Fear and Loathing-In college classrooms, conservatives are "The Other"...

The Wall Street Journal ^ | Friday, March 12, 2004 | JOHN J. MILLER

[Zunt Toad]

The anonymous posters began to speckle the campus of St. Lawrence University in upstate New York last month. They carried an eye-grabbing message--"Republicans: The Other White Meat."

Elizabeth Wardell, a senior, thought she knew who was responsible for their appearance: a certain assistant professor with the reputation of a provocateur. Surfing around her school's Web site, she landed on the sociology department's homepage and read a paragraph about Robert J. Torres. Then she clicked on his name and was transported to his personal blog. There, Ms. Wardell--who is president of the local College Republicans--discovered an entry headlined "Fascist, Racist College Republicans."

[Zunt Toad]

Imagine if Mr. Brandon had used a similar logic to explain why blacks are underrepresented among Duke's students and faculty.

'nuff said!

Does anyone have a link to the American Enterprise Magazine study?

[Redcoat LI]

http://www.aei.org

Website for the American enterprise Institute,I think this may be what you are looking for.

You'll have to search for the specific article yourself.

[Zunt Toad]

The One-Party Campus
By Karl Zinsmeister


In most sectors of American life – corporations, non-profits, government agencies, churches, unions, voluntary organizations, the military, you name it – you will find ample numbers of both conservatives and liberals, Republicans and Democrats, people of the Right and people of the Left.



There is one important place, however, where this basic parity doesn’t hold, where the Right//Left balance is grossly skewed: among the ranks of faculty at colleges and universities.



Today’s colleges and universities are not, to use the current buzzword, “diverse” places. Quite the opposite: They are virtual one-party states, ideological monopolies, badly unbalanced ecosystems. They are utterly flightless birds with only one wing to flap. They do not, when it comes to political and cultural ideas, look like America.



The graphs that follow document the harsh ideological imbalances that exist on virtually all college campuses today. These results were painstakingly tabulated for us (in several cases with help from the Center for the Study of Popular Culture) by student volunteers who visited the Board of Elections in the local jurisdiction where each college or university is located. Public voter registration records were cross-referenced with faculty rosters, and the findings were compiled.



Some professors could not be located in voter registers, a certain number were not registered in any party, and a few were registered to a party that could not be classified ideologically. But a great many had signed themselves up as members of an ideologically identifiable political faction.



Those who registered themselves in either the Democratic, Green, or Working Families Party we classified as members of a party of the Left – they are coded “L” in red in the results below.



Those registered in either the Republican or Libertarian Party we classified as members of a party of the Right – they are coded “R” in blue in the results below.



Lest critics accuse us of cherry-picking only fringed disciplines, we have stuck mostly to major, uncontroversial, and socially significant fields of study. And we have carefully arrayed the data by department. (Exact titles of departments vary by school; we have standardized to the most common terminology).



Colleges like to characterize themselves as wide-open places where every thought can be thought, where any opinion can be held, where all ideals and principles may be pursued freely. The demonstrable reality, however, is that you will find a much wider – and freer – cross-section of human reasoning and conviction in the aisles of any grocery store or city bus.



In truth, colleges are now hostile environments for economic and cultural conservatives. Only a comparatively narrow spectrum of views is really welcome on campus. If you stray from the liberal consensus you will soon find yourself without allies, without tenure, and eventually without a position.



Don’t take our word for it; consult the data on the following pages – they speak for themselves.

[Zunt Toad]

Here's the full set of charts:

http://www.taemag.com/docLib/20030716_018KZandGraphs.pdf

[Redcoat LI]

You don't need to tell me.

I have first hand knowledge of this,Graduate School,History at THE big University in Boston(Cambridge)

[Post Toasties]

She said another strain is called "symbolic racism," which involves opposition to government programs meant to improve the status of blacks and Hispanics. So if you think racial-preference policies aren't a great idea, you're a "symbolic racist."

I turn that line right around on anybody stupid enough to use it by pointing out that those programs destroyed the black family and have a nasty tendency to relegate the recipients to second class status.

[Qwinn]

"A separate review of Ivy League academics found that 84% of them voted for Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election, compared with 9% for George W. Bush and 6% for Ralph Nader."

Boy, that was badly phrased. While I realize that the author is entirely on our side, this sentence still gives a far-too-generous impression... comparing Gore against Bush and Nader? Lol. Is Nader a right-winger now?

How about "A separate review ... found that 90% of them voted for Al Gore (84%) or Ralph Nader (6%) compared to 9% for George W. Bush."

NOW the sentence gives you a proper feel for how bad it really is.

Qwinn

[NewRomeTacitus]

"Not true," says Ms. Wardell. "My friends and I often pretend to be more liberal because we know it leads to better grades."

This has gotten beyond farcical. Horowitz's proposal should be adopted for the sake of intellectual honesty in teaching. The wailing and gnashing of teeth from the time-frozen pinks could only be surpassed by the sight of them looking for honest work.

[nickcarraway]

BUMP

[nickcarraway]

UNM Students: Survey Reveals Faculty's Liberal Bias

[bobwoodard]

Interesting, their Sociology Dept is no longer accessible from their web site (getting a 403-Access forbidden message)... http://it.stlawu.edu/%7Esociology/

[bobwoodard]

Google cache is your friend, here's Robert's home page:

http://www.rjtorres.net/

Here's the original article:

http://www.rjtorres.net/bobblog/archives/fascistr.php

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP - EDUCATION - UNIVERSITIES AND THE CONSERVATIVE

[jordan8]

Why do so many professors loathe Republicans?
Mr. Torres doesn't loathe Republicans, he loathes white people. He is a professional racist, one of tens of thousands (if not hundreds of thousands) of full time haters on salary for the system in Universities, NGOs, and government. It's a two-fer for the system: they get a token to up their diversity quotient while striking at the culture they long to exterminate. This will go on as long as the dominant left can find "opposition" like Mr. Miller and the Wall Street Journal who are willing to collaborate in the fraud and pretend it's about "Republicans".

[stands2reason]

Have you read Keith Windschuttle's The Killing of History?

[NewRomeTacitus]

"Interesting, their Sociology Dept is no longer accessible from their web site"

That's another thing. No one group seeks to rewrite history in its favor like liberal academicians. That they suppress dissenting opinions and abuse their power on those who dare to think in "politically incorect" ways robs society of the people it needs most. Thirty years of this is too long. It's time to put a few of these vicious creatures in a museum for posterity and the rest need to be retrained for Starbucks duty.

"I'll have a double mocha and hold the socialist propaganda." Works for me.

[TaxRelief]

The Sociology Dept link you put up is working now.

http://it.stlawu.edu/~sociology/