Declining Academic Standards

One more sign of academic decline - Professors no longer require students to stretch:

A University of Maine student alleges her former professor offered extra credit to class members if they burned the American flag or the U.S. Constitution or were arrested defending free speech.

Who gets arrested for burning the U.S flag anymore? The professor is out of touch or a softy. For real excitement he ought to give extra credit for desecrating a Hezbollah flag:

...At a small anti-terrorism rally in October 2006, several members of the College Republicans stomped on pieces of paper they had painted to look like flags of the radical Islamic organizations Hezbollah and Hamas, copying the designs from images on the Internet. A few days later, a Muslim student filed a complaint, on the grounds that the Arabic script on the Hezbollah and Hamas flags contained the word “Allah.” The university pressed charges, accusing the blasphemers of “incivility” and creating “a hostile environment.”

You don't even have to wait for the police or the terrorists to get you; your own university will prosecute you. For extra thrills, try doing this with a flag actually owned by the terrorists.

H/T Liberty Pundit via Don Surber

Originally posted in UNCoRRELATED Nov 3, 2007