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An Academic Revolution Has Begun
radioactivenews.com ^ | March 27, 2006 | Steve Miller

Posted on 03/27/2006 1:39:26 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan

My name is Stephen Miller and I am a freshman at Duke University. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate why every one of us ought to be concerned about the academic situation at Duke, and to ask for your help in putting Duke at the forefront of a revolution sweeping across America's campuses.

As many of you know, conservatives across the nation have been decrying the political bias that is contaminating the educational system. Unfortunately, Duke has also fallen prey to political bias, and conservatives here have tried hard to open the eyes of a seemingly blind administration. In response, some liberals, rather then denying the existence of left-wing bias, have claimed that what conservatives really want is to transform liberal bias in academia into conservative bias. Indeed, this was said of me in a recent editorial in the Duke Chronicle.

The accusation is utterly absurd. My experience in high school made me understand all too well how severely education is damaged by partisan intolerance, and I would never ask for the introduction of conservative bias. Be it from the left or the right, bias in antithetical to education, and I believe I speak for nearly all conservatives when I say we only ask that all viewpoints be respected in the classroom.

It is true that left-wing bias most often comes under fire but this is simply because most of the bias in colleges is left-wing in nature. This is only to be expected when you consider the fact that, as a survey of the major colleges has shown (Duke included), the overwhelming majority of professors are Democrats, making right-wing bias highly unlikely. This does not mean that there should a 50/50 split of Republican and Democratic professors. All that matters is that all professors respect all beliefs. When a professor ignores, slights, or demeans opposing views liberal or conservative it is an abomination. Consider the following case:

In the first few weeks of school, Senior Matt Bettis had to drop a history course because on the opening day his professor unleashed a barrage of partisan intolerance, including an admission of bias against republicans. Matt wrote the professor, and was told in response that it was not a facts course. Another student informed me that the professor suggested Republicans should drop his class.

Disgraces like this explain why, as many conservatives will tell you, when deciding their schedules they will avoid certain courses, or even entire departments, because of their harsh left-wing reputation. This situation should appall all students as a violation of the most fundamental tenets of education.

An article in the Duke Chronicle called attention to the fact that many conservatives claimed they had been downgraded for presenting conservative points of view in their work, but to my surprise, this claim was simply dismissed without any valid explanation. It is time that we stop ignoring such abuses. If students feel their work is being slighted because of their political leanings, then this is a problem that must be investigated and dealt with accordingly. No student should ever have to fear that open expression of his beliefs may result in an academic reprisal.

Earlier in the year I was able to have a conversation with the Dean of Students, Robert Thompson. During my conversation with the Dean I expressed my concern that in only a short time at Duke I had already starting hearing accounts of bias in the classroom be it professors bashing George Bush, demeaning Republicans, or simply teaching the class from a one-sided perspective. Rather then trying to contest my claims, then Dean admitted to me that he has heard numerous accounts of political bias.

This begged the question: what is being done about this situation?

In that Duke?s chief duty is to educate, and that essential to education is respect for all viewpoints, you would think the present situation would be of tremendous concern to the administration. If Dean Thompson is aware that there is political bias in Duke?s classrooms, I see no reason why cannot ask that he take action. Incidences like that one that occurred with Matt Bettis should disgust anyone who values education. Professors take on the immense responsibility of shaping the way students think about the world. When they shirk this responsibility they are doing a disservice to their students and to their profession.

Thought its extent can be debated, no one can deny the presence of political bias at Duke. We have before us the chance to show that the status quo can be changed, that a major university can aggressively fight bias our goal should be to make Duke one of the first major colleges in America that is truly free of an ideological slant, dedicated to the unbiased pursuit of knowledge, and unwavering in its devotion to academic freedom. However, this will not be easy and it will require the support of many. The key lies in the adoption of a Students Bill of Rights.

David Horowitz has started a new national organization, Students for Academic Freedom, which is dedicated to fighting political bias, specifically through the implementation of this Bill of Rights. I have started up an SAF chapter here at Duke. There are almost 100 more chapters in colleges across the country. It is a wholly non-partisan organization committed to restoring integrity to the American college campus. In line with that guiding philosophy, the Bill of Rights SAF encourages universities to adopt does not favor any one ideology, but requires that all ideologies be respected in the classroom. The only way that one could oppose this Bill of Rights would be if one were actually in favor of a political bias, because even if you doubted the existence of political bias, what harm would there be in guarding against it? (The Bill of Rights can be viewed at www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org)

In that the administration's first and primary responsibility is to protect the integrity of the learning process, I have faith that in the end, this is what they will do. Knowing that the Dean of Students is already aware of the problem, I am hoping that he will thus understand the need to take action, and that a long and difficult battle will not ensue. I am also hoping that before she retires this year, President Keohane will want to ensure every student here at Duke receives a fair, balanced education. I have a meeting with with both the Dean and the President later this month in which I will ask them to support the Students Bill of Rights. However, in my prior conversation with the Dean I was told that the Bill of Rights was not needed. Other administrators have expressed the same point of view. And this mindset is certainly not unique to Duke.

Thus, for this to move forward, college administrators will need to understand that American citizens have had enough, that it is time for higher education in America to change that it is finally time for our nation's youth to learn in an environment where their beliefs are respected and their academic rights are secure. In order to help set this academic revolution in motion, I humbly ask for your help. You can call or write Dean Thompson (919-684-3465 robert.thompson@duke.edu 919-684-3465) or President Keohane (president@duke.edu 919-684-2424) and voice your support for the adoption of a Students Bill of Rights.

The battle for academic freedom will be a difficult one. But working together, we can return dignity and decency to the American college campus. We can set an example to colleges all across the nation by making Duke one of the first major universities to officially, publicly, and universally reject political bias.

An academic revolution has begun will Duke lead the charge?

I await the administration's response.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: academia; academicbias; campus; campusspeech; duke; dukeu; highereducation; horowitz; teens
"Stephen Miller, is a sophormore at Duke University, where he plans to major in Political Science. Stephen has also been on several talk radio programs primarily as an advocate for freedom in education. He is the President of the Duke Chapter of Students for Academic Freedom. www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org Mr. Miller also writes articles, give speeches, and does whatever else he can to adavance this and other causes. It is his intention to continue his efforts in college and to someday go into politics."

E-mail Steve Miller:
stevemiller@radioactivenews.com
1 posted on 03/27/2006 1:39:28 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan


Horowitz stirs up crowd in Page

Neal SenGupta

Posted: 3/8/06

Notorious conservative author David Horowitz spoke Tuesday evening about what he deems radical liberal bias in Duke's academic departments.

The event, which was taped by C-SPAN, drew an audience of about 600 to Page Auditorium. It was in part a promotion of Horowitz's new book, The Professors: 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.

Horowitz spoke about the need to fight "intellectual corruption" at universities such as Duke. He compared the problem of political radicals taking over academic departments to an event "bigger than Enron."

Horowitz attacked specific Trinity College of Arts and Sciences academic programs and departments as examples of "political parties," including the Women's Studies Program, Program of Literature, the Department of African and African-American Literature and the cultural anthropology department. "Large parts of this University have been subverted by radical, leftist recruiting," Horowitz said.

He pointed out that most speakers invited to campus are politically radical, noting Norman Finkelstein and Harry Belafonte as examples.

"I'm amazed by the number of events and courses on this campus that have the sole purpose of pressuring students into thinking that America is a racist, sexist, homophobic country that should be attacked," Horowitz said.

Horowitz criticized several Duke professors. He said Jane Gaines, the director of Duke's Marxism in Society Program and professor literature and English, is a "film critic with no relevant expertise" in what she teaches. He also attacked the "black studies" department for being "Marxists" and for preaching that "America is racist."

"We hire these professors and give them lifetime jobs because they are experts," Horowitz said. "However, these people are not experts. They are completely unqualified to teach their classes. They have no scholarship, no publications."

He noted, however, that his goal is not to attack or eliminate liberal professors. "I don't want to purge universities of left-wingers, but I do want to purge them of idiots," he said.

Horowitz alleged that the problem of liberal bias began in the 1960's, when many liberals and anti-war activists entered into academia to avoid being drafted into the Vietnam War. He said these "radicals" began to dominate departments such as "black studies" and cultural anthropology.

Horowitz said the academics then began to select other "radicals" to join their faculties, leading to liberals' domination of several humanities fields.

Horowitz also referred to an incident last week at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as an example of how dangerous radical ideas can be.

A UNC alumnus rented a Jeep and ran it into a crowd of students in order to get "revenge" for American crimes against Muslims. Horowitz used the example to defend the title of his book, which was criticized by members of the audience for using the word "dangerous" to describe professors. "People who think the title of the book is inappropriate are people who think that ideas have no power," Horowitz said. "Just last week at down the road at UNC a student ran a car into people. It was an idea that drove him to do this."

Horowitz added that it would be hard to change what he perceives as the current culture of liberal bias in many of Duke's departments. "The administrators are too scared of the radical 10 percent of faculty," Horowitz said. "It is up to the students to try and make change."

The lecture was organized by Duke's chapter of Students for Academic Freedom, a national organization founded by Horowitz.

Junior Stephen Miller, president of the Duke chapter of SAF and a Chronicle columnist, said the event was extremely successful. "This was the most well-attended student-run and fund-raised event in recent Duke history," Miller said.

Some members of the audience said Horowitz was a compelling speaker, but many disagreed with his views.

"I'm glad he came," senior Stanley Mouser said. "I still don't agree with him, but I understand his views a little more. He did say some inflammatory things."

Freshman Ryan Miller said he thought Horowitz did not adequately defend his attack on Duke professors.

"I felt he did a poor job of providing evidence and answering the questions [audience members] asked," Miller said. "It didn't really seem like the open exchange of ideas that he says he supports."

Source: Duke Chronicle
2 posted on 03/27/2006 1:45:32 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan (One of the greatet conservative accomplishments would be the undoing of FDR’s big government.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Absolutely logical statement, which will for the time being go nowhere. Americans need to demand that colleges and the media balance the politics of their staff members and their approaches to subjects.

I witnessed tons of left wing kookery - at a "conservative" Catholic University 30 years ago! As a parent I really don't feel like spending tens of thousands of dollars for my kid to waste time hearing Marxist anti-American lectures, being recruited to homosexuality, etc. Because that IS what is happening on the campuses, big time.

3 posted on 03/27/2006 1:46:59 PM PST by Williams
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Stephen Miller, age 19-20 or so, is more well spoken than 99% of the USA. Keep up the good work Stephen!


4 posted on 03/27/2006 1:47:00 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Amnesia is a train of thought.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
"I felt he did a poor job of providing evidence and answering the questions [audience members] asked," Miller said. "It didn't really seem like the open exchange of ideas that he says he supports."

Note re college students. You will always find some whiney little A** wipes who will mouth exactly what the professors want them to say.

5 posted on 03/27/2006 1:49:13 PM PST by Williams
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

Crying about life's problems does little to solve them. Let's hear about positive solutions to liberal bias in our universities : State Legislatures fund universities, yes? Cut off their STATE FUNDING and you'll see a dramatic turn around. That's how bio-chemists often treat cancerous growths : medicines that cut off the cancer's blood supply. You'll know you're making progress when the liberals SCREAM that their positions are being terminated due to BUDGET CUTS...


6 posted on 03/27/2006 1:50:21 PM PST by timer
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

" it was not a facts course" said by a professor teaching a history course."

Rarely has a revisionist historian been so transparent. This Libroid professor has unwittingly served the conservative movement well.

" - - in my prior conversation with the Dean I was told that the Bill of Rights was not needed."

And they were completely correct. Merely adding a Bill of Rights won't cure the problem. Mucking out the stable of the Academe will require wholesale firing of agenda driven soi dissant "professors".

Let the population reductions begin!


7 posted on 03/27/2006 1:50:58 PM PST by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon Liberty, it is essential to examine principle)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

SAF and College Republican chapters should have all of their member students to use small digital recorders to record the abuses. Exposing the teachers is the only way that anything is going to eventually be done about the situation.


8 posted on 03/27/2006 1:51:00 PM PST by DeweyCA
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

I thought Horowitz's observation, that you can't get a complete education when you're only getting half the story - even if it DOES cost you $43,500/year, was devastating.


9 posted on 03/27/2006 1:54:02 PM PST by HIDEK6
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To: Williams

Notre is allowing the 'Vagina Monologues' to be shown on campus, which was shocking enough although I recall reading that that a bishop, from Nigeria I believe, speaking at Catholic University...was protested by walkouts by professors...because he spoke out against homosexual "marriage" and was in line with orthodox catholic teachings.


10 posted on 03/27/2006 1:54:02 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan (One of the greatet conservative accomplishments would be the undoing of FDR’s big government.)
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To: Personal Responsibility

IIRC, Stephen Miller was the student that would call The Larry Elder Show
on KABC (790AM) periodically to detail the insanity of the liberal ant-farm
known as Santa Monica High School.
Here's a link to an article he wrote about it:
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8708


11 posted on 03/27/2006 1:55:35 PM PST by VOA
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To: timer

End tenure. Cut the subsidies. If the universities are really so special, they can survive on their own. If the professors are good, they will be employed.


12 posted on 03/27/2006 2:00:15 PM PST by sine_nomine (Every baby is a blessing from God, from the moment of conception.)
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To: GladesGuru
Article: Red-Faced at Duke

Campus Report: Conservative Horowitz to Visit Duke

Professor's Post: Horowitz and Me: Thank You, David!

Speaker raps leftist professors, programs
13 posted on 03/27/2006 2:01:58 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan (One of the greatet conservative accomplishments would be the undoing of FDR’s big government.)
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To: HIDEK6

...or the fact that they work only 8 months a year...get a two week paid vacation...work 4-5 hours a day for 5 days a week...and make somewhere around $150,000.00!!!


14 posted on 03/27/2006 2:06:07 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan (One of the greatet conservative accomplishments would be the undoing of FDR’s big government.)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
In response, some liberals, rather then denying the existence of left-wing bias, have claimed that what conservatives really want is to transform liberal bias in academia into conservative bias.

SOP for the left.

15 posted on 03/27/2006 2:12:19 PM PST by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

As Thomas Sowell so rightly points out, education is supposed to be teaching students how to think, not what to think.


16 posted on 03/27/2006 2:13:15 PM PST by RoadTest (The wicked love darkness; but God's people love the Light!)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
This does not mean that there should a 50/50 split of Republican and Democratic professors. All that matters is that all professors respect all beliefs.

I have a couple of suggestions for Mr. Miller. Some beliefs should not be respected. For example, calling President Bush a terrorist. I suppose the right to express those beliefs should be allowed. But not respected. Also, if professors dealt in facts and truth there would be no liberals on campus.

17 posted on 03/27/2006 2:18:45 PM PST by spindoctor
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
re: "Notorious conservative author David Horowitz"

The writer of that piece (which was for the most part balanced) either does not know the meaning of the word "notorious" or is guilty of slanting the article from the very first words of the article.

The word "notorious" is defined on Dictionary.com as:
1. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous: a notorious gangster; a district notorious for vice.
2. generally known and talked of <adverse possession created by open, continuous, notorious, and adverse use
3. having an exceedingly bad reputation; "a notorious gangster"; "the tenderloin district was notorious for vice" [syn: ill-famed, infamous]

However the word is used, its sense is always negative. (Hitler was notorious. Stalin & Mao were notorious. Mother Theresa was not.) Now, I can see describing David Horowitz as a controversial individual. That is definitely the case. But to cast aspersions on his character by defining him as "notorious" shows a bias (or ignorance) to begin with. The only "evil" that David Horowitz has committed is to disagree with liberals and demand intellectual honesty from them.
18 posted on 03/27/2006 2:20:00 PM PST by Nevadan
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To: timer

If the universities are like those in SC, they'll just raise their tuition rates to compensate. In the 4 years that my son has been at Clemson, the tuition has doubled. When they stated that they wanted to be a "Top 10" university, I thought they were talking about quality, not cost!


19 posted on 03/27/2006 2:21:10 PM PST by jimmango
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To: Personal Responsibility; Williams; timer; GladesGuru; DeweyCA; HIDEK6; VOA; sine_nomine; ...
The News & Observer, which covers Wake, Durham, Orange, Johnston, & Chatham County in North Carolina, permitted a column by Anne Blythe whereby she described Horowitz as a "right-wing rabble-rouser" and said his campaign for academic freedom was nothing more than a campiagn to "turn the academic world on its head." I hope everyone will join me in challenging Blythe's hate - ablythe@newsobserver.com.

You can read here column here.
20 posted on 03/27/2006 2:33:56 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan (One of the greatet conservative accomplishments would be the undoing of FDR’s big government.)
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To: HIDEK6

People need to STOP PAYING for this cr*p. Starve the beast. A good start would to be pass legislation prohibiting the federal government from requiring or giving preference for any "degree" for federal jobs. Require specific relevant courses or skills -- accounting, physics, a specific foreign language, etc., but no degrees. And secondly, a school's eligibility for federal student financial aid programs should require that the school give no registration preference to degree candidates over non-degree candidates, or to full time students over part time students. The leftist takeover of academia is largely driven by idiotic "distribution requirements" which are nothing more than jobs-for-lefties programs, and students are forced to take these idiot courses, because if they don't, they:

1) Can't get financial aid (which is largely federal) because the financial aid programs all require students to be in a degree program and making satisfactory progress towards a degree -- as defined by the leftist faculty, of course; and

2) Even if they or their parents are footing the entire bill, at many schools it's impossible to register for the worthwhile courses, because they're all filled up by the degree candidates who get priority for registration, before non-degree candidates are allowed to register.

YOUR tax dollars are propping up this state of affairs.


21 posted on 03/27/2006 2:41:04 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

good luck friend. you have your work cut out for you. duke is engrained with 60's has beens, just like so many universities. you have to remember something about the left that is different from you and i- to the left, this is their religion, and to stand up to them is to become the devil himself. we as conservatives, whether jew, protestant or catholic, descend our values from what we percieve to be the natural law, God given to man. the left feels that they are God and anything contrary to them is to be evil in their eyes. i was at duke, and will not participate in any alumni functions. they are just that wierd and screwed up down there.


22 posted on 03/27/2006 2:56:04 PM PST by Cannonball Bill
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Here's my college of choice. No liberal slant there, I'll bet.
23 posted on 03/27/2006 2:57:03 PM PST by RedBeaconNY (If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people He gave it to.)
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To: Cannonball Bill
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst | Are Full of passionate intensity." --William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming

I understand full well the radical shift when the barbarians sacked the universities in the 67,68, & 69 only to become part of the very establishments they once rioted, burned, and attacked. There are two schools of thought, much like there were when the U.S. was locked into a Cold War with the Soviets, and it says either you are a Jimmy Carter, Ford, Nixon, JFK, etc. who appeases the beast or you're a Ronald Reagan who seeks to defeat it. We can win this...an aggressive public campaign, lobby sttae legislatures to become involved, pressure trustees, keep the media focused on the problem, quit using tax dollars to fund Ward Churchill and company, etc., etc. You clean them out college by college, professor by professor, or whatever approach you have to adopt. It make time, yes, but I'm confident we can do this. Meanwhile, they're up in their ivory towers..
24 posted on 03/27/2006 3:11:24 PM PST by Conservative Coulter Fan (One of the greatet conservative accomplishments would be the undoing of FDR’s big government.)
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To: GovernmentShrinker
YOUR tax dollars are propping up this state of affairs.

Working, productive men and women, so very many at low wages support the hedonistic, wanker academic culture. I suppose this is what the elites regard as progressive.

25 posted on 03/27/2006 3:17:12 PM PST by Jacquerie (Democrats soil institutions)
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To: jimmango

Home schooling is a big growth industry in education, yes? Why not home schooling at the university level? Since the universities are pricing themselves out of business with liberalism disguised in sheepskin clothing, why not just LEAVE? Start your own university with a quasi-home schooling format? There's a lot of junior colleges around, yes? Convert one or more of them in each state to a conservative format, continuing the home schooling format they are used to, then watch enrollment explode as conservative students flock to them for a genuine, non-biased education. Universities are businesses, if you don't like their product, go buy somebody else's product. Who goes to a store to buy something and the clerks pound you with their personal opinion? Would you go back there again?


26 posted on 03/27/2006 3:35:55 PM PST by timer
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To: sine_nomine

Let the liberal universities cut tenure and liberal's salaries. Another solution besides cutting state funding is to start your own university. There are lots of junior colleges around, make one or more of them in each state a non-biased format, something like the home schooling that conservative christian students are used to. There is a real opportunity here : give these lost-to-liberal universities some real competition. Universties are businesses, they'll mend their ways when their entering freshman classes dwindle down to drooling liberal-nothings as conservative students patronize other university-businesses...


27 posted on 03/27/2006 3:45:37 PM PST by timer
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Saw Horowitz's speech on C-SPAN last night... classic.

The best was when he slapped down the last "student" during the question/answer session. She was mumbling on about pronouncing her name so that Horowitz would remember it... Horowitz planted the student saying he has no respect for a professor (this student's hero) that does not respect him (Horowitz).

The last shot was of this female student stomping off.

Horowitz, by the way, had a body guard standing behind him at all times.

28 posted on 03/27/2006 3:52:04 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: timer
Another solution besides cutting state funding is to start your own university.

Great in theory, but unworkable in practice, I'm afraid. Without "being accredited", any diploma granted by such a university would be worthless on the job market, which is what those who go to universities are looking for to begin with. Since the process to be "accredited" lies likewise in the hands of the same folks you're trying to do the end run around, figure the odds of your being "accredited"...

the infowarrior

29 posted on 03/27/2006 5:12:18 PM PST by infowarrior (The GOP runs the US, the Dems run their mouths... Freeper HardStarboard)
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To: infowarrior

That isn't quite what I was suggesting. Pick some 2 to 4 year junior college and load it up with conservative students, home school types. Junior colleges grant degrees of one kind or another, yes? Also, junior colleges are more subject to local control/funding, yes? So, just as one shops around for various items at the mall, one can choose to go to this or that jr college rather than Duke or some other "chain store" university that's dominated by liberals. Once businesses/corporations realize that kids graduating from those few conservative schools are far better educated than the drooling liberals from "chain store" universities, the PAPER degree won't mean all that much anymore, it'll be WHERE you're from that really matters....To wit, I once worked for a fellow architect from Urbana-Champaign. Nice enough guy but he spelled beam as "BEEM" and couldn't add a column of numbers to save his soul. Typical product from a liberal dominated university, poor guy didn't get enough "tough love" at the university as Rush Limaugh would say.


30 posted on 03/27/2006 7:44:37 PM PST by timer
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To: timer

For good or ill, you cannot do that. Under many legal precedents, tenure is a property right.

And in your haste to have the state dismantle academic freedom in the institutions it has created for the public betterment you overlook the baleful effects of any such policy.

If the legislatures shut down the universities, they will not be able to reopen them: it will be hard to hire faculty in a state where they tenure is known to be worthless.

If the legislature targets liberals, or liberal-heavy departments or colleges (in some cases tenure resides with a department or college, so tenured faculty can be fired if their department or college ceases to exits), they establish a precedent which can be used by the left or whatever replaces the left as the opposition to liberty, two generations from no when we are the majority in the universities.

If you simply cut the budget, and let the university administration abolish tenure and fire people, it will be the leftists who are wielding the axe.

Academic freedom was the first freedom of expression: there was free speech inside the wall so the university when the Inquisition punished theological speculation with torture outside those walls. And just as free speech and the free press must protect the bad as well as the good (since the whole point is to not have the state judge what is good or bad), so too academic freedom must protect both the bad and the good.

Patience. The war of ideas is a long one, but ours are sound, theirs are not. In the long run, we will dominate academe as well as society at large.


31 posted on 03/27/2006 8:11:22 PM PST by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know. . .)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Notorious conservative author David Horowitz

What an astonishingly biased way to begin a news report.

32 posted on 03/27/2006 8:28:59 PM PST by edsheppa
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To: timer

For-profit universities have to go their own way. I think they have much to offer.


33 posted on 03/27/2006 9:04:04 PM PST by sine_nomine (Every baby is a blessing from God, from the moment of conception.)
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BTTT


34 posted on 03/27/2006 9:05:57 PM PST by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")
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To: Trajan88

I saw it last night as well. I loved how he torn Cornel West to shreds! The whole Larry Summers saga should be a wake up call to anyone interested in the fate of our "great universities." Horowitz was unleashed and he was brillant.


35 posted on 03/27/2006 9:12:08 PM PST by Wphile (Keep the UN out of Iraq)
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To: Nevadan

Thanks for catching 'notorious.' I was going to post on it. Judging from recent usage of the word, I think younger people especially equate it with "well known" instead of its negative connotation. It's amazing how much of the language we've lost just since I was younger.


36 posted on 03/27/2006 9:19:24 PM PST by Bernard Marx (Fools and fanatics are always certain of themselves, but the wise are full of doubts.)
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To: The_Reader_David

The problem is liberal-laden universities in a majority conservative country. Yes, there is free speech and tenure but "political correctness" on university campii stifle CONSERVATIVE free speech, as is well known. If liberals are put on notice that their blatant left wing indoctrination will be no longer be tolerated by state legislators on budget committees it might be a "near death" experience for them. John Von Neuman, the great mathematician, was once stopped by the gestapo as a young man. He said of the experience that the imminent threat of death concentrates one's attention WONDERFULLY. So what we need is a Martin Luther Reformation in academia, to concentrate liberal's concentration WONDERFULLY. So where those state legislators with their 95 theses?


37 posted on 03/27/2006 10:24:37 PM PST by timer
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To: sine_nomine

A century ago the major land grant universities were a great force for good in america, a vast improvement over the european model of taking the brightest kid and cramming his head with an entire library of knowledge, ie, Steven Hawking. By educating the masses our citizenry was more able to handle technical issues much better than your average european. Thus it's no mystery why the US is the sole remaining super power whilst europe is a second rate socialist backwater. Then came the 1960's and the left wing takeover of education, producing losers like clinton. Thus it's time to introduce some real competition into the university education marketplace, we owe it to our kids....A short story of my teacher grand father : he followed the alaskan gold rush of a century ago. Didn't find any gold, but he had an education certificate. Got a job teaching eskimos english on Kodiak island. No money for textbooks, so how do you get free textbooks? ans : write the Sears and Roebucks company in Seattle and get 100 catalogs with pictures, english language descriptions...so that's how the eskimos on Kodiac island learned their english... Thus, there are always challenges in education but creative minds can always find solutions, if you REALLY want to solve the problem; even starting private schools or jr colleges to counter liberal-dominated universities.


38 posted on 03/27/2006 10:45:23 PM PST by timer
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan
Most of us probably don't want to know where much of the evil influence comes from. Work only as a consultant/temp. Or better yet, build companies to compete against them. But don't support them.

http://www.umich.edu/~urel/admissions/legal/gru_amicus/32_internatl.pdf

The following filed briefs in favor of "affirmative action" in the Michigan "Grutter v. Bollinger" (Michigan University) case. No one is pushing the corporations to do it. They started it, and they pay their own revenues to continue it.

American Bar Association

American Council on Education, et. al.

Civil Rights Project of Harvard University

Clinical Legal Education Association

Fortune 500 Corporations that filed briefs in favor of "affirmative action" for Michigan University

3M
Abbott Laboratories
American Airlines
Ashland
Bank One
Boeing
Coca-Cola
Dow Chemical
E.I. Du Pont De Nemours
Eastman Kodak
Eli Lilly
Ernst & Young
Exelon
Fannie Mae
General Dynamics
General Mills
Intel
Johnson & Johnson
Kellogg
KPMG
Lucent Technologies
Microsoft
Mitsubishi
Nationwide Mutual Insurance
Nationwide Financial
Pfizer
PPG
Proctor & Gamble
Sara Lee
Steelcase
Texaco
TRW
United Airlines

General Motors Corporation

Law Deans of Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Harvard, New York and Yale University, and University of Pennsylvania

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law

Michigan Attorney General

Michigan Public Officials

National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, et. al.

NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund

Ohio State University

Thirty-six Faculty Members of The Ohio State University College of Law

UAW (International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers
39 posted on 03/28/2006 4:00:06 AM PST by familyop ("Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." --President Bush)
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To: Wphile

His book ProFessors is now on my to-read list.


40 posted on 03/28/2006 1:22:07 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: Conservative Coulter Fan

I have empathy for Miller but after all he did choose to go to Duke and he could not have chosen a more worthless major than Pol Sci. He looks like he's heading for a life of political activism as opposed to a promising career.


41 posted on 03/28/2006 1:31:30 PM PST by hubbubhubbub
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