UNLV Professor: Republican Too Stupid To Teach

Las Vegas Review-Journal ^ | 3-23-04 | editorial

[Tijeras_Slim]

My guess is that liberals love faculty politics. It's as close to the petty viciousness of pogroms and purges as they can get without having to have real guts.

[Richard Kimball]

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[HolgerDansk]

When asked why so few Republicans seem to inhabit the academic environment, Ted Jelen, a UNLV professor of political science, told CityLife: "Liberals are smarter."

Try Intellectually Lazy. Speaking as someone with a PhD, culling your environment to remove people you disagree with is not the act of someone interested in discussing and debating viewpoints. That, and who in their right mind would hire a Liberal Engineer?

[ServesURight]

Well said!

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[bearkat]

If they did use "affirmative action" to hire more conservative professors, all of their classrooms would be empty because they would expect their students to do actual WORK to earn their degrees.

I was disgusted in college. The handouts they give to the whiners is incredible. They would complain about the homework, ohhhhh, it was sooooo HAAAAARD. So the professor would go over it in class and not even bother to take it up for the grade he was supposed to give.

[Hoof Hearted]

"One also has to consider sending your young child to college, knowing that they will be fed this kind of crap as part of the curriculum"

You are right about sending young children to college in today's academic environment. That's why I and most other parents will wait until their child is at least 17 or 18.

[mhking]

Stupid, eh?

Office: Department of Political Science
University of Nevada at Las Vegas
Box 455029
4505 Maryland Parkway
Las Vegas, NV 89154-5029
702-895-3355 (phone)
702-895-1065 (fax)
E-Mail: jelent@unlv.nevada.edu

[Shethink13]

Is that him?!!! Dear Lord - he looks like one of the pig-people in that Twilight Zone episode about beauty in the eye of the beholder.

Sorry, that's so politically incorrect but can't help it.

[reagan_fanatic]

Not much of a suprise to me.

Here in the Quad-Cities area (IA/ILL.) during the last Presidential election, I stopped in at a local college to visit one of the IT people there. Right in the front lobby was a huge display with several tables chock full of campaign literature and manned by college students touting Al Gore and the democrat's local stooge, Lane Evans (D-uh). I thought I had stumbled into the local DNC headquarters by mistake. Glaringly absent was any sign, picture, piece of literature or mention of George W. Bush.

For an educational institution that supposedly prides itself on diversity, inclusiveness and alternative opinions, I found that to be most sickening.

[Blue Scourge]

Thats amazing...for a bunch of trogladytes we are doing pretty good, Republicans hold more high end jobs than Democrats...but hey..I'm just a dumb Republican.

[GladesGuru]

Did any other FReeper note this academic's oversize and red nose? Any correlation with the Clinton behavior patterns besides Liberalsim? :)

[Poodlebrain]

As a college professor Jelen should know that an assertion that liberals are smarter must be backed by research to have any validity as a matter of science. He did not refer to any research backing his assertion which indicates that there is none. Hence his claim has no scientific validity. Why would Jelen make a statement of fact not backed by research unless he is less "smart" than his peers? Maybe Jelen represents the conservative branch of the UNLV Political Science Department except he is too dumb to realize it.

[dennisw]

Ted G. Jelen

Ted G. Jelen earned his B.A. from Knox College in 1974, M.A. From Ohio State University in 1977; and Ph.D from Ohio State n 1979.

Ted Jelen's main research interests are in Public Opinion, Religion and Politics, Feminism, and the Politics of Abortion. He is the former editor of the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and is a series editor for Georgetown University Press. He serves on the editorial boards of PS: Political Science and Politics; Journal of Media and Religion; Women and Politics, and Social Science Quarterly.

Professor Jelen has published over 100 articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books. His work has appeared in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Political Research Quarterly, and American Politics Quarterly. He has also written, coauthored, or edited 13 books, including Public Attitudes Toward Church and State, Between Two Absolutes: Public Opinion and the Politics of Abortion, The Political World of the Clergy, A Wall of Separation? Debating the Public Role of Religion; Ross for Boss: The Perot Phenomenon and Beyond, and Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective: The One, the Few, and the Many. [click here for full vitae].

Contact Professor Jelen

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[waverna]

That's OK, I understand that what happens in Vegas STAYS in Vegas.

[Blue Scourge]

Ted Jelen's main research interests are in Public Opinion, Religion and Politics, Feminism, and the Politics of Abortion.

I can guess what side of those issues he stands on....hold on...give me a minute...gotta find my crystal ball.

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[Grampa Dave]

Universities/colleges are really just expensive welfare areas where overeducated liberals get good pay checks/benefits for crappy degrees.

Most of the professors have advanced degrees in instant unemployment study areas, where the only employment is to become a professor after getting a phd.

Whack their budgets and get the word out when they finance trips for professors/students to Cuba and other hell holes to advance communism, socialism or Islamonazism.

[goodnesswins]

I have an idea of starting a college/high school (starts with 16 year olds) that is untouched by the State. Doesn't give a rip about degrees, but teachers come from real life and teach students what they really NEED to learn....like how to learn, how to communicate, how to compute, how to research, how to calculate, how to write, how to analyze....etc....and then gives out a certificate (degree). Then, the students head for the real working world, and get hired and work their a**es off, as these kinds of students would.....pretty soon, employers would ONLY want students from THIS school.....that's my dream.