>>>>Its not the lack of resources, but the tactics used and ideas professed that cause student apathy toward progressive activism.
As a counterpoint, what should conservatives now do to take advantage of this situation?
To: .cnI redruM
Our enemy is destroying himself. Don't help him.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
2 posted on
07/18/2005 5:36:01 AM PDT by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
To: .cnI redruM
I still think the academy is lost. I see no way to expose it to true competition, due to the presence of so much government money that virtually eliminates cost competition.
People want to blame tenure. That's dumb. I can do without tenure, but that isn't what's causing the drift. As Richard Vetter shows in "Going Broke by Degree," the problem is that 60% or MORE of college students now are on some sort of "aid" which is really just redistribution of the entire pool of money. So students pay (in reality) $17,000, get "rebates" or aid of $7-10,000, and think they are getting a deal, when in reality the education only COSTS $7,000, and if you got rid of all the administrative departments that are engaged in a) recruitment and b) redistribution, you'd HAVE a college ed. for $7,000-10,000, i.e., one that is affordable to almost any students.
3 posted on
07/18/2005 5:37:52 AM PDT by
LS
(CNN is the Amtrak of news)
To: .cnI redruM
Moderator and former Clinton White House Press Secretary Dee Dee Myers asked a panel to define progressive valuesThe lefts values are whatever their internal polling TELLS them they should be.
4 posted on
07/18/2005 5:41:40 AM PDT by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it.)
To: .cnI redruM
Start referring to the university-employed leftists as the "leftwing establishment" and the lefty students as the mind-numbed stooges of the leftwing establishment.
5 posted on
07/18/2005 5:43:03 AM PDT by
Kenton
("Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid" - Damon Runyon)
To: .cnI redruM
My son will be a college freshman this fall, majoring in theater. At orientation, the first club he sought out and joined was the Young Republicans.
8 posted on
07/18/2005 5:49:02 AM PDT by
Buck W.
(Yesterday's Intelligentsia are today's Irrelevantsia.)
To: .cnI redruM
Students should record every word spoken by every professor they encounter in person or in lecture.
11 posted on
07/18/2005 5:53:44 AM PDT by
PGalt
To: .cnI redruM
Universities are the zoos where we keep our liberals. It's for their own good; most of them can't survive in the wild.
As for this: Cain said, am I my brothers keeper? You bet your ass, God said.
I gather he's not using the King James version?
To: .cnI redruM
Coservatives should laugh loud, long and publicly.
If one really thinks about what has been happening on our nations campuses for 37 years, one knows that our halls of liberal academe asre nothing if not "utopian." The world they year forn does not exist and never will.
These academics are not teaching learners. They are teaching "YEARNERS". They do such a good job of indoctriantion that our nations culture wars are too energetic, and may one day lead to our nations second civil war.
16 posted on
07/18/2005 6:06:13 AM PDT by
Candor7
(Into Liberal Flatulence Goes the Hope of the West)
To: .cnI redruM
The left is actually starting to realize that shrill juvenile chants and sophomoric behavior don't win in the long run. If they actually learn to be civilized, they might find a more receptive broader audience. Let's hope Begala and company fail in their efforts to spread the Democrat talking points on campus.
To: .cnI redruM
Campuses need more leaders like Harvard's Larry Summers. He has gone out on a limb challenging various far-left precepts: women in the sciences, black scholarship and Israel divesture. For taking these stands, the faculty voted no confidence. But Summers is still president.
Conservatives need to be encouraged to run for their college's board of trustees. The board doesn't call all the shots, but it can foster leadership that promotes true academic freedom.
25 posted on
07/18/2005 6:23:40 AM PDT by
cloud8
To: .cnI redruM
The left already holds the media, academia, and most of the cultural institutions in the Western world. They are the establishment. I think many young people are intelligent enough to realise if they become "activists", they're not "fighting against the machine", they're becoming its court jesters.
The Right are the true rebels. To demand independence rather than catering to dependence is the truly revolutionary ideal.
Regards, Ivan
26 posted on
07/18/2005 6:24:02 AM PDT by
MadIvan
(You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
To: .cnI redruM
"They are not our base the white married couples who moved away from the cities to get away from minorities and smog." Sorry to be the one to break it to this guy, but there's a lot of minorities, married and otherwise, moving away from the cities to get away from minorities too.
29 posted on
07/18/2005 6:32:56 AM PDT by
libs_kma
(USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
To: .cnI redruM
"As for this: Cain said, am I my brothers keeper? You bet your ass, God said.
What a dope! These goons are waking up now to the "Christian card", but they haven't an idea whatsoever what this means...
To: .cnI redruM
The names of these Goebelites of the 'Hate-the-United States' crowd should be identified over and over again. Paint them with the brush that they deserve!
To: .cnI redruM
We could bring an end to liberalism/socialism on college campus's just by making it a required credit to visit Cuba, and I don't mean the tourist trap part of the island I mean where and how the average Cuban lives.
32 posted on
07/18/2005 6:46:23 AM PDT by
TheForceOfOne
(My tagline snapped the last time the MSM blew smoke up my ass. Now its gone forever.)
To: .cnI redruM
In my experience the weirdest aspect of the whole faculty-bias problem is the lengths to which many of my colleagues go to deny it. I think that a sort of groupthink mentality takes hold. If you hear your colleagues constantly reinforcing your views, you for natural cognitive reasons overestimate how widely held they are in the population at large. I have some documentation of and speculation on the reasons for the leftist domination of academia below.
Why Does the Academy Tilt Left?
45 posted on
07/18/2005 9:01:02 AM PDT by
untenured
(http://futureuncertain.blogspot.com)
To: .cnI redruM
"At universities, conservatives are no stranger to being called "Nazis." Thomas Frank decided to keep that spirit alive. According to him, They [Republicans] didnt have any problem with Hitler, other than the fact that they thought he rocked.
Most conservatives are well enough educated to know that Hitler was a poster boy for Leftism:
1. Anti-Religion
2. Rabid anti-Christian
3. Anti-smoking
4. Pro-health and exercise for the good of the state.
5. SOCIALIST
6. Anti private business
7. Anti personal profit
8. Crusher of civil liberties
9. Pro-abortion
10. Pro-euthanasia for the good of the state
Does that sound more like today's Republican or the Howard Dean/ Hillary Clinton arm of the Democrat party?
47 posted on
07/18/2005 9:20:11 AM PDT by
Ghost of Philip Marlowe
(Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
To: .cnI redruM
As a counterpoint, what should conservatives now do to take advantage of this situation?I can think of at least two options:
- snicker
- laugh openly
49 posted on
07/18/2005 9:30:35 AM PDT by
Stultis
To: .cnI redruM
Another panelist, Thomas Frank, the author of Whats the Matter with Kansas?, said progressive values are freedom plus groceries. "Freiheit und Brot".
The slogan's been used before.
52 posted on
07/18/2005 10:51:28 AM PDT by
Campion
(Truth is not determined by a majority vote -- Pope Benedict XVI)
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