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<div><tt>this from Betsy Russell's blog, eye on boise <font
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http://www.spokesmanreview.com/blogs/boise/</font></tt></div>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000"><b>It's those funny college
ideas</b><br>
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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."</font></tt><br>
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<div><tt><font color="#000000">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.</font></tt></div>
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