Posted on 05/07/2013 4:13:54 PM PDT by Kaslin
The American university was once regarded as the marketplace of ideas. Young, eager minds thirsty for knowledge pursued higher education to better prepare for life. The free exchange of ideas and different perspectives largely defined the academic scene in decades prior. This reputed intuition stood out from the rest as the cultivator of future leaders, innovators, and scholars.
Alas, this is not the case today.
The late conservative thinker William F. Buckley famously opined, “The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.”
The American university has departed from its original purpose. Instead, this institution now serves as a breeding ground for complacent, goose-stepping loyalists of the political Left.
Most academic departments are favorable to leftist points of view. The majority of professors identify as Democrat or socialist; some even identify as Marxist or communist. In fact, an April 29 Rasmussen poll found that 40 percent of those polled believe college professors oppose American values. 25 percent of those polled believe college professors share U.S. values, while 34 percent of those polled are unsure.
The campus climate is equally hostile to conservative and libertarian students. When one openly professes right-leaning views they are ridiculed, harassed, or made to feel uncomfortable on campus. Professors reserve lecture time to proselytize against free markets, limited government, and traditional values. So-called sustainable initiatives, diversity “enrichment,” and the prevalence of gender neutral bathrooms, for example, confirm the radical nature American universities have come to adopt.
Despite dominant leftist views on campus, conservative students should not feel discouraged or hopeless. Instead, they should fight back by holding their professors accountable for their actions. If professors repeatedly step out of line or dedicate lecture time to deride conservatives, students should record them and expose their bias.
College students can put unruly professors in their place with the right tools and resources.
Last fall, Tyler Talgo--a University of Southern California student--recorded political science Professor Darry A. Sragow on film calling on his students to disenfranchise Republican votes.
“Republicans are trying to prevent people of color and people of lower income from voting by requiring voter I.D.” Sragow said.
Shortly after the video of Sragow dropped, Talgo appeared on Fox News and The View to encourage fellow college students to hold their professors accountable for what they say in the classroom.
Another instance of college students holding their professors accountable is the recent firing of a Brevard Community College (BCC) professor. The professor--Sharon Sweet--was fired after requiring students to pledge their votes for President Barack Obama leading up to the 2012 election. Sweet’s pay and benefits were suspended following an investigation into her questionable activities.
Campus Reform reported, “The termination took effect immediately, ending pay and benefits for Sweet who had been suspended with pay under provisions of the United Faculty of Florida collective bargaining agreement with the college, pending the board’s decision.”
These instances of leftist abuse on campus are not isolated. In fact, they are common. Whether it is the University of California or the Ivy League, most American universities encourage and tolerate leftist bias. Leftist professors will continue to go unnoticed unless students bring their bias into light.
Time at an American university should be enjoyable, not tainted by leftist indoctrination. As a result, it is imperative to reclaim American universities and encourage dissenting viewpoints.
If students want to expose leftist abuses on campus, they can contact their Regional Field Coordinator or send tips to Campus Reform.
In fact, Judge Andrew Napolitano will read Section 8 of Article I of the Constitution to you which is essentially the first of the two pages.
Judge Napolitano & the Constitution
College students also need to be aware that justices who actually respected 10th Amendment-protected state powers had officially clarified that the states have never delegated to Congress via the Constitution the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes, but which Congress could do if the states delegated such power to Congress by ratifying an appropriate amendment to the Constitution.
And here are the healthcare-related excerpts from Court opinions which have been previously posted.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress (emphases added)." --Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824."Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"Inspection laws, quarantine laws, health laws of every description, as well as laws for regulating the internal commerce of a state (emphasis added) and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c., are component parts of this mass." --Justice Barbour, New York v. Miln, 1837.
“Direct control of medical practice in the states is obviously (emphasis added) beyond the power of Congress.” –Linder v. United States, 1925.
my German prof in college was a real lefty and i was at least ten years older than most of the class the second day of class he was ragging about Reagan so i ask him "Is this a Poly-Sci class???" he said no, so i told him from no on, make with the Deutsch and talk politics on his own time...
i also told him after class i'd goto the dean if he kept it up, i don't know what he did in the other classes, but that was the end of politics in our class
Boneheads being held accountable by even bigger Boneheads; it’s an ugly picture.
What a bizarre choice for an article picture. That’s at Caltech, not the University of Southern California. And the man in the center is Elon Musk, who is not a professor (which is sort an odd choice since the purpose of the article was to rail at professors). He was the commencement speaker. Every student in the background is someone who just received a Ph.D. in a science or engineering discipline, and who was not required to take any non-math/non-science courses—at an institution in which nearly every professor is an honest and excellent scientist/engineer, with almost no humanities profs at all. Yes, colleges have biases. But perhaps the author of this article needs to go back to school to become a bit more competent.
Picky, picky, picky aren’t we?
Incompetent, incompetent, incompetent aren’t we?
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For the most part, people who major in science and math are spared the loony leftist ideologies. They still have to take the general education classes where they are most likely to be exposed.
That may all be true, but I doubt that the vast majority of people who see this article are familiar enough with Caltech to recognize it in a generic college graduation photo. Your familiarity with the photo, and with who the man in its center is, suggests to me that you have specific knowledge of it that most people don’t.
Despite spending years at UC Davis, I doubt that I’d recognize most pictures of the campus if I didn’t know ahead of time that they came from UCD.
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