Posted on 04/06/2013 2:44:25 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist
This is really a terrific article. Thanks.
Bump
Hopefully copies will be given to all parents and alumni, and this president will soon be working as a towel boy in a ‘men’s’ bathhouse.
This is why I recommend that youngsters check out Grove City or Hillsdale.
Get a real education without the garbage.
Incredible yet unsurprising.
Bowdoin College, home of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, hero of the little tussle at Gettysburg in July 1863, later governor of Maine.
I doubt Chamberlain would like things at Bowdoin today.
There was a day when the press were literate products of the streets. They started at the Fish Market or Police Headquarters, or on the Sports Desk and learned their trade from real life. No more, they are all products of this environment and the Journalism Schools take great care to weed out any who disagree with their political perspective. So too, the search committees who interview and hire faculty and tenure committee who make the critical decisions on Jobs for Life. All of these are completely in the hands of the Radical Left, not only in private colleges, but in public universities as well. They are in charge of our future and it does not bode well.
Summary: when it comes to political orientation, liberal academia is about as diverse as Henry Ford’s original color choice.
Worse. Even a private conversation expressing reservations about academia’s insulated liberal orthodoxy is fodder for public ridicule. Typical liberal M.O.
Conservatives need to do more of this. The liberals haven’t stolen the country from us, we’ve given it away. It’s fine and dandy to live an exemplary life [oddly enough, most liberals live good, “conservative” lives, too]; we must regain influence in the institutions our society created: not just government, but the media, the law, and education.
Excellent. Most colleges now are too busy teaching this liberal claptrap so that their graduates are ill prepared to function in the real world where their performance matters more than their sensibilities.
"Henry C.W. Laurence, a Bowdoin professor of government, in 2004 ... added that the suggestion that liberal professors cannot fairly reflect conservative views in classroom discussions is 'intellectually bankrupt, professionally insulting and, fortunately, wildly inaccurate.'
"Perhaps so. But he'd have a stronger case if, for example, his colleague Marc Hetherington hadn't written the same year in Bowdoin's newspaper that liberal professors outnumber conservatives because conservatives don't 'place the same emphasis on the accumulation of knowledge that liberals do.'"
I went to a small liberal arts college and we were having a debate over some topic or another. Not a group of students hashing out an issue, a real, serious debate with a moderator and a chosen panel and all that.
At question time, one of the audience asked, "Why do people believe {the conservative position}? I mean, don't they have people who are educated?"
The moderator of the debate spoke up. "Yes, they do have people with advanced degrees, but they aren't truly scholarly."
Think about that. The moderator. His job is to ensure that all sides get a fair hearing in the debate, and that's what he said about one position over another.
This was 1983 or so. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
This article should be completely read. In it the businessman is the truth teller who is hit up for donations. While the liberal college president is lying about how his university is run.
The businessman pays for a study and and it shows how stridently liberal/left Bowdoin is. Bowdoin tries to ignore it because they were caught lying
I had a liberal history professor...a former tennis pro who loved to tell us ahout his days at the Australian Open with Arthur Ashe.
We had to discuss something from the paper each day...one day he brought up gun control.
I said some innocuous statement affirming the second ammendment applying to individuals and we had a back and forth where I defended my position with facts and court rulings.
He...at one point...called me (only half jokingly) a crazy NRA gun nut.
I replied...”if you think I’m so crazy, don’t you think you shouk d be nicer to me?”
He laughed and respected me for my retort.
That was 1992..I can’t imagine how poorly that comment would be received in todays college culture.
I’m in Brunswick about twice a month
The conversations in the coffee shops and eateries is truly amazing.
Ultimately, it is parents who must vet the colleges they send their children to.
Sending a kid to Bowdoin is nothing less than child abuse, not to mention a disgraceful waste of money.
May I recommend Richard's German Cuisine? Excellent food.
He was considered to be a progressive in education, and Paul Krugman loves him. Chamberlain was not all he was cracked up to be.
Chamberlain would probably attack Bowdoin College today as “enemy territory”. He was a patriot.
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