my gut feeling is that the asch center (founded on psychology, of all things) is involved in some seriously subversive work.
harold f. schiffman announces an asch center event on a linguist list:
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/w...icy-list&P=2731
who is schiffman:
<b>Professor Emeritus of Dravidian</b>
<b>Linguistics and Culture</b>
<b>Dept. of South Asia Studies</b>
Williams Hall, Box 6305
<b>University of Pennsylvania</b>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: (215) 898-7475 (main office)
Fax: (215) 573-2138
Director
Consortium for Language Policy and Planning
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/
the racist victor mair is also associated with upenn
why was gil-white fired? could it have been for his endorsement of frawley, elst, and rajaram. usually partially sympathetic academics (eg E Bryant) will selectively endorse elst and steer wide clear of frawley and rajaram, but gil-white apparently did not have these compunctions. gil-white attributes his blacklist status to his research on western funding of the PLO, iran-contra, etc, but this does not seem to conflict too greatly with the generally rightist stance of the asch center.
harold f. schiffman announces an asch center event on a linguist list:
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/w...icy-list&P=2731
who is schiffman:
<b>Professor Emeritus of Dravidian</b>
<b>Linguistics and Culture</b>
<b>Dept. of South Asia Studies</b>
Williams Hall, Box 6305
<b>University of Pennsylvania</b>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: (215) 898-7475 (main office)
Fax: (215) 573-2138
Director
Consortium for Language Policy and Planning
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/
the racist victor mair is also associated with upenn
why was gil-white fired? could it have been for his endorsement of frawley, elst, and rajaram. usually partially sympathetic academics (eg E Bryant) will selectively endorse elst and steer wide clear of frawley and rajaram, but gil-white apparently did not have these compunctions. gil-white attributes his blacklist status to his research on western funding of the PLO, iran-contra, etc, but this does not seem to conflict too greatly with the generally rightist stance of the asch center.