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1 posted on 10/25/2009 3:36:54 PM PDT by Born Conservative
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To: Born Conservative

Only if you are concerned about your grades.


2 posted on 10/25/2009 3:39:03 PM PDT by Safrguns
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To: Born Conservative

Well ‘DUH’.

Of course they were hostile. Hasn’t he been paying attention?


3 posted on 10/25/2009 3:41:30 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Born Conservative

Journalism schools are a fraud.


4 posted on 10/25/2009 3:43:38 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Born Conservative

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.


5 posted on 10/25/2009 3:47:25 PM PDT by joesjane (The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Born Conservative
What I didn’t realize is that journalism that examined the dominance of liberal ideas on campus would be addressed with hostility.

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.

6 posted on 10/25/2009 3:47:39 PM PDT by sausageseller (http://coolblue.typepad.com/the_cool_blue_blog/)
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To: Born Conservative

Two words: Palmer Raids.


7 posted on 10/25/2009 3:51:05 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: Born Conservative

“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!” :-)


8 posted on 10/25/2009 3:51:20 PM PDT by DemforBush (Now officially 100% ex-Democrat.)
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To: Born Conservative

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


11 posted on 10/25/2009 4:00:39 PM PDT by parsifal (Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
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To: Born Conservative

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.


12 posted on 10/25/2009 4:03:09 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Born Conservative

Here’s my experience at the UofO as a parent:
http://www.brayincandy.com/id150.html

Pray for America


13 posted on 10/25/2009 4:09:01 PM PDT by bray (Hope and Corruption)
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To: Born Conservative

Transfer to the school of management. Any even relatively conservative professors will be there.


14 posted on 10/25/2009 4:13:08 PM PDT by OpeEdMunkey (Eat right...exercise...die anyway.)
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To: Born Conservative
Academia could do with a thorough cleansing.
16 posted on 10/25/2009 4:21:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (Brave amateurs....they do their part.)
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To: Born Conservative

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.


19 posted on 10/25/2009 5:09:02 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: Born Conservative
The original source for this is evidently the Christian Science Monitor. Link should go there, not to a third party.
20 posted on 10/25/2009 5:24:40 PM PDT by Caesar Soze
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To: Born Conservative
Hmmmm, I think that a case could be made here for the fairness doctrine.....
22 posted on 10/25/2009 5:32:44 PM PDT by Asfarastheeastisfromthewest... ("Sooner or later in life, we all sit down to a banquet of consequences." Robert Louis Stevenson)
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To: Born Conservative

I had a Sociology class in college which had a very hard left professor.She adopted a baby from China and told us about how she was going to raise it with Chinese traditions. I asked if that meant that the kid would be a communist too. She asked me to leave for the day!


23 posted on 10/25/2009 5:50:46 PM PDT by gop4lyf (Obama wants to raise taxes and kill babies. Palin wants to raise babies and kill taxes.)
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To: Born Conservative

It’s only a problem if your professors are bringing their political views into class. Otherwise, who cares what their political affiliation is, as long as they’re competent at teaching their respective subjects? In fact, if you had to ask them in order to discover what their voter registration card said, then they’re doing their jobs properly.

I’ve taken over 40 courses at a fairly liberal university. I’ve had maybe 4 professors mention their political views in passing, and they affected the content of only two courses (of a sort where it would be difficult for the content to be unaffected) and I only had one professor try to drag politics into a distinctly non-political course. Incidentally, I failed that course - not directly due to political conflicts, but because I was too sick to go to all my classes and I figured if I had to miss something, I might as well miss the class where I hated the prof... but the other 35+ classes, wouldn’t have a clue what their voter registration card said (if they actually had one to begin with, I think half of them still had green cards).


26 posted on 10/25/2009 7:35:55 PM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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