Poll: What Colleges Are the Worst?

Free Republic Network/Ed Watch ^ | Dec. 21, 2001 | IronJack

[IronJack]

In an effort to plan our first Ed Watch campaign, I am looking for colleges and universities that are the worst offenders of traditional American values. They may be havens for Leftists, Marxists, or other cultural traitors. They may sponsor curricula that promote anti-Christian values, anti-familial activities, or racial dissent. They may waste taxpayer money or advance a trivial or useless agenda. Whatever the case, they are institutions of liar learning that need to be "outed."

FReepers: Who are they?

[texgal]

Texas A&M University. Great academics, conservative values, they stress integrity, honor and duty to one's family and country. Here's a shocker - they encourage parental involvement! The corps stresses traditon and honor. There's a real sense of community on the campus. They're producing a great bunch of future leaders at the College Station campus.

[Temple Owl]

Who was the quarterback? You know that Swarthmore (aka Joseph Stalin U) got rid of its football team. The football team was the only good thing about the place.

[Helms]

As a Yankee turned Southern man,

DUKE UNIVERSTY,

is an enclave for liberal Northerners, especially Long Islanders, who like our fine weather but cannot embrace the Conservative state of North Carolina.

Well, the faculty is a who's who of tenured malcontents of the 60's and 70's whose major claim to fame has allways been as excellent "test takers" , teachers pets,and suckups to a Politically Correct agenda (hey-there is one).

Duke is at the forefront of in the insidious and subversive agenda of a political correctness which stifles free speech and human rights, binding us to things like hate crimes, deconstruction philosophies and the whole littany of programs which seep into todays American culture.

All this frrom a University built on a foundation of Tabacco.

[bert]

Harvard... Crimson is a euphemism for RED

[Spottys Spurs]

Sarah Lawrence College... A big PING!!! Oh Yeah!

[FITZ]

I think any university that wastes money on gender or race courses or especially degrees or that lowers or eliminates admission standards to be "diverse" and lowers the meaning of a degree. I've seen people with degrees who lack basic math skills.

[connectthedots]

Evergreen State, Olympia WA.

Modeled after Portland's Reed College.

[Tijeras_Slim]

UCSD had a political science school called Lumumba-Zapata.

[Don Myers]

Careful now. I suggested on one thread that we do a similar-type listing of churches that haven't gone over the deep end, and one person thought I had dire motives.

[DallasJ7]

Well, I've been doing the college research thing lately, so I think that I'll share some of my findings.

UC-Berkeley is no longer as liberal with the large increase of Asian-American students, who are definitely much more moderate than the white students. In fact, I think that they are about equal to the number of white students now. It's probably not as bad as one would think.

The worst would definitely be a liberal arts college. Oberlin would be a likely choice. You'd probably be hard pressed to find more than a handful of students there that support the current war. I've seen Swarthmore mentioned here a few times, and I definitely couldn't disagree with that. It's actually one of the top liberal arts schools in the country academically, but I just couldn't handle the liberal intolerance that would most assuredly be there.

[Freebird Forever]

Mark one more alumnus vote for UW-Madison.

Class of '96

It is a great school to be FROM.

[willyboyishere]

Interesting question, and one that I've been thinking about lately re: my college age daughter. It seems that most of the "formerly great" schools (Ivy League, MIT, Harvard, Yale, etc.) have been infected by PC idiocy, multicultural infatuation/masochism, and anti-American groupthink. All the dinky little colleges that never were formerly great now are able to join the Ivy League ranks by being like them, ironically. I'm glad my daughter went to a school for Massage Therapy soon after high school, and has a skill that pays her well. I don't know whether it makes sense for her to try for a degree at a regular school, and have to subject herself to years of the inevitable crap she'd get there. It is EXTREMELY disappointing to see what's happened to those schools, and see the morons they shelter on their faculties. ( Cornel West??? )Interestingly, take the case of Eugene D. Genovese, probably most people's pick for our greatest scholar of the Slave South and Slavery. He is a Marxist, last time I looked. Yet has always hated the New Left, and knows well the kind of groupthink that now prevails, having had firsthand experience with it in the 60s. He once urged the American Historical Association to "Put these guys down, and put them down hard!!!", sensing that the academic Left historians were trying to take over the AHA, and turn it anti-American. Genovese went from Rutgers (original site of his notorious statements about the Vietnam war in '65,) to a few Canadian Universities, I think, and has for years been at Emory University in Atlanta. He is one of the few leftists who "has the number" of his "fellow" academic leftists. From what I know, though, any school that could house Walter Williams, has my vote , and the would be Geo. Mason University.

[IronJack]

Let me be more specific in my request. I'm not just looking for schools that have a reputation as liberal hotbeds. I'm looking for things like curricula requiring students to fulfill some "diversity requirement," and then finding out that the only courses offered are advocacies for homosexuality, Black Power, Marxism, or such. I'm looking for first- (or second-)person testimony about professors who tell students that conservative papers will not be accepted in their class, or that conservative views are inherently wrong. I'm talking about faculty that teaches one or two classes as part of a work-release program from the local penitentiary! I mean, Angela Davis teaching an ETHICS course!!!????

Does that explain it a little better?

By the way, the Bottom Ten list is shaping up nicely. It looks like Antioch College and Evergreen State are competing for "the bends."

[Geezerette]

Arizona State University ... ASU, Tempe, AZ.

I hear a radio commercial by its president, Laddie Coor (??) touting their scholarship program. We are supposed to send our hard-earned money to those left-wingers!

He has the most sickening voice, too.

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[Our man in washington]

My alma mater was Haverford College. My freshman english teacher once gave an hour-long lecture on "feminist themes in Moby Dick." The day Reagan got re-elected in 1984, class consisted of her talking for ten minutes about how depressed she was about this country. She then cancelled the rest of class.

They've apparently gotten worse since then.

This discussion raises an important point. When parents send kids to these leftist schools they might be thinking "The school has a fine reputation and my child will get a good job. Maybe some of the professors are a little out there politically, but that's just one more perspective for my child to get. No harm in hearing such views."

Parents, please remember that radical leftism is not just mistaken, it's also corrupting to the soul. I became a Marxist in college thanks to the influence of professors. Many of my close friends also fell under the radical spell. We concluded that "the system" was rotten, and the normal process of growing up that one should do in college was just "selling out."

So what happened after college? One friend joined a cult. One friend of a friend committed suicide. One other attempted suicide. Most of us had serious bouts of depression and were an emotional and financial burden on our parents.

Admittedly, most of my classmates didn't take the radical ideas being expressed as seriously as I did. But remember, parents, there's always a chance your child will be the one who takes the radical ideas too seriously.

My story has a happy ending. I started questioning all my radical beliefs, and eventually grew up to become the proud freeper that I am today. While I don't lose any sleep over it, I admit I'm still bitter at my college for introducing me to all those destructive ideas without teaching me other points of view. My professors were learned adults who should have known better.

Parents, beware!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I wonder if I am thinking Dartmouth; Jay Fiedler

[droppuck]

The finacial aid rep told me there I would not get any finacial aid because I was white.

[Temple Owl]

I think you are right. Too bad about the football team.

[droppuck]

University of South Florida finacial aid worker told me there was no finacial aid for me because I was white. This was after serving 4 years in the Air Force. And she was right, I did not get a single dime of aid even though I graduated JuCo with a 3.3. I wonder what the response would have been if my pigmentation was black or brown.

[RedBloodedAmerican]

I was laid off from a company a few years ago (in Florida). I tried to apply for the TIPS program which is supposed to be open to ALL regardless of situation (except you have to be unemployed). I was turned down by a local One Stop. Later that wee I called a One Stop in another County and they said I more than qualified. Turns out some other employees I was laid off with also applied for TIPS. Guess which ones got it and which ones didn't? I posted on FR last week that I am a minority (white single male American). It's the truth. Hard not to get resentful or distracted by the reverse discrimination.