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John SilberJohn Silber, former president of Boston University. He is known for being a stubborn, ultra-conservative religious zealot with a penchant for the absurd. An accomplished author, he has written such works as "Straight Shooting", and has been featured in publications such as Philosophical Quarterly and Atlantic. He became the President of Boston University in 1971, and in 1996 became chancellor. Good, sensical behavior by the University was the reason he was dethroned. Silber resigned as Chancellor after Daniel Goldin would not take office as BU's next president, widely known to happen because of their clashing on issues. Silber has had a slew of funny quotes that just make you want to laugh. Here are some examples. "If you want to stop rape, stop using the T." "To study, if it is a subject you are interested in, is not work; it is leisure. I hope they are difficult years; that is why you are here." "This is probably the least politically correct university in the United States. We are seeking truth." Silber told the parents that education should receive the students' greatest attention, saying the school "is not Pleasure Island." He suggested parents urge their children to study 70 hours per week; this leaves eight hours each day for sleep and six hours for fun. --Silber, Addressing Incoming Freshman Parents (Daily Free Press, 9/3/2002) "Six hours of fun is all most people can stand." Silber proposed "reality therapy" as a method of discouraging alcohol and drug abuse. He told parents to explain to their children that if their children die as a result of an overdose, the parents will grieve, but will eventually move on. --Silber, Addressing Incoming Freshman Parents (Daily Free Press, 9/3/2002) "The assumption to begin with that most people are born homosexual or not homosexual is just not something that has any scientific validity at all. It's probably the case that some people have this as a genetic condition, but a very large percentage of people who become homosexual are homosexual because that is the way in which they were first seduced into sex. Not because of anything else. And there's just no reason for us to encourage that." (from "Tolerance and Its Consequences") Silber is also missing a hand, spawning the popular phrase around the University, "The chancellor rules with an iron fist...well, the one one that he actually has."
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