From: venugop@athena.cs.uga.edu (YOSSARIN ARAM)
Subject: Re: L.S.U. Professor says Indians Suck !!
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 22:11:29 GMT

In article <00967031.28928DC0.11865@rankin.aspentec.com> reginald@rankin.aspentec.com (Suresh Reginald) writes:
>     The following appears in the Jan '93 issue of 'Chemical
>Engineering Progress', a 'standard' popular ChemE journal.
>
>What Richard G. Rice of Louisiana State University says is
>1.   Foreign graduate students stay behind and depress U.S.
>     salaries. (Indians are singled out for special mention)
>2.   The ones who return combine their acquired training with cheap
>     labor back home to undercut American manufacturing.
>3.   Foreign graduate students subvert the U.S. educational
>     establishment by their presence, deprive American
>     undergraduates of American role models, and create a 'non-
>     English speaking professorate'.
>
>What I would like to know is
>1.   Can anyone obtain this joker's address and post it so that he
>     can share in any resulting discussion ? Or is his sense of
>     logic too muddled to bother ?
>2.   Does anyone know if he had an Indian graduate student working
>     for him who recently ran off with his wife ?
>3.   Can we expect more of this attitude in graduate schools with
>     the coming 'browning' of America, or are only Chemical
>     Engineers morons ?
       
       
       I do agree with the salient points of the article .
       He is right and this is manifest in almost any area in
       the US.
       For instance the Pharmacy School here at the univ of Georgia
       has over thirty Indians and almost 15 of them grad students
       who are funded the rest are post docs and staff.
       The statistics dept has over 7 Indians and are TAs and Faculty.
       
       The local student newspaper ran a fron page story some months 
       and it complained how many depts had more than 50% foreigners
       as TAs and how the native students suffered on its account,
       My professor in international communications told me how his
       daughter suffered in maths because of a Chinese TA.
       The above mentioned aricle also said how the dept of statistics
       offered a higher amount to Americans if they accepted the TA's
       position.

       Though the article in the newspaper was not totally justified
       nor was the CEP article we should accept some of the facts at
       its face value with out reading between the lines:
       Asians are taking over the gradute schools in the US.
       The Asians accept lower salaries and wages which results in undercutting.
       Some of them have problems of communicating with the natives,the 
       Chinese are bad bad bad.
       The Americans do resent this for after all they are the tax payers
       and evn the time on the net is funded by them.
       Many Indians I know feel that Americans are not good at Eng. and Math
       which is why they have a divine right in the Grad.School,while they
       fail to understand that the American would go out after his BS,BTech
       and look for a job than come to grad. school where they are paid a 
       pittance compared to what they would make outside.And most Americans
       who go to grad school are real old and have been in the industry.

       gopa                "to be a rock and not to roll..."
			    Long live rock and roll.......
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