Comments on: Proof that academia has lost its mind

By: Sara

Sara — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:35:08 +0000

To William: Your comment is irrelevant. This article was not talking about STUDENTS doing things to suppress conservative thought, but the Universities themselves. They seem to think Free Speech only applies to you if you are a liberal. Just like most liberals, they preach diversity of thought and tolerance of different ideas–but only if they agree with you.

By: William

William — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 19:25:27 +0000

I went to a campus that was like 90% engineering students. Seriously. There were the liberal arts classes, but they were required only so that us engineers were “well rounded”. I am not a churchy kind of guy, so I didn’t sit around talking religion or try to hand out bibles. We would have those guys that would hand out small copies of the New Testament every once in a while though. They were spread throughout campus and were polite and I never once saw a student do/say anything mean. Doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, of course. But, I also didn’t sit around and wax philosophic about conservative stuff either. I would either talk school stuff, or just talk about whatever game I happen to be into, or I would be off campus working. I had to work 2 and 3 jobs just to have money to eat, so I didn’t spend megahours on campus. I think most of the problem children come from families that are paying for college…i.e. the students don’t have to work. Thus, they have time to do crap like this.

By: Mat

Mat — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:26:30 +0000

I work at a private university (not saying which one) and I’m not really all that surprised by some of the stuff I saw on the page. I take graduate classes, so I don’t see as much of the leftist nonsense, but I know that it goes on rampantly on the undergraduate level. Of course, there were a couple of screwball graduate students in my history class this semester. The daily campus newspaper also has some pretty dumb crap in it most of the time. I would agree that one has to be careful about talking conservative on campus, though I’ve had mixed reactions. I think a lot depends on what curriculum one is in. I’ll probably start a blog soon, but there’s no way I’d put detailed personal information out because although I doubt it would be a problem, I’m not going to take the chance of being fired from my job. Odder things have happened…