Posted on 10/25/2009 3:36:54 PM PDT by Born Conservative
Edited on 10/25/2009 7:22:01 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
EUGENE, ORE. – When I began examining the political affiliation of faculty at the University of Oregon, the lone conservative professor I spoke with cautioned that I would “make a lot of people unhappy.”
Though I mostly brushed off his warning – assuming that academia would be interested in such discourse – I was careful to frame my research for a column for the school newspaper diplomatically.
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Only if you are concerned about your grades.
Well ‘DUH’.
Of course they were hostile. Hasn’t he been paying attention?
Journalism schools are a fraud.
Great post. Kudos to a student who is willing to expose the liberal regime in power at the majority of higher learning institutions in the USA. I am sure the author is learning a very valuable personal lesson as well as writing a great article.
What did you think was going to happen Danny boy?
Lib, commies , fascists are evil mean hateful people. How would you think their response would be otherwise?
I guess you could chalk it up to naivety but after reading the rest of the column ignorance is more like it.
Two words: Palmer Raids.
“Yet, out of the 111 registered Oregon voters in the departments of journalism, law, political science, economics, and sociology, there were only two registered Republicans.”
At my university, it broke down pretty much along these lines:
Journalism & Poly Sci: center-left to pretty danged liberal. The guy who taught defense policy was a Joe Lieberman type.
Sociology: Moonbat city.
Economics: Hardcore economic Libertarians. The department chair was a tough as nails Texan who was probably a social conservative as well, but the profs all kept their personal views out of the classroom. As a whole, they were a pithy bunch, too. One of my profs had a picture on his door of a prime rib being carved up. The caption underneath said “Screw Vegetarians, Let’s eat some MEAT!” :-)
He could’ve been writing in a certain tone on purpose, give him a break. He sounds like he’s on our side geez.
I guess you could chalk it up to lack of life experience.
No, it is simply a sign that more members of the GOP have learning difficulties and that maybe, just maybe, they need to learn how to learn. You know, open that ‘ol mind up and learn some new tricks.
parsy, the conservative DEMOCRAT
I had one conservative professor, and a couple who were mum on the subject. The rest ranged from disinterested liberals to hardcore Communists. In grad school I was one of two conservatives in my classes, three, counting a state trooper who was middle of the road. We were the top of the class. I had one grade given to me on one paper that was obviously low, B, because of political reasons. The class title was the “State.” I believe my argument was that Capitalism isn’t hostile to Democracy. Thank goodness those days are over. I can imagine how much trouble I could get into these days.
Here’s my experience at the UofO as a parent:
http://www.brayincandy.com/id150.html
Pray for America
Transfer to the school of management. Any even relatively conservative professors will be there.
He found two republican faculty members out of 111 at the University of Oregon? That many? Eugene is moonbat city.
In fact, I’m not a conservative, nor a Republican. I simply believe in the concept of diversity – a primarily liberal idea – and think that we suffer when we don’t include ideas we find unappealing.
He blatantly ignores the history of and ideas his professors and even he, believe in.( man that's a disjointed sentence!)
The two he found were RINOs no doubt!
Could yall imagine going back to college and just giving lib profs hell.Grades?LOL.Who cares as long as you can make their life hell at least one hour a day and maybe more if your friends went back to school with you.
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