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Feb 25, 2007, 11:53 AM
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Mitchell Holman wrote:
> kompressor <merc@des.benz> wrote in news:ZP9Eh.3718$_X1.3164
> @fe05.news.easynews.com:
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>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>> kompressor <merc@des.benz> wrote in news:%47Eh.5412$k82.1626
>>> @fe07.news.easynews.com:
>>>
>>>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
>>>>> "Larry (Scratch)" <Scratch@Tigard.OR.com> wrote in news:4t-
>>>>> dnb7N5a2wOH3YnZ2dnUVZ_s7inZ2d@comcast.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Al Smith wrote:
>>>>>>> On Feb 24, 12:27 pm, use...@mile23.c0m (Paul Mitchum) wrote:
>>>>>>>> Al Smith <caddyshack...@my-deja.com> wrote:
>>> http://www.break.com/index/pro_abortionist_attacks_pro_life_woman.html
>>>>>>>>> Nice...
>>>>>>>> Why do you think you're anything but foolish for saying that
>>> 'leftists'
>>>>>>>> are represented by a single person whose stated gripe had nothing
> to
>>> do
>>>>>>>> with the political message, but the images of dead fetuses on
>>>>>>>> signboards?
>>>>>>> Because it happens all the time. It's not an isolated incident.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv9xa-VxchM
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tell you what. You park your car with a "Kerry Edwards" sticker in
> my
>>>>>>> neighborhood, I'll park my car with a "Bush Cheney" in your
>>>>>>> neighborhood. I'll pay for your repairs and you pay for mine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> yep! Leftists believe in free speech just as long as IT IS THEIR FREE
>>>>>> SPEECH.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Shooting abortion doctors in the back and
>>>> Compares in what numbers to owning the mass media and controlling the
>>>> universities?
>>>
>>> Who controls what universities?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Uh.....the LEFT!
>>
>
>
> That explains "leftist" college professors like
> Newt Gingrich and Dick Armey and Phil Gramm and Henry
> Kissinger and Ken Starr.
>
> Yeah, right.....................
And they constitute the MAJORITY????
Liberal bias in colleges bleeds into classroom
by Cal Thomas
Townhall.com
March 31, 2005
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050330.shtml
You'd better sit down and firmly grip your bowl of Corn Flakes while
reading this shocking news: College faculties are not only mostly
liberal, but lean even further to the left than conservatives have imagined.
According to a study by professors at Smith College, George Mason
University and the University of Toronto (they surveyed 1,643 full-time
faculty at 183 four-year schools), 72 percent of professors at American
universities labeled themselves liberal, while just 15 percent said they
are conservative. 50 percent of faculty members identified themselves as
Democrats and only 11 percent Republicans.
Political Science professors Robert Lichter of George Mason University,
Neil Nevitte of the University of Toronto and Stanley Rothman of Smith
College also found that 51 percent of those surveyed said they rarely or
never attend church or synagogue. University, Neil Nevitte of the
University of Toronto and Stanley Rothman of Smith College also found
that 51 percent of those surveyed said they rarely or never attend
church or synagogue.
These liberal leanings translate into liberal political beliefs. 84
percent of those surveyed are strongly or somewhat in favor of abortion
rights, 67 percent think homosexuality is acceptable, 88 percent want
more environmental protection "even if it raises prices or costs jobs"
and 65 percent want the government to ensure full employment, which puts
the professors to the left of the Democratic Party.
The study, appearing in the March issue of the online political journal
the Forum, was funded by the Randolph Foundation, which donates to
mostly conservative organizations.
Jonathan Knight, director of academic freedom and tenure for the
American Association of University Professors, was asked about the
study. He told The Washington Post, "The question is how this translates
into what happens within the academic community on such issues as
curriculum, admission of students, evaluation of students, evaluation of
faculty for salary and promotion."
Knight added he is not aware of "any good evidence" linking the personal
views of professors to what they teach. He must be living in an ivory
tower without Internet access, or he believes surveys such as this one
are "bad evidence" because they don't conform to his views.
A quick Google search of "liberalism on college campuses" brings a
wealth of good evidence that what is being taught on many of them is
anti-American, anti-religious, anti-Israel, pro-gay rights and
pro-abortion, often to the exclusion and ridicule of opposing views.
In December, Columbia University appointed a committee to look into
charges of bias and intimidation by faculty, particularly in Middle East
studies. Columbia isn't the only university with bias problems when it
comes to the Middle East. Checkout www.campus-watch.org for many more
examples.
Ward Churchill, a tenured professor at the University of Colorado, is in
the news for his grotesque characterization of the 9/11 victims as
"little Eichmanns" who were not casualties of terrorism, but legitimate
"military targets." His views are part of his teaching.
From "gay rights" courses, even majors, at an increasing number of
colleges, to the usual anti-military and anti-free enterprise bilge that
has been documented in numerous books and articles, only those who are
in complete denial would claim there is no link between the mostly
liberal views of professors and how they shape their subject matter in
the classroom, at numerous forums and in campus advocacy groups that
constitute modern academic life.
Thomas Reeves of the Wisconsin Policy Research Institute has said
"conservatives are discriminated against routinely and deliberately" in
faculty hiring, making some highly qualified teachers virtually
unemployable because of their political and social views. This
guarantees a perpetuation of a one-dimensional approach to most subjects.
In matters of race and gender, colleges practice affirmative action to
employ more minority and female professors and attract more students
with these characteristics. Why won't they do the same for conservative
professors and students in the name of diversity, pluralism and academic
freedom?
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/04/11/liberal_bias_in_the_ivory_tower/
YET ANOTHER study has come out documenting what most conservatives
consider to be blindingly obvious: the leftward tilt of the American
professoriate. The latest report, by political scientist Stanley Rothman
of Smith College, communications professor S. Robert Lichter of George
Mason University, and Canadian polling expert Neil Nevitte, published in
the online journal Forum, paints a stark picture of a politically skewed
academy. Nearly three quarters of the professors in a 1999 survey of
college faculty identified themselves as left/liberal, only 15 percent
as right/conservative; 50 percent were Democrats and 11 percent Republicans.
A typical reaction to such studies from the left has been to shoot the
messenger without denying the basic facts of the message. Thus, on his
website, Michael Bérubé, a professor of literature and cultural studies
at Penn State who has often locked horns with conservative critics of
the academy, challenges the study's sample size and points out that it
was financed by a conservative foundation. Then he cites a 2001 survey
by the UCLA Higher Education Research Institute which yielded fairly
similar results: 5.3 percent of faculty members were classified as ''far
left," 42.3 percent as ''liberal," 34.3 percent as ''middle of the
road," 17.7 percent as ''conservative," and 0.3 percent as ''far right."
''Yep," concedes Bérubé, ''we're a pretty liberal bunch."
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