Students accuse Wells of liberal bias (92% Dems on Faculty; Prof: Lobotomize Repubs)

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

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[governsleastgovernsbest]

She cited a campuswide e-mail from biology professor W. Thomas Vawter that labels Republicans as "stupid" and closes with the following quote: "Lobotomies for Republicans: It's not just a good idea; it's the law!" - Yellow Dog."

What would be the career expectancy of a conservative prof who sent a campus-wide email saying that all feminists should be lobotomized?

[Riley]

She cited a campuswide e-mail from biology professor W. Thomas Vawter that labels Republicans as "stupid" and closes with the following quote: "Lobotomies for Republicans: It's not just a good idea; it's the law!" - Yellow Dog."

Trying to drag us down to their level, I see.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Talk about half-your brain tied behind your back!

[Chad Fairbanks]

Well, I always thought that the definition of Liberal was "A Republican who has been lobotomized", so there ya go ;0)

[68skylark]

Or what if a professor said this about blacks?

[cornelis]

There is a problem here with Vawter's uncivil and crude suggestion, but the solution is not the idealism of diversity. That is a sure recipe for disaster. Horowitz and this Academic Bill of Rights are stepping in the wrong direction. If you want diversity, you can have it, but it will neither guarantee an education nor civil speech. The last thing we need is two professors shouting slogans to studnets, one designated as Republican, the other Democrat. A half-assed idea if there ever was one. Higher Education ought to strive higher than the average FR conversation.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Education ought to strive higher than the average FR conversation.

Hey, I resemble that remark!

But seriously, not positive what you're shooting at, but if the suggestion is that profs should be "objective," I respectfully disagree.

I think a good give and take of ideas is desirable, and for that, we need a reasonable balance on the faculty.

[cornelis]

studnets students

[Consort]

Posted twice....by the same poster?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

What if a professor said this about blacks?

Since Al Sharpton is from NYC, I assume he would beat Jesse Jackson to the campus. So the fire at the stake at which the prof was burned might already have gone out by the time poor Jesse got there. He might have to settle for spitting on the ashes.

[governsleastgovernsbest]

This is a new and different article from the Syracuse newspapers, with some interesting additional information, including the reaction from the college president, the confirmation from the college information officer that the "lobotomy" email had indeed been circulated campus wide, and some additonal quotes and info from the Wells GOP Chairman.

[cornelis]

we need a reasonable balance on the faculty

Balance of what? Party membership?

[governsleastgovernsbest]

Not necessarily party membership per se, but a faculty of 92% liberals will provide neither sufficient challenge to the thinking of liberal students nor sufficient guidance and role models for conservative students.

[gipper81]

When I was in b-school, a student who attended UMass told me that the entire economics department there was Marxist. Not Keynesian, but Marxist. The entire stinking department!

Still amazes for some reason. A solid reason why MASS votes dem.

This Wells stuff goes on everywhere.

[Consort]

I've been spoiled by the posters who add the word "Update" or "New" or "More Info" in identical headlines.

[cornelis]

Not necessarily party membership per se

Well, come out with it. Balanced with a conservative who would like to lobotomize liberals? There is no doubt that there is a serious problem here, apart from crude slogans, and getting worse. But the restatement of a problem gets us nowhere near the solution. what is balance? And once you have achieved it, do you need something to balance that?

[cornelis]

She said when she explored Wells as a college she might want to attend, she was not made aware of what she called its liberal leanings.

like a rolling stone, no direction home . . .

Shame one somebody for that naïveté. It's sad. The role of parents is what Horowitz should push.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

The last bastion of the worst of Soviet era oppression is still alive on the campusses of many American universities.