Reply #7: "KU is an awesome school with a great reputation"

[KansDem]

That's why the university cannot be associated with the fundie wackjobs who push ID as "science." KU pulls students from all over the US and the world, it cannot afford to alienate these students by abandoning true scientific principles in favor of some west Kansas farmers' warped idea of ID. It needs bright, motivated students to maintain its "great reputation" (and yes, for the tuition, too).

I'm a KU graduate: '87 and '96. Let me say this, the number of foreign students I worked with in '96 was much greater than in '87. It would behoove KU to continue working on its great reputation to continue to draw these students. And I never once heard from a foreign student, or an American student for that matter, that they were attracted to KU because of its adherence to convoluted right-wing fundie mysticism.

To the fundies, I say: "The Enlightenment" is here to stay. Get used to it!