Comments about ‘Westminster president joins national liberal arts group’

Gayle Ruzicka and Cherilyn Eagar: you'd better sharpen your noses, and get that word "liberal" removed from education!

"The term liberal arts denotes a curriculum that imparts general knowledge and develops the student’s rational thought and intellectual capabilities[vague], unlike the professional, vocational, technical curricula emphasizing specialization. The contemporary liberal arts comprise studying literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science.[1] In classical antiquity, the liberal arts denoted the education proper to a free man (Latin: liber, “free”), unlike the education proper to a slave. "

We CERTAINLY can't have Utah students learn how to learn, and how to think, can we?

Is that allowed, using the 'L' work in this newspaper? Get on it Howard!

Is it any wonder they had to pick the president of a private university (that's not a three-letter word) from Utah to represent this initiate? It surely couldn't have been one of the state schools or the aforementioned "three-letter word" university that worked the "L" initiative.

Westminster was probably chosen because of its small size, its liberal arts focus, and its good reputation, but all of the other university presidents have excellent credentials and would have been fine choices, as well.

Do all Westminster parents try to make something out of nothing? Sounds a little insecure.