Grinding the Wheels of Censorship at Emory

FrontPageMagazine ^ | October 17, 2002 | David Horowitz

[Hobsonphile]

Hopefully this isn't a repeat- I did run a search. Horowitz continues to fight the good fight!

[Hobsonphile]

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[yendu bwam]

I honestly want to know where I can send my children to college so that they can get good academic training, but not be exclusively barraged with an entirely liberal, anti-religious, sexually libertine, fascistic political correctness ideology for four long years. Any thoughts anyone?

[jjm2111]

I truly feel sorry for campus conservatives. Radicals use the most despicable tactics.

[jjm2111]

All the service academies, VMI, the Citadel.

[Hobsonphile]

I believe there's a guide out there- sort of a US News and World Report for conservatives- but I can't remember who published it. Does anyone else?

[Skooz]

Doesn't National Review post a list every year?

[Lizard_King]

Unless you wish to send them to a school that actively promotes an opposite orthodoxy (like Hillsdale or a sectarian school, either of which no matter how "conservative" is still a thousand times more tolerant than any left wing equivalent), you really have no choices that I know of in this matter (and my job is researching freedom of speech at universities). However, I don't know if yielding the ground on this one is as wise as you might think...at ANY public school they have to enforce the 1st amendment no matter how much they may begrudge it to you, so at least you do not lose your rights as you do at many private schools. All it take is a few conservative dissenters, and advocacy from groups like the one I work for (http://www.thefire.org ) and we can take these places back.
I understand your desire to shelter your children from the reality of left wing academia, but if your children are strong and moral (which I do not doubt) they can withstand the petty assaults of the fascist bureaucrats that run these places with no problem. These people cannot do in public what they do to students in private, and so long as your kids are willing to speak up for themselves, there is not a whole lot that can be done to them.
On a personal level, I see how much my university has changed in the last decade because of a few courageous students and one remarkable professor, from a socialist fiesta run by Sheldon Hackney to a much more reasonable environment run by the exceedingly competent Judith Rodin. It is far from perfect, and many of my professors are left wing, but never has my freedom of conscience or speech been interfered with because of ideological difference(minus the occasional surly left wing student, like the folks who rejected me as a newspaper columnist), and only in nonsense sociology-style classes is ideology a litmus test for grades (which is practically to be expected, given the nature of the subject matter). I have still managed to obtain an exceedingly good education and surrounded myself with people of character and decency.

Good luck in your search...if you have any specific questions about a University or College you are considering we have quite an archive on most schools in the US and I would be happy to look it up for you.

[Puddleglum]

I honestly want to know where I can send my children to college so that they can get good academic training, but not be exclusively barraged with an entirely liberal, anti-religious, sexually libertine, fascistic political correctness ideology for four long years. Any thoughts anyone?

I think exposure to liberal academia actually helps toughen one's hide a little and teaches the verbal art of self defense. I was subjected to these academics for years and I think it helped me see past their soft language to the harsh ideas inside. From my perspective, a lot of the undergraduates can see through the rhetoric for the hooey it is, and a lot of the graduates can withstand it and come out all the stronger for it on the other side. Of course, I was never subjected to the harsher forms of "sensitization" - I just had a professor or two who seemed unable to hear my questions in class, though other got through fine!

From my experience, it's an innoculation that keeps the real disease from infecting the adult mind. Having to get a job in the "real world" after school just sort of completes the process.

[twntaipan]

Maybe you can homeschool them for university? Okay-=-at least enroll them in most classes via Internet.

[AppyPappy]

and glares from community members

OH DEAR GOD, NOT GLARES!!!!

[Leisler]

As in, "You eyeball'n me, boy?"

[CatoRenasci]

As a VMI man, I suggest that VMI, the Citadel and the service academies are not for everyone. The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College has a list of more or less conservative schools that includes Dartmouth and Washington & Lee among the very top rated schools, and Hampden-Sydney, Grove City, St. Olaf, Ohio Wesleyan and some others among the better liberal arts colleges. I'm sure I'm leaving several off the list.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[Lizard_King]

on second thought, washington and lee university is a superb small liberal arts school with a conservative core (without restraining freedom of conscience and speech), excellent financial aid, beautiful campus, and conservative student body (again, not meaning intellectually stagnant, just not a bunch of commies).

[yendu bwam]

on second thought, washington and lee university is a superb small liberal arts school with a conservative core (without restraining freedom of conscience and speech), excellent financial aid, beautiful campus, and conservative student body (again, not meaning intellectually stagnant, just not a bunch of commies).

Thanks! y.b.