The 13 Most Rabidly Leftist, Politically Correct Colleges For Dirty, Tree-Hugging Hippies

The Daily Caller ^ | 8-7-2014 | Eric Owens

[old and tired]

I’m sure Berkeley, like most colleges, still has its share of dirty whiny hippies, but I think it’s on this list because of its history not because of current student radicalism. The best example of dirty hippies the guy could do was Robert Reich. College has gotten very expensive and upper middle class white kids (the ones who actually voted for Romney and to some degree Ron Paul) are attending Berkeley because it’s the most highly ranked school in the California state system. They’re working hard and many of them are probably playing quite hard but they’re definitely not dirty hippies.

[Flick Lives]

I do not see Antioch on that list. Another Ohio haven for weird leftists.

Didn't Antioch go belly-up financially?

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I don’t know how they left out Reed College in Portland, OR.

[arderkrag]

If I had only known there were colleges without requirements where I could’ve got a free ride with no grades to worry over... I could’ve had a doctorate by now! Just imagine it - Dr. ‘Krag from Hampshire College majoring in economics. Of course, the joke would be on them: I’d land a career with the Ayn Rand Institute, where I’d spend my days mocking them.

[arderkrag]

ABAC (Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College) here in GA is stellar, affordable as colleges go, and mostly Conservative Christian in makeup.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I always put Antioch near or at the top of these lists too, although Leftism has infested its standards so much that perhaps no one considers it a university anymore.

[IronJack]

Bookmark.

My stepdaughter applied to and was accepted at Evergreen. When I saw the course catalog, I told her she was free to attend on her own dime, but that I wouldn’t part with one red cent for an “education” at such a worthless dump.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Oberlin College was pushing same-sex marriage when I was in high school over three decades ago.

[ladyjane]

upper middle class white kids ... are attending Berkeley

A lot of Asians.

[null and void]

My ex and her daughter?

[elcid1970]

(Sigh) With the exception of Texas A&M, this list hasn’t changed since the late sixties. It can be assumed that not a single one of these has ROTC on campus, again Aggies excepted.

I always thought Bennington was a girls’ college where the alumnae were so beautiful that they all went straight to the modeling agencies for their first job.

Brandeis & Oberlin never fail to disappoint. Their founders have been lashed down inside their coffins so they won’t spin.

[Paine in the Neck]

Even formerly-staunchly conservative Texas A&M University recently hosted a separate “LGBT” graduation ceremony.

Every college and university, no matter how conservative it once was, eventually succumbs. They get their faculty from the same pool as does Columbia, Harvard, Berkeley, etc. These faculty, once ensconced in their new positions, immediately set out to remake the school in the image of 1960s Columbia. They all are Columbia radical wannabes and each fatasizes of being the next Trotsky. Until the taxpayers who foot the bill for these commie mills can get more say in who they hire and how they're run there is noo hope of correction.

[Drew68]

bfl

[Biggirl]

The only real hope is when the instructors retire and a new generation comes in.

[Shimmer1]

If your ex is a pretty little Leftist, then yeah, her too

[DaveA37]

“U of Wisconsin, Madison “.....

Can’t see how ANYONE would miss adding that one to the list.

[artichokegrower]

Gotta include University of California Santa Cruz because they are the folks who made Angela Davis a full professor and granted Huey Newton a PhD.

[old and tired]

A lot of Asians.

Who are also definitely not dirty hippies... :)

[BwanaNdege]

I had not realized that "academic accreditation" was such a subjective 'discipline' these days!

"The academic program is wholly unstructured." -Sarah Lawrence

"The major-less, requirement-free curriculum almost certainly helps..." - Bennington College

"Hampshire College does not provide majors or grades."

"The taxpayer-funded college has no grades. Instead, professors write narrative evaluations of each student’s work." - Evergreen State College

BTW, it is sad to see San Francisco State University on the list. I guess Language in Thought and Action, that excellent book written by one of their former presidents, S.I. Hayakawa, is banned reading on campus now.

Ex-Sen. Hayakawa Dies; Unpredictable Iconoclast : Professor: Semanticist first caught public's attention with his opposition to student radicals at S.F. State. February 28, 1992 -From a Times Staff Writer

S. I. Hayakawa, the renowned semanticist who defied striking student radicals at San Francisco State University in the late 1960s and subsequently was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican, died Thursday. He was 85. Spokesmen at Marin General Hospital in Greenbrae, Calif., said he had been hospitalized with bronchitis, and that he died of a stroke about 1 a.m. He had lived in the nearby town of Mill Valley. "He was invaluable during some very difficult times--a courageous man of integrity and principle," former President Ronald Reagan said in a statement.

At the time he was one of the most popular public figures in the state, a hero to multitudes of Californians outraged by student militants and Vietnam War demonstrators.

Those heroics began Dec. 2, 1968, when Hayakawa, an English professor who had just become acting president of San Francisco State, confronted a howling, jeering mob of striking students.

When he could not make himself heard over a blaring sound truck, Hayakawa leaped to the top of the truck and ripped the wires from the sound system--all recorded on live television.

Ooooh Rah! You were a good man, Professor Hayakawa!

(That's him in the Clark Kent glasses & Tam O'Shanter in the photo below)

[null and void]

Pretty? I thought you said petty!