USC sheds conservative image (CNN biased barf piece)

CNN.com ^ | 26 December 2003 | Gina Goodhill

[Moose4]

Editor's note: Campus Vibe is a feature that provides student perspectives on the 2004 election from selected colleges across the United States. This week's contributor is Gina Goodhill, student reporter at the Daily Trojan, the University of Southern California student newspaper. The views expressed in this article are not necessarily those of CNN, its affiliates or the University of Southern California.

[Moose4]

"USC students are far brighter and much more discerning than they were when I first came here," he said. "A lot of people don't know what's happened here, how the grade point average has gone up."

Translation: "We've gotten smarter, therefore we've gotten more liberal." Very telling quote, Professor Dekmejian. Why am I not surprised that he's a political science professor?

I sincerely hope the young skull-full-of-mush Daily Trojan reporter that wrote this piece for CNN can get over her liberal bias and become a functioning member of society (as opposed to a "journalist") real soon. Her cuteness will only get her so far.

}:-)4

[goldstategop]

California is a state with more Democrats than Republicans. Its simply a recognition of the changed times - USC has caught up with the state's political de-volution at last.

[Libertina]

"Students are very aware that U.S. democracy has ... weaknesses," Dekmejian said.
Unlike communism, fascism, nazism, and tyranny... /sarcasm.

[longtermmemmory]

Fillin in the blank with you list of five universities:

"A degree from ____________ is an indication of leftist indoctrination and a negative for a potential employee."

1. Berkley
2. Wesley
3. Harvard
4. Pitt

[Boss_Jim_Gettys]

I remeber being an undergrad at 'SC when Mondale dropped by on a campaign stop. None of the liberal public institutions were in session so he chose to visit USC. His campaign packed the bleachers in front of the podium with bussed-in poor folk and union types. We, the students, booed him off the stage and made the national news!

Oh, the good old days!

[SoCal Pubbie]

I sure hope the coaching staff is getting less conservative! No more playing for OT in the fourth quarter of close games. Go for the throat! Not that I think it will even be close next week.

[raptor29]

USC remains a conservative campus. Funny how the students are labeled as 'apathetic' and 'more interested in football than politics' when they don't stir up LIBERAL activism on their campus.

[JRios1968]

5 should have been "all of the above"!!!

[Hebrews 11:6]

Fight On!

[Uncle Hal]

I graduated from USC in 1958 and it was very conservative and was dominated by fraternities and sororities, which controlled everything. Except for the professional schools, it was not very challenging academically. I went on to graduate school at UCLA and it was very different. I am still a big USC football fan.

[raptor29]

Maybe back in 1958 that was the case, but at present, USC's incoming freshman have better academic records and higher SAT scores than their UCLA counterparts. Been that way for a number of years. USC's campus conservatism has always led to it's academics being underrated, but this is an exceptional university, and even more so given the students don't have to sift through as much of the typical liberal political bilge that pollutes the usual university campus.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - EDUCATION

[Brilliant]

Only in CA would USC be considered conservative.

[BurbankKarl]

that is fiction....most the SC students I know all back BUSH

[Fledermaus]

Probably because the conservative students are starting to go to better schools where they won't be harassed by intolerant left-wing jerks.

[KneelBeforeZod]

could be true, they are still reeling from being left behind for the nat'l championship.

as a local sports writed commented: "I got a letter from a USC fan that says BCS stands for 'better change the system.' I told him it means Beat Cal, Stupid"

[monkeyshine]

I was at SC from 88 to 92. My Freshman year I got involved with the campus Republicans and got free tickets to see a Bush rally.

But after my freshman year, I decided to stay away from political clubs. They were too... political!

[SW6906]

"It's dawning on people that if we don't do something this year, next year we're going to re-elect [President Bush]," she added.

Wow, I wonder what she called our President that CNN felt they had to replace it with [President Bush]......

[SW6906]

The majority of the article talks about how USC's liberal groups are growing, and how everyone is becoming more invloved. Then the article ends by saying:

"USC is very apathetic," Cao said. "There are a lot of liberal students here. Most people just don't express themselves about their politics."

Which is it? What a crappy article.

[Euro-American Scum]

I graduated from USC in 1958 and it was very conservative and was dominated by fraternities and sororities, which controlled everything. Except for the professional schools, it was not very challenging academically. I went on to graduate school at UCLA and it was very different. I am still a big USC football fan.

Class of '74 myself. And the change was underway even then. The fraternity influence was starting to fade, although I understand it's made something of a comeback in recent years.

Those of us returning from Vietnam comrpised a very quiet, almost underground minority. While the antiwar protests in the early 70s were nothing compared to those going on at Westwood High, nobody would be caught dead in camos. And we couldn't grow our hair long enough, fast enough.

Going to Homecoming the last few years, I'm more concerned with the lack of American students in the engineering, computer and hard sciences. You go anywhere near Seaver Science Center and you won't hear the English language.

At the same time, we've got such sterling Bolshevik activists like Susan Estrich and Irwin Chemerinsky infecting the Law School faculty. Not to mention recent graduates like Rick Neuheisel. Nothing to be proud of, I can tell you.

The infection of liberalism is all-pervasive in the American university community. Unfortunately, our alma mater is not immune.