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Incubating conservatives on campus
The Union Leader ^ | November 21, 2004 | BERNADETTE MALONE

Posted on 11/21/2004 1:59:55 AM PST by bikertrash2

THREE WEEKS after the election, liberals are still scratching their heads, wondering where all these George W. Bush supporters came from. The nation surely couldn’t be this conservative, they gasp. I’ve got bad news for liberals: There are incubators of conservatism not only in the heartland and in the Bible Belt, but in elite blue-state universities, the very institutions Lefties have dominated since they signed up for Ph.Ds to dodge the draft in the 1960s.

I am delighted to report that on college campuses on both coasts (and of course in “flyover country”), there are student-run independent newspapers that are battling the America-hating political scientists, Marxist economics professors, deconstructionist English departments, feminazis, pot-smoking philosophers, Birkenstocked war protestors, and the whole migraine headache that is the Campus Left. These conservative student newspapers are veritable hatcheries for the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that helped get Bush reelected. Send them more money!

Mega celebrities such as Ann Coulter (who began her writing career at the Cornell Review) and intellectual luminaries such as Dinesh D’Souza (former editor of the Dartmouth Review) are among those who galvanize the right these days. Practically all the writers at National Review, and a few from The Weekly Standard, started as conservative writers on college campuses. Fox News, The Wall Street Journal, and other fair and balanced news institutions employ former student editors of conservative newspapers.

I myself was hatched in one of these conservative newspapers, the Binghamton Review. By Thanksgiving of my freshman year, I couldn’t stomach the political correctness that poisoned the public college in upstate New York that I had chosen. I hung up my guitar and motorcycle jacket, put down the hackey sack, and picked up the pen.

If it hadn’t been for the Collegiate Network, a national organization that reached out to conservative students with grants and advice, there might not have been a Binghamton Review to keep me sane in college. The CN helped fund the production of most of these conservative newspapers, offered training seminars to student editors, and monitored — but never censored — the content of the publications. It introduced the conservative kids at Binghamton to the conservative kids at Dartmouth to the conservative kids at University of Michigan, and so on. We group-hugged, shared war stories, and strategized. (Those of us over 21 might have enjoyed one or two hops beverages during the process.)

My real college education took place in the conservative student newspaper office, and my benefactor was, without a doubt, the CN, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a big dinner in Washington on Dec. 2. I can’t wait to see all my old friends again, and make some new ones.

Today the Collegiate Network supports 86 student newspapers across the country, wonderful little hatcheries of right-thinking college students, who in their own unique way contributed to the magnificent defeat of liberalism in this year’s election.

Even in New England, at colleges with hopelessly liberal reputations, these bastions of sanity battle away. Among them are the Boston College Observer, Crossroads (also Boston College), the Sam Adams Review (Boston University), the Harvard Salient, the Fenwick Review (Holy Cross), the Primary Source (Tufts), the Concord Bridge (Brandeis), the Bowdoin Patriot, and the Brown Spectator.

If you’re home from college for Thanksgiving and wondering how you can bear to go back to a place that blames 9/11 on imperialistic U.S. foreign policy, poverty on “tax cuts for the rich,” and violence on “prejudice, ignorance, and economic injustice” take heart. Join the conservative student newspaper on your campus. If there’s not one already, contact the Collegiate Network (www.isi.org/cn) and ask them to help you start one.

Remember, reading is fun, but writing is more fun. And writing stuff that annoys the humorless Campus Left is the most fun of all.


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: academia; collegiatenetwork; conservatism; georgewbush; highereducation; lefties; liberals; newspapers
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1 posted on 11/21/2004 1:59:55 AM PST by bikertrash2
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To: bikertrash2

Conservatives on campus? The local college town here is filled with hard-core lefties.


2 posted on 11/21/2004 2:07:46 AM PST by market liberal
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To: bikertrash2

The Cornell Review is a very respectable enterprise. Now it's being attacked from the right by the Cornell American. I tend to side with the Review, as the American seems almost "nut-jobish" in its proselytizing.


3 posted on 11/21/2004 2:10:21 AM PST by cwd26
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To: cwd26

I'm a student at Cornell, btw.


4 posted on 11/21/2004 2:10:35 AM PST by cwd26
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To: cwd26

Can you elaborate on "nut-jobish"?


5 posted on 11/21/2004 2:12:24 AM PST by market liberal
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To: bikertrash2

Good article!

Good to hear about "The Fenwick Review". My dad was from Worcester and went to Holy Cross. He was always VERY conservative, and VERY compassionate. He was a compassionate conservative before our beloved W was even born.

How I wish both my parents could have lived to vote for Bush. My dad especially would have loved him. But I am glad they were spared seeing 9/11 happen, esp. my mom, her employer was one of the original tenants in the WTC.


6 posted on 11/21/2004 2:17:35 AM PST by jocon307 (Jihad is world wide. Jihad is serious business. We ignore global jihad at our peril.)
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To: bikertrash2

The whole point of the habenero is it's heat. They should be increasing the heat, or crossing it with wasabi or something.


7 posted on 11/21/2004 2:36:43 AM PST by nickcarraway
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To: bikertrash2

Here's my theory. Middle aged conservatives are about to send to the voting booth a whole new generation of conservative voters.

Many of my conservative friends have large families. Personally, I have an "only", but many of our friends have 4-6 children.

These kids are teenagers now, and all lean conservative.

Liberals tend to have smaller families, or no families.

So in the next generation, as far as the 18-20something demographic, I'd expect to see an increase in the growth of conservatives over liberals.


8 posted on 11/21/2004 2:55:44 AM PST by dawn53
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To: bikertrash2

Gee, ya think our young people are sick and tired of selfish lefty living and decided it's time to buckle down and live a good life?

The ultimate selfish lefty expression: divorce ("Oh, kids, it's not about YOU, it's about US!)


9 posted on 11/21/2004 4:09:53 AM PST by AmericanChef
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To: Paridel

ping


10 posted on 11/21/2004 5:38:21 AM PST by June Cleaver (in here, Ward . . .)
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To: nickcarraway

$5 says you have more than one FR window open. :D


11 posted on 11/21/2004 5:42:41 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: bikertrash2

Binghamton Review Bump!


12 posted on 11/21/2004 6:01:12 AM PST by jjlkovacs
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To: dawn53

Yes, I am strongly anti-abortion except for leftists, who have few children and even fewer "families". I am for retroactive abortion of leftists, too.

We might as well let the heathen off themselves if they want to. Read the Old Testament and you will find how child sacrifice has always been condemned, but used to advantage in taking over the promised land.


13 posted on 11/21/2004 7:01:19 AM PST by shubi (Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom,must undergo the fatigues of supporting it.)
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To: cwd26

Is this what you would call "nut-jobish"? It seem reasonable to me.

Cornell's Tribute to the Late Jim Crow
Self-segregating minorities turn back the clock on racial progress


By Nick Kavanagh



Jim Crow is alive and well. However, he thrives not in the Deep South where you might expect, but hidden behind the ivy-covered walls of Cornell University’s race based program houses: Ujamaa Residential College, the unpronounceable Akwe:kon, and the Latino Living Center (LLC). Ujamaa was built to house Cornell’s black students, Akwe:kon serves as the university’s American Indian dormitory, and the LLC houses Cornell’s Latino population.

Now, I know what you’re probably asking yourself; what kind of cross-burning white-robed racists imposed these quasi-plantation style living arrangements? Well, as surprising as it may seem, it was Cornell’s own minority students who fought for the establishment of these dormitories.

The university’s first racial program house was erected in 1972 as a result of the 1969 armed takeover of Cornell’s student union building by nearly a hundred black nationalists. These black militants, most of whom were members of the Afro-American Society (later renamed the Black Liberation Front), usurped control of the building with violent force, using knives and baseball bats to expel university staff and students.

After a few feeble attempts by university officials to pacify the situation, campus police were ordered to stand down. Not long after, the university surrendered to the demands of these insurgents and subsequently set the stage for the establishment of the Ujaama Residential College. This, of course, began Cornell’s more than thirty-year-long tradition of treating violent dissidents with the most appropriate of consequences: giving in to their demands.

This event marked a dark chapter in Cornell’s history because it established the precedent that violence is an acceptable means for negotiating grievances. This historical lesson was learned well by Latino students who, in 1993, savagely assaulted police officers and forcefully took control of Day Hall to obtain their own living facility. By refusing to stand up to these minorities, the university paved the way for the current state of de facto segregation on Cornell’s campus.

This university loves to pride itself on its racial and ethnic diversity, proudly proclaiming Cornell to be the most diverse college within the Ivy League. But speaking as a student of this institution, I can assure you that that is not the case. Most minority students only associate with their fellow minorities, leaving the campus in a state that would make “Bull” Conner smile.

Looking back at my freshman year, I remember being closest to those friends who lived in my dorm hall. It’s not that I disliked those students who lived outside of the 5-6 side of Clara Dickson, but the people who lived near me were my first friends and the ones with which I spent the most time.

Therefore, by allowing students of a particular race to self-segregate, the university is assuring that those students will spend most of their time with people of their same race. This is why the dining halls are just as segregated as the dormitories.

Another problem with these program houses is that they serve as indoctrination centers where impressionable students are brainwashed into believing that mainstream America is racist and that they have little hope of succeeding in it. These program houses preach anti-Western sentiments and serve as a pulpit for a slew of disgruntled professors—most of whom are from the Africana Studies Department—who aim to recruit the next generation of Black Panthers. In addition, their demagogic indictments heighten racial tensions and inflame the already horrific racial problem on campus.

It is time for Cornell University to put an end to these Jim Crow era dormitories and live up to its promise of a racially diverse campus. However, the university has done very little to this end.

Campus conservatives have borne the brunt of this battle, slowly gaining ground against an overwhelming opposition. They have achieved this through newspaper articles, campus debates, and sheer force of will.

However, the radical left has done all they can to silence conservatives, even going so far as to participate in organized Nazi-style newspaper burnings. During campus debates where conservatives go to legitimately evince their positions, they are often attacked by militant leftists whose idea of rational discourse involves screaming “racist” at anyone who disagrees with their anachronistic vision of racial harmony.

In the end, if you cut through all their left-wing rhetoric about diversity and equality at Cornell, you’ll find it’s all a farce. A majority of Cornell’s minority students are simply demanding “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever.” These students have turned back the clock on the progress of their ancestors by demanding separate living facilities.

I guess the only question remaining is why did they stop with the dorms? There are plenty of bathrooms and drinking fountains left to go.


Nick Kavanagh is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences and the managing editor of The Cornell American. He can be reached at nsk23@cornell.edu.

http://www.cornellamerican.com/October%2525202004--program%20houses.html


14 posted on 11/21/2004 7:16:00 AM PST by Max Combined (Clinton is "the notorious Oval Office onanist ")
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To: bikertrash2

Here is an article about the Home School Legal Defense Association and how they involve themselves in conservative politics. It's part of a series of reports on the dangers of homeschooling.

Apparently, this organization has some politicians running scared:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/local/10221547.htm


15 posted on 11/21/2004 7:22:11 AM PST by ladylib ("Marc Tucker Letter to Hillary Clinton" says it all.)
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To: Max Combined
I am convinced that there is only one cure for the left-wing universities--and it may come sooner than many of us imagine.

They need to be abolished.

People will be able to achieve all the positive results of a university education over the internet--while the unemployed kooky lefty professors can sit on street corners carrying signs that say they will work for food.
16 posted on 11/21/2004 7:30:52 AM PST by cgbg
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To: bikertrash2
[ It introduced the conservative kids at Binghamton to the conservative kids at Dartmouth to the conservative kids at University of Michigan, and so on. We group-hugged, shared war stories, and strategized. (Those of us over 21 might have enjoyed one or two hops beverages during the process.) ]

LoL... good find.. thanks..

17 posted on 11/21/2004 7:51:11 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to included some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Constantine XIII

We should take a poll.

"What is the average # of FR windows open at one time on your computer?"

: )

I would have to be in the 4-6 category.


18 posted on 11/21/2004 8:01:05 AM PST by Politicalmom ( Since Bush was selected in 2000, shouldn't he be able to run again in 2008?)
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To: market liberal; bikertrash2
I have a friend, a retired NY City police detective, who at age 45 is a college student majoring in political science at at CUNY, the CoomieScum University of NY.

He regularly disagrees in class (politely, respectfully, and armed to the teeth with facts). He gets endless grief from the professors and butt-kissing big mouth professor's little favorite students.

And after class, the silent majority of other students praise my friend off the record. You see, they can't afford "Cs" or "Ds" from these anti-American professors, so they don't speak openly. Yet.

The point is that this article is 100% true.

19 posted on 11/21/2004 8:45:29 AM PST by FormerACLUmember (Free Republic is 21st Century Samizdat)
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To: market liberal

They're Pat Buchanan conservatives... Anti-war and too socially conservative for my liking.


20 posted on 11/21/2004 3:26:36 PM PST by cwd26
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