# Anonymous Donors **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 19, 2009, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607 "2009-04-19T09:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607/61 "2009-04-21T17:53:41Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > I think it was a pun on the word wing, he meant why didn’t you take a few classes in the right wing of the building/campus. (I think) That interpretation ocurred to me briefly, but I don’t think of college or university campuses as having “wings.” Maybe it’s because my English so poor. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607/62 "2009-04-21T19:59:10Z")
> [@brazil84](#): > > That interpretation ocurred to me briefly, but I don’t think of college or university campuses as having “wings.” Maybe it’s because my English so poor. Campuses don’t have wings, but buildings do. ---
**Author:** ![brazil84](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8491ac/32.png) [@brazil84](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brazil84)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607/63 "2009-04-21T23:26:09Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > Campuses don’t have wings, but buildings do. Actually I knew that already – that (some) buildings have wings. Maybe my English isn’t so bad after all. ---
**Author:** ![JonScribe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@JonScribe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JonScribe)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607/64 "2009-04-21T23:57:55Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > Because **brazil84** is disgusted that scholarships go to “women and minorities.” > > Although I rather doubt the Islamic radicals he fears would be so eager to educate women. But that’s just what the Islamic radicals want you to think. They’re so desperate that the colleges take their money that they’d require – nay, demand, – that the money go to women. And Jews. And, gasp, Jewish women. They’re tricky, they are. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2009, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607/65 "2009-04-21T23:59:37Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Percentage of PROFESSORS? Well, that clearly depends on what University we’re talking about, but since you’re asking about in my experience I’d say not that many. Of the farther left professors (and while I’d say professors in general probably lean ever so slightly left, I’m talking left of THAT, which is markedly less common) I’d say maybe 30-40% of that far left minority, and that’s a pretty generous number, in some areas I’d wager you may get coin-toss odds, but not much higher than that. And as tomndebb said, it’s more of a general “we suck and anything not us is better” than an actual like for Islam. If pressed they’ll talk about how much more caring and whatnot it is, but they can’t really justify it without some ridiculous cherry picking of stuff from BOTH religions in question. Though I have met some who simply think it’s more interesting, but that’s not what we’re talking about and those people generally don’t hate Christianity so much as find it boring. Sorry didn’t see this before. Thanks for the clarification. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607/66 "2009-04-22T00:05:04Z")
Okay could someone fight my potential ignorance. Is there a realistic case where Islamic Extremists would be for women (a favored target, by agreement, of extra scholarships) getting educated? ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607/67 "2009-04-22T03:30:10Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > Okay could someone fight my potential ignorance. Is there a realistic case where Islamic Extremists would be for women (a favored target, by agreement, of extra scholarships) getting educated? Well, the US obviously treats women with more respect than, say, Saudi Arabia. If they were to try to just promote male education, we’d obviously be suspicious. So SA funds women’s education, but use their mysterious influence to radicalize them. They become sleeper agents that push us all towards Sharia, then happily don their burkas and let the men take over. /Devil’s Advocate Really, something that convoluted is the best I can think of, but I think its well within the realm of wingnut possibility. In fact, I’d say ‘magical radicalization powers’ are something I could say to Glenn Beck and get a knowing nod from. If you want a realistic as in what rational people could plausibly believe, I think you’re out of luck. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anonymous-donors/493607.md?page=3)