[wimpycat]

They don't look very happy, do they? I guess they're trying to look serious, but they look uptight and pissed off.

[gcruse]

Good gawd what a read. Good news, tho.

[Pokey78]

The pic on the front page:

[summer]

Cover shot on the NYT Sunday Magazine:





By JOHN COLAPINTO
No taxes, no gun control — but these days, blue blazers and gay bashing are not required. College conservatives have learned that by acting like everybody else, they can sway their peers and become the most influential political act on campus.

[paulklenk]

Thanks for posting this. I did a thread search on it an hour ago but didn't get around to posting it. Glad someone else did.

I think we Freepers could learn a lot from the techniques these people are using.

[summer]

Why are there quotation marks in the article's following sentence?

These groups spend money in various ways to push a right-wing agenda on campuses: some make direct cash ''grants'' to student groups to start and run conservative campus newspapers; others provide free training in ''conservative leadership,'' often providing heavily subsidized travel to their ''publishing programs''; others provide help with the hefty speaking fees for celebrity right-wing speakers.

It seems like the writer is trying to tell us: SOMETHING MORE DEVIOUS THAN YOU KNOW IS ACTUALLY GOING ON HERE -- when, in fact, it sounds to me like: grants, conseravative leadership and publishing programs. And, no quotation marks are necessary.

[ctonious]

Why can't these kids just be normal, and mouth NYT-certified platitudes about "like...y'know global warming man...'nd multi-like-national corporations dude...'nd like Big Oil..." 'nd stuff like that. Honestly, what are these kids coming to?

[katana]

This must scare the living s**t out of 90% of the readers of the New York Times Magazine. What's worse for them is that at least some must be awake enough to know that conversion from liberalism in youth to conservatism as one ages is so commonplace that it is practically the norm, but the reverse is very unusual. These students won't become liberals as they grow older they'll just come into power with much of what they believe now intact.

[Dan from Michigan]

NICE!

When I started college, the first reaction to a lot of this PC stuff. WTF is this s**t?

Most of it is ignored, and that's by most people I know. The libs overextended their hand, and it's now starting to bite em in the ass. Finally.

[JohnnyZ]

''My man-hammer has not clubbed a single baby seal. . . . ''

BWA-HA-HA-HA-HAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

I can't handle any more -- that's hilarious!!!!!!!!!

[NYC GOP Chick]

While professors like Schneider and Daubman worry about the potential for conservative activists to stifle intellectual openness among students

Oh, fer crying out loud! When I was in college (1983-87), anybody to the right of the Sandinistas was stifled, sneered at, shouted down, etc.

When I wrote a few conservative things for the school paper, I had humorless feminutty types literally getting up in my face and screeching about me being "a murderer of women and children" because I wrote in support of our bombing of Libya -- but I also had a few people quietly seek me out to thank me for saying out loud what they were afraid to say.

It's about time that these hardcore leftist professors learn the reality that leftism does NOT equal "intellectual openness." They need to understand that it's an ideology, not The Truth.

[spodefly]

Middle-aged Hipublican BUMP.

[William McKinley]

It can be disorienting to hear conservatism advanced as the ideology that frees women,

Disorienting, only to a leftist.

[PsyOp]

From an old Republican to the New:
"Why Waltz? When you can Rock & Roll!"

[William McKinley]

You have to read this one. BUMP!

''As the conservatives have become more prominent, other students are more prone to believe that they are being indoctrinated,'' Schneider says. ''So the openness of a number of students to new ideas and new ways of looking at things has actually moved in a disturbing direction. Students are much more willing to write off something as 'liberal talk' -- oh, I don't need to think about that, that's just ideology -- as opposed to thinking, in a complex way, about all of the different ideas and evaluating them.'' Kim Daubman, a social psychology professor, concurs. Recently she taught a class in which she talked about the theory that news coverage of warfare in Iraq could lead to a rise in homicides in the United States. ''I could see the students rolling their eyes,'' she says. ''I could just hear them thinking, 'Oh, there she goes again!'''

Hahahahaha!

[Hobsonphile]

My generation's conservatism...

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[finnman69]

bump for later read

[m1911]

The author's biases shine through in so many places:

"Today, most campus conservatives who hope to be effective won't dress like George Bush or Dick Cheney. The idea is to dress like a young person. When the Bucknell conservatives assemble for their weekly meetings, they look like a typical, if all-white, sampling of American undergraduates, which is to say, there are plenty of ragged T-shirts, backward baseball caps and frayed jeans in the room."

Obviously the underlying assumption that young people dressing like young people is some kind of evil plot planned by the VRWC.

[rface]

marked for a later read.....

[AdA$tra]

When I was their age I worked as a bartender in a hip, upscale restaurant/bar. I was the original hipublican. I occasionally shocked co-workers and customers who just naturally assumed that I was liberal because I was with highly informed, trendy, er liberal, type people all night every night. Of course rule number one when tending bar: Talk about sports or sex. Not politics or religion.