"Iarnrod"
Feb 25, 2007, 4:58 PM
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On Feb 25, 9:53 am, kompressor <m...@des.benz> wrote:
> Mitchell Holman wrote:
> > kompressor <m...@des.benz> wrote in news:ZP9Eh.3718$_X1.3164
> > @fe05.news.easynews.com:
>
> >> Mitchell Holman wrote:
> >>> kompressor <m...@des.benz> wrote in news:%47Eh.5412$k82.1626
> >>> @fe07.news.easynews.com:
>
> >>>> Mitchell Holman wrote:
> >>>>> "Larry (Scratch)" <Scra...@Tigard.OR.com> wrote in news:4t-
> >>>>> dnb7N5a2wOH3YnZ2dnUVZ_s7in...@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=3DFv9xa-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 F=
REE
> >>>>>> 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, 2005http://www.townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/ct20050330.sht=
ml
>
> 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 imagin=
ed.
>
> 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. Checkoutwww.campus-watch.orgfor many more
> examples.
>
> WardChurchill, 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...
>
> 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 Republica=
ns.
>
> 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 B=E9rub=E9, a professor of literature and cultural studi=
es
> 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 B=E9rub=E9, ''we're a pretty liberal bunch."
Ward Churchill is not a liberal; he hates liberals. He is a
Republican, although he doesn;t too much care for them either.
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