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Help Wanted: Lefty College Seeks Right-Wing Prof
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Posted on 05/13/2008 5:41:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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"We should also talk about intellectual diversity,".....

That's enough for me - take the public money away

1 posted on 05/13/2008 5:41:58 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

I volunteer.


2 posted on 05/13/2008 5:43:14 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of News)
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First, they have to find someone who wants to actually live there in liberal Lamebrainia.....


3 posted on 05/13/2008 5:43:49 AM PDT by Red Badger ( We don't have science, but we do have consensus.......)
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A college that champions diversity, he believes, must think beyond courses in gay literature, Chicano studies and feminist theory. "We should also talk about intellectual diversity," he says.

*checks date to see if it's April 1st*

*checks source to see if it's really The Onion*

4 posted on 05/13/2008 5:44:37 AM PDT by denydenydeny (Expel the priest and you don't inaugurate the age of reason, you get the witch doctor--Paul Johnson)
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LOL, when they hire the Conservative Prof they will point to him proudly at every turn.

They will have their “token”


5 posted on 05/13/2008 5:47:00 AM PDT by lexusppd
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>> First, they have to find someone who wants to actually live there in liberal Lamebrainia.....

If they were actually PAYING me to be conservative, I’d live in the People’s Republic of Boulder. Politics aside, it’s a nice place, though the Californicators have made it expensive. So they’d have to pay me a LOT.


6 posted on 05/13/2008 5:49:03 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (La Raza hates white folks. And John McCain loves La Raza!)
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The Attila the Hun Chair, no doubt...
7 posted on 05/13/2008 5:49:29 AM PDT by gridlock (The natural state of the world is Darfur. The freakish aberration is America - - Ann Coulter)
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"We should also talk about intellectual diversity,"

Very Interesting! Academics pushing for Affirmative Action are always pushing it as an answer to a need for Diversity! on campus. You know, the old..."to fully develop students" argument. Once you've made that "diversity" argument, how do you oppose "diversity" of this type?

8 posted on 05/13/2008 5:49:35 AM PDT by LZ_Bayonet (There's Always Something.............And there's always something worse!)
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Professor of Conservative Thought and Policy:

The academic ghetto.

9 posted on 05/13/2008 5:49:55 AM PDT by reg45
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“... liberal Lamebrainia.”

Love it.


10 posted on 05/13/2008 5:51:45 AM PDT by Eurale
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I’d love to see what this college’s idea of a conservative. They’d probably bring in Lincoln Chaffe.

If he could still do his radio show, Mark Levine would be perfect.


11 posted on 05/13/2008 5:56:02 AM PDT by exile ("Get off the phone, ya big dope"- The Great One)
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Yup, and it sounds like you have to like tofu. That will cut a whole lot of conservatives out of the loop. Altho there is a steak place on the way out of town.


12 posted on 05/13/2008 5:56:52 AM PDT by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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“”I'd rather see a quality academic than someone paid to have a particular perspective.”

Funniest statement of the year!!!

His assumption is that the normal “perspective” is hard left.
And anyone who doesn't have that belief is “biased”.

Diversity means that everyone is leftist; and if not you will be fired.

There are hundreds of people who have denied tenure in past few years; just because they didn't fully drink the leftist Koolaid?!?!
Fully qualified people, but they refused to adopt some leftist belief somewhere in their career.

13 posted on 05/13/2008 6:02:36 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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"Why set aside money specifically for a conservative?" asks Curtis Bell, a teaching assistant in political science. "I'd rather see a quality academic than someone paid to have a particular perspective."

Why do I get the feeling that he would have been put on academic probation if he had dared asked that question about any other professorship reserved for a specific racial/ethnic/sexual minority?

14 posted on 05/13/2008 6:03:18 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Pray for Rattendaemmerung: the final mutually destructive battle between Obama and Hillary in Denver)
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This is a silly idea, not because of Horowitz’s suggestion that it would be a token, but because it doesn’t address the real problem.

Horowitz’s actual program is better - work through the students.

The general distaste for useless fields like gender studies, and those that have become useless in the social sciences and arts, are also strong market factors. The reason these market factors have been of limited use so far is because higher education has been insulated from the market, allowing absurdities to develop. The bubble will burst though.


15 posted on 05/13/2008 6:05:34 AM PDT by buwaya
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>> Yup, and it sounds like you have to like tofu.

Nah... There’s tons of great restaurants in Boulder, and nearby. And most of them serve real live MEAT. (Well, OK, not live.)

By the way, the “Alferd Packer” student grill on the CU campus is named after a famous Colorado cannibal. To the best of my knowledge though, they don’t take the term “student grill” literally. :-)


16 posted on 05/13/2008 6:10:49 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (La Raza hates white folks. And John McCain loves La Raza!)
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What, no dancing fish at Sushi Zanmei?


17 posted on 05/13/2008 6:16:09 AM PDT by coloradan (The US is becoming a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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According to leftists, the more leftist studies and groups involved, the more “diverse” they are.

...Like some lefty describing a school having 90% hispanic students as being “very diverse”....


18 posted on 05/13/2008 6:19:36 AM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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I wonder if Professor Limbaugh at the Institute for Conservative Studies would be interested in submitting his resume.


19 posted on 05/13/2008 6:21:54 AM PDT by kidd
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>> What, no dancing fish at Sushi Zanmei?

My favorite two in Boulder are Greenbriar Inn (just out of town, on the road towards Lyons), and the Flagstaff.

There are some pretty good places on the Pearl Street mall too, but I don’t recall any names.

But tell me about Sushi Zanmei... any good? I eat raw fish too. I haven’t really met a calorie I didn’t like.


20 posted on 05/13/2008 6:22:52 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (La Raza hates white folks. And John McCain loves La Raza!)
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