“Final Note: Did All Freshmen Have to Attend?
Finally, there have been questions as to whether all freshmen were actually required to attend. UCSD is composed of 6 undergraduate colleges, and one page suggested only students from “Sixth College” had to attend. If that is the case then 1/6 of all freshmen would still have to attend. But the day of the event, the main student website at UCSD, Tritonlink, clearly stated that all UCSD freshmen have to attend. The website read, “All first-quarter freshmen are required to attend the event” (see here for a screen shot). To clear up any ambiguity, I called a friend who knows UCSD students and found that they had confirmed with an undergraduate that Pennock’s lecture was indeed mandatory for all freshmen. That seems to settle this question firmly.

Perhaps there is the remote chance that both the main UCSD student website and this undergraduate were wrong. Where does this leave us? This doesn’t change the fact that the main UCSD student website still posted the notice that “All first-quarter freshmen are required to attend the event” (emphasis added). From the reports I have been told, RIMAC, a venue that holds about 5000, was packed with students. I seriously doubt that such a large number of students were dying to attend Pennock’s lecture on a Tuesday night. It still appears that thousands of freshmen attended this ID-bashing lecture, thinking they were required to do so.”

You have to wonder if some of these people have shrines to Charlie in their homes? Altars maybe? Big life-sized paintings of him above their fireplaces? Their beds maybe? Welcome mats adorned with his photo? Their love for the man and his ideas is just too weird for me.

Anyone interested in starting a campaign to boycott his textbooks? I think it’s about time to demand that professionals act PROFESSIONAL. Moran is a key example of professionals acting like playground bullies who intimidate others into walking in step with their worldview or else.

Weird. Nowhere do I see Jehu verifying any such thing. Maybe that was a comment that somehow got deleted, or maybe he never said what is claimed?

Culture and art aren’t science related, are they? I’d tend to think that this is indoctrination, as such a speech would have nothing to do with the majors involved with these departments.

You are also correct in verifying that the statement “University of California, San Diego Forces All Freshmen To Attend Anti-ID Lecture” is wrong.

I wonder if Luskin will admit it? As of now, the web page still contains that gross mistatement.

“University of California, San Diego Forces All Freshmen To Attend Anti-ID Lecture”

UCSD admitted 21,305 freshmen for the Fall 2006 and Winter 2007 quarters.
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsr.....ions06.asp

If Mr Luskin were correct, that’d be quite a lecture hall.

In other words, he was incorrect.

Actually, it is you who are completely wrong. UCSD does not have 21,305 incoming freshmen. That would be a complete joke. The total student popultation is 26,876. Is UCSD 80% freshmen?

Secondly, Pennock is not speaking in a lecture hall, he is speaking at RIMAC Arena. That is where they have basketball games and rock concerts with musicians like Lenny Kravitz.

So you can’t intuitevly know based on the size of the freshman class and the hall that the TritonLink web page is not accurate. In fact, the event is sponsored by Student Affairs at Sixth College and freshmen taking the culture, art, and technology core curriculum from that college are in fact required to attend.

On a side note, the mods are working on a system to keep track of banned users so there won’t be mixups.

“Scandalous” Mats

As for Larry Moran, I posted on his blog and will soon see what he has. Guys like that would have flunked Newton, Galileo and Kepler…

Oh heck no I didn’t ban Larry. He’s like having PZ Myers here. When you get a horse’s ass patoot that big representing the chance worshippers you have to treat him like gold so he doesn’t go away.