It really is very simple to do...plug in the words "conservatism on campus" and do a search...
For quite some time now concerned individuals have been writing, posting, and warning us about the appalling, one-sided, extreme liberal atmosphere that exists on practically every campus...they are also relaying what those students that are strong enough in their convictions are going through...if they are able to withstand the incredible amount of pressure that is applied - by both professors and other brain-washed students...
Consider this - Thomas Lipscomb writes in an article, Students have appallingly weak grasp of free speech, the following:
Almost three out of four students said they took the First Amendment for granted or didn't have any particular opinion about it. Their general indifference and misunderstanding took tangible form in the belief of three out of four students that flag-burning was illegal and almost half believed the government had the right to censor the Internet. Once the First Amendment was read to them, one third of the students felt it went "too far" in granting free speech and one half thought that the government should have the right to approve news stories.
If you don’t understand what I am concerned about, please re-read the previous paragraph…you are seeing the results – in living, breathing color – of the successful indoctrination of our university students to the extreme left beliefs and views…Joseph Stalin and Karl Marx come quickly to mind…
What is wrong with this picture?... for students to believe that flag-burning is illegal (it is definitely reprehensible, but not illegal)…that the government has a right to censor the internet…that the government has a ‘right’ to approve news stories...
Ward Churchill is nothing new to this scene…he is just putting all of this into focus…
It is not enough to simply write the check and send your youngster off to college…parents need to pay attention to what is happening right in front of their eyes…
If a student dares to espouse conservative views, they are ostracized…they are ridiculed…they are stigmatized, expelled, subjected to mandatory psychological counseling or forced to take "re-education" courses, with very little legal recourse.
When was the last time we heard those words – re-education classes (or camps)?
The “new” Vietnamese government decided in 1979 to "re-educate" thousands of former American allies, government workers, intellectuals and merchants by transforming them into agricultural workers…
Wade Teasdale, chief of staff for Bill Morrow, a CA state senator, said that his office received a report of a professor who offered students extra credit to write and send letters to President Bush complaining about the Iraqi war policy. Those who wrote letters commending the policies were not given credit for the assignment.
Reports like these, Teasdale said, lend credence to the need for policy changes.
“It has the flavor of a re-education camp,” he said…
Lipscomb asks How did one half of American high school students become perfectly comfortable with government censorship of media?
He points to the dearth of availability on some campuses of student publications… What is particularly troubling is that school administrators in the last five years are not only interfering with student publications more and more frequently, they are increasingly asking for prior approval of their content...
How has this been allowed to get this bad?
Until recently, the legal excuse for this kind of thought policing was college administration references to conditions laid down by the Office of Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education. But in July 2003, a letter of clarification was issued by that office which removes this excuse. Nonetheless, Lukianoff feels that "in the past year, I have seen the worst incidents in my career."
There have been hundreds of incidents of the theft and destruction of college newspapers by some groups, on campus and off, who feel they are expressing their freedom of speech by suppressing access to speech with which they disagree in the paper. Even the mayor of Berkeley, Calif., felt free to confiscate copies of a student newspaper that opposed his election. And less than a dozen have yet been arrested or even investigated and disciplined by any college administration to date.
My voice is but one of many…and the chorus needs to get louder…
Ward Churchill is going to be the poster boy for reform on our university campuses…
Even if Churchill is allowed to stay, hopefully all of the attention that has been drawn to this problem will follow with more balance within our faculty on campus…
The extreme left idealism has been allowed to fester and grow for long enough within academia…these people are shaping the minds of our youth...the future leaders of this nation...
It is time to realize that we DO have a problem…it is also time to DEAL WITH IT
DR
