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2005-04-13 Home Front: Culture Wars

The Idle Fool Is Whipt At School (Liberal Bias???)

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Posted by anymouse 2005-04-13 12:15:21 AM|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 A close friend from my university days and possibly the smartest person I have ever known went on to be a philosophy prof at a leading Australian university. I went to visit him quite a few years ago and he said something that shocked me. I paraphrase - "I'm socialist, but that seems/is a natural and obvious choice living in the university." My point being, the university system creates and fosters Leftist convictions.

Posted by phil_b 2005-04-13 7:26:58 AM|| 2005-04-13 7:26:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 for those people who say that the pool of careful researchers and good teachers who value objectivity just happen to be moreliberal, there is a simple two word response:
Ward Churchill

Posted by mhw 2005-04-13 8:17:53 AM|| 2005-04-13 8:17:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Let's remind that this is not a First Amendment case. It is about a breach of contract and damage to the future professional career of the student. It goes like this: you pay (or the tax payer pays) good money for getting an education. Instead you get propaganda. In addition your time has been wasted and you didn't learn the skills who, later would help you get a better job.

Instead of legislating how about easing the path for having universities sued for millions and milions of dollars when their teachers misbehave? I guess that would be a strong incentive for them no longer hiring clowns like Ward Churchill.

Posted by JFM 2005-04-13 9:29:59 AM|| 2005-04-13 9:29:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 "Those who can,do.Those who can't,teach."

Posted by raptor 2005-04-13 9:37:22 AM|| 2005-04-13 9:37:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Of a group of 18 in my section at the University, I'm the only conservative, and I'm not a Hugh Hewitt-type conservative.

Posted by Steve White 2005-04-13 9:55:47 AM|| 2005-04-13 9:55:47 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 gigawatt

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2005-04-13 12:29:14 PM|| 2005-04-13 12:29:14 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Whiskey Dan...You need to watch "Back to the Future".

Posted by anymouse 2005-04-13 12:51:18 PM|| 2005-04-13 12:51:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 Whiskey Mike, tomAto, tomAHto, eh.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous6392 2005-04-13 3:05:04 PM|| 2005-04-13 3:05:04 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 I think a lot of this needs to be seen in the context of demographics, geography and avocation. For example, if you polled all the engineering departments of public universities in the South I'll bet you'll get opposite results. But then we are turning out less engineers (leaving it up to Taiwan, India and China)and more arts and letters types that all want to ride bikes during Friday's critical mass, drink skinny lattes and discuss their I-pod playlist while totally slacking out.

Posted by Jack is Back! 2005-04-13 5:27:42 PM|| 2005-04-13 5:27:42 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 Parents will eventually revolt, and the trigger will be ridiculously high tuition. At that point the backlash against clownish humanitarian/social science leftists and gender studies hucksters will merge with the rebellion against crushing tuitions, with second-tier colleges outside the blue state regions picking up quality students at the expense of the elite institutions.

Posted by thibaud (aka lex) 2005-04-13 10:17:51 PM|| 2005-04-13 10:17:51 PM|| Front Page Top

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