[Vision2020] it's silly season, the legislature is in town

[Mark Solomon]

this from Betsy Russell's blog, eye on boise  
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/boise/
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It's those funny college ideas

University of Idaho President Tim White was 
addressing the House Education Committee today 
when Rep. Pete Nielsen, R-Mountain Home, asked 
him why colleges and their "funny ideas" have 
been undermining the U.S. economy and society. 
"When we approached the late '60s, '70s and '80s, 
a certain thing started to happen at the colleges 
that has proven to me to be detrimental to some 
extent, that we got from the colleges funny ideas 
about the environment, funny ideas about animals, 
and etcetera, etcetera," Nielsen told White. He 
cited "the white owl and the sucker fish in the 
Klamath Falls area," and noted that "some of 
these scenarios Š came from higher ed to begin 
with Š or from Berkeley in particular."

White responded, "The role of the universities is 
not to make public policy - that is your role, 
that is the federal role. The role of the 
university is to inform that policy" through 
science and research.
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