From: jsahasi@aisun1.ai.uga.edu (Jayesh Sahasi [MSAI])
Newsgroups: soc.culture.china,soc.culture.europe,soc.culture.indian,soc.culture.pakistan
Subject: Poor ignorant behind the times...(Was Re: L.S.U. Professor says...).
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:10:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AI Programs, University of Georgia, Athens

Prof Rice (if that is his name...) is obviously one of those who is still
living in the 50's and 60's he speaks so highly of. He wants to use a
sort of "trickle down" theory of education to set things "right" in the US.
The problem is not foreign students, the problem is the entire american
education system...they teach science in a very limited way in american schools
...the kids are simply not interested in the subjects, so there are
positions at universities for which foreign students are simply more qualified.

I'm sure Dr. Rice is not a proponent of Quotas for any of america's minorities,
but he is advocating a 75% quota for american students...If he wants more
american students in his classes, he  must start with the attitude about
the entire society toward subjects like science,..."uncool", and "nerd" are
words associated with science more than any other discipline.

He advocates scholarship,...well, the bottom line is, only the best students
from all over the world are coming and sitting in his classes, creating an
intellectual environment a school like LSU could never dream of with just
the american pool of students. It is these foreign students that are helping
maintain the american edge(what is left of it) in technology. At a tremendous
expense, I might add, to their own countries which could use their talents
to develop faster. Notwithstanding this "Brain Drain" of the most talented
students from their countries into the US, I firmly hold the free market
position...it is survival of the fittest...and american students simply don't
make the grade.

American firms do hire these students, they do it because it makes their
product more competitive...if there were no foreign students at american
schools(inconceivable..) these companies would (and already do) go overseas
for cheap labor.

Dr. Rice should reconcile himself to the fact that this is not the 50's, when
america led technologically becAuse there were no real competitors. It is
a competitive world market and if the US does not use the best talent,
someone else will.

As a personal note, I know a LOT of people at LSU (my two cousins go to
school there) so to all of ya'll at CHIMES....#@$* Dr. Rice!!!!

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