Who Killed the Liberal Arts?

[_ldsfaqs]

Liberals.....
a.k.a. progressives, socialists, communists, fascists.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Sxttk5REkM

[_DarkHelmet]

I've never seen fascists included with commies, socialists, and progressives.

[_moksha]

I think BYU discontinued the Liberal Arts at the suggestion of Elder Ezra Taft Benson, who feared this would lead to a liberal education. However, they have an internationally recognized clogging program. Go figure.

I've never seen fascists included with commies, socialists, and progressives.

This has been a conservative talking point for several years that is attempting to paint over their ownership of fascist ideology.

[_Res Ipsa]

I was nowhere near the liberal arts...

[_The CCC]

While I was at BYU I took the liberal sciences. Things like Chemistry, Biology, Statistics, Calculus.

[_canpakes]

Liberals.....
a.k.a. progressives, socialists, communists, fascists.

You are still our best example of your oft-presented caricature 'freeloader liberal'.

How's your free food, free utilities and free rent today? Are you enjoying not ever having a job?

[_ludwigm]

Is Rodin a liberal artist?

- https://theboard.BYU.edu/media/attached ... nudity.htm -
(Monday, October 27, 1997 Deseret News)

Brigham Young University's problem with four pieces included in ``The Hands of Rodin, a Tribute to B. Gerald Cantor'' exhibit is not with the nudity but with the lack of dignity portrayed, says the museum's director.
Campbell Gray, director of the Museum of Art for the past year, said a committee made up of faculty members, administrators, the museum's board and him, determined the pieces they've chosen to exclude do not convey a message that's positive about the exhibit or the 19th century French sculptor, Francois-Auguste-Rene Rodin.``The Kiss,'' ``Saint John the Baptist Preaching,'' ``The Prodigal Son'' and ``Monument to Balzac'' all move away from the sensitive and subtle messages the rest of the 56-piece exhibit portrays, said Campbell.
``Nudity isn't the issue, it's more the latter (the lack of dignity),'' said Campbell.
``It's a wonderful exhibit without them. It is superb. Rodin focused on the human body as the source of expression for his art.''
Every exhibit has its own message and Rodin used hands to convey allegories of deep emotion wonderfully well, said Gray. ``We believe each (of the four pieces excluded) would have deflected the meanings of the exhibit.''
``The Kiss,'' portrays a man and a woman embracing. ``Saint John the Baptist Preaching'' shows the biblical prophet striding toward an unknown purpose. ``Monument to Balzac'' is unflattering of the portly gentleman.
Each piece is of naked subjects, but so are many of the other pieces kept in the exhibit, which opened Monday in the museum and stays on display through Jan. 24, 1998.
``Rodin's subject matter is the nude figure, generally,'' said Rachael Blackburn, curator of exhibitions at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation, which loaned the exhibit to BYU's Museum of Art. ``If you get Rodin, that's what you get.''
Blackburn said the Rodin pieces have not raised controversy at other places, including some universities and museums with religious affiliations. She was surprised at BYU's decision not to show the four pieces