A Chill in the Classroom (Liberal professors harass conservatives)

Opinion Journal ^ | Dec 3, 2004 | editorial

[The Raven]

The ACTA survey was conducted this fall by the Center for Survey Research & Analysis at the University of Connecticut, among students at 50 top U.S. universities and colleges. It sought to ascertain the perceived levels of classroom politicization and of intellectual intolerance among faculty members. The results were striking.

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My teacher came into class the day after the election proclaiming, 'That's it. This is the death of America.' The rest of the class was eager to agree, and twenty minutes of Bush-bashing ensued. At one point, one student asked our teacher whether she should be so vocal, lest any students be conservatives. She then asked us whether any of us were Republicans. Naturally, no one volunteered that information, whereupon our teacher turned to the inquisitive student and said, 'See? No one in here would be stupid enough to vote for Bush.' "

[maestro]

A 'Chill' in the American/Canadian Classroom (Evil Nero's Liberal professors harass Godly conservatives)

/sarcasm

[MikefromOhio]

I would have challenged that teacher head up

[Loyal Buckeye]

P.E.S.T. goes wild.

[xtinct]

Devin Brady (Daily Free Press - Independent Student News at Boston University) Last week, he reported that there is a correct way to use the word 'God' in the classroom.

(The professor can bait you at will.)

His professor asked the students to raise their hands if they believed in God.

Three-forths of his class raised their hands. After an uncomfortable interaction session with the professor, Devin innocently asked, 'Do you think we're dummies because we believe in God.' His professor didn't answer.

Devin vows not to discuss religion or politics in the classroom ever again.

[dawn53]

My kid has had one real Bush supporter as a professor, his Spanish prof who's a Cuban immigrant. He lectured the class on the virtue of Bush.

Most of his profs were anti-Bush, but when they took straw polls in several of his classes before the election, most classes came out with a near tie in a Bush/Kerry choice.

He has to take American Govt next term. He uses http://www.ratemyprofessors.com to check out all the profs that teach a particular class for the next term. Fortunately, through one student's comments on that site, he found a Republican prof, LOL.

The student's comment that alerted him of this was "This guy teaches American government from the proper perspective...the Republican perspective."

He was really dreading having to take Am Govt from a liberal, and now it looks like he won't have to!

[Lindykim]

What we need are some Conservatives who are not only courageous, but who have a "Dirty Harry" attitude. This would be the sort of person who would stand up, look the teacher up and down in a contemptuous, intimidating manner that clearly says "what a worm", and then would say...... "I am {a Conservative} and I voted for Bush" {body language says.....What of it worm ??}.

[Jonx6]

"...A recent informal survey at Yale, where students answered questions about academic freedom posed by the Yale Free Press, the conservative/libertarian student paper, also deserves attention. Although the entire first run of its November issue containing the study was stolen on campus, it can be downloaded at www.yale.edu/yfp..."

Sounds about right for the leftist.

[anniegetyourgun]

The most Marxist and far-left college instructor I ever had was a journalism prof - and that was in the 70's......

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The only way to change this is to remove funding for major universities preaching this hatred for traditional American culture and values. Throw these commie professors into the unemployment lines if they cannot allow fairness in the college classroom.

Organize a letter writing campaign to legislatures with respect to publicly funded universities.

[Recon Dad]

Fear not America based on personal experience the libs do control the schools, but students are only under their control for a few years. Then you escape Neverland for the real world and you wake up fast. If the threat of liberal mind control was as serious as we think our public schools would be a lot better then they are. That tells you that those who teach for the most part are the one's that could not make it or face the real world. Put it in perspective, if they were effective Kerry would be President, etc.
"Those who can do, those who can't teach."
You go to college listen to the crap for a few years and it goes in one ear and out the other. Laugh at them.

[Recon Dad]

I must have been in your class.

[DirtyHarryY2K]

"What we need are some Conservatives who are not only courageous, but who have a "Dirty Harry" attitude. This would be the sort of person who would stand up, look the teacher up and down in a contemptuous, intimidating manner that clearly says "what a worm", and then would say...... "I am {a Conservative} and I voted for Bush" {body language says.....What of it worm ??}."

That's what I been saying. < G >

[marty60]

Some students undoubtedly find such banter fun. But for others it can be chilling. And just as teachers' freedom of speech must be protected, so must students' freedom to learn, if it is threatened. After all, as ACTA's Anne Neal points out, "The inability to benefit from a robust and free exchange of ideas--intellectual harassment if you will--goes to the very heart of the academic enterprise."

And just think, If the parents aren't footing the full bill for this education, your tax $$ are. Warms the heart doesn't it, we are paying for the commies to indoctrinate our children.

[anniegetyourgun]

And we wonder why today's so-called journalists are Leftist to the tune of about 90%......

[camle]

this "harrassed" conservative can happily report that whilst i, and like minded fellow students, did experience persecution (including grade persecution), we gave at least as good as we got.

there's one RPI teacher who needed a new venue after we got through with her. Used to call her "Hillary junior"

[Rocko]

Although the entire first run of its November issue containing the study was stolen on campus, it can be downloaded at www.yale.edu/yfp.

Now, who would steal the entire first run of a conservative/libertarian newspaper from a university campus? / sarcasm

[The Raven]

>>And we wonder why today's so-called journalists are Leftist to the tune of about 90%......

The hand-wringers seems to gravitate to journalism, teaching and the arts. Viewing the world from their group-think tinted glasses is a total shock. They simply cannot understand it.

[Heatseeker]

And just think, If the parents aren't footing the full bill for this education, your tax $$ are. Warms the heart doesn't it, we are paying for the commies to indoctrinate our children.

I suspect that, just as years of increasingly blatant left-biased news led to the birth of conservative talk radio, Internet communication and Fox News, so the current atmosphere of leftist radicalization by university faculties will engender a reaction.

Even if the taxpayers must continue to pay for it, many parents, I think, will begin to wise up to the fact that they are flushing tens of thousands of their hard-earned dollars down the educational crapper by sending Junior to a supposedly "good" school which is in fact nothing but a Stalinist reeducation camp.

Then there will be a rush towards schools where the administration makes sure the faculty stays apolitical in the classroom (whatever their personal opinions).

[ladiesview61]

I realize teachers can be liberal jerks, but I just find it hard to beleive this. I doubt the teacher said "no one would be stupid enough to vote for Bush" to a bunch of students. come on.