Dean Dubanoski rightly extols the importance of a liberal arts education.  It helps individual students broaden their understanding of our history and the core values of our society.  At least, that's what it's supposed to do.  Unfortunately the social studies departments at UH Manoa are little more than propaganda factories brainwashing students with specific viewpoints that are far to the left politically and philosophically.  UH rightfully prides itself on its diversity of races and cultures among students and faculty.  But it has a terrible lack of diversity in viewpoints presented to the students on topics such as the history of Hawaii and whether we should be proud to be Americans.  A forum on a controversial topic should feature several professors with strongly differing views engaging in robust debate.  But at UH all you get is 3 or 4 professors who all agree and merely divide up their presentations into different aspects of the same absurdly leftwing viewpoint.  Ridiculous!