[Corin Stormhands]

What? Most of 'em are loser liberal types.

Speaking as someone who spent time as an English major, and as someone who married an English major who is now an English professor, I'd have to say that's an ignorant statement Jen.

In our small English/Speech group from my small Christian college we produced:

• Two Presidential appointments
• A federal judge
• A Presidential speech writer
• Spokespersons for two major conservative organizations (that would be recognized by anyone on FR).
• A Congressional Chief of Staff
• Two gubernatorial appointments.

All conservative. None of them losers. And that's just from two graduating classes.

No, you don't need a degree in the field of writing to be a success. But you've got to have a bigger world view than you've yet exhibited.

[JenB]

Yes, but you went to a Christian college. That's not the majority. I'm gonna get flamed again... but I took two college writing classes, a technical writing class, a "writing fiction" class, and had a seminar taught by an English teacher, and a speech class and all six of them were the most liberal and most close-minded of the faculty I've dealt with. I can only base my stereotypes on what I've known.

The worst one, I had when I was seventeen. She actually graded my speeches lower than they deserved because I took a conservative stance and because I criticized another student's speech for implying that the disabled should be aborted. It really completely turned me off the whole idea of majoring in English, which was good because at the time I was considering changing from computer science to something else.

[ecurbh]

Whoops, running late... gotta go!