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Dispatches for the Colonial Office
LogoSophia Magazine – A Pilgrim's
Journal of Life, Literature and Love
Texas
A & M University and Mickey Mouse’s Dog
Private Joe Gomez: “What you
readin'?”
Private Marion Hotchkiss:
“Plato.”
Joe: “You mean they wrote a
whole big book about Mickey Mouse's dog?”
-Leon Uris, Battle Cry
Texas A & M has banished wise Plato
(Some colonel is shaking in his aiguilette)
Shoved philosophy out through the old
North Gate-O
(Asking questions scares the admin soviet)
We mustn’t teach thinking on the
Texas plains
Or read the books that our ancestors
wrote
That kept us free from cruel
tyrants’ chains -
No Plato, now, and maybe soon no
vote
A university no more; that how it
looks -
Their homecoming bonfire now is for
burning books
NB: In
the long-ago A & M rightly dropped my lazy (self) for skipping class. I wasn’t allowed to skip class in Viet-Nam, and
that was a sterner lesson.
Texas A&M deems Plato unnecessary for approved thought
Texas A&M blocks readings on gender ideology in
philosophy class: 'Plato has been censored'
Texas A&M flags parts of Plato readings as violations of
new anti-gender theory policy
Texas A&M Warns Professor Not to Teach Plato Because of
Gender Rules - The New York Times
Texas A&M Forbids A Plato Reading In An Intro Philosophy
Course
