Sounds like Dan Lawton, “self-discribed liberal,” just had an epiphany - and is probably soon going to become a Conservative.
Quick - some one send him the Freerepublic.com website!
I am a died and true Longhorn fan, but for anyone to insist that UT is a conservative school is insane. They don't call it the "Berkley on the Brazos" for nothing. This prof needs to have an evaluation of him mental faculties.
By coincidence, I’m a graduate of the University of Oregon’s journalism program. This was back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, but my experience in the Emerald People’s Republic was the start of my move toward conservatism.
This young man is going through the same journey, in the same place. Nothing opens your eyes more than the strident leftwing totalitarians down there in Eugene, where everyone is tolerant as long as you say and do what the elites want you to say and do, and diversity means varying hues of Marxist and leftist thought.
I sometimes miss those Earth girls in their peasant dresses, wearing Birkenstocks, hanging out at Sundance eating Nancy’s Yogurt.... and the bike paths were a dream for those of us young enough to use them. My gardens were always productive, too. I suspect that even now, 25 years later, some of those things are still there.
The intolerance, though, was stifling. Glad I’m not there.
I think I need to sit down! This is such a shock . . . !
/sarc
Basically campuses our bastions of leftist bigotry.
the sad fact is universities are about generating a degree “meal ticket”
This means universities are no longer about creating well rounded individuals and thinking men and women.
It is about intelectual conquest in order to produce drones waiving dear leader’s little blue book and shouting down those opposed to the intelectual conquest by the left.
That is not just a good argument it is great writing regardless of the point being expressed. This guy has a future as a columnist.
Well, it would be better, probably. The problem is that human nature would tend to militate against it for a variety of reasons.
And, note, putting the idea to work would require UofO to replace tenured professors according to an explicit political criterion -- bad enough when it's done somewhat unconsciously, as now; but really, really bad when the political criteria are applied as a matter of bureaucratic policy.
Hard to see how to reverse the process, short of a string of a) very tough and honest Dept. Chairs who can revise the demographics; and b) the availability of good, non-liberal candidates.