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| "Saudi Arabia might seem an unlikely spot for a vibrant new multicultural research university" | |
| 2007-07-27 | |
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| Posted by:Seafarious |
| #9 Muslim version of cargo cult. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-27 15:05 |
| #8 Just remember E=MC^2 is a Jew invention and haram. Ultra haram. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-07-27 13:05 |
| #7 KAUST will be free to recruit Israeli faculty and students Only thing is, last I heard it's illegal for Jews to enter Saudi Arabia. So perhaps they'll only recruit Arab Israeli students and faculty -- I s'pose that would be ok. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-27 12:52 |
| #6 The kingdom is at or near the bottom of rankings for science and technology research and has one of the world's worst track records on academic freedom, not to mention women's and other human rights. But, other then that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2007-07-27 10:37 |
| #5 I don't see this going anywhere. There will be "radical islamic student groups" right there on the campus to discourage any modern behavior with riots and terror. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-07-27 08:15 |
| #4 Another sticking point is relations with Israel, a research powerhouse in the region that shares many interests, such as water, with KAUST. Mulla says that Saudi Arabia cannot cooperate "at the present time" with countries with which it does not have diplomatic relations — which would mean no formal collaboration between KAUST and Israeli institutions. "It's a delicate issue," says Mulla, and it is being left to the side for the moment. The board has agreed to accept this situation, after receiving assurances that KAUST will be free to recruit Israeli faculty and students. Yeah, it's a "delicate issue" all right. They can't even (at least on paper) try to study science and engineering w/o involving the Jooos for something, can they? |
| Posted by: BA 2007-07-27 07:58 |
| #3 Lots of bright, shiny, new faculty, but the students are still spending one third of their primary and secondary school time on religious studies... and one of the curricula goals remains to prepare the students mentally and physically for jihad. (See MEMRI- Saudi Arabia for details of arguments of the curriculum.) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-07-27 06:25 |
| #2 They've got a strong faculty recruiting blitz going on in engineering & the sciences right now. |
| Posted by: lotp 2007-07-27 05:13 |
| #1 From the title, I was expecting ScrappleFace. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2007-07-27 01:46 |