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This reminds me of a time when I was in community college and for some reason our liberal sociology instructor helped arrange for some "scholar" (also a liberal sociology instructor) to visit the school on a weekday mid-morning. He apparently personally guaranteed the guy there would be a good turnout, and even booked two sessions for him (since they were sure the classroom would be full). Apparently so few people showed up for the first that the visitor just walked off and left the school.

Now, this is a community college near a military base -- half the students are either active duty military and people working full time who are taking classes on lunchbreaks and after work.

Unbelievably, our instructor was just livid the next time our class met, talking about how it reflected badly on the school and how we didn't appreciate the opportunity to get knowledge.

Just proves the liberal events aren't always well-promoted either...

Oh yeah and the postscript...I just remembered a funny story about that wacky sociology prof. You can use liberalism against people like him... Once I missed a question on an exam that was going to bring me from an A to a B. I didn't want to blow my GPA on a sociology class, and the instructor had said he would consider "legitimate challenges" to any test questions. So I mounted a challenge to a section about families by complaining that the textbook's author failed to include unmarried hetero and homosexual couples as family units. I kept a straight face.

The prof was so impressed he gave me an A AND suggested that I write up a short article to send to the author of the textbook! He then told me he wished all freshmen cared as much about sociology as I did.