[rogers21774]

Patriotism, as well as most intelligent, independent thought.

[wideawake]

There is a simpler answer. While it's true that their leftist professors give them a pseudo-intellectual list of high-sounding excuses for hating their country, this is just a cover.

These college students are mollycoddled fairies, physical cowards who are deathly afraid of being drafted.

Their antiwar rhetoric is motivated by a deeply selfish and puerile worldview - they believe the world exists to entertain and amuse them and that pain or privation of any kind is immoral.

[FITZ]

I think we need to cut off taxpayer aid to any of these students, let them get jobs and work their way through college, they have far too much time on their hands.

[StAthanasiustheGreat]

For the most part yes. At Northwestern, the PEace Protesters take over alot of the vigils and are everywhere. Those who support military action are quieter and not recognized as often. We have had about ten peace rallies and not one rally to rally behind our troops. WHich gives me an idea, catch y'all later.

[Illbay]

Is Patriotism Dead on Today's College Campuses?

To me this is a sophomoric question. The fact is that in comparison to yesteryear, patriotism is UP on college campi.

You should have seen things back during and at the close of the Vietnam War. I remember in 1976, the USMC came and recruited on our small college campus in Wisconsin. Several people in my dorm, mostly (ironically) Jewish kids who argued all the time that Israel had the right to kill all Arabs within its borders to "defend itself," decided they needed to protest the Marine Corps presence.

So they picketed, and to keep things "peaceful" the college administration threw the Marines off the campus. The students congratulated themselves on taking a stand against "imperialism."

I think you'll find a HUGE contrast today, where military recruiters aren't routinely picketed, and most college students love and appreciate this country.

I think we are playing into the hands of the "peaceniks" when we attribute to them far more strength and influence than they actually have.

[lavaroise]

Ask a college student whether liberty of others is more important than his life and future carreer, and all patriotism in America will dry out like we always had been communists ... which we are. Why do you think global businesses flirt with communists lately? Why do you think they'd rather pay them than face them? Because they are the same people who would not sacrifice their college studies to fight in Vietnam.

Give me liberty or give me death is too hard of a burden to bear for those idiots.

[Tacis]

Don't be too critical. Patriotism on college campuses may appear to be dead but that is only because college professors have been confused ever since the end of the Soviet Union and have been unable to identify a successor to work for. Once the commies stopped giving most of them instructions, they began to preach that true anti-Americanism would be served by all sorts of means, faux-peace, saving animals, anti-capitalism, unionism, advancing fairies, ebonics, shifting power to those the professors designate, and so on. This confusion/difusion on the part of professors has made it appear that students are no longer loyal to the Soviet Union, but, they are working hard to loyalty object that will ceratinly undermine the US way of life equally as well.

[LurkedLongEnough]

Yes, it is a sad, sorry situation. Get rid of tenure and deport communist/socialist idealists.
I've been emailing individual students whose names have come up as "peace protesters" in the news. From Connecticut:

"Students walk out of classes in protest of bombing"
October 9, 2001

MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (AP) _ About 150 students walked out of classes at Wesleyan University Monday to protest the American and British bombing in Afghanistan.

Demonstrators said a violent response to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks will only provoke more violence. They urged government leaders to develop a peaceful solution.

``We're trying to critically think about ways in which we could affect a movement of peace,'' Wesleyan senior Ritu Sen told WVIT-TV.

Last month, students formed a coalition against violent retaliation. Other students said they supported bombing Taliban targets in Afghanistan, while some said they had mixed feelings.

``I'm frustrated because I'm not sure what our other options are,'' said Nicole Wellington, a senior at the university. ``A lot of people on campus here are saying they don't support the war, but they're not proposing any other options besides peace.''

The university has scheduled several teach-ins _ lectures, panel discussions and question-and-answer sessions designed to educate the community about terrorist attacks and America's response.

[concerned about politics]

The anti-war protestors of the 1960s and 1970s are now the tenured professors at America's colleges and universities. They have traded their placards and sit-ins for chalkboards and classrooms. More than 70 professors at Berkeley, along with 100 other academics, signed on to a New York Times ad calling military action "unacceptable."

These people went to school.
They never came out.
They're still there !!!!!
They don't seem to realize there's a whole world outside those four walls, and the world is not flat.
They need an update.

[rdf]

The article is a bit one sided, but there is much truth in it. And part of the blame lies with a decades long conservative and GOP indifference to educational policy.

We treat academia as enemy teritory, we fund it, and we rarely take a stance against its follies and excesses. [Lynne Cheney is a shining exception here.]

Now the chickens are coming home to roost.

Richard F.

[boycott]

The first step would be to quit taking so many forgeiners.

[Ceebass]

Said Professor Henry, "The United States policies toward the region, especially over the past 10 years [have] engendered serious grievances

Professor Henry is a peddler of drivel whose objectivity is overwhelmed by his hatred of America, because it's cool ya know!

Other than liberating Kuwait, our policies in the region have been mostly benign. We even stood by and watched as our friend the Shah of Iran was deposed by the same muslim terrorists that we are fighting now. (This one event is the orgin of all our current problems IMO) The sum of our assistance to the region is equal to, or greater than what we give to Israel.

The reason why we are so despised by the muslim rabble is because their leaders, while happy to accept our generosity, use us a scapegoat for their problems. The rabble is brainwashed into believing that the US is the reason for their wretchedness instead of their self-serving leaders and religious slavery.

[TRY ONE]

"Is Patriotism Dead on Today's College Campuses?"

Answer: NO!

Reason: It was never alive.....It was aborted long before Roe met Wade!

[big bad easter bunny]

Wait until they get their first anthrax scare, those peace signs will turn to flags over night when they need the US.

[Carlucci]

I was on the Campus of Harvard on September 21. There was a huge banner that read:

"How do you spell State Sponsored Terrorism? Made in U.S.A."

On the banner, hundreds of students had written anti-U.S. sentiments, like "The U.S. does far worse" and more.

It really sickened me to see that.

[muleskinner]

Yesterday, there was a "Peace Rally" at the University of California, Berkeley Campus. Normally ground zero for anti-American spewage of all kinds, going back to Mario Savio and the so called "Free-Speech" movement of the early '60's.

Well, lo and behold, look who shows up but a bunch of patriotic students, chanting "USA, USA", defending our military actions, when they could get to the microphone and giving the "whirled peas" crowd the what for.

If this happened in Berkeley, for Chris sake, the rest of the country should be in good hands.

[SMASH IMPERIALIST LIBERALISM!!]

"What if they gave a war and nobody came? Then the war will come to you! Those who hear the trumpets of battle and do not heed them should beware: for he who does not share in the battle will surely share in the defeat."

Berthold Brecht (German playwright and poet, and original author of the first sentence of this quote)

[Paul Atreides]

Hmmmm.....92% of those polled approve of the action taken, 5% disapprove. I say round up those college professors and the kids and bring back the old carnival freakshows. They can be displayed as is.

[Paul Atreides]

Said one student in the Indiana State Student, "[America's] economic system has hurt a lot of people."

Yet the moron won't pack his bags and leave the country. That really shows the thinking of those people.

[johniegrad]

I will be having an interesting weekend. I'm returning to my small liberal arts college for homecoming (a yearly pilgrimage). My screename derives from my school and I am very firmly attached. It is a Catholic men's school and has tended toward the more liberal side of Catholicism. Thomas Burnett, Jr. is also a "johniegrad" and was one of the passengers responsible for thwarting the terrorist takeover of United Flight 93. I received a nice letter from the President of the university, a monk, talking about graduates who had either died or lost loved ones in the attack on the Twin Towers. There was none of the pacifist, America-blaming, give-peace-a-chance rhetoric that I have heard about at numerous college campuses around the nation. I was almost afraid to open the letter fearing disappointment in my community of Benedictine monks but they still continue to support ideals that I can identify with. I sure hope I don't get disappointed this weekend.