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I have noticed that a few students (not many, but some) are starting to speak up against the very liberal ideas that they are forced to listen to everyday. I hope that this becomes more and more frequent. They need their own advocate group. Something like the ACLU or the NAACP.

I went to an overwhelmingly Liberal university in the late 80s and early 90s. But even so, free and passionate discussion both in class and out was encouraged. The most Liberal professors on campus graded based on a students ability to back their arguments ... not on what those arguments actually were. I aced a film class taught by a very proud Communist (he showed us his CPUSA card the first day of class) whose father had allegedly been blacklisted in the 1950s, based largely on a term paper where I defended McCarthy and HUAC.

PC showed up on my campus my Junior year. Visiting professor came in from another university, and failed me on my first assignment because I used the masculine in the generic. Big red "SEXIST"s were written all over my paper. I took the matter to the Dean, since the University's own grammar/language guide (St. Martin's Handbook) specifically said that generic use of the masculine was acceptable. He told be to chill out and deal.

Later on in the semester we had a class discussion on slavery. A Jewish girl in the class spoke up that since she'd lost family in the Holocaust she could sympathize with Blacks over slavery. The professor (who was white), went absolutely, raving berserk ... yelling at the student that "the Holocaust was NOTHING compared to slavery".

I should mention at this point a few important things:

* The school was 30-35% Jewish.

* The Jewish population has the lowest % of financial aid recipients of any demographic group.

* Jewish alumni were the second largest set of donors to the university.

* Surveys of alumni donors showed that the single biggest recipient of alumni donations to organizations other than the University was AIPAC.

Our campus Hillel and B'nai B'rith went straight to the university President and had a VERY frank discussion of the situation with him. The Professor's contract was not extended beyond her first year.