The only direction we can go in now is forward, which is why groups like Students For Academic Freedom, Campus-Watch, The FIRE, and sites like Critical Mass, noindoctrination.org, etc., are so critical to this nation's future.
The people that control liberal arts universities today espouse an ideology that is completely divorced from liberalism as it's been traditionally defined.
These people aren't liberals, they're fascists masquerading as free-thinkers.
I'd add to that group the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) who are challenging the limits imposed by the prevailing liberal administrations of most large universities in this country.
The YAF students are the ones holding affirmative action bake-sales, and conservative coming out events, mocking the underlying philosophy of the elders of the hippie generation now in control of higher education.
And I love FIRE, who has put the fear of legal action and negative publicity into these administration elites who seek to suppress and ostracize any spark of conservative activism on campus.
It is a comforting thought to me that as these ageing leftover hippies from the 1960's and 70's who dominate acedemia in higher education today naturally age out of the system, they will eventually be replaced by Reagan and Rush babies.