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While the staff is on the mark in opposing the creation of an ethnic studies department, it endorses a flawed argument. By embracing the view that academic departments should be created for the purpose of righting political wrongs, it adopts the vocabulary and philosophy of ethnic studies proponents. University departments should not become vehicles for political activism, their role ought to be to deliberatively explore spheres of thought without any underlying ideological motivation.
Indeed, the arguments the staff uses in its opinion exhibit the extent to which the logic expounded by ethnic studies supporters has seeped into and inevitably infected thinking inside academia.
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