC Senate's decision to award the honourary degree to Don Cherry.


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Regards
G2G 

 

[Alex79]

Its senate — comprising the chancellor (Defence Minister Peter MacKay), the commandant, the principal, the deans of the faculties, the director of cadets, the academic director of RMC St-Jean, Quebec, and a faculty representative — has, as a body, if not unanimously, proclaimed to Canada’s future military elite that the college is A-OK with gratuitous violence, calling people pukes, trashing multiculturalism and left-wing pinkos who ride bicycles, describing men with long hair as girls, speaking derogatively of francophone Canadians, labelling someone with a non-anglo name as “some kind of dog food” and supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

 

[PMedMoe]

Its senate — comprising the chancellor (Defence Minister Peter MacKay), the commandant, the principal, the deans of the faculties, the director of cadets, the academic director of RMC St-Jean, Quebec, and a faculty representative — has, as a body, if not unanimously, proclaimed to Canada’s future military elite that the college is A-OK with gratuitous violence, calling people pukes, trashing multiculturalism and left-wing pinkos who ride bicycles, describing men with long hair as girls, speaking derogatively of francophone Canadians, labelling someone with a non-anglo name as “some kind of dog food” and supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

???

 

[Occam]

Its senate — comprising the chancellor (Defence Minister Peter MacKay), the commandant, the principal, the deans of the faculties, the director of cadets, the academic director of RMC St-Jean, Quebec, and a faculty representative — has, as a body, if not unanimously, proclaimed to Canada’s future military elite that the college is A-OK with gratuitous violence, calling people pukes, trashing multiculturalism and left-wing pinkos who ride bicycles, describing men with long hair as girls, speaking derogatively of francophone Canadians, labelling someone with a non-anglo name as “some kind of dog food” and supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

I don't suppose you happened to read any of the thread up until now, have you?  I didn't think so.

 

[Scott]

Go away troll.

 

[PMedMoe]

So, Alex79 (according to profile a US Army "lieutenant "), are you jmckee or did you just copy this:  Don Cherry’s Rock’ em Sock ‘em honorary degree    ???

 

[The Bread Guy]

So, Alex79 (according to profile a US Army "lieutenant "), are you jmckee or did you just copy this:  Don Cherry’s Rock’ em Sock ‘em honorary degree    ???

Ah, but the blog entry appears to be signed by Michael Valpy ("~mgv"), and I'd be shocked to see anyone working on  their doctorate cutting/pasting someone else's work without a footnote, acknowledgement or even link to the original post, presenting it as their own work.  Wouldn't you?

 

[PMedMoe]

Ah, but the blog entry appears to be signed by Michael Valpy ("~mgv"), and I'd be shocked to see anyone working on  their doctorate cutting/pasting someone else's work without a footnote, acknowledgement or even link to the original post, presenting it as their own work.  Wouldn't you?

Nope, not much shocks me anymore.

Here's what it says about James McKee:

James McKee is  a doctoral candidate in Political Science at the University of Toronto. HIs doctoral work considers the role of public emotions in political mobilization and public policy. He also writes on humanitarianism and pretends to know about other things.

:rofl:

 

[Danjanou]

Well Moe he can't be a real PhD candidate in Poli Sci at U of T then. Everyone knows they "do know about (all) other things" not just pretend. Trust me they'll tell you this at every opportunity.  8)

 

[Scott]

My money is on troll.