[Vision2020] President White's Letter Supporting Geocentricism is a Hoax

[Doug Jones]

Wow, Nick "suspected a hoax immediately." Good work, Nick.

The humor is pretty flat; I hope no one over here did it. Ask Joan O.

Doug Jones


Nicholas Gier wrote:

>Hail to the Vision!
>
>I received the letter below this morning and I suspected a hoax 
>immediately. The President's Office has confirmed that indeed it is. 
>
>I think there is a good possibility that Wilson & Co. are behind 
>this.  This is not the first time that they have embarrassed the UI.  
>You may have heard that they once produced an announcement on the 
>Provost's letterhead about a topless feminist visiting scholar.  You 
>can read Wilson boasting about this caper at 
>www.class.uidaho.edu/ngier/evang.htm.
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>The time of its sending and the full name with Ph.D. are small pieces 
>of evidence in this act of perfidy.
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>Can anyone trace the server in order to see where it came from?
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>Nick Gier
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>Office of the President
>Administration Building Room 105
>P.O. Box 443151
>Moscow, ID  83844-3151
>(208) 885-6365
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>October 6, 2005
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>Letter to the University of Idaho Faculty, Staff and Students:
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>Because I’m on a roll here, I write to articulate the University of 
>Idaho's position with respect to the solar system:  The fact that the 
>sun revolves around the earth is the only curriculum that is 
>appropriate 
>to be taught in the scientific sciences.  As the President of this 
>University, it is within my administrative capacity to issue 
>statements 
>like this that restrict the academic freedom of the faculty and 
>students.
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>At the University of Idaho, teaching of views that differ from 
>geocentricity may occur in faculty-approved curricula in religion, 
>sociology, philosophy, culinary arts, adult education and other fields 
>that don’t bring in grant money.  However, teaching of heliocentric 
>views is inappropriate if there is a possibility that students might 
>become scientifically skeptical of the dominant paradigm.
>
>The University respects the attempts of individuals to hold personal 
>religious and philosophical beliefs, so long as these beliefs are not 
>faith-based, since the University of Idaho only believes in science.
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>The University of Idaho's position is consistent with views 
>articulated 
>by respected astronomers for thousands of years. Recent initiatives to 
>dispute this scientific fact may not be discussed in any University 
>facility, not even WinCo.
>
>Timothy P. White, Ph.D.
>President, University of Idaho
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